Career Summary:
Job titles: Ocean Sensors Engineer, Signal/Image Processing Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Airborne Sensor Operator/Analyst.
Employers: SAIC, Lockheed Martin, University of Hawaii, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, University of Colorado Boulder
Experience: electronic instrument development for ISR, oceanographic, and meteorological applications; algorithm development for acoustics signal processing, detection, and tracking; underwater and atmospheric acoustics research; operation of radar and hyperspectral sensors; numerous field deployments for systems testing and operations aboard ships and aircraft.
Skills: signal and array processing algorithm development; scientific data analysis; software development for data acquisition and processing in Windows and Linux environments; digital and analog circuit design and assembly; electronic systems troubleshooting; computer network configuration; metal fabrication;.
Education:
MS Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
Recent Employment History:
May2011-Feb2013, Airborne Operator/Analyst, SAIC, Bridgewater, VA
Work description: Operated and maintained synthetic aperture radar system aboard airborne ISR platform during overseas deployment for IED detection program. Installed computer, network, and radar equipment aboard aircraft.
Tasks: Operated airborne imaging radar systems, planned flight patterns, maintained radar hardware and software, trained new personnel, analyzed images for features of interest.
Skills required: Ability to troubleshoot hardware/software problems for radar data acquisition/processing system; familiarity with Linux, Matlab, LabVIEW; work in hazardous conditions and aboard aircraft
Mar2006-May2011, Ocean Sensors Engineer, SAIC, Honolulu, HI.
Work description: Developed hardware and software for use in underwater and airborne systems.
Tasks: Led project to develop acoustic system for use in a Navy underwater vehicle; integrated and packaged system components for vector sensor hydrophone system; developed a portable underwater acoustic monitoring system; configured high performance Linux-based data acquisition system with GPU coprocessor for a prototype airborne electronics system.
Skills required: Acoustic signal processing; basic radar signal processing; real-time data acquisition, processing, and display programming with Matlab and LabVIEW in Windows; C/shell programming with Linux ; analog circuit design for sensor interfacing and signal conditioning; PCB layout; equipment packaging for underwater use; instrument field testing and evaluation; software configuration management; report writing and oral presentations.
Sep2000-Mar2006: Signal/Image Processing Engineer, Lockheed Martin/Orincon, Honolulu, HI
Work description: Developed signal processing algorithms for use with multi-sensor arrays. The purpose was to detect and locate underwater acoustic signals of interest to the ASW community.
Tasks: Developed a cross-correlation algorithms for detecting contacts in near field of submarine hydrophone array; worked on Kalman filter-based algorithms for target tracking; developed a submarine collision avoidance system consisting of a suite of signal processing algorithms; developed localization algorithms for passive and active sonobuoy arrays.
Skills required: Signal/image processing to support beamforming, spectral analysis, detection, tracking, and signal localization; Matlab, C/C++, and in Windows, Linux, and Solaris environments; p...
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