Product Development Systems Engineer

SHAH A. NEJAD

Voice: 719-***-****

Las Cruces, NM

Email: ********@*****.***

ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE

DOD and NASA Active Secret Level Security Clearance

EDUCATION

BSME, MSEE from University of Colorado

CORE COMPETENCIES

RF Systems Engineering Disciplines

Microwave Subsystems Design of Receiver, Transmitters, and Antenna

Radar and Communication Systems

Analog and Digital Circuit Design Development and Testing

Antenna Servo Control Systems Design and Analysis

Satellite Payload RF Subsystem Product Development

Business Process Planning and Improvement

Innovative and Creative Engineering Solutions and Product Development

Matlab and GNU Radio Software Defined Radio for Communication Analysis

COTS FPGA and Micro-controller Based Radio Projects using Micro-Python Developer.

Near-field Antenna Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis

Radar Weather Wind Profiler System Design and Development

Biomedical MRI RF Design and Modeling

Patent and Technical Paper Publications

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

RF and GPS phased array antenna pay load consultant, analyzing AFRL Experimental GPS, NTS-3 Program.

Sr. RF Systems Engineering/Consultant, supported DRS SPQ-9B Radar Systems, and Navy shipboard program.

Sr. RF Systems Engineer, General Dynamic SGSS NASA TDRS Ground Terminal.

RF Consultant, Southwest Research Institute, analyzed HPCA RF subsystem for NASA Space Program.

Sr, Principal Multi-Disc Engineer, Raytheon Missile, analyzed RF link budget for SM3 and MKV space programs.

RF Scientist, Orbital Sciences, supported satellite antenna payload modeling using matlab and Ticra programming tools.

Sr. Principal Engineer ITT Industries supported requirement development and planning for Ka-Star and SENSOR radar programs.

Sr. RF Systems Engineer, Honeywell AFSCN programs, led an engineering team refurbishing SATCOM antenna subsystems.

Sr. RF Design Engineer, Picker International, Designed and developed RF subsystems for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Systems.

Sr. RF Design Engineer, Tycho Technology developed antenna and the feed systems for Weather Radar Wind Profilers, NOAA programs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

30+ years’ related experience in RF/MW communication links supporting, satellite and ground base communication systems and other RF Radar and radio systems.

15+ years’ experience with RF and digital design of communication systems. Practical experience with board level design and integration of mixed digital and RF components.

DOD - Air Force, Army, and Navy Radar and SATCOM programs, i.e., UHF/X bands Phased Array Surveillance Radar and optical Sensors for SENSOR program, UHF/C/X/Ku/Ka bands satellite network and Data Link Terminal (DLT) antenna subsystems supporting KaStar, RADRS, DSC and AFSCN contracts.

Experience with MDA and Navy Exoatmospheric Ballistic Missile data communication systems with emphasis on Standard Missile-3, developing commlink requirements, modeling missile antennas, Atmospheric losses (rain, cloud, gases, Ionosphere, refraction), rocket plume, jamming, Rocket trajectory and over-the-horizon multipath interference.

Experience with RF/digital circuit board, and FPGA IP core design, implementing Verilog and VHDL code for baseband digital modem, coding, Forward Error correction functions using industry standard design tools, such as Altera Quartus II, Ansoft Designer, Altium/Protel, Orcad PCB Designer, Matlab and Simulink.

20+ years’ experience with Agilent ADS, Ansof Designer, and other EM modeling and simulation tools for the design of active and passive components, RF, IF, PLL synthesizer, mod/demod, LNA’s and power amplifier.

10+ years, experience with technical white papers, IRAD proposals, design concept development, prototyping, production planning, subsystem integration/testing, and regulatory Military and commercial standards in Air Force Space/Range communication Systems.

4+ years, experience with Altium and Orcad designer tools for PCB design of mixed RF and Digital circuits. Designed six layer boards using Orcad Designer from Cadence.

Experience with receiver and transmitter circuits at L/S/X and K bands.

Experience with communication block and FPGA IPs generating PM, BPSK, QPSK and FM modulation with 20 Mbps data rate using Xilinx and Altera FPGA IP blocks. Proposed low cost software Defined (SDR) using of-the-shelf IP blocks operating at S-band frequency using web browser GUIs.

