Consultant (5/04 - present)
- Navy Underwater Warfare Center (NUWC):
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Developed Embedded Instrumentation (EI) Information-Centric Technical
Reference Model (IC-TRM) that formed the basis for multiple contracts.
Assisted NUWC engineers and managers in writing a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) that resulted in over 30 companies proposing research valued at over $15,000,000.
Described EI architectures and technologies to multi-service working group. Developed evaluation criteria for EI-architecture proposals. Evaluated technical and program aspects of the proposals.
Assisted NUWC engineers and managers as subject matter expert at program reviews for various EI-architecture contractors.
U.S. Air Force Officer (10/76 - 4/94)
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Research, design, and test engineer, and engineering manager, principally involving computer and space technology, and as a jet aircraft pilot.
- Senior Engineering Manager,HQ AFMC/EN, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (6/91 - 3/94)
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Developed and coordinated Department of Defense open-system architecture
acquisition policy, engineering processes, and program plans for real-time,
fault-tolerant, mission-critical computer systems. Principal architect of
resultant Department of Defense Technical Reference Model. Senior advisor
to the Director of Engineering on open-systems architecture. Participated
in IEEE POSIX working group.
- Senior U.S. Government Technical Representative in People’s Republic of China (Periodic, 12/89 - 8/92)
- Negotiated and implemented technology-transfer control
plans and procedures in the People's Republic of China during the development,
integration, test, and launch of
commercial U.S. communication satellites. Successfully launched two satellites.
- Satellite Launch Director, Vandenberg AFB, CA (12/86 - 6/91)
- Directed launch-base test and integration, systems engineering,
and program management. These duties involved
booster,
satellite and range hardware, including pre-launch testing and launch countdown.
Streamlined operations; cut duplication and improved reliability. Successfully
launched seven satellites. Second Level Manager with $3- 5 million annual operating
budget.
- Research Engineer, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA (6/81 - 12/86)
- Developed multi-microcomputer based data acquisition system
with distributed sensor arrays. System mimicked the low-level human vision system
with a primitive neural network system responding to seismic and acoustic waves.
Used for detecting low flying aircraft.
- Designed, developed, programmed, and supervised fabrication
and installation of state-of-the-art electronic and computer technology to study
geophysical effects on Air Force systems, including a real-time distributed data
acquisition system to measure vibration and pressure loading on Space Shuttle launch
facilities.
- Generated support and funding from increasingly
constrained operational agencies. First Level Manager with $200,000 annual budget.
- Pilot, Laughlin AFB, TX, Loring AFB, ME, Castle AFB, CA (10/76 - 7/81)