Steve Massey

Escondido, California , USA  •  IEEE San Diego Section
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RF and Microwave Professional
Contact
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Biography
Expert RF and Microwave engineering design service consultant. RF design is extensive; covering all facets of the field. Knowledgeable in analog and digital design. Strengths at leading a technical team to produce cost effective, on time solutions. Well rounded in all aspects of R&D through production products including military programs and commercial endeavors. Successful from product conception to hardware delivery. •High and Low Power Amplifiers, including LNAs •High and Low Power RF Switches and VVAs •High Power and Broadband Couplers, Combiners, Splitters •Wideband Circuits (Multiple Decades) •Full, Modern Transceiver Design (Baseband to Antenna) •Analog Circuitry to Complement RF Designs (Power supplies, Bias, etc) •Low Frequency Ferrite Designs to 60GHz Chip and Wire •MTBF Analysis and ATE Programming Available MegaRF Design, LLC http://www.MegaRFDesign.com
Technical Expertise
Microwave
RF
New Product Development
Systems Engineering
Circuits and Printed Circuit Design
Analog Design
Military
Special Skills
Technical Specialties
Former CTO of $250 million dollar a year military contractor. High power RF and Microwave expert. Low frequency ferrite based designs to 60GHz MIC / MMIC chip and wire designs. All types of RF amplifiers from LNA to solid state HPA in excess of 10kW. Low loss, high power combiner expert. PIN diode / RF switch expert with CW designs to 5kW. VVA and switched attenuator expert. Circuit board (PCB) layout techniques expert from plating to absorbers to conformal coatings. Mixer, multipliers, limiter, detectors designs. Waveguide, stripline, finline, microstrip, suspended substrate. System level design for full transceivers, BUC, boosters, RADAR, link margin analysis and frequency planning. Antenna design and EM simulation. EMI / EMC troubleshooter. Power supply design for wireless components. Multiple analog designs for RF systems (gating, ALC, AGC, pulse shaping, etc). MTBF analysis via 217F, 217Plus or Bellcore. RF testing and PCB prototyping services available in-house. Will troubleshoot issues on the bench, reverse engineer an obsolete product or design something new.
Additional Specialties
RF Software: Most RF simulation software (AWR Microwave Office, HFSS, ADS, Eagleware, etc). Test Equipment: Most signal generators, spectrum analyzers, modulation analyzers, VNA, SNA, NF meters, o-scope and etc. We have added RF testing and PCB prototyping services to complement our consultant design services.
Interests
High power amplifiers
Microstrip filters
Microwave communication
Microwave amplifiers
Microwave antennas
Microwave bands
Education
University of Nevada-Reno
Master of Engineering
Engineering
North Carolina State Univ
Bachelor of Science
Engineering