james eastham

senior director: worldwide mobile design and development engineering

About

Sr. Director: Mobile Design Engineering at Qorvo, Inc.

Country

united states

City

hillsboro

Industry

semiconductors

Skill

semiconductors, rf, electronics, wireless, matlab, ic, testing, digital signal processors, r&d, engineering, rf engineering, cellular communications, cdma, lte, electrical engineering, embedded systems, analog, mobile devices, simulations, team leadership, labview, mixed signal, technology management, hardware, effective team leadership, circuit design, asic, digital signal processing, signal processing, technical writing, wireless communications systems, c, rf design, wcdma, instrumentation, programming languages, autocad, integrated circuit design, analog circuit design, r&d management, statistical data analysis, debugging, wireless engineering, operations research and decision making, financial management, dfss, managerial finance, software engineering, fpga

Experience

senior director - product development engineering and customer quality

triquint semiconductor

2009-9 - 2014-12 · 5 yrs 4 mos

* Direct group of 40+ engineers & technicians * Responsible for supporting products through entire NPD life cycle * Responsible for CDMA, WCDMA, GSM/EDGE, LTE, WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS product lines * Work closely with team members to provide top notch engineering to internal and external customers * Own test development, early device sampling, yield analysis, production ramp, day to day offshore support * Provide customer support on critical technical issues

cdma and wcdma product engineering manager

triquint semiconductor

2005-1 - 2009-8 · 4 yrs 8 mos

* Responsible for driving/coordinating all RFIC product related * activities including new product development, reliability * qualification, cost reductions, yield improvement, production * support, and customer support.

test and manufacturing engineering manager

triquint semiconductor

2001-1 - 2005-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Responsible for implementation of reliable die level and packaged level volume test solutions.

senior rfic test engineer

triquint semiconductor

2000-1 - 2001-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Developed RF test solutions for new products.

adjunct instructor

clark college

1999-1 - 2001-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Developed/Taught various computer classes for the business dept.

senior rf design engineer and team lead

uscellular

1998-1 - 2000-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

* Team Leader-group of 4 RF engineers & 1 admin * Designed and provided project management for Yakima * CDMA System ($7 million dollar project, lived on site 3mo’s) * Designed AMPS, TDMA IS-136, CDMA IS-95a

system performance engineer

uscellular

1995-1 - 1998-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

* System performance for 240+ base stations * Corpus Christi system cutover

assistant rf engineer

uscellular

1994-1 - 1995-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

* Designed and tested point to point MW systems * Conducted Cellular Frequency Planning * Managed tower and installation crews

cellular technician

uscellular

1993-1 - 1994-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

* Installed and maintained base station equipment * Tested and optimized hardware and software

assistant professor and program director: systems engineering and technical management

oregon institute of technology

2009-1 - Present · 17 yrs 9 mos

* Adjunct Instructor: 2009 * June 2014 * Assistant Professor : July 2014 * Present * Program Director: Present * EE401 * Communication Systems (2009- 2015) * SEM421 & SEM521 * Systems Engineering (Present) * SEM422 & SEM522 * Advanced Systems Engineering (Present) * SEM425 & SEM525 * Advanced Engineering Management (Present) * Taught Labs for: * EE321 * Amplifiers and Semiconductors * EET471 * Digital Signal Processing * ENGR266 * Engineering Programming (Matlab & LabView)

senior director - product development engineering

qorvo, inc.

2015-1 - 2016-2 · 1 yr 2 mos

* Responsible for Product Engineering, Test Engineering, and Characterization Engineering * Responsible for teams in OR, FL, and NC * Supporting all Mobile product lines

senior director: worldwide mobile design and development engineering

qorvo, inc.

2016-2 - Present · 10 yrs 8 mos

* Responsible for worldwide mobile hardware design & development * 2G, 3G, 4G, LTE, WiFi, 5G, IoT * RF Design, digital design, analog design * Characterization / Verification * Product Engineering * Prototype Test & Production Test Development

Education

university of kentucky lean systems program

portland state university

stanford university

management

university of wisconsin - madison

communications

tulsa community college

engineering

oklahoma state university

engineering

oregon institute of technology

electronics engineering

Graduated with highest distinction - Summa Cum Laude, 4.0 Activities and Societies: Tau Alpha Pi Honor Society

portland state university

management

MBA in the school of engineering" Grad Certificate: Strategic Management of Technology Activities and Societies: Omega Rho International Honor Society