Steven Lee Podvoll

Steven Podvoll ([email protected])

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Position:

General Manager at Foster Electric (U.S.A.), Inc.

Location:

Greater Chicago Area

Industry:

Automotive

Work:

Foster Electric (U.S.A.), Inc. since Feb 2010
General Manager
Foster Electric (U.S.A.), Inc. Aug 2007 - Feb 2010
General Manager
Panasonic Automotive Systems of America Jan 2006 - Aug 2007
Senior Engineer, Hybrid Vehicle Power
Intertek ETL Entela Sep 2003 - Jan 2006
Engineering Manager
Alpine Electronics of America Dec 2001 - Sep 2003
Engineering Manager

Education:

Black Hills State University 1984 - 1985
Community College of the Air Force 1977 - 1981
The CCAF provided me with over one thousand classroom hours of technical training, including general electronics and real-time (flight) control systems. The curriculum included signal conditioning and closed-loop control of servo actuators; digital signal processing, analog integrated circuitry, discrete semiconductors, and electromagnetics. Bronx High School of Science
n/a, Science, MathThe Bronx High School of Science counts seven Nobel Prize-winning physicists among its graduates. No other secondary school in the world has seven Nobel laureates as alumni. Six alumni have won the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor bestowed by the U.S. President and thus far awarded to 425 scientists and engineers. Bronx Science also counts among its graduates twenty-nine current members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, an honor attained by only about 2,000 American scientists. Bronx Science also has five Pulitzer Prize-winning graduates.

Skills:

-Product Development
Design and deployment of hybrid vehicle power system components and audio/video multimedia systems
-Reliability Engineering
MIL-HDBK-217 failure rate predictions
Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA)
-Failure Analysis
Isolated root causes and developed strategies for mitigation of countless failures of metallic
polymer
and semiconductor materials
-Quality Assurance
SPC
6-sigma
Juran
Deming
Kaizen
Pokayoke
ISO 9000 / 17025 / TS16949

Interests:

Meeting sincere people. Renewable energy, new technology, retro-technology, forensic engineering, semiconductors, vacuum tubes, Triz, Design For Six Sigma, MAIC, psychoacoustics, aerospace, control systems, electrostatic transducers, music, literature, autodidacticism.