Experience

Hill Technical Solutions

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, MDA Programs

  • Jan 2021 - Present

• Senior Engineer

  • Feb 2019 - Jan 2021

  Deliver technical knowledge and engineering support to the Missile Defense community



Missile Defense Agency

• Huntsville, Alabama Area

• General Engineer

  • Jun 2009 - Feb 2019

  Site lead for engineering team concerned with analysis and requirements definition in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) capabilities improvement. - Lead a diverse group of national laboratory scientists, engineers, and staff personnel in the execution of highly classified technology development projects to potentially enhance the Missile Defense Agency BMDS - Manage initiation of cross agency projects to advance the BMDS capabilities to defeat enemy ballistic missile attacks - Aggregate cross agency budget articles for the Presidential budget input with cost estimations and capability implementation alignment over the budget planning cycle - Manage creation, coordination, and delivery of highly classified reports to Congressional staff to include briefing the material - Manage creation, coordination, and delivery of highly classified reports to congress based on committee requests for information - Regularly interact with Flag/General Officers and Senior Executives in support of advancing BMDS capabilities - Manage multiple highly classified technology risk reduction projects executed by National Labratories Show less



Northrop Grumman Mission Systems

• Huntsville, Alabama Area

• GMD GFC/C IDT Systems Engineering Manager

  • Apr 2001 - Jun 2009

  Lead a 12 member enigeering team to implement and support the In-flight Interceptor Communications System Data Terminal (IDT) as part of the Ground-based Mid-course Defense anti-ballistic missile weapon system employed to defeat ICBM attacks on the United States - Manage group of engineers responsible for system design, requirements development, flight test performance analysis, and field support engineering of IDTs at 6 geographically dispersed sites including a shipboard implementation - Interacted with support hardware contractor to ensure consistent implementation of the IDT hardware throughout the development cycle and during field support operations - Lead team to develop/manage hardware and software specifications for the IDT product - Conducted many engineering reviews in the product life cycle to gain customer authority to proceed with design and fielding of the product initially and during maintenance changes in the product life cycle Show less



United States Naval Reserve

• Chief Petty Officer

  • Aug 1992 - Sep 2007

  Served as an Electronic Warfare Technician achieving the rank of Chief Petty Officer (E-7) retiring as a Cryptologic Technician - Technical branch. - Managed large unit as the executive officer of ~50 personnel - Managed the training and instruction of several hundred new recruits in the areas of basic military instruction, military courtesy and customs, basic shipboard damage control, and basic first aide - Regularly instructed classes in subject areas present by unit - Directly influenced the pay grade advancement of supervised personnel Show less



Radicispandex Corp

• Tuscaloosa, Alabama Area

• Control System Eningeer

  • Aug 1998 - Apr 2001

  Maintained, improved, and expanded a plant-wide distributed control system monitoring and controlling every aspect of an 8 line polymer extruding process outputting 20000 production units per day in 24 hour 365 day operations. - Participated in a 20% plant capacity expansion to 8 production lines - Upgraded analogy display panels with large screen displays to facilitate major corrective diagramming of process using interactive plant man machine interface and process monitoring to minimize operator error - Managed all aspects of control system preparation to avoid issues from year 2000 concern - Implemented tuning of process control loops to increase process efficiency and production capacity by eliminating waste in start-up. Show less



Bear Creek Technologies

• Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Deployment Specialist/Customer Service Rep.

  • Dec 1997 - Aug 1998

  Deployment specialist and customer support technician for the companies main product TrafficWIse(c). - Documented complete product deployment from Bill of Materials, Day 0 schedules, product in house build up, shipping procedures, onsite assembly/installation, and installation check procedures - Deployed product to Lucent Technology Network Reliability Center in Colorado Springs Colorado - Performed customer phone support and remote troubleshooting for Bell Canada, Bell South, and Bell Atlantic to include access to telephone switch networks to solve customer issues - Managed the documentation of the corporations network to provide follow-on IT support personnel correct documentation Show less



United States Navy

• First Class Petty Officer

  • Nov 1986 - Aug 1992

  Served as an Electronic Warfare Technician on three ships. USS Jouett, CG-29; USS John H Sides, FFG-14; USS Valley Forge, CG-50. achieved rank of First Class Petty Officer (E-6) in 5 and 1/2 half years of active service - Lead electronic warfare operations for the Northern Persian Gulf in support of operation Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and Southern Watch - Supervised two man team to conduct electronic warfare operations on board during operations - Performed supervision of junior personnel in division to complete maintenance of electronic warfare equipment - Participated on shipboard in port security force to defend the ship from boarders and the in port shipboard fire party Show less