Bill Markowitz Email & Phone Number

Fairfax, Virginia, Us

Currently providing system engineering design, development, and production support for airborne, shipboard and ground-based communications sensor systems. - Lead systems engineer for airborne SIGINT system. Performing trade studies, developing system architecture and CONOPs, deriving and managing requirements, defining and managing interfaces, analyzing performance and cosite interference, coordinating component level specification and development activities. - Lead systems engineer for several development programs for platform-specific interfacing components for ship-based SIGINT system. Performed trade studies and developed product line architecture variants, designed RF front end subsystem components, analyzed performance, defined and managed interfaces, developed production and interface control drawing (ICD) documentation packages, developed test plans and performed validation and verification. - Provided systems engineering support for multiple air-, ship-, and land-based sensor development, integration, and test programs. Provided detailed analysis, integration, production and ICD documentation, I&T support and test plan/procedure development, verification testing, installation, and underway testing support for systems and platform-specific system features and third-party software. - Provided support for proposals and white papers, field tests, and general hardware and systems engineering support as required.

Chief Engineer for QRC engineering group. Provided quick-reaction design, development, integration, and testing support for UAV-based sensor and communication systems. Specialty areas include: payload integration, wireless data link design and analysis, data acquisition, high-speed digital design, FPGA-and microcontroller-based embedded controls, power systems, analog and RF subsystem design.Also provided Systems Engineering support for a multi-agency Advanced Concepts Development program designed to evaluate and facilitate development of advanced, high risk, high payoff solutions to hard problem areas for the overall intelligence community as well as specific solutions for individual organizations.Developed training materials and taught classes in the following areas: UAV payload integra-tion and operations, basic electronic interfacing methods and troubleshooting techniques, field-expedient antennas.

Designed and developed systems and components for several EW, direction-finding, and communications programs; high-speed digital design, microprocessor-based and FPGA-based embedded controls/processing, data acquisition, power systems, analog and RF subsystem design. Provided RF, analog, digital, power system troubleshooting services as required. Program Manager/Lead Engineer for wideband, fast switching phase coherent microwave synthesizer development effort; designed, developed all baseband/IF electronics, embedded controls and distribution networks, performed integration and testing of all RF generation and distribution modules. Other duties included proposal support, system documentation.

Lead Electronics Engineer for QRC design and development programs, including an advanced shallow-water acoustic signaling system and a shared asset voice/data TDMA LAN system, which utilized distributed embedded intelligence and advanced audio encoding techniques. Project engineer on several direct-sequence spread spectrum data transceiver programs, developing high speed data acquisition, interfacing, embedded control and processing subsystems, and providing engineering support for system integration and field operations. Lead electronic engineer providing all hardware, software, and field testing support for an advanced acoustic signaling system, able to perform reliably in severe multipath environments. Additionally provided hardware, software, firmware engineering design services and support for government customers in areas of interfacing, data acquisition for several varied communications systems and programs. Other duties included proposal research and writing, system documentation.

Performed component and system-level design and development of wideband, short range imaging instrumentation radar systems (2 – 18 GHz). Also performed site surveys, developed site/application specific system adaptations, performed field measurements (SAR/ISAR imaging, bistatic RCS, tactical ECM diagnostic, multiple target discrimination and tracking applications), and post-collection data processing.Provided design, development, and deployment support for generic radar interfacing/data proc-essing systems as well as for an experimental remote-piloted submersible acoustic mine hunting system.Specialty areas: high-speed logic design, embedded controls, data acquisition, power, and sig-nal processing hardware), planning, logistics, quality assurance for system production and RCS measurement programs.

Msee, Communications

Bsee, Electrical Engineering