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Monrovia, CA

• Lead, Manage and Coach the Mission Planning department comprised of 30 people
• Mission Planning develops the telecommunication support plans and data products for establishing and maintaining 2 way communication links between the Earth Deep Space Communication Complexes in Barstow, CA, Madrid.
• Mission Planning develops the telecommunication support plans and data products for establishing and maintaining 2 way communication links between the Earth Deep Space Communication Complexes in Barstow, CA, Madrid.
• Oversee, participate in, review and approve and responsible for the planning, development and execution of Critical Event supports that require extensive telecommunication link analysis, planning and product.
• During my 5 tenure oversaw a staff reduction of 20% while maintaining and enhancing product outputs. These improvements in performance while reducing cost were accomplished through reorganization and increasing.
• Develop and present monthly program review presentations for both technical and non-technical customer personnel

Orlando, FL

Engineering Project Leader for a $20M contract for the enhancement and sustainment of the Combat Training Centers (JRTC/NTC) Instrumentation System (CTC-IS). Develop and manage networked program schedule, conduct monthly earned value, identify, track and manage risk, manage program performance, cost and schedule using defined processes and tracked via.

Huntington Beach, CA

FCS 2003-2008Provided management and engineering services for the definition, design, and execution of the FCS Planning and Preparation Services and Sensor Data Management packages. Responsibilities included applying 20 years of large scale integration engineering development experience within the Army ISR and C4ISR domains in order to develop solutions.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Bid and proposed the $26M TAIS program within very tight cost and schedule constraints. Built and sustained a highly motivated and proven team of engineering experts, users, and customers to successfully design, develop, test, qualify and field a tactical system for airspace management to function within or without the Army Battle Command System domain. As.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

• Led a team of System/Software, Hardware and Test Engineers, as well as teammates, through all phases Assigned to Supreme Headquarters Powers Europe (SHAPE) Technical Center (Now, NC3A) in The Hague, The Netherlands.
• Travelled with high ranking US Department of Defense delegation to brief and work relationships with US-NATO partners to aid and assist the US… Show more Led a team of System/Software, Hardware and Test Engineers, as.
• Travelled with high ranking US Department of Defense delegation to brief and work relationships with US-NATO partners to aid and assist the US Government in it’s charter to sell US Joint STARS technology and.
• Briefed Technical, Legal, Political, and Military NATO country personnel on benefits of supporting the US Government initiative to sell Joint STARS systems to NATO
• Established and maintained relationship with NATO host nation technical and non-technical personnel to develop joint proposals for sales of radar ground station technology
• In real-time and in-country designed, built and integrated new interfaces to the Joint STARS ground station to allow full exploitation of Joint STARS data across all commands requiring radar data of enemy forces

Scottsdale AZ

Responsible for the design, development, integration and test of the radar data link, voice and data communications subsystems, and visualization subsystems into the Army Joint STARS ground station. In 1991 deployed with the Engineering Development Model (EDM) Ground Station modules in support of US Army forces in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Developed.

Adana, Turkey//Thule Greenland

Direct Line of Sight and Over the Horizon Microwave and Troposcatter Communications Repairman

Bachelor, Science Electrical Engineering

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Activities and Societies: Dramatic Arts