Senior Level Electrical Engineer

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EDUCATION

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (6/76)

Graduate-Level Courses (Continuing Education) in Radar and Missile Systems Engineering (1978 and 1979)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Principal Systems Engineer, L-3 Communications Titan Group, Lexington Park, Maryland (09/08 to 02/09)

System Test Engineer - Staff, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Huntsville, Alabama (11/05 to 09/08)

Principal Engineer, Dynetics, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama (03/04 to 11/05)

Responsibilities included:

•  Provide prime SETA support to TPO System Integration and Verification Division oversight of the Prime Contractor’s development of the System Integration Laboratory (Hardware-In-The-Loop [HWIL] Facility).

Senior Test Engineer, General Dynamics – AIS (Formerly, Veridian Engineering), Huntsville, Alabama (05/02 to 03/04)

Responsibilities included:

• Provide engineering analysis of test-related documentation (including Test Plans, Test Reports, and PDR/CDR Presentation Materials), and Contractor Flight Releases (CFRs).
• Provide engineering support of test-related meetings (locally and off-site).

Contract Engineering Assignments at The Boeing Company/Military Aircraft and Missile Systems, Hazelwood, Missouri

[Subcontracted through The Aviant Group/MDTSC, 11/95 to 05/01]

Electronics Engineer, Test Requirements and Analysis Group, St. Louis Flight Test Organization (9/97 to 05/01)

Responsibilities included:

• Review post-flight data products for determination of data quality, classification, tracking and distribution of unclassified and classified material (from various flight test aircraft)
• Preparation of various technical data for Management presentations, including tracking and briefing of post-flight test data status to upper-level management
• Preparation and distribution of various post-flight test point summary reports
• Familiarity with data processing in a secure mainframe and secure PC environment
• Familiarity with applicable contracts with respect to flight test data products
• Familiarity with various military specifications and standards
• Point-of-contact for the distribution and notification of post-flight test data to internal and external customers
• Familiarity with test plans (TPs), test procedures, test work descriptions (TWDs), and test information sheets (TISs)
• Provide technical coordination, determination, and execution of applicable flight test plans and requirements between various internal and external technical groups (including US Navy, USAF, and the private-sector aerospace community)

Electronics Engineer, F/A-18 Avionics Weapon System Integration Group, Flight Test Data Analysis (11/96 to 9/97)

Responsibilities included:

•  Provide engineering flight test data analysis for 13C JSOW weapon integration
• Coordinate with the Navy customer (NAWC – China Lake) in the post-flight data analysis of various F/A-18 13C JSOW flights
• Review various flight test video and engineering flight test data for problem investigation and system anomaly report generation
• Provide technical interface between Avionics Weapons System Integration Group (AWSIG) and internal/external customers
• Support weekly phonecons with the Navy customer (NAWC – China Lake).  Topics covered include anomaly investigation, analysis status, test planning and scheduling
• Coordinate with flight test personnel for various flight test products, including flight video, flight data tapes, and post-flight summary data
  • Review and provide inputs for various engineering documents

Software Specialist, F/A-18 CSCI Test Organization (11/95 to 11/96)

Responsibilities included:

• Support the development of operational flight program software through the conduct of real-time and automated testing (CSCI Test)
• Develop CSCI test scripts (from various requirements documents) for real-time and automated bench testing
• Support CSCI test peer reviews
• Review and provide inputs for various engineering documents, including system requirements specifications and system/segment design documents, pertinent to CSCI Test
• Preparation and release of CSCI software test description documents for various US Government and Foreign Military Sales customers
• Provide technical interface between CSCI Test and internal customers
  • Become familiar with Unix, Harris, and IBM systems

Senior Specialist Engineer, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington (10/85-3/95)

Responsibilities included:

• System Test Engineer on various military test programs
• Engineering development of near-term and long-term test schedules
• Development of test engineering rationale for new business planning
• Provide technical interface between System Test and internal/external customers
• Coordinate all System Test inputs for major engineering change proposal
• Provide all phases of customer support (from customer inquiries through fact-finding)
• Participated in various engineering proposals as System Test Engineer
• Provide engineering analysis of proposals and vendor selection
• Preparation of various technical data for Management presentations

Member of the Technical Staff, GTE Government Systems, Seattle, Washington (10/84-10/85)

Responsibilities included:

• Engineering test and evaluation/verification of GTE-developed software for a C³I system
• Familiarity with digital communications of ground-based to aircraft-based systems
• Development and implementation of detailed test procedures for ground-to-aircraft RF digital communications system
• Analysis of analog/digital test data and preparation of detailed program trouble reports
• Provide technical liaison between internal GTE groups and external customers and associate contractors

Member of the Technical Staff, Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, California (5/80-10/84)

Responsibilities included:

• Systems engineering, research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) of US Navy F-14 Tomcat AWG-9 Radar and Weapons Control System
• Familiarity with digital communications of aircraft-to-ground and aircraft-to-missile systems
• Engineering liaison with other Hughes Aircraft departments and divisions
• Engineering liaison with external Hughes Aircraft military customers
• Engineering analysis and test on various missiles (including Phoenix, Sparrow, and Sidewinder)
• Hughes Aircraft engineering representative at off-site test activities

Electronics Engineer, NAWC - Point Mugu, (formerly the Pacific Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, California) (12/77-5/80)

Responsibilities included:

• Familiarity with US Navy/Grumman F-14 fighter aircraft and associated weapons systems
• Proposal preparation, test conduct, engineering analysis, and final reporting of individual launches and flight tests of the Sidewinder missile
• Assisted the Senior Engineer with the conduct of product verification and test for the Sidewinder missile
• Assisted NAWC – China Lake in the engineering development and evaluation of the next-generation Sidewinder missile
• Performed statistical analysis of flight test data via various computer programs
• Assisted other military and civilian engineers in the test conduct and analysis of the next-generation Sidewinder missile during a joint technical evaluation Navy/Air Force developmental flight test program
• Familiarity with military specifications and standards

Associate Engineer/Scientist, Douglas Aircraft Company, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, Long Beach, California (6/76-12/77)

Responsibilities included:

• Familiarity with military specifications and standards as used in systems design and test procedures
• Test procedures and procurement specifications for various cockpit and galley systems on DC-9 aircraft
• Coordination with vendors on various electrical indicator equipment
• Statistical data analysis on DC-10 weight and balance system

SKILLS

• Hardware:  IBM 360/370 and other mainframes, VAX, PC, Apple Macintosh
• Languages:  FORTRAN IV/G/H/77, BASIC, and some UNIX
• Operating Systems:  Windows, Apple Macintosh
• Software: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Works, Access, Scheduling program, Internet software (browser, email, telnet, FTP), some familiarity with Probe (engineering analysis program)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• · Member, Society of Flight Test Engineers