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Detroit, Michigan & Fort Wayne, Indiana

Design, development, validation and testing of systems and products for the biomedical, medical, health-care, aerospace markets and industrial. Significant experience in developing systems with; all types electro-optical, electrical and biotech sensors, imagers, microcontrollers, wireless data, wireless power, lasers & lidar.Current and Recent Assignments:Capsule Endoscopy Product Line. Principal Engineer for ZoDiagnostics. Technologies - Imaging, Compression, Wireless, Acoustic, Automated Screening.Industrial Process Control. Principal Engineer for Widerhause Sensor Technologies - Capacitance Sensing, Industrial Process Control, IoT.Point of Care Diagnostic for Chronically Ill Patients. Principal Engineer for a company in Fort Wayne. Technologies - Imaging Spectrophotometer, Spectrophotometer

Columbia, Maryland & Fort Wayne, Indiana

Provide leadership and technical guidance on a wide variety of projects spanning biomedical, medical, defense and aerospace industries. Contribute to operations, business development, proposal and patent preparation, and client interaction. Responsible for project fulfillment.

Business Development : Responsible for leading capture efforts to secure new or re-compete competitive remote sensing and product generation contracts in the Earth Sciences market segment relative to the Commercial and Space Science business area. This market segment includes programs within NOAA, NASA and DoD and possibly commercial enterprises. Responsible within Space Systems Division for creating and implementing the entire and overall capture plan, including business solution and win strategy for pursuit of assigned opportunities.Senior Product Development Engineer : Led the development of laser-based optical remote sensing systems for climate research and weather forecasting markets. This was a new business area using a new technology which required the establishment of new core competencies, strategic plans, marketing and partnerships. Multiple patents in remote sensing. NASA Principal Investigator. Formal training in a variety of Voice-of-the-Customer and product development methodologies. Working in a multi-billion dollar firm significantly increased my skills in business development and capture, in securing external and internal funding for research and development.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Served as senior member of Space Automation and Robotics Center, a NASA-funded center of excellence, and as Technical Lead for all NASA space programs.• Led development in late 1980’s of satellite payload to demonstrate autonomous rendezvous and docking. • Served as Project Engineer on 2 robotic systems to evaluate potential for automated manufacturing of semiconductors in space, Robotic Operated Substrate Servicer and Automated Wafer Cartridge System;ROMPS flew on NASA Shuttle STS-69 Mission.

Responsible for proposal development, systems engineering, product development, testing and deployment of Doppler Wind Lidar systems.

Responsible for systems engineering, product development, testing and deployment of Machine Vision systems for Automotive, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical sectors. Our objective, which we met, was to leverage technology that we have developed at ERIM into commercial product sales. Developed robotic systems for automated handling and evaluation of biomedical samples for evidence of biological activity.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Electrical engineering on a wide range of remote sensing systems for NASA earth and planetary science programs. Progressed up the ranks to Program Manager on the NASA Upper Atmospher Research Satellite, High Resolution Doppler Imager instrument program. A $32M effort ($1980) with a team of 30+ world class scientists and engineers.