Profile Summary

Business and technology professional providing innovative ideas, qualitative and quantitative inference, applied research, cost engineering and project management to business strategies that optimize competitive technology product/services innovation, informatics efficiencies and asset valuation. Research and financial impact work and skill set:

Capella University; Doctorate and Masters – Business Strategy: Qualitative model of process interdependence for managing intellectual property assets during product development.

Certified Patent Examiner, U.S. Department of Commerce Patent & Trademark Office. Increased technology modernization, cost benefit and quality initiatives by performing research and data analysis for utility antenna system patents; terrestrial and mobile multiband transceiver equipment to ensure consumer use and economic viability.

General Electric Appliances: Optimized economies of scale, silicone sealant quality and process capability of automated impact riveting systems guided by ISO9004 for cook top applications.

Northrop Grumman: Optimized economies of scale and quality of countermeasure systems for avionic platforms guided by DoD 5000.2R validation, ISO9004 and MIL-STD 1629A, 461, 810.

Education/Training

Capella University School of Business & Technology, (2012-2018)

DBA, Doctorate in Business Administration (2018, Honors): Business Strategy/Innovation

MBA, Masters in Business Administration (2014, Honors): Operations/Project management

Courses: Managerial economics, operational statistics, business strategy, market analysis, applied research, international business, business law and financial analysis. Certified HIPAA.

University of California Irvine, Merage School of Business (2009)

CPM, Masters Certificate in Agile Project Management; Lean six sigma techniques, and earned value and cost account management. Completed DAWAI Level II coursework.

ITT Technical Institute: BS Electronics Engineering Technology

Physics, differential calculus, microprocessor system principles, programmable logic, analog/digital controls, solid state devices, power transfer, radio transceiver and antenna systems.

US Army Signals & Systems Maintainer School: RF ComSec Systems maintainer, field engineering

UHF/VHF cryptographic radio transceiver-antenna systems, ground radar surveillance, and supplier component management.

Certified Patent Examiner Training: US Patent & Trademark Office

Engineering requirements and specification writing, business case law, international patent processing, intellectual property, comparative analysis principles, comprehensive patent search.

New Product Development

2014-present Patent Engineering Analyst/Requirements Manager – US Patent & Trademark Office

(Public Trust clearance) Modernized idea generation, manufacturability, quality and ensured customer cost prohibitive advantages, in claim requirements by 25% for aerospace, telecom, automotive and defense customers. Improved customer cost benefits and knowledge of intellectual property systems with best design alternatives to support litigation and legal compliance to federal and congressional policy by:

Developing interface and control requirement specifications that cover multiband mobile and satellite transceiver systems and antenna types; phased radar arrays, steering, resonator, dipoles and monopoles, and beam scanning. Created functional performance requirements for entrepreneurs and multinationals.

Case examination contributed to the developers overall competitive decision process by providing data in support of trade analysis of alternatives, technology transfer, and sensitivity analysis business goals.

Performing comparative analysis and landscape studies. Imported international data from EAST graphical user search, configured and used Case PE2E Requirements Manager Application requirements tools and documents collection tool.

Industrial Engineering (Quality/Process Management Systems)

2012-2014 Industrial Engineering – Quality Analyst, GE Appliances, Roper Operations

Project management and financial accounting duties to present experiment and research findings to inform management of best process design and cost alternatives to support Kaizen quality initiatives. Optimized system quality (APQP), improved life cycle capability studies by 25% guided by ISO 9000-9004 and increased manufacturability of competitive cooking products by:

Collaborating with electrical, mechanical, procurement, and materials scientists. Certified Lean six sigma green belt using DMAIC statistical analysis techniques, failure mode and effects analysis.

Developing test and control plans for automated processing, implementing wireless transceiver network, Allen Bradley logic and human machine interface to control cook top assembly.

Supplier management: maintained equipment cost reducing risk 30% by creating data and capability inferences using Minitab Statistical Analyzer and statistical tracking for subsystems.

2004-2012 System Integration Engineer/Requirements Manager – Northrop Grumman Corporation

Supported Aerospace Defense: B52, FA/18 and EA18G Avionics Systems (Top Secret clearance): Optimized system quality (APQP) in designs with MIL-STD 461, 810, 1629A, ISO 9000-9004, increased avionic system quality by 20% supporting Preliminary and Critical Design review milestones by:

Performing cost benefit and analysis of alternatives and verification of pulse width, pulse repetition, scan, side-band and intermodulation effects, evaluating signal power and data error using Combat electromagnetic environment simulator (CEESIM), 1553 capability, Remcom and Mat Lab tools.

Requirements developed in Rational Doors manager tool, importing source documents and metrics.

Supplier management: generated subcontractor (Raytheon) critical data listing deliverables from work breakdown structure and program specification trees. Completed SysEng DAWAI Level II courses.

2001-2004 System Integration – Field Engineer – Rockwell Collins Corporation

Department of Defense and Homeland Security RF communications initiatives (Top Secret clearance)

Optimized antenna system quality (APQP) with capability studies by 20% guided by ISO 9000-9004 product requirements for transceiver and log periodic antenna subsystems, and RF/electronic switching.

Supplier management: cost account planning to manage the quality of equipment suppliers.

Implemented optical time domain reflectometer, Allen Bradley logic and human machine interface for control of transceiver and antenna system. Used Remcom wireless Insite product software tools.

Assisted in developing/deploying joint Lockheed Martin/US Coast Guard Motorola VOIP system and similar systems at U.S. airports; San Francisco, Seattle-Tacoma, and Merida Crescensio, Mexico.

US Military; United States Army Signals and Systems

1998-2006 RF System Integration – Field Engineering Technician; US Army RF/ComSec Maintainer School, Ft. Gordon, Georgia. Military Signals Intelligence, and 2nd Light Infantry 94E (Secret clearance)

Improved US Army modernization by utilizing failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), managing communications security equipment and suppliers in UHF/VHF base station RT1523-SINCGARS, AN/PPS-5 Ground Surveillance Radar and Sat Com equipment AN/TRQ32, AN/TSQ190.

Joint US/British Army initiative, performed system integration, and maintenance of secured cryptographic radio transceivers, ground surveillance and radar tracking equipment and monopole and log periodic antenna systems. Combat air assault badge, arctic and urban warfare training.

Computer, Database and Application Skills

Windows XP, MSDOS, Oracle, PE2E Case Manager, Advanced Product Quality Planning

Mat Lab, NVivo 11, SPSS, Minitab, MS Project, SAS Analytics, Rational Doors

Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Grammarly Editor, Snag-IT, Visio, AutoCAD

Programmable logic, human machine interface (HMI), spectrum, vector, and network analyzers

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