Yasser Jamani Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Client: Tier 1 Telecom Equipment ProviderFilter Design Team, Outdoor Radio ProductsVerification lead of cavity filters for several radio base-station products throughout product development cycle for LTE bands: 1, 3, 5, 7, 12, 25, 30, 40, 41, 66, 77. • Technical document writing of verification test plans and reports and defect reports for each cavity filter product. • Plan and manage multiple test activities efficiently, coordinating resources and schedules to deliver timely results.• Conduct RF measurements (S-parameters, PIM, EMC and power handling) using a variety of RF equipment and components including spectrum and network analyzers, calibration kits, signal generators, power meters, circulators, directional couplers, thermal and vacuum chambers, with test automation (Matlab, LabView) where possible.• Employ a systematic approach when troubleshooting by identifing and isolating hardware vs test system related issues, proactively reporting issues and raising defect reports and supporting investigations to minimize project impact.• Maintain team's lab space by planning equipment maintenance, updating automation scripts, specifying and sourcing test accessories and proactively ensuring a well-organized lab.• Guide development and optimization of test automation scripts to adapt to new product configurations and improve test efficiency.• Improve efficiency using visual basic scripts to process and format test data, significantly reducing test report preparation time.• Train and mentor of students on proper use of test equipment and automation scripts, enhancing their productivity as team members.• Cross-functional collaboration with project management, filter design, mechanical engineers and suppliers to review filter quality and performance, for continuous product improvement. Collaborating with mechanical team to develop product specific test fixtures for product testing.• Essential contributor, demonstrating reliability and commitment.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Client: Tier 1 Telecom Equipment ProviderTRX Team, Outdoor Radio ProductsConducted manual characterization of front-end receivers and sub-blocks (e.g., BiasT, LNA, RF VGA), completing test reports with S-parameter, IIP3, and noise figure measurements across temperature ranges.

Ottawa

Client: Tier 1 Telecom Equipment ProviderRadio Product Verification, Indoor Radio ProductsPerformed receiver verification during the development of an indoor radio product, measuring S-parameters and noise figure over temperature using an in-house test automation system.

Ottawa, Ontario

Contribute to design verification testing, troubleshooting, final carrier acceptance testing, issue resolution and reporting including coordinating certification testing at approved labs for handhelds. Provide representation and project status updates at cross-functional product development meetings. • Contribute to product development from initial stage to product delivery ensuring products are tested and reported to carrier requirements and industry standards (3GPP & 3GPP2). Products include Curve (8530, 9310), Tour 9630, Bold (9650, 9930), Storm2 9550, Style 9670, Torch 9850, Z10, Z30, Q10, Classic, PlayBook, and Passport.• Develop technical documents including outlining our test requirements to stakeholders, hardware release notes, test procedures, internal / external carrier-based test report templates, and content of team Wiki page.• Identify and communicate hardware / software issues, raise defect reports and collaborate with developers to optimize performance and resolve issues before devices are sent to certification or carrier labs, thereby minimizing costs and product delays while ensuring timely delivery of high quality products.• Integration and maintenance of ATE test scripts to improve test productivity while achieving compliance to latest carrier requirements (Verizon, Bell, Sprint, USCC, Alltel, Telus) and standards as well as ensuring alignment of test equipment with external certification labs. Assess impact of equipment upgrades on project schedules while working with test vendor support to ensure systems are functioning well. • Improved work efficiency by specifying and maintaining visual basic script to parse test data and identify missing and failed tests, reducing carrier test report preparation by several hours.• Established processes for data and documentation organization on network drive to increase operational efficiency. • Mentored multiple new hires to become productive team members and contribute to process improvements.

Ottawa, Ontario

Developed high-capacity, carrier-grade point-to-point packet microwave systems for fixed broadband wireless networking that enabled Gbit/s of data to travel over air, enabling service providers and organizations to affordably and reliably meet increasing bandwidth requirements. Applications included mobile network backhaul, leased line replacement, and last mile fiber extension.• Designed and tested a 3.8 – 5.1 GHz frequency tripler in .25 µm PHEMT process and a broadband 24 – 34 GHz voltage variable attenuator (VVA) in .15 µm power PHEMT process for advanced MMIC technology program.• Contributed to radio development cycle for multiple microwave radios from 11GHz-38GHz, including RF module design, MMIC part evaluation, prototype characterization over temperature (at module level and radio level), design reviews, radio test setup and calibration, and creation of design verification test plans / reports, resulting in products with high yield and low field returns.• Contributed to design and development of mmWave front-end for base station at 28GHz required to secure new business.• Involved in ATE development, configuration and test setup calibration that enabled design verification and factory testing of microwave radios ranging from 11GHz-38GHz.• Provided engineering support to production in terms of training, debugging compliance-related issues and RMAs, identifying failures related to process and assembly, margining specifications that ensured compliance to radio specifications over temperature, and identifying methods to reduce test time.

Kingston, Ontario

Planned and implemented projects to fulfill the needs of RF / microwave researchers including providing related CAD tool and design kit support.• Contributed to establishing a RF / microwave design and test environment for high-speed designers.• Designed in 25 GHz Si bipolar process and tested several analog RFIC components including a Gain Block, Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA), Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VC0), on-wafer calibration structures, and de-embedding structures for 1.9 GHz wireless applications.• Generated several technical documents pertaining to the design and test of common RFICs for educational purposes including: RF design methodology; a test guide for high-speed analog circuits; and various tips pertaining to simulation, layout technique, design for testability, and use of tools including – Affirma SpectreRF, EEsof SeriesIV Libra, and Cadence.• Established CMC share library concept to promote design-reuse at Canadian universities.

• Designed and tested GaAs MMIC adaptive equalizer for 5 and 10 Gbit/s optical communication systems as proof of concept.• Designed GaAs MMIC distributed preamplifier and automatic-gain control circuit for low-noise front-end receiver to be used in 10 Gbit/s IM / DD optical communications system.• Designed 28 GHz GaInP / GaAs HBT Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA) in HBT process as part of contract arranged between Dr. Al Freundorfer (graduate supervisor at the time) and NORTEL – Local Multi-Point Distribution Service (LMDS) Group.• Supervised undergraduate students in electronics laboratory with specific focus on digital logic circuits.Conference & Journal Publications:• Y. Jamani and A. P. Freundorfer, “An active transversal filter MMIC for very high speed lightwave systems” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 836 – 838, 1997• A. P. Freundorfer and Y. Jamani, 1997, "A Ka-band GaInP / GaAs HBT Receiver, "IEEE Antennas and Prop. Soc. Int. Symp., 1997 North American Radio Sci. Meeting, 1997 IEEE APS Int. Symp / URSI meeting, Montreal, July, 1997, Vol. 1, pp. 582 – 585• A.P. Freundorfer and Y. Jamani, "Interconnect Modelling of Coplanar HBT transistor Arrays," Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, ANTEM’98, Ottawa, Canada, Aug. 1998, pp. 49-52.•A.P. Freundorfer, Y. Jamani and C. Falt, "A Ka-band GaInP/GaAs HBT Four-stage LNA," IEEE MTT-S 1996 International Microwave Symposium, San Francisco, June 16-21, 1996, paper TU1A-4.

Msce, Electrical Engineering

Concentration: Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) Design Thesis: An active transversal filter MMIC for very high-speed.

Bsce, Electrical Engineering

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