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St Louis, Missouri, United States

Working with CATSHOT Group supporting the Boeing effort for MQ-25 Development and Fielding.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Test and Evaluation of Fighter Weapons Systems, and associated Tactical Aircraft Technologies. F-15, F/A-18, MQ-25

St. Louis, Missouri

Enterprise management of Pilots assigned for Test and Evaluation to UAS programs for development and acceptance testing.

St. Louis, Missouri

Manager supporting flight operations for Boeing Tactical Aircraft and Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Coordination with the Defense Contract Management Agency, Federal Aviation Authority, and the Military Services for the flight testing and acceptance and delivery of F/A-18, F-15, Flying Testbed Aircraft and Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Represents Flight.

Palmdale, California

St. Louis, Missouri

Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike System (UCLASS) Principal Systems Architect for the concept development, early design, Systems Integration Planning, and proposal development for a Navy Aircraft System program valued at several billion dollars. Responsible for System Architecture development, System Integration and Carrier.

St. Louis, Missouri

Systems Architecture Lead, Advanced Air Dominance (AAD) System June 2009 - January 2011Developed the conceptual design architecture of an advanced Naval Strike Fighter system, responsible for delivery of the integrated architecture for the Operational and Functional description of the AAD system. Architecture formed the basis of simulations that were used.

St. Louis, Missouri

Developed tactics, and training briefs, and flew as a simulator aircrew with the Navy Subject Matter Experts in support of experiments in the Virtual Warfare Center. Developed the technical material to communicate the Boeing message directly to the customer. Demonstrated exceptional communication with the Operational and Technical leaders at NAVAIR, OPNAV.

St. Louis, Missouri

Led a small highly focused project team to fly X-45 hardware and software in an F/A-18F to prove out and demonstrate systems for unmanned aircraft to fly around and land on U. S. Navy Aircraft Carriers. Developed a plan to fly X-45C hardware and software integrated into a F/A-18F (F1) aircraft. Led the resulting one-year project, using rapid prototyping.

St. Louis, Missouri

Experimental Test Weapons Systems Officer in the F-15K and F/A-18F, supporting test flights, SLAM-ER testing, and delivery of the completed aircraft to Taegu Korea and the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF), and F/A-18F production effort.

LCDR, U. S. Navy, Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer. Represented the Navy on-site as Program Integrator for first the T-45C and then the F/A-18 E/F program. As Program Integrator for F/A-18 E/F, led a 17 person multifunctional Product Support Team, comprised of Engineers, Quality Assurance Specialists, Manufacturing and Contracting Specialists..

LCDR, Naval Flight Officer U. S. Navy, Training Squadron Four, Pensacola, FloridaServed as the Operations Officer, responsible for the daily operations of a squadron responsible for training of 450 Naval flight Officers, USAF Navigators and international partner navigator students annually. - Led 40 flight instructors from all the services and varied.

U. S. Navy, Staff Officer to Commander Seventh Fleet, USS Blue Ridge, Yokosuka, Japan, a U. S. Navy Vice Admiral.- developed a new position as Command Information Manager, incorporating information technology into fleet operations- designed and implemented a web based command and control system to control the Joint Task Force exercise (TANDEM THRUST 97).

U. S. Navy, Fighter Squadron One Hundred OneTrained new aviators and RIOs and conducted refresher training on the F-14A and F-14B aircraft. Flew daily with student pilots and instructed in the flight simulator and as a classroom instructor for aircraft systems, and tactics.

U. S. Navy, Fighter Squadron Forty One Served as an Officer in Operations, Maintenance, and Personnel Departments. Flew combat missions in the F-14A from the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) in Operation Desert Storm- Selected to attend TOPGUN and serve as RIO Training Officer

U. S. Navy, Training Squadron Ten, Training Squadron Eighty-Six, Fighter Squadron One Hundred OneSelected for and trained to become a fleet F-14 Radar Intercept Officer (RIO).

Antisubmarine Warfare Officer / Communications Officer, 1985-1988, U. S. Navy, USS MacDonough (DDG-39), Charleston, S.C. Mediterranean Sea Deployment in support of the Forrestal Battle Group. Qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer.

M.S., Systems Engineering

Bs, Weapons Systems Engineering

High School Diploma, Growing Up