Michael Ferrara Member

Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania , USA  •  IEEE Philadelphia Section
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Seeking Opportunities/Work - RF/MW Engineer and Business Owner: Consulting, Custom IMA's
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Biography
Entrepreneurial, innovative RF/Microwave Engineer with 20+yrs experience specializing in RF/MW component, module and/or system design from DC-40+GHz. Expertise with SIGINT, radar, EW, SATCOM, RF over fiber and other similar RF/MW defense systems. Out of the box creativity with innovative open architecture, modular design techniques enabling reduced C-SWAP. Lead engineer capable authoring or co-authoring patents, proposals and white papers; reporting to upper management, government customers, and commercial; and able to interface well with employees at all levels. Desiring to work as a lead on the technical side and still be hands on in design efforts.
Special Skills
Technical Specialties
Surface Mount and chip and wire RF/MW integrated assemblies, DC-40GHz
Interests
Active filters
Adaptive arrays
Airborne radar
Amplifiers
Antennas
Attenuation
Band-pass filters
Bistatic radar
Broadband amplifiers
Channel bank filters
Circuits
Impedance matching
Scattering parameters
Cognitive radar
Cognitive radio
Communication equipment
Communication system security
Electronic warfare
Couplers
Coupling circuits
Differential amplifiers
Digital-controlled oscillators
Directional couplers
Distributed amplifiers
Doped fiber amplifiers
Doppler effect
Doppler measurement
Doppler radar
Electromagnetic coupling
Circulators
Electromagnetic shielding
Couplers
Electronic countermeasures
Electronic warfare
Erbium
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
FET circuits
Operational amplifiers
Feedback amplifiers
Filters
Frequency
Frequency locked loops
Frequency synthesizers
Frequency response
Amplifiers
Frequency measurement
Frequency synthesizers
Global Positioning System
Harmonic filters
High power amplifiers
Hybrid junctions
Indoor radio communication
Jamming
Landmine detection
Local oscillators
Low earth orbit satellites
Low-noise amplifiers
Low-pass filters
MIMICs
MMICs
Microstrip components
Microstrip filters
Microwave amplifiers
Microwave communication
Microwave filters
Microwave oscillators
Microwave technology
Military communication
Military satellites
Millimeter wave radar
Modulation
Phase locked loops
Transmitters
Mixers
Multistatic radar
Nonlinear filters
Phase locked loops
Notch filters
Operational amplifiers
FET circuits
Optical amplifiers
Optical coupling
Optical fiber amplifiers
Optical transmitters
Passive filters
Passive radar
Phase locked loops
Po
Power amplifiers
Power dividers
Power electr
High-voltage techniques
Power conversion
Rectifiers
Switching converters
Power filters
Power filters
RF signals
Radar
Radar antennas
Radar countermeasures
Radar detection
Radar equipment
Radar theory
Radio communication countermeasures
Radio communication equipment
Radio control
Radio frequency
Radio navigation
Radio transceivers
Radio transmitters
Radiofrequency amplifiers
Radiofrequency integrated circuits
Radiofrequency interference
Radiofrequency microelectromechanical systems
Rail to rail amplifiers
Rail to rail inputs
Rail to rail operation
Rail to rail outputs
Resonance
Microstrip resonators
SAW filters
Satellite communication
Satellite ground stations
Satellite navigation systems
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Signal processing
1f noise
Analog processing circuits
Antennas and propagation
Band-pass filters
Bandwidth
Signal to noise ratio
Software radio
Spread spectrum communication
Electronic warfare
Radio communication countermeasures
Electronic countermeasures
Ultra wideband communication
Spread spectrum radar
Stripline components
Synthesizers
Synthetic aperture radar
Telephone equipment
Transceivers
Transponders
Tuners
Ultra wideband antennas
Experience
Design Engineer
ACI Technologies
Design Engineer
Electronic Warfare Associates Inc
Design Engineer
Cantada
Design Engineer
FARO Technologies Inc.
Design Engineer
Noble Technologies, Inc.
Owner/Partner
Sovereign RF Systems, LLC
Design Engineer
Northrop Grumman Corp
Design Engineer
ITT Industries
Design Engineer
Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.
Design Engineer
Applied Signal and Image Technology
Design Engineer
Mid Atlantic RF Systems
Education
Drexel University
Bachelor of Science
Engineering , 1998