Ales Kolomaznik
Senior Hardware Engineer at AMP | Auto Motive Power
Senior Hardware Engineer at AMP | Auto Motive Power
Passionate electrical engineer who started with building guitar amplifiers as a hobby and get interest in switching more power supplies because nobody around understood them. In my career, over 12 years, I gained strong technical knowledge and experience in solving difficult and complex engineering tasks from automotive, solar and safety-related systems industry. Through my creativity, not only once I pioneered new trends, technologies and improvements in my work.

I enjoy designing power converters (DC/DC, DC/AC and AC/DC), analog, digital and mixed signal control systems,  complex printed circuit board (PCB) designs, defining innovative architectures for electronic systems, generating engineering documentation, integration, bringing up electronics to life and development from concept to production in accordance to regulations.

My experience cover designs using multiprocessor systems based on DSP, CPU, MCU or PLD (FPGA and CPLD) in real-time applications and using new technologies for power conversion such as wide band gap devices GaN and SiC.

I have hands on experience with noise suppression techniques, EMI/ESD immunity control during the product design and EMI mitigation.

I'm proficient in leading teams, project planning and task management. Engineer able to operate autonomously and following development processes and best practices. I tested my leadership skills when I headed a team of 9 engineers and coached, trained less experienced engineers. I collaborated with many great engineers from software, controls and mechanical departments and also with HR while I facilitated hiring electrical engineers.

I'm seeking new opportunities to grow as an electrical engineer and use my deep knowledge in countless of challenging applications to broaden my experience. 

My skills include:
Design: DC/DC, DC/AC and AC/DC power conversion, A/D mixed signal control systems, schematic capture, PCB design, simulations, various analysis, EMI/EMC/ESD control and mitigation

Interfaces: SPI, I2C, I2S, UART, CAN, USB, RS-232, RS-485, Ethernet, Modbus, VGA and wireless interfaces GSM, LTE, Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth

Hardware Platforms: DSP, CPU, MCU and PLD (FPGA, CPLD)

Programming languages: C, VHDL, Assembler, PHP

Simulations: SPICE (PSpice, LTSpice, Simetrix), Matlab, Simulink

CADs: Altium, Zuken CADStar, CAM350, ViewMate, SolidWorks
AMP | Auto Motive Power
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Senior Hardware Engineer
Los Angeles County, California, United States
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SolPad, Inc
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Senior Power Electronics Engineer
Defined innovative architecture of rooftop solar modular battery storage system achieving high efficiency 95%+, generated documentation (specifications). System design from scratch up to certification.

Developed scalable, GaN-based, high efficiency 1kW solar inverter for residential and small commercial battery storage system gaining 5% more efficient system than current market solutions. Test and debug. Passed FCC class B regulations.

Redesigned portable 1kW solar DC/AC power module that can charge 0.66kWh integrated battery from sun or AC grid and export AC power on the integrated outlets, created working prototypes using GaN technology.

Developed smart plug interacting with 1kW portable solar power module through WiFi, aimed for consumer market, product development from concept to product, testing, documentation generation and assembly

Electronics design in accordance with UL 1741, IEEE 1547, FCC Class B standards and NEC regulations. Using DFM, DFT and DFR guidelines during development processes and PCB layout. Collaborating with mechanical, hardware, software and test engineers.
San Jose, California, United States
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Ricardo
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Senior Power Electronics Engineer - Team Leader
Engineered high efficiency, digital controlled, GaN based 2kW industrial power inverter achieving efficiency up to 94%. Generated documentations, simulations, schematic capture, PCB layout & design. Tested and updated design

Improved thermal behavior of the inverter resulting in temperature drop up to 30°C in a power components

Facilitated recruiting hardware engineering team, headed team of 9 engineers, coached less experienced engineers

Coordinated project planning and task management on 2 projects for cross-functional engineering team

Drove design changes on integrated electronics of electric bike to resolve issues with battery management system, 750W motor drive electronics and wireless BLE & LTE communication module

Accomplished EMI mitigation of 15kW industrial inverter, customer successfully passed FCC regulations
Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic
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Ricardo
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Senior Power Electronics Engineer
Designed power electronics and control system for Advanced Corona Ignition System according to ISO 26262.

