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Jeff Philips
408-281-7361
4280 Kingspark Drive
San Jose, CA 95136
jeff_philips@earthlink.net Work Experience: 10/96-Present: TCI (www.tcibr.com) RF Engineer: Designed two generations of our wideband receiver (.02-3 GHz), which has a triple conversion superheterodyne architecture. Involved with design of its 1st LO (7-10 GHz). Extensive experience designing receiver front-ends and filters: lumped-element, hybrid, distributed microstrip, interdigital, diplexers (DC-7 GHz). Designed broadband atenna switches (.02-3 GHz) that route signals from one of several elements in an antenna array to an amplifier and on to our wideband receiver. Advanced practitioner of scattering parameter theory, advanced user of Genesys (RF/Microwave circuit simulation software): general impedance matching, stability circles, M/Filter. I have used Sonnet (3D EM software). Advanced practitioner of network analyzer measurement and calibration techniques: designed my own RF probes and calibration standards, proficient with frequency offset measurements and associated source and receiver calibrations. Perfectly comfortable with system level design issues: gain, noise figure, intercept point, P1dB, phase noise, image rejection, first IF rejection, first LO rejection, testing methodology, and cost. Designed one VCO and one prescaler (inside an FPGA). Actively involved in testing and troubleshooting PLLs and antennas. I have an extensive library of microwave engineering textbooks, including classics by Matthieu, Young, and Jones (founder of TCI), Collin, Pozar, Vendelin, Best, etcetera; if I don’t know it, I probably have the book needed to learn it. Proficient with Altium Designer PCB layout software. Written code for FPGAs. Program management experience: Supervised manufacture, testing, and field installation of large systems of beamforming, switching, and receiving equipment. Written technical sales proposals. Extensive mechanical design experience: proficient with SolidWorks (3D CAD) and AutoCad (2D CAD) and the onerous data management required by 3D CAD; designed several machined and sheet metal enclosures; proficient with milling machine and lathe; familiar with injection molding, extrusion, and sheet metal fabrication. I’m currently being introduced to lean manufacturing concepts. 10/96-10/94: Microwave Technology (www.mwtinc.com) RF Technician: Tested and designed class A and class AB power amplifiers (DC-1 GHz). Measured gain, noise figure, intercept point or IMD. 1990-10/96: Metcal Electronics Technician: Involved in testing and design of various soldering and heating products. Received US patents 5,690,847 and D381,880. 1987-1990: Cardiometrics Plastics Technician: Designed and built tooling (using a milling machine and lathe) for extrusion of multi-lumen plastic catheter tubing used to measure blood flow through pulmonary artery. Set up and ran the extrusion line to produce the catheter tubing. Education: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with Minor in Mathematics from San Jose State University in December 1996 Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley in December 1981 1-year Certificate in Plastics Technology from Laney College in 1987: courses covered injection molding, extrusion, and vacuum forming of various thermoplastic materials, as well as the properties of the different thermoplastics. |