Additional Professional Engineering Background Information

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Mechanical Engineering Work - Highlights in Brief:

1.Ford Transmission Division: design the first ever band and clutch coefficient of friction testing machine.

2.Ford Transmission Division: design test fixtures for structural fatigue testing of transmission case.

3. Tractor and Combines Division signed fixtures for full transmission and rear axle new tractor with a

600p input dynamometer, all testing was electronically controlled and computer automated.

4.Tractor & Combines Division: mechanical design on new Ford Tractor cab and frame with 903 cubic inch, twin turbo charged, Cummings diesel engine.

5.Tractor Division: designed diesel engine dynamometer test cell for performance, fatigue, and

durability of Cummings, Caterpillar, and Perkins diesel engines.

6. Ford Dynamometer: Designed engine instrumentation test carts for quick setup engine testing.

7. Ford Dynamometer: Designed portable environmental engine test chamber, F and G Wing Project.

8. Ford Power Train: Designed compacted turbo charger for DIATA and VOLVO diesel engines.

9. North American Philips: makers of Philips/Magnavox televisions lead engineer on the design of a

robotic control picture tube handling systems and indexing carousel testing systems.

10. Ford Research Labs.: design with outside firm quartz ground piston heads, fiber optic connecting

rod and crank shaft for doing time lapse photography of flame front burning in combustion chamber.

11. Ford Allen Park Test Labs. and Vehicle Certification Labs.: Design and architectural layout of

vehicle emission test cells, working closely with Horiba Instruments in Ann Arbor, MI..

12. Ford Scientific Research Labs.: mechanical design and development of 42 volt alternator, and

the mechanical design and dynamic balancing of rotor – armature for start-motor-generator

for hybrids.

13. Visteon Corp.: Hybrid component lead engineer for high voltage alternators, starter-motor-

generators, and electric drive systems.

14. General Dynamics: interface for incorporating JTRS radio, TRAPS radar, and power-trains, and

hybrid electric components for JTLV ( joint light tactical vehicle ). TOP SECRET

15. General Dynamics complete redesign of auto-loader for NLOS canon and 210mm mortar of Stryker

vehicles. TOP SECRET

16. General Dynamics: over see the mechanical engineering and integration of gas turbine or diesel

engine into the current engine compartment of the M1 Abrams tank. TOP SECRET

Electrical/Electronic Work- Highlights in Brief:

Ford Transmission Division: designed pig-board control system for shift actuators on manual

transmission test stand. CAD packages IBM CADAM.

2. Ford Transmission Division: designed radio telemetry and antenna pickup wireless system for

obtaining real time torque telemetry data off rotating cranking shafts.

3. Tractor and Combines Division: got US Patten on electronic controlled automated constant ground

leveling control system for plowing and cultivator use.

4. Ford AeroSpace and Communication Corporation: electrical / electronic engineer on Infrared

guidnace systems, Side Winder Missile Group, Newport Beach, California. TOP SECRET

5. Ford Research Labs.: Design A/D and D/A, 16 and 32 bit boards with 32 I/O channels and each

channel had one mega byte of onboard memory. Worked closely with DSP Technologies.

6. Ford Research Labs.: work on an help develop hybrid vehicle battery system and computer

controlled electric drive system. DC to DC power conversion, power storage, delivery systems.

7. Ford Research Labs.: design PCB ( printed circuit boards) for doing high data telemetry and data

storage, not commercially available. OrCad EE designer for PCB layouts, using OrCAD.

8. North American Philips: design television circuitry for color and display portions, power supplies for

32 and 36 inch jumbo Picture Tubes. In addition, chief engineer on the design of computer

automated picture tube tested for factory to eliminate defective picture tubes, 6 years experience.

9. North American Philips: Chief Engineer, US design team for P-I-P ( Picture - In - Picture ), received

US Patent for North American Philips, using OrCAD and PCB Designer.

10. Visteon Corp: Design of new close coupled catalytic converter to reduce NOx emission, and Chief

Hot Exhaust design engineer for entire Ford F Series pickup trucks (F150, F250, and F350).

11. Visteon Corp.: Lead engineer and Lab Manager on NVH noise and vibration engine studies.

12. Visteon Corp.: Design leader in traction control and active ABS systems for entire Ford F150 trucks.

13. General Dynamics Land Systems: Lead engineer on vehicle telemetry and on-board vehicle health

monitoring system, with wireless communication via satellite comm-link. TOP SECRET

14. General Dynamics Land Systems: did the requirements and redesign of battery system inside the

Stryker Vehicle. CAD system Pro-E designer mechanical drawings, and Zuken CR5000 for PCBs.

