Christopher Behnke

About Christopher Behnke

Experienced technical business owner with product and offering management, business development, and market development expertise. Worked in varied parts of product and offering management for individual strategic RF product line, system, and application solutions. Responsible for inbound product feedback to engineering, outbound marketing collateral creation, product and portfolio lifecycle planning, sales enablement, market analysis, and P&L management. Also experience in RF design engineering with system architecture, verification and validation, test strategy, calibration, and metrology expertise. Developed and released RF analyzers, generators, and transceivers, with ownership of performance, specifications, and theory of operation. Worked across multi-functional R&D and manufacturing teams, as well as directly with lead customers, to ensure successful definition and implementation of system features and capabilities. Specialties: product management, solutions management, product definition and roadmap strategy, market analysis, competitive analysis, market development, business development, aerospace and defense industry, commercial communications industry, RF applications, WLAN, 5G, LTE, RADAR, electronic warfare, satellite communications, physical layer characterization, cascade analysis, system architecture, verification and validation, RF test, measurement science, metrology and calibration, signal processing, electromagnetic design, LabVIEW, C/C++, MATLAB

Experience

1. Director and Business Line Lead - Emso and Cns Test Systems

   NI (National Instruments)

   Jul 2024 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Strategy lead for RF test and validation solutions in the Radar, Electronic Warfare, Communications, and Navigation domains.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Labview
• Data Acquisition
• Power Supplies
• Radio Frequency (Rf)
• Hardware Architecture
• Embedded Systems
• Rf Design
• Fpga
• Electronics
• Sensors
• Calibration
• Pcb Design
• Test Stand
• Digital Communication
• Automation
• Spectrum Analyzer
• Microcontrollers
• Vhdl
• Technical Leadership
• Rf
• Test Engineering
• Gpib
• Pxi
• Digital Signal Processors
• Mixed Signal
• Circuit Design
• Analog Circuit Design
• Rf Engineering
• Testing
• Test Equipment
• Signal Integrity
• Electrical Engineering
• Analog