Matthew Meza Email & Phone Number

Campbell, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

• System level and architecture of step-up converters and multi-string LED drivers. • Design of core analog blocks such as bandgaps, LDOs, oscillators, charge pumps, current-sense amplifier, comparators, bias-generators, op-amps, and dynamic current sinks. • Created test modes for verification of analog blocks. • Layout techniques for matching, thermal gradients, and latch-up prevention. • Proficient in industry tools including Cadence, LTspice, MATLAB, and Python.

Palo Alto

Course Assistant for E40M, E40A/B, and OSPKYOTO 40MCA E40M/A/B: Instruct students on how to use lab equipment and debugging practices.OSPKYOTO 40M: Taught E40M abroad in Kyoto. Class consisted of lectures with weekly labs.

Designed an input disconnect system for synchronous and non-synchronous monolithic boost converters.

Milpitas, California

Built and compensated several boost and SEPIC applications using unreleased switching regulators to characterize their transient response to loads, efficiency, and quiescent current in several different operating modes.Started a design of a dual version of a released part.

Designed electronic circuits for competitive automotive applications such as controllers, daughter-boards for aftermarket ECU’s, and embedded systems for consumer use. Responsibilities include data acquisition, testing, and troubleshooting engine electronics, alternators, alternator voltage regulators, vehicle sensors, and chassis dynamometer modules.Design Projects include:A small and portable embedded system to test multiple vehicle sensors.A dual-alternator load balancer for competitive trophy trucks.A reference/synchronous circuit for sensor redundancy.

Under R. Jacob Baker, assist in research projects dealing with Delta-Sigma modulators, PCB design for chip testing, FPGA’s, Thermo-electric coolers/controllers, peltier devices, avalanche photo diodes, power electronics, and pulsed power circuits using silicon-carbide MOSFETs. Coauthor of IEEE paper: "An FPGA Based Passive K-Delta-1-Sigma Modulator".Worked on characterizing devices in IBM/Global Foundries 130nm SiGe for high speed trans-impedance amplifiers, optoelectronics, and dynamic CMOS circuits. Designed and laid out several Avalanche Photo-Diodes test structures and Trans-Impedance Amplifiers in GF8HP process.

University Of Nevada Las Vegas

Tested and commercialized the EM-Dot; an electromagnetic sensor.Built and designed test stands for the EM-Dot.Managed data acquisition, data processing and analysis .Wrote a complete MATLAB program for customer use in processing EM-Dot data.Data acquisition, data processing, data analysis, Matlab programming, test stand designer/builder, product demonstrator, researcher.

Master’S Degree, Analog Integrated Circuit Design

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, Senior

Activities and Societies: President of Practical Electronics, Tau Beta Pi Honor Society member, IEEE member, National Society of Hispanic.