Manager Engineer

PETER ONYSCHTSCHUK

#* - **** ****** **.

Chilliwack, BC, Canada, V2P 4E2

Tel: 250-***-****

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Bachelor of Computer Engineering, 1991, University of Victoria

Citizenship: Canada (Previous USA TN-Visas: 3)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

CTO...VP of Technology...Systems Engineering Manager...Manager of R&D

Technology Visionary...New Product R&D...Environmental Assessment

Remote-Sensing...Digital Cameras...Remote Surveillance...Electronics

Software and Hardware Conception, Design, and Deployment...Manufacturing

Technology Management and Leadership...Balanced Score-Card

Teamwork...Problem Solving...Innovation...Project Management...Team Player

GPS...INS...Airborne and Marine Sensors...DO-160...Quality Control...ISO-

9000

Owner and leader of Technology development at Iron Sky--GoogleMaps, MPEG4,

H.264

Leader of long and short-term technology development and strategy for M7

Visual Intelligence. Promoted a team environment.

Long track-record of balancing the logistics of people, resources,

and time management with a diverse group of personnel for large and small

projects.

Applied systems-engineering, photogrammetric, and project-management

principles to enable world-class imaging systems.

Managed Research and Development of software and hardware to be used in

Remote Sensing applications from aircraft.

Created, as principal software engineer, a number of software products for

remote-sensing data-acquisition and data-processing.

Designed and built hardware and software for real-time embedded systems.

Created aircraft/marine displays for navigation and line guidance. Systems-

Engineered hardware such as lasers, GPS, INS, RF, and digital cameras into

existing survey systems.

Developed algorithms for mapping from digital/video images as well as for

filtering of acquired data.

Travelled world-wide to manage major data-acquisition projects.

WORK HISTORY:

Feb'09 - May'09 Iron Sky, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA

Vice President of Technology

A key part of the start-up leadership team responsible with no

oversight to given purview of advancing the enterprise-

wide surveillance system.

Released initial and second versions of the Iron Sky system to

market within a short time period by bringing

contributing parties together.

Led and motivated the external software development team with

aggressive delivery schedules.

Created plans for operational team departments and members.

Partnered with Delivery to deploy the Iron Sky system to clients'

sites.

Worked with outside companies to integrate their products into the

Iron Sky system.

Dec'07 - Sep'08 M7 Visual Intelligence, LP, Houston, Texas, USA

Chief Technical Officer/Systems Engineering Manager

The technical keeper of the large-format aerial imaging system

known as IRIS, a revolutionary modular, scalable airborne

suite of software and hardware.

The technical leader tasked with defining the technological path as

well as implementing the necessary tasks to follow it.

Used all resources available to advance the technology through

design, implementation, and testing. Hands-on when

needed.

Person responsible for all technology development including both

software and hardware for aerial imaging.

Managed all internal as well as external team members to realize

the corporate strategic goals.

Created time-lines and initiatives to stabilize the technology for

further modularization and integration.

Prepared plans and implemented them with patience and diligence to

keep the team on track.

Partnered with the Chief Scientist for future development.

Worked alongside the CEO to interview and select good candidates in

order to enhance the company's success.

Created cost estimates and collaborated with the CEO and the Board

of Directors and Advisors regarding budgeting.

Assigned team members to appropriate tasks and guided them along

the way.

2002 - Dec'07 Van-Isle Technology Systems, Ltd, Sidney, BC, Canada

Entrepreneurial Endeavour - Senior Software Engineer

Partnered with an entrepreneur to create an innovative piece of

software to work inside AutoCad using ADS/ObjectARX,

Visual C++, and MFC. The software extracts and

manipulates data from a 3-D model to drive an Electro-

static Discharge Machine (EDM).

The software runs as a Windows dynamic-link library and supports

various versions of AutoCad.

Worked on initial concepts to create hardware to tap into and

remotely link to the user display and console of EDM

machines.

1991 - 2001 Terra Remote Sensing Inc, Sidney, BC, Canada

Manager of Research and Development

Head of Information Technology

Senior Computer Engineer

MAJOR PROJECTS:

Terrain Scanning Laser: Designed and fabricated front-end

electronics and software to gather laser ranges for use in

mapping ground topography. The system mounted in an

aircraft and fired a laser at up to 10 kHz onto a scanning

mirror aimed at the ground. The reflections from the

ground targets as well as the mirror position were

conditioned and then sent for logging to a VME-based

computer running a real-time operating system. The data

was also displayed in real-time by the computer. This

system became the company's revenue back-bone and has

created long-term potential for the company.

