KEITH L. GIORDANO

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

*** ********** *****

Buffalo, NY 14221

716-***-****

abknki@r.postjobfree.com

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

**/** - */**/** General Dynamics, Buffalo, NY

*/** - 11/83 Consultant to General Dynamics, Buffalo, NY

EXPERIENCE

Senior Engineer with comprehensive experience in system

development, deployment, operational support, product reliability and

maintainability, supervision of subcontractors, systems integration,

simulation modeling, integrated logistic support, management and computer

programming.

PROJECT ENGINEERING

FAST

As the project engineer for the deployment of the Free and Secure

Trade (FAST) U.S. Customs clearance system at the northern border

crossings, I completed installation of FAST deployments at 13 Northern

Border Crossings installing a total of 36 lane equipment sets. FAST is

a joint US/Canada program which expedites commercial vehicle transit

using RFID technology for vehicle and driver identification.

PBA Toll System

As project engineer on the Peace Bridge Intelligent Transportation

Border Crossing System (ITBCS), I was responsible for the coordination

of all activities associated with development, installation, fault

correction and maintenance of the ITBCS system. The system integrates

Toll, Immigration and Commercial Vehicle Customs functions through the

use of multipurpose vehicle based transponders and roadside readers.

The system has US and Canadian based subsystems which interface with

government systems on both sides of the border. As project engineer I

coordinated engineering development of the various subsystems,

directly supervised all civil and electrical work on both sides of the

border to prepare the infrastructure and communication backbone,

coordinated system installation, debugging and acceptance testing, and

spearheaded fault isolation and system maintenance operations. The

success of the program necessitated daily coordination with

stakeholders on both sides of the border and the daily management of

subcontractors. As a follow-on to the ITBCS program, I acted as

project engineer on the full scale deployment of the EZPass system at

the Peace Bridge, including daily interaction at the bridge facility

to manage civil contractors in site preparation, hardware

installation, customer interface, and checkout testing.

As project engineer for the EZPass consultancy services program, I

have been responsible for managing and providing engineering services

for the development and maintenance of the EZPass system. This

includes providing engineering review services for appraising drawings

and other engineering documents submitted by the developer prior to

entry into the escrow account. Other services provided under the

contract include independent test monitoring for qualification testing

of hardware and software updates and new products generated by the

developer prior to inclusion in the EZPass system.

As project engineer on the Garden State Parkway Interchange 165

Park and Ride program, I developed a specification for the system. The

design incorporates EZPass technology transponders and readers in

conjunction with roadside message signs and Bus Patrons signaling

devices located at interchange parking lots to signal busses when

passengers are waiting.

RELIABILITY and QUALITY

. Developed reliability estimates and performed tradeoff analysis for

Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) systems architectures

for the Precursor Systems Analysis program using Fault Tree

Analysis, Failure Modes Effects Analysis, and system reliability

prediction techniques.

. Performed reliability and maintainability analysis for DOD and NASA

agencies in accordance with MIL-STD-785 and 471. Tasks performed

include reliability predictions per MIL-STD-217, Failure Modes

Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) per MIL-STD-1629,

development and implementation of a Failure Report and Corrective

Action System (FRACAS) system. Development and implementation of

Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) testing for production.

. Developed procedures for, directed performance of, and documented

results of Reliability Qualification Test (RQT) and Maintainability

Demonstration Tests.

. Directed standardization and part selection efforts and reviewed

all drawings and parts lists as part of concurrent engineering

efforts for reliability, maintainability and producibility

functions.

. Acted as principal contact on major subcontractor fabrication tasks

and resolved vendor quality problems.

. Developed and maintained vendor rating systems for component

suppliers.

. Served as Chapter President, Vice President, Treasurer and Seminar

Chairman of the local Society of Reliability Engineers (SRE)

chapter.

PRODUCTION CONTROL

. Directed and monitored subcontractors as production coordinator for

electronic equipment fabrication project and acted as principal

point of contact for problem resolution.

. Performed lead time analysis for parts procurement and directed

parts ordering, receiving and expediting tasks.

. Reviewed all drawings as part of the concurrent engineering efforts

for producibility and production impacts.

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

On the recently completed Corridor analysis project for the

Continental 1/US 219 study I helped collect corridor ITS asset data

and evaluated Cost/Benefit alternatives for deploying new ITS assets

through the corridor using the FHWA SCRITS analysis tool. A viable

concept was developed for deployment of a virtual corridor by

integrating real-time traffic data and sharing ITS assets across

regional and state DOT jurisdictions.

I acted as Project Engineer for implementation of a NATAP Border

Crossing System at the Buffalo/Fort Erie International Peace Bridge.

This project uses Transponder and roadside communication technology to

integrate Customs, Immigration and Toll Collection for Commercial

Vehicles and Immigration/Tolls for passenger vehicles.

I developed real-time software in FORTRAN, 8085 and 6802 Assembly

languages to support the integration of an S-Band radar at RADC

(Griffiss Air Force Base) into a data fusion test bed. The code

developed in this effort performed target acquisition, data collection

and real-time data processing and graphic display. A code was also

developed for the post processing of the data collected.

SIMULATION MODELING

. Developed simulation modeling approach for the Automatic

Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) proposal including model

structure, fidelity and simulation model demonstration testing.

. Developed and maintained simulation programs in the chemical

warfare analysis area.

. Developed system performance analysis models for Army and Air Force

agencies and performed system performance analysis and generated

product improvement recommendations.

INTEGRATED LOGISTIC SUPPORT

. Developed ILS models and performed logistic analysis on DOD

programs and performed trade-off analysis during design phases.

. Performed Cost of Effectiveness Analysis (COEA) for Government

agencies and directed ILS efforts and Technical Manual development

efforts.

MANAGEMENT

. Performed cost and schedule analysis and reporting on several DOD,

NASA, Commercial and other government programs producing weekly and

monthly status reports for upper management and contract sponsors.

. Designed, developed and implemented a department personnel resource

and utilization forecasting program and participated in development

of departmental forecasts and budgets.

COMPUTER SKILLS

. Experienced in FORTRAN, Basic, SAS, Pascal, APL, 8085 and 6802

Assembly languages.

. Worked with several FORTRAN simulation dialects including GASP IV

and PASS IV. Environments include IBM mainframe, DEC mainframe, HP-

mini (RTE-6), Sun workstation (Openwindows, UNIX), Macintosh and

IBM microcomputers (proficient in most popular PC software for MACs

and PCs including QUATTRO, WORDSTAR, REFLEX, PARADOX, WORD, EXCEL,

CANVAS, etc.)

EDUCATION:

Arena Simulation Training - 1998 Systems Modeling Corp.,

Pittsburgh PA

Technical writing course - 1995 General Dynamics

"C" language training course - 1994 SUNY at Buffalo

Certified Quality Engineer - 1991 ASQC

Certified Reliability Engineer - 1989 ASQC

Reliability Training Course - 1984 RAC, Griffiss

AFB

M.S. Industrial Engineering - 1980 SUNY at Buffalo

B.A. Statistics-Economics - 1978 SUNY at Buffalo

ASSOCIATIONS:

Society of Reliability Engineers - Board of Directors

American Society for Quality Control - CRE, CQE

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