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KYOCERA WIRELESS
A. Qualcomm, Inc. B. Kyocera-Wireless Corp.
9010 Campus Point Drive 9010 Campus Point Drive
San Diego, CA. 92121 San Diego, CA. 92121

In 2000, Qualcomm sold its base-station business to Erikson. The hand-set division was sold to Kyocera to become Kyocera-Wireless. Over the course of 2 years Kyocera moved manufacturing and engineering to Japan and India. My job was outsourced to India.

Lay-off: 5 years, 4 months service

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A. Qualcomm, Inc. September 1998 to January 2001
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Qualcomm hired me into the Personal Communications -- Cellular Hand-Set division as a Product Engineer. A newly formed group chartered to manage and maintain compliance with the cellular standards (CIA/TIA) and internal design standards.

A Product Engineer (PE) is assigned a phone platform and remained with the phone from conception through final production. The PE harbored historic development knowledge while others were given new assignments.

Product Engineer �

  • Manage cross-functional development of new products �
  • Insure product compliance to TIA/EIA and internal standards

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    B. Kyocera-Wireless: January 2001 to January 2006
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    Transition from Qualcomm to Kyocera-Wireless found my my team assigned to the product test group. I started doing the 'Design Verification' testing - DVT. I ran automated tests to test hardware (RF) characteristics and compliance.

    I did hardware testing -- sensitivity, selectivity, inter-modulation distortion, etcetera.

    Design Verification & Test Engineer �

  • Automate test reports �
  • Develop standard report format �
  • Manage test progress. Intervene as required with real-time corrective action.

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