Satellite Earth Station System Engineering

• Prepare RFPs for Turnkey Earth Station Procurement
• Evaluate Turnkey Proposals for Satellite Earth Terminals
• Prepare Proposals for Satellite Earth Terminals
• Prepare GCE (Ground Comm Equip) Hardware Design and/or Procurement Specifications
• Prepare/Witness/Perform GCE Test Procedures
• Prepare Satellite System Hardware and Propagation Availability Analysis
• Prepare end-to-end link budget designs and trade-off studies
• Prepare parametric distortion analysis for uplink and downlink signal path chains

Research and Analysis

• Prepare Technical White Papers
• Market Research and Reports
• Competitive Analysis
• Provide guidance for Product Development Road Maps
• Provide guidance for Business Plan Development

Technical and Sales Support

• Meet directly with Customers present solutions and/or determine Customer needs
• Coach and Train Sales Personnel
• Provide specialized training to Client’s Engineering Staff
• Provide on-site Sales Technical Support for proposal presentations

Field Support

• On-Site Testing and Troubleshooting
• Site Survey and Site Design

Technical Analyses

• Installation procedure emulation, and pointing accuracy uplink interference simulation
• Prediction of signal distortion in high-power amplifier and transmission chains
• Satellite link budgets, rain fade and availability analysis, diversity gain estimations
• Earth station antenna and HPA sizing
• Cascaded lineup design, noise figure, dynamic range, spurious, and worst case analyses

Design and Management Support

• Evaluation of microwave subsystem design reviews
• Capital and recurring cost analyses of satellite links and networks
• Customer specification compliance reviews
• Proposal generation support
• Specifications and statements of work for suppliers
• Production readiness reviews
• Cross-disciplinary technical support
• Cost analyses
• Design review support

Tools

• Matlab;
• Adobe Flash CS Collection;
• Adobe Flashbuilder;
• LINC (small-signal RF circuit analysis);
• MS Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
• Extensive collection of utilities for microwave and satellite system analysis

Programming

• Flash ActionScript AS3
• Flex Programming
• Javascript
• Jquery
• Html5
• Matlab
• Excel
• VBA add-ins
• Java