Senior engineer with proven experience in electronic systems design, firmware and hardware design, and product development. Extensive multi-discipline experience with mechanical, packaging, and systems engineers. Creative and organized self-starter possessing strong analytical and problem solving abilities in addition to exceptional communication skills. Experience and education have established the following:  Project management with small focused teams. This includes budgeting, time estimates, man loading, and personal management.  Design and integration of communication systems. This includes link budget calculations, transceiver selection and tuning, protocol selection and development, RF component selection, antenna design and matching, and system performance analysis. Extensive use of BER testers, Network Analyzers, RF signal generators, and Spectrum Analyzers.  Design of digital systems using various embedded microprocessors in combination with FPGAs; including chi