Engineer Design
Resume:
SENIOR RF/MICROWAVE ENGINEER RESUME
Melvin West, Jr
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Bordentown, NJ 08505
Title
RF/Microwave Hardware Design Engineer
Primary Skills
** **ars of RF/Microwave expertise, including design, R&D analysis, test
and product support
RESUME DETAILS
CAREER SUMMARY
* Over (35) years of RF/Microwave expertise including design, R&D analysis,
test and product support
* MIC and Stripline Components Design
o Expertise includes complex, low and high volume military
applications and cost conscious commercial hardware
o Experience covers a wide-band of frequencies ranging from UHF up to
(L, S, X Ku and Ka) bands, with bandpass filters and receivers to
35GHz
o Commercial: Low-Cost low-current receivers, transmitters, sensors
o Military: Exciters, receivers, radars
o System Architecture and cascaded analysis experience from antennae
to baseband
* Other career experience includes
o RF-active: Synthesizer -PLL (low-noise wideband, narrow and wide
band channels)
o Discrete amplifiers: (LNAs/narrowband: GaAs FET and silicon),
feedforward, diode detectors, Bipolar, Impatt, and Gunn oscillators
o Thermal: Power dissipation, thermal analysis
o Mixers, RF switches, and MMICs
o Planar circuitry: PCB layout, couplers, filters, dividers-
combiners, stripline, power splitters/combiners, baluns
o Waveguide: Rectangular, ridge, circular, Waveguide to microstrip
transitions
o Lumped: Filters, noise suppression, matching
o Discrete: Filters, matching, gain-slope equalizers
o MCM, Chip and wire assembly
o Familiarity with CAE: ADS, AWR, Sonnet, FXdtd 3D Nuhertz Filters
Synthesis,
MS Office
o Test equipment: VNA, spectrum analyzer, signal source analyzer,
signal generator, power meter, NF analyzer, O-scope, anechoic
chamber
o Proven ability to document technical solutions including experience
in proposal writing and test documentation
o Computer Programming Capabilities: Fortran, Matlab, MatCad
Professional Experience
Solartron ISA (Division of Ametek), UK
October 2011 - Present
Consultant: Designing UHF discrete and hairpin bandpass stripline and
filters. Provided cascaded performance analysis for their water faction
meter system. Also worked with engineers to evaluate the UHF underwater RF
Probe.
Ametek//Drexelbrook Horsham, PA
September 2008 - August 2011
Airborne Radar Development: Defined open-air radar requirements. Performed
S/N analysis, performed antenna studies, designed MIC couplers, power
dividers/combiners, amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, PLL, detectors and
baluns used in the development of level measurement air-borne C-Band and K-
Band level measurement open air radars.
Also developed several MatLab programs used for filter synthesis, auto-
correlation and bessel functions.
Lockheed Martin Corporation (MS2) Moorestown, NJ
2005 - 4/18/08: Lead Member of Technical Staff (Microwave and Antenna
Group)
Lead RF Engineer in the Microwave and Antenna Group with the responsibility
to develop and or sustain S/C-Bands T/R modules and LRUs.
Lead RF engineer for the S4R T/R module and LRU phased array radar system
production activities. The module designs utilized microstrip and stripline
topologies, single and multi-layer board designs utilizing Alumina, Duroid,
LTCC and HTCC substrates. The receive and transmit path utilized GaAs
MESFET, and SiC MMIC amplifiers.
Performed ADS, Sonnet EM simulation, developed cascaded performance budget
analysis, functional block diagrams, T/R module power dissipation /
efficiency and package mode analysis.
Developed, analyzed and generated system/component specifications for
hybrid and MMIC components used in vertical and horizontal simultaneously
transmit/receive, transmit only, and receive only modules. The components
included amplifiers (single-ended and balanced) amplifiers, circulators,
LNAs and limiters.
Worked with High Voltage GaAs MESFET, GaN and Class-E amplifiers, MMIC
phase shifters and MMIC beamformers.
Mentored junior level engineers.
