Engineer Manager

Summary

. Experienced Engineer with a Masters Degree in Space Systems Operations

and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business

Administration, and certified Professional Engineer.

. Have demonstrated ability as a competent supervisor of a technical team

by utilizing team building, pro-active participation and empowerment of

team members.

. Strives for continuous improvement, pay attention to detail and maintain

focus on the objective.

. Clearance: TS/SCI

. Completed re-certification as a Certified Test Conductor.

Key Skills

* Systems Engineer - Test Engineer / Certified Test Conductor

* Telecommunications Engineer - Data Manager

* Computer Skills - M.S. Office Suite and UNIX (Sun Solaris & Linux)

Education

Degree Major Institution Year

Completed

MS SSO Space Systems Operations Webster University Denver, CO

2006

(With Academic Honors)

BSBA Business Marketing University of Colorado-Denver, CO 1991

BSEE Electrical Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

1971

Professional Experience Summary

Feb. 2009 - May 2009. Test Conductor/Test Engineer. Targets &

Countermeasures Program, LMSSC.

Test Conductor/Test Engineer for a highly visible program requiring

leadership, discipline, test experience, customer interface skills and

willingness to accept unrelated tasks to support the program.

January 2001 - February 2009 Lockheed Martin IS&GS, Program (Systems

Engineer).

* System Engineer, Stf: Created a simple-to-understand metrics report for

reporting on the status of Event Testing through the complex work-in-

process to validation process. Immediately responded to customer request

to include in the report a list of new DRs introduced to the system.

Initiated and followed through on effort to address & close domain items

effecting event testing.

* Data Manager: Created a data archive system which met Site requirements

and customer

approval. Received a Lockheed Martin special recognition award for this

achievement.

* National Customer Interface: Provide two of our national customers on-

site presence. On

three occasions, I identified malfunctions hours before the customer

would have detected it

which enabled repairs to be initiated immediately.

* Team Organizational Conflict of Interest Coordinator: Recognized that

contractors were not

automatically notified of compliance expiration. Solved this problem by

creating a data-base

of group members so I could notify them of upcoming critical dates.

* Team Training Coordinator: Created a data-base to determine type of

training each

teammate required and insure training credit was documented.

* Member of System Integration & Verification Team during event exercises.

Oct. 1998 - January 2001 Lockheed Martin. Integration & Test Engineer.

* Took-over a critical task stagnated by events and created a mission

integration test procedure

and a mission operations test procedure. Recognized that critical support

for the tasks was

not going to be supplied and devised a procedure which complied with

company

requirements and program needs.

* Created a detailed but simplified drawing of the system which allowed

other engineers to

quickly identify critical data paths and trouble-shoot the system.

Feb. 1998 - Oct. 1998 Lockheed Martin. Integration & Test Engineer

. Performed a complete audit of the Program's Test Operations for the

Test Manager to ensure

compliance with the Lockheed Martin and customer requirements.

. Member of the Launch Team. Developed the Loading Plan for transport to

the Launch Site.

. Organized and supervised the packaging and shipping of EAGE to & from the

Launch Site.

May 1997 - Feb. 1998 Lockheed Martin. Test Engineer, Athena (LMLV)

Program

. Initiated procedures for segregating the documented operations of the

several Launch

Vehicles being built and tested in parallel, which solved a major

document control problem.

* Received High Performance Work Team Award for first successful Athena-I

Launch.

* First Athena-II Launch for Lunar Prospector Program.

Oct. 1985 - May 1997 Lockheed Martin/Martin Marietta

. Spacecraft Test Lab Requirements Lead, STARDUST Program

. Test Requirements Engineer, Defense Systems.

. Test Lead, Briargate Production Facility, Col. Springs, CO.

. Test Lead, Test Engineering & Operations

. Test Lead, PAWS (ASAS) Program.

- Frequent proposal activity. Extensive Environmental Testing including

EMC/EMI. Requirements Compliance. Transitioned from full qualification

testing to acceptance testing.

Sep. 1984 - Sep. 1985 XEL Communications, Inc., Aurora, CO. Product

Manager.

Aug. 1982 - Sep. 1984 GTE Special Services Products Division, Aurora,

CO.

. Product Planner/Applications Engineer

May 1976 to Aug. 1982 Gen. Telephone Co

. Equipment Engineer

. Transmission & Protection Engineer

Apr. 1975 - May 1976 OLIN Corporation

. Project Engineer

Military Service

. 1983-1985: Colorado National Guard, 2/157 FA BN. Communications-

Electronics Maintenance Officer

. 1982: Illinois National Guard, Infantry BN, Communications-Electronics

Maintenance Officer

. Sep. 1971 - Dec. 1974 Active Duty Military Experience. Army Officer

Signal Branch Radio Systems Officer, Executive Officer, Communications

Electronics Maintenance Officer.

Extra-curricular Professional Activities

. National Management Association (NMA), Lockheed Martin Rocky Mountain

Leadership Assn. Chapter- currently serving as President.

. Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member -

past Chairman of the Denver Section of the Vehicular Technology /

Communications Society Chapter.

Additional Information

. Professional Engineer's License, State of Wisconsin.

. Certified Test Conductor, Lockheed Martin Space Systems.

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