Experience

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  L-3 Nova Engineering

  • Staff Communication Systems Engineer

    • Oct 2006 - Apr 2011

    Design and development of radio communication systems.· Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial (DVB-T) receiver development for the ROVER 4 software defined radio. As technical lead, conceived the architecture and detailed design, modeled each component in MATLAB, and worked closely with FPGA p...

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  WPL, Inc.

  • Senior Communications Systems Engineer

    • Apr 1997 - Apr 2006

    Public Safety Technology Lab, SPAWAR, Point Loma• Investigated applications for new public safety spectrum allocations.San Diego Defense and Space Technology Center, El Cajon• EHF Communications systems engineer for the Automated Communication Management System (ACMS) program, leading the algorit...

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  LinQuest

  • Principal Communications Systems Engineer

    • Jun 1992 - Apr 1997

    · As ACMS Algorithm Team lead, put procedures in place for algorithm development, documentation, unit test, and software integration.· Early concept development for EHF planning involved defining software requirements and algorithms for the EHF Manager segment of the Navy EHF Communications Contr...

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  LINKABIT

  • Senior Engineer/Manager

    • 1981 - 1985

    As a senior engineer in the systems directorate was a member of the Hughes/Linkabit team effort to develop the Air Force Milstar terminals. Performed BER analysis of coded MFSK reception under the direction of Joseph Odenwalder. Project engineer for an auroral scintillation UHF FLTSAT satellite l...

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  Navy Electronics Laboratory

  • Physicist

    • 1962 - 1978

    · Coordinated High Frequency Improvement Program (HFIP) technical activities between contractors and Navy laboratories, developing specifications for Navy shipboard transmission subsystems which included wideband HF transmitters, receivers, and data bus interfaces.· Branch head of the HF Systems ...