Objective:    To work or teach in the area of Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications system, Networking, Software Engineering including design, simulation, and testing; Technical Consultation; Business strategic planning, analysis, and consultation; or related fields

Education:

·         Ph.D., Kennedy-Western University, http://kw.edu, Cheyenne, Wyoming; International Business Administration (12/2003 - Present)

·         Ph.D., Wichita State University, http://wichita.edu, Wichita, Kansas; Electrical Engineering in Communications System / Digital Signal Processing (5/1997 - Present)

·         MSEE, Wichita State University, http://wichita.edu, Wichita, Kansas; Electrical Engineering in Communications System (8/1995 – 5/1997)

·         B.Eng., Chulalongkorn University, http://www.chula.ac.th, Bangkok, Thailand; Electrical Engineering in Telecommunications (1990 - 1994)

·         Associate Degree, Trinity College of Music, http://www.tcm.ac.uk, London, U.K.; Performer’s certificate in Pianoforte (1990 - 1993)

·         High School Diploma, Triam Udom Suksa School, http://www.triamudom.ac.th, Bangkok, Thailand (1988-1990)

·         Junior High School Diploma, St. Gabriel’s College,  http://www.sg.ac.th, Bangkok Thailand (1985-1988)

Technical and Special Skills:

·         Familiar with the Wired and Wireless Telecommunications network including but not limited to PSTN, CDMA, 2G and 2.5G (IS-95 and GSM), 3GPP and 3GPP2, etc.

·         Twelve years of C programming as well as Matlab, Simulink, HTML, ASP, and Texas Instrument’s Code Composer

·         Computer Technology knowledge (Since 1985), Advance Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000 and major Microsoft products, UNIX and Internet knowledge since 1992

·         Over 90-WPM British-standard typing

·         Very well rounded self starter, easy to be trained, learn and develop new ideas easily

Language Skills:

·         English: Reading/Writing – Excellent, Speaking/Listening (American/British) – Excellent

·         Thai: Reading/Writing – Excellent, Speaking/Listening – Excellent

·         Chinese: Reading/Writing (Pinyin) – Fair, Speaking/Listening – Fair

·         Korean: Reading/Writing – Fair, Speaking/Listening – Fair

Master’s Thesis:

Data Rate Detection before Viterbi Decoding for IS-95 Wireless Communication

Work Experience:

·         Operation Manager, Alpha Management Consultant Co., Ltd.; http://thai.org/amc, Bangkok, Thailand, 11/2001 – Present

Responsible for the company’s Copywriting and Translation Service department, strategic marketing plan and the launch of new products, also in coordination with the Purchasing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management Association of Thailand (PSCMT), E-commerce website planning and design, and giving technical consultations in various cases

·         Editor-in-Chief, Thai Town USA News Corp.; http://thaitownusa.com, Los Angeles, CA 08/03 – 11/03

Responsible for weekly editorials, editing and production of the company’s weekly publications, Thai Town USA News newspaper and Mai-Thai fashion magazine, which are currently distributed around the USA and the Thai Airways’ international flights.

·         Senior Member of Technical Staff (Senior Network Engineer / Business Analyst), BKT Telecom Corp.; http://bkttelecom.com, Glendale, CA, 06/03 – 11/03

Responsible for the planning, design, and maintenance of full-duplex voice and data network equipment, worldwide (Australia, Laos, Thailand, United Kingdom) business solutions planning, marketing campaign of corporate products, technical and business proposal planning, as well as making corporate profile and whitepaper including its safekeeping

·         Member of Technical Staff (Physical Layer Software Engineer), NeoReach, Inc.; http://neoreach.com, Rockville, MD, 11/2000 - 11/2001 (1 year)

Responsible for high-level design, simulation, programming, testing, and documentation of physical channel (chip level) and transport channel (symbol level) structure for 3GPP W-CDMA transmitter and receiver in both handset and base station; Texas Instrument’s TMS320C6000 DSP migration; fixed-point programming of the modulation/demodulation of 3GPP system that includes channel estimation, power control, RAKE combiner, channel modeling, etc.; supporting FPGA and ASIC groups; and also involving a co-development project from Samsung Electronics (Korea) to co-produce W-CDMA base station modem and its handset test module, thus, was stationed in Seoul, South Korea, during Feb - May, 2001

·         Business Development Manager, Alpha Management Consultant Co., Ltd.; http://thai.org/amc, Bangkok, Thailand, 4/1995 – 11/2001 (Telecommuting, 6 years)

Responsible for developing and maintain the company’s HTML- and ASP- based web sites (E-commerce), equipment purchasing and planning, and giving technical consultations in various cases

·         Honorary Writer, Purchasing and Supply Chain Digest Monthly Magazine, Bangkok, Thailand, 1/1998 - 12/1999 (Telecommuting, 2 years)

Responsible for writing articles related to up-to-date technologies that may be applicable to purchasers and related personnel, including the translation of some articles

·         Electrical Engineer, STMS Co., Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand, 3/1994 - 7/1995 (1.5 years)

Responsible for supervising corporate office’s technicians, safety inspection in electrical and telecommunications system, cooperate with building construction, architectural design, and sanitary system in 9 building properties managed by the company at the time, including report and proposal preparation for new projects