BAE Systems (CNIR Division) Wayne, NJ
2002 - 2005: Member of Technical Staff (RF Engineering Group)
Principal investigator for MEMS technology. Lead RF engineer for the
winning proposal for the Landing Aids down converter Program.
Responsible for the development of a Q and V Bands up and down converter
for the F-22 program. Also developed link budgets and ADS simulations
circuits for those designs.
Designed the 25MHz Reference oscillator circuit for the Netfires
Transceiver program.
Lucent Technologies / AT&T Microelectronics Reading, PA / Whippany, NJ
1992 -2001: Member of Technical Staff (FORCE IC and Amplifier Platform
Groups)
Responsible for the development of a 4:16 De-multiplexer. Worked as a part
of the development team developing a 2.5Gb/s MMIC CDR Circuit.
Assisted in the developing a plan for the realization of bumped GaAs and
Silicon wafers/chips.
Designed MMIC Power Amplifiers (single ended) and switches Among these
were TDMA and CDMA amplifiers (using silicon bipolar devices) for base
station applications. Designed AT&T's 1st MMIC GSM amplifier.
Team member responsible for developing Cellular / PCS Band linearizers.
Also investigated and compared AT&T's Bipolar CBIC-V, MBIC, and Triquint's
Ion Implant MESFET technologies for potential amplifier applications.
Other responsibilities also included design reviews, generating amplifier
proposals (including costing), and presentations to potential customers.
American Electronics Laboratory Lansdale, PA
1985-1992: Senior Development Engineer (Microwave Hybrid Division)
Group Leader for the Components and Subsystems Group. Responsibilities
included designing or enhancing several microwave / millimeter wave
components and subsystems including down-converters, up-converters,
amplifiers, detectors, filters, couplers, and attenuators. These products
utilized microstrip, stripline, and/or waveguide topologies.
Responsible Engineer for improving and sustaining the GE Ku-band
Preamplifier, AMRAAM Mixer Amplifier, and MICNS development programs.
Designed a 4-bit Delay Line, filter/detector for the ASR-67 Millimeter Wave
receiver, self oscillating mixer.
General Electric Corporation King of Prussia, PA
1981-1985: Engineer (MIC Design Engineering)
Responsible for designing passive, and active MIC microwave components. The
components included, microstrip amplifiers, phase shifters, and couplers.
Responsible for the development of the theoretical analysis involving power
combiners (graceful degradation) and phase shifters.
Responsible for radar system analysis and developing component
specifications used for S-Band radar applications.
Honeywell, Inc. Bloomington, MN
1975-1981: Development Engineer (Millimeter Wave Technology)
Responsible for designing microwave, and millimeter wave amplifiers, and
oscillators from L through KA-bands using MESFET, GUNN, and IMPATT devices.
Successfully designed Honeywell's 1st Ka-Band IMPATT oscillator.
Responsible for the design and characterization of microstrip mixers,
sensors, seekers, radiometers, couplers, microstrip to waveguide
transitions and radar signature analysis.
Developed several FORTRAN computer-aided design routines involving mixer
design, 2-dimensional radomes, backscatter attenuation due to falling snow
at
millimeter wave frequencies and reduced-height waveguide structure(s).
Worked as a part of a team on SAW devices and missile seekers proposals.
PUBLICATIONS
1. "Worse Case Analysis for the AMRAAM Mixer Amplifier," American
Electronics Labs., December 1988.
2. "Active/Passive Mode Sensor With Ranging," Honeywell, Inc.
(Proprietary), February 1981.
3. "35 GHz IMPATT Transmitter," Honeywell, Inc. (Proprietary), April 1980.
PATENTS/DISCLOSURES
1. Co-inventor: "RF Power Amplifier With Increased Efficiency At Low
Power"
Patent #5568094, October 1996.
2. "SAW Filter with Both Transducer Apodized" Patent Disclosure Award,
1975.
3. "Broken Finger Metallic Reflective SAW Grating" Patent Disclosure Award,
1975.
EDUCATION
MS - Electrical Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA -- 1998
BS - Electrical Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI
- 1974
CLEARANCE: Secret (inactive)
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