Stuart J. Ponder's Resume
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SUMMARY: 15+ years prior experience as electronic technician. Seeking full-time engineering position in communications or RF/microwave design and testing. Graduating December 21, 2013 with Bachelor’s in Electronic Engineering from California State University, Sacramento. EIT #150488. Undergraduate teacher. GPA: 3.916. Relocation possible. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Canada, Philippines, Hawaii, Guam.
SKILLS:
University teacher as undergraduate student for a required electronics laboratory course.
Microwave amplifier design. Use of ADS for design of microwave low noise amplifiers. TRL calibration. Creation of Touchstone format s-parameter files for actual components using an HP8720C Network Analyzer.
Experience with small-scale Gerber-file based circuit board production.
Repair and troubleshooting of analog circuits. Proficient user of test equipment. TDR, FFT, Network Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer.
Able to hand build circuits using SMD, RoHS techniques down to 0204 size parts. Proficient in anti-static handling of parts. Excellent soldering skills.
Computer programming, C, C++, assembly language. Can re-learn or learn new languages quickly.
Prior career in professional audio system design, operation, and repair, and R&D at component level provided solid foundation in electronics prior to obtaining degree.
PROJECTS:
Current Project: Design, construct, and test 1.42GHz Low Noise Amplifier for Radio Astronomy using ADS microstrip circuits.
Two semester senior project: Designed, prototyped, and tested a new sensor for levee erosion utilizing ferrites, LC oscillator, digital sampling, and a frequency measurement algorithm coded in C++.
Digital design project: Built a working microcontroller-based steerable six-element acoustic phased array utilizing assembly language coding of a Parallax Propeller.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
STUDENT TEACHER, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO. SEPT 2013 – PRESENT. Currently teaching Electronics I Lab twice per week as a instructional student assistant to the department chair while a full-time undergrad. Course covers: large and small signal analysis of operational amplifiers, diodes, MOSFETs, and bipolar junction transistors; integration of circuit analysis techniques, circuit building, measurement, and report writing. Wrote lab procedures to replace the department’s assignments going forward which teach stude...
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