Chief Technology Officer (CTO), responsible for all aspects of innovative system design, engineering, manufacturing, and testing of systems and electronics for Littoral Warfare combat and logistics use. Expert on Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV) systems used on civilian and military craft such as USN Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC), RoKN Landing Ship Fast (LSF) - II, LCAC-II for foreign military use, and the innovative Fast Air Cushion, Expeditionary Craft (FACEC) missile patrol craft. 35-years experience with LCAC C4N system design, development, testing, and manufacturing including LCAC-100/SSC C4N system development. Over 700 hours of LCAC underway/flight time on 45 LCACs supporting Navy trials, testing and training. Additional areas of expertise include Mine Hunting and Mine Clearance systems, SONARs, UUV/USVs, special mission craft and ASW systems for US and foreign military use. Designed and developed SAMPICS, an innovative, scalable, low-cost IoT approach for an Integrated Bridge and Craft Control System that reduces both acquisition and life-cycle reengineering costs. Responsible for design and engineering changes for MI's line of Air Cushion Vehicles (ACVs) that include the 10-meter MACV-10, the 20-meter MACV-20, the innovative new HYBRID (turbine-electric) powered 24-meter H-MACV-24, and the powerful 28-meter MACV-28 (LCAC-II(E)/FACEC) products. Expert on RoKN LSF-II iCAMS system design and development, including next generation replacement electronics and training simulators. Check out my LCAC/SSC/H-MAVC paper in the Naval Engineering Journal (page 97): https://bt.e-ditionsbyfry.com/publication/?i=762944

Built a Van's RV-12 aircraft that utilizes a customized Honda engine with an aircraft gear reduction box. Designed and built a custom redundant electrical system that includes an experimental Engine Control Unit (ECU) and an instrument panel setup for light-IFR operations (with coupled Autopilot capability). 8 years to build, 14,000 rivets later the Special Air Worthiness certificate was issued in August 2016 and is currently flying out of KCTJ airport with more than 450 flight hours. On-going modifications include developing flight worthy custom parts with 3D CAD software and printing on a Prusa Multi-Material 3D printer.

After 16 years of political leadership at the county and state levels of the Republican Party, retired at the end of 2020. In 2016 I was reelected for a 2nd, 4-year term as Bay Co Republican State Committeeman with 58% of the county wide vote to represent Bay County Republicans as a voting member of the Republican Party of Florida's State Executive Committee. The 250+ member RPOF Executive Committee consists of the 67 County Chairman, 67 County State Committeewomen, 67 County State Committeemen, Republican Florida Cabinet members, Florida Republican US House and Senate members, and 10 each appointees from the Florida House, Senate, and Governor's office. RPOF Committee Assignments - Audit Committee, Best Practices Committee, Veterans Outreach Committee

Chief Technical Officer (CTO), responsible for all aspects of innovative system design, engineering, manufacturing, and testing for Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV) systems used on military craft such as USN Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC), RoKN Landing Ship Fast (LSF) - II, LCAC-II for foreign military use, and the innovative Fast Air Cushion, Expeditionary Craft (FACEC) missile patrol craft. 32 years experience with LCAC C4N system design, development, testing, and manufacturing up through the LCAC-100 C4N system development. Over 700 hours of LCAC underway/flight time on 45 craft for Navy trials, testing and training. Additional areas of expertise include Mine Hunting and Mine Clearance systems, SONARs, UUV/USVs and ASW systems for US and foreign military use. Designed and developed an innovative, scalable, low-cost IoT approach for an Integrated Bridge and Craft Control System to reduce both acquisition and life-cycle reengineering costs. Responsible for design and engineering changes for PEI's line of Air Cushion Vehicles (ACVs) that include the 10 meter PA10, the 20 meter PA20, and the 28 meter LCAC-II(E)/FACEC products. Developed 20-meter PA20 design for the Indian Coast Guard/Indian Army acquisition of 46 armed/armored hovercraft, including performance engineering and a digital fly-by-network craft control system.

