Tuan M. Dang5425 North Mobile Avenue, Chicago, IL 60630(703) 203-2157 or tuwondang@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE Satellite communications and embedded system engineer in a position that fully utilizesmy technical skills.

PROFESSIONALSUMMARY

Over five years of industry experience in government (defense) and private sector asa Satellite Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineer; designing, implementing,testing, troubleshooting and deploying mission-critical hardware and software solutionsat customer sites across the U.S. and in the Middle East.

COMPUTERSKILLS

Languages: C, VHDL/Verilog, Linux (bash/perl), C++, C#, QT, Visual Basic, Python.

Software: Xilinx Vivado, Xilinx Software Development Kit (SDK), MATLAB, Pro-Engineering, BR Space Applications (ITU), Satellite Tool Kit (STK), Microsoft VisualStudio, iSite, iBuilder, iMonitor, Ubuntu, Labview,

Hardware: Xilinx Zynq 7000, Agilent Technologies PNA Network Analyzer N5224A10 MHz 43.5 GHz, Agilent PSG Vector Generator, Agilent PXA Signal AnalyzerN9030A 3 Hz 44 GHz, iDirects e850MP, e8350, XLC-11

Training: Satellite Communications Design by ATI May 2014iOM SATCOM Platform, VT iDirect August 2014

PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE

Senior Satellite Engineer April 2015 - presentSatellite Engineer January 2014 - April 2015Gogo, Inc Chicago, IL

• Developed and verified RSSI circuitry using FPGA and auxillary closed loop RFLRUs.

• Designed and inplemented RF satellite communication hardware-in–the-loop sys-tem for lab bench testing.

• Supported and implemented Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) for RF satellite sys-tem

• Supported airborne SATCOM systems: airborne satellite communication sys-tems, especially electrically steered rotating-arrayed VICTS antennas. Intimatelyinvolved in antenna performances and operations.

– Performed fully integrated hardware system testing: verified bent pipe con-nectivity, RF metrics (TX/RX SNR, MODCODs, and LNB).

– Verified ATPs for LRUs: KANDU, MODMAN, RX, TX, and KRFU fromvacuumed environment to over the air.

– Built lab environments to support multiple remotes simultaneously.– Provided feedback to vendors on optimizations and calibrations of developed

hardware.

• Supported airborne SATCOM software development and integration

– Generated SNMP scripts (in Linux) to integrate across all LRUs via MIBprotocol.

– Supported building data acquisition services for production aircrafts carry-ing airborne hardware.

– Created ACU simulator to test, control, and communicate with the air-borne modem for simulating dynamic flight scenarios: mapfile request, beamswitching over specified regions

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• Performed RF measurements of airborne in-flight systems in lab environmentbefore production

– Verified and measured equipment for compliance with national and interna-tional regulations

– Measured transmit P1 power characteristic (Pin/Pout), gain compression(Pin/Gout), occupied power bandwidths for BPSK, QPSK, 8-PSK, 16QAM(Pout/OBW)

– Assessed and advised SSPA/BUC RF performance during vendor selection

• Engineering project management and support

– Handled and managed departments purchase orders for day-to-day opera-tions and laboratory build out

– Vendor coordination and management for outside support both material andconsultancy

Communications Engineer October 2011 - November 2013RF Engineer January 2010 - October 2011ITT Exelis, now Harris Herndon, VA

• Assisted with registering DoD satellites to the International TelecommunicationUnion (ITU) and coordinating with other administrations

• Performed spectrum management for Fixed Satellite Service and Mobile SatelliteService networks

– Linked-budgets interference analysis for satellite networks (uplink and down-link)

– Experienced with Appendices 7, 8, and 9 of ITU regulations

– Participated in international coordination meetings on behalf of US satelliteoperators

• Developed software for modeling and simulating DoD satellite communicationsystems

– Helped implement Appendices 7, 8, and 9 of ITU regulations using stan-dalone GUI.

– Contributed with coding and testing to implement NGSO interference anal-ysis.

• Performed Interference-to-Noise (I/N), Intermodulation-to-Noise, Radiation Haz-ard and COSAM analyses for the Joint Spectrum Center (JSC), DoD

• Developed software applications to model and measure I/N thresholds for deter-mining fidelity with government communication systems

• Performed RF field measurements for interference identification and mitigation

EDUCATION Master of Science, Electrical EngineeringIllinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, expected May 2017Concentration: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) with applications in signalprocessing and software defined radios (SDR)

Bachelor of Science, Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD, graduated June 2013

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