Engineer Electrical

Nicholas Jansen

Email: *********@********.***

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City: Dulles

State: VA

Zip: 20166

Country: USA

Phone: 571-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $104,000

Willing to Relocate

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Objective: Telecommunications Systems Engineer with extensive experience in Radio Frequency certification and testing of space communications networks and spacecraft is seeking a position with a dynamic and driven company.

Citizenship: US

Clearance: Secret

Employment History

Space Network User Services Subsystem Component Replacement (USS-CR) Project

NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD. 2011 - 2012

Senior Electrical Engineer, Principal Bastion Technologies, Inc. 2011 - 2012

Developed Space Network Test Procedures for certifying USS-CR project equipment, using a Systems Engineering approach. Requirements definition and flow down, interface definition and control, configuration management and risk mitigation. This includes single string and selective or fully redundant RF/COMM systems.

Radio Frequency (RF) Compatibility Test Section NASA GSFC 1982 - 2011

Senior Test Engineer Orbital Sciences Corporation 2011

Senior Systems Engineer Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc 2004- 2011

Senior Systems Engineer Caelum Research Corporation 1999 - 2003

Senior Engineer Allied Signal Technical Services Corp. 1992 - 1998

Senior Engineer Bendix Field Engineering Corporation 1982 - 1991

Summary of Job duties:

* Developed test plans from support requirements, including teleconference meetings with project teams and NASA. Performed tests at spacecraft manufacturers` and NASA facilities, supervising technical activities of Field Engineers. Wrote Test Reports, for review by NASA and other Networks.

* Fabricated and installed Programmable Telemetry Processors (PTP) for the NASCOM network

* Developed ISO 9000 certified NASA Space and Ground Network RF Compatibility Test Plan and Report template,

* Automated Report Generation for Space Network support

Employment History (cont.)

Detailed Job Responsibilities:

* Analyses of:

RF Link budget/margin between spacecraft and ground station for support compatibility.

Day-in-the-life and multi-day scenarios of spacecraft RF/COMM systems under varying CONOPS.

* Performance analysis of transponders (i.e. STDN & SGLS), transmitters (i.e. L, S, X, Ku, K & Ka bands), diplexors, antennae (patch, Omni, horn, dish) and other space flight components commonly used on spacecraft in LEO, MEO, HEO, GEO, Earth-Sun L1, etc. orbits.

* Definition of electrical ground support equipment for the testing and integration of spacecraft RF/COMM systems. This includes spacecraft compatibility testing with SGLS or STDN compatibility vans provided by outside parties.

* Defining the requirements of the Ground Segment - which involves understanding government and commercial ground systems and capabilities.

* Technical subcontract management of key RF/COMM system component suppliers including

* Analysis of Interface Control Document (ICD) documents

* Monitoring progress on subcontracts (attend Technical Interchange Meetings (TIM's), Engineering and Acceptance Tests, program reviews (i.e. PDR, CDR, MRR

* Authoring test plans and procedures (or supporting others doing same) for verifying on-spacecraft operation of RF/COMM components and system during Integration and Test and during Launch and Early Orbit Operations. Occasional travel, as required, to customer, contractor, launch sites and control center locations for reviews, technical coordination, oversight, integration & test, training, launch and on-orbit operations.

Technical Skills

Ground Station Certification

* Space Network Ground Station Testing White Sands, NM

Developed Space Network Test Procedures for certifying USS-CR project equipment, using a Systems Engineering approach.

Participated in Space Network White Sands Ground Station Acceptance Testing

* Earth Resources and Science (EROS) Data Center (EDC) Sioux Falls, SD

Developed certification test plan and coordinated testing at Landsat Ground Station (LGS).

* Earth Observing Satellites (EOS) Polar Ground Network (EPGN) Wallops Island, VA

Developed certification test plan and coordinated testing at each ground station: Wallops Island, Virginia (WGS), Alaska (AGS), and Norway(SGS).

Spacecraft Radio Frequency (RF) Compatibility Testing

Developed test plans from support requirements, including teleconference meetings with project teams and NASA. Performed tests at spacecraft manufacturers` and NASA facilities, supervising technical activities of Field Engineers.Wrote Test Reports, for review by NASA and other Networks.

Technical Skills (cont.)

Technical Writing

Developed ISO 9000 certified NASA Space and Ground Network RF Compatibility Test Plan and Report template,

Automated Report Generation for Space Network support

Software Skills Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, SharePoint.

Languages: Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Basic, Pascal, SQL

Other skills

NASA Soldering School

Fiber Optics training

Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) certified.

Six Sigma Plus: Green Belt certified.

Customers

* US Government Agencies: DoD, JPL, MDA, NASA, NOAA, SNL, and USGS.

* International Space Agencies: CNES, CONAE, ESA, JAXA and University of Rome Italy

* Spacecraft vendors: BATC, LMMS, OSC, TRW

Honors and Awards

Company Awards

Bastion Technologies Perfect Attendance Award 2012

Honeywell Bronze Bravo Award Outstanding Test Plan & Report Support 2010

Honeywell 25 Year Service Award 2007

Allied Signal Quality Leader NMOS Program ISO 9000 1996

NASA Awards

NASA Certificate of Appreciation from the Swift Mission 2004

NASA Team Achievement Award for Testing of the Envisat Spacecraft 2002

NASA Group Achievement Award from the EO-1 Project Team 2001

NASA Letter of Appreciation for ICESAT Compatibility Testing 2001

NASA Certificate of Appreciation for the PROSEDS Flight Experiment 2000

NASA Group Achievement Award for TOMS-EP Testing 1997

NASA Certificate of Achievement Landsat-7 Achievement Award 1997

NASA Special Act Group Award for SWAS I&T Support 1995

NASA Group Achievement Award for TDRSS Compatibility Testing 1984

NASA Plus Point for AMPTE Testing Support 1984

NASA Outstanding Performance TDRSS Phase I Testing and User Simulation 1983

Education

George Washington University Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, 1989 Telecommunications and Computer Science

George Mason University Internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), 1982

Developed controller for Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) Computer for pixel processing.

Brown University Bachelors of Science 1981 Electrical Engineering & Biology

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