·         Engineer, True Corporation PLC (formerly Telecom Asia Corporation PLC); http://www.truecorp.co.th, Bangkok, Thailand, 4/1993 - 5/1993 (Summer Internship)

Responsible for inspection and report making of land and mobile PSTN switching center and manhole construction of the 2-million Telephone Line project in Bangkok, Thailand

Academic Work Experience:

·         Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University, 8/1996 – 5/2001 (5 years)

Responsible for developing a Matlab fast Viterbi decoder and Raleigh Fading Channel Module for use in the department, analyses and verification by simulation of the Modulation-Demodulation, Error Control Coding, Power Control, Channel modeling, Channel Estimation, etc., of 3G systems, e.g., W-CDMA (3GPP), cdma2000 and 1xEV (3GPP2); Adaptive Array Antenna with H-infinity Power Control for 3G CDMA systems, the effect of Linear Predictive algorithm to existing power control algorithm in IS-95 wireless communication (1997), and data rate detection before Viterbi decoders in IS-95 Wireless Communication System (1996), as well as being a System Administrator for the Communications Research Lab

·         In-house Speaker, Graduate Seminars and Communication-Group seminars, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wichita State University, 1996 - 2000 (4 years)

Responsible for occasional presentation, which is open to public hosted by the department, about current research results, new directions for other students and researchers, or to seek new ideas from audience

·         Graduate Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University, 1/1997 - 5/1998 (1.5 years)

Responsible for grading assignments and examinations of undergraduate and graduate courses, e.g., Probabilistic Methods in Systems, Electromagnetic Field Theory, and Circuit Theory

·         Piano Instructor, Siam Music Yamaha Co., Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand, 1989 - 1994 (5 years)

At age 16, responsible for part-time teaching piano lessons from beginner level up to advance level, while attending high school and university, respectively

Publications:

·         Sirote Ratanamahatana and Hyuck M. Kwon, “Channel Estimation for Power Controlled 3G CDMA”, Vehicular Technology Conference (Spring), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 2429-2433 Vol. 3, May 15-18, 2000

·         Sirote Ratanamahatana, “E-Commerce for Everyone”, Purchasing, Logistics & Supply Chain Digest, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec 1999

·         Sirote Ratanamahatana, “E-Commerce for Merchant”, Purchasing, Logistics & Supply Chain Digest, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov 1999

·         Sirote Ratanamahatana, “Merger and Acquisition: Effective solutions for faster success”, Purchasing, Logistics & Supply Chain Digest, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov 1998

·         Sirote Ratanamahatana, “Y2K: What does it affect us? Or does it?”, Purchasing, Logistics & Supply Chain Digest, Bangkok, Thailand, Jul 1998

·         Sirote Ratanamahatana and Hyuck M. Kwon, “One Viterbi Decoder with Data Rate Estimation for IS-95 CDMA Wireless Communications under Static and Fading Environment”, Final Research Report for Samsung Information Systems, San Jose, CA, May 1998.

·         Sirote Ratanamahatana, “Automobile Insurance and the Crooks”, Purchasing, Logistics & Supply Chain Digest, Bangkok, Thailand, Feb 1998

·         Sirote Ratanamahatana, Hyuck M. Kwon and Jae H. Shim, “One Viterbi Decoder with Data Rate Estimation for IS-95 CDMA Wireless Communications”, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, pp. 594-598 Vol. 2, Nov 3-8, 1997

Awards:

·         Champion, 1995 Men-Single Intramural Tennis, Wichita State University, Kansas

·         Sharp-shooting Gold medalist, Military Field Exercise, The Royal Thai Army; http://www.rti.mi.th; (1991)

·         Award and Scholarship of Excellency, Olic (Thailand) Co., Ltd; http://olic-thailand.com; (1990)

·         Top 400 in Chulalongkorn University entrance examination (1990)

·         Semi-finalist, Thailand Piano Contest hosted by Siam Music Yamaha Co., Ltd; http://yamaha.co.th; (1989)

·         High-school Academic-Equivalence Diploma in 11^th grade (1989)

·         Top 100 in Triam Udom Suksa School entrance examination (1988)

·         Top 50 in King Mongkut Institute of Technology North Bangkok (Thai-German Technical College);http://www.kmitnb.ac.th; entrance examination (1988)

·         Certificates of Excellency (high GPA) for three consecutive years at St. Gabriel’s College; http://www.sg.ac.th; (1985 – 1987)

Activities:

·         International Advisory Board Member, Purchasing, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management Association of Thailand (PSCMT); http://pscmt.org; (1999 - 2002)

·         Operator of http://thai.org and several other domains (1996 - Present)

·         Pianist and Tenor-pitch choir, Chulalongkorn University Chorus Club (1990 - 1994)

·         Member of the District of Columbia, Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Southern California region United States Tennis Association (USTA); http://usta.com

·         eBay PowerSeller; http://ebay.com; with over 4000 positive feedbacks

·         Chevrolet small block V8 rebuilder and ALFA Romeo enthusiast

·         10-handicap Golf player, and 4.5 USTA level Tennis player

References: Professional references from employers, and universities available upon request