Senior image & signal processing scientist, big data analyst, and technical team leader in the area of remote sensing working with national sensors and data sets since 1995. Highly motivated with knowledge of the physical principles underlying the design, operation, and exploitation of various systems. Technologist capable of meeting the organization’s business goals by balancing technical excellence with cost & schedule needs.Excels at solving challenging technical problems; algorithm development; the modeling & simulation of physical systems; the analysis of large data sets to extract new information; testing hypotheses through data analysis; performing trade studies; the detailed documentation of analysis methods and results; preparing & giving technical briefings; interfacing with program & functional management, system engineering, integration & test, verification & validation; collaborating in working groups with the customer, contractors, and other stakeholders; listening & working well with others; working with small teams and learning on the job.Has lead teams in efforts involving the areas above and R&D, coherent imaging, non-coherent imaging, data exploitation, product engineering, signal / target detection, signal processing, & quantum computing. A strong background in the calibration, equalization, and exploitation of infrared, optical, spectral, and radar data. A self-taught programmer of C, FORTRAN, C++, MATLAB, IDL, PV-Wave, IRAF, shell scripting, Perl, TeX, LaTeX, ClearCase, ClearQuest, BASIC, and Visual BASIC. Has also written X based graphical user interfaces and designed & implemented webpages in HTML. Fluent in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. Experienced in briefing design, implementation, and presentation.Specialties: algorithm development, implementation, optimization, porting to various platforms, data calibration, exploitation, product development, product engineering, mentoring, interfacing with other organizations, documentation