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Laurel, Md

Deep Space Radio testing including assembly, sub-assembly, component testing. Radiation and environmental testing; Data analysis of screened components from outside vendors; Ka-Band Multichip module test lead. Requirement and Verification Lead for Dragonfly Power Switching Unit and Critical Bus Power Electronics assemblies. Duties included writing Test Plans and Procedures, Verification Matrices, writing and modifying code in MATLAB and GSEOS.

Carlsbad, Ca

Coordinating and assigning test efforts for test and sustaining engineering for predominately SSPA products. Working with customers on product issues and test correlations. Travel to customer facilities to solve any test related issues. Maintain budget for test department. Identify new test equipment and processes for new technologies. Ensure accurate test results from production test.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

TCoordinating and assigning test efforts to a small group of technicians. Responsible for developmental testing of RFICs. These RFICs included multimode amplifiers, switches and modulator/de-modulator RFICs. This includes most phases of test, from initial engineering development testing, characterization and reliability testing to the customer applications tests. These duties include writing test software, design of test fixtures and test setups, writing test plans and procedures, etc. Familiar with MS Visual Basic, C#, C++ and also have experience with LTX Envision + programming languages. Additionally I have some experience in the use of statistical software such as SAS JMP and Excel based add ins.

Responsible for interviewing and hiring permanent and temporary employees, coordinating and assigning test engineering and production test efforts to a small group engineers and technicians.Also responsible for writing performance reviews and dealing with employee problems on a day-to-day basis. Responsible for production test of high volume RFICs from the Defense & Power product line. These RFICs include both high power and low power RF Power Amplifiers as well as Modulator/De-Modulator RFICs. This includes all phases of test, from initial engineering development testing, characterization and reliability testing to the ongoing production tests.Responsible for statistical analysis of the yields for the product line, including analyzing data from production runs of RFIC products and determining and correcting the causes of low yields. All ofthese duties include writing test software, design of test fixtures and test setups, writing test plans and procedures, etc. I am familiar with MS Visual Basic and also have experience with LTX Envision + programming languages. Additionally, I am also experienced in the use of statistical software such as SAS JMP and Excel add ins.

RF Solutions was a fab-less semiconductor start up eventually bought out by Anadigics. Responsibilities included test equipment purchase and test bench set up, writing test plans and procedures and test software, traveling to Asia for to set up packaging and test vendors for our products. Collateral duties as part of the start up included network administration, security system administration (badge access).

Responsible for interviewing and hiring permanent and temporary employees, coordinating and assigning test engineering and production test efforts to a group of engineers and technicians. Assupervisor, I was also responsible for writing performance reviews and dealing with employee problems on a day-to-day basis. Lead test engineer for the Intelsat IX Solid State TDMA Dynamic Switch Matrix. Lead test engineer for G-Star Driver Limiter Amplifier (DLA).I have written test plans, acceptance test procedures and automated test software for many aerospace & space products.

Princeton, Nj

Responsible for analysis of automated test software generated by engineering group for testing space hardware. Part of “On Orbit” Satellite Troubleshooting Team. Have experience tuning microstrip lines for optimizing RF performance in SSPAs. Part of the test and quality teams for the following satellite projects: SATCOM IIIR, SATCOM 4, AURORA, LANDSAT 4, NOAA, ASC, PANAMSAT, ASTRA, INTELSAT K, SPACENET, G-STAR, CHINASAT, ACTS, ANIK E, TIROS, DMSP, MARS Observer, UARS, TELSTAR 401, ECHOSTAR II, INMARSAT 3F3, BS-3N, KOREASAT 1; Acted as a Supplier Quality Representative when needed at vendor sites for reviewing data, assembly documents and witnessing tests as required by various contracts.