RF & Systems Engineer
Over three decades I've worked across RF and microwave design, electro-optics and laser systems, radar and lidar instrumentation, FPGA-based data acquisition, and industrial monitoring and controls — most of it in the demanding, remote setting of an Arctic research facility.
About twenty of those years were spent at a research site in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, first for the Danish Meteorological Institute and later for SRI International under NSF. It was difficult, interesting work done alongside a small crew and some very good people, and I learned a lot from it — radar and lidar systems, high-speed DAQ and signal processing, and whatever else it took to keep a one-of-a-kind facility running in the Arctic.
When the facility closed in 2018, I spent a few months helping relocate scientific instrumentation for DTU Space before moving back to Iceland to work at Vista Engineering, where I'm still today, mostly doing systems engineering and industrial monitoring work.
Lately I've been going back to hands-on device development — working through Nordic Semiconductor's cellular IoT training on the nRF91 platform — as groundwork for a project idea of my own around remote environmental sensing. Early days, work in progress.
Systems engineering and industrial monitoring work, day to day — design, field troubleshooting, installations and commissioning, and helping keep projects moving from idea to something running.
A short-lived company that was mostly a container for relocating DTU Space instrumentation — a magnetometer system and a Callisto radiospectrometer with antennas — after the Sondrestrom facility closed. Wound it down once the job was done and moved back to Iceland.
Supervised site operations at the Sondrestrom Research Facility (Kellyville). RF and microwave design, radar signal-processing front ends on Xilinx FPGAs, and keeping a one-of-a-kind research site running — including its power plant and a 32-metre parabolic dish drive.
Environmental and geophysical remote measurement systems, industrial controls, and remote access for data collection.
Radar operations and system augmentations, crew scheduling, and support for visiting scientists and their research missions on site.
First job out of college. Maintained a Brewer ozone spectrometer, flux-gate magnetometers, and riometers, and was on-site engineer for ARCLITE, a high-power lidar system — data acquisition software, GPIB photon-counter interfaces, stepper-motor optics control, and a multi-wavelength upgrade with a sodium dye laser. A lot of optical design and alignment work along the way.
Summer job installing and repairing car audio and NMT mobile radio equipment — where an interest in EMI/EMC problems first started.
First job as a technician — repairing consumer electronics and installing antenna, satellite, and office equipment.
Reach me at eggerteg@gmail.com.