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Provide system and project engineering expertise and services in the acquisiton and life cycle support of simulation and training systems for the military armed services.Develop, acquire, and deploy customer accepted training systems.

Co-owner of Davenport’s Ale House Davenport’s Ale House is a moderately priced 300 seat restaurant offering family friendly service of popular fresh fare. Davenport’s Ale House is a Sports Bar/Restaurant @ Posner Park Plaza right of exit 55 of I-4 (Four Corners). A 350+ seating capacity place with great food, 29 degree draft beer, full liquor bar, and a huge patio! 50+ tv's/projectors to watch all the games, a touchtune jukebox system, and live entertainment on the weekends out on the patio. From the restaurant you can walk into our adjoining Davenport Gameroom offering Diamond pool tables, Darts, Air Hockey, Golden Tee, Basketball shooter, and other various video arcade games for your entertainment and fun!

Designed and built a new development/validation telemetry lab to support sustaining and upgrading a KSC Telemetry Ground Station, which records, playbacks, and displays Shuttle Telemetry data. Implemented electronic switching for patching and routing of data signals throughout the telemetry station. Implemented a digital tape telemetry recording system to replace the station's analog tape recorders, successfully obtaining maintenance and diagnostic training certificate. Replaced the Analog Strip Chart Recorders with COTS Glass Strip Chart Recorders to eliminate the individual patching of Strip Chart Records and improve the system's sustainability. Assisted in design, acceptance test procedure, and deployment of new COTS telemetry processing system. Installed stand-alone FM Calibrators and PCM simulators to calibrate the FM/PCM Processing Hardware within the KSC Telemetry Ground Station. Migrated standalone database PC system running Oracle over to a reliable server based redundant database system. Installed Cisco Ethernet switches to upgrade the station's 10BASE-2 network to a 10XXBASE-T network. Migrated the Motorola VME 167 microprocessor to a PowerPC architecture in the station's VME telemetry system. Assisted programmers with software development of PowerPC. Performed upgrades and removals of various telemetry hardware and test equipment used throughout the telemetry station upon obsolescence. Designed Replacement PCB for a Laser Tile Step and Gap Tool used to obtain measurements for the depth and gap of the Space Shuttle tiles to ensure reliable, accurate analysis of tile condition upon orbiter's return from flight. Sustained most Fiber Optic Terminal Equipment used at KSC. Performed line validation and operational checkout of FOTE Transmission Lines used for the Space Shuttle.