Microelectronics Engineer with Security Clearance

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
B.S. Electrical Engineering
SECURITY CLEARANCE
Top Secret/SCI (needs at least a Secret) Professional EXPERIENCE:
I have used my ground in electronics and electromagnetics to make significant contributions to the advancement of technology in the areas of sensors, signatures, electronic warfare, and communication links. I have generated innovative ideas in RF antenna, receiver and transmitter design that advance the state of the art and enable powerful signal processing approaches. My broad experience lets me analyze problems and quickly solve major problems on programs in the following areas: • Electronic warfare, both counter radar and counter communications • Electromagnetic low observable and counter low observable technologies • Communication systems, including LPI, special communications and satellite communications • Antenna design and development
I have been the principal investigator on several DARPA programs, including SATCOM-CX - a satellite communication program that coherently combined signals from multiple commercial satellites, MELBA a miniature FDoA system for geolocating handheld push to talk radios from micro-UAVs, Airborne Tactical Vector Sensor, and many classified efforts. I have led teams that developed HF spread spectrum communication systems and miniature microwave LPI communication devices, as well as interference cancellers for VHF sonobuoys. Principle Systems Engineer:
My current responsibilities include the analysis and architecture development for ground and airborne EW systems. I led the redesign of a software defined radio module to eliminate its out of band spurious responses and its unacceptable noise figure by changing the IF filtering, frequency plan and gain distribution on an existing 3U VPX card. I have developed and transitioned multiple direction-finding algorithms to various programs. The transitioning of these algorithms included antenna modeling and pattern development and the development of algorithm description documents and MATLAB code for each algorithm. I have mentored several junior and mid-level engineers, and I have led several tiger teams to diagnose issues and develop solutions for current products, including microwave transceivers and VLF receivers. Senior Technical Fellow, Systems Architecture, Design & Integration Directorate:
I was the Land Based Receiver IPT Lead for the DARPA Shosty program. I designed a shelter based 32 channel HF receive system with COTS components to process data collected from a 32-element phased array. Additionally, I performed radar cross section analysis and antenna modeling for several classified programs. These include the modeling of the radar cross section of plasma, and the design and development of ferrite based magnetic antennas. I was the lead systems engineer for the Army's RF Converged Technologies program and designed a miniature ESM sensor with an interferometer for that program. I was a member of the Electronic Protection community of practice and mentored junior engineers in the development and modeling of EP techniques. Senior Technical Fellow, Electronics Warfare Systems:
I was one of only a handful of engineers trusted to trouble shoot programs for the Electronic Warfare Systems. I was involved in MFEW- Air Large, NGJ Inc 2, MFIRES, AOEW, RFCM, ACES programs and performed a number of other quick turn analyses to support leadership decisions. I was the Chief Engineer for the pursuit of the Army's Multi-Function Electronic Warfare - Air Large program. I participated discussions with the Army TCM-EW, PEO-EW and I2WD, helping the Army define and improve system requirements and shape the procurement. I also managed the Tactical EW IRaD that supports the MFEW pursuit (and others). I lead a hardware team to develop a state-of-the-art light weight EW pod that has both ES and EA capabilities to address a wide range of threats. I was the lead systems engineer on Multi-Function Integrated Receiver-Exciter (MFIRES) IRaD and helped transform it into a Quick Reaction Capability. The nearly $100 Million investment was at risk, and the IRaD had to be entirely restructured. Nearly all the documentation had to be streamlined and reorganized, and the team trimmed down and refocused. I was part of a team of 3 people that completely changed the structure of this IRaD in a few months and greatly improved its chances for success. I helped to identify hardware issues including RF converter spurs and processor throughput and reorganize the software and systems teams to get the IRaD back on schedule. I was the chief engineer on Advanced Offboard Electronics Warfare, a $100 Million proposal to PEO IWS2. I guided the design and modeling of the antennas and the RAM structure to achieve -115 dB of coupling between transmit and receive on a small pod. I led the proposal team that finished the proposal ahead of schedule and under budget. I have also been the lead on rounds of evaluation notices for the AFSOC RF Counter Measures RFCM proposal. I wrote many responses and edited most of the rest. I was responsible for making sure that every EN had a response that accurately answered the question. I was also involved in reverse engineering competitor's solutions, leading the analysis of the competitors RF and processing equipment, to help generate a price to win model. I have modeled in-situ antenna performance both for the RFCM EN responses for the EW AESA and the spiral antennas in the receive antenna unit on the C-130J, and for the Santa Fe array for Raytheon/AST on a liberty aircraft, driving design decisions with timely and accurate simulations. I also led an advanced, classified hardware design task for a multi-static radar system. Technical Fellow, Electronics Systems Division: My responsibilities included system concept development, RF system engineering, signal processing, antenna design and analysis, electromagnetic modeling and propagation studies, and system testing for radar, electronic warfare and communication systems. I was integrally involved in the conception, development, marketing and execution of programs. The unclassified prototype development projects I led have included the design and prototype development of an electromagnetic vector sensor (DARPA ATVS seedling), a miniature receiver for geolocation (DARPA MELBA seedling), a novel satellite communications system (DARPA SATCOM-CX program), a Low Probability of Intercept communication system, a VHF Narrow Band Interference Cancellation system for sonobuoy communications, a UHF receiver for a Passive Multi-static HDTV Radar and an HF spread spectrum communication link. I led a small team to develop a series of small, low-cost radar jammers that have been deployed in both ground based and shipborne testing for several customers. I was the lead RF engineer for a communications EW program (Army CECOM Intelligence and Information directorate's Urban Sabre program). Urban Sabre demonstrated surgical attacks against a number of signals of interest from a heterogeneous set of assets. I have participated in graybeard panels to generate electronic attacks for classified customers. I have led antenna design projects including the design and development of a UHF folded slot antenna, UHF patch antennas, an L-band Yagi monopole array, and various conceptual designs for classified programs. I led a team that developed low-cost command and control links based on COTS equipment for UAVs, UGSs and buoy-based sensors, wideband sensor downlinks and a UHF flight termination system for UAVs. While lead communication engineer for the Global Hawk UAV Direct Dissemination Element, I designed and deployed an encrypted VSAT tactical satellite communications network for the dissemination of imagery products over commercial Ku-Band satellites. I have also developed and tested novel radar systems for DARPA, NASA and several classified customers.
Senior Systems Engineer: My responsibilities included radar sensor development, the collection of VHF UWB radar data for biomass estimation, the design and execution of field experiments, antenna design and modeling, and the modeling of electromagnetic scattering. RF Systems Engineer: My responsibilities included electromagnetic analysis and system simulation for the High Frequency Active Aurora Research Program (HAARP), a scanning phased array operating 2.8 to 10 MHz with 3.5 MW transmit power. My major accomplishments include the evaluation and selection of the antenna design, design of the antenna matching units, and the development of an algorithm for actively tuning the impedance of the corner and edge elements by adjusting the array excitation with a minimum of beam degradation. The antenna system modeling was accomplished using S parameters generated by NEC-4, and analysis tools were developed in IDL. I also modified and installed aircraft detection radar on site in Galkona, AK, including electrical wiring, RF cabling, and fiber optic control equipment. PATENTS SELECTED CONFERENCES and PUBLICATIONS