Michael McFadden
Manhattan Beach,California
Summary
Highly-motivated Electrical Engineer with desire to take on new challenges in the world of space avionics. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Avionics Engineer
Millennium Space Systems
El Segundo , CA
2023.06 - Current
- Analyzed system requirements and designed solutions to meet customer needs.
- Prepared reports detailing the results of tests conducted on different components of a satellites avionics systems.
- Documented all work performed on a satellites avionics systems according to company standards.
- Designed PCBs for Class 3 space avionics applications using Altium
- Performed schematic capture, PCB layout and full board bring up including, but not limited to, FPGA/MCU flashing, board checkout (utilizing typical EE lab equipment)
- Worked with reliability engineers to upscreen COTs parts for space applications
- Designed high level HDL as well as board design on a space grade SSD for a next generation mission processor.
Lead Avionics and RF Enginner
Millennium Space Systems
El Segundo , CA
2021.06 - 2023.06
- Design a test rack to qualify an X-Band Sofware Defined Radio
- Designed analog RF front end through up/down conversion and filtering to ADC input and digital baseband processing for x band SDR testing.
- Built up a 5.4 meter antenna with a trailer and old HW from the early 2000s in company parking lot in order to perform mission (x band) and telemetry (s band) downlinks of our Low Earth Orbit Satellites.
- Designed and built a mobile ground station implementing a SATRAC SDR, a FEP and an in-house designed (my design) x band downconverter. The mobile ground station was then used to prove out a capstone project involving a Low Earth Orbit Constellation.
- Created link budgets for S, X, Ka and L band applicaitons
- Modeled RF systems in MAtlab and GNUradio
Avionics Engineer "Product Owner"
Millennium Space Systems
El Segundo , CA
2019.07 - 2021.06
- Managed 4 core avionics boards from internal customer order through test and delivery
- Qualified core avionics hardware through vigorous envirmonental testing campaigns.
- Wrote test plans for qualification campaigns, including environmental and functional testing.
- Analyzed failures and investigated root cause
- Brought boards from a one off state to a production state
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA2019-06
Psychology
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA2003-06
Skills
- Requirements Analysis
- Altium - schematic capture and PCB layout
- Experience working in various OS's - Linux, Windows, MACOS.
- Experience with SW - Matlab, C/C++, Python, Verilog (HDL), Linux drivers
- Experience with Xilinix FPGAs and SoCs as well as the Vivado IDE
- Experience with Micorchip FPGAs and SoCs as well as Libero IDE
- Experience with processor bring up on new boards, including FPGAs SoCs, and MCUs.
- Prolific in the use of standard lab equipment
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Avionics Engineer
Millennium Space Systems
2023.06 - Current
Lead Avionics and RF Enginner
Millennium Space Systems
2021.06 - 2023.06
Avionics Engineer "Product Owner"
Millennium Space Systems
2019.07 - 2021.06
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Western Washington University
Psychology
Western Washington University
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