Responsible for direction and administration of the Systems Engineering Department: Manage budgets, staff assignments, staff training and development, staff objectives and staff performance reviews; Broadened department responsibility and increased focus on effective requirements elicitation and management, risk management, system architecture and design, system test and verification, and configuration managementTechnical Lead supporting several SDR tactical communications and SIGINT programs: Develop and manage project budgets, schedules, resources, and technical approaches; Provide technical advice, guidance and mentoring to junior engineers in areas such as link budget analysis, waveform design, networking, interface definition, software and hardware implementation, and encryption and authentication services; Support Business Development in new program pursuits; Directly interface with customers to elicit product needs and constraints; Prepare technical proposals and bids for new product development pursuitsOrganizational Process Improvement Team: Ongoing support for several company-wide continuous process improvement initiatives; Lead the Requirements Management and Verification Process Improvement Groups; Supported several successful CMMI Level 2 and Level 3 Assessments; Supported successful ISO 9001 Certification

Adjunct Instructor for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, the Master of Science in Biotechnology and Management (MSB) program, and the Project Management Certificate program. Lead classes in Project Management, Risk Management, and Business Statistics.

Adjunct Instructor for Agile Project Management and Statistics for Social Science Research.

Responsible for supporting customers using Altera EPLDs and FPGAs, LSI ASICs and Synplicity and Exemplar synthesis tools: Assisted sales team in analyzing the applications of customers and providing potential solutions; Determined suitability of components in support of customer design specifications; Provided technical engineering assistance to customers during product development; Provided in-depth technical training to field sales staff; Worked with component manufacturers in the development of PLD and ASIC applications, road maps and customer marketing strategies

EPIC Locomotive Electronic Braking System: Designed and implemented control firmware modifications to support new features including automatic system configuration, emergency braking control, intra-consist communications, end-of-train unit support, and distributed power interface; Provided software management support to other developers; Maintained version control database for EPIC softwareEPC Electronic Rail Car Braking System: Designed a network interface card using a Motorola neuron processor and Actel FPGAs; Designed a production test fixture for the rail car electronics modules; Assisted in the system level design and test of a 150 rail car prototype networkConsist Monitor Modem: Designed and implemented hardware and software modifications necessary to provide fuel monitoring supportLocomotive Event Recorder: Designed main processing board for a new freight locomotive event recorder; Diagnosed data corruption problems in an existing event recorder and implemented a low-cost fix for the problem; Designed a production test fixture and provided supporting software for the new event recorder; Modified a power supply of an existing event recorder download unit to support customer needs

Low Cost Advanced Target Sensor (LCATS) Proximity Fuze for Artillery: Developed a simulation model for the LCATS system using Mathematica; Assisted in the system level design of the LCATS fuze; Led the prototype hardware implementation of the LCATS system; Designed and implemented a digital comb filter for LCATS using Altera FPGAsLow Height, High Resolution Altimeter: Implemented a low-height, high-resolution altimeter using a Motorola microcontroller, an Altera FPGA and existing proximity sensor components

Programmed algorithms in Ada for knowledge based expert systems intended to provide robust, fault-tolerant ship-board computer networking and communications