*. Project Manager for the Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) project. The customer for this product is the Argentinean Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) and the purpose is to replace the Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) as the main landing systems for Argentinean Airports.
2. RF Systems Engineer in charge of the Phased Array Antenna for the RPAP Primary Radar. The main characteristics are:
• High Power L band
• Large Horizontal Array
• Side Lobe Blanking
• Pencil Beam with Electronic Scan
• Large number of solid state TRM
3. Project Manager in the project to retrofit HF communications equipment for the Argentinean Army. It is DSP and FPGA processing Based and includes the following capabilities:
• Frequency Hopping
• MELP voice compression
• Voice Privacy with encryption
• Data transmission
• RF data networking
4. RF Systems Engineer in charge of the RF System of the Synthetic Aperture Radar for the SAOCOM satellite.
5. RF Designer in charge of the RF Transmit-Receive Module (TRM) for the METII Primary Radar:
• L band TRM
• 50 Watts output power linear amplifier
• Two receivers
• Extensive BITE
• 1553 bus for telemetry and communications
• Involved in Multipaction problem solution and test setup design
6. RF designer in charge of the receiver for the Argentinean Secondary Radar Project (RSMA). It has:
• Small Size
• L band receiver
• Three channels
• BITE included
• Sigma-Delta to Left-Right internal conversion
7. Design Engineer in charge of the Mass Memory subsystem for the SAC-C Satellite project launched in 2000 which included:
• On Board EDAC included
• DRAM based
• Triple redundant FPGA design
• 8086 microprocessor based
• 96 Mbytes capacity
• 1553 interface
8. Design Engineer in charge of the Mass Memory board for the SAC-A Satellite launched in 1998 with the main following characteristics:
• Low price components
• Onboard EDAC
• FPGA based
• Dynamic Memories based
9. Junior Engineer in the SAC-B satellite. The main developed tasks were:
• test boards design
• C language programmer
• FPGA designer
• Microcontrollers designer
• Analog Circuit designer
• etc.
The following is a list of tools and software I use every day:
• RF Instruments: Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer, Power Meter, etc.
• Digital and Analog Oscilloscopes
• In Circuit Emulator
• Logic Analyzer and Disassembler.
• MS Project
• Excel
• ORCAD and Proteus
• Genesys
• MSOffice
• Matlab and Simulink
• Solid Works
5.2 Business trips
• 2011 Le Bourget Air show
• European Microwave Week 2004 (Amsterdam, Holland, 2004)
• ICSPAT Congress (Boston, USA, 1996)
• EUSAR Congress (Munich, Germany, 2000)
• Supplier visit (New Jersey, USA, 2006)
• Supplier Visit (L’Aquila, Italy, 2001)
• Supplier Visit (Belgium, 2001)
• Supplier Visit (Munich, Germany, 2003)
6. Additional Interests
I am an Electronics Engineering teacher at Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro (www.unrn.edu.ar ) for the course of Analog Electronics II.
I am also interested in practicing sports (mens sana in córpore sano) like footing, Squash. Skiing and cycling. I also enjoy reading about technical and general topics including Economics, Hi Tech, Mechanics, Religions, etc.