Expert systems/software consultant for MK-18 FoS UUV. SME in naval C4N systems used in Expeditionary Warfare domains. Continued prior work on development of a Fast Air Cushion Expeditionary Craft (FACEC) concept, a 100 knot missile patrol hovercraft.

Program Manager for BAE's Modeling and Simulation engineering services contract with NSWC Panama City Div. Completed transition from BAE's prior 3-year M&S engineering services contract to new 5-year award. Booked 50% over 1st year contract ceiling within 4 months of award date. Knowledge Manager for re-engineering US Navy Gas Analysis Laboratory processes to achieve accreditation by NAVSEA Laboratories. Helped establish Gold Standard levels for gas analysis for high pressure diving and underwater systems. International business development for Turkish LCAC II program, including opportunity development and qualification, coordinated multiple BAE group participation, including BAE Systems PLC Turkish operations and FNSS (Turkish JV for Nurol Holdings and BAE Systems). Developed concept of a 100-knot Air Cushion Vehicle used as a missile patrol craft in a Distributed Lethality/CEC environment. Developed concept of utilizing modified platform support vessels (PSV) as carrier craft and mobile operating base with a pair of FACEC craft as a hunter-killer capability in shallow water expeditionary operations. Published FACEC/PSV article in CIMSEC as part of "Distributed Leathility" series. Developed new business for Korean Navy LSF-II/LCAC iCAMS C4N system on new construction craft based on LCAC C4N SME experience. Under contract to Textron Marine, provided on-site monitoring at L3 Maritime for development of the SSC/LCAC-100 C4N electronics and software, SME level technical evaluation of system engineering, hardware development, and software code evaluations.

Director of Systems Engineering primarily supporting engineering services and C4N system production contracts with Navy Surface Warfare Center - Panama City Division. Responsible for the system engineering department in execution of systems design, development, integration, testing, production, and life cycle support for high speed naval craft and unmanned vehicle systems. Established the system engineering department and grew from 1 person operation to a supervised a staff of 45 engineers and technicians, with extensive cross-over work to the training and logistics departments. • LCAC (US Navy Hovercraft): C4N Systems – 13 years covering all phases of engineering and program management (includes Technical Advisor for SSC/LCAC-100 C4N) • Korean Navy LSF-II (LCAC): PM and lead designer for C4N design, production, installation, training and follow-on support of modified LCAC C4N systems (iCAMS). • ONR T-Craft (250 ft Ultra Heavy Lift beachable ACV craft): PM and lead design engineer for C4N systems & HFE tasks for Textron Marine and Office of Naval Research• LCS MIW Minesweeping USSV: Lead SW engineer for shipboard and OBS systems unmanned vehicle prototype development• SWCS (L-3 version): Lead C4N designer/systems engineer (included innovative technology and convergence with UUVs) for the SDV replacement• Korean Navy Special Assault Tender (SAT) Craft: C4N system designer for RoKN special forces “clone” of the FSF-1 Sea Fighter (ONR ”X-Craft”)• Korean Wing-In-Ground Effect (WIG) Aircraft: Controls and Nav/Comm systems designer Widely acknowledged SME for LCAC C4N and HSNC C4N systems. Capable of providing expert level design, engineering, troubleshooting and technical expertise for all aspects of C4N hardware on LCAC. Technical Expert for NAVSEA PMS-377 for shipyard development oversight and craft trials. Developed requirements for the LCAC Missionized EGI (Ring Laser INS/GPS) and many other systems to provide new or enhanced mission capabilities

Elected as Leader for Bay County Republican Party efforts to elect Republican candidates to local, state, and federal offices. Assisted in electing the first Republican to US House CD-2 in 118 years and a successful reelection 2 years later. Member of Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) executive committee. Served on Budget committee and Audit Committee. Candidate for RPOF Treasurer (2010) and Assistant Treasurer (2011). The Bay County Republican Executive Committee (official name) consisted of 75 elected precinct committeemen and committeewomen covering Bay County Florida.