Chief of Staff and Operations Director for Aeronautics Research & Advanced Design.

Strategic planning for Aeronautics Systems Sector. Business development operations for strike and autonomous systems platforms.

Australia, Japan, and South Korea strategic planning and international investment campaigns.

Established Australian Defense Electronics Manufacturing and Repair Facility servicing the Asia/Pacific region. ITAR/EAR export management of hardware, data, software, and training. Program proposal, State and Commerce Department technology transfer, personnel training, and capital investment planning for RADAR, electronic warfare, communication systems, and electro-optical systems.

Prosecuted patents before the USPTO and foreign patent offices related to air-to-ground cellular networking systems, airborne EMI mitigation, in-cabin wireless networking systems, and regional cellular data management systems.

Capture management for tactical transport, VIP transport, and F-35 electronics sustainment programs. Led M&A integration efforts from Qantas Defence Services into Northrop Grumman’s Australian business.

Examination of computer processor interface and memory system patent applications for the USPTO. Technical analysis of applicant inventions, IEEE and ACM publications, and patent literature.

Prosecuted patents before the USPTO and foreign patent offices regarding cellular transceivers, novel modulation schemes, adaptive filters, phase interpolation and adaptation circuits, MIMO antenna systems, and microwave backhaul systems.

Prosecuted patents before the USPTO and foreign patent offices related to air-to-ground cellular networking systems, RF beamforming for phased antenna arrays, and industrial control systems.

Program management of hardware/software development, environmental/EMI qualification, and flight-testing for AN/AAQ-28 LITENING Targeting Pod for United States Marine Corps F/A-18, AV-8B, and EA-6B platforms, and United States Air Force F-16 platforms.

Program management of nuclear-hardened heads-down cockpit displays for United States Air Force B-1 platform and FAB-T SATCOM terminals for B-2 and B-52 platforms. Led successful nuclear effects qualification, M&A integration of Kaiser Electronics, production site shutdown, and relocation.

Overall technical management of digital UHF/VHF/HF transceiver research and development. Developed and implemented a tailored Agile HW & SW engineering process allowing rapid prototyping and customer demonstrations.

Hardware development of MODEM and INFOSEC modules for airborne platform ARC-210 V/UHF transceiver, including requirements decomposition and allocation, PCB design, hardware/firmware/software integration, test, and qualification. A/D and D/A converters, DSPs, and general purpose processors, Altera, Xilinx, and Actel FPGAs, low-voltage DC converter circuits. PCB layout and routing for signal integrity, TEMPEST, receiver sensitivity, and MIL-STD-461 EMI control, including on-site EMI/Environmental/TEMPEST qualification test and troubleshootingMechanical design for MIL-STD-810 environmental requirements. Systems design to meet NSA Type 1 cryptographic security requirements. FPGA firmware (Verilog and VHDL) and software (C/C++) development, test, and verification. Obsolescence planning, analysis, and mitigation in legacy products.

Full-custom and standard cell arithmetic ASIC design. Automated standard cell tool development for Cadence Design Systems.

C and C++ development, testing, and deployment in a distributed Unix environment for BellSouth. Systems requirement development and allocation from business requirements in DOORS. Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 3 and 4 process development and certification.