SUMMARY:

To obtain a challenging and rewarding career opportunity in the field of RF Engineering. I look forward to contribute to the company that hires me with my ability to learn new concepts quickly, diligence, creativity, thoroughness, engineering experience, academic & technical studies, and leadership skills.

SKILLS:

Communications Skills: Ability to listen, to pay attention to details, and understand complex information. Ability to speak effectively before individuals and groups of persons of all organization levels. Ability to convey complex concepts in clear and straightforward manner. Ability to write routine reports, engineering reports, and correspondence.

Reasoning Skills: Ability to read and interpret technical documents / standards / instructions, troubleshooting manuals, customer testing specifications, and procedures manuals. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions, data and details furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Language Skills: Fluency in English and Spanish, oral and written.

Leadership Skills: Ability to listen carefully and respectfully understand needs and issues. Ability to receive and provide feedback and requests. Ability to manage people at different levels. Ability to get people involved in projects for the common good. Volunteering at my condominium association (as president of the board) for the past seven and a half years has thought me to lead others by example through hard work, honesty, attention to details, decisions based on priorities, analyzing facts and opinions to make decisions, researching and planning before major decisions, and supervising the execution of previously approved plans and decisions.

Engineering Skills: Ability to install, test, troubleshoot and repair electronic circuits and systems, computer equipment, software, and various hardware apparatus. Basic understanding of mechanical systems and electrical systems. Ability to plan, design, develop and maintain custom software applications using LabVIEW for testing, communications, digital signal processing and more. Experience with test and measurement equipment from Fluke and National Instruments. Experience in RF systems, electronics, hardware, software, digital/analog signal processing, Software Defined Radio (SDR), LabVIEW, modulation, demodulation, PXI, PCI, GPIB, TCP/IP, RS232, RS - 485, Mentor Graphics, PSPICE, Matlab, Planet, STK, Microsoft Office, Windows Servers 2003, 2008, 2012, Unix, & others. Basic C++.

Mathematical and Physics Skills: Ability to perform calculations using algebra, geometry, calculus, differential equations, and physics.

Learning Skills: Ability to learn new concepts (including technical) quickly. Continuously studying new concepts (including technical) to improve myself.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Miami, Florida

Senior systems engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed satellite ground station RF systems engineering support for the Confidential Satellite in order to provide external communications link to the Confidential - Scott research station at the South Pole.
• Planned, designed, developed and maintained satellite telecommunications applications to replace the aging ground station hardware in order to continue telecommunications and control of the Confidential satellite.
• Without the development of these crucial applications, telecommunications and control of the Confidential .
• Other applications developed for the control of the ground station systems included: various RF modems monitor and remote controllers, antenna tracker controllers, remote power meter monitor and controller, a spectrum analyzer monitor and controller, and others.
• Utilized LabVIEW 8.0 - 2015, LabVIEW Real-Time, TCP/IP, RS-232, GPIB, Data Acquisition cards, NI PXI System, and more.
• Maintained and troubleshot RF systems and electronics such as RF modems, up-converters, low noise amplifiers, duplexers, down-converters, repaired rotor electronic boards, etc.
• Maintained and troubleshot other subsystems such as fiber optic systems, 20-meter Earth Station Antenna system and tracking system, Confidential band antennas system and tracking system, and more.
• Configured and maintained hardware such as high-end Dell servers, computers, networking, data acquisition and tone generation cards, and a PXI system (RF down converter with Digitizer) for the Software Defined Radio.
• Installed and maintained software such as Windows Servers Operating Systems (2003, 2008, 2012), Linux (Ubuntu), Microsoft Office Suite, Nova, Satellite ToolKit (STK), and configured remote access, printers, file uploads, and others.

Confidential, Plantation, Florida

Radio frequency electronics engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the circuit design and testing of a Keypad Microphone.
• Performed two-way mobile radio RF tests.

Confidential, Sunrise, Florida

Real Estate Salesperson - Realtor

Responsibilities:

• Led sales and purchases of real estate properties while representing buyers and sellers in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties.
• Diligently and persistently worked to provide superior client-focused service.

Confidential, Plantation, Florida

Radio Frequency Electronics Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshot and repaired RF electronic circuits of two-way radios such as RF amplifiers, filters, mixers, local oscillators, intermediate frequency (IF) filters, transformers, Intermediate Frequency Processing Integrated Circuit (IF IC) chips, reference oscillators, synthesizers, transistors, and RF power amplifiers.
• Utilized RF Test Equipment such as RF signal generators, audio generators, spectrum analyzers, modulation analyzers, network analyzers, high frequency probes, oscilloscopes, power meters, LCR meters, etc.
• Assisted in the circuit design of a crystal filter matching network for 2-way Confidential radios.

Confidential, Sunrise, Florida

Radio Frequency Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included prediction/simulation of new cell sites RF coverage, selection of antennas, calculation of RF link budget, and frequency distribution planning.
• Performed RF cellular network optimization of call quality and network traffic by conducting and analyzing drive test data and analyzing network data logs.
• Performed on-site cellular network optimizations.