TOP SECERT

15. General Dynamics Land Systems: wire harness design and electrical power distribution on M1

tank, to handle increase power ( wattage ) load, and updating vehicle power bus form 28 volts to

600 volts, while leaving the instrumentation bus for the crew. TOP SECERT

16. General Dynamics Land Systems: worked with Boeing defense and Rockwell - Collins on JTRS

( Joint Tactical Radio System ) radio, with voice and data encryption, wave shaping, and frequency

hoping, at the Rockwell-Collins design / development center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. TOP SECRET

17. General Dynamics Land Systems: worked directly with RAYTHEON Corporation, on the

development and vehicle systems integration of TRAPS ( Tactical Radar Avoidance Protection

System), to defend against incoming anti-tank missiles and RPGs. TOP SECRET

18. General Dynamics Land Systems: Chief engineer on the development of main canon 120mm

GPS and LASER guided smart shells, to prevent friendly fire, got US Patent on design for

19. General Dynamics Land Systems: Chief engineer and Lead Systems engineer on the upgrade

of the M1 Abrams tank from 650amps to 1000 amps. Design and laid out all the new wire

harnesses and new Amphenol and Canon high current carrying connectors. TOP SECRET

** ALL items with a TOP SECRET label I can't discuss anything in great detail about the theory of

operation, circuitry, or engineering design OR data, for a period of 60 years - DOD Gag Order. **

Electro-Mechanical and Computer Control Robotics Work – Highlights:

1. Ford Transmission Division: complete redesign and re-work of end-of-line robotic- computer

automated test system. System had 77 second window to make a go Vs no-go decision.

2. Ford Allen Park and Ford certification Labs.: design & development of robotic-computer controlled

and fully automated evaporative automotive emission test chamber.

3. Ford Scientific Research Labs.: designed robotic and computer controlled test bench for testing

starter-motor-generators for P-2000 hybrid vehicle program.

4. Ford Scientific Research Labs.: design and integration of Ford’s Mondaeo ( UK Taurus ) for the

implementation of the hybrid gas and diesel version of hybrid technology into the Ford platforms.

5. Visteon Corp.: design and worked on on-board computer control for active suspension system

and AWD traction control. Cad software at Visteon and Ford was IDEAS.

6. General Dynamics Land System: design and development of remote joy-stick control of 50cal and

30 cal machine guns on top of the M1 Abrams turret, with on-board cameras integrated

vision system TOP SECRET

7. General Dynamics Land System.: wrote original report on the need to upgrade M1 Abrams tank from

a 650amp alternator to a 1000amp alternator. Up dated wire harness and electrical connectors.

8. General Dynamics Land System: work with United Technologies on TRAPS system, radar guided

and computer automated defense mechanism to defeat RPG’s. TOP SECRET

Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Work- Highlights:

1. Ford Scientific Research Labs.: work with a team of researchers on the the development of organic

and inorganic compounds as a anti-knock additive to replace Tetra - Ethyl - Lead.

2. Visteon Corp.: worked with Dr. John Hoard at Ford Research Labs., to develop a catalytic converter

to reduce or eliminate Oxides of Nitrogen ( NOx ) from diesel exhaust.

3. General Dynamics Land System: worked with Perkin-Elmer, the chemical instrumentation company,

on the miniaturization of Mass Spectrometer to fit inside the US Army's Stryker vehicle, configured as

a NBC RECON vehicle ( Nuclear - Biological - Chemical Recon Vehicle ), to detect harmful and

deadly chemical and biological agents. TOP SECRET

Computer Systems Engineering Work- Highlights:

1. Ford Transmission Division: complete hookup of load cell, tachometers, telemetry systems and

networked RAYTHEON COMPUTER SYSTEMS in test labs.

2. Ford Allen Park and Ford certification Labs: Hookup Horiba emission test bench and NEFF

A/D, D/A, and I/O front ends to HEWLETT PACKARD computers, networked over 200 computers.

3. Ford Scientific Research Labs.: real time data analysis on HEWLETT PACKARD real time RTE

computer systems in electric drive test labs. Networked together over 200 computers in the labs

to different department main frames.

4. Ford Scientific Research Labs.: design, program, and integration of PC based in-vehicle case

harden computers in the car's truck, and design and built EtherNet connection in the truck to

download test data into the labs. mainframe after completing the test.

