Mark De Alwis

Research Engineer

Contact

Tel: 61 2 9372 4169
Email

Science Area

• Communications and Signal Processing

Biography

I am working on research, design and development of microwave circuits for the back-haul wireless RF system. Key areas of interest are high power amplifiers and filter design.

Academic Qualifications

PURDUE	UNIVERSITY Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.
•	Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, (BSEE) Graduated in December 1995.
Five	year accredited degree covering analog and digital design.

Recent Professional Experience

2008	TO 2009, RFMD Newton Aycliff, UK.
RF	MMIC Design Engineer.
2005	TO 2008, Filtronic then RFMD (Company changed names due to acquisition), Newton Aycliff, UK.
Senior	RF Design/Applications Engineer.
2001	TO 2005, FILTRONIC SOLID STATE, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
RF	Applications Engineer.
1996	TO 2001, REMEC CSH, Milpitas, CA, USA.
RF	Design Engineer.

Achievements & Awards

•	Design wins at Comtek Motorola and Ericsson along with applications support for multiple customers resulting in increased revenue to the company. These design wins accomplished thru cutting edge balanced LNA and linear PA designs per customer specifications.
•	Worked on qualifying products on to the new foundry in Newton Aycliff in the United Kingdom from the existing Litton foundry in Santa Clara California.
•	Created and published over thirty datasheets and applications notes for key products on the company web site as well as a product feature in the Microwave Journal.
•	Designed balanced and single ended amplifiers, ring mixers, balanced pin diode attenuators, and filters for 15GHz, 18GHz, 23GHz, and 38GHz point to point and point to multi-point radios such as SDH and Altium for Harris Stratex Networks Inc (Previously known as DMC Inc).