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United States

RF front end design (PA, LNA, controls) contract and consulting. Rapid PCB / hardware design and new product introduction.

East Brunswick, NJ, US

• Responsibilities:
• Interpret customer needs to system requirements
• Establish practical block level performance expectations based on modern, available components
• Assess component requirements based upon available data to drive system requirements
• Utilize simulation and models to derive device performance
• Develop application specific system block prototypes to validate performance prior to design-in

Irvine, California, US

Myriota 7 3U Cubesat Mission:Designed, validated, and launched multi-channel integrated VHF and UHF RF front end on 1U (10x10cm) cubesat standard form factor PCBADesign features quad channel LNAs with preselect filtering, output power limiting, and dual FCC compliant discrete medium power UHF transmitter front ends

Poway, California, US

Designed and layed out digital trimming system for analog control circuit in AltiumDesigned semi-automated characterization system for GaN power amplifier linearity vs. quiescent current in MatlabDesigned hardware to accommodate successful bus sharing between modern I2C and legacy bit-banged systems

Falls Church, VA, US

Designed, prototyped, and characterized GaN power amplifier interface PCB with programmable bias, supply sequencing, and self-test featuresImpedance controlled PCB transition design using HFSS, Mentor Graphics PCB layout, behavioral and model based SPICE simulationTime and frequency domain and performance verification across wide temperature rangeDeveloped.

Wilmington, MA, US

Designed, prototyped, and characterized high-power 3.5GHz-6GHz GaN PA module using hybrid microstrip, chip & wire, and surface mount technology.Designed, prototyped, and characterized 2-18GHz Wilkinson power combiners at 200W.Developed test plans and procedures.Software experience includes HFSS, Ansys Mechanical, AWR Microwave Office, MATLAB.

Wilmington, MA, US

Below is a video of the wireless inertia measurement solution that I developed as a System Applications Engineering Co-op with Analog Devices on demonstration at Electronica 2014 in Munich, Germany.Project skills included embedded programming (Arduino), sensor library development (C++), and a PC-based visual display (Processing). The source code for the.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Assisted students with assignments and test preparation. Topics included transmission lines, E and H fields, Ampere's, Gauss', Faraday's laws, Maxwell's equations, vector analysis, boundary conditions, constitutive relations, capacitance, inductance, and plane wave propagation.Graded student homework assignments and provided feedback to help with their.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Developed laboratory experiments for a senior level communications lab class to teach pseudorandom number sequences, eye diagrams, additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) effects.Programmed a LabVIEW interface for a National Instruments / Ettus 2920 software radio to demonstrate multiple modulation schemes and spread spectrum technologies including direct.

Blacksburg, VA, US

Proposed a discrete component Doherty high efficiency C-band power amplifier design.Worked on a tunable X-band band-pass and band-stop RFIC filter design in Jazz SBC18H3 integrated circuit process.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Developed an embedded radio control system.Analyzed frequency hopping, direct sequence, and hybrid spread spectrum protocols.Designed digitally controllable RF power amplification TX and RX bypass paths.Integrated digital and RF components into one assembly.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Assisted students with multi-semester robotics project using 16-bit accumulator architecture on FPGA, optical encoders, and ultrasonic distance sensors.Demonstrated design practices to prototype discrete analog and digital circuits on a breadboard.Instructed and debugged VHDL code for FPGA based digital designs.Instructed students on usage of.

Munich, DE

Developed a model to quantitatively analyze production throughput using a centralized database and distributed reporting from industrial PLCs for future model lines.Coded a server side automated auditing system for backups of industrial computers to identify problems with automated weekly backup.Scripted a client side fault timer for internal company.

Gainesville, GA, US

Taught students electronics soldering, assembly, and inspection.Instructed mobile electronics installation class.

Migrated prototype designs into mass production for clients in the telecommunication, energy management, law enforcement, and medical industries.Communicated manufacturing solutions to production staff, management, and clients to increase first pass production yield.Repaired production and warranty electronic assemblies at component level.Maintained and.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical And Computer Engineering

High Frequency Rfic Research

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering

Regents Engineering Transfer Program (Retp)

Associate Of Applied Science (A.A.S), Electronics Technology

Education record