About Me
My name is Viktor Silivanov. Raised in the bustling city of New York, I got to experience the culmination of culture with the swipe of a metro card. I had the pleasure of studying art at LaGuardia High School, coaching flying trapeze at the Espana-Streb Trapeze Academy, and graduating from The Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York. Shortly after graduating from CCNY, I took off to southern California to pursue engineering opportunities and to explore the West Coast. Now I’m back on the East Coast ready for my next opportunity.
Instron
Electrical Engineer | R&D
3/2023 – Present
Instron is an industry standard in mechanical testing machines to perform static testing, including tensile, compression, bend, peel, tear, shear, friction, puncture, and other mechanical tests. My time is spent bringing up new circuit board designs from component selection, PCB layout review, and signal testing.
Haas Automation
Electrical Engineer | Sustaining & Manufacturing
8/2019 – 8/2022
Haas Automation is the largest American CNC machine manufacturer. During my time as an Electrical Engineer, I primarily performed root cause analysis on field failures, built testers for sub-systems, and supported production with floor failures. This required coordinating Engineering Change Order (ECOs) to cut-in production releases, updating assembly BOMs, evaluating new vendors to form/fit/functional specifications, building testers for sub-systems, documenting procedures for technicians or assemblers, or reviewing ETL compliance criteria. Haas Automation is incredibly nimble, with designs evolving at rapid rates, requiring adaptability and resourceful thinking.
Biomechatronics and Intelligent Robotics Lab
Electrical Engineer Intern | R&D
6/2018 – 1/2019
The BIRO Lab at the City College of New York focused on innovating medical devices for patients suffering from limited mobility. During my time as an Electrical Engineer Intern, I assisted with integrating sensors, including load cells and IMUs, to drive high torque density servos for lower limb exoskeletons, and contributed to the circuit design for the I/O PCB. That summer, we submitted our AIR Exoskeleton to the Toyota Mobility contest and released some publications on our implementation.