Experience

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  The university of illinois nuclear physics laboratory

  Aug 1976 - Jun 1979

  Chief linac operator

  Operated Superconducting Linac, providing 100% duty factor electron beams with energies between 2 and 80 MeV. Set up and maintained beam quality for various physics experimenters needs, compensating for magnet variations and focusing high energy stream to target areas.Trained, scheduled, and supervised the 7 other operators needed for 24/7 operations.

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  Jet propulsion laboratory

  Jul 1979 - Oct 2003

  ✦ Exciter / Uplink Systems Test Lead – Doppler compensated transmitters, with ranging & command modulators, with International operational support and training – Madrid, Canberra, Goldstone Tracking.✦ Recovered multi-mission critical 70m subnet outages in, solving critical Command Abort anomalies of 400 kW Transmitter data. Manipulated data-flows through dozens of convoluted and legacy interfaces. Saved > 200k$ by designing a simplified and consolidated mix of heterogeneous transmitters and divergent un-malleable software, allowing earlier delivery (on accelerated schedule).✦ Trained global network of several 100s of tracking operations and maintenance engineers, skillfully integrating and animating presentations ( VBA running Excel and Power Point ).✦ Deployed SW 6 months early and yielded a work-year’s savings, by designing & installing testing LAN bridged between Operational & customizable Test systems, permitting a 2-fold reduction in the perennial verification and validation testing upgrade efforts, with safe, easy, and thorough cross-development software version(s) regression and operational testing. Show less ✦ Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Radio Science embedded Receivers Lead.✦ Designed and supervised team of dozen hardware and software engineers, with $3M budget (FY 80) as Cognizant Development Engineer. ✦ Responsible for creating three ultra-stable automated receivers, which provided Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) spacecraft navigation capabilities, crucial for Galileo spacecraft's success at Jupiter.✦ Consolidated diverse technologies across challenging projects, including: ultra-stable RF & Millimeter signals & frequency-conversion, optimum design cascaded Noise Figure & systems calibration, embedded virtual/multiplexed receiver channels, innovating and enhancing fielded systems, ergonomic interfaces, problem solving, ensuring successful mission endeavors with thorough telecom RF link budgets and navigation analysis. Show less

  • Systems Test Lead

    Oct 1992 - Oct 2003

  • Technical Group Leader

    May 1988 - Oct 1992

  • RF Cognizant Development Engineer

    Jul 1979 - May 1988
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  Itt exelis / jpl

  Jan 2004 - Oct 2007

  ✦ Responsible focal point coordinating telecom services for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Cassini spacecraft project offices, ensuring the DSN’s capability, compatibility, and continuity to successfully support all phases of NASA’s highest ever data rate mission ( 6 Mb/s, in 2007). ✦ Mission Critical event planning and support and various spacecraft emergency response activities✦ Coordinated and creatively resolved communication challenges between JPL’s Project’s Plans and Status, Ground Data Systems, Mission Operations System Development, Telecommunication and Mission Systems Managers, Engineering Design, and ITT’s Deep Space Missions Systems support, Real-time Operations & Scheduling, Support Data Products, and global spacecraft tracking facilities – through engaging inquiry and sensitivity.✦ Tested and delivered customized equipment and systems configuration files, Doppler compensation predictions, and acquisition tuning profile files, and extensive post encounter/anomaly root cause analysis.✦ Resolved perilous mission operational anomalies manning Remote Operations Center (ROC) by trouble-shooting expertise, critical analysis, and statistical root cause analysis (Six Sigma Green Belt). Show less ✦ Supervised Systems Test Engineering Team (6 engineers) - for JPL's Deep Space Network (DSN) communications systems.✦ Managed a startup team responsible for Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) of the DSN’s software and hardware deliveries, providing team certification & perceptual focus proving required upgraded capabilities. ✦ Successfully supported dozens of spacecraft mission critical real-time telemetry, command and ranging events – including Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion and Radio Science, Huygens Titan probe descent, MRO Orbit Insertion & Aero-braking, and Mars Exploratory Rovers.✦ Instituted automated web-based test reporting and data base, providing timely visibility and reporting capabilities, while deploying updated systems & providing mission assurance. Show less

  • Network Operations Project Engineer

    Nov 2005 - Oct 2007

  • Supervisor, Systems Test Engineering

    Jan 2004 - Nov 2005
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  School on wheels, inc.

  Feb 2012 - Apr 2015

  Volunteer tutor for homeless children, through

  Tutor and mentor at risk students, in Elementary through High School.See http://www.schoolonwheels.org/See http://www.achieveglendale.org/blog/