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PhD Electrical Engineering

Resume

Marie Devulder, PhD

RF Team Leader
Test & Design

Singapore

Work Experience


RF Engineer Team Leader
MC2-Technologies, Lille, France
2008 – Oct 2012

Position
- RF test lab manager
- Manage a team of two technicians
- Review customer requirements
- Technology watch to find new devices fitting with technical specifications dedicated to the project
- Development of new RF test methodologies and test benches

Activities:

- Define technological solution proposals, write quotations and manage the execution
- Mentoring and training up new staff
- Test bench hardware development : Active multiharmonic loadpull (2-40 GHz full band) and RF life test (2 and 10 GHz)
- Technical project leader
- Technical documentation
- Define RF measurement methodologies and equipments specifications
- Test bench automatization
- High frequency test (Noise, Small and Large Signal up to 110GHz)
- Active circuit integration to develop low noise and power amplifiers, phase shifter and attenuator modules
- Passive design (RF access, calibration kit, coupler)
- Non-linear device modeling (GaAs and GaN technologies)

Technical skills:
Vector Network Analyzer (mainly Agilent PNA-X), Power meter, Spectrum analyzer, Noise Figure Meter, Probe Station
Agilent ADS, Empire XCcel (3D-Simulator), CleWin, Matlab, Eagleware
C Language, Visual Basic

 

mm-Wave Design Engineer on Silicon TechnologyPhD Student
STMicroelectronics
, Crolles, France
IEMN, Research Institute
, Lille, France
2004 – 2007

- Transceiver system analysis and specification definitions
- Millimeter wave circuits design, layout and characterization (switch, amplifier, oscillator, detector, single chip transmitter) at 60 GHz using silicon technology (BiCMOS/CMOS)

Technical skills:
Vector Network Analyzer (mainly HP-8510 [DC-110GHz]), 70GHz oscilloscope, Power meter, Spectrum analyzer, Frequency Synthesizer
Agilent ADS, Ansoft HFSS
Layout using Cadence environment, DRC and LVS verifications

 

Microwave Engineer - Waveguide limiter design
IEMN, Research Institute
, Lille, France
2004

- Co-simulation using Ansoft HFSS and Agilent ADS to design a limiter
- Diodes characterization

Technical skills:
Vector Network Analyzer (mainly HP-8510 [DC-50GHz])
Agilent ADS, Ansoft HFSS

RF Engineer, Internship – S band Radar study
Thalès Air Defence, Ymare, France
2003

- MMIC packaging (RF access design) and characterization
- PCB layout dedicated to drive MMIC (such as switch, attenuator, phase shifter)

Technical skills:
Vector Network Analyzer
Agilent ADS, Orcad Pspice

 

Education


2008          PhD Graduation in Microwave and Microtechnologies (Lille I University)
2003          Master degree in Microwave and Microtechnologies
Dual diploma : Engineer school Polytech’Lille and Lille I University
1998          Scientific “Baccalauréat” (French national high school diploma)
Speciality : Physics and Chemistry

 

Technical Knowledge


  • Simulation and design Softwares
    Agilent ADS, Ansoft HFSS, Empire XCcel, CST Microwave Studio, Cadence, CleWin, Matlab, Eagle, PSpice, Orcad Capture and Layout
  • Measurement equipments
    Vector Network Analyzer, Spectrum analyzer, Oscilloscope, Noise Figure Meter, Power Meter  OSWindows XP/Vista/Seven, Linux, Unix Sun Solaris
  • Languages
    C, Visual Basic, HTML, PHP
  • Databases
    MySQL 4.x and 5

 

Awards


2007    Best Student Paper Award at ICUWB 2007, Singapore
2004    Jean-Pierre Noblanc Award (STMicroelectronics award)

Publications


Banc de mesure loadpull multi-harmoniques basé sur une plateforme Agilent PNA-X“, M. Devulder, N.Thouvenin, N. Vellas, Journées Nationales Micro-ondes, Brest, May 2011

 Study and feasibility of an Ultra Wideband (UWB) system in millimeter wave range in advances silicon technology“, M. Devulder, PhD dissertation, LilleI University, December 2008

Conception de circuits 60 GHz pour système Ultra Large Bande en  technologie BiCMOS SiGe“, M. Devulder,  I. Telliez, S. Pruvost, F. Danneville, N. Rolland, Journées Nationales Micro-ondes, Toulouse, May 2007

60 GHz UWB Transmitter for Use in WLAN Communication“, M. Devulder, N. Deparis, I. Telliez, S. Pruvost, N. Rolland, F. Danneville, P.A. Rolland, International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics (ISSSE), Montréal, August 2007

UWB Transmitter in BiCMOS SiGe 0.13 µm Technology for 60 GHz WLAN Communication“, M. Devulder, N. Deparis, I. Telliez, S. Pruvost, F. Danneville, N. Rolland, P.A. Rolland, IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), Singapore, September 2007

40GHz Low Noise Receiver Circuits using BCB Above-Silicon Technology Optimized for Millimeter-wave Applications“, S. Pruvost, R. Cuchet, D. Pellissier, I. Telliez, M. Devulder, X. Gagnard, P. Ancey, M. Aid, F. Danneville, G. Dambrine, N. Rolland, S. Lepilliet, IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, Honolulu, June 2007

 

Languages


French : mother tongue fluency
English : technical and conversational fluency
German : basic knowledge

 

Interests


Swimming, Backpacking

 

References


References available upon request