Advanced flight readiness for and applied strict DO-178 safety standards to various programs for:• Blue Origin (Mar 2023 – Present) – Used AI in accordance with rules to maximize productivity.• Collins Aerospace (Aug 2022 – Feb 2023)

• Led Windows tablet app used for inspections of U.S. Navy assets, including the F-18 jet. App managed inspection locations, info, photos, digital docs, 2D/3D display, and data transfer. C#.NET, WPF, SQL• Led iPhone 3D Lidar scanning app. Improved Unity app photogrammetry progress reporting. C#• Authored SBIR proposals for funding, slides for bi-weekly customer meetings, and a user’s guide.

• Led software development of a medical device used to help doctors diagnose pain and target meds more accurately. Google: “No stethoscope for pain: Scientists seek real way to measure”.• Co-led foreign medical device FDA acceptance to the U.S. market: • Co-led/managed system reqs/design, and the reqs/code/risk traceability that led to FDA acceptance. • Key developer in analyzing code, finding/fixing bugs, adding cost-saving improvements.

• U.S. submarine software developer of next-gen real-time mission/safety-critical tactical ship control software. Highly-valued daily contributor to software design/implementation/test.• Received multiple awards for taking ownership in improving code/test re-use, mentoring senior/junior engineers, taking charge as author/inspector/approver of designs/test plans/tests, meeting test schedules.

Key software developer of private encrypted voice-data-video network product used worldwide.• Extended product global market reach by creating new CEO-requested state-of-the-art software features, including: within a month of CEO request, a custom tone sequencer used to remotely control radios and other devices via network; core capabilities for audio, radio, hardware improvements, LCDs, GPS, and more.• All code achieved DOD JITC acceptance for military use.

Autonomous ground vehicle software developer. Only 1 of 6 hired for this 3-month project.• Created software to read a Lidar device and display its data in 3D in real-time for object detection/avoidance.• Wrote a controller for CAN bus message handling used for vehicle leader/follower and waypoint following.• Created software to read/display/send GPS data wirelessly to autopilot software.

Led Sikorsky S-92 helicopter flight control computer loader/verifier, used by over 100 crews worldwide. • Reduced load/verify time from 8 hours to < 1 hour by combining disparate programs into one.• Improved comms, USB support and user-friendly features, satisfying customer requests.• Wrote/delivered documentation, including software requirements, design, test procedures, verification plans.• Commended by project manager for accomplishments and on-time completion.

Principal developer/integrator of software-defined radios for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), the secure voice-data-video radio network used by our military and allies around the world.• Debugged/fixed difficult problems that occurred very infrequently on multi-processor, multi-threaded radios with a 1-million-line code base. • Implemented comm features and security fixes in DOD radio waveforms.

Designed/improved real-time embedded software for underwater vehicles. Implemented full SDLC.C, C++, Java, Python, SQL, RTOS, VxWorks, Linux, CORBA, Matlab/Simulink, ClearCase, DOORS, UML, Eclipse, VS, CMMI• For autonomous drone used for underwater surveillance, key contributor in design/implementation/test, created apps to read sensors and enable comms between Windows and embedded Linux client. C++, MFC, Linux, TCP/IP• Chosen by project manager to provide on-site/at-sea software systems support for underwater vehicle testing.• Software Safety Test Lead - Awarded multiple times last 2 years for managing small software test teams for multiple projects, reducing test time by 80%, creating a traceability tool, reducing code complexity throughout the 500k-line code base, delivering on-time. Trained engineers, resolved issues, reported progress to management. Helped win contracts by accurately estimating future testing costs. DO-178• Collaborated with Vector Software to add new on-board test/debug capability to their VectorCAST software.• Automated Train Control project (in Virginia): Wrote an app to test comm integrity between a train and control depot by injecting corrupted messages and verifying the system identified them and recovered normally. Java, Linux

Provided software consulting services to Aeroflex, Lockheed and others.• For Aeroflex, supported next version of Knowbell by creating prototype cross-platform GUIs, code/script improvements for radar data processing/reporting, and documentation. Continued customizing Knowbell for clients, including Pratt and Whitney, Sikorsky, Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin. UML, C++, MFC, STL, Qt, scripting• For Lockheed Martin, wrote software design/test documentation, tested embedded software for multiple underwater vehicle projects. VectorCAST, DO-178

For Knowbell, a leading commercial radar, RCS and antenna data processing software application.Provided SDLC, rapid prototyping, radar/signal processing/reporting. C++, MFC, STL, TAO, Qt for Windows/Linux/Unix• Improved commercial products by designing new interfaces and processing methods customized for clients. • Developed real-time software for distributed processing of radar data captured and displayed in real-time.

Increased U.S. Navy fleet survivability by inventing one-of-a-kind software tools/methods in collaboration with experts in physics, radar, and ocean engineering.• Created software to analyze radar data and generate ship survivability reports, reduced reporting time from 3 weeks to 3 days. C++, MFC, COM, STL, Word, Excel, Access• Created a handheld app for multiple Navy ship inspectors to enter findings and sync to a server to show leaders inspection results, reducing labor costs by 50% for 3 years. Produced training, trained customer personnel.• For high-profile U.S. Navy clients, led implementation of mission planning tools. C, C++• Key contributor bringing commercial product to market: HandRunner™ featured at COMDEX. C++, Java, HTML

• Led software development, increased data analysis report production by over 100% for several years by creating novel software processing tools/methods that reduced radar experts’ time to analyze radar data. C++, MFC• Created ocean wave simulator app with expert oceanographer. C++, MFC• Co-supervised teams to install/maintain survivability systems on ships at many U.S. Naval bases.

Designed hardware and software for wideband military RF communications equipment and a missile seeker system.• Only new-hire promoted to Northrop Grumman missile receiver system development. Designed schematics and board layouts, supervised CAD designers, interfaced with manufacturing to oversee hardware development.• Reduced labor costs by designing software to automate programming of hardware components and to automate hardware testing using software control of hardware and test equipment (network/spectrum analyzer, o-scope, etc.)• Created software to model receiver hardware improvements to inform decision makers.• Optimized customer inventories by writing software to upgrade analog receivers to digital operation.