Engineer Electrical

Hector Santos Rosario

mailto:abnc6i@r.postjobfree.com

** **** ******, *****. # *. Rochester, NY 14607 . 585-***-****

Seeking a career in the area of RF/Communication/DSP with future

opportunities in leadership

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

. 15 years of relevant working experience with rf/wireless communication

systems.

. Two Masters degrees in cutting edge Telecommunications and Digital

Signal Processing technology.

. Two years of experience developing and testing DSP algorithms.

. Strong hardware/programming skills.

EDUCATION

. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY:

M.S, Electrical Engineering, focus area Digital Signal Processing,

July 2006; GPA: 3.5/4.0

Journal Publication (s):

Hector Santos, Eli Saber, Wencheng Wu, Kartheek Chandu. " An

Automated Algorithm for the

Identification of Artifacts in Mottled and Noisy Images,"

Journal of Electronic and Imaging

Science, Nov 2007.

Conference Publication (s):

Hector Santos, Eli Saber, Wencheng Wu. "A Novel Algorithm for

Detecting Streaks in Mottled

and Noisy Images," International Congress on Imaging Science,

Rochester, May 2006.

. Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (Dominican Republic):

M.S, Telecommunications, January 2004; GPA: 3.5/4.0

. Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (Dominican Republic):

B.S, Electronic Engineering, September 1993; GPA: 3.5/4.0

WORK EXPERIENCE

. MKS Instruments, Rochester, NY, July 2006 to Present

RF Engineer IIl

Drive all phases of product support for RF amplifiers used in MRI

systems. This position

includes product improvements, product hardware and software

support, customer support and

production support.

Analysis (FTA and FMEA) of electronic/electrical problems from

product field returns and

recommend changes to resolve issues. Work with various depts. to

implement the changes to

resolve issues.

Design, simulate, and build prototypes and or test fixtures to test

design changes. Responsible for

the creation of documentation for design changes and the associated

cost analysis for the change

Involved.

. Research Assistant for RIT EE Dept. & Xerox Corporation, August

2005 to July 2006, (Thesis)

Develop a novel algorithm for detecting streaks in printed images

using adaptive window-based

image projections and maximization of mutual information.

. Aviation Administration, La Union Airport, Puerto Plata, Dominican

Republic, 1994/2004

Radar Engineer

Performed preventive and corrective maintenance of airport radar

system maintaining compliance

of International Civil Aviation Organization standards (ICAO). La

Union Airport has the second

largest traffic volume in the Dominican Republic.

. Cibao International Airport, Santiago, Dominican Republic, 2002/2004

Navigation Aids Engineer

Supervision and maintenance of airport navigation systems (VHF

transmitters/receivers, VOR, ILS).

Systems were maintained in compliance with the standards of the

International Civil Aviation

Organization (ICAO).

. Micro-Ondas Nacionales, La Vega, Dominican Republic, 1998/2000

Communications Engineer

Performed installation of VHF/UHF repeaters, maintenance and repair

of high power AM/FM

broadcast transmitters.

Micro-Ondas Nacionales is the largest commercial radio broadcasting

company in the Dominican

Republic.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

. Teaching Assistant at RIT, Rochester, NY, USA, May 2005 to July 2006

Responsibilities include instruction and mentoring of students in

Electrical Engineering

coursework including Analog Circuit Analysis, Fundaments of

Electronics, Linear

Systems and Digital Image Processing.

. Professor at PUCMM, Santiago, Dominican Republic, January 1998 to

February 2004

Professor of "Semiconductor Devices 1" and "Analog Communications

1" in the Electrical

Engineering Department. Taught 2 classes per semester and had about

30 students per class.

PROJECTS

. Image Segmentation using texture gradient based watershed transform.

Subdivide a digital image into its constituent objects (Matlab

generated code).

. Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction

Reconstruct an image from a set of several degraded images affected

by noise, blur,

down- sampling, and warp (Matlab code generated).

. Skin and Non-skin Classification implemented a skin recognition process

using Bayesian

Classifier, neural network classification for biomedical culture test

set (> 90%) (Matlab generated

code).

. Information System for travelers (Network designed to inform travelers

at airports)

Design of open wireless network to keep travelers informed at

airports.

Travelers could get access to information about flights, ground

transportation, and

weather using a LAPTOP or PDA without previous setting.

. Electrical Engineering Supervisor in the Cibao International Airport

construction,

Santiago, Dominican Republic.

Responsibilities included the installation of the runway lighting,

runway current regulators,

approximation lights, and precision approach path indicators.

SKILLS/CERTIFICATIONS

. Certifications: VOR/DME maintenance, Primary Radar maintenance,

Secondary Radar

maintenance.

. Computer languages: C, Assembly.

. Operating systems: Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP, Linux, Cisco

Internetworking Operating System.

. Hardware: X86, 8259 PIC, TI TMS 320F2812, ALTERA FLEX 10K70 FPGA,

RS232, RS485.

. Software packages: Matlab/Simulink, MS Office suite, Microsoft Visual

C++, Orcad PSpice,

Quartus II, TI Composer studio.

. Telecommunications: LAN networks, Frame Relay, Callserver, Voice Over

IP, Database,

Security Network, ATM, Wireless Networking.

. Test equipments: Signal generators, Spectrum analyzer, Network analyzer,

Power meter,

Oscilloscope.

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