Engineer Electrical Engineering

Michael DeGaetano

**A* Mast Road Lee, NH 603-***-**** *************@*****.***

EDUCATION

M.S. Electrical Engineering – May 2011

University of New Hampshire (UNH), Durham, NH

Focus in Control Systems

Independent Study in Wind Turbine Analysis

3.79 GPA

B.S. Electrical Engineering – May 2009

University of New Hampshire (UNH), Durham, NH

3.57 GPA – Honors

SKILLS

• Hardware

o Schematic design and PCB layout using Protel Altium Designer

o Able to configure and use digital oscilloscopes, vector network analyzers, arbitrary waveform generators, and time-domain reflectometers

o Multisim (circuit simulation software)

o Cimplicity Workbench (PLC programming)

o Through hole and surface mount soldering

• Software

o Matlab coding

o Simulink (Matlab simulation package)

o C coding with PIC microcontrollers

EXPERIENCE

Hardware Engineer

UNH-InterOperability Lab, 2009-Present, Durham, NH

Design, test, and verified, PCB test fixtures for Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) consortium to be sold commercially

Provide ongoing technical support vendors with PCB test fixtures

Responsible for design verification and root cause analysis

Provide mentorship for junior test technicians/engineers

Ethernet Physical Layer Test Technician

UNH-InterOperability Lab, June 2006-2009, Durham, NH

Setup, test, and troubleshoot multivendor products in accordance to IEEE 802.3 standard

Developed and implemented test procedures for Gigabit Optical Fiber and Energy Efficient Ethernet (100BASE-T EEE)

Developed automation software (in Matlab) in support of test procedures

Work with vendors in 10BASE-T, 100BASE-T,1000BASE-SX/LX, and 1000BASE-T Ethernet technologues to debug quality and compliance issues

Testing done on 10BASE-T, 100BASE-T,1000BASE-SX/LX, and 1000BASE-T Ethernet devices

Recipient of “IOL Star” award for meritorious service (August 2009)

UNH-FSAE Electronics Team Member

UNH Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) Electronics Team, April 2008-May 2009

Designing, testing, and implementing a traction control system for the 2008-2009 UNH FSAE car

Programmed two Microchip PIC 18F8722 microcontrollers in C language for traction control

Car competed against over 120 other student designed cars

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

IEEE Member, 2007-Present

UNH Energy Club, October 2008-2009

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