Current responsibilities include whitepaper, bid and proposal preparation, performing trade studies, mathematical modeling and systems simulation, definition of circuit card assembly (CCA) specifications, development of interface control documents, test plans, circuit simulation and schematic capture, oversight of PCB design, fabrication, assembly, and test, support of systems integration, flight-line testing, management of peer and critical design reviews.• RDE for conduction cooled VPX 6U wide band digital signal processing CCA. Embedded system, Kintex-7 and multiple Virtex-7 FPGA. DDR3 SDRAM, QDRII+, Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit serial (SRIO, Aurora), high speed ADC.• RDE for conduction cooled VPX 3U wide band digital signal processing CCA. Embedded system, multiple Kintex-7 FPGA. DDR3 SDRAM, QDRII+, Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit serial (PCIe, SRIO, Aurora), high speed ADC.• RDE for environmental control sub-system. Low power environmental control system for payload elements. Embedded design, Spartan-6 FPGA, actuator control, control system.• Hardware Technical Lead for SIGINT payload, communications link. Oversight of flight-line testing, development of payload hardware and firmware.• High-Speed serial firmware design for next-generation wide-band signal processing system. Oversight of research and development for Serial RapidIO solutions on Virtex-5 FPGAs communicating across VPX backplane. Development of FPGA internal module communication architecture.• Lead firmware design of communications link development. Oversight of firmware development for ground and air data-link. Support of systems integration and test and preliminary flight-line testing.• Lead firmware design of RF Distribution and Copy architecture. Oversight of CCA level testing and systems level integration.• Steering Team Lead for design capture and tools migration. Department level activity, coordination with section and sector level management.

Whitepaper, bid and proposal preparation, component selection and procurement, writing of circuit card assembly (CCA) specifications, circuit simulation and schematic capture, management of peer and critical design reviews, obtaining printed circuit board (PCB) layout quotes, supervision of layout, obtaining PCB fabrication and assembly quotes, development of hardware acceptance test procedures (ATP), test of PCB, test of CCA, design and implementation of FPGA firmware systems, support of software development, development of system level ATP, system level integration, environmental testing, training of production technicians, preparation of and participation in customer visits and demonstrations. Documentation prepared to ISO standards and maintained in Agile. Aggressive program schedules.• Firmware design for high speed wide-band signal processing system. Multiple Virtex-5 FPGAs coordinate processing to provide reactive threat management system.• Lead hardware design for common range instrumentation module targeted at dismount and vehicle player units. Whitepaper, proposal and BAFO preparation.• Lead firmware design for wide-band signal processing system. Multiple CCAs housing multiple Virtex-2 Pro FPGAs communicate across a Raceway backplane and LVDS.• Lead hardware design for communication analysis module targeted at dismount and vehicle player units, particularly military radio communications including PPP, SINCGARS, and EPLRS. Dual Spartan-3 design with control and radio processing firmware allows for run-time reconfiguration. Expansion connector for optional biometric monitoring system or customer developed expansion module.• Lead hardware design for motion analysis module targeted at vehicle player units. Firmware design controls peripherals and access to a second CCA over an expansion bus. The expansion bus allows the CPU to program and respond to a DSP and motion and acceleration sensors.

Lead firmware design for research and development platform centered on an IBM PowerPC microprocessor. VHDL components in a Virtex-E FPGA communicate with peripherals such as Real-Time Clock, GPS Flywheels, MP3 encoder/decoder, MILES laser engagement system, MAIS laser detector system, LCD, watchdog timers, voltage regulators, 10/100 Ethernet, IEEE 1394a, PCMCIA, RS-232, and Flash memory.Firmware designer for wireless weapon performance system targeted at mobile infantry and heavy artillery. Microblaze firmware microprocessor communicates with on-board peripherals including Bluetooth, MILES laser engagement system.

Teaching Assistant for upper division electrical engineering courses while attending graduate school. Supervision of laboratory sessions, leading of discussion sections, and development and refinement of course material. Extensive interaction with students and faculty.

System and board-level testing of advanced weapon performance system and field data collector. Diagnosis and repair of a variety of failures. Extensive work with IEEE 1394a, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, PC/104 and PC/104+ bridges, PCI, EEPROM, Virtex FPGAs, 10/100 Ethernet, and Disk on Chip.

Software design of web based solution for medical office administration. Large ASP, HTML, VBScript, and SQL projects connecting patients, physicians, nurses and medical professionals in a common environment. ATL COM objects with MFC support in C++. Business logic connecting to a SQL Server database via an ASP/VBScript presentation layer. Multi-tiered development and team programming.