David Alexander Straight
Electrical Engineer (Microwave and RF)
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E-Mail Address: dstraigh@ix.netcom.com
Web Page: http://pw1.netcom.com/~dstraigh

Present Address
1140 Cochrane Road
Morgan Hill, CA 95037

 

College

GPA: 3.55

 

California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, California

BSEE 6/13/98

 

Honors and Activities

Engineering Student Council Representative for
ETA Kappa Nu (an engineering honors club at Cal Poly)
Coordinator of the 1997 Open House Transmitter Hunt

Experience

Anritsu Corporation
Morgan Hill, CA

Design Engineer 6/97 – Present
Built a wide band microwave power amplifier.
Designed logic interfacing circuits for automated test stations. Currently Building a YIG Oscillator.

 

American Nucleonics Corporation
Westlake Village, CA

Entry Level Engineer (Internship) 6/96 – 9/96
Involved in RF design work and testing of noise
cancellation systems.

 

Reynolds Industries
Santa Maria, CA

Engineering Technician 5/91 – 6/92
Hired to design and build a computer automated
testing device to be used for testing parts
manufactured by the company

General

 

Electronic

Practical experience: Have built numerous electronic circuits, outside of work and school, such as an experimental oscilloscope, linear and switching powersupplies, and various RF circuitry.

Equipment used: Network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc.

 

Computer

Interfacing computes: Have interfaced an AT based system to an oscilloscope and other control circuitry (using HP HP-IB data bus) for the purpose of data acquisition. Have interfaced the Motorola 6800 microprocessor using peripheral chips such a s PIO’s, and UART’s.

Programming languages used: C, Q-Basic, Visual Basic, assembly language (6800).

General: PSpice, MicroCap, OrCad, AutoCad 10, and UNIX

 

Amateur Radio call sign: KD6NCR.