Engineer Design

Dear Sir/Madam,In response to your job posting and according to your resume submission instructions, please, find my resume below.The position of The Manager, Antenna Engineering looks very interesting to me, and I believe that my experience as an antenna designer andan Engineering Lead on multiple projects will be very valuable for the hiring company.I would really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about the position and discuss the job requirements and my qualifications.My contact information is in the header of the resume below.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Alexander Brailovsky

Alexander Brailovsky

11 Deerwood East

Irvine, CA 92604

724-***-**** (cell)

acd5pw@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

A

total of 25 years of varied experience in physics of electromagnetic waves and

RF Engineering.

11-year

of experience in research, design, simulation and testing of RF systems 40 MHz-100

GHz. Design, simulation, prototyping,

and testing of antennas for millimeter wave imaging radars and wireless power

transfer systems.

4-year

experience as a multifunctional team lead.

Extensive

hands-on experience in numerical simulations of RF systems using HFSS,

ENSEMBLE, DESIGNER, WASP-NET, MATLAB.

Extensive

hands-on experience in the design and measurement of antenna systems.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Wayne State University,

Detroit MI.

1999

BS and MS in Electrical Engineering (with Honors), Gorky Polytechnic Institute, Gorky, USSR.

1988

PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE

Principal

RF Engineer, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Irvine CA, August

2009-Present

Served as a

Technical Lead of a multifunctional team of engineers and scientists to design

and build a unique X-Band electronically beam-steering antenna for

government-funded military collision-avoidance radar. Developed system

requirements, performed HFSS simulations, supervised Near-Field antenna

testing, planned schedules, and generated presentations for management.

Served as a Radar

IPT Lead that designed and built a W-Band imaging radar for assisted plane

landing. Developed system requirements, planned schedules, performed HFSS

simulations, supervised Near-Field antenna testing, and generated presentations

for management.

Developed antenna

system requirements and BOEs for several government proposals and projects.

Developed antenna

and transceiver specifications for a W-band airplane-installed

landing-assisting imaging radar.

Developed and

HFSS-simulated conceptual antenna systems for imaging radars in X-band and

W-band.

Senior/Principal Antenna Engineer, Powercast

Corporation, Pittsburgh PA, October 2006- August 2009

Designed, and

tested FCC-approved 900-MHz wireless power transfer systems for eventual mass

production

Lead design and

development of a total of 30 different antenna systems operating from 92 MHz to

5.8 GHz for a DOD-funded RF power harvesting project. Wrote technical

proposals; secured funding for approximately $750K.

Designed, built

and tested a 900-MHz phase-array antenna system.

Performed design,

HFSS simulations, and complete testing of a multitude of small wide-band PCB-based

antennas for wireless power transfer

Member

of Technical Staff /Senior Scientist,

WaveBand/Sierra Nevada Corporation, Irvine

CA, January 2002-October 2006.

Led research to

develop new antenna systems and millimeter wave imaging radars. Supervised several Army, Navy and other

Government Agency funded projects.

Wrote 5 winning

SBIR proposals related to advanced RF systems. Secured funding for

approximately $800K.

Supervised the

development of a Ka-band antenna system currently installed on US Navy vessels.

Invented an

electronically controlled beam-steering antenna aperture which drastically

reduces the cost of phased array antenna systems. Developed a software package

in MATLAB for the design of beam-steering antenna apertures.

Managed several

projects and led teams of engineers to design, build, and test antenna and

imaging radar systems for military and civilian applications.

Performed

Near-Field Measurements of antenna systems.

Simulated and

designed wide-band and multi-band X-band antennas and transitions using HFSS

and WASP-NET

Senior

Research Engineer, EMAG Technologies INC., Ann Arbor MI, 2000-2001.

Conducted

research in the field of printed-circuit-board antennas and performed numerical

simulation of various types of antennas and antenna arrays. Developed

mathematical algorithms and wrote C++ software for the simulation and design of

antenna arrays. These algorithms provided for new features in commercial

software packages emPICASSO and RENOIR based on the Method of Moments and FEM.

Lead the

development of several numerical methods for direct 3-D finite-element

electromagnetic simulation of complex antenna structures for military

applications.

Conducted

research, developed techniques and wrote C++ software for the design and simulation

of RF MEMS switches. The software accounts for both electrical and mechanical

properties of the MEMS devices.

Director of

Research, Michigan Home

Care Medical Research Center, Detroit MI. 1999-2000

Invented,

designed and created “The Infant Respiratory Monitor” – a unique electronic

device based on the ultrasound technology for non-contact monitoring of the

breathing of sleeping infants.

The

project included from scratch concept development, analytical calculations, complete

circuit design and simulation, schematic capture, and prototype testing.

Supervised

mass production of the monitor.

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Wayne State University,

Detroit MI.

1996 - 1999

Taught

the undergraduate engineering course in "Electronic circuits

simulation" and "Digital Logic" - core courses in electrical

engineering curriculum, WSU, Detroit,

MI. Prepared training materials, conducted lectures, supervised groups of 20

students.

Conducted

theoretical investigations and direct 2D-numerical simulations of semiconductor

optoelectronic devices such as light-emitting diodes, lasers, and thyristors.

Proposed, designed and investigated new types of high-speed microwave

semiconductor switch and light-emitting diode.

Developed

mathematical algorithms and C++ programs which, combined with commercial

simulation package SILVACO, enhanced numerical simulation of complex

semiconductor devices.

Secured financial

support by submitting several proposals. Research projects included design and simulation

of fast controlled light-emitting and power diodes, lasers, and power diodes,

thyristors, transistors, and microwave switches.

Research Fellow, Institute for

Physics of Microstructures, Russia.

1993 - 1996

Conducted

research in the area of microwave spectroscopy: study of the microwave spectra

of gases, improvement of the sensitivity and resolution of microwave

spectrometers, development of new methods and devices, digital signal

processing.

Developed and

implemented algorithms for spectroscopic signal processing, whose application

resulted in a substantial reduction of both synchronous and asynchronous

hindrances and sensitivity improvement.

Invented

and patented a new type of microwave Fourier-spectrometer.

Junior Research Fellow, Institute of

Applied Physics, Russia. 1988 - 1993

Conducted

theoretical and experimental research in the area of interaction of high power

pulsed laser radiation with solids including laser ablation, laser-produced

plasma expansion into low-pressure gas environment; effects of melt

instabilities, melt droplets and solid particle ejection on plasma expansion

and the formation of semiconductor and superconductor thin films.

Developed

mathematical algorithms for the processing of images obtained at scanning

tunnel microscopes.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS

Published

a total of 19 scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings.

Holds

a total of 5 patents in the field of RF systems

Received

full research and teaching assistantships from the ECE department of Wayne State

University.

Member

of IEEE

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