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Niels Christian, Project Engineer

I started in the telecom industry as an apprentice within the field of servicing radio systems. During my apprenticeship, I realized that I really enjoyed development tasks.

After acquiring my master’s degree, I looked for a job opportunity in the telecom industry. RTX was an obvious candidate with wireless projects ranging from simple handsets to complete infrastructure solutions. The management of the projects at RTX is very similar to the group work that I knew from the university, thus the transaction from student to project engineer has been very smooth.

I started off in a large project group with four HW engineers. The project was a DECT base station with multiple handsets and the possibility for range extension by means of repeaters.

At first the learning curve was pretty steep, but I quickly got a feeling of things. At the end of the project there was no longer a need for the relatively large HW group, so I was reassigned to other projects. At that time I also did some technical support for the marketing department.

Today my main responsibilities at RTX are designing and verifying the RF part of a product. This involves many different disciplines such as schematic drawing, PCB routing and measurements of RF performance compared to the specification.

I have been part of both internal projects and customer projects. The primary technology used in the project has been DECT, although I have also used Bluetooth technology in some projects.

In many of the projects using DECT, the technology has been modified in some way in order to make a truly custom design. This is a nice challenge that requires me to think outside of the normal solution to the problem.

Esben Wermuth Ingstrup, Project Engineer

My education is in health science and technology, and when I started studying my main focus was on health care. During my education I realized that software development for different applications was interesting as well. In the end it would not make a lot difference to programme embedded software for a telephone instead of software for a ventilator for respiratory care. I was lucky to get a job at RTX Telecom's software department. The work at RTX is very similar to what I have tried at university, so it was not that much of a change.

I started working on very small MMI (Man-machine interaction) applications for telephones to find out how the software at RTX is designed. After a month I was assigned to my own project, which was a project where I had to redesign the whole MMI in the telephone to a new customer. This project lasted about two months. After that I worked on other projects quite similar to the first one, and I also got the opportunity to go to Hong Kong for two weeks with the main purpose of helping the customer in the bug fixing phase. During this period I was introduced to a support group for one of our main customers, and today I am a part of this group. My main responsibility at RTX is to handle all the software related questions in the support group which can ranges from a couple of mails to big software solutions which lasting for several weeks.

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