Engineer Electrical
Resume:
RESUME SUMMARY - JOHN FRANOLICH
Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA; 215-***-****; ****.******@*****.***
The following “Resume Highlights” section and Resume describe my expertise in the Electrical System Engineering of complex systems while also leading teams of engineers, the customer and contracted companies.
I have a record of innovations and “out-of-box” realizations that provided my employers significant technical and economic advantage in the market. I “modernized” Lockheed Martin’s (LM) A2100 spacecraft product line with “lynchpin” electrical system innovations that enabled the removal of “Low Tech” explosive devices (pyros) from the “High Tech” systems within a spacecraft. This breakthrough innovation had many cross benefits including the recurring 1% reduction of cost per each spacecraft adding up to savings of $30 Million to build the next generation of navigation GPS III spacecraft for the US Air Force. These innovations were created by my close involvement in the design while also understanding the big picture and potential optimization of the product and overall system requirements.
I have consistently demonstrated that I can transition into different fields of Electrical Engineering with excellence and fresh ideas. I had a career change from being a customer engineer at General Electric (GE) to becoming the Lead Electrical System Engineer (ESE) for the manufacturer of GPS III Spacecraft at Lockheed Martin (LM). In this new role, I was required to perform as other “seasoned” spacecraft ESEs who already had several spacecraft programs of experience; and I was selected to do this on one of the most important programs for Lockheed Martin. In this endeavor, I exceeded the GPS program’s expectations and LM recognized me with the highest job performance rating of “Exceptional Contributor”. Also LM gave me a Management Award for an outstanding design review presentation to the US Air Force - as I quote LM – “made understandable the very complex functioning of the spacecraft’s Telemetry, Tracking & Commanding (TT&C) subsystem”.
My employers have leveraged my ability and promoted me across diverse positions: from a Digital Design Engineer, to Hardware Engineer, to Assistant Lead of Operations, to Systems Engineer, to Leader of Software Engineering, to Engineering Manager at GE, to a Staff Engineer to technically entrepreneur new business enterprises using venture funding from GE Corporate, and then to one of the most important and difficult engineering responsibilities realizable as the “GPS III Spacecraft’s Lead Electrical System Engineer, CPE”. Later, on a contract assignment at AAI/Textron, I transitioned to work on Surveillance Video Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
The quality of my achievements were not only realized by my employers; but also externally such as when Motorola bought GE’s “HEART” Data Archival and Retrieval system for their Iridium business unit after I had developed it from a concept into an operational system and then promoted it to GE’s marketing group for sale to Motorola.
I have extensive expertise in the engineering of mission critical systems, their operations and sustainment. This derived from a long-term role at GE where I was largely responsible for the design, integration and test of the Spacecraft Operation Control Centers (SOCC) which fly GE’s fleet of up to 15 in-orbit spacecraft ($1 Billion of asset) over the USA and globally. In this important endeavor, I significantly contributed to make GE Americom the industry’s leading satellite operator in reliability and profitability when the technical systems I provided then enabled the most effective and efficient use of operating personnel in comparison to other satellite operating companies.
In these positions, I communicated and coordinated with many groups that included engineering, operations, program management, upper management, legal, finance, marketing, engineering review boards, risk and opportunity management boards, program review boards, manufacturing and test, and especially the customer.
