Engineer Design

KURT COLON

* ***** ***** ****: 973-***-****

Rockaway, NJ 07866 Cell: 973-***-****

SUMMARY: Seeking a position in the RF Engineering field in the area of design, test, integration and

practical Radio/RF applications.

EDUCATION: B.S.E.E. - New Jersey Institute of Technology - 1983

M.I.S. - University of Phoenix - 2011 (GPA= 3.97/4.00)

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

AMI Research and Development – RF Design Engineer 8/12 – Present

• RF design, simulations (ADS), test and integration of an NQR detection RF subsystem.

• Other responsibilities include RF propagation analysis and proposal writing.

BAE Systems - Senior Principal Engineer – (RF Systems Engineering) 2/02 – 8/12

• Responsible for test, evaluation and integration of the (WIN-T) 2kW antenna system being

developed for the military. This includes creating test plans, procedures and testing all RF

characteristics of the antenna system utilizing spectrum and modulation analysis. Also

responsible for debugging and troubleshooting the hardware.

• Responsible for leading a radio systems team to develop a wideband radio system for the Army

(FCS). Tasks include requirements analysis, RF Link range analysis and filter analysis of the

Radio systems on ground and air vehicles.

• Lead an RF design team tasked with the development of a 200-500W L-Band Power Amplifier

(JSF). Specific tasks include cost account management and defining the technical requirements

with systems engineering.

M/A-COM – Senior RF Design Engineer 11/01 – 2/02

• Responsible for working with a hardware design team that was developing a chip set for cellular

phones. The technology employed circuitry that will be used in GSM and cdma2000 cellular

phones.

• Responsible for defining the transmitter tests and lab equipment for this development project

while working with the component designers.

Lucent Technologies – MTS (RF Design) 9/96 – 11/01

• Worked as a lead engineer responsible for specifying, testing and evaluating the front end RF

hardware for a (3G) Base Wide Band CDMA Transceiver Station and UMTS system. This

included creating test plans and procedures for the power amplifier testing, and debugging the RF

and control circuitry for LTE (Long Term Evolution) PCS, CDMA type systems.

• Tasks included writing design specifications and test plans, managing the test effort for evaluating

the duplexers, LNA and High Power Amplifiers for LTE (W-CDMA) systems, as well as

communicating with other departments such as Manufacturing, Systems Engineering, and Sub-

system Design groups.

• Other responsibilities included working as a lead engineer on a team tasked to design and develop

a digital radio design focusing on the Receiver (CDMA - PCS (1900MHz) phone). Specific

duties were to develop Receiver specifications and test plans, including design and evaluation of

the receiver per IS-95A requirements. These responsibilities included extensive lab work and

utilization of RF simulations tools (Agilent-EESOF, ADS).

GEC-Marconi - Principal Engineer (RF Design) 5/93 - 9/96

• Functioned as lead engineer tasked with the design of an Exciter and pre-amp driver for a spread

spectrum TDMA (JTIDS) communications system.

• Also charged with developing an IFF detection board to fit into a SEM-E module using surface

mount technology and telecom parts.

• Other duties included design modifications to receiver, synthesizer and Power Amp circuits

operating at L-band frequencies. These responsibilities included supervising production support

personnel, troubleshooting and designing test equipment. Provided scheduling and man-loading.

ITT Avionics - SMTS (RF Design) 5/83-2/85 and 2/86-5/93

• Functioned as a lead engineer on a team charged with design, test and integration of a Ku-band

RF transceiver for the Air Force (ALQ-172)

• Duties included formulation of test plans and specifications for modifications and generation of

RF component specifications.

• Responsible for the design of the RF subsystem for the ATRJ jamming system, employing the

EESOF CAD tools for design and simulation of RF characteristics. Also tasked with building and

testing the resultant RF sub-system.

• Previously responsible for designing software to control instrumentation and receiver systems.

• Also tasked to integrate the hardware/software and demonstrate these systems to the customer in

a lab environment.

Lockheed Electronics Company - RF Design Engineer (RF Engineering) 2/85 - 2/86

• Responsibilities included design and analysis of microwave circuits.

• Duties included the utilization of CAD programs (SUPERCOMPACT) to analyze circuits and

component parameters for the design and analysis of HF, VHF, UHF and X-band receivers for

direction finding systems.

PUBLICATIONS:

• K. Colon, B. Woods, and J. Lopez. White Paper: RF Link Analysis for Future Combat Systems.

BAE System Engineering News, 2010

• K. Colon, B. Woods and J. Lopez. White Paper: RF Filter Analysis for the Future Combat

Systems Ground Vehicles. BAE Systems Engineering News, 2010

COMPUTER SKILLS: Familiar with the Agilent CAD products. Working knowledge of UNIX,

LABVIEW, C and C++, and various CAD programs

PERSONAL: Married, 2 Children and a US citizen.

AWARDS: ITT Performance Award in Engineering - 1990

ITT Cost Reduction Awards (3)

BAE Chairman’s Bronze Award (Multi-Band Antenna Design) - 2008

BAE Chairman’s Bronze Award (RF Link Simulation and Noise analysis tools) - 2009

BAE Chairman’s Silver Award (High Performance Short Multi-Band Antenna) – 2009

BAE Chairman’s Award (FCS/BCTM Solution to Sustain RF Performance) - 2010

MISC.: Secret Clearance (active), IEEE Member

Expertise in using RF test equipment (i.e. Spectrum Analyzers, Network Analyzers)

VOLUNTEER

WORK: President of the Morris Hills Diamond Boosters Club (2002-2004)

Baseball and Basketball Coach for over 15 years

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