1. CURRICULUM VITAE 21st July 2015
Michael Ato Hutchful
Nationality: Ghanaian
Date of Birth: 26th
November
1988
Date of Availability: January
2016
Temporary Address:
MS Elevators Sdn.
Bhd,
2530 Lorong
Perusahaan 10,
Prai Industrial Estate,
13600 Prai, Penang,
Malaysia.
+604-3900875
Permanent Address:
Flat 4 Block 30B,
SSNIT Flats Site B,
Community 3, Tema
Ghana.
+233303- 211 805,
+60108901892
michaelhutchful@gmail.com
Profile:
Over the past 4 years of working as a Research and Development Engineer, I have discovered a passion of solving
problems and creating innovative products. When I am faced with a problem, I will not let it go until I get to the root
cause of the problem and ultimately solve it. As a designer I consider simplicity in products, to be the most important
goal of design. I believe that the users of my products should never get frustrated with its complexity, but rather enjoy
how much simpler everyday tasks become.
Skills:
 Electrical and Electronics Circuit design using microcontrollers, testing and troubleshooting.
 Integration of new motor drive inverter systems into older circuits.
 Printed Circuit Board Design, using Altium Designer Protel.
 Microcontroller software development, mainly Motorola M68HCS08 in C language.
 Field support for electrical and electronic systems of MS elevator systems and Toshiba elevator peripherals.
 AutoCAD.
 Proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
 Programming – C, C++, Java and C#.
 Engineering Software – Pspice, Matlab, Codas, Ladsim and Advanced System Design.
Experience:
MS Elevator joint venture company with Toshiba Elevator Corporation
2011 till present
Research and Development Engineer; Design, testing and troubleshooting of microcontroller based elevator systems
Duties:
 Design of electrical and electronics circuits for integration into the elevator controllers.
 Testing and troubleshooting new circuit designs.
 System design of elevator peripherals.
 Development of software to run on the Motorola M68HCS08 microcontroller in C language.
 Field support of MS Elevator systems.
 Documentation of all design work.
Projects:
 Elevator Group Panel design to implement complete electrical isolation between elevator controllers in a group
system.
 Supervisory System design for elevator controller to display elevator status remotely in a control room. This also
requires complete electrical isolation
 Voltage monitoring of all important voltages in the elevator controller. This was achieved using the Motorola
M68HCS08. It involved a true RMS calculation of 3 phase voltages that were passed through an optically isolated
circuit.

2.  Integration of FairFord SoftStarter into escalator control systems to try and achieve some energy savings.
 Circuit Design, Printed Circuit Board Design, and testing and controller system integration of dual voltage brake
circuit.
 Automated functional test jigs for wired circuits and printed circuit boards; based on circuits controlled using the
Motorola M68HCS08 microcontroller and using excel spread sheets as data entry tables. This automation helped
to reduce the time required in testing of circuits, in one application, the testing time was reduced from 30 minutes
down to 20 seconds. Also it had the advantage of removing human error.
Ghana Civil Aviation Authority
June 2010 to September 2010
Industrial Training
Duties:
 Maintenance of primary and secondary radar
 Maintenance of aircraft navigational aids
 Maintenance of air conditioners
Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority
June 2009 – September 2009
Industrial Training
Duties:
 General Electrical Installation
 Maintenance of electrical equipment, telephones, motors and switch gears.
Education:
University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus 2007 to 2011
Masters of Engineering (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) MEng (Honors)
• Thesis topic: FM Picture Radio using RDS. Second Class Upper.
SOS Hermann Gmeiner Int. College Tema (SOS HGIC), Ghana 2003-2007
 International Baccalaureate.
• International General Certificate of Secondary Education.
Personal Interests:
 Mechanics
 Electronics
 Intelligent Systems.
 Programming; Mobile Phone App development.
 Swimming, football and Driving.
References:
 Mr. Michael George Salish: mikeyrecoveringengineer@yahoo.com +60125696811
 Mr. Rajesh Viswanathan: rajesh@msel.com.my +60175307759