EMPLOYER
PERIOD
RESPONSIBILITY
2015 -2013
Attended to medical needs and health of my spouse
AAI/Textron - Aerotek
-Hunt Valley, MD
2013 -2012
Contract assignment: Systems Engineer of the “Surveillance Video Display Terminal” for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Lockheed Martin (LM)
Space Systems
-Newtown, PA
2011 -2006
Electrical Systems Engineer, Senior Staff
- GPS III Space Vehicle’s Lead Electrical System Engineer, CPE
- GPS III Space Vehicle’s Lead TT&C Subsystem Engineer, CPE
- Assistant Lead for LM’s Spacecraft Operations
FBI (Pro bono)
2005 -2004
Consulting for FBI to provide pattern & data analysis tools for threat detection
SES Americom
-Princeton, NJ
2003 -2001
Principal Member of Engineering Staff
- Spacecraft’s TT&C System Engineer
General Electric (GE) Americom
-Princeton, NJ
2001 -1987
- Manager of TT&C Systems and Computer Systems Engineering
- Staff Engineer for “New Technology Business Development” group
- Leader of TT&C Software Engineering
- TT&C Hardware Engineer and the TT&C Systems Engineer
RESUME HIGHLIGHTs
Received Lockheed Martin’s (LM) highest job performance review rating of “Exceptional Contributor”:
Performance reviews described me as: “great communicator”, “has technical expertise”, “an asset to the company”, “works issues to resolution with tenacity”, “typically thinks out of the box”, “congenial yet firm interpersonal communication skills”, “self-motivated”, and “his leadership quality is reflected in his calm and cool demeanor, never letting issue get the best of him and remaining objective while solving problem at hand”.
Challenging career change and successful transition from being the customer of the satellite’s manufacturer - to becoming the “lead spacecraft electrical systems engineer” for the satellite’s manufacturer.
Lead “Electrical System Engineer, CPE” at Lockheed Martin for next generation of GPS III Spacecraft
Also dual responsibility as “Telemetry, Tracking & Command (TT&C)” Subsystem, Certified Principal Engineer (CPE)”.
Coordinated/negotiated with General Dynamics (GD), ITT/Exelis, and Sandia Laboratories to define interface specifications and electrically integrate their spacecraft’s elements with LM’s Bus element
Member of GPS III Spacecraft’s Bus “Engineering Review Board”
Led team of 3 electrical system engineers, 6 Subsystem CPEs, 4 Design CPEs, 1 Flight Software CPE
Led weekly technical issues meeting between GPS III engineers and the customer: US Air Force and Aerospace Corp
Power, Solar Arrays, Harness, TT&C, On Board Computer, Software, Attitude Control, EMI, and Survivability
“MODERNIZED” LM’s Spacecraft Product with innovations that provided $30,000,000 of cost savings
Replaced “Low Tech” explosive pyros with modern Frangibolts & reduced “Stay-Out” shock zones for electronics
1% cost savings recurs for each of thirty-two (32) GPS III spacecraft and all future LM A2100 spacecraft
Hi-Density Heater cards: “Lynchpin Innovation” enabling cross-improvements in other satellite subsystems
Fail-Safe Command card: Avoids catastrophic failure mechanism that I discovered in GPS spacecraft and the ITT/Exelis payload design. Created 1st dual FPGA card product and “reused” FPGA programming to reduce NRE costs
Efficient sharing of UDU’s Electronic Power Conditioner (EPC) to power two more assemblies, GED & LLED
Solar Array Telemetry Unit developed without heritage basis to analyze satellite industry’s anomaly in MEO orbit
Measures, trends, & downloads I-V power curves to diagnose the 20% power loss from solar cells in MEO orbit
“Breakthrough Concept” tailored the requirements with Air Force and “Solar Cell Scientist”, Dr. Robert Francis
High Reliability On-Board-Computer (OBC)
Instigated switch from the OBC’s incumbent to the competitor, Honeywell, for a new custom design of OBC
Engineering Manager & Lead Systems Engineer at GE developing GE’s ground TT&C - Satellite Operation Control Centers (SOCC) to fly their global fleet of in-orbit spacecraft: 15 spacecraft & $1 Billion asset
Full Engineering & Sustainment responsibility of SOCC and the “Princeton Engineering Test & Simulation Center”
Provided real-time software, hardware, signal processing systems, and ergonomic designs for the system operators
Led group of 9 engineers: software, hardware and network engineers in addition to several engineering companies
Reported to Engineering VP after promotions from Leader of Software Eng., TT&C Systems Eng., & Hardware Eng.
