Patrick Blevins Email & Phone Number

Extensive background in systems integration, test & evaluation (T&E). Developed test & measurement system controls for presenting dynamic loads and environments to flight control actuation systems. FPGA firmware designer contributing to radio frequency (RF) target simulator Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test facility design and integration. Line, facility and project management experience.

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  Electrical Systems Engineer

  The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  Jun 1999 - Present - Columbia, Md

  - Develop, simulate, integrate and test firmware for special test equipment controls used in Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) RF target simulators, primarily using VHDL to program Xilinx FPGAs.- Provide systems engineering support in efforts to assemble and test proof-of-principal hardware for wave-front simulators. - Subject Matter Expert (SME) supporting life-cycle of electromechanical flight control actuation systems development and fielding, e.g., requirements development, design, integration, T&E, production, failure investigation.- Design, analysis, modeling, integration and troubleshooting of test & measurement systems for presenting realistic dynamic loads and environments to flight control actuation systems.- Worked with government sponsors and contractors to define and refine requirements and tests to validate hardware compliance.- Create physics-based control actuation systems models using Matlab and Simulink.- Development/simulation of circuit models using ORCAD Capture/PSPICE.- Support flight test data analyses for aerodynamic, thrust vector, exoatmospheric control actuators.- Experienced in developing and presenting technical data to stakeholders and customers in design reviews and technical interchange meetings as well as by formal written documentation.- Led teams thru requirements development, design, fabrication and deployment of high performance $1M+ special test equipment capabilities to recreate flight-like environmental and loading conditions during ground tests. Teams consisted of engineers across many disciplines and varying levels of education and experience, as well as across organization boundaries.- Managed operations of a facility used for test and evaluation of high performance electromechanical flight control actuation systems.- Provided technical oversight, coaching, mentoring, and training to other employees inside and outside my area of subject matter expertise.