SKILL SUMMARY
Years of experience: > 20 Years.
Design tools: OrCAD, PADS Logic, PADS PCB (layout), SpDE, Viewlogic, Cadence, CADSoft Eagle CAD
Design Experience: RF design through 200MHz, Particle Instruments, X-Ray imaging systems, flight instrument data acquisition systems
Programming languages: VHDL, MatLab, Simulink, C/C++, Assembly, and Visual BASIC
Embedded environments:
Xilinx FPGA, Actel FPGA, Quicklogic FPGA, Intel x86, PIC, and other devices
Xilinx ML405, Xilinx ML506, Xilinx AC701, Xilinx Zynq platforms
Interfaces: Familiar with many different interfaces between microcontrollers and devices from custom interfaces through standard ones including I2C, SPI, Mil Std 1553, IEEE 1284, RS232, and many more.
Additional skills: Poisson statistics for particle instruments, DSP system design, highly pipelined/parallel processing architectures for real time RF data acquisition systems. Non-GPS based trilateration positioning algorithms. X-Ray imaging systems.
Education:
University of Alabama at Birmingham, BSEE (1993), - Honors in Interdisciplinary Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MSEE (2011)
Affiliations:
Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), 2004 Present. Member of IEEE since 1992.
Treasurer, Washington/Northern Virginia Chapter of IEEE/GRSS 2005-2007
WORK HISTORY
August 2007 - Present: Consultant for Siena College
Title: Engineer in resident
Key skills: Systems engineer, analog/digital design, satellite avionics,
instrument design, fiber lasers, FPGA design, RF Board
design, signal processing
During my tenure at Siena College, I have designed, built, and delivered a variety of instruments for terrestrial and non-terrestrial applications. These include Electron Spectrometers for the MagnetoSpheric Multi-Scale mission (a NASA mission to study magnetic reconnection), photodetectors and VLF receivers for Firefly (an NSF funded cubesat) and Firestation (a joint NSF and NASA International Space Station experiment), instruments for various sounding rockets, and a Riometer which is an RF receiver designed for Arctic and Antarctic operation. I was a key member of the successful proposal efforts that lead to these instruments being selected and funded by the granting organization.
In addition to my regular design duties, I have also been called on as an expert consultant for a variety of special engineering problems including the NASA Engineering and Safety Center Avionics Consulting on failure and reliability studies including a James Webb Space Telescope analysis of micro meteor impacts on exposed cables and NSF’s RF noise abatement team for McMurdo Station Antarctica’s Arrival Heights science facility.
May 2001 – Present: NASA/GSFC (contractor)
(GST 2001-2007, Oceaneering 2008-present)
Title: Instrument Manager – C/NOFS-VEFI
Development lead – Pulse Pumped Fiber LASERs
Design Lead – MMS MMS/FPI/Dual Electron Spectrometer
Design Lead – MiniMe/STORM/WASP instruments
Key skills: Technical management, systems engineer, analog/digital
design, satellite avionics, instrument design, fiber optic design, fiber lasers, FPGA design
I was the design lead for the Dual Electron Spectrometer (DES, part of the Fast Plasma Imager on the Magnetospheric MultiScalar missions). In my role on this project, I am responsible for the design and development of all space flight avionics for the instrument head and the Command and Data Handling board. These designs contain analog circuits, digital circuits, and an FPGA for which I also developed and tested the VHDL code. The experience gathered during the MMS design was then applied to a number of smaller missions including MiniMe and DXL/STORM. Both of ...
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