Program and Project Management ( in Brief):

1. Ford Transmission Division: complete redesign and re-work of end-of-line robotic- computer

automated test system. Project management on over seeing the installation of test system

on all three transmission (C4, FMX, C6) transmission production lines

2. Ford Allen Park and Ford EPA certification Labs.: design and development of robotic-computer

and fully automated evaporative automotive emission test chamber. Project leader on installation of

43 EPA certified emission test cells for six years

3. Ford Scientific Research Labs.: designed robotic and computer controlled test bench for testing

starter-motor-generators for P-2000 hybrid vehicle program. Project leader on building six Monedo

( United Kingdom ) version of Ford Taurus.

4. Ford Motor: Leader on 300 million dollar engine testing facility at Ford Motors Engine Dynamometer

Laboratories for F and G Wing project.

5. PlasTech Engineering Products: Day-to-Day leader of laboratory operations in the structure and

environmental labs., and metrology labs..

6. North American Philips: Manager and Chief Engineer in consumer electronics development.

6. General Dynamics: Program and Project leader on design and development of new power train for

M1E3 new experimental M1A3 Abrams supper tank. Ran full M! tank computer.

7. General Dynamics Land Systems: Program and Project leader on design and development of new

power train for M1E3 new experimental M1A3 Abrams supper tank. Chief engineer in design of 80

kilowatt starter-motor-generator on Abrams tank, and 300 kilowatt on Joint Light Tactical Vehicles.

8. General Dynamics Land Systems: Chief engineer in developing product life cycle testing and mean

time between failure analysis, with accelerated fatigue life cycle testing.

9. General Dynamics Land Systems: Lead Engineer and Project Director on the prototype build and

design of a all new 28 million dollar M1E3 Abrams tank, 150 units, a 42 billion dollar project.

10. . Networking over 300 Hewlett-Packard and DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) computer at Ford's

Allen Park, Certification, and Dynamometer Test Laboratories to their test cell host computers.

11. Maintaining and upgrading IBM computer systems at Ford Motor Credit Company..

12. Developing in-vehicle computer data acquisition systems, with the capability to download test data

to the mainframe, from an Ethernet connection in the trunk of the car.

13. Lead programmer on developing security and online communication listening and monitoring of

software at Educational software company - THE PENDEREL GROUP and FOURTH LOGIC.

Plant Manager and Chief Engineer ( 1988 to 2014, for a total of 26 years, in brief ):

1. North American Philips, Manager/Chief Engineer, 1600 Huron Parkway, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Building now owned by University of Michigan, Life Sciences Department. Brought plant on line after equipment

and records were moved from Sencea Falls, New York. N.A. Philips – Ford Joint Venture

2. EPA Emission Laboratories Manager/Chief Engineer, Livonia, Michigan.

** Laboratory burned down, along with some other labs, close down, never reopened **

3. EPA Emission Laboratories, Ford's Allen Park Labs. and Dearborn Certification Labs..

4. Ford Dynamometer Engine Testing Laboratories, Dearborn Mi..

5. Visteon Corporation, Van Buren Township ( new location, now): Chief engineer responsible for product

design for chassis systems for all Ford’s F Series Pickups. Promoted to Assistant Plant Manager for

designing and running end-of-line tests systems for QA.

6. Plas-Tech Engineering Products, Auburn Hills Manager//Chief Engineer, 3800 Monroe Street, Dearborn

Michigan. Brought plant on line after being moved from Bryant, Ohio. Ran day-to-day operations,

injection molding operations, testing laboratories, and prototype laboratory, and die making operations.

** Company lost Chrysler and Ford contracts, chapter 11 bankruptcy, went out of business **

7. General Dynamics Corporation: Chief Engineer and Program Manager/Director, on the development of the

all new, next generation, M1A3 Abrams Super Tank with direct battlefield telemetry satellite uplink, JTRS

( Joint Tactical Radio Systems ) with Boeing Defense and Rockwell - Collins, and TRAPS ( Tactical Radar

Avoidance Protection System ) with Raytheon Corporation.

8. General Dynamics Corporation: Promoted to PROGRAM AND PROJECT LEADER, because I was the only

engineer with extensive diesel engine power train plant background. This was a brand new tank, the M!A3 Abrams

Super Tank, at $28,000,000 each, and a production run over 3 year period of 1500 units. The entire project had

slightly over a 42 billion dollar budget. Program was cancelled due to massive DOD ( Dept. of Defense ) budget

cuts by the Obama Administration.

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