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Colorado Springs, Co

Electrical Engineer, HEMP system designs

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Electrical Engineering support, design, repair, and installation support for low and medium voltage electrical power systems, grounding, and HEMP projects. The electrical power project SME. Project support included extensive logistical support.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Consulting Electrical Engineer, June 2013 – present;Provided electrical site surveys and resulting corrections reports, teaching & lecturing, technical reviews and corrections of numerous DC power systems designs, guidance, and ensured current regulations for the broad range of AC and DC power design, grounding, lightning protection, including all NEC and NFPA requirements. This included NFPA 70E requirements for safe work practices, NFPA 780 lightning protection installations, National Electrical Code (NEC) requirements, IEEE 1100 standard for grounding and installations of sensitive electronics, and MIL-STD 188-124B and MIL-HDBK 419A standards for grounding.

Hayden, Id

RO Associates provides a broad range of power quality services in lecturing, hands on training, filed services and electrical power, grounding and lightning protection inspections and services. Responsibilities included training, lecturing, and performing site surveys for grounding practices, surge suppression, electrical installations and lightning protection verification for telecom, the rail industry, pipeline services, prisons, and government radar installations. Ensuring the currency of all training courses to the NEC, NFPA, engineering standards, and commercial standards is a continuing effort.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Senior hardware systems engineer, Engineering Center of Excellence (COE) on USAF ground based space surveillance systems (SENSOR) programs. SENSOR supports the sustainment, modernization, system development, and integration of Missile Warning Sensors, Missile Defense Sensors, and Space Control Sensors. The COE goal is to ensure all of over 200 SENSOR tasks and projects uniformity within CMMI Level-3 and ISO 9000-2000 certification. This is a hardware engineering support position, including sustainment and modernization projects and providing technical and lifecycle process guidance. I held the position as the State of Colorado licensed SENSOR Master Electrician. With my electrical experience, I worked many safety, power, lightning and grounding tasks, including teaching High Voltage (600 Vac) Electrical Safety Training for the contract.

Long Beach, Ms

Senior Electrical Engineer ensuring system requirements and production of a prototype undersea 3000 volt DC power supply. The task included project parts procurements, vendor selection, documentation, subassembly test procedures, system testing, integration, hands-on troubleshooting and rework.

Stennis Space Center, Ms

Engineering Department Manager overseeing a department of over 25 electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, reliability, and ocean engineers with supporting drafters, configuration management, and quality assurance personnel supporting the development and deployment of sensored buoys throughout the world’s oceans. The numerous and concurrent contracts were valued over $4M.

Sierra Vista, Az

Project Lead for power and grounding teams, including systems engineering of power, grounding, and lightning protection systems; quality assurance surveys; and the resulting repair of military communications facilities world-wide. The work included engineering designs, on-site repairs, installations, task and team scheduling, proposal development, task budgeting, technical reports, documentation, international travel, extensive government presentation and task marketing, field surveys, course development and training and writing technical references for performing power and grounding site surveys. This work resulted in surveying, repairing and installing at approximately 130 US military installations around the world.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) specialist performed worst case interface, electrical piece-part, and circuit design analysis on a communication's system control console. The technical writing resulted in the publishing of a 9-volume; 33,000 page design analysis report, trade studies, engineering changes, and system requirements re-engineering over a four year period.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Managed eight hardware and software engineers for the operational systems test and integration of the Consolidate Space Operations Center Integration Support at Schriever Air Force Base, CO

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Managed 16 engineers, technicians, and administrative personnel on communications and cryptographic manufacturing contracts. My efficiencies saved over $2 million on that production contract.

Master’S Degree In Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.5/4.0

Colorado State Master Electricains License #5050

Colorado State Master Electricians License preparation course and resulting confirmation August 1995.

Bachelor Of Sciences Degree In Electrical Engineering And Computer Science, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 2.95/4.0

Associate Of Applied Arts Degree In Gunsmithing, Gunsmithing And Pre-Engineering Courses