Andy Schiltz Email & Phone Number

Baltimore-Washington Dc Area

Manage and supervise the design and production of advanced, military standards-based, modular open systems architecture (MOSA) systems conforming to the Army's C4ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) and the Air Force's Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Standard and supporting electronic warfare, tactical communications, signals intelligence, cyber-EW, high performance computing missions.These high-performance computing systems are used for a variety of applications such as signals intelligence, secure/covert digital communications, threat detection, RF jammers, and radio direction finding and utilize state-of-the-art hardware components including the latest FPGAs, SoCs, GPUs, and advanced software and firmware techniques to allow intuitive command and control of systems as well as data collection and processing.

Manassas, Va

Led design and development for all NAL products resulting in introduction at least 10 new products as well as multiple development contracts to advance NAL designs and Intellectual property.• Provided technical leadership for all NAL proposals including system architecture, engineering estimates, system requirements, technical writing, and customer presentations.• Technical Director for a $20M US Army program for multi-PNT navigation device and a $5M US Army program for a common communication module, each based on Qualcomm Snapdragon System on Module (SoM) transceiver chip sets and included generation of a Long-haul and Mid-haul communications architecture study.• Provided technical leadership on Iridium tracking and Assured PNT solutions including new projects, IRAD, and product support, as well as classified waveform porting, integration, and testing. • Managed the development, certification, and release of the NAL Quicksilver Iridium Certus modem as a Beta Value Added Manufacturing (VAM) partner to Iridium LLC using their pre-released 9770 Certus transceiver module.• Project lead for all device certifications including Iridium, FCC, ISED, CE, DoD DD-1494, and MIL-STD-810 and -461.

Manassas, Va

Managed Engineering team to provide technical support to the organization for new business opportunities and complete design execution to ensure program technical, budget and schedule requirements are met.• Managed personnel loading across all projects for the Engineering Department including hiring of new Engineering staff and Program Managers growing the NAL Engineering team to match newly won projects.• Set engineering design standards and engineering processes, managed design reviews and lead creation and sustainment of product documentation.• Provided technical support to CEO and BD representatives for both on-site and customer site meetings including white papers for customer opportunities / needs, system architectures, and customer presentations.• Worked with Product Managers to evaluate future product features and new technologies to enhance NAL products including new satellite services and constellations, software defined radios, new wireless standards, new hardware and software technologies, antenna technology, battery technology, etc. Helped form industry partnerships where needed to acquire new technology.

Clarksburg, Md

Lead Systems Engineer for TDSI’s Tactical and Airborne products. • Lead proposal and development team for a new MUOS / IW SATCOM terminal for handheld and manpack radios. • Managed system requirements for Tactical Airborne products and provide technical guidance for development team.• Developed system architectures and detailed equipment configurations for VHF/UHF/L-band airborne radio systems, create link budget analyses for various platform configurations and CONOPS including HAVE QUICK, SINCGARS, and IW SATCOM waveforms.• Developed and reviewed product roadmaps for new tactical products to host new SCA waveforms.

Clarksburg, Md

Lead Systems Engineer for TDSI’s Naval Business Unit. • Provided subject matter expertise of HF subsystem performance, developed system architectures and detailed equipment configurations for HF/VHF/UHF radio systems, Integrated Shipboard Communications Systems and VOIP Tactical Intercoms, and collaborated with Thales European divisions to develop new products and defined system requirements.• Worked with industry partners to develop new wideband HF waveforms to meet emerging customer needs in challenging environments.• Created technical proposals, met with US Government and industry customers to discuss and define system requirements, evaluated competitor’s product offerings, and developed and reviewed product roadmaps. • Worked with customers to define performance requirements, system architectures and detailed equipment configurations for shipboard RF systems.Lead Engineer for TDSI’s JTRS Airborne, Maritime, and Fixed (AMF) subcontract team; perform analysis of JTRS AMF HF system performance, perform requirements analysis and traceability from system level to HWCIs for HF and V/UHF subsystems, analyzed requirements and conduct system performance analysis of an IP-based RF Ancillary Control LAN.

San Diego, Ca

Lead Systems Engineer for the F/A-22 Link-16 / L-band Transceiver.• Collect requirements from waveform specifications and customer specifications and allocate to the transceiver. • Coordinate with Design Engineering and Systems Engineering to rationalize design versus requirements.Lead Systems Engineer for the Fire Scout Vertical Take-off Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) communications subsystems. Provide technical subcontractor oversight for TCDL data link development and integration testing. • Perform field measurements and trouble shoot UHF C2 data link performance and quantify EMC and co-site issues between UHF transmitter harmonics and GPS subsystem. • Coordinate antenna placement and transceiver mounting for an EPLRS and SINCGARS relay payload. • Authored a NGC internal white paper detailing migration path to Cluster 1 / GMR JTRS radio package for UHF, GPS, Radar Altimeter, and IFFT subsystems.Lead Systems Engineer for VHF/UHF waveform function for NGST’s software defined radio (SDR) system.• Performed system analysis to define next generation RF front end for SDR system for Army JTRS Cluster 1.• Performed trade studies of RF performance versus hardware design.• Requirement’s analysis of customer specification and Military standards and requirements flow down to system, software, and hardware module design documents using the DOORS requirements management tool.• RF performance analysis including link budget analysis, sensitivity, selectivity, noise figure, spectral containment, and frequency hopping rates and defined FPGA functionality in support of waveform requirements (modulate / demodulate, AGC, filtering, rate conversion).

San Diego, Ca

• Developed an upgraded system board for industrial embedded controller to improve robustness and reduce cost.• Authored a design specification for an industrial wireless LAN product and supervised a subcontract for a prototype networking design and electromagnetic compatibility study.

San Diego, Ca

• Developed system level product requirements specifications and physical layer specifications for point-to-multipoint wireless network equipment including base station, subscriber equipment, and millimeter wave radios.• PHY group editor for IEEE 802.16 TG1 Wireless MAN working group. Drafted FCC certification filing submittals for LMDS band (28 to 31 GHz) radios.

San Diego, Ca

• Improved clarity and detail of existing system level requirements specifications for wireless mobile data base stations for Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks and for distributed antenna array systems.• Analyzed CDPD protocol performance at PHY, MAC, and LLC layers to identify areas for improvement.• Evaluated GPRS, CDMA, and TDMA wireless data standards to determine new product directions.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Complete system level design of data, voice and video communications systems for Adtranz's Light Rail Transit (LRT) signaling systems, and turnkey fully automated airport transit (APM) systems. Communication systems included; fiber optic SONet, SDH, Ethernet, and DS-1 transmission systems, CCTV fiber optic transmission systems, 800 MHz RF network for narrowband voice/data, public address, and in-plant telephone system.