Senior hardware electronic & RF Engineer with 10 + years experience developing wireless technologies and electronics for commercial and industrial markets.
Consultant – designer – second opinion – system architect
"Remote work" during Covid seems to be the best solution. Part-time design and consuting. I work for Europe or US.
SKILLS • KNOWLEDGE• ABILITIES
Consultant and architect of RF wireless hardware and embedded systems. System design from concept to product. RF and firmware applications with ASIC MCU such as handheld Spectrum Analyzer. Good hardware and software does not age, it just runs. Discussions why banks don't use modern software instead of old Unix running fortran, algol, are simple. The BAnks doesn't want to loose money. Same situation is in Aerospace and Automotive industries.
• Simulations, verification, tolerance analysis, thermal issues, troubleshooting
• Hardware: Vector Network Analyzer, vector system analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer, Signal Generator, Noise Figure meter, Agilent 5500 phase noise analyzer system, Anritsu, HP Field Fox ...
• Tools: PowerSmith© (owner of the ource code), Microwave Office, Smith, Eagleware, LTSpice, RFSim, Tline, electromagnetic simulators, Sonnet, Microwave Studio, ADS, HFSS
• Software verification tools : Logiscope, Geode, other...
• CAD: PADS, OrCAD, Altium-not any more.
• Programming : C, embedded C graphics, Pascal, Power Basic, Fortran
• OS: Windows XP, PCLinuxos, IBM UNIX 4.2, VxWorks, Win7, not Win10
• Software development in: PSoC Designer, IAR-probably best, Code Warrior, CrossWorks, flash programmers.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (short)
DAT CONSULTING CONSORTIUM with AEROSPACE_X 7/ 2016 – Present
Consultant, design for Aerospace applications
• Designed different NO2 gas sensors with potentiostat
•Designed spacecraft charging hardware simulator. A High Voltage device for ESA proposal
• Designed ultrasound range finder for UAV with PsoC MCU. Replacement China
• Cooperation on technical and business proposals for ESA
• Consulting, troubleshooting, debugging, architecture change, locating bottlenecks
• Resurrected RF Finder with FFTs on FPGA, cleaned analog noise sources, switched power supplies, ADCs, buffers, aliasing filters, added ADC sampling tree. Power partitioned boards
• R&D troubleshooting of 8 receivers. 2.4GHz LNA to IF, frequency synthesizers
• Built antenna phased array for 2.4GHz
• Designed phase shifters for system phase calibratio n (10.7MHz, 350MHz, 2.4GHz)
• Simulations, field tests.
Sensor Switch – Acuity Brands Lighting, Wallingford , CT USA 7/2014 – 2016
Engineer - Design – Principal
The CT division was responsible for R&D of remote LED lghting controls. Different tasks were required. Designed PCD (phase cut dimmer) for 120/27 7V/8A/60Hz. Resolved safety and thermal issues on existing products. Worst case analysis. Solved EMI problems with PIR-occupancy sensors.
• Helped with the wireless part of the 2.4GHz Bluetooth Low Energy lighting control
• Evaluated battery-less 925MHz remote lighting control
• Wrote Engineering reports
• Put together a system for measurement of existing AC/DC converters to check compliance with UL and FCC/EMI certification for conducted and radi ated emissions. EMI Spectrum analyzer, shielded setup, DC to 24GHz, 120V to 277V. Helpless products were separated
• Provided sensitivity analysis of PIR sensors. Built the PIR tester prototype
• Provided ESD-gun immunity measurements for UL, and reliability analysis, failure analysis, FMEA
• Wrote msp430 firmware, when short of resources
• Fixed measurement instruments out of order, fixed 7 years expired calibration
DAT CONSULTING CONS. Mostly USA, Toronto Canada, or Europe (2007 – 2014) Consultant, hardware designer.
• Consultant for system and RF Architecture. US and EU projects.
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