Developed “single satellite operator console position” for efficient operations & control of large and diverse fleet of satellites in comparison to other satellite operating companies
Significant contribution making GE Americom the industry’s leading satellite operator in reliability and profitability.
Coordinator of satellite launches & transfer orbit activities between GE and LM teams for several satellite launches.
Led GE Management team to meet with Loral Space Systems to technically evaluate their proposed spacecraft sale to PrimeStar’s “DBS” business. Wrote evaluation report to GE’s Senior VP of Engineering & Operations for purchase.
Spacecraft Systems Engineer at GE Americom for on-board TT&C/Avionics subsystem, the OBC & Software.
Participated in and improved LM designs for 1st encrypted commanding system for commercial satellites over USA
Saved $200,000 of ground implementations costs. Management award to GE’s negotiating team.
Developed RF thru Baseband compatibility of interfaces between GE’s ground SOCC and spacecraft TT&C subsystem
Contributor to over 20+ satellite programs including the original R&D of LM’s A2100 and Alcatel’s Spacebus 4000
Proposed a GE Ground Solution Alternative to LM’s PATENT No: 6702234 and PATENT No: 6600976
Provided Ground Design Concepts, Configuration, Site Locations, Costs & Schedule to build a ground workaround – software, hardware, and RF systems - for the failure of the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) onboard a GE Satellite.
6-Sigma Quality Green Belt Certification received from General Electric
3rd Place Award for 6-Sigma project presented at GE’s Quality Fair against several thousand competing projects.
“Venture Business” development for GE - reporting to the VP of “New Technology Business Development”
“Venture Seed” funding from GE Corporation to explore and entrepreneur new business and product
Led design & negotiations with French Space Agency to build Data Operation Center for GE STARSYS business
Consulted with GE’s Corporate R&D and GE’s TIP Truck leasing business for one of 1st GPS truck tracking systems
Meetings with international partners to build a satellite TV direct broadcast business for homes in India.
Sale to Motorola of GE’s “Satellite Data Archival & Retrieval System” which I developed and promoted.
Wrote GE’s Technical Proposal that was accepted by Government of Gibraltar for a TT&C / SOCC station.
Consulting Studies
Presented recommendations to streamline Intelsat’s global network of TT&C sites as part of GE study for Intelsat
Provided GE’s assessment, in a 2 person team, of reliability of the satellite operations of SES Global in Luxemburg.
Consulted for Nahuelsat (Argentina) when LM and Loral presented competing proposals for a new Nahuelsat 2 satellite procurement. I represented GE Americom’s 28% share investment in Nahuelsat
Presented to the US Air Force’s Chief of Satellite Control on GE’s efficient satellite operation approach
Led GE team on study and plans for US DOD to restore the US National Communication Infrastructure after a Nuclear War via recovery of surviving satellites. US DOD letter cited me for excellent performance
Led Y2K software review of NSAB ‘s SIRIUS Satellite system and of OPTUS Australia’s operation that GE was vested in.
Led “Technical Due Diligence” review for GE’s buyout of GTE’s Spacenet Business.
Assessed economic value and liabilities of software for GTE’s VSAT product line
Led integration of GTE’s Spacenet Spacecraft Operations with GE’s Spacecraft Operations
Operation’s Expertise
“Assistant Spacecraft Operations Lead” for Lockheed Martin’s (LM) Satellite Operations Group in LM’s ASOC Center
Author of Mission Operations Plan document for launch and transfer orbit of AMC-18 / GSL-3
Satellite operator on console and coordinator of tasks between shifts for daily operation of the LMI satellite.
Satellite Mission Operator for launch and transfer orbit of Astra 1KR and JCSAT-10
Satellite operator for payload in-orbit testing(IOT) after launches of Echo X, and JCSAT-10
Developed and updated operation procedures for LMI satellite
GE’s Satellite Operations group was my primary customer for over 15 years while I acted as TT&C ground systems engineer and Engineering Manager. I provided & sustained all satellite operational tools & signal processing systems.
