Experience

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  Kulite Semiconductor Products Inc.

  • League City, Texas, United States

  • Technical Director

    • Mar 2013 - Present
    • League City, Texas, United States

    National expert in the fields of instrumentation, data acquisition and control systems with thirty-seven years of experience in the test and measurement field. Currently employed by an internationally recognized leader in pressure transducer technology supplying high-temperature, miniature transducers for gas turbine, ground and flight testing as well as all-media, multifunction transducers for monitoring critical support systems. Business development lead for aerospace technology and process industry product development.Provided performance specifications, funding, and technical oversight for the digitally compensated, high-accuracy pressure transducers and pressure scanners developed by Kulite for the U.S. Air Force.Technical lead for the Kulite signal conditioning product line.Developed the architecture now used by commercial, laboratory-grade electronic pressure controllers (MS ECE 1994, University of Tennessee Space Institute).Developed the angular calibration standards used in the U.S. Air Force production wind tunnels (1989-current).Developed the optical positioning electronics used for wind tunnel store separation testing (1995-current).Developed the EMI mitigation solution used in the U.S. Air Force production wind tunnels (2004-current).Developed the dewpoint hygrometer system used in the U.S. production wind tunnels (2013-current).

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  Aerospace Testing Alliance

  • System Architect, Test and Measurement Information Technology

    • Oct 2003 - Mar 2013

    Technical Authority regarding all system design and development of new test techniques at the world’s largest aerospace ground test facility recommending and providing solutions to enhance test facility readiness, supportability, productivity and reliability. Maintenance Program Manager ($10M program) for test support ID&C system technical refresh and maintenance operations (systems valued in excess of $500M in 2013). Technical Lead of the Design Review Team with expertise in monitoring, sequencing, safety, fire control and position control system design as well as multi-processor, distributed real-time systems, PLC/PAC hardware, PC-based data acquisition and storage, digital and analog circuit design.

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  Jacobs Technology

  • United States
  • Business Consulting and Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Principal Engineer

    • 2000 - Sep 2003

    Aerodynamic Systems technical lead for development of new instrumentation test techniques and measurement capabilities for testing in transonic, supersonic and hypersonic regimes. Responsible for project plans and investment strategies for AEDC wind tunnel facilities. Responsible for initial development, justification and prioritizing of capital expenditures. Designed and implemented time-sensitive dynamic data acquisition system used in support of Joint Strike Fighter weapons separation testing. Aerodynamic Technical Lead for all Small Business Innovative Research, SBIR, efforts.

  • Test Team Lead

    • 1995 - 2000

    Leader of multi-disciplined team of salaried and skilled wage (craft) employees in planning test operations and maintenance activities of mechanical and electrical systems in the AEDC Transonic Wind Tunnel (4T). Aircraft Systems Self-Directed Team Council Chairman.

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  Calspan Corporation

  • Arnold Engineering Development Center

  • Lead Test Engineer

    • Jun 1985 - Sep 1995
    • Arnold Engineering Development Center

    Test Engineer of record for approximately sixty wind tunnel test programs for DoD weapon systems as well as several dozen foreign, commercial and NASA wind tunnel test programs. Company point of contact for all instrumentation, data acquisition, control systems uncertainty analyses. Developer of embedded systems utilizing precision analog circuitry, microprocessors and programmable logic devices for multi-axis motion control, distributed pressure control, portable calibration hardware, strain-gauge signal conditioning equipment and high-density pressure measurement systems.