David Grebe

Experience

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  L3 Technologies Cincinnati Electronics

  Nov 1987 - Jul 2006

  Support Engineer

  Consisted of maintaining lab equipment, building prototype boards, fabricating enclosures, writing work orders, and working with production staff. I was promoted to lab manager where I oversaw and advised lab personal as well as maintaining all testing procedures. Since then I have been promoted to Support Engineer working in the Research and Development Lab alongside engineers designing and building elaborate circuitry to control focal plane arrays. I am involved in all stages of our infrared camera products from the initial design of the circuit to the final assembly and testing of a unit. Show less

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  L3 Technologies Cincinnati Electronics

  Jul 2014 - Aug 2022

  Senior Spec, Project Engineer

  Project Engineer over $300K - $6M dollar technology programs for Infrared Sensor Systems, including the development and manufacture of cryogenically cooled Infrared Cameras used on both USA Military and Foreign Military Sales (FMS). Project engineer over design/development and production programs includes Stalker (SLREOSS), Avenge, C-RAM, LAVUP, AAV, and Northern/Southern Border Surveillance Systems. Supervisor, Effective System Integration, System Verification and Validation, Technical Troubleshooting, Field Service, Design Documentation, Research & Development, Software Interfaces, Customer Relations, Project Management Managed program’s technical aspects of sizable development projects as the lead Systems Engineer in a matrix environment. Experience program proposals and generated estimates for engineering activities, resource allocation and creation of technical volumes. Accountable for generation of program execution plans, coordination of resources allocation and management of schedules while achieving program’s technical, cost and time constraints. Knowledge of project management, managing large and complex programs and processes with minimal direction or oversight. Accountable for engineering aspects of key program milestones: System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Review, Risk Management and Production Readiness Review.  Experience with product requirements definition, allocation and management in a CMMI environment. Engineering experience with design, development, integration and test of cryogenically cooled infrared systems. Experience with Requirements Management Software, Jama, DOORS Planed, coordinated, and executed Design Verification and Qualification Tests in accordance with customer specifications and military standards. Coordinated program proposals and generated estimates for engineering activities. Show less

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  L3Harris Technologies

  Feb 2022 - Jan 2023

  Senior Specialist System Engineer

  Systems Engineer, responsible for the technical integrity, quality and on-time delivery of the System Engineering assigned products. Part of a multi-disciplinary program team responsible for architecting, designing, testing and understanding of program level objectives.

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  L3Harris Technologies

  Apr 2023 - now

  Acting, Software Engineering Department Manager leading and developing technical and functional teams working on cutting edge Electro-Optical Infrared Product lines and world-class Space Avionics systems.• Managed, recruited, and developed a strong group of software engineers.• Defined, maintained, improved, and managed the software development processes.• Identified and managed design risk of software engineering projects.• Supported team in developing software on programs via oversight and review.• Provided labor and resource planning.• Supportd bid and proposal activities including cost and schedule estimation. Show less

  • System Engineering Manager

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Department Manager, Software Engineering (acting)

    Apr 2023 - Oct 2023