7+ years’ experience with BOE’s, BOM’s and ECO’s for both development and standard products.

6+ years, experience with design and development of Satellite communication payload with emphasis in antenna modeling of shaped dual grid reflectors using: TICRA GTD, PO, and MoM models; Matlab post processing data analysis, and Matlab script development with GUIs.

10+ years’ experience with trade analysis and modeling; test and integration, customer presentation supporting PDR’s, CDRs. Proven track with ITT, and Raytheon.

Extensive hands-on experience with digital and RF test equipment, i.e., Agilent RF test equipment.

Experience with test automation using National Instrument test equipment, and control programs such as Labview programming and Simulink.

Presented technical paper in MILCOM 2008 symposium. Proposed and presented IRAD paper related to wireless missile commlink system.

Submitted two patent proposals. Involved with NASA CoP on voluntary basis proposing technical lead studies.

4+ years, successful management experience with small projects and task orders of $100K to $400K funding.

4+ years experience with development of a phased array weather Radar profiler for NOAA antenna systems operating at 400 MHz (UHF band) delivering 50 KW of pulsed RF power.

4+ years’ experience with NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) and MRI (Magnetic resonance Imaging) with magnetic field up to 3 Tesla. Responsible for design and development of RF transmit and receive coils.

Experience with DO-254 and ISO9100 guidelines fro product design and development, end-to-end phases.

TECHNICAL SOFTWARE SKILLS

SYSTEMS: 7+ years, MDA/Navy standard missile systems, DOD/Air Force SENSOR Radar programs, Air Force Satellite Control Network (DSC and SCNC contracts), MRI, NOAA Wind Profilers, and Security Alarm Radio System.

FIRMWARE Development: 4+ years, Atmel MCU development board on Arduino, Altera Cyclone II, FPGA and soft Nios-II microprocessor, Compact PCI Bus and Peripherals, Rabbit Microprocessor, TI DSP TMS320C5X, Xilinx and Actel FPGA.

SOFTWARE: 4+ years, MathLab Scripts & Simulink, MathCAD, Remcom Rotman Lens Design and 3D RF Modeling in FDTD, agi-STK, Agilent ADS/Systemview, Protel Altium Digital/RF Layout Design, Altera MAXPLUS-II VHDL Design, SolidWorks 3D modeling, COSMOS heat and Flow design simulations, AutoCAD 2D modeling, Ansoft Designer / HFSS RF Design Tools, LabVIEW Instrumentation Control, MS Office, TICRAs: CHAMP, GRASP, POS, SatSoft Post Processing.

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: 4+ years of MS Visual C++, 1 year of Dynamic C, 1 year of Pascal; 4 years of FORTRAN, 1 year of Assembly, 4 years of NI LabVIEW Graphical programming, 5 years of matlab

Hardware Platform OS:

3+ yeas experience with Linux server and desktop management experience with Ubuntu and Mint OS’s.

4+ years’ experience with Processing 2/3, Python 2.7/3.0, KiCAD, FreeCAD, Meshlab, Scilab, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Python) stacks, Bash scripting, Arduino Processing sketch, and others.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCES

Canyon Consulting AFRL NTS-3 GPS Programs June 2020 to Mar 2025

RF ANTENNA AND SUBSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Worked on AFRL NTS-3 Experimental next Generation GPS Space Vehicle (SV) program, provided investigative technical analysis of the SV phased array antenna payload and its RF subsystems. Worked on array pattern analysis and antenna steering subsystem verifying its performance. Reviewed 400W HPA experimental GPS design to verified design performances. Worked on analyzing NTS-3 Yagi, array elements, for L1 and L2 RF and GPS frequency bands.

Worked on UWB antennas with Circular and linear polarization. Modeled in HFSS 4-Arm Archimedean Spiral antenna with 4 ports phasing 90 deg apart, and linearly polarized Vivaldi antenna operating from 1 to 6 GHz.

Leonardo DRS, Milwaukee Wisconsin – Navy Power Systems Jan 2019 to May 2020

SR. ELECTRICAL CONSULTANT - ENTEGEE CONTRACT ENGR.

