RF Engineer

OBJECTIVES

Bilingual RF engineer seeking a full time position as a senior rf product

development engineer that will allow me to contribute from past experience,

classroom knowledge as well as to obtain new skills.

*EDUCATION*

*B.S. Electrical Engineering*, San Jose State University, CA, 5/08

A.A. General Studies, Mendocino College, CA, 6/05

*EXPERIENCE*

*Communications and Power Industries / MPP Division; Palo Alto, CA*

R&D Engineer*, *6/08 – Present

50 GHz program development engineer

CCT lead engineer collaborating with NRL on development of high

frequency and power products

Pointed as a lead millimeter rf design engineer for

coupled-cavity product development group

Designed by proving filtering theory to successfully achieve

13% bandwidth rf circuit for 700Watts millimeter TWT

Fully tested and stability characterized 700W design under dc

and rf conditions

Published and presented designs versus measurements for Ka Band

products at IVEC 2012, 2014 and at 2014 Ka and Broadband Communications

Navigation and Earth Observation conferences

Experienced designing, building and testing state of the art

millimeter high power prototypes

Designed vacuum windows, characterize materials and components

Train and mentor new engineers on rf and electrical testing

and safety

Experienced working with electron beams and vacuum systems

Familiar with ITAR regulations

Engineering Intern*, *2/08 – 6/08

Designed X-band impedance matching elements for waveguide

combiner using HFSS

Cold test and tune klystron L and X band cavities

Cold test and match helix power tubes

Analyze S-parameters given by network analyzer

Updated documentation such as piece parts and assemblies

drawings, bill of materials and procedures.

*San Jose State University; San Jose, CA*

Senior Project, F07 –

SP08

Designed a coil and patch antenna using HFSS to operate with

existing Alien RFID system

Built and matched antennas to operate at 915MHz

Led RFID team

*Hewlett-Packard Co./IPG/Technology Development Operations; Corvallis, OR*

R&D Intern, 6/07 – 8/07

- Designed novel nozzle detection system for a printer testbed

- Characterized CCD and CIS linear cameras for the nozzle detection

design

- Created layout, schematic and simulations for testbed’s printer drive

mechanism with CADENCE

*Anheuser-Busch, Inc., INROADS Intern; Fairfield, CA*

Engineering Intern, 6/06 – 8/06, 6/05 – 8/05

- Configured and became skilled in PowerNet system which enhanced

brewery control over electrical usage.

- Worked with 115kv, 15kv and 2300 volt systems and switchgear to

improve the system and monitor electrical demand.

*SKILLS *

- Experienced in Measurements such as:

S-parameters, circuit dispersion and loss characteristics, Magnetic field

radial and transverse acquisitions, power transfer curves, frequency

response, intermodulation distortion, spurious signals, drive induced

oscillations, intrapulse and interpulse noise, am-pm, high voltage standoff

electrostatic isolators, testing in high voltage environment

- Experienced user of:

*Equipment**: *Hi-Potter, Network Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer,

Oscilloscope, Function Generator, Multimeter.

*Software:* HFSS, MagNet, Elecnet, Tesla-CC, Microwave Office, MatLab,

Xilinx, PSpice, Visual Studio, MS Office Applications

*AWARDS, HONORS & LEADERSHIP*

* CPI CAP Award for Engineering Achievement, 9/14 * Granted Security

Clearance, 2010 * Promoted to engineer A, 2012 * Promoted to engineer B,

2010 *Recipient, Hewlett Packard Scholar and Scholarship, 6/04-5/08

*Recipient, National Science Foundation Scholarship, 5/04- 5/08 *Recipient,

Dean’s List, Mendocino College, 5/03 & 5/04 *IEEE member, 8/05 –

Present

*MEP club member, 2/03 – Present

*Hispanic Club member, 2/03 – 5/05

*PUBLICATIONS*

*Advance High Power Amplifier Technology for K, Ka and Q/V-Band

Systems*, 20th Ka and Broadband Communications, Navigation and Eargth

Obsevation Conference, Vietri sul Mare, Italy 2014

*Christine-CC evaluation of an As-built Ka-Band CCTWT to predict

drive induced oscillation, *IVEC 2014

*Multi-kW 35GHz TWT power booster development, 2014*

*A 1.8kW broadband Ka band TWT power booster,* Vacuum Electronics

Conference, 2013

*700W Ka-band Coupled-Cavity Traveling Wave Tubes (CCTWT) for

Communication*, Monterey, CA, USA 2012

*RF Circuit Design for 700W CW KaBand Coupled-Cavity TWT, *IVEC

2012

*Design and Operation of a High Power, High Efficiency, L-Band

Multiple Beam Klystron*, IVEC 2009

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