Nathaniel Thomas Email & Phone Number

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

- Experience in RF analog design for tactical systems. +GPS signal conditioning +T/R systems for SDR applications in radar and IFF +Design for compliance with MIL-STD-462 and 464.- RF board design. Includes architecture planning, link budget analysis, component selectionand verification, schematic, layout, fabrication, and testing.- Passive RF design of filters, impedance matching networks, and low loss transitions.- Active RF design of high power amplifiers using unmatched transistors to achieve customtransmit solutions.- Design of support circuitry, such as DC power conditioning, sensing, and digital controls.- Testing and verification of RF hardware. Includes characterization for small signal gain,compression, noise figure, linearity, equalization, AM-AM and AM-PM distortion, and highpower survivability.

Broomfield, Co, Us

Broomfield, Co, Us

Broomfield, Co, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

-Designed and assembled Ka-band to L-band downconverter box for use in lab testing.- Created dynamic link budget for ground station to satellite communication, accounting for atmospheric loss, station elevation angle, receiver gain and noise, etc.- Designed, prototyped, and tested a secondary receiver for the satellite, which would allow the ground station to send link budget data to the space craft for adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) in parallel with the payload data.

San Jose, Ca, Us

-Design of experiment to develop statistical models for sensor layouts and stacks using finite element analysis (FEA).-Design and development of integrated, self-capacitive sensors, for long range proximity sensing (0-10cm) in automotive environments.-Development of mutual capacitive sensor layouts for reading liquid levels of automotive tanks, including debugging and verification of simulation methodology.-Ongoing development of simulation techniques to assess the EMI/EMC compliance of touch sensor designs in automotive environments.-Lead and coordinate team responsible for FEA of customer sensor design, specifically mutual capacitive panels, buttons, and track pads.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Applications Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor for Automotive projects. Experience with:-Custom system level solutions, based on Cypress TrueTouch embedded controllers, for Human Machine Interface (HMI) in automotive environments.-Failure analysis of soft errors on embedded devices through the use of firmware modifications and bench testing. -Finite element analysis of electrostatics and RC calculations for capacitive sensors using multi-physics and SPICE simulations.

Boston, Ma, Us

Worked on launch for 1.6-100 Wind Turbine Generators.Created process for analysis of 1.6-100 prototype with the purpose of cross-functional trouble shooting.

Alexandria, Va, Us

Worked on Emergency Diesel Generator Excitation Systems for nuclear power plants during loss of coolant or loss of power situations.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering