Larry Tran

Current

• Senior Engineer at Qualcomm

Past

• Wireless Performance Engineer at Intel
• Senior Network Technician at UCSD

Education

• University of California, San Diego

Connections

57 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• VAYA San Diego Tet Festival

Larry Tran’s Summary

Validation/Test Engineer with an emphasis in wireless communications. Develop test solutions for verification of RF recievers/transmitters and analog and mixed signals. I also have a strong background in performance testing methodologies and procedures.

Larry Tran’s Experience

• Senior Engineer

  Qualcomm

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; QCOM; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

  Representative for MediaFLO Transmitter Subsystems in overall transmitter testing, encompassing general regression testing (monitoring and control transmitter features), RF testing and test equipment automation. Also providing support for engineering for issues concerning transmitter.
  
  -Led the effort in qualifying RF performance for third party vendor high power transmitters in addition to testing FPGA, man machine interfaces, and API specifications. Also provided support for national deployment of MediaFLO transmitter systems including transmitter component failure analysis.
  
  -Created automated test solutions for vendor qualification of high power transmitters utilizing common test equipment (oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, network analyzer) along with Labview.

• Wireless Performance Engineer

  Intel

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

  July 2002 — July 2005 (3 years 1 month)

  Representative for WPAE in sustaining products, support for over air testing and project lead for the Best of Breed project which determines the best and up-to-date, standardized overall performance for Intel and competitive wireless products.
  
  -Provided coverage as the Performance representative for sustaining revenue Intel PRO/Wireless products – including hardware and software support for the 2100B, 2200BG and 2915ABG products.
  
  -Led the quarterly analysis of Intel and competitive wireless products which enables the establishment of trusted configurations and baselines for Performance infrastructure and has increased Intel’s internal and external confidence in providing accurate test results.

• Senior Network Technician

  UCSD

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  March 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 11 months)

  Maintain existing physical network connections – CAT5E, Fiber Optics, 802.11b wireless systems

Larry Tran’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  BS , Electrical Engineering , 1999 — 2004

Additional Information

Larry Tran’s Websites:

• VAYA San Diego Tet Festival

Larry Tran’s Interests:

Fishing, gadgets, hiking, camping, community service, snowboarding

Larry Tran’s Groups:

Vietnamese American Youth Alliance, IEEE