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I’m known for bringing high energy, passion, and a customer focus to complex system-of-system problems. Currently I’m in a program manager role leading collaborative autonomy and launched effects pursuits where I get to creatively impact strategy and roadmaps while still heavily exercising my engineering backgroundI’ve spent the last 5 years pursuing emerging capability programs related to autonomy, autonomous air vehicles, cyber security, radio communications, with the most notable success being Collins Aerospace's award and down-select for the Army's Air Launched Effects (ALE) program. I am involved in broad "connected battlespace" strategies, technical roadmap, and business planning with an intense focus on flight and demonstration efforts.My background is in engineering, focused on radio communications and networks. I've lead multiple engineering teams including a customer-facing systems engineering team working on mobile ground radios for the Army, and an FPGA design and verification team that supported multiple data-link radio product lines.As an Engineer, I've worked the full range of FPGA development, from preliminary design and architecture efforts through advanced verification environments and integration. Designs have included information assurance, waveform (digital signal processing) development, hardware (digital and RF) control and monitoring, and many more. Most designs have been implemented using VHDL, but some have included Verilog and C code running on embedded processors (System on a Chip Devices).

Listed skills include Embedded Systems, Fpga, Vhdl, Testing, and 43 others.