US Secret Clearance:
For US NSA, as Digital Design Engineer at Hughes Networks, I designed FPGA circuit boards. Clearance now expired.
Awards
LM Award for completion of highly successful GPS III Spacecraft Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
Technical Director described my presentation as “making understandable the very complex functioning of TT&C”
GE Award for “Auto-Restoration System for Interrupted Satcom C3/C4 Transponder Broadcasts”
GE Award for leading design changes in TT&C and SOCC network to be compatible with new LM C3 & C4 spacecraft
GE Stock Option awards for GE’s highly performing employees, separate from management awards for projects
RESUME
JOHN FRANOLICH
EMPLOYER
PERIOD
RESPONSIBILITY
2015 -2013
Attended to medical needs and health of my spouse
AAI/Textron - Aerotek
-Hunt Valley, MD
2013 -2012
Contract assignment: Systems Engineer of the “Surveillance Video Display Terminal” for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Lockheed Martin (LM)
Space Systems
-Newtown, PA
2011 -2006
Electrical Systems Engineer, Senior Staff
- GPS III Space Vehicle’s Lead Electrical System Engineer, CPE
- GPS III Space Vehicle’s Lead TT&C Subsystem Engineer, CPE
- Assistant Lead for LM’s Spacecraft Operations
FBI (Pro bono)
2005 -2004
Consulting for FBI to provide pattern & data analysis tools for threat detection
SES Americom
-Princeton, NJ
2003 -2001
Principal Member of Engineering Staff
- Spacecraft’s TT&C System Engineer
General Electric (GE) Americom
-Princeton, NJ
2001 -1987
- Manager of TT&C Systems and Computer Systems Engineering
- Staff Engineer for “New Technology Business Development” group
- Leader of TT&C Software Engineering
- TT&C Hardware Engineer and the TT&C Systems Engineer
CERTIFICATIONS:
Green Belt Certification for 6-Sigma Quality received from GE
Certified Principal Engineer (CPE) received from Lockheed Martin (LM) for two products:
1.Electrical Systems on the GPS III Space Vehicle
2.Telemetry, Tracking, & Commanding (TT&C) Subsystem on the GPS III Space Vehicle
EDUCATION:
Polytechnic Institute of New York University: BSEE
JOB POSITIONS:
August 2012 to March 2013: AAI/Textron Inc. - Hunt Valley, Maryland
Position: Electrical Systems Engineer
System Engineering to reverse engineer & generate specifications and test plans for AAI's Remote Video Terminal System, OSRVT, that displays Surveillance Video from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)(Drones)
Challenge of previous system delivery without specifications and late start to develop specifications for next delivery
Used IBM’s Rational DOORS tool to develop requirements for User interface software, video display manipulation, video annotation, archiving, interoperability with interfaces to other models of UAVs and AVs
Hardware consisting of PC, display, antennas with tracking ability, RF radio receiver (L3-Comm), power interface
Description at link: http://expressnet.ndgi.comwww.aaicorp.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/product-info/osrvt.pdf
Reviewed AAI’s internal engineering processes and recommended improvements in their execution
2006 to 2011: Lockheed Martin (LM) Space Systems - Newtown, Pennsylvania
Job Title: Electrical Systems Engineer, Senior Staff
Dual Position:
-Lead GPS III Space Vehicle’s Electrical Systems Engineer, CPE
-Lead GPS III Space Vehicle’s Tracking, Telemetry & Commanding Subsystem Engineer, CPE
Lead GPS III Spacecraft Electrical Systems Engineer & “Certified Principal Engineer” (CPE) for US Air Force contract to develop/build the next generation of up to 32 navigation GPS III Spacecraft
Reported to the Technical Director of the GPS III Space Vehicle (SV) program
Member of GPS III Program Engineering Review Board and signature approval authority, as the program’s Electrical System Engineer, for specifications & system design of the SV’s Bus Element, Antenna Element & all their subsystems
Review & contribution to General Design Specification” setting the electrical standards for SV and contractors
Trained reviewer and moderator for LM’s formal peer review process
Electrical System Integrator of Elements of the GPS III Space Vehicle (SV).
