General Information
First name: Lex
Last name: Pardon
Date of birth: November 4th 1997
Place of birth: Valkenburg (ZH), Netherlands
Current residence: Delft (ZH), Netherlands
E-mail: lex@pardon.cc
Education
HBO Electrical Engineering bachelor
(2015 – 2020)
University of applied sciences bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering. With a minor in embedded systems.
Courses worth mentioning:
- Analogue filter design
- Microcontroller programming
- FPGA programming
- Digital filter designs
- PCB design fundamentals
- Power electronics (buck, boost and buck-boost converters)
- Real-time systems
- Image processing and filtering
Premaster Electrical Engineering
(2020 – 2022)
Mainly fundamental mathematics and electrical engineering courses. To overcome the gap between a HBO and WO bachelors degree.
Preliminary to start an official masters at the TUDelft.
Masters Micro Electronics
(2022 – present, 2-year masters program)
Mentionable courses:
- Analogue integrated circuit design
- Analogue CMOS design
- Semiconductor device physics
- Power conversion techniques for CMOS technology
- Digital IC design and VLSI
With specialisation and gained experiences in:
- Integrated circuits and MEMS devices
- Analogue to Digital conversion (CMOS)
- Silicon and III/V semiconductor fabrication
Masters Thesis project
Under supervision of K. Dowling for 1 year
Subject: Thermo-Electric properties of GaN/AlGaN/GaN induced 2-Dimensional Hole Gas for thermo-electric generators in extremely low temperature ranges.
Planned to finish september 2024
Internships:
ISISpace – Electrical engineer (Intern)
(2017, 10 week period)
Project: Design of a ground station relay board for communication with cube satellites
Website: https://www.isispace.nl/
DEMO – Electrical engineer (Intern)
(2020, 10 week period)
Project: Characterisation and improvements of a 16-bit ADC module controlled over an SPI bus. To be used in quantum computer research measurements
Website: https://www.tudelft.nl/demo/
Xeelas – Electrical engineer (Intern)
(2021, 20 week period)
Project: The design of a breakout for IoT devices to connect to industrial sensors. Including power-supply design, measurement circuits and a communication interface to connect to such IoT devices.
Website: https://www.xeelas.nl/
Mentionable work-experience
DEMO – Electrical engineer
(2020 – 2022, part-time 1 day/week)
Mostly production of measuring equipment, high precision PCBs (for cryogenic purposes) and circuit troubleshooting and repairs
Website: https://www.tudelft.nl/demo/
Endorsed by: Jack Maat (contact info can be obtained via e-mail: lex@pardon.cc )
Obtained skills:
- VLSI hardware development
- Analogue CMOS design architectures
- Digital CMOS design architectures
- Verilog/HDL hardware description and layout synthesis
- PCB design and fabrication
- Embedded systems development (Realtime-systems, Digital filtering, C coding)
- Power electronic designs (on-chip and macro level)
- Micro- and nano-technology fabrication and principles
- Semiconductor device physics
- Solid-state and quantum physics
- Cleanroom etiquette, including: safety protocols, gowning, wafer handling and basic processing steps
- Overall Silicon and III/V semiconductor knowledge
Languages:
- Native Dutch
- Full professional English
- Elementary German