Engineer Project
Resume:
KEITH L. GIORDANO
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Buffalo, NY 14221
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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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