CV: RF Engineer

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Candidate Profile

Date Submitted:	04-11-2006
Last Modified:	09-07-2008 (08:20)

Job information

Current job:	RF Engineer
Employment Term:	Either
Relocation:	Anywhere
Date available:	within 2 months
Industry:
Keywords	ESA, EADS CASA, SATNEX, ANASTASIA, DLR, AENA, ESA ESTEC TEC-EE GNSS, Galileo, SES ASTRA, RF, Antenna, Matlab, GRASP, POS, CHAMP, Ka band, Ku,ASTRIUM, THALES ALENIA,

Education

Telecommunication Engineer specialised on Radio-Communications, University of Vigo. Spain

Final Project Title: Development of a Pulsed Interference Simulator for Satellite Navigation Systems operating at L5/E5 Bands. Qualification: Distinction.

Work Experience

EADS CASA-Espacio (Madrid)

[Jan. 2007- currently] RF/Antenna Engineer. TTI Norte. Contractor in EADS-CASA Espacio. Madrid. The duties are based on the design, developing, testing of satellite antennas. The tasks also include the definition of test procedures, the reporting of the results and meetings with customers in an international environment.

European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC)

[Jul. 2006 – Dec. 2006] European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC). TEC-EE Division, TEC-EEP Section. Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Research on Tropospherical and Ionospherical propagation for GNSS Galileo. Reconfigurable Antennas on Ka band. Radiometer Measurements at Meteorological Institute of the Netherlands (KMNI)

University of Vigo. Department of Communications. (Vigo, Spain)

[Jan. 2006 – Jun. 2006]. AENA. Project of a VOR (VHF Omnirange Receiver) for Multipath studies Purpose.

[Oct. 2005 - Jul. 2006] EU's Integrated Project ANASTASIA. UVigo and Joanneum Research. Development of a simulator of impulsive RF interference sources affecting GPS L5 and GALILEO E5a,b, including: DME/TACAN, JTIDS, SSRs and UWB.

[Apr. 2005 - Dec. 2005] EU's COST 280. Development of generative models of point rain rates and converting them into attenuation time-series.
[Sep. 2004 - May 2005] EU's Network of Excellence SatNex II. Development of shadowing plus multipath time-series generative models for the land mobile satellite channel: Loo, Corazza-Vatalaro, Suzuki.

Publications
[1] F.P.Fontan, D.Marote, A.Mayo, A.Nuñez and U.Fiebig
Enhancing the UVIGO-DLR Synthetic Rain Rate Generative Model. Toward a Full Space-Time Model. ESA Propagation Workshop 2005. 23-25 Nov. 2005. ESA/ESTEC. Noordwijk. The Netherlands.
[2] F. Perez Fontan, A. Mayo Bazarra, D. Marote Alvarez, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, P. Mariño, F. Machado, N. Riera Diaz. Statistical Modeling For Simulating Complex Envelope Timeseries In The Narrowband Land Mobile Propagation Satellite Channel.
Int. Journal on Satellite Comunications.

[3] F.P.Fontan, D.Marote, A.Mayo, B.Sanmartin, A.Castro, J.J.Navarro. Assesing Multipath Induced Errors in VOR Systems using Ray-Tracing Techniques in combination with Detailed Terrain Databases. 14th International Flight Inspection Symposium.12-16 June 2006. Toulouse, France.

[4] [JA-2310] SatNEx Propagation e-Book.

Languages
Spanish: Mother tongue

English: [May 2006] Cambridge University FCE.

[Aug. 2007] Advanced Level 71h. University of Limerick, Ireland.

French: [Sep. 2007] Intensive 55h. Débutant Niveau. Alliance Française (AF)

[Oct. 2007 – Jun. 2008] Élémentaire Niveau. (AF)

Dutch: Low level. (6 months at the Netherlands)

Technical Knowledge
OS: Windows, Linux, Unix.
Office Packages: Ms Office, OpenOffice..

Antenna and RF Programs: GRASP, POS, CHAMP.

Programming Languages: Matlab/Octave, Simulink, C, FORTRAN, Shell script
Other Programming Languages: VHDL, Motorola 68000, Intel 8051.

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