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
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College
California Polytechnic State University BSEE 6/13/98
San Luis Obispo, California GPA: 3.55
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
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Experience
Anritsu Corporation Design Engineer 6/97 - Present
Morgan Hill, CA
Built a wide band microwave power amplifier.
Designed logic interfacing circuits for automated
test stations. Currently Building a YIG Oscillator.
American Nucleonics Corporation Entry Level Engineer
Westlake Village, CA (Internship) 6/96 - 9/96
Involved in RF design work and testing of noise
cancellation systems.
Reynolds Industries Engineering Technician 5/91 - 6/92
Santa Maria, CA
Hired to design and build a computer automated
testing device to be used for testing parts
manufactured by the company
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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 as 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.