Phillip Bush

Experience

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  US Navy

  Apr 2010 - Oct 2014

  Fire Control Technician

  Leading Petty Officer, Work Center Supervisor, Training Petty Officer•Led junior Sailors through all operations and administrative needs. •Instructed: raw data analytics, acoustics, oceanography, weapons engagements, casualty responses, network and system restoration.•Conducted raw data analytics, converting all ship’s sensory input into an actionable operating picture.•Made direct inputs to leadership for ship maneuvers and placement to effectively drive mission tasking.Work Center (Maintenance) Supervisor:•Supervised/ conducted preventative and corrective maintenance on electro-mechanical equipment and computer systems designed between 1962 and 2011, totaling millions of dollars.•Proficient at reading wiring schematics, testing down to the individual component level; fiber optic, network and protocol troubleshooting; rebuilding/ re-imaging servers, software installation, routing network traffic.•Lead technician for two complete networked system overhauls/updates: assisting in removal of old equipment, testing cabling and connections, physical installation, complete network software and firmware installation, network server and switch configuration and full system testing.•Administrator for systems and networks handling information of the highest sensitivity.•Administration and supervision of all maintenance assignments, conducting weekly QA checks, performing knowledge checks and quarterly administrative updates for two work centers.•Supply/logistics liaison for division. Tracked and ordered all consumable and repair related parts and supplies. •Maintained calibrated test equipment and ready spares for all divisional equipment.Weapons:•QA, handling, and firing of ship's weapons.•Safety Officer for weapons handling evolutions with zero incidents.•Hand selected for the most demanding positions through the ship's high stress evolutions.Outside-of-the-box thinking throughout these duties resulted in process efficiencies mirrored Navy-wide. Show less

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  US Navy

  May 2015 - Mar 2019

  Cryptology Technician (Collection) - NODAL Analyst

  Acting Leading Chief Petty Officer, Instructor, Career Counselor, Awarded Innovator.•Responsible for 25 Sailors for all matters, both at home and while deployed in an independent status supporting multi-service units worldwide.•Completely overhauled department's training pipeline, curriculum and administration. Renovation also included Navy training standards and schoolhouse curriculum.Personally invited to brief Admirals and Generals across Navy, Army and Air Force covering initiatives while deployed. Initiatives included: •Restructured Electronic Warfare tasking process and intelligence support.•Made analytical and technical discoveries which enabled clear direction for formation of offensive and defensive missions.•Created Concepts of Operation for complex, multifaceted mission sets requiring synchronization of numerous units.•Formulated processes for measuring effectiveness of non-kinetic missions; identified aforementioned changes in mission planning processes led to 218% increase in mission effectiveness.•Created a 6-person, continuously manned team to continue this work into the future.•Documented required skill sets for all team members as well as organization, work flow and responsibilities for each.Accomplishments on deployment applauded by Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and Chief of Staff of the Air Force.Initiated a complete modernization of a stagnant, semi-annual Electronic Warfare training exercise:•Developed training criteria, technical background, work flow, individual assignments and contractual agreements for all exercise participants, spanning three branches of military service and several units.•Led the execution of exercise, acting as on-site controller for all participants.•Created after action reports with technical findings, lessons learned and recommended actions.Exercise achievements received accolades from highest levels of Navy leadership. Show less

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  Boeing

  Mar 2019 - Jan 2020

  Electronic Technician
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  University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory

  Jul 2022 - Apr 2024

  Software Engineering Student Employee

  Part time software engineer supporting Ocean Engineering department. Developed seafloor-based autonomous systems based on PC-104 hardware. - Developed all back-end software for power management and control system. - Wrote fully-generalized software API for hardware Data Acquisition Board (DAQ), providing analog-to-digital (ADC), digital-to-analog (DAC), and digital I/O (GPIO) functionality via easy-to-understand interface. - Utilized ZeroMQ and Google Protocol Buffer (protobuf) for external communications. - All control software written in C/C++ using the Qt Framework. - Wrote software test plans and tested all software, including all hardware interfaces. Show less

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  Applied Physics Laboratory-UW

  Feb 2024 - now

  Software Engineer