Engineer Engineering

ANTONE L. KUSMANOFF, PH.D.

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Home Phone: 903-***-**** Office: 903-***-****

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CAREER EXPERIENCES

L-3 COMMUNICATIONS, GREENVILLE, TX; Senior Principal Multi-Disciplined Engineer (3/02 -

Present)

I currently lead an internal research project on optimizing time-to-solution of Computational

Fluid Dynamic (CFD) problems using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and multiprocessor-

node cluster architecture. This is an internal research project for the division s aeronautical

engineering flight sciences department which is targeted to save time during the computational

aspects of the aircraft modification design activity.

From mid 2008 until the end of 2009, my day-to-day activities involved being a co-principal

investigator for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract related to

ISR missions. I supportied the development and evaluation of DSP algorithms being used in the

Analog-To-Information project for an ultra wideband communications receiver. Several patent

applications and are in process at this time from this work.

From 2005 until mid 2008, I provided leadership and technical research as the principal

investigator in the implementation of a reconfigurable computer system application that was

based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). This effort took advantage of advanced

communication linkage for a reconfigurable system that was orchestrated into a unique parallel

processor configuration for high-speed parallel processing solutions for partial differential

equations. This activity resulted in the submittal of multiple patent applications on the

developed hardware/software configurations which are still in process at this time.

From 2003 until 2005 I was assigned the role of Airborne Standoff Radar (ASTOR) Ground

Station Design Authority. As the Design Authority, my responsibilities included tracking and

certifying all contracted requirements through development of extensive test procedures

(environmental and operational). Execution of these test procedures on the equipment was

required to show the equipment met the contracted ground station requirements on the 1.4

billion dollar ASTOR system. The test procedures were executed and the ground system

documentation was signed off and accepted by the UK government.

RAYTHEON, GREENVILLE, TX; Senior Principal Systems Engineer (4/97 3/02)

As the Project Engineer for the Data Link Integrated Product Team on the UK ASTOR program,

primary engineering support was provided in developing system specifications, engineering

contract negotiation and follow-on testing and verification. This effort resulted in a reduced

subsystem cost on two separate contracts with increased subsystem performance in both cases,

with a savings estimated to be over 10 percent of the $90 million dollars of subcontracts.

Provided proposal development support at contract negotiation that resulted in selection and a

contract with the UK Ministry of Defense for the $1.4 billion dollar ASTOR system.

As the acting Lead System Engineer all system documentation, performance reviews and

program design reviews were completed successfully to enable the Surveillance of the Amazon

(SIVAM) project team to procure mission equipment ahead of schedule at the lowest possible

cost. This was for an aircraft surveillance system that supports monitoring of Amazon

defoliation and Air Traffic Control of Brazilian air space over the Amazon.

As direct engineering support, over one and one half million dollars were redirected to the

advantage of my employer through a detail system engineering review of a subsystem

specification. The results corrected an Electronic Surveillance System procurement subcontract

agreement on a USAF & South Korean project.

FOXTAIL COMMUNICATIONS, Plano, TX; Owner and Chief Engineer (4/96 - 4/97)

Clients saved hundreds of thousands of dollars through development support of competitive

Request for Proposals (RFPs) for four major communications system upgrades. These included

the Johnson Controls European Telecommunication Network, a North American Data Network,

a Metropolitan SONET and a Corporate Voice Response System.

Telecommunication throughput was improved at a lower cost by converting the communication

network composed of dedicated circuits between 11 Johnson Controls factory locations and

headquarters to a Frame Relay technology based network. T1 access costs were reduced by

sharing access with voice channels connected to the many factories PBXs to achieve

significantly lower long distance costs.

Key technologies applied for clients includes Frame Relay, ISDN, FDDI, SONET, Switched

Ethernet, Collapsed Backbone LANs, and network protocols of RIP, OSPF and BGP V4.

BLYTHE*NELSON, Dallas, TX; Senior Engineer (7/95 - 4/96)

A complete network and telecommunication system was planned for a national sign maker

by integrating its business communications requirements into information technologies.

White papers were generated on several topics including OSPF, SONET and FRAME Relay.

Personally responsible for generating $300,000+ income for the firm in less than 9 months.

