Professional Profile
Highly-accomplished Director of Electrical Engineering with over 33-years combined military and industry experience • Results-focused leader possessing exceptional communication, presentation, applied problem solving and decision-making skills • Visionary leader who builds and manages world class teams to execute business-critical high-tech projects for government, commercial, and public safety applications • Current TS/TSI clearance •
Areas of Expertise
• C4ISR • EW/ACQ Radar Systems • Project Management
• Radar Environment Simulation • SCRUM
• RF/Microwave Transceivers • Agile
• Inertial Sensor Subsystems • Rapid Prototyping
• FPGA-based digital signal processing (DSP) subsystems • Operational Oversight
• High Power Traveling Wave Tube Microwave Amplifiers • Organizational-Level Process Improvement
• LabVIEW Test and Measurement Systems • CMMI-DEV
• Embedded C software development • Business Development
Professional Experience
NCI Information Systems (Formerly Karta Technologies) May 2004 - Present
Director of Engineering
Directs the day-to-day activities of an $8M project comprised of a twelve-member, multi-discipline engineering team, distributed in multiple locations across the US, developing state-of-the-art enhancements to airborne and ground-based C4ISR training systems for the USAF.
• Promoted from Engineering Manager to Director of Engineering in 2007.
• Develop improvements and modernizations to the USAF’s Undergraduate Air Battle Manger Training System (UABMTS) and the AWACS Maintenance Training System (AWACS MTS).
• Reverse engineering of obsolete military hardware by incorporating technology insertion as needed to extend the service life of legacy military system sustainment.
• Incorporate field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) to replace aging digital circuit cards, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) to replace iron gyro and accelerometer technology, and System-on-a-Chip (SOC) technology to upgrade mixed signal circuit cards (F16 aircraft).
• Corporate leader of the engineering business area for our CMMI-DEV by incorporating Mercurial Source Control Management (SCM) and the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) into software upgrade projects Maturity Level 3appraised engineering processes.
• Improved our design process and reduced our system development time by 50% by expanding our use of modeling and simulation (M&S) early in the design process.
• We have also successfully incorporated Agile Project Management (APM) or Scrum techniques to engineering tasks. This has significantly improved our delivery performance, and inspired a renewed sense of project ownership among our engineering practitioners.
• Incorporated rigorous use of Raytheon-Solispys Tactical Display Frameworks (TDF), SolidWorks 3-D, MATLAB and Simulink, LabVIEW, Microwave Office, and PSPice modeling and simulation capability to evaluate expected system performance prior to building hardware.
• Initiated usage of open source software configuration management tools to improve the team’s ability to rollout new software builds across a large network of classified Linux workstations
• Reduced installation and testing errors by 80% from previous SCM methods by incorporating Mercurial Source Control Management (SCM) and the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) into software upgrade projects.
Sensis Corporation February 2001 – May 2004
Program Manager
Program Manager and Technical Director for international Air Defense Radar upgrade programs. Programs included the Norwegian Hughes Air Defense Radar (HADR) Signal Processor Replacement (SPR) Program; Slovenian Watchman Upgrade Program; and the Italy-Belgium Thomson CSF Medium Power Radar (MPR) Program. Responsible for all aspects of system design, development, integration, and testing of digital signal processor (DSP) replacement packages intended to enhance radar performance and extend the system's service life.
• Applied cost-effective Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technology to austerely-funded military radar upgrade programs.
• Completed factory acceptance testing on a complex signal processor cabinet without a single residual problem report.
• Designed a PXI-Based Dynamic Radar Environment Simulator (DRES) allowing successful test completion in the lab by injecting realistic scenario-controlled radar targets and interference into the front end of the Digital Signal Processor.
• Enhanced the DRES concept to include transmitter waveform generation, IF signal up-conversion, radar synchronization and timing, and external command and control interfaces to support future Air Defense upg...
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