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Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Developed business and market strategy; prepared business plan for presentation to investors• Worked with investor and attorneys to form corporation• Created and developed market footprint, including product branding, websites, marketing collateral• Prepared white papers and technical documents detailing product performance and applications• Secured two rounds of investment funding

• Managed two divisions, including Prototyping and Integration and Corporate / Commercial IT. Revenues for Directorate approximately $6M per year in commercial and defense business, with 32 employees reporting in the Directorate. • Contract Program Manager. Threat Systems Management Office (TSMO) contract with task awards totaling $110M over 5 year period of performance. Held TS/SCI level clearance for management of this contract. Responsibilities included contract and task order proposal development, task management, tracking and deliverables, subcontractor management, technical and contractual interface to client and corporation• Contract Program Manger. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Crane Division contract. Selected by CAS to pursue NSWC, Crane as a business diversification target. First contract awarded had a ceiling of $50M; follow on awarded for $50M.• Summary of Directorate accomplishmentso Approximately $145M in funded contract awards supporting many groups within CASo Startup of CAS Prototyping Division with annual revenues of approximately $5M o Startup of Accelerated Test Systems Division with total revenues of approximately $2M over first 3 years. Customers included ADTRAN, Avocent, and Siemens VDO (Continental)o Managed successful corporate strategy to provide an offset of approximately one-third of IT overhead labor costs through revenues generated by leveraging staff in commercial IT services

• Hired as part of the startup team to develop service and quality system processes, stand up help desk for internal and external customer support, manage corporate data and voice network infrastructure and hire service team• A soft housing market prevented relocation to continue in this position

• Program Manager for AVENGER Institutional Conduct of Fire Trainer (ICOFT). Eleven ICOFT systems were developed and delivered under this $20M fixed price contract to sites throughout the world. Contract covered design, development, fielding, training and sustainment of all systems. Nichols Research Corporation received over $300K from the Government in performance-based award fees under this contract.• Program Manager for Dual-Mount STINGER Trainer. This training system was developed as an FMS case for the government of Taiwan under a $2.5M contract. Contract covered design, development, fielding, training and sustainment of training system. • Program Manager for AVENGER Table-Top Trainer. 48 Table-Top Trainers produced and delivered under $2.7M contract to sites throughout the world. Contract covered design, development, testing, fielding, training and sustainment of all systems.

· Design and development of optical storage drive. Managed ten engineers in development of read/write optical drive. Project included development of mechanical, optical, and electronic systems. Funding issues resulted in termination of the project when it was about half-complete. This drive was designed to operate as a computer peripheral through a SCSI interface. Effort resulted in patent on mechanical fixture.· Design and development of automated production line test system. Tester was designed to interface a vehicle electrical system through its fuse block connector and perform automated test sequences on electrically accessible components. Effort included design of mechanical fixtures, integration of custom and off-the-shelf boards, development of low-level software, user interface software and database software.· Design and development of Hall-effect vehicle electrical system component tester. Internal R&D project to develop a non-contact automated test system for vehicle electrical system components. The system employed a clamp-on Hall-Effect probe to create and store voltage-current signatures on vehicle components. Development included integration of custom and off-the-shelf hardware, low-level algorithms, test sequence, and user interface software. The system successfully identified components arbitrarily activated with an accuracy of 98% and used an RF link for portable operation. The system was demonstrated and used to secure new contracts with both Ford and General Motors.· High-level system design and proposal of automated assembly line tester. Completed system design and wrote proposal for Hall-effect based test system. Effort included mechanical fixture specification, component selection and schedule development. Resulted in first contract win for Dynetics with General Motors, worth $500,000.

· Design and development of embedded and interface software for medical instrument. C and assembly source code for RS-232 communications protocols, drivers for video components, automatic gain control algorithm, white balance algorithm, systems test code and others for use in portable medical instrument. This instrument consists of a camera running on a 80C51 microcontroller and a camera control unit running on a TI 320C51 DSP.· Design and development of all embedded and interface software for precision materials winder. This code includes operational and computational algorithms, diagnostics, user-interface and related software. All winder functions are controlled by parameters computed and sent to controller over RS-232 communications port. Code developed includes winder simulation software developed to determine winding characteristics. Embedded code was written in C to run on TI 320C25 DSP; simulation and user-interface code written in C to run on PC.· Design and development of all embedded and interface software for flow meter. This code includes operational, diagnostic, user-interface, and related software. Flow meter computes mass flow rate in hot industrial fans using inputs of differential temperature through the fan and fan motor horsepower. Computed flow rate is used for closed-loop process control and boiler safety systems. Source code was all written in C for TI 320C25 DSP.· Design and development of EPROM emulation board hardware and software. Board developed as marketable product for embedded applications development. Software developed includes user-interface, drivers and diagnostics functions. All emulator functions are performed through a PCparallel printer interface.

· System integration and configuration. Configured systems placed in Army vans for in-field use as mobile service depot. Systems integrated and configured include complete phone system with key service unit and digital/analog phone network, STU-III secure phones, ruggedized PC's, LAN, secure and clear facsimile machines, MODEMs and INMARSAT communications terminals.· Design and development of real-time image processing hardware and software. Board developed to perform coordinate transformations using multiplier-accumulator ICs and DRAM look-up table at 6.7 MPixel/sec. This board was designed to clip a variable size sub-scene from a larger input scene and translate and rotate it in real-time. A PC-AT interface card was developed to initialize and operate the board.· Modification of real-time image processing hardware and software. Video interpolation board modified for enhanced demonstration. Work included board modifications and Xilinx FPGA code to provide PC control of board functions.· CAE software experience. CAE tools used include SCHEMA, OrCad SDT and VST, XACT, SUSIE digital logic simulator.· Computer system and network installation and support. Provided computer and network support for NASA scientists. Duties included writing of specifications for new systems, software installation, hardware installation, benchmark testing of leading edge computer systems, network maintenance, operating system tests and other related activities.· C programming experience. Source code was written for graphical presentation of RADAR data. C code was written on PCs and ported to UNIX based machines.

· Development of embedded software for industrial fan balancing unit. Assembly code written for TI 320C10 host in board designed for dynamic balancing of large industrial fans. This system was designed to monitor accelerometer outputs and provide real-time balance control signals for fans fitted with dynamic balancing hardware.· Development of user-interface software and operational algorithms for strap winder. C source code developed for user interface and algorithms to compute hardware parameters for operation of precision strap winder.· CAE schematic capture and board layout. CAE tools used include OrCad SDT and Tango.