Responsible for Electrical cohesion, compatibility, and interconnection of all elements in the SV and also of all subsystems within the Bus Element and Antenna Element.
Contributor, reviewer & approver of Interface Control Documents between all the SV Elements: Bus Element, Antenna Element, Navigation Payload Element, Network Communication Element, Hosted Payload Element
Oversight and review of the Harnessing/Cabling Design and Interconnection Documents for the SV
Led team of 3 electrical system engineers, 6 subsystem CPE engineers, 4 assembly design CPE engineers, and 1 Flight Software CPE engineer to develop system concepts, requirements, & system designs for GPS III SV
Steered electrical designs of Bus subsystems: TT&C, Flight Software, Power, Attitude Control, Propulsion, Thermal
Negotiated with and ensured that elements provided by ITT, General Dynamics, and Sandia Labs - conformed to electrical interface standards for Power, Commands, Telemetry, and data: RS-422, LVDS, and Mil Std 1553B
Led creation of “Cmd & Tlm Database”, “ Electrical Interface Database” & “Electrical Thermal Design Document”
Led weekly “Electrical Systems Issues” meeting with the customer, US Air Force, and with BUS’s subsystem CPEs
oOn-Board-Computer (OBC); Flight Software; Power (Solar Arrays, Batteries, Regulation, Fusing, Distribution); Telemetry & Commands (TT&C/C&DH), Avionics, Thermal ; Attitude Control; Harness; Survivability; and EMI
Presented at the Bus Element PDR and CDR
Review of Spice Analysis to verify EMI compliance for grounding design & the harness’s shielding/returns design
Tradeoff review of Power Bus dynamics & Integrity during power turn-on, turn-off, failures, shorts, & fuse blows
Provided system concepts to avoid single point failures during switching of electrical power to assemblies
oNegotiation with ITT to revise power converter design for the GPS HPAs to avoid high voltage arcing
Analysis of software & hardware designs for auto SV “Safeing” functions to protect SV from radiation bursts
Reviewed and corrected the FMECA, for the SV’s Bus Element, as provided by Reliability engineering.
Assessed Technology Readiness Levels (TRL)
GPS III Space Vehicle’s (SV) Telemetry, Tracking, & Commanding (TT&C) Subsystem Engineer, CPE
Provided subsystem concepts, specifications, design & test plan for the TT&C to monitor telemetry/sensor data (or avionics) and to command changes in the state of all SV Elements. TT&C Included responsibilities for following:
On-Board Computer (OBC) operations, Flight software operations, memory loading, automatic failure detection, restarts and switchover to backup computer, other backup TT&C assemblies, and backup sides in all Elements
Electrical Power Regulation, Power Distribution, Solar Cell Power Generation, Battery charging/discharging
New “Solar Array Telemetry Unit” to measure & diagnose industry anomaly of 20% power loss in MEO orbit
oProposed to & negotiated with the industry Solar Cell Scientist, Dr. Robert Francis of Aerospace Corp.
RF switching of antenna to receivers and transmitters
New Frangibolt design to modernize antenna and solar array deployments. Replaced “low-tech” explosive Pyros
Motor drive control to point the solar arrays to the Sun
Thermistor monitoring and current drive to heaters to control the SV temperature;
Monitoring of attitude sensors for three-axis attitude stability of the SV body
Firing of thrusters to reposition and change the orbit of the SV and to control the SV’s attitude pointing
Inertial Measurement Unit (and gyroscopes) and momentum wheel operations for SV’s attitude stability
Drive for Magnetic Torque Coils to interact with the Earth’s magnetic field to assist in stabilizing the SV attitude
Control of the fuel system: relay switching of fuel valves and pyro opening of fuel valves
Emergency commanding & telemetry ability to restore the OBC and SV operations if the OBC malfunctions
Alert generation, and “survivability” actions when radiation bursts received by TT&C Event Detectors
Led subsystem development, design engineering, and design presentations for the TT&C subsystem and Avionics
Defined system configuration, concepts, and authored subsystem specification document for TT&C subsystem
oLarge complex subsystem with eleven hundred (1,100) requirements were written and peer reviewed
oIBM’s DOORS database tool used for specification management, review, tracing & verification sell-off.
