Engineer Design

PATRICIA THOMAS

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Solid technical background in networking architecture development and design.

• Business acumen developed on the job and in the MBA program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

• Collaborate with geographically dispersed team members to optimize products and services.

• Experienced presenter with superior analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.

• Highly motivated and goal-oriented engineer with exceptional problem solving and critical thinking skills.

• Experience with IT architectures, networking, servers and security - Cisco CCNA.

• “People-person” spearheading leadership roles in several volunteer organizations.

Work Experience:

General Dynamics, C4 Systems, 2007 - Present.

Senior Staff System Engineer, Ground Combat Vehicle - GCV Program.

• Technical lead for SATCOM and LOS/BLOS voice and data communications on the GCV.

• Presented at preliminary and critical design reviews to senior management and customers.

• Participated in technical interchange meetings with senior management and customers.

• Participated in architecture development with team members and wrote trade studies to determine best path forward.

• Lead system engineer on the system functional analysis using Rhapsody and Access database; developed CONOPS

and determined hardware/software system functionality and requirements flow down.

• Provide inputs to finance and planning.

• Authored many technical design documents that were delivered to the customer.

• Work with COTS vendors in selection/modification of design products.

• Collaborated with cross functional and geographically dispersed team members in work groups via Adobe Connect

and teleconferences.

Senior Staff System Engineer, Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) Program.

• Senior System Engineer on the Regional Hub Node Network that links deployed WIN-T Inc 1 systems via satellite

connectivity while providing communication interfaces to other fixed and deployed networks.

• Presented at preliminary and critical design reviews to senior management and customers.

• Participated in technical interchange meetings with senior management and customers.

• Responsible for planning and tracking of schedules.

• Interfaced with vendors in selection of design products.

• Worked with interdisciplinary groups to determine requirements and engineer solutions.

Wallpaper Options, 2000 – 2006.

Founder

• Created a software program in Visual Basic and C++ with a GUI to assist in the wallpaper selection process at retail

stores.

• Marketed the program to Home Depot and wallpaper manufacturers.

• Successfully negotiated agreement with Brewster Wallcoverings to use their wallpaper in pilot system.

Raytheon Company, Communication Systems Laboratory, 1983 - 1991.

Senior Engineer, 1988 - 1991. Mark XV IFF Program.

• Lead engineer responsible for managing and tracking a team of twelve EE’s working on the hardware design and

software simulation of a Message Processor CCA that involved the design of five VLSICs.

• Design included implementing digital signal processing and EDAC algorithms.

• Presented at technical interchange meetings and design reviews with customer.

• Responsible for identifying requirements and producing the card level specification document for the Transponder

Message Processor from the system level specification.

• Developed software simulation in C language that was used to generate test vectors to test the VLSIC on the Mentor

Graphics system. Integrated the code of four other engineers into one program.

Education:

MBA, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, May 2014

MSEE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1988

BSEET, Northeastern University, 1984

Clearance: Secret

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