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Ian Camaclang
(street address upon request)
San Diego, CA 92131, U.S.A.
(858) 337-0991
email: ian AT res-alian DOT com
http://www.res-alian.com/

Experience:

Peregrine Semiconductor, San Diego, CA.

Engineer, ATE Software | May 2012 to present

RF software development for automated test equipment:

Designing and programming automated test software for RFIC products in LabVIEW and TestStand.
Development of software infrastructure for standard in-house test racks.

Northrop Grumman, San Diego, CA.

RF Engineer | Jun 2002 to Apr 2012

RF and digital test automation programming using LabWindows/CVI, LabVIEW, and TestStand on military radios:

RF and digital test programming on the Lockheed Martin LM-STAR rack with LabWindows/CVI and TestStand on modules for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. RF test programming on the Raytheon Common Test Station with LabVIEW and TestStand on modules and radios for the AMF JTRS program.
RF test programming using standalone LabVIEW programs on modules and radios for F-35 and on modules for AMF.
GPIB instrument programming and manual RF bench testing for F-35 and AMF module development using standard RF instruments.
Source control of test software in IBM/Rational ClearCase.
Strict compliance with security requirements in unclassified, classified, and special access areas of F-35 and AMF.
Engineering and software development documentation in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

RF design support for Nokia chips and radio products for internal research and development:

RF chip layout design in Microwave Office for RFICs for Nokia base stations and in Cadence for RFICs for internal R&D.
RF PCB layout in Orcad Layout for products in internal R&D and for boards testing RFICs for Nokia.
Administration of foundry design kits in Windows, Unix, HTML for RFICs in internal R&D.

Graduate Intern | Apr 2001 to Jun 2002

RF integrated circuit engineering support tasks for RFICs for Nokia base stations:

RF chip layout design in Microwave Office and RF PCB layout in Orcad Layout for RFIC test boards.
Worst-case analysis in Orcad PSpice for blocks within designs of RFICs.

Skills:

RF Test Engineering:	LabWindows/CVI, LabVIEW, and TestStand on standard RF instruments.
Script Programming:	Perl, Python, UNIX Bash shell, and DOS batch files.
General Programming:	Java/SWT in Eclipse, Visual Basic, C/C++, and Sun SPARC Assembly.
Source Control:	IBM/Rational ClearCase.
System Administration:	DOS, Windows, and UNIX, including Linux, Cygwin, and Mac OS X.
Analog Simulation:	Orcad PSpice and Microwave Office.
RF Layout:	Microwave Office, Cadence, Orcad Capture and Orcad Layout.
Data Analysis:	Microsoft Excel with VBA and MATLAB.
WWW Authoring:	Standard-compliant HTML/XHTML, CSS, Perl, and PHP, and Apache Web Server.
Desktop Publishing:	Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Photoshop, and The GIMP.

Degrees and Certifications:

Engineer-in-Training, CA.
M.Eng. (Master of Engineering) in Electrical Engineering at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA.
B.S. in Bioengineering at UCSD.

last update: May 2012