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Testing Technician

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Illinois
Posted:
October 14, 2015

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Matthew E. Squire

*** ********* **. *********, **. 60041

C 224-***-**** acr215@r.postjobfree.com

Achievements:

US Patent # 6686818 “Reverberation chamber tuner & shaft with E/M leakage device” FCC Licenses: Amateur (since’74) Extra, NM1S, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GMDSS M and O, General Radiotelephone, All current with RADAR endorsements U.S Army 1981-1992; Army MARS Operator ‘till 2013, Dual MOS :(26Q) TACSAT, (31C) Tactical & Satellite systems radio operator/repair; Artillery Battalion radio/electronics repair. Clearance: Secret. Decorations: Army Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Medal, Overseas Service Medal. Illinois Emergency Management Agency, Springfield, IL Professional Development Series courses through Command and General Staff level, Ongoing since 1979.

General: Over 30 years of tactical BTS, MTS, radio experience, working knowledge in coded RFID tags, ELF, LF, HF VHF, UHF (P thru X-band), Microwave, RADAR, LASER. LEO mobile, portable and fixed-station radio & Satellite transceivers, PCB RF design & remediation, NIST traceable Research & Development, precision measuring equipment, and machine control.

Contract/hire EMC Technician:

Zebra Technologies EMI Group, Compliance. Vernon Hills IL. 847-***-**** 6 mo.7/10 thru 2/14. Ref: Mike Mendala, Charles Derrow, Gus Medina.

Energy Star Compliance Testing

Performed FCC 15/CISPR22 RF emissions testing.

RF Immunity testing through 80V/M

Antenna Characterization RFID, Bluetooth, 802.11; 13MHz through 6.8GHz

Electrostatic Discharge testing to 16KV

Electrical Fast Transient testing to 5KV on printers and I/O cabling.

Sustaining and New Product Development Test, Compliance engineering support and design remediation support.

Contract RF Engineer:

Belka Corps King George, VA Tel. 540-***-**** 3 Mo. 5/27/08 to 9/3/08. Bob Nichols x110, Mike Hatfield 540-***-****

NSWC Dahlgren, VA Clearance; Secret

Performance of high power RF system testing.

System analysis and debugging of control components and subsystems.

Assembly component through system level, analysis, automation and debugging of high power RF control system & prototypes.

Antenna Characterization automation; HP Vee in a Tapered Anechoic chamber. Contract Senior Technician:

Ingenium Testing Services EMC,E3, EMI Group. Rockford, IL. 815-***-**** Contract from 12/06. to 5/07 Abtin Spantman, Ellwyn Engleof, Daren Nerad 262-***-****.

RTCA DO-160, Boeing and MIL-STD 461 Testing of Aerospace power generating and control systems.

Setting up new EMC/EMI lab, troubleshooting, characterization and verification of new and used received equipment and testing control software routines.

Operate, troubleshoot and train new employees on aircraft drivestands and loadbanks

Honeywell Sensing & Control - Electronic Sensors

GM Speed & Direction Team, Freeport, IL. 3 mo. Contract from 9/1 to 12/15/06 Tom Olson 815-***-**** Larry Frazee 815-***-****

New Product Development of prototype magnetic automotive sensors. Assisted in builds of Chip-on-Lead frame design prototypes.

Performed calibration of engineering samples for customer analysis.

Performed thermal testing and correlation studies and automated testing of various prototypes using rotary high and low speed sensing targets.

Participated in failure mode analysis and resolution. Motorola Station Validation Group, Schaumburg, IL from 10/04-5/06 John Ostoich, Ken Wiess, Ted Leitz 847-***-****

Perform and automate (Labview) E3, EMC and EMI tests on digital and analog radio systems from system level to circuit board and component level. Test systems to conform with:

FCC Parts 15, 27, 90; IEC 61000-4 series; ETSI; CISPR and other domestic and international E3 immunity and emissions standards. Testing and design mitigation and remediation assistance includes:

Temperature and humidity accelerated life testing.

Power supply radiated, conducted and line conducted emissions.

Transmitter radiated, line conducted and conducted.

Transmitter close in spurious, DC and AC line conducted and radiated.

Immunity testing through 50V/m (previous experience to 1K V/M)

Receiver L.O. harmonics conducted and radiated.

GPS protection band testing.

Electrostatic Discharge: multi-point air and contact testing to +/-15KV.

Electrical fast transient and Surge testing to 50KV.

Line Voltage: Dips, interruptions, variations and phase dropout testing.

Development and execution of highly specialized manual and automated testing of various prototypes and issues as they present themselves. Measured with: Injection, OATS, GTEM cells, Shield rooms, Spectrum/Vector Signal Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, RF Power Meters and Amplifiers, E-field 3 axis Vector Voltmeters and Signal Generators; Sweep, I/Q (to 64QAM), AM & FM. Automated testing with National Instruments Labview, TILE, IEEE488, GPIB, 10base2 thru CAT6, RF/WIFI linked, Fiber Optic, hard-wired, and good old RS-232. Senior R & D Technician

Lindgren RF Enclosures, Glendale Hts, IL Mike Egan 630-***-**** from 1995-2004

Design and development of economical antennas, RF and magnetic test equipment for EMC shield room testing and radio proofing.

Mode Stirred Reverberant Chamber research, installation and commissioning.

GTEM cell installation and commissioning.

Anechoic Chamber research, installation and commissioning

Performed Electro-Magnetic Interference studies and mitigation.

Research and development of Fiber-Optic Video systems for use in RF and magnetically hostile environments.

Computer (HP Vee) automation equipment, E3 and EMC testing control for IEC 61004, FCC, IEEE, MIL.STD 461, DO 160 and other standards.

Repair, design and calibration of precision RF test equipment used in RF and magnetic MIL STD. 285 testing and mitigation.

Self-employed since 1975

Installation, maintenance, service and certification of 2way, Satellite, Broadcast, Marine radio, RADAR fixed BTS, mobile, portable and ELT transmitters.

Electro-Magnetic Interference study and mitigation.

Countersurveillance.

Volunteer work and interests: Active Volunteer in Emergency Management and interagency/interservice communications, help with numerous events & disasters from dirty-hands debris removal thru logistics & planning, weather spotting and disaster interagency tactical communications.

Education: 200+ semester hours and no degree. Listed institutions are 50 hours+ Wm. Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL: Ongoing since 1978 Attendance at numerous ongoing Engineering and related Seminars Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI 1984-87 De Vry Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 1978-81 U.S. Army 31C20 School, Ft. McCoy, WI 1991

U.S. Army 26Q20TACSAT School, Ft. Gordon GA 1981

Prospect High School, Mt Prospect, IL 1978



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