Engineer Design

Terry Page

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RF, system, and circuit design engineer.

An experienced engineer for high profile companies over the last 28

years. Key skills include RF / RFIC system / circuit design /

simulation, development and test using Agilent ADS/MO simulations for

design and MMIC / PCB layout. Good problem solving skills and a

professional, committed, and friendly approach to work ensures good

teamwork and ability to act as mentor to junior staff.

Conscientiousness ensures work is completed to high standard,

timescales and budget to project guidelines, creating all

documentation, including technical reports, drawings and

specifications.

Key Skills:

( Agilent ADS (Advanced) ( Microwave Office

( Analogue Artist / Spectre RF ( Cadence / Orcad Layout /

simulation

( Microsoft Office / Project (Advanced) ( HP EESOF / Mathcad

(Advanced)

Employment History:

ITT Exelis Defence Ltd. Senior RF design engineer. (Contract) Nov

2011 - Jan 2013.

Key Projects & Responsibilities - VHF/UHF, OFDM tactical radio

development.

- Design authority for the development of VHF/UHF radio front end

equipment using OFDM modulation schemes, simulations using Microwave

Office for linear power amplifiers development. Prototype design,

layout, prototype build and testing of new PCB's.

Thales UK Ltd. Senior RF design engineer. (Contract) Oct 2009 - Oct

2011.

Key Projects & Responsibilities - Linear RF Amplifier development.

- Development and support of high power linear amplifiers for HF/UHF, up

to 5 K Watts power level. Problem solving new designs and development

of technology for future projects. Responsible for CE Marking

specification and EMC compliance to EC and military standards.

Ceravision Ltd. Head of RF design. (Permanent) Jul 2008 - Jun 2009

Key Projects & Responsibilities - LDMOS RF Amplifier device design.

- Design of high power solid state LDMOS RF amplifiers, ensuring

highest possible efficiency and rugged performance. Responsible for the

overall design of 500 watt RF amplifiers up to 5.8 GHz. Evaluation and

selection of components and equipment, responsible for technical

operations and future technology roadmap.

NXP Semiconductors. (Philips) Senior RF design engineer. (Contract)

Mar 2006 - Jul 2008

Key Projects & Responsibilities - LDMOS Linear RF Amplifier device

designs to 3.8 GHz.

- Design authority and development of high power linear amplifier

reference designs for 3GPP WCDMA RF amplifiers of up to 250 watts.

Agilent ADS and HFSS simulations to develop and optimise designs for

best performance in high linearity devices.

- Produce PCB circuit layouts and circuits for reference designs using

ADS, Momentum tools, build and tune test circuits, produce data sheets

and all other project documentation.

Anite Telecoms Ltd. Principal RF design engineer. (Contract) May

2004 - Jan 2006

Key Projects & Responsibilities - RF Design Authority for W-CDMA HSDPA

equipment.

- Design and development of 3GPP W-CDMA HSDPA RF test equipment for the

use of compliance and inter-operability testing. Taking the design

through to production, supporting and developing the product for

specific customer requirements and creating all documentation.

Responsible for system CE conformity, compliance for EU Directives and

EMC Directives.

Consultancy Services. Consultant RF design engineer. (Contract) Mar

2003 -Mar 2004

Key Projects & Responsibilities - RF Amplifier evaluation and

development.

- Research and development of RF Power Amplifiers for W-CDMA application

in the frequency range up to 5.6 GHz. Using simulations to predict non-

linear performance and measurement verification of stability, IP3,

ACPR, EVM, compression and signal to noise correlation. Evaluation of

linearization techniques including pre-distortion and feed forward

technologies.

Philips Semiconductors. Senior RF / MMIC design engineer. (Contract)

May 2002 - Feb 2003

Key Projects & Responsibilities - Variable Gain RF Amplifier design.

- Design of variable gain amplifier modules for next generation broadband

digital CATV market. Using ADS simulations to develop and optimise

design for high linearity and high efficiency amplifiers. Produce test

circuit for reference designs.

- Produce MMIC circuit and engineering PCB layouts using CADENCE,

Analogue Artist and Spectre RF tools for high volume production of

modules.

Advanced Technology Ramar. Senior RF design engineer. (Contract) Sep

2001 -Apr 2002

Key Project/s & Responsibilities - 900 MHz Remote wireless metering

equipment design.

- Design and development of low power, low cost transmitters for remote

meter reading equipment for use in US and EU markets.

- Systems, circuit simulation, design and prototype development, with the

final design taken to production for volume manufacture. Production

support for manufacturing operations.

Nokia Networks. Senior RF Engineer. (Contract) May 2000 -Jun 2001

Key Project/s & Responsibilities - Base station equipment design.

- The design and research of linear GSM / EDGE base station power

amplifiers.

- Responsible for the development of LDMOS / GaAs linear power amplifier

modules. Research, simulation, design and prototyping of schemes to

improve linearity of RF power amplifiers.

- Reporting to project management and responsible for RF Pre-distorter

project design and prototype build, technical documentation, purchasing

of project components and test equipment.

RF design positions previously held include: -

Sony Semiconductors. Principal RF design engineer. MMIC/ RFIC design.

(Permanent) 1998 - 2000.

Development of MMIC GaAs RF switches, semiconductor devices, and power

amplifiers up to 3.5 GHz.

NEC Ltd. Senior RF design engineer. GSM handset design. (Contract)

1997- 1998

Design of a replacement power amplifier into GSM handsets, ensuring

type approval compliance.

Cossor Electronics Ltd. Senior RF design engineer. SS Radar. (Contract)

1996 - 1997

Design and development of Logarithmic amplifiers for Radar systems.

Maxon Europe Ltd. RF design / development engineer. PMR handset

design. (Contract) 1995- 1996

PMR mobile communications design for short-range radio. Design

compliance to ETSI standards.

Orbitel Mobile Communications. (Erricson) GSM RF design engineer.

(Contract) 1995 - 1995

GEC Marconi In-flight Systems Ltd. In-flight Systems, RF design

engineer. (Contract) 1993 - 1995

Rank Xerox Ltd. EMC Development Engineer. (Contract) 1992 - 1993

GEC Alsthom Ltd. - Signalling and Control Systems Development

Engineer. (Contract) 1991 - 1992

STC Technology Ltd, (Bell Northern) Mobile communications RF

Development Engineer. 1989 - 1991

Fujitsu (Europe) Ltd. Test equipment Development Engineer. 1988 -

1989

Motorola General Systems Ltd. Senior RF GSM Development Engineer.

1986 - 1988

Thorn EMI Defence Systems Ltd. Development Engineer. 1985 - 1986

GEC Avionics Ltd. Analogue and Digital Design Engineer. 1984 - 1985

GEC Marconi Underwater Systems Ltd. Development Engineer. 1982 - 1984

EDUCATION: -

Agilent ADS course to advanced level 1999

GEC Avionics Ltd. 1976 -1981. Engineering Apprenticeship. Air and Ground

Based Radar Systems.

Served full apprenticeship and broad based technical training in all the

aspects of electronics theory and practice, attending college block

release courses. Working in different departments in the company to

achieve many different skills required, including work in the design,

development and build of systems and test equipment utilising RF,

analogue and digital design and prototyping skills.

St. Albans College, Watford College of Technology and Hatfield

Polytechnic. 1976- 1982

- City and Guilds of London, Telecommunication Engineering Parts I, II

& III

- HND Telecommunications and Radio Engineering, Theory and Practice.

- Electronic Engineering B.Sc.

Langleybury School, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire.

1971 - 1976

Activities / Interests Cycling, cooking, photography and motor

sports.

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