Don Sheckler Email & Phone Number

San Diego County, California, United States

• Lead for the 8 MegaWatt (MW) system, consisting of permanent magnet motor / generator and Drive. This is an R&D project intended as a motor for pumps in the oil and natural gas industry or as a shipboard generator with intended speeds as high as 15,000 rpm. Powered by 4160 VAC Medium Voltage, loaded testing was conducted with two units coupled with one driving and the other acting as load, with the generator (load) returning the power to the grid. • Lead for the 7 kiloWatt (kW) Generator, an R&D project for a high-density brushless generator for unmanned aircraft in partnership with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. • Lead for the Hybrid Electric Propulsion (HEP) unit, an R&D project for a 400 kW permanent magnet motor for a hybrid unmanned aircraft in partnership with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. • Lead for battery systems, including the Snakehead Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (LDUUV) battery project. • Test Engineer for the Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) program, an electromagnetic arresting gear system used on the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers; Test Lead for the AAG deadload testing conducted in Lakehurst, NJ. • Test Engineer for the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) program, an electromagnetic aircraft launch system used on the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers.

• Team lead on multiple systems on Landing Platform Dock (LPD) program. • Integrated Video Distribution System (IVDS) team lead. Efforts included: verifying requirements, maintaining the schedule, system redesign, shipboard installation, shipboard testing, troubleshooting, updating documents, system grooms, training end users, and writing BOEs.• Magnetic Signature Control System team lead and individual contributor. Efforts included: maintaining the schedule, Failure Analysis, troubleshooting, system upgrade, system grooms, and training end users. • Command Information Display System (CIDS) individual contributor. Efforts included: system upgrades, system redesign, system grooms, environmental qualification testing, writing test documentation, training end users, and writing BOEs.• Ship Wide Area Network (SWAN) and Fiber Optic Cable Plant (FOCP) individual contributor. Designed SWAN/FOCP interconnectivity for expanded SWAN network and tested the completed network. • Supported SWAN failover testing, wrote test documentation.• SPS-73 Surface Search Radar individual contributor. Completed redesign.• Littoral Combat Ship. Worked on Interior Communication System trade study.• Technical Refresh Insertion Management Team member. Analyzed replacement costs for unprocurable items, created roadmaps for system support for IVDS and CIDS.

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Masters Thesis: Variable Block Size Motion Estimation Using Vector Quantization

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Physics