Engineer Software
Resume:
PAUL DAVID HANSEN
Kent, WA 98032
(253) 856 – 3080 (home)
abnn8b@r.postjobfree.com (home)
Born in San Benito, TX. US citizen. Married. Two children.
PERSONAL
EDUCATION
Aug 1986 M. S. Mathematics, The University of Houston at Clear Lake, TX
Minor: Astrodynamics
May 1982 M. S. E. Aerospace Engineering (Orbital Mechanics), The University of Texas at Austin, TX
Minors: Astronomy (Astrometry and Celestial Mechanics), Mathematics, Danish
May 1977 B. S. Physics, Texas A&M University at Kingsville (formerly Texas A&I University), TX
Minor: Mathematics
EXPERIENCE
MOIRÉ Advanced Concepts, Issaquah, WA
May 2008 – Oct 2008 Knowledge Engineer (Applied Mathematician – Applied Physicist)
Participated in a small development team designing advanced marine vessels, and an
advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), programming in EXCEL and MATLAB.
Researched the use of Neural Nets to perform flight and mission management.
Enrolled in Electrical Engineering at Central Washington University, Des Moines.
BOEING Phantom Works Advanced Air Traffic Management, Kent, WA
Oct 2004 – July 2007 Systems Engineer, Modeling and Simulation Specialist
Developed an RTSP simulation model in Vensim (a Systems Dynamics tool).
Conducted research regarding the derivation of wind data from observed aircraft behavior.
Proved several mathematical theorems to support a patent application.
Derived a differential equation for the turn angle to achieve a circular passing maneuver.
Flight test data reduction and error analysis of GPS landing studies using MATLAB.
BOEING Air Traffic Management Services, Kent and Bellevue, WA
Mar 2001 - Feb 2003 Airspace Modeling Engineer
Developed simulation studies of air traffic scenarios (and airspace design using TAAM).
Received training in UML.
Performed UNIX Systems Administration related tasks.
BOEING Commercial Airplane Information Services, Renton and Seattle, WA
Apr 1999 - Mar 2001 CATIA Applications Programmer/Engineer
Programmed in FORTRAN 77 and C, supporting Wiring Design Engineering.
Aug 1998 - Mar 1999 Wind Tunnel Scientific Applications Programmer/Engineer
Programmed in Visual BASIC 5.0, supporting the Flutter Model Analysis group.
Dec 1996 - Jul 1998 Structures, Loads and Dynamics Scientific Applications Programmer/Engineer
Programmed in FORTRAN 77, supporting the Nacelle and Ground Loads groups.
Received training in Finite Element Analysis and Classical Control Theory.
BOEING Commercial Airplane Integrated Avionics Systems Laboratories, Seattle, WA
Apr 1996 - Nov 1996 Embedded Software Programmer/Engineer
Avionics modeling and testing, programming in FORTRAN 77 and C.
Mar 1994 - Apr 1995
Co-developed the ARINC 610 simulator software functionality.
Contributed to the certification of the BOEING 777 aircraft by providing computer
simulation and test bench support.
EXPERIENCE ( continued )
BOEING Commercial Airplane Flight Test Laboratories, Renton and Seattle, WA
Oct 1990 - Mar 1994 Real-time Simulation Software Programmer/Engineer
Programmed in FORTRAN 77, maintaining the kinematics model, wind and atmosphere
models, and math functions of the flight simulation software.
Taught the class Atmospheric Disturbance Models.
Wrote the General Simulation Model Software User’s Guide.
Developed a GPS receiver software model.
Software maintenance, software testing, and customer support.
Solved three important and interesting problems:
SATCOM Antenna Attitude and Pointing Problem.
Elevation Angle Initial Value Under Conditions of Strong Cross Wind problem.
Geometric solution for finding the correct quadrant when using Sodano’s equations to
derive the heading angle.
BOEING Defense & Space Group, Kent, WA
Jun 1987 – Sep 1990 Navigation Technology Engineer
Performed navigation error analysis and mission accuracy estimation in support of NASA
and US Air Force space missions using the Boeing-built Inertial Upper Stage.
Wrote software to express the coordinate transformation from the IUS to the Space Shuttle
as a quaternion, which won a NASA competition.
Supported the Magellan, Galileo and Ulysses planetary missions.
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Dec 1986 - Jun 1987 Space Shuttle Robotics & Manipulator Systems Engineer
Supported NASA’s Mission Planning and Analysis Division.
Received training in Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems.
Jul 1986 - Dec 1986 Space Shuttle & Payloads Structural Analysis Engineer
Supported NASA’s Engineering Operations Directorate, using NASTRAN.
Nov 1984 - Jun 1986 Space Shuttle Flight Design Integration Engineer
Supported NASA’s Missions Operations Directorate, Flight Dynamics & Design Division.
Managed the activities of the major flight design groups to produce a complete flight
design profile for NASA space shuttle missions:
Launch Opportunity and Launch Window Analysis.
On-Orbit Trajectory Design.
Landing Opportunity Selection.
Taught the Spacelab and Astronomical Payloads Launch Window Analysis and Design
class and prepared its training document.
Comarco (Subcontractor to McDonnell Douglas), Houston, TX
Jun 1984 - Nov 1984 Shuttle Mission Simulator Software Documentation Engineer
Analyzed FORTRAN 77 subroutines in the Space Shuttle Training Simulator software to
recover the math models.
PATENT
Spring 2007 Autonomous Meteorological Data Derivation, APP 7784-1037, awarded March 2008.
INTERESTS
Family. Physics. Kayaking and canoeing. Mathematics. Bicycling and hiking. Snowshoeing and back country skiing.
Skin diving. Clean air and water. Aerospace Engineering. Scandinavian and Frisian dialects. Computer Science.
Wooden boats. Theology. History of polar exploration. Vikings: Culture, History, Language, Literature. Ele ctrical
Engineering. Weight training.
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