Engineer Engineering

J. Luis Santisteban

San Diego, CA, ***** - 858-***-****

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Summary

Experienced and accomplished electronics engineer with broad technical

knowledge, skill, and experience in the design, debug, verification, and

integration of complex digital communication equipment. Extensive

expertise in detailed electronic circuit design and the management of

multidisciplinary engineering projects. Detail oriented and team oriented

with exceptional problem solving skills.

Professional Experience

Principal Engineer/Manager - L-3 COMMUNICATIONS, TELEMETRY WEST

San Diego, CA June 2004 -

March 2009

Created the process, structure, and budget to manage a new sustaining

engineering section that drives all hardware sustaining engineering

activities for airborne, space, and ground telemetry product lines used in

military missile and aircraft testing. Managed two direct reports and

numerous other project personnel throughout the company.

Created, planned, and managed a $900K+ annual labor budget that funded

numerous matrix multidisciplinary sustaining engineering projects using MS

Project and Earned Value methodology

Personally analyzed and corrected numerous long-standing hardware,

firmware, and software design flaws in existing products

Redesigned several board assemblies with Analog Devices DSPs and large

FPGAs using Xilinx ISE (VHDL), Altera MaxPlus, OrCad, PADS, ModelSim,

Pspice, Simplify, AutoCAD, Viewlogic, and numerous other development tools

and environments

Created a large comprehensive test plan under a severe time constraint for

a new space encryption system based on several incomplete and incoherent

test plans

Investigated, analyzed, and restructured numerous broken processes

eliminating unnecessary and recurring waste of engineering labor by

$192K/year while improving the efficiency of necessary processes

Reduced unnecessary ECO activity 80% by institutionalizing sound change

management criteria

Initiated, planned, and managed the development of a sophisticated Excel-

based product configuration tool that generates detailed parts lists and

parametric test cases from top level system options

Resolved hundreds of obsolete parts by properly qualifying alternates and

initiated a new proactive company-wide process to identify and manage

obsolete parts issues

Staff Engineer - ERICSSON

San Diego, CA May 1999 -

March 2003

Performed design and integration engineering of new CDMA cellular base

stations.

Designed the low noise digital circuitry for a multi-mode CDMA receiver

card with first pass success

Specified and oversaw the design and fabrication of two 20-slot 24-layer

digital backplanes used in a high capacity CDMA base station with first

pass success. Successfully planned and executed backplane DVT.

Developed the critical internal high speed differential communication

interfaces for a high capacity CDMA base station which required impedance

matching across multiple cables, distribution panels, and expansion chassis

- developed and modeled a simple passive transformer solution that avoided

a problematic active buffering solution

Planned and executed the system level integration DVT of the high capacity

CDMA base station - was a key contributor of the initial HW/SW integration

of prototype base station chassis

Developed and executed a realistic accelerated life cycle test of large

FPGA column grid arrays use on the high capacity base station CDMA cards

Upgraded and performed DVT of PowerPC card components to operate over the

industrial temperature range - adapted a production card tester for

supporting the DVT

Debugged a corrupt calibration data problem on deployed CDMA base stations

for the Salt Lake City Quest network during acceptance testing ahead of the

2001 Winter Olympics. Developed the procedure to correct the flaw and

directed the successful correction of the problem in the field on over 150

cell sites

Staff Engineer - QUALCOMM

San Diego, CA June 1996 -

May 1999

Performed system integration and sustaining engineering of CDMA cellular

base stations with the responsibility and authority to analyze and approve

all changes to base station systems (HW, SW, RF, Mechanical)

Planned and implemented multidisciplinary performance improvements and cost

reduction changes to multiple base station models

Planned and directed new product introduction (NPI) of hardware from

engineering to production

Planned and directed complex field upgrades and design corrections of base

station networks

Wrote hundreds of ECOs to resolve every dependencies and convert the CDMA

base station product line documentation to a new CM product structure

Performed numerous staff assignments to solve a wide variety of difficult

and urgent problems by supplementing project staff and heading special task

forces

Lead Engineer - DATAMAX Inc. and COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA

February 1988 - June 1996

Performed project engineering and detailed circuit design for a contractor

HW engineering team at the NASA Western Aeronautical Test Range.

Planned, scheduled, and directed the detailed design of a multi-ported

shared memory network consisting of six complex board assemblies and high

speed optical links for real-time telemetry data distribution using

TimeLine scheduling SW and Earned Value methodology

Specified a new networked hardware development environment including the

selection of desktop workstations, central data server, IP network, and

application SW for a team of five digital design engineers.

Performed detailed design of several new FPGAs and board assemblies for VME

and ISA multi-ported memory boards and wrote HW diagnostic SW in assembler

and C

Successfully planned and directed the installation, configuration, and

integration of the custom real-time shared memory network

Developed and executed the plan to make the Dryden telemetry data securely

available over the NASA global satellite communications network

Directed and performed numerous other integration tasks within and between

NASA facilities to meet Dryden mission requirements

MTS IV - GOULD Inc. and SYSTEMS ENGINEERING LABORATORIES

Fort Lauderdale, FL January 1980

- January 1988

Planned, scheduled, and directed the detailed design of a multi-card front-

end communications I/O subsystem for a series of proprietary real-time mini-

supercomputers running Unix and real-time operating systems - Performed

detailed design of all cards of the I/O subsystem - took control of a

failing VME I/O subsystem development project and successfully planned and

executed completion. Performed detail design of dozens of other I/O and

communications cards - Wrote HW diagnostic SW in C and assembler.

Education

SDSU Extended Studies Department, 10 week Leadership training

Broward County Community College, Ft. Lauderdale, FL - 40 units towards a

BS degree

Control Data Institute, Coral Gables, FL - Computer Technology

Other

U.S. Military Veteran

Active Secret Clearance

Speak, Read, and Write fluent Spanish

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