Continued development and improved automotive high frequency multichannel DC/AC 10kW power converter and intermediate bus DC/DC power converter including control system.

Created multilayer PCB carrying multiple DC/DC and DC/AC power converters including analog and digital control system on-board

Built and improved electronic control unit for ignition system for ACIS

Implemented system at customer site including support of the system functionality and testing on customer equipment.

Cooperated on project planning and task management of the engineering team in Europe

Facilitated building of hardware engineering team, coaching less experienced engineers.
Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic
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Ricardo
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Electronics Hardware Design Engineer
Delegated development of A/D mixed signal interface board for Virtex-6 FPGA development board for R&D of digital control for Advanced Corona Ignition System. Board transformed analogue signals into digital form for FPGA and interfaced high-voltage 10kW DC/AC power converter with gate drive signals provided by FPGA.

Devised automotive high frequency multichannel DC/AC 10kW power converter and intermediate bus DC/DC power converter including control system utilizing FPGA.

Improved current measurement circuit in high voltage, high frequency 10kW DC/AC power converter with cheap, isolated and much more simple circuit.
Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic
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AŽD Praha
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Electronics Hardware Design Engineer
Designed SIL4, 8-channel relay switching safety related unit for train transportation based on existing system architecture, created PCB, tested unit.

Charged of developing research modular system for train location based on 3 global navigation satellite systems in 19” racking system, collaborated with mechanical and software engineers during the project execution.

Developed first high-frequency 10W DC/DC power supply in the company for the train location system that other engineers start incorporating in other company projects due to its small size which fitted in the 19" racking system for circuit cards.

Reviewed system functional safety of the other department systems, found and reported 2 problems influencing system safety.
Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic
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Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Master’s Degree
University of West Bohemia, Pilsen
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Electronics and applied informatics
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Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Bachelor’s Degree
Technical University of Liberec
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Ricardo Engineering Excellence Award
Ricardo
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Jiaqi Liang
Hardware Director at AMP | Auto Motive Power
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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Michael Hibbard
Electrical Engineer at AMP | Auto Motive Power
Long Beach, CA
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Prithvi Singh
Hardware Engineer at AMP | Auto Motive Power
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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DEVARAJ MALLADAD
Validation and Test Engineer at AMP | Auto Motive Power India
Karnataka, India
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Mohit Chand
Hardware Design Engineer | Power Electronics Control | BMS | Motor Controls
Bengaluru
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Rekha Mohandas
Functional Safety Engineer  at AMP | Auto Motive Power
Bengaluru
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Pranav Bhatt
BMS System Integration Engineer
Detroit Metropolitan Area
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Anand Polisetty
Hardware Engineering Manager at AMP
Bengaluru
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Luccas Di Tullio
Power Electronics Firmware and Controls Engineer | Electric Vehicles | Telecom | Renewables
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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Vardan Markosyan
CEO at HEPEG | Engineering Consulting Services
Los Angeles, CA
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Raja Ramachandran
Design Validation and Test Engineer at AMP
Bengaluru
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Joel Karlsson
Electrical Engineer | Embedded Software | Battery Management Systems |  Bootloaders | Over-the Air Update | E-Mobility
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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Dave Tong
Operations Manager at AMP | Auto Motive Power
Diamond Bar, CA
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Alex Chu
Senior Supply Chain Manager at AMP | Auto Motive Power
Irvine, CA
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David Vital
Engineering Technician at AMP | Auto Motive Power
Montebello, CA
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Michael Siler Sr
Retired
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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Konstantin Belochapka
Software engineer at Violin Memory Inc
Sunnyvale, CA
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Cansu Ayaz
IKCU Research Asistant
Turkey
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Mahesh Reddy M
For the love of physics
Bangalore Urban
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ISO 26262 Functional Safety
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POWER ELECTRONICS INSTITUTE
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Power Electronics
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Electronics - Research & Development
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