IT NETWORK, Dallas, TX; Vice President of Operations (5/93 - 7/95)

Significantly improved products and assured a more uniform capacity across the national

network of over 150 computer interactive voice response systems. These real time response

systems were updated daily via ground and satellite communication system inputs designed and

controlled by myself and my department s engineering staff.

Linked all of the company production activities together with a master integrated, on-line,

shared scheduling process to reduce production coordination errors.

Developed an activity based costing procedure to establish product prices that were based on

true costs including indirect and overhead burdens to insured profitability levels were achieved.

An on-line information reporting process was developed that increased management visibility of

bartering exchange business activities with near real-time reporting.

IT Network share of Yellow Page directories supported with interactive voice response units

increased over 60 percent, from 138 to over 220 directories, while the operational resource

levels were held steady without an equal level of growth expenses.

The average cycle time to get clients on-line was reduced from an average of 20+ days to an

average of 9 days with no standard product exceeding 14 days.

The mean time between failures for over 100 remote computer system installations was

lengthened from approximately once per month to less than once every eight months.

SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE, San Antonio, TX; Senior Research Engineer (4/89 - 5/93)

Won, managed, and completed over three million dollars worth of funded research contracts

from government agencies and commercial companies across the country in less than 4 years.

Managed and implemented research contracts for NASA Johnson Mission Control Center,

USAF Cryptological Support Center at Kelly AFB, Lockheed, the USAF Integration Support

Facility at Colorado Springs and the USAF Technology Validation Office in Louisiana.

Follow-on activity of expanded and new research with increased funding was obtained on every

contract that was won and managed during my service at SwRI.

Significant NASA funds saved with review of Space Station Freedom communication bus.

A unit cost resource allocation paradigm reimbursement system was developed for

telecommunication services for an Air Force research program of advanced technology.

A design for a communication system to operate in and between a system of manned hyparbaric

chambers and their emergency control centers was researched and completed for NASA.

Led the team, designed and built the production model of a security monitoring platform for

electronic surveillance of digital voice and data-communication transmissions that became a

continuing and major product program for SwRI

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, Stillwater, OK; Instructor (7/97 - 4/89)

Taught the electromagnetic field theory course for electrical engineering majors.

During this period, a funded research project from the Office of Naval Research supported

research activities that resulted in a new algorithmic approach to passive direction finding.

Completed a doctoral dissertation dealing with the application of a parallel processor in the

solution the super-resolution bearing-estimation problem in the High Frequency (HF) radio

spectrum environment.

U. S. AIR FORCE, Continental United States and Pacific Theater: Lt. Colonel (6/67 - 6/87)

Completed a 20-year Information Systems Officer career with extensive activity in

communications, computer systems, computer networks, and major USAF command and

control (C2) systems.

Served three years as a Computer Systems Analyst and the Programming Team Leader

providing assembly language level support for a military C3 system at the Strategic Air

Command (SAC) Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.

Communication system facility characterization techniques were pioneered for the Air Force for

three years while acting as Branch Chief for sixty people in an engineering quality assurance

program for microwave, tropospheric scatter, HF and other encrypted communication facilities.

Computer-communication systems were integrated with command post displays to provided

visualization of data that was received from satellites sensing technologies and radar based

sensors for defense systems belonging to North American Defense (NORAD) headquarters.

Completed extensive activity as the primary support for the communication evaluation testing

for a 200 million dollar computer upgrade to the NORAD military command post. Engineering

skills and troubleshooting abilities were directly responsible for saving millions for the USAF.

The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) engineering short course program was advanced

as the student load increased from less than 40 students a month to over 80 with an annual

number of well over 1,000 students. Course quality was upgraded during my tenure from

undergraduate to graduate level education with significant positive feedback from the students.

As Assistant to the Dean of Engineering at the AFIT, full time support was provided to the Dean

in his responsibilities of operating the College of Engineering, while I was directly assigned as

an AFIT Instructor teaching a graduate level Command and Control Communications course.

Combined the Computer officer and Communication Officer courses at Keesler AFB, into an

improved integrated Information Systems Staff Officer curriculum. A balance of technical

management and engineering content was developed to prepare officers of rank of Captain to Lt.

