Eric Austin

Current

• Electrical Engineer at Skyworks

Past

• Test Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Project Engineer at StockerYale
• Electro-Mechanical Technician at Diversified Technologies, Inc.

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Education

• Tufts University
• Wentworth Institute of Technology

Recommended

8 people have recommended Eric

Connections

84 connections

Industry

Semiconductors

Websites

• Band: Rumbletones
• Band: Rumbletones (myspace)
• Band: PM Blues

Eric Austin’s Summary

Experienced electrical engineer with a strong focus and drive to succeed at every technical challenge and/or project presented to me including but not limited to:
- meeting and exceeding stringent product design specifications
- considering and/or exploring new solutions and/or topologies in everything I work on including GaAs MMIC component designs and/or characterization and data analysis routines and algorithms
- ensuring that products and/or engineering samples are thoroughly tested and fully characterized and delivered on time to the customer and/or released to production without any issues

Eric Austin’s Specialties:

- GaAs MMIC RF Design and Analysis
- Test/Device Characterization Automation
- Data Analysis
- Software Algorithm Development and Implementation

Eric Austin’s Experience

• Electrical Engineer

  Skyworks

  (Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  Test Engineer and RFIC Design Engineer
  
  RFIC Design Engineer:
  Numerous strategic, stringent, and highly visible RFIC GaAs semiconductor integrated circuit pHEMT switch and attenuator design wins.
  Software and CAD Tools:
  Agilent ADS
  Momentum RF
  Sonnet
  Ansoft HFSS
  Microwave Office
  MATLAB
  Entire Microsoft Office Product Suite
  Visual Basic
  AutoCAD
  JMP
  
  Test Engineer:
  Implemented a comprehensive and extensive automated RFIC test/characterization/analysis process used by laboratory technicians and all the engineers in the Skyworks Analog Components Business Unit for RF device measurement during design process and for complete device pre-production characterization.
  Software:
  LabVIEW
  MATLAB
  Visual Basic
  Microsoft Office Suite
  JMP
  
  RF Characterization Tests:
  Small Signal (S-Parameters, 1 to 8 port devices)
  P1dB
  IP3/IP2
  Harmonics
  IMD
  Switching Speed
  Error Vector Magnitude
  Composite Triple Beat
  DC Parametric Tests
  All test programs vary bias voltage, DUT state, DUT temperature, incident RF power (if applicable), VSWR (and relative load phase, if applicable) and are configurable based on number of DUT RF ports as well as bias/control interface (Serial to Parallel Interface, parallel, etc...), SPI clock frequency, (and numerous other paramters that I can't remember right now...) and record all data automatically for individual device characterization as well as population statistical analysis over all test conditions and varied parameters.

• Test Engineer

  MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  (Educational Institution; Defense & Space industry)

  September 1999 — May 2006 (6 years 9 months)

• Project Engineer

  StockerYale

  (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1996 — August 1999 (3 years )

• Electro-Mechanical Technician

  Diversified Technologies, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  September 1994 — September 1996 (2 years 1 month)

Eric Austin’s Education

• Tufts University

  M.S. , Electrical Engineering , 2003 — 2008

  GPA: 3.87 out of 4.0
  
  Degree Focus: Communications and RF Systems Design
  
  Master's Project: Blind Source Separation Through Non-Negative Matrix Factorization and Mutual Information Minimization Algorithm using MATLAB

• Wentworth Institute of Technology

  B.S. , Electronic Engineering Technology , 1990 — 1994

  GPA: 3.9 out of 4.0

Additional Information

Eric Austin’s Websites:

• Band: Rumbletones
• Band: Rumbletones (myspace)
• Band: PM Blues

Eric Austin’s Interests:

Drums, Audio Recording, Fishing, Amateur Radio (Extra Class, 13WPM Morse Code), Photography, Computers, Model Railroading, RC Cars

Eric Austin’s Groups:

Musical Groups:
Rumbletones
PM Blues
Scissormen
Ronnie Earl

Freemasonry:
Master Mason, Philanthropic Lodge A. F. & M., Marblehead MA

Amateur Radio:
Extra Class Operator
North Shore Radio Association
American Radio Relay League
Volunteer Examiner, ARRL VEC

Boy Scouts of America:
Eagle Scout
Venture Crew47 Committee Chairman
Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 53, Swampscott MA
Order of the Arrow, Brotherhood Member
Staff at T. L. Storer Scout Reservation, Barnstead NH

•    RF/Microwave systems and design

Eric Austin’s Honors:

Tau Alpha Pi Honor Society
Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout

Eric Austin’s Contact Settings

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