Benjamin Caplan
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Credentials
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Six Sigma Specialist
RaytheonAug, 2004- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Raytheon Technologies
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United States
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Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Director
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Nov 2022 - Present
Technical Director for a major Program Area, responsible for all technical aspects of a significant new radar and all of the associated variants, including both the domestic and future international business. In charge of keeping the technical roadmaps aligned across all variants and countries, helping grow the US budget, and growing the international side of the business.
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Engineering Fellow
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Jun 2020 - Present
Next generation Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) development in support of new business capture. Lead of large hardware design teams focused on first to market strategy by quickly designing and demonstrating leap-ahead AESA radars. Significant proposal and whitepaper involvement, especially on technical volumes.
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Antenna Technical Staff Manager
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Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Manage 10-15 of the most senior antenna and AESA designers in the company, primarily Engineering Fellow level or higher. Main tasks include giving performance reviews and helping to guide careers.
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Penn State University Campus Manager
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Nov 2012 - Nov 2021
In charge of planning and coordinating all Raytheon events at the Pennsylvania State University, including career fairs, information sessions, campus screens, etc.Interfaced with University to further Raytheon’s relationship in recruiting, research and education.
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Phased Array Design Section Manager
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Oct 2015 - Oct 2020
Conducted annual mid year and year end performance reviews, managed staffing and helped develop career plans for approximately 16 to 20 Electrical Engineers. In charge of hiring for the approximately 140 person Antenna and Microwave Department, including creating job requisitions, reviewing resumes and deciding which candidates to bring in and conducting interviews. Also served as a technical reviewer on development programs.
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Senior Principal Electrical Engineer
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Mar 2018 - Jun 2020
Next generation Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) development in support of new business capture efforts.
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Principal Electrical Engineer
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Apr 2014 - Mar 2018
New technology development on several programs, specializing in designing and fielding innovative AESA architectures for lower cost and higher performance radar systems; extensive work with Distributed Beam Forming (DBF) radar design, antenna array design, system requirements, RF chain analyses, Blake charts, link budgets and leading small teams. Significant contributor on technical proposals and presentations for new business development.
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Senior Electrical Engineer II with Honors
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May 2012 - Apr 2014
Requirements lead and System Analysis lead on a large Internal Research and Development (IRAD) program to design a next generation radar system. Initial concept and array architecture designs; created and maintained the Blake charts, radar timing diagrams, radar-level performance, system and sub-system requirements.Successfully led a group of 8 Systems and Software Engineers to model and simulate system performance of a new radar solution.On-site work leading a team of Antenna, REX, Software and Integration Engineers in testing, integrating and aligning a large, complex Active Electronically Scanned Array radar. Show less
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UMass Amerst & Lowell Campus Manager
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Feb 2012 - Dec 2012
In charge of planning and coordinating all Raytheon events at UMass Amherst and UMass Lowell campuses, including career fairs, information sessions, campus screens, etc.
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Senior Electrical Engineer I
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May 2009 - May 2012
Analysis and architecture lead on a large IRAD designing and selling low cost radar solutions based on RF MEMS and a novel array architecture. Made many presentations to the government customer, or potential customers, verifying performance compliance and selling new radar designs and concepts.Created a novel “dead element interpolation” algorithm to determine calibration constants of dead elements based on neighboring element coupling coefficients.
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Electrical Engineer II
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May 2007 - May 2009
Near Field Range (NFR) testing of active phased arrays, radar system modeling and analysis (primarily using MATLAB), technical document writing, customer presentations.Led small groups of engineers to successfully test antenna arrays in the NFR as a shift lead.
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Electrical Engineer I
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May 2005 - May 2007
Antenna, microwave system and phased array design using HFSS, CST, IE3D, Microwave Wizard and in-house MoM and FEM analysis software.Graduated from Raytheon/UMass Microwave Scholars Masters Program, granted a patent based off of thesis work.
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Raytheon Technologies
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Sudbury, MA
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Electrical Engineering Intern
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May 2004 - Aug 2004
In charge of testing and analyzing 3-layer Kevlar-like radome material using a free-space measurement technique and genetic algorithms; tested mutual coupling arrays in near and far field anechoic chambers. Became a Six Sigma Specialist for formalizing the radome tesing procedure. In charge of testing and analyzing 3-layer Kevlar-like radome material using a free-space measurement technique and genetic algorithms; tested mutual coupling arrays in near and far field anechoic chambers. Became a Six Sigma Specialist for formalizing the radome tesing procedure.
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ITT Industries, Advanced Engineering & Sciences
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State College, Pennsylvania Area
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Electrical Engineering Intern
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May 2003 - Aug 2003
Tested switches, LNA's, mixers and antennas up to 22 GHz, wrote programs to test antenna pointing system in C. Purchased parts, built, tested and aligned dozens of feed-forward amplifiers for high dynamic range multicouplers in the 2 - 32 MHz band (HF). Tested switches, LNA's, mixers and antennas up to 22 GHz, wrote programs to test antenna pointing system in C. Purchased parts, built, tested and aligned dozens of feed-forward amplifiers for high dynamic range multicouplers in the 2 - 32 MHz band (HF).
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Education
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2005 - 2007
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
MSEE, Electrical and Computer Engineering -
2001 - 2005
Schreyer Honors College at Penn State
BSEE, Electrical Engineering
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