Colonel for roles as Information Systems Staff Officers in all branches of the service.

Supervised and taught the Information Systems Officer course where course credit was granted

in the University of Southern Mississippi s Telecommunication Management Maser s Degree.

Accomplishments of the Information Officer s staff education program was independently

measured by the Air Training Command Inspector General by awarding the Information

Systems Staff Officer Training program an overall rating of Excellent including several

Outstanding element awards.

As Installations Officer of an Air Force Engineering and Installations Group, all major Air

Force computer, telecommunications, and avionics equipment that was removed, replaced or

installed within Southeastern United States was accomplish by teams under my control and

review. We saved multi-millions of funding dollars through design and implementation of work

tracking processes while directing 400+ personnel in engineering and installation of these AF

avionics and telecommunication projects.

Met the demands of insuring a positive nurturing environment for the younger subordinate

officers and the enlisted personnel that were in my command during a career of 20 years.

EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENTS

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, May 1989

Dissertation Title: Real-Time Bearing Estimation In A Multi-Source Environment Using multi-

processor, Multi-Algorithmic Acceleration

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

MSEE, Communications Theory, May 1982 MSEE, Computer Engineering, May 1973

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

BSEE, December 1972 BA, Mathematics, June 1967

Honors Scholar, Cum Laude Graduate Varsity Wrestler

Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu Honorary Societies

UNIVERSITY LEVEL TEACHING EXPERIENCES

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO; San Antonio, TX, (1993)

Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor

Program: BSEE

Undergraduate Computer Design and Architecture course

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY; Stillwater, OK, (1987-1989)

Position: Instructor

Program: BSEE

Undergraduate Electromagnetic Fields course

AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, (1982-1984)

Position1: Director

Program: School of Engineering Resident Short Course Program

Digital Communications, Computer-Communications, Digital Signal Processing & Fiber Optics

Position2: Instructor

Program: School of Engineering Graduate Program

Graduate courses in command, control and communications Technologies

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI, Off-Campus Program, Keesler AFB, MS (1984-1986)

Position: Instructor

Program: Telecommunications Management program

Graduate communication engineering and telecommunications courses

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; Atlanta, GA, (1981-1982)

Position: Adjunct Lecturer

Program: BSEE

Undergraduate Digital Hardware course

CHAPMAN COLLEGE, Off-Campus Program at Peterson AFB, CO (1977-1980)

Position: Instructor

Program: BS Electronic Technology

Instructed all of the required technical courses in the engineering technology curriculum

PUBLICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:

Cajetan M. Akujuobi1, Olusegun O. Odejide, Annamalai Annamalai1, Gerald L. Fudge, Phillip

E. Pace3, Antone Kusmanoff, Computationally Efficient Wideband Spectrum Monitoring

of RF Signals Using Compressive Sensing Approach, MILCOM 2010, Oct 2010.

P. E. Pace, A. Kusmanoff, G. L. Fudge, Nyquist folding analog-to-information receiver:

Autonomous information recovery using quadrature mirror filtering, Asilomar Conference

on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 2009.

Kusmanoff, Antone; DeLaquil, Matthew and Prasanna, Deepak,(2006) A Desktop Computing

System Concept For Solutions To Large Systems Of PDEs, AIAA/IEEE 25th Digital

Avionics Systems Conference, Portland OR: 15 - 20 Oct 20006

Treichler, David; Carmichael, Ron; Kusmanoff, Antone; Ayers, Denise; Rusk, Linda

DETC2002/DFM-34197, 2002) Observation on Raytheon 6S: The Astor Early

Engagement, 2002 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences &

Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Treichler, David; Carmichael, Ronald; Kusmanoff, Antone; Lewis, John; Berthiez, Gwendolyn,

(2002) Design for six sigma: 15 lessons learned, Quality Progress v 35 n 1: January

Kusmanoff, Antone L., Kistler, E.L., and Der Tatevasion, T.J. (1993) Potential for Enhanced

Cost Visibility Under Fee-For-Service With a Standard Generic Charging System, The

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 16th Annual Energy-Sources Technology

Conference & Exhibition.

