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San Diego, Ca, Us

Greater San Diego Area

Responsible for assessing and delivering solutions to Market Problems involving high quality video & Motion Imagery distribution over IP networks within the Defense space.Lead teams in all phases of the product development lifecycle from ideation through requirements, design, development, marketing, sales, and delivery to happy customers.Drive product development for Haivision’s software appliances, cloud services, and embedded Makito hardware devices including the smallest rugged HD HEVC video encoder of its time: the Makito MX1.

Costa Mesa

Solutions Architecture Manager within Insitu Commercial responsible for envisioning and conducting customer solutions engagements in the field of professional aerial remote sensing leveraging Scan Eagle, Integrator, and other platforms of the early commercial drone era.Solutions Architect::* Assisted Business Development and Account Management with envisioning, scoping, and closing of professional services opportunities.* Served as the key technical liaison to development teams to ensure newly created products and solutions match the original customer vision.Innovation::* Combined COTS embedded hardware with Insitu software to build MISB compliant video streams from video cameras on consumer drones and pushed to the cloud for wider distribution.* Sought new sensor technologies to improve image collection speed while exceeding customer desired accuracies while reducing operating costs.Marketing::* Participated in customer events and field trials to demonstrate innovative solutions beyond the standard Insitu capability set in numerous vertical markets including railway, oil & gas, utilities, wildland fire, and agriculture.* Authored briefings and co-presented webinars for Railway Age Magazine, the Pipeline & Gas Journal, and for FireEngineering.com.

Irvine Ca

Solutions and Sales Engineer conducting pre-sales software architecture engineering and post-capture delivery of complex Motion Imagery systems.Built PED (Process, Exploit, Disseminate) systems around standards compliance to enable extraction of actionable intelligence from Motion Imagery using 2d3 Sensing’s Tungsten, Catalina, and TacitView software suites.Sales and Business Development::* Clearly specified new software features necessary to win business while minimizing impact on existing product roadmaps.* Participated in trade shows and confidently presented to new audiences.Authored articles for the 2d3Sensing blog.Innovation::* Built JavaScript SDK for managing the capture of geospatial data overlays from video using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques.* Continued to champion standards adoption throughout the community by contributing to new Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB) standards.* Guided video sanitation standards with the National Security Agency (NSA) and used Catalina as a video cross-domain solution (CDS).

Poway Ca

Systems & Project Engineer for RF Datalinks and various payload integrations across the General Atomics line of unmanned aircraft systems including Predator, Reaper, Gray Eagle, Avenger, and variants.Position included design of new ground and aircraft systems, defining requirements, estimating engineering efforts, tasking core-engineering groups with work, writing technical documentation, and crafting presentations of designs and status to management and customers.Innovation::* Authored a novel metadata standard to pair with video for the DoD through the MISB: MISB ST0601 UAS Datalink Local Set.* Worked closely with imaging sensor manufacturers to ensure preservation of timing and uncertainty information within Motion Imagery streams.* Led integration of VHF/UHF Military Aviation voice radios into GA aircraft platforms. Architected a voice & data mixer for multi-radio integrations, defined human interfaces for radio control & status, and evaluated system performance based on RF link analysis, ground, and flight testing. * Defined mechanical and RF performance parameters for wingtip-mounted VHF/UHF antennas, collaborated in radiating structure design, aided testing, and generated performance and program briefs.Program Management::* Scoped engineering estimates based on customer requirements to provide accurate Statements of Work.* Acted as Project Manager and guided engineering teams according to program cost and schedule while adhering to Earned Value practices.* Directly addressed Air Force, ARMY, and Department of Homeland Security customer concerns as program lead and datalink subject matter expert.

Encinitas Ca

Lead Engineer in a small electronics consulting company specializing in patent writing, analog audio effects processors, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).Position included writing estimates and proposals, documenting results from experimental data, Microchip PIC programming, simulation and modeling, CAD layout, and local network administration.

La Jolla Ca

Senior Tech and 35mm Projectionist for events held at UCSD. Led technical crew in setup, showing, and take down of technical audio and lighting equipment used for campus events.Collaborated with event coordinators to provide appropriate services as each event dynamically unfolded.

M.S., Electrical Engineering (Specializing In Communication Theory)

B.S., Electrical Engineering