MAJID KASHANPOUR
Lake Balboa, CA 91406
adye7v@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
Produce ECN (engineering change notice) and BOM (bill of materials)
AC-DC power circuits testing and designs
Ability to create and validate SMT manufacturing processes, conduct design of experiments, conduct defect and failure analyses and prepare required reports
Electronics RF test circuits, amplifiers, filters, AGC/DBS circuits, EMI, and FSK modems
Test and troubleshoot of analog/digital integration up to component level including component failure analysis
RF and Microwave test measurements (manual and automated including calibration) including antenna, radio and aerospace devices and satellites such as return loss, isolation, gain, and power dBM per ATP
Able to use oscilloscope, digital multi-meter (DMM), volt/ohm meters (VOM), RF voltmeter, Curve Tracers, generator/sweeper, noise figure meter, pulse generator, frequency counter, network, spectrum, scalar analyzers, power meter, modulation & audio analyzers, and testing in anechoic chambers to measure I/O VSWR, noise figures, P1 dB output power, harmonics, and IPs
PCB’s and electronics circuits designs using, Cadence, OrCAD, Touchstone-Spice, and AutoCAD (for layouts)
HISTORY
Ray-O-Nick’s Engineering Services, Van Nuys CA
09/94 – 06/23 (company shut down)
Position: Electrical Engineer (Independent Contractor)
Test, tune, troubleshoot RF/electronics engineering samples (for the gain, isolation, return loss, and power dBM measurements for temperature variation and burning in process) such as power dividers, splitters, audio-video modulators, amplifiers, satellite multi-switches, up and down converters, satellite finders using electronics equipments such as HP network, spectrum, scalar analyzers, synthesized sweeper, signal generators, oscilloscopes, digital multi-meter (DMM), Volt/Ohm Meters (VOM), RF voltmeter
Testing and calibration of coaxial and waveguide components
PCB’s circuits designs using OrCAD, and AutoCAD (layouts)
(While I was working in above company as a part time contractor as needed, I also worked for other companies full time as below):
SkillMaster, Valley Village CA
02/08 – 10/08
AutoCAD Designer (Contracted for Alcan Cable, Chatsworth CA)
Wiring design for hotels and condominiums using:
AutoCAD 2007 - 2008
Prepares production package to includes the following:
-Prepare and print the assembly builders that shows each assembly to be used
-Print cut sheets (bill of materials, harness/circuit diagram of each assembly to be used) and assembly/cable labels
-Prepare and print floor layout plans in AutoCAD
Space Systems Loral, Palo Alto, CA
11/06 – 02/07
RF Technician (Contracted by TriCAD)
Performed detailed RF test measurements for Satellites for the gain transfer frequency response, insertion loss, return loss, and power dBM (up to 1Watt = 30dBM, 0dBW) using, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, signal generators, and Multi-meters
Pico Macom, Inc., San Fernando CA
05/03 - 04/03
Electronics Engineering/Document Control Assistant Technician
Test RF electronics engineering samples (for the gain, isolation, return loss, and power dBM measurements) such as power dividers, splitters, audio-video modulators, amplifiers, satellite multi-switches, up and down converters, satellite finders using electronics equipments such as HP network, spectrum, scalar analyzers, synthesized sweeper, signal generators, oscilloscopes
Comant Industries, Inc., Fullerton CA 08/00 - 08/02
Electrical Engineer
Wrote ATP (acceptance test procedures), EKJO (engineering key job order), ECN (engineering change notice), ETP (environmental test plan for antennas)
RF and microwave measurements (for the gain, return loss, isolation) for antennas (VHF and GPS) and splitters using electronics equipments such as HP network analyzers, anechoic chambers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, and multi-meters
Sensor Systems Inc., Chatsworth, CA 09/97 – 09/99
RF Junior Engineer
RF and microwave measurements (for the gain, return loss, isolation) for antennas (VHF and GPS) and splitters
H.W. design of microprocessor (Motorola 6808) for DBS system
BPF designs by calculations and compare to Touch-Stone Spice simulation
Create and validate SMT manufacturing processes, conduct design of experiments, conduct defect and failure analyses and prepare required reports
EDUCATION
California State University, Northridge, CA
08/94 – 12/97 (transferred from Pierce College with AA degree)
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering