Charlie Gates

I have spent the past decade shifting between roles as a technician, pcb design egineer, production supervisor, and now electrical production engineer. Along the way I have always tried to make time for my personal projects and explorations. I hope that you will find them interesting.

Professional Experience

2026-present

Electrical Engineer

Rosenbauer Motors America

Design of custom wiring and PLC programming for fire trucks. Systems integration and harness design. Provides support and assistance with debugging on the produciton floor.

2025-2026

Production Supervisor

Weschler Intruments

Supervised digital and analog meter production, modernized production and calibration methods, trained personnel on troubleshooting techniques down to component level, created and revised test procedures and documents, worked with engineering department on continuous improvement.

2023 – 2025

Senior RF Communications Tech

Max Marine Electronics

Reverse engineering, repair, testing, and calibration of VHF and SSB radios, marine radars, and satellite tracking systems, as well as circuit and PCB design of drop in replacement boards for those same systems.

2022-2023

Electronics Technician

Programa

Assisted in the reverse engineering and design of drop-in replacements for automotive electronic modules and golf cart motor drivers. This involved both hardware design and programming, mostly of dsPIC microcontrollers in C. I also did repairs and testing.

Explore my projects past and present

Projects will be updated sporatically with new code and testing results