Jason Thom Email & Phone Number

Santa Rosa, California, United States

United States

• Fulfilling product development design activities, including, SiP (System in Package) Designs, Customer Evaluation boards, ATE Final Test Boards, Characterization Boards, Reliability Boards, and various RF PCB and.
• Responsible for schematic capture and layout of CATV designs.
• Maintaining component library, symbol, footprint, and MCAD generations.
• Supporting PCB orders, keeping track of necessary materials, kitting assembly orders, communicating with PCB vendors for manufacturability related matters.
• Developed a Confluence website to document projects and product from initiation to completion.

United States

• Completed multiple RF and microwave PCB designs with teams all over the world.
• Applied MCAD to designs to aid in verifying proper circuit board fit and clearances.

United States

• Preformed layout, schematic capture, and design verification of SiGe IC amplifiers.
• Developed mechanical designs for testing IC devices and SMT packages.
• Simulated high speed transitions from PCB to SMT packages using CST. Verified through S-parameters, Smith chart and TDR.
• Designed SMT package for 100G optical modulator driver for long haul and data center applications.
• Created high speed prototype hybrid material boards for SiGe and GaAs IC evaluations that ran transmission lines up to 100 / 200 Gbps.
• Provided complex bias boards, life time test reliability HAST / THB / HTOL boards and test socket boards to support product.

Microsemi acquired Centellax, Inc. Component Division.

• Agilent Technologies acquired Centellax, Inc. Test & Measurement Division.
• Retained as master level printed circuit board designer in a R&D team responsible for the 32 Gb/s BERT (Bit Error Rate Tester).

• Challenging layout, from conception to production release of Centellax's test and measurement instrument family.
• Component routing included Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA, Spartan-3A DSP FPGA and DDR 2 SDRAM 512Mb 125MHz.
• Crucial layout for 32 Gb/s Programmable Pattern Generator and Programmable Error Detector which comprised 748 pin BGA FPGA operating speeds up to 1Gb/s that interfaced with (4) 16:1 Multiplexers and 1:16.
• Accustom to designing high component count boards with minimal layers to achieve cost effective product.

Conducted board and system troubleshooting using schematic diagrams. Supported engineering and production for Portable Spectrum Analyzers.