Glen Passanha

San Francisco, CA-94118 (714)-463-0757 glenpassanha@gmail.com

Summary

MS Electrical Engineering with specialization in Communication Systems
Project Experience of Antenna Design and Theory using Agile Design Software (ADS) in combination with MATLAB
Knowledge of Antenna Arrays Ordinary Endfire, Broadside and Hensor-Woodyard Endfire, Microstrip Antenna, Dipoles and Loops
Experience working as an Intern at a Mid-Size Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Experience working at a University Scale Data Center Configuring and Troubleshooting L2 & L3 network devices
Experience of Object Oriented Programming (Python), TCP/IP Protocols, System Configuration, Routing Protocols, Troubleshooting

Education

California State University, Fullerton, USA
MS in Electrical Engineering 3.40 GPA Aug 2017 May 2019
Mumbai University, India
BS in Electronics & Telecommunication 3.20 GPA May 2012 May 2016

Skills

Networking Open flow/Stack, OSPF, DNS, DHCP, Inter-Vlan Switching, CISCO and JUNIPER Switch/Router configuration
Wireless GSM, UMTS, CDMA, WCDMA, HSPA, VOLTE, GPS,3GPP/ Bluetooth/WiFi Standards, Antenna Arrays, Antenna Properties
Tools Network/Spectrum Analyzer, Agile Design Software (ADS), Matlab, PuTTy, Wireshark, Cisco Packet Tracer, PSpice, Eagle, PCB Wizard, Firewall Setup
Protocols Routing protocols (RIP, EIGRP, BGP, STP, RSTP, DHCP, ARP), MIMO Techniques, Adaptive Multiple Antenna Techniques, SDR

Experience

Student Assistant
University Data Center, California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA May 2018 May 2019
Responsible for timely maintenance, configuration, loading and setup of the Servers and Switches on the respective racks Creating Issue Tickets using Service Now, Providing Technical Support to Staff/Students regarding Campus portal issues
Network Engineer Intern
Sampark Infotainment, Mumbai, India Feb 2017 May 2017
Interacting with Field Engineers to resolve connection problems that involved hardware breakdown at the NOC Troubleshoot and maintained all networking devices across the enterprise mainly Switches and Routers
Controls Engineer Intern
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (B.P.C.L), Mumbai, India Dec 2016 Jan 2017
Maintaining log for Service requests, eg- Date and Time of servicing and maintenance Responsible for changing the ladder code of the Allen Bradley PLC as and when required by the management

Related Coursework

Courses
EE580 Analysis of Random Signals
EE503 Information Theory & Coding
EE510 Optics & EM in Comm
EE469 Antennas for Wireless Communication
EE443 Electronic Communications
EE483 Global Positioning Systems
EE543 Advanced Secure Hardware Design
EE420 Digital Filtering
EE529 Neural Systems
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Mumbai June 2016
TCP/IP protocols, Subnetting (FLSM/VLSM), Routers, Basic Configuration Commands, WAN Connectivity, OSI Model, STP/STP Optimization Simulation on Cisco Packet Tracer, VLAN Configuration, Advanced Security Configuration, DHCP Configuration
IEEE Certified PLC & SCADA Controls Engineer (Allen Bradley)
Mumbai November 2015
Designing Industrial Automation using Ladder Programming and SCADA for Simulation

Academic Projects

Designing a Microstrip based Rectangular patch Antenna
Agile ADS, MATLAB CSUF May 2019
Designed a rectangular patch antenna resonating at frequency 5Ghz using Substrate RT Duroid 5880, Antenna to Touchstone to Schematic, Optimization of Schematic Achieved S11 at 5Ghz < -12dB, Directivity > 8dBi , Gain > 6dBi, Optimized the feeding circuit keeping S11 < -30dB
Hand Gesture Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks
Python, Java Applet CSUF May 2019
Three parts of the project- Collection of Data Set, Training the Neural Network, Hand Gesture Recognition Applied a Java Applet along with python modules Hand Detector, Easy Socket, Netmaker, Dataloader, Netloader, Tensorflow to get the desired Hand Gesture Output
Power Generation using an Array of Piezoelectric discs
Analog/Digital Circuitry Mumbai University May 2016
Successfully built a 15x15 Piezo electric disc Array with each row and column connected in Series-Parallel combination for a magnified Current and Voltage value to charge a Battery The Model was able to give out 12V when subjected to force by foot and a magnanimous 40V when subjected to pressure by wheels of Railway Engine The Stored Energy from the discs was successfully able to power applications like mobile charging and light bulb
Wireless Long range Multi-Terrain Rover
ATmega16, MT8870 Mumbai University Jan 2015
Executed Rover maneuver with Cellphones where DTMF tone was decoded by MT8870 decoder and sent to ATmega16 microcontroller The Microcontroller was responsible to control the motor movements based on the output of the DTMF decoder