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Carole Raynal
2331 Palm Place Drive NE
Palm Bay, FL 32905
Cell: (321)223-8121
Email: carole.raynal@hotmail.fr SUMMARY PhD degree in electronics. 4 years in the company TDF (leader broadcaster in Europe). Demonstrated skills in RF broadcasting, power amplifiers, signal processing and project management. Organized, hard worker and team player. EXPERIENCE Research engineer, TDF, Metz - FRANCE
June-Nov 2007 Project management: Coordination of measurement campaigns for a European committee funded project involving 6 entities from different countries. Subject: Improvement of mobile DVB-H reception with transmission diversity. Research of new techniques to decrease the crest factor when several OFDM signals are applied to a common antenna PhD student, TDF, Metz - FRANCE 2004-2007 Thesis subject: Power amplifiers linearization for digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DVB-T standard) Experiments over TV, FM and DMB transmitters Signal processing: modeling of power amplifiers, digital predistorter and multi-channel amplification in C language Evaluation of predistorter efficiency with out-of-band intermodulation products, Bit Error Rate (BER) and Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) improvements Patent on multi-channel predistortion Management of graduated students during their 6 months internship periods Trainee, TDF, Metz - FRANCE Winter Optimization of a synchronous OFDM DVB-T broadcasting channel Study of power amplifiers linearization techniques Tests and simulations of these techniques with Matlab and Simulink Simulation of OFDM signals with Matlab, determination of the crest factor Trainee, TDF, Metz - FRANCE Summer 2003 Study of digital television transmitters State of the art (analog and digital TV transmitters) and research of new solutions Amplifiers qualification for analog and digital television broadcasting (gain and phase curves, compression point, 3rd order interception point, intermodulation products, MER…) Electronics instruments: network analyzer, scalar analyzer, vectorial analyzer, signal generator, power meter, oscilloscope… Trainee, France Telecom, Merignac - FRANCE Summer 2002 Study of ADSL Management and parametering of DSLAM Discover of France Telecom’s network: switched network telephone, integrated service digital network, mobile phone, low and high rate internet EDUCATION 2004-2007 PhD in electronics, University of Limoges, Limoges - FRANCE Oral presentation of a white paper during 2006 Microwave Symposium Digest in San Francisco. Also published in June 2006 issue of IEEE MTT-S International Volume 2003-2004 Masters degree in electronics, University of Limoges, Limoges - FRANCE Predoctoral studies in telecommunications, high frequencies and optics 2000-2003 Engineer diploma (Masters degree), Ecole Nationale d’Ingenieurs de Limoges, Limoges - FRANCE Majors: electronics, electromagnetism, signal processing, optics, analog and digital communication systems, digital circuits (DSP, VHDL, FPGA), network LANGUAGES French: mother tongue
English: fluent
Spanish: basic knowledge COMPUTER SKILLS Proficient in Word, Excel and Power Point
Programming: C, C++, Pascal, HTML, Assembler, VHDL
Matlab, Simulink, ADS (Microwave circuits CAD), Visual DSP, Xilinx WebPACK(Digital circuits CAD), Comsis (Optics), Labview REFERENCES References are available on request. |