Director, Advanced Systems

• may. de 2023 - - actualidad

Spearheading a new portfolio spanning Bascom Hunter's RF Systems (SIGINT/ELINT) and Neuromorphic Processors market offerings.

Director, Neuromorphic Processors

• dic. de 2022 - may. de 2023

Senior Staff Scientist / Principal Investigator

• mar. de 2022 - oct. de 2022

Technical and Business Development Role Business Development and Program Management: ✔ Successfully executed and managed (3) government contracts and (2) advanced IR&D prototype efforts, with responsibilities spanning customer engagement and compliance assurance to managing cross-functional teams and initiating business development efforts ✔ Successfully ideated and led (3) business development efforts resulting in a $1.8M sole-source contract and a sales pipeline of $8.2M (all with a greater than 70% Probability-of-Win) ✔ Collaborated with executive leadership and business area leads to develop corporate guidance detailing the use of cloud-native services (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and AI/ML best practices as it pertains to government contracts and security (e.g., DevSecOps) ✔ Identified an underperforming 2.5-year, multi-team, machine learning effort and took charge, directly resulting in a 54.4% improvement in precision (60.1% to 92.8%) and 98% reduction in compute time Technical: ✔ Ideated and successfully executed a CEO-ranked #2 physical sensor ingestion and real-time analysis platform leveraging AWS, Kafka, Telegraf, QuestDB, gRPC, Docker/Kubernetes, and various machine learning algorithms (TensorFlow) focused on the real-time detection of physical events spanning thousands of globally distributed sensors and sensor platforms (from seismometers to traffic cameras) ✔ Introduced advanced signal processing techniques and developed a novel modification of a YAMNet model focused on geophysical sensor data leveraging wavelet decomposition, heterodyne mixing, and harmonic source separation that could be suitably trained with GAN-produced synthetics ✔ Successfully developed and integrated a prototype AI/ML algorithm for source-identification in time series-data at the customer’s location within a mission-required 6-week deadline (outfit with RESTful APIs and advanced signals processing techniques) Mostrar menos

Chief, Exploitation & Development

• dic. de 2020 - mar. de 2022

Technical and Business Development Role✔ Responsible for the executive function and performance of a team of matrixed researchers, software developers, and technical SMEs in the ideation, rapid development, and transition of critical AI/ML prototypes into operations in a fast-paced (short-deadline) environment✔ Successfully introduced and instituted modern SAFe, Program Management, and MBSE techniques to increase project throughput by 250%, federal adoption by over 200%, and reduce development costs✔ Sought out and fostered partnerships with previously untapped mission partners to grow our annual operating budget by $5.4M✔ Developed and transitioned a novel real-time data-streaming and AI/ML analytics platform built for a wide array of physics-based, "big data" sensing problem sets leveraging open-source products – the product was capable of processing billions of data samples per second in a hybrid-cloud architecture ✔ Frequently and successfully negotiated competing priorities, resources, and requirements between executive-level stakeholders, contractors, contracting officers (and their technical representatives), vndors, and end-users at each stage in an effort’s product cycle (to include requirements definition) Mostrar menos

R&D Portfolio Manager, AI/ML

• mar. de 2019 - dic. de 2020

✔ Successfully coordinated academic, industry, venture capital, and federal partners through the assessment, coordination, and maturation of a wide array of novel machine learning, data processing, and signal processing techniques✔ Ideated and developed a next-generation data processing architecture leveraging a hybrid architecture of local, cloud, and networked high-performance-compute clusters designed to accurately detect complex signals of nuclear testing activity amongst treaty-bound nations and nation states✔ Developed and successfully transitioned multiple nascent analysis techniques into real-time operations spanning non-Euclidean dynamic time warping and the first-ever application of Seasonal-Hybrid Extreme Studentized Deviates on seismic data to the inclusion of Generative-Adversarial-Networks in informed decision making ✔ Founded and chaired a multi-agency machine learning and data analysis working group ✔ Served as a Subject Matter Expert on a $36M source-selection board Mostrar menos

Senior Devevlopment Engineer (Special Missions)

• ago. de 2016 - mar. de 2019

✔ Senior level engineer responsible for the development of several state-of-the-art signal processing, data acquisition, and real-time analysis architectures ✔ Aided SpaceX in the re-design of the Dragon capsule’s S-Band telemetry receiver ✔ Deployed over $2M of custom RF monitoring equipment and chaired the Radio Frequency Environment Working Group responsible for addressing multi-agency RF issues affecting the Eastern Range ✔ Supported the transport, operational checkout, and launch of over 22 satellites Mostrar menos

Systems Engineer (SIGINT/ISR)

• abr. de 2012 - dic. de 2015

✔ Senior level, customer-facing, multi-disciplinary, role ensuring million-dollar intelligence and surveillance programs were architected and delivered on time and under budget ✔ Led multiple teams in the successful design of several signal monitoring efforts leveraging Software-Defined-Radios, wideband receivers, and correlative interferometry antenna arrays translating to over $10M in revenue ✔ Supported various federal mission partners to include: DHS, FBI, U.S. Capitol Hill Police, and every branch of military service Mostrar menos

Lead Spacecraft Systems Engineer

• jun. de 2010 - abr. de 2012

✔ Lead government engineer for the testing and launch several USG satellites (e.g., GPS IIF/III, WGS, SBIRS, OTV/X-37B) ✔ Won USAF (14th AF) Scientist/Engineer of the Year for rapidly solving a critical issue affecting the successful launch of the GPS-IIF-2 satellite ✔ Lead government engineer for the testing and launch several USG satellites (e.g., GPS IIF/III, WGS, SBIRS, OTV/X-37B) ✔ Won USAF (14th AF) Scientist/Engineer of the Year for rapidly solving a critical issue affecting the successful launch of the GPS-IIF-2 satellite

Engineering Intern (Spacecraft Systems)

• abr. de 2008 - abr. de 2010

✔ Analyzed electrical systems (including circuit diagrams, RF link budgets, and programming). Authored training documents for spacecraft programs. ✔ Analyzed electrical systems (including circuit diagrams, RF link budgets, and programming). Authored training documents for spacecraft programs.

Lab Support Technician

• jun. de 2007 - jun. de 2009

✔ Managed both Linux and Windows servers and workstations at a Tier 1 academic research facility (Florida Institute of Technology's F.W. Olin Research Facility) ✔ Configured LDAP and SOPHOS systems ✔ Automated numerous IT processes through scripting and automation ✔ Implemented numerous cybersecurity patches and ensured best practices were strictly adhered to ✔ Managed both Linux and Windows servers and workstations at a Tier 1 academic research facility (Florida Institute of Technology's F.W. Olin Research Facility) ✔ Configured LDAP and SOPHOS systems ✔ Automated numerous IT processes through scripting and automation ✔ Implemented numerous cybersecurity patches and ensured best practices were strictly adhered to