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Kaleem Graham

Tempe,AZ

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Electrical Engineer III

General Dynamics Mission Systems
01.2020 - Current
  • Responsibilities include, troubleshooting multiple 12 layer mixed signal boards for RF signal path and manufacturing issues, this includes PA, LNA and SAW Filter tuning
  • Currently leading the integration effort when it comes to software and field testing the fully assembled radio.

Senior Electrical Engineer II

General Dynamics Mission Systems
04.2023 - 04.2024
  • Developed a 12 layer mixed signal board, this includes COTS purchasing, block diagram design, schematic capture, layout and release
  • Leading the integration effort when it comes to software testing the assembled radio
  • Used HFSS to model and simulate custom and COTS antenna designs
  • Verified various COTS Antenna performance metrics within an anechoic chamber.

Senior Electrical Engineer I

General Dynamics Mission Systems
04.2022 - 04.2023
  • Created data extraction scripts in Python and Matlab in order to troubleshoot issues with multiple radios
  • Leading the integration effort when it comes to software testing the assembled radio
  • Conducted receiver sensitivity testing for two radios within the same fixture
  • Performed EMI/EMC testing on several units under the MIL-461-STD.

Electrical Engineer II

General Dynamics Mission Systems
04.2021 - 04.2022
  • Debugged various issues on transceiver boards using VNA’s, Spectrum Analyzers and Oscilloscopes
  • Simulated sections of transceiver boards using ADS and HFSS
  • Designed several tunable filters, with low percent bandwidths and a wide tuning range
  • Designed matching networks for the RF front end of radios operating at L, S and C bands.

Electrical Engineer I

General Dynamics Mission Systems
01.2020 - 04.2021
  • Developed a beam steering algorithm for two phased array antennas, to achieve maximum power transfer
  • Developed VHDL and Verilog RTL to interface with RF Devices
  • Integrated multiple RF components such as a band-pass filter, active-antenna, synthesizer and frequency converter in order to create a long-range point-to-point system at K-Band frequencies
  • Verified performance of initial long-range point to point system through field testing using a spectrum analyzer, signal generator and active-antenna.

Digital and Programmable Logic Intern

Viasat
05.2019 - 08.2019
  • Developed, integrated, and tested several interface blocks such as SPI, Ethernet and I2C for communication between motherboard and several daughter boards.

Technical Intern

BAE Systems
06.2018 - 05.2019
  • Under the instruction and supervision of Principal Engineers I developed test software, assembled testing stations and familiarized myself with various testing equipment, procedures and standards.

Education

Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering - Electromagnetics, antennas and microwave circuits

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering -

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Associates of Science in Engineering -

Essex County College

Skills

  • Advance Design System (ADS)
  • HFSS
  • Mentor Graphics
  • LTSpice
  • NI Multisim
  • Xilinx Vivado
  • AutoCAD
  • Python
  • Verilog
  • VHDL
  • SystemVerilog
  • Matlab
  • Labview

Timeline

Senior Electrical Engineer II

General Dynamics Mission Systems
04.2023 - 04.2024

Senior Electrical Engineer I

General Dynamics Mission Systems
04.2022 - 04.2023

Electrical Engineer II

General Dynamics Mission Systems
04.2021 - 04.2022

Senior Electrical Engineer III

General Dynamics Mission Systems
01.2020 - Current

Electrical Engineer I

General Dynamics Mission Systems
01.2020 - 04.2021

Digital and Programmable Logic Intern

Viasat
05.2019 - 08.2019

Technical Intern

BAE Systems
06.2018 - 05.2019

Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering - Electromagnetics, antennas and microwave circuits

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering -

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Associates of Science in Engineering -

Essex County College
Kaleem Graham