Principal Research Engineer
CurrentLead Software Architect - Urban Challenge (Team Oshkosh)Responsible for developing the software architecture and behavior algorithms for an autonomous vehicle that competed in the DARPA sponsored Urban Challenge event. The Urban Challenge is a competition that involves autonomous ground vehicles completing missions in a mock urban environment. Team Oshkosh was an Urban Challenge national finalist and ranked in the top 11 in the competition held in Victorville, CA.Security Program Manager / Principal InvestigatorLed a 4-year factory automation security effort. This project involved researching security vulnerabilities in factory automation networks, analyzing control network protocols for security weaknesses, assisting the customer in developing a security architecture for factory automation networks, and demonstrating the viability of the security architecture by developing a prototype that utilized existing factory automation devices.