Experience

LGS Innovations

• United States
• Defense & Space
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Hardware Engineer 5

  • Nov 2015 - Present

  Design, test and integration of low SWaP embedded systems for man-portable and drone-based tactical operations. Modular Payload design for Group 1 and 2 UAS vehicles.



Northrop Grumman

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Fellow Electrical Engineer

  • Oct 2004 - Nov 2015

  Advisory Electrical Engineer – Avionics System Design, System Architecture, FPGA, Video 10/04 to presentLead Avionics Hardware EngineerLead designer, task lead and system architect of highly-integrated low-power video processing and target locating systems. Image and Signal Processing algorithms including electronic zoom, image enhancement, colorspace conversion and regional contrast enhancement. Processing architecture and design using FPGA’s TI DaVinci and other embedded processors. Thermal, I2, color day camera, GPS, digital magnetic compass, OLED display interface and flex cable design. Direct contributor to Executive Management and Business Area Directors. System architecture and design consultant to other programs within NGLS. Chairperson and design review contributor for VHDL, FPGA’s and CCA’s for EE department. Attended CMMI and Systems Engineering training courses. Wrote VHDL Design Guidelines and taught in-house class. Engineering Department Manager 06/09 to 12/10Served as Electrical Engineering department Functional Manager, then as Functional Manager for the Electrical and Software Engineering groups within the Advanced Development organization. Scheduling, budget, staffing, training. Technical and management interface with director of engineering, business area directors and general manager.



Lockheed Martin

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Staff Engineer

  • Nov 2002 - Oct 2004

  Senior Staff Engineer Team Lead Hardware Engineer for Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement Integrated Criminal History System. Responsible for system sizing, COTS component selection and design of networks, disk and tape storage, servers and fiber channel interfaces.Responsible for System level design support and integration of Fiber Channel network interface on Joint Strike Fighter program. Member of Network IPT and Users Group, specifying and reviewing technical partners proposed designs, verifying compatibility with LM EOTS system design. Responsible for analysis and design of anti-tampering methodologies for JSF and other LM programs.



Teranex Inc.

• Principle Design Engineer

  • Nov 1998 - Nov 2002

  Lead System and Hardware designer for commercial video processing company, using massively parallel image processing equipment. Responsibilities include: System design, board design and management of multi-person FPGA effort,Contracts Division Hardware Lead, including: Contract, SOW and requirements negotiation, COTS analysis/procurement, design reviews. System requirements, System design (control flow, backplane, inter-card and inter-chassis communication). Design of digital video processing equipment; board design, schematic, FPGA design and simulation, touchscreen, power and encoder interfaces. Design and test for FCC approval. Critical member of design team that led to winning 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Engineering Achievement.



Lockheed Martin Information Systems

• Staff Systems Engineer

  • Feb 1996 - Nov 1998

  Lead Systems/Hardware engineer for development team of the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). Responsibilities include:Systems integration of extremely large networked computer system, RAIDs and Fiber Channel network components. Directing and coordinating two subcontractors (one international) in their design of a high-speed DSP processor board and related driver and interface software. Technical lead for hardware engineering group. Cost account manager, responsible for tracking charges and earned value of engineering personnel.



Schwartz Electro-optics

• Senior Designer/EE Senior Lead

  • Jul 1995 - Feb 1996

  Lead Electrical Engineer for government contract laser radar system.Manager of program EE staff, technicians and subcontractors. EE representative at system design reviews with customer. EE interface with Human Factors, Reliability, Maintainability and Safety.Overall systems engineering, design, test, integration of flight-ready VME-based laser radar system. Detailed board design, layout, test, integration of conduction-cooled PWB, containing laser, SCSI, C40 and VME interfaces. Operator console design, debug, test and integration. Coordinating with software manager and programmers, regarding features, schedules and system test plans. Electrical engineering cost account manager, responsible for tracking charges and earned value of engineering personnel.



RGM Information Systems Inc

• Vice President of Engineering/ Principal Partner

  • Aug 1988 - Nov 1994

  Chief Engineer in charge of product design and development for small business. Responsible for System, Software and Hardware Design, Programming, Cost Estimation and Marketing Techniques. Principle designer/programmer for GUI Computer-based Data Acquisition/Monitoring system, used in commercial and pleasure yachts. Involved in all phases of product development from concept to production. Experienced in Sales, Customer Relations and Tradeshow Presentation.



Martin Marietta Electronic Systems

• Senior Digital Design Engineer

  • Feb 1986 - Mar 1994

  Senior Designer for Image and Signal Processing Department. Experience includes:Circuit card and System design for High Speed Massively Parallel Image Processor. Microprocessor, microcontroller, logic and programmable logic design. Serial communication design. Experienced with High speed Circuit card layout. Designs include: FLIR Sensor Interface, Ampex DCRSI Interface, Digital Pattern Generator/FLIR Simulator. Experience with lab test equipment.Sun Workstation, Mentor and PC. Languages include C, Pascal, Assembly, LABVIEW. Designed and programmed Graphical User Interface for FLIR characterization lab, using LABVIEW. Performed Cost, Throughput, Performance, Weight, Power and Packaging Analysis for flight and laboratory Image Processing systems. System Requirements for government proposals and contracts. Management of subordinate engineers and technicians. Cost and schedule estimates for large and small scale designs and proposals. Performed employee evaluations for peers and subordinates.