Providing program management services to SubSeaSail for the development and transition to production of the HORUS Autonomous Undersea & Surface Vehicles (AUSVs). These mighty little sailing vessels are inexpensive and rugged for rigors it will see when in the open ocean. When outfitted with sensors and deployed as groups, these small vessel can provide significant area coverage and has the added capability to submerge and dive out of site to avoid detection. Check out the link below and DM me if you would be interested in more information on this game changing technology.

Providing consultant services to local small business in the Area of Program Management, Systems Engineering, Product Development and Operations. The area of focus is Ocean and Marine Engineering systems with a specialty in U.S. Navy programs.

Moving on from a Full Time to Career to Semi-Retirement and providing Consulting for Small Businesses looking to work in the areas of DOD Ocean and Submarine Systems.

Progeny System LLC, a Wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Mission SystemsChief Engineer and Chief Architect for the Submarine Tether Expendable Buoy.The STEB system provides a submerged submarine with a surface buoy platform for communications, situational awareness and collision avoidance data. It will provide data to feed a real-time operator interface and display console within the AN/BLQ-10 system and would reduce the risk of counter detection by allowing the submarine to stay submerged while it provides situational awareness related to imaging, communications, and electronic warfare data. STEB Bus development included tow body engineering and fiber optic communications.

PM&SE for Underwater Gateway Vehicle an AUV that holds station underwater using variable buoyancy and control surfaces.PM&SE Advanced Submarine Control using Precision Propulsion a propulsion system for future submarines to provide complete control in the horizontal plane of motion.SE Persistent Autonomous Maritime Surveillance.o PAMS ABV which included thrusters, burial devices, variable buoyancy, releasable floatation, power supply and management and electronics control.o PAMS Array which includes sonar design, telemetry, ceramic sensors.Principal Investigator (PI) Persistent Active Deployable System. Basic research of an Autonomous Station Keeping Vehicle which harvests wave energy to provide propulsion and the receive array utilizing Vector Sensor technology.PI Towed Array Control Module a towed device to control the end of the array using energy harvesting, smart materials, variable buoyancy and variable drag.PI Tanker Survey Vehicle a vehicle designed to survey the tanker interior using sonar to detect illicit packages.PI Energy Harvesting using Vortex Induced Vibration of a vertical rod which then drives piezo-ceramic cymbal transducers to produce trickle charge energy.PI Deployable Survivability Structures. Design of devices which bloom in the water column to cover undersea tracking transducers and counter the direct strike of fishing trawlers.SE Next Generation Countermeasure Technology. Design, manufacture and testing of a small 3”x36” high speed Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with counter-rotating propellers and active control surfacesPI Deployable Passive Seabed Senor. A Buoyancy driven “B” sized vehicle that samples the acoustics and performs geotechnical inversion to classify the seabed.PM&SE for the Expendable Array Installation Vehicle. Design, Manufacture and At-Sea testing of a low-cost expendable vehicle designed to install undersea cable.

Program Manager, Advanced Deployable System (ADS), a rapidly deployable acoustic surveillance system using fixed underwater acoustic arrays.Responsible for all facets of development and acquisition of ADS with a research and development budget of $1.5 Billion.Responsible for engineering and development of advanced underwater vehicle installation of undersea cable and array concepts. Acoustic/ceramic sensors, acoustic arrays, acoustic process, hardware and software installation and design.

System Engineer, Advanced Deployable System (ADS). Performed requirements development, concept development and detailed program planning for a technically challenging ADS installation approachDeveloped the first rapidly deployable fixed surveillance installation techniques and demonstrated them in a major fleet exercise that received outstanding resultsSystem Engineer, Fixed Distributed System (FDS). Developed mechanical portions of the FDS undersea hardware including responsibility for design, procurement and management of over $100M of undersea cable.

Project engineer for undersea tracking range design and installation; fleet mooring systems, marine engineering of dynamic positioning ocean construction platform.