Daniel J. Rissacher
*** ***** ****** **; Huntington, VT 05462
*********@********.***
Education:
Ph.D. Elec. & Comp. Eng.
2010
Clarkson University
Potsdam, NY
GPA: 3.8
M.S. Elec. & Comp. Eng.
2002
Georgia Tech.
Atlanta, GA
GPA: 3.0
B.S. Comp. Eng.
2000
Clarkson University
Potsdam, NY
GPA: 3.2
Security Clearance & Information Assurance Certification:
Active DoD TS/SCI (SI/TK current)
CISSP, DoD 8570: IAT Level 3, IAM Level 3 and IASAE Level 2.
Employment:
Sytems Engineer Staff / ANG F-16 MTC Site-Lead: (Present) Lockheed Martin: IS&GS; South Burlington, VT http://www.lockheedmartin.com/isgs/
Supervisor for all Vermont-based Lockheed employees on the ANG F-16 MTC contract.
Responsible for test and validation of aircraft simulation, threat emulators and debrief systems.
Installation, maintenance, debugging, reprogramming and upgrading of all MTC systems (cockpit, visuals, operator station, threat emulation, networking and debriefing).
Principal Engineer & President: (Present) CRIA Corp..; Huntington, VT www.criacorp.com
Consultant and contract work in the fields of aerospace, medicine, signal processing and electrical/computer/software engineering.
Authoring government contract proposals requiring development of technical objectives, staffing plans and schedule for technical effort.
Proposal topics include Arabic text recognition, computer road sign recognition, combat system task saturation trainer, neural network based non-language speech sound detector, alternative power system for small buoys based on wave motion and non-invasive volume metering of liquid bladder canteens.
F-16 Fighter Pilot: (Present) Vermont Air National Guard; South Burlington, VT www.vt.ang.af.mil
Continuous flying training to improve skills and maintain proficiency and readiness for homeland defense, alert launches and combat deployments in Air-to-Air, Surface Attack Tactics, Close-Air-Support, Reconnaissance and anti-IED missions.
Primary POC for testing/updating simulator that is a prototype of those to be installed in the Vermont F-16 Mission Training Center (MTC). Worked with contractor/subcontractor (Lockheed/ISTS) developing the simulators to be delivered to Vermont in order to ensure they meet the government s needs and that the software correctly matches the operability of the aircraft.
Experienced with the simulator console interface that the F-16 Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) will use in the Vermont MTC.
Experienced operating XCITE which is the threat simulation/interface software that the F-16 SMEs will use in the Vermont MTC.
ECP/ECO (Electronic Combat Pilot/Officer) responsible for unit s electronic warfare & countermeasures (tactics, new technologies and emerging threats). FECOC (Fighter Electronic Combat Officer Course) Graduate.
Unit Subject Matter Expert for AIM-120 and AIM-9M/X missiles systems. Responsible for providing unit s training on these weapons.
Unit Subject Matter Expert for all Electronic Warfare systems. Responsible for providing unit s training on these systems.
Assistant Chief of Standards and Evaluation.
Combat deployment to Iraq: Summer 2007.
Mission Planning Cell member for home station, training deployments and Operation Iraqi Freedom combat deployment.
Experienced (over 500 F-16 flight hours) Combat Mission Ready F-16 pilot.
Participant in Virtual Flag and several other MTC training TDYs.
System Support Representative: (2007-2009) Tybrin Corp; Fort Walton Beach, FL www.tybrin.com
Sole network administrator and security control authority for SECRET//NOFORN network (and additional networks for deployed locations/contingencies). Responsible for all access control, application security, disaster recovery planning, cryptography, information security, regulatory requirements, operational security, physical security, system/network architecture/design and intra/extra-network security.
Provide support for F-16 mission planning systems at the Vermont ANG and deployed locations.
Maintain hardware/software on mission planning systems, oversee aircraft upgrades, implement security practices (Secret, Top Secret and Special Access Required), train pilots on systems, maintain/update weapons/navigation loadouts, support exercises and combat deployments, assist with PEX access, maintain briefing rooms (BRI, computers, AV equipment and aircraft tape playback) and oversee maintenance of F-16 UTD.
Rehabilitation Research Fellow: (2008-2009) Department of Veterans Affairs www.va.gov
Designing a system to detect & quantify human pain state using EEG dataApplying Neural Networks and other pattern recognition methods that can automatically learn to detect complex signal patterns tied to a specific state (pain).
Applying various signal processing techniques to extract features from EEG data including: wavelets, complexity algorithms, autoregressive analysis and custom algorithms employing both time and frequency domain data.
Instructor: (2003) Clarkson University; Potsdam, NY www.clarkson.edu
Taught EE365: Advanced Digital Circuit Design
Reviewer, Physiologic Measurements
Senior Design Engineer: (2000-2002) North Dancer Labs, Inc.; Shelburne, VT
One of two engineers at a small business funded by government contracts.
Responsible for implementing projects from concept to delivery.
Establishing customer need
Concept exploration & feasibility study
Developing & managing engineering requirements
Authoring of technical and staffing proposals
Developing & evaluating product design at all levels
Electrical, optical & software prototype design & construction
System testing and verification
Final system construction
Delivery of system, on-site customer training and authoring of manuals & reports
Projects included Pain Recognition Neural-Network (PRN), Neural-Network Brain-Computer Interface (NBI) and PocketSpeak: PDA-Based Speech Synthesis, Multiple-View Holographic Cinematography (MHC), Gated Holographic Imaging (GHI) and a proposal for goggles to improve visibility through smoke and dust.
Responsible for the firm s network administration and security including access control, application security, disaster recovery planning, information security, operations security, architecture/design and network security.
Programming Knowledge:
MALTLAB, C, C++, Visual BASIC, JAVA, Assembly, LISP, VHDL, CUPL, BASIC, ActiveCAD, PSPI