Dr. David Michael Archer
Employment
Raytheon - El Segundo, California
Principal Systems Engineer (Dec 2007 - present)
Summary
System engineer for an airborne radar system antenna.
JT3 LLC - Las Vegas, Nevada
Senior Engineer (Feb 2002 - Nov 2007)
Summary
As of Feb. 1, 2002, EG&G Special Projects, and a portion of the Raytheon company merged to become JT3 LLC. Assignments included electromagnetic simulation of a phase comparison monopulse radar interacting with various modelled antennas, simulation of coupling between antennas including terrain effects.
EG&G Special Projects - Las Vegas, Nevada
Senior Engineer (April 2000-Feb. 2002)
Summary
While waiting for a top secret clearance, duties assigned included preliminary design of a radar simulator, several coding projects, automation of network analyzer measurements using Agilent Vee, various assignments related to radar systems.
The Boeing Metrology Laboratory - Seattle, Washington
Metrology Engineer (1986-2000)
Summary:
- Primary responsibilities involve RF and microwave metrology. Specific areas of responsibility includ field strength and antenna measurements, RF and microwave power, impedance, electrical Q, time and frequency, RF voltage, spectrum amplitude, microwave noise, attenuation, measurement receivers, and network analyzers.
Details:
- Primary individual responsible for the initial conception, design, and implementation of a field
strength calibration facility including gain extrapolation, field strength, and near-field scanning
capabilities. Performed a detailed error analysis of the facility, and developed specialized
numerical methods for this project. Developed all the measurement and analysis software. This
multi-million dollar facility has been developed over the last five years. Current assignment also
includes developing new techniques for EMC measurements, including developing new measurement
methods for reverberation chambers.
- Developed automated and thoroughly analyzed measurement systems for RF and microwave
power, RF voltage, and microwave noise. Developed new techniques for the calibration of voltage
standards through power. In all the above mentioned systems, many techniques had to be
developed to increase measurement accuracy.
- Responsibilities also include the technical direction and training of a small group of technicians, establishment of long-term and short-term capital budget planning for the high frequency labs, and development of state-of-the-art measurement techniques and systems. Currently involved in working with the newly acquired labs that are part of the recent Boeing mergers to implement techniques and automation that I developed across the corporation. This activity involves installation of the systems and training of the technicians involved.
Education
BS in Physics - 1986
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Masters in Physics - 2002
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Ph.D in Physics - 2006
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Training
In addition to my formal education I have had training in the following subject material: Satellite Communications, Coding Theory, Near-field, Anechoic Chamber, and Compact Range Measurements, Antenna Arrays, Finite Element Methods, Electromagnetic Compatibility, RCS, High-Power Microwave, Java, C++, Pascal, UNIX, Structured Analysis, Systems Engineering, Time and Frequency, Avionics, RF Safety, Liquid Nitrogen Safety, HTML, TCP/IP and Networking, Fuzzy Logic, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and other subjects related to my job responsibilities.
Skills
- Computing Skills: - Very strong programming skills. Expert in the automation of
measurement and test equipment and complex measurement and control systems.
Experienced in the following programming languages: HP Basic, Visual Basic, Visual
Basic for Applications, Pascal, Delphi, and FORTRAN. Have had training in Java,
Javascript and C++. Familiar with most personal productivity tools such as Microsoft
Word, and Excel. Familiar with DOS, Windows (all flavors), Mac, and Unix operating
systems. Current duties include being a backup system administrator for several UNIX
workstations. I was responsible for
maintaining a web site for my lab, currently owner and primary developer for http://www.learningmeasure.com and http://www.learningmeasure.tv
- Mathematical Skills - Skilled in many numerical methods, including some I developed for antenna measurements. A good portion of my time is spent working mathematical problems, and developing detailed error analysis. Techniques involved are the development of new numerical methods, Fourier analysis, deconvolution, complex analysis, linear analysis, to mention a few.
- Engineering Skills - Due to my wide ranging areas of responsibility, I have to be familiar with a large numbers of measurement techniques, test equipment and systems. This requires that I have a strong grasp of fundamental physical principles. Electromagnetics and electrical engineering fundamentals are used on a daily basis.
- Other Skills - Development of training courses and materials for technicians and engineers. Development of detailed written procedures for all aspects of measurement and calibration, as well as high level requirements documents. Development of capital budget requirements both long and short term. Some familiarity with dimensional measurement techniques such as laser interferometry due to my antenna measurement experience.
Training Record
LearningMeasure.com Courses Completed
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| Course No. | Course Title | Last Completed |
| UNC101 | Introduction to Uncertainty Concepts | 12/7/2009 |
| MATH110 | Introduction to Complex Arithmetic | 9/18/2006 |
| EE101 | Basic DC Circuit Theory | 9/18/2006 |
| WWW102 | Basic HTML | 8/3/2006 |
| LM101 | How to take one of our courses | 7/15/2007 |
| MEAS101 | Introduction to Measurement Concepts | 7/9/2007 |
| MEAS102 | SI Units - The second | 3/2/2009 |
| WWW103 | Introduction to CSS | 6/4/2008 |
| INST200 | Introduction to the Oscilloscope | 9/18/2006 |
| MEAS404 | Introduction to Antenna Measurement Concepts | 9/18/2006 |
| EE102 | Basic AC Circuit Theory | 9/18/2006 |
| EE103 | Introduction to the decibel (dB) | 9/18/2006 |
| MEAS450 | Basic Far-Field Antenna Measurement | 9/26/2006 |
| EE104 | Introduction to RF/Microwave concepts | 9/26/2006 |
| WWW104 | Intermediate HTML | 10/20/2006 |
| PERL101 | Introduction to Perl | 11/14/2006 |
| PERL102 | Basic Perl and CGI | 11/15/2006 |
| dmadance.M100 | 12/23/2007 | |
| GCC101 | The gcc Compiler | 3/12/2010 |
| MEAS105 | SI Units - The Ampere | 3/12/2010 |
| dmadance.T1 | 4/30/2010 |
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Degrees
- B.S. Physics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
1986 - Masters in Physics
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
2002 - Ph.D. in Physics
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
2006
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