1. John Mower
327 E Alder Dr, Sedro Woolley, WA 98284
360-420-1802
john.m.mower@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
Electromagnetics and Remote Sensing, PhD. track
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, cum laude, U. of Washington
Electromagnetics
Electronics Technology, Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon, Washington
2012
2010
2008
WORK/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Engineer
Applied Physics Laboratory, U. of Washington
Current Position
• All levels of design, construction, and testing for 3 kW X-band radar systems
• Custom RF transceivers
• Custom high-power switch networks
• Custom FPGA control logic and timing systems
• Oversight of digital IF components
• Coordination with many vendors/personnel throughout country and abroad
• Personnel oversight
• Documentation of design and test strategies/results
Graduate Research
Electromagnetics and Remote Sensing Lab, U. of Washington
3/2010 – 6/2012
• Millimeter-Wave remote sensing in power plant boilers, up to 325 GHz
• Microwave and MMW construction and design including quasi-optics
• Creation of Matlab GUI interface for radar system and signal processing toolbox
• RF ADC and FPGA real time signal processing system design
• Real-time software solution on chip for signal acquisition/processing
• Millimeter-Wave material characterization using GA inversion
• Millimeter-Wave and Microwave antenna characterization
• Antenna design and fabrication
• Microwave up-conversion and IF mixing techniques used for MMW generation
• Publish/presentation of findings and design methodology
Undergraduate Research
Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics & Astrophysics, U. of Washington
• Simulation of various particle events with a super-computer to quantify the
effectiveness of a new detector design in distinguishing Earth-born neutrinos from
celestial and power plant-born particles. Analysis done with UNIX massively parallel
computer.

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RELEVANT SKILLS
Communications: Author of conference research papers and presentations.
Test Equipment Automation: RF test equipment automation of Network Analyzers, Spectrum
Analyzers, Power Meters, and Signal Generators.
Microwave/Electromagnetics: Focus through university career and classes. Work experience
includes millimeter-wave radar to 325 GHz and high-power design, construction, and
testing of X-band radars.
Remote Sensing: Several years of millimeter-wave research experience which covers full
system design from quasi-optics lens design to RF generation and signal acquisition,
including digital down conversion techniques. Hardware design includes mixers,
multipliers, upconversion and down-conversion techniques up to 300 GHz.
Control Systems: Matlab numerical control of machining and radar positioning. Embedded
radar control systems built on reconfigurable logic.
Adaptive Signal Processing: Signal filtering and prediction.
Electromagnetic Modeling: Successful implementation of Finite-Element-Method, Finite
Difference Time-Domain, FFT based, and Multi-Level Fast-Multipole Method
electromagnetic simulations in varying dimensions. GUI and main functions
implemented in Matlab and fast implementations of code done in C++ wrapper
functions.
Real Time Signal Processing: Design of FPGA based radar receivers and software-defined
radio using Verilog/VHDL.
Algorithms for Inverse Problems: Matlab use of Genetic Algorithm for waveguide design and
characterizing electrical properties of materials at MMW frequencies.
Programming: Matlab, Python, C++, assembly, Java, Verilog, UNIX, Windows, and various GUI
libraries.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
An FPGA Based Replacement for a Network Analyzer in an Instrumentation Based 200 GHz
Radar
2013 High Frequency Electronics
A Millimeter-Wave Imaging System for Kraft Recovery Boilers
2011 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Spokane, Washington
Millimeter-Wave Permittivity Measurements of Boiler Deposition
2011 USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Spokane, Washington
Millimeter-Wave Measurements of Kraft Recovery Boiler Deposition
2011 UNSC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, Colorado
Simulation of Geo-Neutrino Events with a Rectangular Array Detector
2009 University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium