Brandon Moretz Email & Phone Number

Bethesda, Md, Us

Group Technical Staff and Technical Lead for Telemetry and Flight Termination Hardware for multiple development missile programs• Providing technical insight and technical guidance for programs needing Telemetry and Flight Termination Systems• Mentoring engineers through the development of Telemetry and Flight Termination Systems • Interfacing with program management, chief engineers, and external subcontractors to provide a solution to meet cost and schedule needs• Tailoring the RCC-319 and interfacing with the Range Safety Officer during the design of Flight Termination SystemsLead Telemetry Designer for a development missile program• Analog and digital circuit design for a telemetry encoder that interfaces with various sensors and missile subsystems• Circuit designs for power, communication interfaces, FPGA, amplification for sensor inputs, and analog to digital conversion.• Interfacing with multiple disciplines to establish requirements, integrate and test

Bethesda, Md, Us

Lead Electrical Engineer for Missile Telemetry Unit Redesign• Directly led a team of 6 engineers to complete the design which consisted of 3 different FPGA based circuit cards. Two circuit cards are missile hardware that are designed to meet military environmental standards. • Interfaced with Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Scheduling to ensure a complete, robust design that meets cost and schedule.• Manged cost and schedule performance on a continual basis to prevent large cost or schedule slips. Performed all monthly Earned Value activities for 12 control accounts (budget accounts for dedicated disciplines).Electrical designer for tactical circuit card installed in every missile• Executed system and detailed electrical design for the telemetry measurement and encoder circuit card for a defense missile• Analog and digital design with Microsemi Igloo2 FPGA• Coordination with system design of the missile, schematic entry using Cadence, prototype bench level testing, noise analysis, worst-case tolerance analysis, component de-rating analysis, and continuous oversight of the circuit card layout.• Conducted requirement derivation and hardware verification

Bethesda, Md, Us

Real time Control Screens for ground based telemetry hardware that supports lab testing and flight test activities.• Development of a common screen architecture to make implementation of new hardware faster and more reliable• Using the .NET framework to communicate over Ethernet to many different telemetry devices• Driver development to convert software control screen commands into device level register commands.Integrated the new receiver system that I developed at the White Sands Missile Range. • The new system proves to be reliable and achieves greater than 99% data quality for each mission. Successful low cost solution for tracking missiles during flight.Rapid development of a thermal battery lot verification test set• Ethernet based data acquisition device that gathers isolated voltage, current, and temperature measurements, interfaces with external resistive loads, and squibs a thermal battery. • Developed VHDL firmware to communicate to ADC, DAC, with precise timing to achieve the specific loading profile that the battery is subject to during flight• Developed leadership skills by overseeing the buildup of the testset, software development, and testing while being the lead designer.Developed and led the integration effort for the telemetry system for the largest Missile Defense Agency flight test in the Marshall Islands at Reagan Test Site (RTS).• Developed telemetry acquisition plan and executed with greater than 99.5% RF Data quality• Ethernet based receive system with 6 stationary antennas, 3 geo-tracking antennas, and 1 auto tracking antenna totaling over 10 different RF feeds from 3 missiles.Electrical Consultant for Lockheed Martin on the development of a production battery lot tester• Requirements derivation and technical oversight for the development of the testset by a sub-contractor.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Troubleshot hardware issues on production Telemetry Hardware. Found the root cause of missile hardware failures and developing a path forward to get a functional and reliable piece of hardware.Designed ground-based receiving system for defense missile launches­• Complete product life cycle development including analog/digital circuit design with over 200 components, mechanical layout, project management, firmware development for Xilinx Virtex FPGA, TCP/IP communication, and design acceptance testing• Ethernet based rack that communicates to three different types of S-band receivers, decodes missile telemetry data, and communicates to two types of antenna positioners during flightRapid development to deliver a quality product in a time critical situationsDesign and fabrication of 4 quick-turn instrumentation devices used for various test and proof of concept that includes entire life cycle development.• Included Analog Circuit card design, circuit card layout, and milling on a LPKF machine• Mechanical layout of enclosures • Component identification and procurement

79409, Tx, Us

Assisted in the teaching and evaluation of undergraduate project laboratory. Involved many design tutorials and helping students use common engineering tools.

Arlington, Va, Us

Designed prototype circuits and milled prototype boards on LPKF ProtoMat machine

Austin , Texas, Us

Real-time Hardware and Software Development

Msee, Embedded Systems

Bsee, Electrical Engineering