Ken Fischer Email & Phone Number

Meudon, Île-de-France, FR

Melbourne, Florida, US

Melbourne, Florida, US

Capture lead on the Common Communications for Visiting Vehicles program, a $24.6M program to facilitate the docking of various spacecraft with the International Space Station.Capture lead for RF Transmitters, specializing in the sale of S-Band, X-Band, Ka-Band technologies into various space missions and satellite constellations, Capture lead on numerous.

• Responsible for mentoring and oversight of Nova’s Business Development staff, while also working directly on strategic captures.
• Captured Nova’s first significant international development, a $6M waveform development job. Required coordinated approval of various government stakeholders (State Department, NSA, US Army, US Navy) along with L-3’s.
• Reduced New Business Development expenses by 20% by re-tooling our business capture process, focusing on collaborative review of nascent opportunities (reducing duplication of effort) and better defined attributes of.
• Coached business development staff on customer interactions, win strategies, and proposal generation.

• Responsible for the profit & loss of the business unit, judicious spending of New Business Expense and IRAD funds, accuracy of and adherence to forecasts, maintaining of customer relationships, monitoring technical.
• Captured a $6M development program for a flight test & training system, proven & evaluated under high dynamic maneuvers on-board an F-15. This program introduced Nova to new customers (Eglin Air Force Base, Ft. Walton.
• Acquired a $4.8M development program for a capability that Nova had failed to deliver on a previous contract with the same customer in 2006. This required rebuilding the customer relationship, which included a special.
• Consistently met all forecasts, managing my group’s P&L via judicious spending of New Business Expense and IRAD funds, monitoring product and project technical performance, and maintaining trusting customer.
• Successfully led the acquisition of numerous programs with values each exceeding $1M.
• Simplified our business development rep network, eliminating redundancy with other L-3 divisions

• Responsible for capturing new business in targeted strategic programs and accounts.
• Captured strategic business on numerous Software Defined Radio development programs with both Government and major DoD system integrators. Clients included SPAWAR Charleston, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman.
• Authored several SBIR proposals involving MANET wireless networks resulting in the capture of over $5M in total business.

• Responsible for the successful architecting of complex radio systems, and flowing design requirements and tests down to individual software and VHDL engineers for implementation.
• Lead engineer on the evaluation of a software implementation of a GPS receiver.
• Responsible for the efficient implementation of VHDL and Software utilized in radio systems
• Lead engineer on the implementation of an early Software Communications Architecture compliant waveform.

San Diego, CA, US

• Responsible for the efficient implementation of audio decoding algorithms in the audio implementation group
• Implemented one of the first music players architected to run on cellphone processors, the Advanced Audio Codec; the code is now part of the Android OS.
• Lead investigation into packet loss concealment techniques for AAC streaming audio
• Designed multirate polyphase filters for sampling rate conversion. (Designed in Matlab, implemented in ANSI C and TI C55x assembly.)

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering

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