oCovered TT&C Flight Software and seven (7) assembly types: the OBC, Remote Interface Unit, Uplink/Downlink Unit, Pyro Relay Assembly, Global Event & Low Level Event Detectors, & Transient Filter Unit
Led team of four (4) TT&C assembly design engineers to write and review their assembly specifications.
Presented the PDR & CDR for the TT&C Subsystem to LM and the customer: US Air Force and Aerospace Corp
oPrepared detailed data & design analysis package proving the compliance of the subsystem
Development of Hybrid Electrical Power Converter (EPC) for RIU in harsh space environment of MEO orbit
oChallenge of 1st time effort by LM’s Engineering to analyze a hybrid EPC instead as a discrete circuit
Authored the Test Requirement Document (TRD) for Space Vehicle (SV) level testing of the TT&C subsystem
Assisted Manufacturing & Test team to design their test system & test procedures to be in compliance with my TRD
Multiple Innovations provided $30,000,000 of Cost Savings & “MODERNIZED” LM’s Spacecraft Product
1% cost savings recurs for each of thirty-two GPS III spacecraft and all future LM A2100 spacecraft
Helped LM continue to win follow-on contracts from US Air Force for additional GPS III spacecraft.
MODERNIZED LM’s A2100 spacecraft product lin. Replaced most “Low Tech” explosive Pyros with modern Frangibolts for deploying of Solar Arrays and Antennas
Reduced explosive shock zones and the “Stay-Out areas” for sensitive electronic equipment. Increased the available space and improved architecture for spacecraft. Eliminated a Pyro Assembly. Improved SV safety.
RIU Hi-Density heater card – a “Lynchpin” innovation enabling “Modernization” of future LM spacecraft and the GPS III spacecraft with significant mechanical & architectural improvements
oLed circuit design & thermal analysis to increase heater capacity from 24 to 40 per card using new SMT
oElectrical & timing analysis done to avoid overheating of frangibolts and smoke contamination of spacecraft
Solar Array Telemetry Unit (SATU) developed without heritage basis to measure & diagnose industry anomaly
oUnknown industry phenomena that reduces solar cell I-V power performance by >20% in MEO orbit
oProvided concept breakthrough to negotiate a streamlining of customer’s requirements to eliminate assembly
oCompact design auto-cascaded FET’s in ohmic range with feedback control to measure Solar Cell I-V curves
RIU Fail-Safe Command and Telemetry card innovated
oDiscovered GPS mission Single Point Catastrophic Failure mechanism with the ITT/Exelis’s payload element.
oInnovated reuse of two FPGAs of differing functions onto same card to avoid FPGA NRE coding costs.
Led removal of unneeded heritage circuits in GED & LLED assemblies to avoid a new Hybrid EPC saving $800,000.
High Reliability On-Board-Computer (OBC) developed for GPS III and future LM A2100 spacecraft
Significant review, contribution, and signoff approval to new OBC specification
Led multidiscipline analysis of OBC clock accuracy requirement for accurate inter-satellite crosslink pointing
Led multidiscipline analysis of the dynamic response of the Spacecraft’s Power Bus to define new OBC requirements for continuity of OBC operation during long power sags or fuse blows.
