JACOB HENRY HAARBERG

> B.S. Electrical Engineering // WSU Vancouver // Radio Sign: KM7FWX

0x01 // ACADEMIC_SUBSTRATE

WSU Vancouver

B.S. Electrical Engineering

Expected May 2028

Junior Standing. Active coursework in Electronic Devices & Applications (ECE 325) and Solid State Devices (ECE 349).

Clark College

A.S. Electrical Engineering

Completed With Honors

GPA: 3.6/4.0 (3.9 institutional). Vice President's List across all quarters.

0x02 // TECHNICAL_HARDWARE_STACK

Hardware & EDA

  • THT / SMD Soldering
  • Breadboards & Turret Boards
  • KiCad Layout Design
  • RF Layout Concepts

Firmware & Analysis

  • C / C++ Development
  • PIC18 RISC Assembly
  • LTspice & Simulation
  • MATLAB / Octave Modeling

Bench Instrumentation

  • Oscilloscopes / Logic Analyzers
  • Vector Network Analyzers (VNA)
  • Function Gen & LCR/ESR Meters
  • DC/AC Isolated Power Supplies

0x03 // HARDWARE_FABRICATION_LOG

50W High-Voltage Tube Amplifier

Analog Hardware

End-to-end analog hardware layout built from hand-drafted turret boards. Engineered a linear power supply with 6 independent rails (6.3VAC, 270-420VDC, and negative voltage doubler bias tracking).

Tech: LTspice, Fixed Biasing, Ground Loop Elimination, Impedance Matching

Bidirectional People Counter

Microcontroller / Embedded

Programmed a robust, multistage software state machine running on an Arduino core to compute ultrasonic data vectors and log bidirectional occupancy counts dynamically in real time.

Tech: C++, State Machines, 3D Printing, Addressable RGB Driver Logic

0x04 // OPERATIONAL_SYSTEMS_LOG

Radio Licensing

FCC General Class Amateur License

Call Sign: KM7FWX

Systems Leadership

Aquatics Staff Supervisor

Manages incident metrics, regulatory reports, and executes chemical titration operations to control safety baselines.