Lead GNC Engineering for novel UAS development.

Responsible for Guidance, Navigation, and Controls system advanced development and sustaining efforts on Vapor family of products.Highlights: - Built and deployed Ground Control Station software in Qt/C++ to handle command and control of autonomous vehicle. - Built Python GUI tool for flight data plotting, automated flight data checks, and various analysis tools. - Developed Arduino based external serial data logger for Vapor from open source/hardware solution. - Demonstrated outer-loop control and relative navigation in ROS running on NVIDIA Xavier NX hardware. - Built Continuous Integration pipeline for GCS software running builds and unit tests in Linux. - Built 6DOF SIMULINK model of Vapor 55 for Monte Carlo simulation in new controls development.

- Lead engineering department functions and partner with management team to ensure effective and timely product development and introduction, allocating engineering resources appropriately. - Develop and monitor engineering department budget to achieve divisional goals for new product development and product cost reduction. - Build, develop, mentor, and manage engineering team capable of carrying out engineering initiatives. Provide technical oversight and prioritization for efforts of engineering staff. - Work closely with customers, executive management, operations, marketing, and sales staff to identify new product needs, identify improvements to existing products, and prioritize new and existing products. - Identify additional or leading edge technology or systems to assure company goals are met. - Drive engineering department to project based planning for internal and external projects. Create engineering department standards for project estimation, budgeting, and task tracking. - Mentor engineering staff to improve self-direction and reduce close supervision needs of early career engineers through directed growth and mentoring. - Coordinate communication and facilitate collaboration with multinational offices.

Lead all control systems development for flight controller product line and autonomous car development and testing, including development in Ardupilot, PX4, and ROS. Management and mentoring of Control Systems Team. Support product management/development and new business development.

Lead engineering and integration of flight controller product line, including avoidance algorithm development, flight controls development and testing, and integration and testing of control, navigation, and radar sensors. Flight controls development in Ardupilot and PX4, including ports for new flight controller hardware and version control of company software development.FAA Certified Remote Pilot and acting test pilot for all flight controls development.

- GNC development, analysis, and testing for Automatic Takeoff and Landing System on MQ-1C Gray Eagle, MQ-9 Reaper, and prototype airframes- Safety and capability analysis through Monte Carlo 6DOF simulation using Python, C, Linux shell scripting, and MATLAB/SIMULINK- Flight data analysis in support of field issues; provide guidance for short-term workarounds and long-term fixes in flight control software- Developed automated tool for flight data derived validation of 6DOF simulation software- Developed automated tool for rapid analysis of controller stability margins for aerodynamic model changes and addition of external payloads