James Mckenna
Electronic Engineer at Lockheed Martin
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Mckenna is an Electronics Engineer with 10 years’ experience at Lockheed Martin, holding an Active Secret security clearance and leading qualification testing, failure investigations, and analog board development for telemetry hardware. He combines deep analog and photonics expertise—honed through academic research and internships in integrated photonics—with practical skills in OrCAD, LTSpice, and Advanced Design System for circuit simulation and layout. Comfortable across the stack, he supplements analog strengths with moderate digital design experience using Xilinx and Verilog and software fluency in C++, Python, Matlab/Simulink, and Android/Java. At Lockheed he has served as the electronics lead on ongoing projects, blending hands-on troubleshooting with technical project management and customer-facing support. His background includes a Roche-sponsored senior project and photonics research that reflect a rare mix of device-level insight and system-level telemetry implementation. Based in San Diego, he brings multidisciplinary rigor to communications, robotics, and biotechnology applications where analog and photonic performance are critical.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Senior, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Senior at UC Santa Barbara
EnglishGithub contributions (2)
mgordon9/Scavenger
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes in 3 days
jamesmmckenna/souschef
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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