Responsible for writing production Acceptance Test Procedures (ATPs) and design test fixtures for manufacturing of Navy Electric Boat Power Drive modules capable of driving 7 kV AC motors. Prepared test plan and procedure for shock, vibration, Acoustic, and EMI testing. Verified functional performance of Power Electronic Modules (PEM) assembly using high power IGBTs, transformers and LC filters. Improved existing design of automated board level test fixtures updating Scilab scripts (similar to Matlab), open source programming tool, for controlling the FPGA based DSP, GPP controller and other COTS boards via RS-485 bus. Simulated IGBT, Filters and transformer circuits on Ltspice circuit simulation. Built test fixture schematic on KiCad, an open source EDA tool.

Leonardo DRS, Largo Florida – Navy Electronics

SR. RF RADAR CONSULTANT - TRIPLE CROWN CONTRACT ENGR.

Responsible for writing production Acceptance Test Procedures (ATPs) and design test fixtures for manufacturing of Navy Electronic SPQ-9 shipboard Radar system assemblies operating at X-band. Worked on developing test procedures for Direct Digital Synthesizers, Receiver A/D, RF Distribution, LNA, Transmit Test Target Modulator, Pedestal Waveguide Electronic and RF Switches, Phased Array Antenna Assemblies.

General Dynamic/EXB Solutions, Las Cruces New Mexico Jan 2018 to Oct 2018

RF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CONSULTANT

Responsible for writing RF system acceptance test procedures for NASA RTVM of Harris antenna subsystem delivery of three major ground antennas operating in S/Ku/Ka bands. Helped with the write up of RF Antenna subsystems and performed antenna Tx/Rx chain measurements. Analyzed S-parameter data for RF and optical paths. Delivered as-run data and report analysis using custom made functions in Scilab and Smath.

Build a hierarchical system drawing of the antenna subsystems to identify the installation mistakes during the as-run tests. Identified and fixed antenna system requirements.

Helped with verification of the antenna drive system and control of system switches using LAN on Linux operating system.

Peraton, Las Cruces New Mexico Jan 2011 to Oct 2017

SR MULTI-DISCIPLINE SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Responsible for analyzing the Orion's spacecraft orbital trajectory data for tuning the TDRS ground terminal receiver lock for Doppler ranging. Prepare simulation scenarios using STK orbital software and matlab scripts to generate spacecraft to TDRS range, range rate, acceleration and jerk vectors. Prepared simulation using STK to determine the link budget to the spacecraft.

Harris IT Services Corp, Las Cruces New Mexico

Worked on NASA 4.5m dual S and Ku bands antenna drive system. Responsible for developing PCD (Preliminary Concept Document) which includes defining system requirements, proposing design approaches, performing design trade analysis, preparing ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) and Bases of estimates (BOE) cost, preparing preliminary schedule, presenting at System Engineering Working Group (SEWG). The proposed approaches were based on in-house refurbishment, and vendor turn-key solution ROM costs. In-house approach was based on replacing the jack screw and drive motor controller using Yaskawa DC motors and embedded FPGA controller.

Exelis Inc, Las Cruces New Mexico

Management of NASA ground antenna terminals. Responsible for NASA Guam facility 77ft dielectric antenna radome wind analysis using 3D laser scanning method and early warning wind system. Also responsible for performance analysis of the 11m antenna drive system using dual BLDC motors, drive amplifier and digital controller.

ITT Information Systems, Las Cruces New Mexico

Systems Engineering Management of NASA Guam TDRS ground station facility. Responsible for engineering analysis of 77ft composite radome, ECU chiller cooling system, and battery replacement trade studies.

Honeywell Corp. – Las Cruces New Mexico

Staff Sr. RF Systems Engineer responsible for planning and management of NASA next generation TDRS Satellite ground terminal and SCNS contract with operation at S and K bands. Performed link budget analysis using Excel spreadsheet approach.