VideoMap: Created software and hardware to enable

accurate mapping from a video camera. The software uses

video from an aircraft-mounted camera to map the

planimetric features seen in the video when played back on

a desktop computer through a frame-grabber. The company

has used this system for many years all over the world.

Digital Tide Gauge: Created a compact, robust tide-gauge

capable of logging tide data digitally for extended

periods with no user interaction.

Data-logger: Wrote software for an IBM-PC to handle the

logging of survey data from many sources. This software

also provides the necessary navigational tools (such as a

map display) for different types of surveys. Two versions

of the software exist: one for boat surveys called

NavDisp and one for aircraft surveys called Air-GPS.

NavDisp provides input for such devices as digital

sounders, gyros, and sub-sea systems. Air-GPS was

designed around aeronautical equipment such as an Inertial

Navigation System and pilot line-keeping displays. Air-GPS

also interfaces to the Terrain Scanning Laser and digital

cameras. The fundamental positioning system for this

software is GPS and is synchronized to GPS time once-per-

second.

Digital Camera: Designed and fabricated software and

hardware to control a Kodak digital camera so that the

time of each picture is known to millisecond accuracy.

This accurate time-stamping enables the aircraft's

position (via GPS) and attitude to be applied to each

picture.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

- C/C++ (MFC), Basic, Fortran, Lisp, 6502, 68000, x86 Assembler,

html

- Windows 2008 Server, SQL Server 2005, VPN, RDC, Hyper-V

- Windows, Unix, DOS, AIX, PSOS+, QNX, VRTX, Solaris, Linux

- AutoCAD ObjectARX, MS Project, MS Office, .NET, GIS

- IBM-PC, SUN, Power-PC, VAX, Mac, MC68HC11, VME, XiLinx, ARM

- Analog/Digital Circuitry, PCB Design, Embedded, Firmware, Real-

Time

- Algorithms, OOD, SDLC, Agile, Waterfall

OTHER INFO:

- Basic Project Management course (CMC/AMA)

- Past Director, Coombs-Hilliers Volunteer Fire Department

- Past Head Coach, Kwalikum Secondary Senior Boys Basketball

- Commercial Pilot's Licence (Canadian) with multi-engine

endorsement

- Open Water Diving Certificate

- Co-authored papers:

- "Caribbean Coastal Zone Management With Airborne Bathymetry",

Terra Surveys Ltd., 1998

- "Fish Floppin', Pole Toppin', Rock Droppin', Tree Croppin'

Surveys!" (Published in Geomatica, vol.50, No.3, 1996)

- "Larsen LIDAR and Colour VideoMap: an Active/Passive

Technique for Coastal Environmental Assessment and Mapping"

(Canadian Coastal Conference, 1995)

PROFESSIONAL SUPPLEMENT:

A graduate of a Canadian university, Peter is most at home solving

complex problems in hi-tech fields. Peter has a long track-record of

creating remote-sensing hardware and software solutions for various

terrestrial and marine mapping applications. He also has an abundance of

experience with field operations, managing people, R&D finances, and

logistics.

While still at university, Peter entered the industry by joining the

progressively-minded group at the west-coast office of Terra Surveys in

Canada. From this experience he learned the nuances of remotely

monitoring items of interest, applying scientific algorithms to analyze

the data, and working on the edge of what technology can provide, all

from the creator's point of view. Peter can both build a black-box and

write software to control the black-box and has taken many electronic and

computer packages from initial concept to full implementation. In an

applied integration of a number of disciplines, Peter wrote a software

package called VideoMap to map precise planimetric details from an

aircraft, using a video camera.

Peter was one of the co-founding group of Terra Remote Sensing, Inc.

which took over the Research and Development branch of Terra Surveys and

embarked on an innovative approach to mapping the world on land and under

water with lasers and cameras. At Terra he was the Manager of R&D, Head

of IT, and Senior Software/Hardware Engineer.

Peter has worked with the Canadian Department of National Defense (DREV)

to adapt an airborne side-looking laser scanning wire-avoidance system to

a nadir-looking terrain mapping laser system. With this, he was able to

create one of the first commercial topographic scanning Lidar systems.

Prior to joining the team at Iron Sky, Peter was the Chief Technical

Officer of M7 Visual Intelligence where he used his expertise in remote-

sensing to bring the company to the next level of its development.

While at Iron Sky, Peter brought current technologies (Google-Maps, MPEG-

4, and H.264) to bear on existing crime-fighting surveillance as well as

sought and nurtured new developments and new perspectives. He was a key

part of the start-up leadership team responsible with no oversight to the

given purview of advancing the enterprise-wide surveillance system.

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