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Mission Systems Sector

Frisco, Texas, United States

East Dundee, Il

● Product design, engineering management, design workflow improvement, and supply chain reinforcement.● Hands-on design of embedded ARM controller hardware, PCB design, switched-mode power supplies, and IGBT firing circuits.● Completed and launched multiple products, including 1-600HP variable-frequency drives (VFD).● Collaborated with production and purchasing teams to ensure an agile and reliable component supply despite disruptions due to fluctuating tariffs and COVID-19. ● Designed and deployed exceptionally successful web-based Engineering Change Tool (ECT).● Achieved substantial component cost reductions.

Libertyville, Il

● Led a high-performing teams of seven RF engineers, plus support staff, responsible for designing 3G WCDMA mobile phones. ● Coordinated design efforts with baseband, hardware, and software teams.● Expanded deployment of my "Design Change Tool" (DCT) to support software and hardware development programs, with major positive impact on dozens of design teams and hundreds of global users.

Arlington Heights, Libertyville, Illinois

● Led a dedicated RF design team, directed RF engineering operations, collaborated in strategic product platform planning, and invented new design processes that accelerated the product design cycle.● Design of 3G mobile phone products. ● Designed and implemented a web-based workflow application, the "Design Change Tool" (DCT), to document, measure, and rapidly resolve all hardware and software-related issues. ● Designed and deployed hardware design processes within my team, and then to other teams who followed our example. ● Coordinated workflow between RF and PCB layout teams. ● Acquired several important utility patents.

Addison, Il

● Collaborated with other electrical and mechanical engineers in an ambitious design project including tower-mounted, cellular, linear power amplifiers, a digital control module, and LNA products.● Redesigned a feedforward PA pilot tone system for improved performance.● Redesigned a cellular repeater product to reduce noise and improve range.● Designed and implemented automated test systems for LNA and PA validation.

Schaumburg And Arlington Heights, Il

● RF design and evaluation of GSM mobile telephone products. ● Created automated test systems and test software. ● Supported type approval for international certification of new products.● Mobile antenna design and evaluation. Invented a near-field interference-rejecting antenna for a GSM transceiver.● Invented and patented an important solution to the problem of clock harmonic desensitization of low-noise receivers.● Extensive on-site factory support in UK, France, Denmark, Germany, Scotland.● Mentored less senior engineers.

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Specialization in communications and optimal control theory.

Bs, With Honors, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tutored calculus, physics, programming. Six semesters of work through Cooperative Education Program, at BRK.

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