Southwest Research Institute – Division 15, San Antonio, Tx Aug 2010 to Jan 2011

RF CONSULTANT – CONTRACT ENGINEERING, TRI-STARR

Responsible for the design analysis of the existing high voltage HPCA (Hot Plasma Composition Analyzer) and RF Generator sub circuit assembly for the Satellite Spacecraft. Performed sub-circuit analysis using Spice, and Microwave Office design models. Optimized design performance using Agilent test equipment (NA, and Spectrum Analyzer). The Oscillator design needed to deliver 100 to 400 DC voltages to a capacitive load at frequencies from 5MHz to 10 MHz. Inductive resonator with inductive feedback loop was designed to deliver high voltage DC conversion at a given operating frequency. Team lead engineers and technicians working on the planning of the RF flight hardware through integration and testing.

Raytheon Missile System, Tucson AZ Aug 2007 to May 2010

SENIOR PRINCIPAL MULTI-DISC. ENGINEER, SPACE RADAR MISSILE SYSTEMS

RF Center directorate managing department technical reviews using Raytheon IPDS process and process improvement tools, i.e., CMMI, Six Sigma and others. Responsible for Peer Review and action item management of Antenna, Data-link, Radar, and RF Subsystem departments. Developed a Six Sigma process plan improving the effectiveness of peer reviews. Managed department RF test-ability projects tracking schedule, resources, and cost. Used spreadsheet to work on the link budget analysis for data link requirement.

Author of Raytheon Patent Publication “WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS SIGNAL COMMUNICATION IN FLIGHT VEHICLES”, 2013.

Orbital Sciences Corp. GEO Communication Group, Dulles, VA Aug 2006 to Aug 2007

SENIOR RF SCIENTIST, SATELLITE COMMUNICATION PAYLOAD DEVELOPMENT

Scientist responsible for design and development of C/Ku/Ka satellite communication payloads supporting major programs for Intelsat managing Horizons-2, Intelsat-11, and Intelsat-16 antenna communication payloads. Worked on the link budget analysis and ground TX/RX footprints modeling.

ITT Industries, CIS Division, Colorado Springs, CO Apr 2004 to Aug 2006

SENIOR PRINCIPAL SYSTEMS ENGINEER, DOD SATCOM

Principal RF/Systems Engineer responsible for providing technical direction in support of RADRS and Ka-Star Programs.

Supported RADRS program providing technical lead in verifying the antenna subsystem specifications.

Reviewed and verified antenna link budget analysis in UHF/C/X/Ku/Ka bands.

Supported Ka-star programs providing technical analysis for the dual band feed system at X/Ka bands.

Analyzed link budget parameters for the new feed using analytical formulation to DSCS and WGS satellite constellations.

Provided leadership in proposing advanced communication system/system architectural designs.

SENIOR SYSTEM ENGINEER, AIR FORCE / DOD SENSOR

Programs directorate Senior Systems Engineer responsible for providing technical direction to engineers for the SENSOR Program in all product lines (Eglin Radar/ SLEP, PAVE PAWS/BMEWS, PARCS, GEODSS, HAVE STARE, Navy/Air Force Fence)

Identified new radar and optical Space Surveillance technologies related to “Global Awareness” and “Missile Defense” for the SENSOR program

Supported bid and proposal development for SENSOR and other ITT Systems Division projects.

Provided technical direction in leading PAWE PAWS Printer Interface Device (PID) prototype ahead of schedule. Identified methods of measuring antenna loads for PARCS dummy loads.

Characterized BMEWS antenna array element and provided measurement specifications.

Modeled BMEWS Solid State Modules (SSM) using Ansoft Designer and HFSS finite element methods.

Researched L-band phased array antenna for SENSOR modernization effort.

Provided MathCAD computational analysis for the phased array antenna, i.e., antenna patterns, Gain, Link loss (Link budget analysis), G/T and the space objects RCS models.

Honeywell, Inc., HTSI Division, Colorado Springs, CO Jun 1997 To Apr 2004

SENIOR SYSTEM ENGINEER,

AIR FORCE SATELLITE CONTROL NETWORK, SCNC CONTRACT

Led engineer responsible for numerous hardware projects modernizing and refurbishing the out dated SATCOM antenna sub system equipment at L-S and X band of frequencies.