Kusmanoff, Antone L., and Yarlaggadda, R. (1990) A High Speed Super Resolution DOA

Algorithm, IEEE International Conference On Acoustics, Speech, And Signal Processing.

Kusmanoff, Antone L. (1989) Real Time Bearing Estimation in a Multi-Source Environment

Using Multi-processor, Multi-algorithmic Acceleration, Ph.D. Dissertation, OSU.

FUNDED RESEARCH REPORTS:

Kusmanoff, Antone L., and Dick, F. (1993) Telecommunications System Analysis Position

(TASP), Final Report, SwRI Project 05-5324.

Kusmanoff, Antone L., Der Tatevasion, and Novosad, S (1993). Pathfinder Program to Conduct

An Operational Test of Fee-For-Service for Base Level Telephone Services, Final Report,

SwRI Project No. 05-4481, Technology Validation Delivery No 5157.

Kusmanoff, Antone L., and Dick, F. (1992) Design Phase II for an Intercommunication System

for the Crew and Thermal systems Division, Final Report, NASA Johnson Space Center,

Southwest Research Institute Project No. 05-4630, NASA Grant No. NAS9-17900.

Kusmanoff, Antone L., and Moczygemba, M. (1990) AB/GTH-3 TAP Digital Renovation For

Improved R&M, System Design Review Report, Southwest Research Institute Project 05 -

3636, HQ Electronics Security Command Contract No. F04606-89-S-0039/SA07

Kusmanoff, Antone L., and Barton, T.J.(1990) Research Into Alternative Network approach for

Space Operations Final Report, NASA Johnson Space Center, SwRI 05-2921, NAG 9-369

Kusmanoff, Antone L., and Others (1990) Research In Software Allocation for Advanced

Manned Mission Communication and Tracking Systems Final Report, NASA Johnson

Space Center, Southwest Research Institute Project No. 05-3668, NASA Johnson Space

Center under subcontract to the University of Houston, Subcontract No. 079.

Kusmanoff, Antone L, Martin, Nancy,(1989) The Role of a Host in a Cooperative Mainframe

and Workstation Environment, Grant No. NAG 9-341 SwRI Project No. 05-2769

Kusmanoff, Antone L., Hugg, S., Fitzgerald, P., Wolff, W. (1989) Research Into Display

Sharing Techniques for Distributed Computing Environments, Interim Report, NASA

Johnson Space Center, Southwest Research Institute Project No. 05-2922, NAG9-370

Yarlaggadda, R., Kriel C., and Kusmanoff, Antone L. (1988) Parallel Implementation of Lp

Algorithms Oklahoma State University, Final Technical Report, Office of Naval Research

PUBLISHED TECHNICAL PAPERS

Kusmanoff, Antone L. (1988) Near Real Time solutions to Bearing Estimation Problems In A

Multi-Source Environment using Multi-Processors with Multi-Algorithmic Acceleration,

OSU Report.

Kusmanoff, Antone L. (1987) Parallel Solutions of Beamforming Problems Using Lp-Normed

Models, Oklahoma State University Report.

Kusmanoff, Antone L. (1986) Critical International Issue s Affecting U. S. National Security,

Air War College Associate Program, Air University.

Kusmanoff, Antone L. (1984) NATO Military Strategy and Forces, Air War College, Air

University.

OTHER

I held the highest DOD security clearance of Top Secret for 20 years while an active duty Air

Force Information Systems officer. I currently hold a US Secret clearance and held the same

level of US Secret clearance while working at Southwest Research Institute. I have been

awarded an L-3 Communications Integrated Systems Tribute to Excellence Award for my work

with the Aerial Common Sensor capture team and I was also awarded the Raytheon Individual

Tribute to Excellence Award for functional performance in Air-Ground Surveillance Programs.

In college, I was elected to membership to the professional engineering and electrical

engineering honorary societies, Tau Beta Pi and Etta Kappa Nu.

I am a member of Armed Forces Communication-Electronics Association (AFCEA) and a Senior

Member of IEEE. I have been a participant in speaking engagements for information system

professional organizations and seminars in response to requests and have acted as a session chair

during the AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics System Conference. I lettered as a varsity wrestler at two

universities and I was the Armed Forces wrestling champion for my weight class multiple times.

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