Test Engineer
Resume:
Bernard Edward Kluga
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linkedin.com/in/bernard-kluga
Secret Clearance 1986 - 2007
Employment History
The Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, MD
August 1985 – June 2007
Staff Engineering Assistant - Space Department
Photonics R&D, Antenna Test Range
President APL Astronomy Club
E/M spectrum : From D.C. to 40Ghz
Photonics R&D / End to end design, fabrication, testing and documentation
Various types of lasers including Yag, Yag micro-channel, Fiber coupled and high power laser -diode arrays, R&D. Including RAD hard testing with Gamma rays.
Steerable optic: MEMs micro mirrors and piezo-electric actuators.
Optical test equipment: spectrometers, optical power meters, fiber optics, data acquisition,
-vacuum chamber testing, floated optical benches, Clean Rooms
R.F. Systems: Radar and Communication
R.F. VHF, U.H.F. L, X, C, S, Bands.
R.F. Test equipment: spectrum and network analyzers, signal generators, frequency synthesizers, -frequency and time interval analyzer, power meters.
R.F. Antenna ranges: Compact, Anechoic and Outdoor. Installation and operation
Fabrication skills: R.F. transmissions lines semi-rigid, coax, triax, waveguide,
Installations of Airborne and Sea fairing vessels, Lear Jet and helicopter.
Proto-typing digital systems designing and producing custom printed circuit boards
Mechanical fabrication capabilities / Machinist skills, heavy machinery such as lathes, grinders, -welding (gas & electric) and numerically controlled three axis milling machines.
Microsoft Win 10, Xp, Power Point, Office, ORCAD, Delta CAD, Auto CAD, C+, Linux
Field testing on radar systems such as 55-B (fire control) and AEGIS (phased array)
Aircraft: Lear jet and Bell Jet Helicopter, Avionics Installations / modifications for research
Hands On electronic, mechanical & Optical experience.
Fiber optic cable installation and termination
Security system installation and trouble shooting
Class 1000 Clean room experience
Employment History cont.
S.A.I.C. ( contract )
Aberdeen, Maryland
January 2008 – June 2008
Chemical Weapons Detection R&D
University of Maryland - Technology Center
Catonsville, Maryland
September 2008 – September 2011
Photonics Test Engineer
Testing of Single Photon Counting APDs Arrays
Laser Drilling manufacturing
Baltimore, Maryland
March 2014 - August 2016
Photonics R&D
Part Time position
3-D printers
Laser Marker and Drilling development
Micro computer / controller / Arduino, RaspberryPi
Professional Membership Affiliations
A.A.S. - American Astronomical Society
S.P.I.E. -The International Society for Optical Engineering
Education
A.A. Electronics Technology
Essex Community College 1985
Catonsville Community College 1987-90
UMBC 1991-93
Total credit hours – 105
Awards
JHU / APL
R.W. Hart Prize for Development
New Optical Sensor/Weapon Network
October 2003
Department of the NAVY
Award of Merit for Group Achievement
JHU/APL C.E.C. Development Effort
Aug 1997
MAYFLY Exercise SDSMS Team
NATO / SEA SPARROW U.S.S. Briscoe
May 1992
Achievement & Publications
Dual – Band Spacecraft Sensor Suite for lunar and small body landing
1360 nm LIDAR and 35 GHz radar.
SPIE : Laser Radar Technology and Applications XII, volume 6550 2007
Radiation Belt Star Tracker 2006
N-Slit Star Scanner w/ C.H.I.A. dome test-bed 2006
Development and Testing of an Actively-Controlled Large Aperture
Cassegrain Telescope for Spacecraft Deployment 2005
MESSENGER spacecraft Phased Array antenna development
Contour and Stereo spacecraft antenna systems
Deployable Meter Class Telescope for Space Applications 2005
Optical Communications Development for Spacecraft Applications
JHU/APL Technical Digest Vol. 25, number 4, 2004
Comparison of Macro Tip / Tilt and Meso-Scale
Beam- Steering Transducers for Free Space Optical Communications
Using a Quadrant Photodiode Sensor SPIE Vol. 15160 June 2003
T.A.S.S.-The Amateur Sky Survey
A 3 CCD camera array utilizing drift scan technology
for Near Earth Object & Cosmic Ray Detection
http://www.tass-survey.org
190th mtg. AAS meeting June 8, 1997
Winston-Salem, NC
Sky and Telescope February 1998
Approaches to MRI Gating Using Multiple Sensors JHUAPL/NIH
Publications: JHU/APL Technical Digest, April-June 1999
Wake Vortex Investigation (at BWI Airport) JHUAPL / NASA / FAA
Publications: JHUAPL Technical Digest, December 1997
Final Report March 1998
Flare Genesis
A high altitude balloon experiment to image suns solar flare activity
http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/FlareGenesis/flare.html
A fast, wide dynamic range, low voltage tip/tilt mirror
using Magneto-restrictive Actuators SPIE 1996
NASA - Wallops Island
Radar acquisition and tracking experiments
Radio wave ducting experiments
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