Electrical Engineer Design

German Gabriel Luna

*** *** ****** ***. *******, AL 35749

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Professional Summary

Electrical engineer with 10 years of experience in electronics design, failure analysis, and hands-on laboratory

testing and development. Solid professional background, technical experience and excellent educational

credentials.

Work Experience

Electrical Engineer (August 2008 - November

2010)

Aegis Technologies, Huntsville, AL

• E xperience in design of high-speed digital circuits and systems utilizing Xilinx FPGAs.

• Debug, simulation, test bench experience using the tools ModelSim, ChipScope.

• H ardware design, design flow and test vector verification with VHDL coding.

• Simulation test bench development and verification. Logic synthesis and lab experience bringing up FPGAs and

system debugging.

• U tilized FloorPlanner and Routing tool to improve critical path speed to improve timing performance.

• E xperience with embedded high-speed analysis tool (ChipScope).

Device Failure Analysis Engineer (April 2005 – July

2008)

Microtune, Plano, TX

• Conducted failure and root-cause analysis on customer returns and yield fall out.

• Provided corrective action recommendations and analysis reports that enhanced product reliability.

• Performed electrical and system performance evaluation of TV tuner chips on the bench in an RF system using

256-QAM and OFDM. Evaluated oscillator phase noise, system BER (bit-error rate), PLL lock-time, noise figure

and intermodulation distortion.

• I nteracted with circuit design, test and system engineers to plan the phases of failure analysis.

• Performed curve tracing to identify pins that exhibit current/voltage (I/V) anomalies.

• F ailure site isolation utilizing hot spot detection with liquid crystals.

• Performed circuit analysis, microprobing, and analytical assessments to identify causes of circuit failures.

• Supported f ixture and load board correlation maintenance and calibration for production testing.

• I nterfaced with outside service analytical laboratories to conduct SEM, FIB, X-Ray, Decapsulation and Device

C ross-Sectioning.

Test Engineer (April 2000 – April

2003)

I ntervoice, Dallas, TX

• Developed board level test engineering methods and fixtures for production testing of PCB boards.

• I mplemented JTAG Boundary-Scan and National Instruments development hardware/software, resulting in

i mproved test coverage for the product.

• Teamed closely with the hardware design group to address design for testability issues and method of test.

Systems Engineer (January 1998 – October

1999)

Nortel, Richardson, TX

• Developed business case analysis and network planning studies for next generation networks, migrating a

customer’s Voice Network into an overlaid Voice/Data Network.

• Optimized IP/ATM networks based on a customer’s specific traffic demands and node locations, resulting in an

analysis of cost and revenue projection, enhancing product acceptance and customer engagement.

Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholar (June 1997 – August

1997)

NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA

• Gained experience in VHDL programming and procedures used to develop field programmable gate array

(FPGA) applications.

• I mplemented several FPGAs to realize the control logic necessary to program digital potentiometers and digital-

to-analog converters which comprise part of the data acquisition system of the Wind Tunnel Re-engineering

P roject.

Education

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (August 2003 - December

2004)

The University of Texas at Dallas GPA : 3.1

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (August 1992 – December

1997)

T he University of Texas at El Paso Major GPA : 3.72 Overall GPA : 3.46

Skills and Interests

• CAD systems experience: Cadence, Synopsis, Mentor Graphics, Hspice, Xilinx Foundation, OrCAD, ModelSim

• F ield Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design and simulation

• M ixed-signal fundamental concepts: High Speed Amplifier, Low-Noise Amplifier, Mixer, Voltage Controlled

Oscillator, Phase Locked Loop, Phase Noise Analysis

• M atlab, VHDL Programming, Assembly Language, C Language, Visual C++, Microsoft Office

• Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyzer, Parametric Analyzer, Logic Analyzer

Active Secret Security Clearance

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