Antennas America, Denver, CO Jul 1995 To Jun 1997

SR PRINCIPAL RF/SYSTEM ENGINEER

Responsible for design, modeling, and characterization of volume manufacturing of mobile wireless products, i.e., spread spectrum radio transceivers, GPS antenna and amplifier design and characterization, satellite DSS 12 GHz Ku flat antenna system development, 2.6 GHz MMDS and LMDS wireless TV patch antenna design, 2 to 3 GHz JPL Microstrip patch antenna design for Free-Flying Magnetometer (FFM) project.

TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

Lead engineer managing numerous projects and communicating with a team of 8 to 25 engineers.

TECHNICAL PROPOSAL CAPTURE EXPERIENCE

Ka-band Satellite Transmit and Receive Systems (KaSTARS), AN/GSC-70(V).

Provided proposal technical information for dual band X/Ka and Fiber Optic Inter Facility Link (FOIFL), SSOW, and System Architecture presentations, 2006.

Rapid Attack Identification Detection Systems (RAIDRS).

Provided proposal documents, SSOW, System Architecture presentations and technical analysis, 2005.

Camp Parks 6-Foot Antenna Refurbishment project, Allied signal, 1999.

JPL Free Flying Magnetometer (FFM) antenna project, Antennas America, 1997.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Head/Body RF Coil designs, Otsuka electronics, 1995.

NASA and WSMR Wind Profiler Phased Array Antenna Design Projects, 1989.

CUSTOMERS SUPPORTED

Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems (DCATS), United State Army SENSOR Programs, AFSCN, JPL, NASA and WSMR, Medical MRI Industries, Wireless and Mobile Communication Industries

MARKETING EXPERIENCE

JPL direct customer communication and negotiations with space qualified patch antenna proposal.

New business development with COM Microwave International (started in 2005) consulting services, Blue Space Exploration LLC (start on 2016) developing IOTs, LOV Industries (started in 2017) developing nearfield measurement system.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

IEEE Societies in MTT, LEO, and AP; SMRM; American Institute of Physics.

TRAINING CERTIFICATES

NAVY Electric Boat High Power Inverter Motor Drive System Design, Milwaukee WI

Certificate of TDRSS Satellite, and ground terminal operations, Las Cruces, NM

“RF Data Link Fundamentals – Missile Applications”, Raytheon, Tucson

“Rocket Science for Everyone” Work Study, Orbital Academy, Dulles, VA

“Communications Systems”, Work Study, Bob Perpall, Orbital, Dulles, VA

Orbital sciences Manufacturing process training modules, Orbital, Dulles, VA

Value Based Six Sigma (VBSS) and Green Belt training course with University of Michigan

MS SolidWorks SolidWorks Application Training, Honeywell, Colorado Spring CO

Light Guide Systems-Fiber Optic Theory, Honeywell, Colorado Springs CO

AMERICOM-HF Digital Design & PCB Layout Courses

Xilinx software Design Training, Intro to Verilog with foundation, Colorado Springs CO

Quadrature Modulation course, International Telecommunication Conference, Colorado

Coding and Modulation for Modem Communication Systems, IEEE COM Society

TECHNICAL PUBLICATION AND PATENTS

Dona Ana County Search and Rescue flying drone team FEMA certificates, Las Cruces, NM, Mar 2025.

“Automotive Navigation System Using Ultra-sounding Tracker Sensor”, Competition Paper Proposal, Design Contest 2015 “Create the Future”, sponsored by Analog Devices and others, NASA Tech Briefs Publication.

Patent, “Wireless interconnect for multi-stage Missile Systems”, Raytheon, 2009.

MIL-COM paper and presentation on ESA feed - method of Rotman lens vs. Butler Matrix feed systems, Nov. 2008.

Lecture series in satellite communication theory and Techniques, 2006

SMRM, Thirteenth Annual Scientific Meeting, 1994 "Optical Receiver Design Characteristics for MRI Signals: Method of Direct Modulation of Analog RF through Fiber-Optics Links".

SMRM, Twelfth Annual Scientific Meeting, 1993, "Resonance Mode Computation of a Birdcage Structure: Method of Eigenvalue Expansion of the Dyadic Green's Functions in a Cylindrical Waveguide".

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