JAMES B. WOLF
Fort Wayne, IN
www.linkedin.com/pub/james-wolf/8/529/254/
260.637.6434
PRINCIPAL SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Technical Professional with a record of high quality and on-time performance, and a successful history of enhancing existing systems with new features and performance improvements. Skilled in all facets of the product development life cycle from analysis and design through development, implementation, documentation, production and training. Experience includes: circuit design, prototyping, product requirements and specifications, acceptance test procedures, operational testing, systems engineering and system of systems integration. Working knowledge of IBM Rational DOORS requirements tracking tool and CAE tools including ADS, HFSS and Pspice. Passionate about antenna design and propagation simulations - hold an Amateur Radio Extra-Class license.
Security Clearance: Top Secret - SSBI w/CI Polygraph.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Wolf RF Systems – Fort Wayne, IN. 2007 to present
Owner
Small home business providing a low frequency receiving antenna systems for the amateur radio market.
EXELIS / ITT CORP., Fort Wayne, IN 2002 - 2013
Principal Systems Engineer 2012 - 2013
Lead system and technical engineer for the latest Exelis tactical radio development program, reporting to the Program Director of TAC Comm. Supervised up to 8 people in Software Development / Information Assurance and worked with subcontractors on discrepancies and timeliness. Led test teams for failure analysis, product verification and final certification. Designed communications architecture for complete country border security existing outside of the United States. (OCONUS).
• Achieved final Department of Defense (DOD) certification for tactical radio to secure $36M in sales with options for additional units.
• Led test teams to identify and correct deficiencies in product requirements during hardware and software development.
• Recognized by senior management for contributions above responsibility level and received Award of Excellence for outstanding performance.
Senior Staff Engineer 2010 to 2012
Lead System Engineer for Situational Awareness hardware and software ancillary devices for multiple lines of tactical radios to enhance user capabilities. Reported to Sr. Program Manager and led teams of up to 10 people in specification and operational testing. Point-of-Contact for resolving issues with Avionics Radio integration with DOD and other customer platform integrators.
• Advised Program Manager and 5 engineers on critical HMI and functionality improvements that led directly to increase sales of core products.
• Created and tracked specifications from core requirements to assure full functionality.
• Commended by Program Manager for quick response and accurate information exchange with Avionics customer system integrators.
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EXELIS / ITT (continued)
Staff Systems Engineer 2005 to 2010
Chief Engineer accountable for the architecture through validation of a 1 GB high speed, wireless data collection system for field testing consumer and defense products. Demonstrated air-to-air and air-to-ground high speed data and video links to support DOD proposal. Member of technical staff for exploration of First Responder communications involving P25 and Mesh tactical radios. Lead RF engineer for propagation studies, where I oversaw the design and installation of an extensive High Frequency and Very High Frequency (HF/VHF) propagation transmitter and antenna system.
• Achieved the on-time, on-budget delivery of the 1GB data collection system in the face of significant project complications.
• Propagation test range provided $15M+ in revenue with follow on contracts.
• Received Award of Excellence for performance on propagation studies.
• Successfully met urgent deadline requirements for a unique “severe environment” data movement system by identifying and incorporating existing COTS components.
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