Robert Gordon

Electronic Circuit and System Design

**** ******** **. *** ******, CA 92069

760-***-**** ac9k4d@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

A team oriented, highly motivated Electrical Engineer with over 20 years supporting high technology products from conception to production. A self-starter, internally driven to excel, able to multitask and adjust as priorities shift. A results oriented individual who is a “hands-on” problem solver, and effectively plans, directs and coordinates manufacturing processes. Extensive experience in complex electronics development/manufacturing.

RF and analog/digital circuit and radio system design DC to 1 GHz

PCB Design, Altium

Design of Switching and Linear Power supplies.

Frequency Synthesizer Design

EMC qualification for communication systems

Troubleshoot to bare metal

Root cause analysis/corrective action

Coordinating new product releases.

Design Verification Test

Component specification and sourcing

Designing/recommending Test fixtures

EMC design and test to IEC 61000

Transmission line design, stripline and microstrip, S-parameters

WORK EXPERIENCE

Remec Broadband Microwave Networks San Diego, CA March 2015 - present

Electronic Design Engineer – Design, test and troubleshooting of power supplies. RF system design and test.

Accomplishments:

EMC qualification of radio equipment

Design refinements for RF and DC power supply circuitry

PoE circuit design

Mesa Power Systems Escondido, CA 2013-2015

Power Supply Test Engineer - Responsible for the test and troubleshooting of a variety of power supply/control circuits. These include dc-dc converters and off line converters up to about 500W. Debugging of supervisory microcontroller code used to establish efficiency of PWM and power-factor correction circuits.

Accomplishments:

Failure analysis for customer’s statistical evaluation model

Troubleshooting and repair field failures and manufacturing defects

Analysis of code for Microchip PIC controllers - for troubleshooting of power supplies

Datron World Communications Vista, CA 1998-2009

Electronic Design Engineer – All aspects of RF circuit and system design and test for radio circuits up to 1000 MHz

Accomplishments:

Radio system component and subcircuit specification and design, IF and RF – Amplifiers, mixers, filters and attenuator circuits

Receiver system tradeoff analysis – Noise figure and 3rd order intermodulation distortion analysis

Redesign of PLL synthesizer - Changed transmitter design to direct upconvert simplify design and reduce spurious emissions

Design of lowpass harmonic filter – seven band design covering 2-30 MHz for 100W minimum at 85 C, requiring low loss and steeps skirts

Redesign of Audio Distribution Board Circuit used to process and switch audio signals; redesigned to convert from through-hole to surface-mount technology and to resolve obsolescence issues

Managed Automated Test System Design – for HF and VHF radio systems

Redesign of 7 band Low-pass Harmonic filter - Corrected design flaws in four-layer board resulting from inappropriate layer stack-up and pre-preg thickness, which caused excessive parasitic and mis-matched impedance problems.

Technical Writing – Contributions to technical manual theory of operation of circuits I had designed or managed, and test strategies involving BIT (built-in-test) capability

Sustaining Engineering –

Developed test plan for automated testing of existing products

Provided solutions for problems related to obsolescence in legacy product lines, including circuit redesign and re-definition of testing strategies

TOLLGRADE COMMUNICATIONS Carlsbad, CA 1996-1998

Associate Electrical Engineer

Layout and prototyping/debugging of telephone line impedance analyzer circuit

Layout and prototyping/debugging of 8W planar DC/DC converter converting -48V to several lower rails; used mill to corrected designed errors in 8-layer PCB requiring machining precision less that 0.001 inch

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering

San Jose State University

Continuing Education

Graduate level courses

San Jose State University

EE 210 Linear System Theory

EE 223 Analog Integrated Circuits

University of Idaho

ECE 512 Analog Filter Design

ECE 576 Digital Signal Processing

Computer Science coursework at Palomar College San Marcos, CA

DT110

AUTOCAD

CSCI212

x86 ASSEMBLY

DT226/227

PCB DESIGN (ALTIUM)

CSCI220/222

C/C++

CSCI114/230

JAVA/SWING

CSCI210

DATA STRUCTURES (JAVA)

CSNT110

HARDWARE/OS

CSNT111

NETWORKS

CSWB110

HTML/CSS

CSWB120/135

JAVASCRIPT/JQUERY

CSCI235

ANDROID DEVELOPMENT

CSWB160

PHP/MySQL

CSIT150

ORACLE SQL

CSNT160-261

Cisco CCNA

Programming Languages Used: C/C++, Java, x86 and PIC assembly code, Javascript/jQuery, PHP

CAD: Orcad, Pads PCB, Altium, AutoCad, Visio

TEST EQUIPMENT: NETWORK Analyzers, SPECTRUM Analyzers, Logic Analyzers, BER Test Equipment, Oscilloscopes, Function Generators, Electronic Loads, Spirent Network equipment, Surge generators

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