RESUME

Patrick Hudson

763-***-**** (mobile)

ablspt@r.postjobfree.com

STRENGTHS and TALENTS

. Well developed coaching, mentoring and conflict resolution skills.

. Articulate Written and Verbal Communication Skills

. Adept Listener

. Flexibility in Dynamic Team Environments

. Advanced Aptitude for Analysis and Problem Solving

. Persistent, Diligent and Tenacious

Sampling Of Past Project Involvement

. ITT corp. team member for debug of B1 integrated avionics ECM/EW port

to B52H (USAF).

. Recognized need for and independently developed testing protocols for

RF telemetry devices on Voyageur series spacecraft which resulted in

prevention of catastrophic failure and successful system launch

(Telonic-Altair).

. Member of Team which envisioned and developed the metal spinner for

production of NASA Orbiter Nose Cones (Space Shuttle) (Kiowa Corp).

WORK EXPERIENCE

Principle Engineer, Software April 2007 to November

2009

HK Systems / Automated Guided Vehicle Division

. Coordinated work efforts of all team members ensuring that project is on

time and on budget. Diverse Team Composition including customer reps,

manufacturing, IT, mechanical engineering, guidance engineering, service

and sales

. Provided system level program and project management for Guidance

systems of AGV's.

. Performed Industry Wide Hard RTOS survey with parametric qualification

performance rankings for the purpose of Safety Critical RTOS

selection for use in next generation AGV.

. Generated software design specifications for on-board Guidance Control

System in collaboration with customers and sales staff

. Produced high level design, capacity and configuration requirements

. Design of User Interface, Communications Protocol and System Messaging

. System Integration, configuration and debug at customer site with

significant customer team interaction

RF Field Engineer (Contract), RF Management Team August 2005 to

September 2006

Boston Scientific / CRM (Guidant)

Performed RF Site Surveys identifying and classifying all RF Emitters.

Coordinated with Boston Scientific/GSC Sales staff and implant center

Senior Administrative, Bio-Medical and/ or Telecommunications department

personnel in resolving/mitigating inter-device RF Spectrum conflicts.

Analyzed RF spectrum at various U.S. hospital implant centers to verify

interference free RF operating environment for launch of Contak Renewal

3 RF CRT-D, the first of the Latitude enabled products.

Located, investigated and researched various RF emission source devices

including the FCC certification and operating characteristics of the

emission sources at various implant centers in the US.

Represented Guidant and worked closely and interacted effectively with

hospital staff to facilitate assigned tasks in deadline intensive

schedules in achieving corporate goals.

Consulting Project Engineer February 1996 to

April 2005

Created System Architecture. Produced Hardware/Software design for

embedded data acquisition and real-time control system. System employed

multi-tier network topology. Lowest level nodes were Micro-Controller

based Real Time Control which in turn were controlled by Linux based local

controllers. Additional products included RF/wireless wide area network

product, E-Commerce system with full Material Review Planning, PC to Radio

transceiver frequency controller

Consulting Project Engineer Computer Frontiers July 1992 to

January 1996

Designed various custom RF interface/control, hardware and software

products. Responsible for Application Engineering, Project Management

along with customer support

Project Engineer Timesavers Corp (contract) April 1985 to June 1991

Created System, Hardware and Software Architectures. Design and developed

hardware and software proof of concept, prototype and production models

along with automated test devices. Design included Graphical Real Time

Display, Automated Fault Detection system. Created scripting for automated

firmware build. Managed Multi-Discipline Project Team.

EDUCATION

Elk River High School Graduate

Basic Electronics Development Keesler AFB, MS

Electronic Warfare/Elect. Countermeasures Keesler AFB, MS - Honor

Graduate

Microprocessor Design I,II,III University Of Minnesota,

Continuing Education

Bemidji State University 148 Credit Hours Toward B.S.

Computer Science and Math

1982 to 1985 and 1991 to 1992, with significant coursework in Chemistry and

Biology such as General, Physical, Organic and Analytical Chemistry,

General Biology, Genetics, Human Anatomy and Ecology

Project Management Fundamentals IIL, Guidant Refresher

Course (April 2006)

Project Management, Work Breakdown Structure IIL, Guidant Refresher

Course (April 2006)

Project Management, Project Estimating and

Scheduling: Creating Realistic Schedules and Budgets IIL, Guidant

Refresher Course (April 2006)

LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS

American Society For Quality Control Certified, Quality

Assurance Technician

Low Voltage Electrician State Of Minnesota

Universal Freon Handling EPA

Amateur Radio Operator FCC

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Association of Old Crows (www.crows.org) Electronic Warfare /

Information Operations Association

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

USAF - Avionics (ECM/EW) Honorable Discharge

Electronic Countermeasures/Electronic Warfare Technician maintaining on-

board equipment of B-52H aircraft

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Inactive DOD Secret - Eligible for active

Accolades received after visits to the field from Guidant Sales Corp

Management

" . . . He has done nearly 100 sites for us and is very savvy. He should

fit the bill nicely . . ."

" . . . I appreciate you having the courage to respond to my unorthodox

request . . ."

" . . . Your unbiased . . . remarks from your observations are very

important to us."

" . . . If everyone is as thorough as you are, we should have no problems

with the complete RF roll out. "

"Thanks for your help and dedication to make us issue free with our RF

product introduction!"

"He didn't flinch at taking on the extra burden . . ."

"I was stunned that a contractor would have the commitment that he

demonstrated."

"Patrick clearly took the bull by the horns . . ."

"Patrick knew how to handle the touchy relations that often existed

between Biomedical Engineering and Information Systems."

"Thanks for sending someone so well-qualified and who knows how to handle

MY customers."

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