Experience

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  RadioData Corporation

  • Scottsdale, Mesa, Tempe, Arizona

  • Technical Associate

    • Mar 2001 - Mar 2012
    • Scottsdale, Mesa, Tempe, Arizona

    Now retired.

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  RF Code

  • Mesa, Arizona

  • Engineering Technician

    • Dec 1997 - Feb 2001
    • Mesa, Arizona

    Helped with design and testing of RFID systems. Used standard RF and electronic test equipment.Programmed "Tags". Some Q.A. and technical writing.

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  Arizona State University

  • Tempe, Arizona

  • Computer Field Service Technician

    • Aug 1987 - Apr 1996
    • Tempe, Arizona

    Perfected customer skills repairing and upgrading personal computers, installed software and hardware: 8088/286/386/486/Pentiums and MACs. Isolated and repaired 10 Base-T and coaxial cable errors using Microtest Injector/Scanner.

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  Ad-Tech Microwave

  • Scottsdale, Arizona

  • Microwave Technician

    • Aug 1985 - Dec 1986
    • Scottsdale, Arizona

    Assembled, tested and tuned: a Hughes, solid-state, pulsed radar transmitter for a Phoenix missile (AGM-54C) http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/aim-54.htmsecond-source competitor, Gunn and FET dielectric resonant oscillators (DROs)for Copperhead M712 (exit velocity)http://ww...

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  Aydin Radar & Electronic Warfare

  • San Jose, California

  • Senior Engineering Technician

    • May 1984 - Aug 1985
    • San Jose, California

    Assisted engineer in research & development (R&D) of power supply (P.S.) and controls for a Gyrotron heater for the Elmo Bumpy Torus II, Tokamak fusion reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.http://www.ornl.gov/info/reports/1982/3445604192371.pdf .Anechoic chamber and network analyzer ...

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  Aydin Energy

  • Menlo Park, California

  • Electronic Test Technician

    • Dec 1980 - Mar 1984
    • Menlo Park, California

    Assisted engineers in R&D and later testing of power supply and controls of ohmic and neutral particle beam injector heaters for both Tokamak Fusion Test Reactors at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/20475_328239744044_3294920_n.jpgand the Mirror Fusion ...

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  Watkins-Johnson

  • Palo Alto, California

  • Electronic Technician–C

    • Jan 1981 - Apr 1981
    • Palo Alto, California

    Matched power supplies to and tested TWT amplifiers before TRW and Hughes - Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS IIA) inspectors. Testing in thermal-vacuum chamber, recorded RF measurements. Secrethttp://www.astronautix.com/graphics/d/dscs2.jpg

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  USN, Atkron Fifteen

  • East Coast, Mediterranean, Caribean

  • Aviation Electronic Technician 2

    • Feb 1971 - Apr 1977
    • East Coast, Mediterranean, Caribean

    Class A School – Basic Electronics, Class B – Computers, IFF, Radar, etc. Advanced Electronics andClass C – UHF Radio and Direction Finding schools. Four years as Quality Control Inspectorand five repairing Communication-Navigation Avionics for A7s. Miniature and Micro-Miniature Solder Repair C...