Scott Ligeski

About Scott Ligeski

Innovative, forward-thinking Engineering Systems and Software Team Leader with over 15 years of experience with emphasis on embedded software development and project management. Expertise include traction control systems, functional safety methodologies, and quality assurance. Task oriented, customer focused problem solver with driven success in project leadership.Scott is a control systems and software engineer with proven high performance in diverse product development projects with real-time safety-critical applications such as locomotive and off-highway truck electric drive transmission controllers, energy storage, and hybrid machines. Scott has strong problem solving, troubleshooting, embedded software development, and debugging skills. Scott thrives in a challenging team environment building industry-leading electrical components, control systems, and software technology.Scott is an experienced Technical Team Leader and has led Systems, Software, and Hardware Engineers co-located in India and the USA. Scott previously served as Team Leader for the Starter, Alternator, and Energy Storage Component Teams. Scott has experience coordinating with Marketing Teams, Customer Engineering, Machine Systems, Suppliers and Manufacturing Facilities globally to meet and exceed customer expectations. Scott manages requirements, software and hardware deliverables, schedule, budget, cost targets, quality, and reliability. Scott seeks out experiences that will enhance his leadership and coaching abilities.Skills: Embedded Software Development, Systems Engineering, Requirements Development, MISRA, EN 50126, EN 50129, EN 50657, EN 50128, EN 50159, Project Leadership, Project Management, Agile, Matlab, Simulink, C, Assembler, Python, Git, Bitbucket, CANape, Trace32 debugger, dSPACE HIL, J1939, Polarion, JIRA, Perl, Visual Basic, Control Systems Development, Software Testing, Software Release Management, Cost Analysis, Minitab (statistics package), Six Sigma Black Belt (DMEDI, DMAIC)

Experience

1. Engineering Technical Team Leader - Locomotive Traction Control Systems and Software

   Progress Rail, A Caterpillar Company

   Oct 2016 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Developer and Technical Lead for design, development, integration, implementation, and testing of electric-drive transmission embedded control systems and control system software for Progress Rail locomotives including compliance to EN 50126, EN 50129, EN 50657, EN 50128, and EN 50159 standards.•Technical Team Leader and Developer for IGBT inverter variable voltage variable frequency electric drive controller software development, testing, and software release management.•Developed traction control system requirements for locomotive and IGBT inverter electric drive applications including PID and d-q control algorithms for driving AC induction motors.•Developed and Delivered auto coded electric drive controller software using Matlab and Simulink•Delivered multiple embedded software and hardware system platforms from Concept to Pilot and Production•Led Team in maintenance and troubleshooting of current production hardware and software subsystems including traction control systems interfacing with on-board Telematics

Education

• Purdue University

  MS

• Illinois Institute of Technology

  BS

• DePaul Driehaus College of Business

  MBA

• Valparaiso University

  Engineering

Skills

• Project Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Embedded Software
• Fmea
• C
• Dmaic
• Agile
• Matlab
• Assembler
• Requirements Gathering
• New Product Introduction (Npi)
• Simulink
• Product Cost Analysis
• Product Development
• Embedded Systems
• Software Requirements
• Systems Engineering
• Six Sigma
• Dmedi
• Power Electronics
• Software Development
• Design Control
• Design for Manufacturing
• Commissioning
• Continuous Process Improvement (Cpi)
• Control Systems Design
• Manufacturing
• Integration
• Testing
• Electronics
• Team Leadership
• Engineering
• System Requirements
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• Apqp
• Root Cause Analysis