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Hands on hardware design and development at all stages from concept to production with associated embedded software developmentDeveloped a missile homing and fusing radar system for the Arrow missile; used DSP's, FPGA's, C, assembly code.Dynamic, results oriented System Development Engineer with broad experience in aerospace, telecommunications, hardware design and embedded software.Programmed in Linux and Windows with C, C++, and assembly language.Team lead for a group of engineers developing DSP/FPGA based software defined radios.Developed image processing software for GOES weather satellite data; used C and assembly language.Developed a Data Collection Platform (DCP), remotely deployed, battery/solar powered, to collect environmental data with uplink transfer to spacecraft for distribution to remote analysis facilities.Developed software for cell phone base stations.Developed cell phone location algorithms using C, running on embedded DSP and FPGA chips.Designed and developed the Spacecraft Command Encoder for the IUE Spacecraft. This was NASA's first all-digital, fully configurable Spacecraft Command Encoder.Led teams that developed payload data capture and pre-processing systems for Space Shuttle scientific payloads.Called as a technical expert witness by NASA in a breach of contract law suit.