Laboratory lead, communications electronic warfare, providing vulnerability studies of transceivers including waveform and protocol exploitations. Among DSP (digital signal processing) techniques used are CSP (cyclostationary), time difference of arrival, and similar. DSP and automated data acquisition software written in Python, Matlab, C and bash. Software defined radio proof of concept work in gnuradio.Synthetic in-phase/quadrature signal generation and channel modeling for widely used wireless protocols.Machine learning for waveform recognition and classification as precursor to intelligent attack. Extensive use and SCPI programming of standard laboratory electronic measurement instrumentation.Research with US Department of Transportation and National Telecommunications and Information Administration on 802.11p-based Dedicated Short Range Communications for vehicular communications.Designed and implemented linux based lab network to support full test automation. Software servers include NFS/samba, NTP, HTTP, DHCP, in addition to cron for nightly rsync pushes, and Ubuntu repository mirror for stand-alone network.

One of five Chief Engineers in Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate, made up of approximately 600 technical staff.Chief engineer of division of approximately 110 engineers and computer scientists specializing in systems engineering, architecture, modeling and simulation.Monitor and oversee programs, budgets, progress, and eventual products. Report to senior management and act as technical consultant to division staff.

Team leader of RF propagation modeling and link budget simulator development written in C and Java. Simulator uses WGS84 earth model, TIREM path loss, environmental noise, and 3D far-field radiation patterns to determine link availability probability.Simulated ballistic interactions for Congressionally mandated live fire studies. Ballistic modeling draws from ARL’s research dating back to WWII.

Network and systems services. Software development related to maintaining university network devices and servers supporting approximately 24,000 university faculty, staff, students and visiting users.

Took part in weapon system engineering activities at Philadelphia Naval Base, PA and Naval Station Mayport, FL. Attended EDO school at Vallejo Naval Base, CA.

Design and evaluation of real-time wireless protocols. Mathematical models closely matched Opnet simulations. Simulator received award from Opnet.Design and development of real-time, triggered, distributed data base implemented on a wireless LAN for battlefield communication. Goal is to reduce friendly fire.Developer of BRL-CAD, a solid modeling package. Models can be raytraced with various segments of electromagnetic spectrum in addition to visible light. Used for Desert Storm target studies.Developed computer graphics code for liquid injection molding simulations. Used in Apache helicopter development.

Developed and fielded digital hardware and software systems to test and evaluate effectiveness of variety of conventional weapons.Project technical leader to improve kill-rate of entire army fleet of M1A1 battle tanks prior to Desert Storm.Project technical leader, contractor technical point of contact for development of computer based automated generator testing system.Designed and developed DSP software, and modified hardware for simultaneous tracking of supersonic projectiles on up to four ranges.Designed circuit board and wrote C driver software for a board that monitors IEEE 1553 data bus in M1A2 tanks. Boards were later mass produced.

Designed and developed code for air traffic control system, Mode S.One of three team members responsible for a subsystem’s detail design.Subsystem monitors alarm conditions such as airplane landing on wrong runway, potential collision, etc.