Experience

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

• United States
• Research
• 300 - 400 Employee

• National Radio Dynamics Zone Engineer

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Charlottesville, Virginia, United States RF design responsibility for antennas, receivers and radars



SpecOps Group, Inc.

• Director of Engineering

  • Feb 2021 - Nov 2021

  Sarasota, Florida, United States



Specialized Arrays, Inc.

• Senior Systems Scientist

  • Dec 2020 - Nov 2021

  Charlottesville, Virginia, United States



Shoemaker Labs, Inc.

• Antenna Engineer

  • Jan 2016 - Nov 2021

  Virginia, United States Specializing in IoT antennas. WiFi, Bluetooth, ISM for a wide variety of IoT applications. I have years of experience and a significant laboratory with multiple network analyzers, SDRs, Spectrum Analyzers, software packages and related equipment. Direct design and testing experience with PoP systems, handheld inventory devices, telemetry, video, SCADA, remote sensing and many other data related systems. I also have significant experience with FCC certification.



StormQuant

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Science Officer

  • Nov 2018 - Dec 2020

  Titusville, Florida StormQuant™ is dedicated to the creation and use of innovative technology to predict weather patterns, prevent its adverse effects, and help protect people and the environment from harm. With over a century of combined radar, antenna, and satellite expertise and some of the best big data experts in the industry, we have fully modernized radar technology as we know it.



Hana Wireless, Inc.

• CTO

  • Apr 2017 - Mar 2018

  Responsible for all Engineering activities



ARC Wireless

• President / CTO

  • Apr 2014 - Mar 2018

  Indian Harbour Beach, Florida Design and Development of VHF, UHF and Microwave antennas. This includes single element, phased arrays and systems. Management of international staff and coordination of all corporate tasks.



Harris Corporation

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

• Antenna Analyst

  • Jan 2012 - Apr 2014

  Melbourne, Florida Aerospace Antenna Design and Analysis. Satellite, Submarine and Ground Terminals. Large aperture, Phased arrays. Use of HFSS, Ticra products, Matlab, CST. Chief Systems Engineer for airborne SAR systems using two radar channels and 3 radiometer channels using single aperture. Analyst on satellite constellation antenna design for use in tracking ADS-B signals. First launch 2015, 17 total systems.



Shoemaker Labs, Inc

• Engineer

  • Feb 2011 - Apr 2014

  Antenna and Radar Design consulting. Contract work at Raytheon working on 2B proposal for next generation GPS constellation (won). Air Deployable Meteorological Sensor Network for US Army, GPS based pulse generator and event time stamper. SCADA and telemetry systems. High altitude balloon telemetry and control system. Several custom embedded systems for weather related applications. Some products displayed at www.shoemakerlabs.com. Evaluated proposals for NASA (Greenbelt)… Show more Antenna and Radar Design consulting. Contract work at Raytheon working on 2B proposal for next generation GPS constellation (won). Air Deployable Meteorological Sensor Network for US Army, GPS based pulse generator and event time stamper. SCADA and telemetry systems. High altitude balloon telemetry and control system. Several custom embedded systems for weather related applications. Some products displayed at www.shoemakerlabs.com. Evaluated proposals for NASA (Greenbelt), participated in several Red and Green teams for proposal evaluations Show less



NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Proposal Review

  • 2010 - 2012

  Reviewed and scored proposals based on NASA requirements and general merit



Advanced Radar Corporation

• Project Manager

  • Jan 2009 - Dec 2011

  Managing Multi-Million dollar Radar projects for several National and International Meteorological Agencies. Installations in Korea, U.A.E., Papua, New Guinea and Oklahoma. Includes design assistance and manufacturing of mobile radar units like those on Discovery Channel's 'Storm Chasers.'

• Consulting Engineer

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2009

  Antenna Consultant for Surveillance, Meteorological and Boundary Layer Radars. 'Storm Chasers' Redesigned large X band frequency scanned phased array for use with Storm Chasers.



Geologics and Isys

• Principal Senior RF Design Engineer

  • Sep 2005 - Feb 2007

  Writing parts of a 2B proposal for next generation GPS ground station. (Won). Other duties included system performance evaluation and modeling



Orbital Sciences Corporation is now Orbital ATK!

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Principal Design Engineer

  • Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

  Duties include writing Specifications, Test Plans and Acceptance Test Procedures for 9 geostationary satellite projects. Trained in clean room procedures, hardware testing for satellite components and quality product development. Expertise in Antenna measurements and RF component testing including TWTs, diplexers, receivers and transmitters. (contract for two years)



Antennas America, Inc. (Now ARC Wireless)

• Chief Scientist, Chairman

  • Apr 1987 - Aug 1998

  Wheatridge, Colorado Designed and Developed: Electrically Steered Adaptive Phased Arrays for Weather Radar Boundary Layer Radar Components and Sub assemblies 60% of original catalog, sales >4M/yr. (www.antennas.com) Products included telematic, phased array, microstrip, diversity, and custom application antennas. Spread Spectrum transceiver for NASA (JPL). 60 KW Oil Reclamation System … Show more Designed and Developed: Electrically Steered Adaptive Phased Arrays for Weather Radar Boundary Layer Radar Components and Sub assemblies 60% of original catalog, sales >4M/yr. (www.antennas.com) Products included telematic, phased array, microstrip, diversity, and custom application antennas. Spread Spectrum transceiver for NASA (JPL). 60 KW Oil Reclamation System Antenna currently used by LoJack Weather Radar Antennas Show less



Phasar Corporation

• Chief Scientist

  • Jan 1985 - Jan 1987

  Designed and Developed: Phased Arrays for commercial and consumer applications. Patented use of multi Er substrates to improve phased array performance.



Lockheed Martin

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

• Lead RF Engineer

  • Jan 1983 - Jan 1985

  Designed and developed antennas systems for SICBM (Small ICBM), concept through flight test. Three antenna designs submitted for patents.



Ball Aerospace

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

• Technical Specialist, EO Engineer

  • Jan 1978 - Jan 1983

  Antenna and Electro-Optical design projects. Developed phased arrays for space use (SIR-A through SIR-C) and spectrally specific low light level cameras.



University of Colorado

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Teaching Adviser

  • 1980 - 1982

  Lectured on Radio Astronomy Theory and Techniques. Was observatory director for three radio telescopes in Colorado. First was a 4km x 2km Mill's Cross operating at 30 MHz. The second and third telescopes were 18m (60') fully steerable reflectors where I designed and built focal point arrays, receivers, back end electronics and software tools to map the radio Universe.



University of Colorado

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Engineer

  • Jan 1974 - Jan 1978

  Worked at NIST and NOAA designing RF systems, interferometers and payload tracking antennas