Evaluation of competitive OBC proposals. Honeywell selected over incumbent supplier
Improved OBC switchover system design for a clock failure that does not timeout the watchdog timer
System design & State Diagrams to auto reset a failure of OBC redundancy from a common software problem
Review of REDMAN functions to auto detect and manage failures across the many spacecraft bus subsystems
Memory Refresh function built with OBC CPE & Software CPE, to manage weak EEPROM bit problem
Led Telemetry Accuracy Analysis and wrote engineering memo for Solar Array position and Thermistor telemetry
Provided telemetry calibration curves vs. temperature for capacitance error of new transient suppression circuits
Led Extreme Value and RSS Error analysis using ICAP tool for circuit modeling and Monte-Carlo simulation runs.
Feb 2006 to Nov 2006: Lockheed Martin (LM) Space Systems - Newtown, Pennsylvania
Position: “Assistant Operations Lead” for LM Satellite Operations Group in “LM ASOC Center”
LMI Satellite Operator
On-site ranging calibration performed in Jakarta for the TT&C station of “Telekom Indonesia”, a LM customer
Inspection and launch readiness assessment of LM’s Alpha TT&C station in Carpentersville, NJ
Wrote & delivered to customer the “Mission Operations Plan” for launch and transfer orbit of AMC-18 / GSL-3
Coordinated operation tasks between shifts, updated operation procedures, executed orbit maneuvers; trend reports of satellite performance, sustained battery charge for Eclipses & Arc-Jet firings; Responded to telemetry status & alarms; sent spacecraft commands; retrieved predicts of orbital events for operation schedule
Satellite Mission Operator for launch and transfer orbit of Astra 1KR and JCSAT-10
Satellite Operator for payload in-orbit testing(IOT) after launches of EchoStar X, and JCSAT-10
Assisted in data transfer & coordination of TT&C Tracking Stations in Uralla, Australia, & Carpentersville, New Jersey
2001 to 2003: SES American Communications Inc. - Princeton New Jersey
1998 to 2001: GE American Communications Inc. - Princeton, New Jersey
Position: Spacecraft Systems Engineer for the TT&C Subsystem
System engineering of the spacecraft’s design. Specialized in the command-control-telemetry subsystems (TT&C), its RF interfaces to the ground’s TT&C system and interface to avionics/sensors.
System review oversight for design of the spacecraft’s on-board computer and its interfaces to other subsystems.
Lead oversight for new Alcatel’s spacecraft design, Spacebus 4000, that combined fixed telemetry with packet telemetry abilities per European ESA standards. Review of Alcatel’s new ASIC miniaturization of their TT&C design.
Traded-off satellite design against ground design and ground site locations for various business requirements.
Communication link budget analysis provided with sizing of antennas and power versus performance tradeoff
Launch injection and acceptance testing of new in-orbit spacecraft
Oversight of Integration & Test of GE 1A and GE 7/8 spacecraft’s TT&C at LM factory in Sunnyvale, CA
Support for resolving satellite operating anomalies, critical maneuvers, and creation of satellite operating procedures
1996 to 1998: GE American Communications, Inc. - Princeton, New Jersey
Position: Staff Engineer in “New Technology Business Development” group
Investigated and entrepreneured new business and product lines that would leverage GE Americom’s high technology with use of “Venture Seed” funding from GE Corporation
Reported to Vice President of “New Technology Business Development”
Led design & negotiations with French Space Agency (CNES-CLS) to build a Data Operation Center for a new GE STARSYS business that tracks mobile assets via LEO satellite and provide on-demand status to asset owners
oLed the definition of its network, software, and functional requirements and wrote specification
Meetings with GE’s Corporate R&D and with prospective customer: GE’s “TIP” truck leasing business.
Development of new direct to home satellite broadcast business for India and SE Asia.
oEvaluated international suppliers to become GE’s partners in France, Switzerland, Holland, and Germany.
TV Set-top boxes, Encryption, Video channel processing, & Video Broadcast Operation Centers
1987 to 1996: GE American Communications, Inc. - Princeton, New Jersey
-1993 to 1996: Position: Manager of “Computer Systems and TT&C Systems Engineering”
-1991 to 1993: Position: Leader of Software Engineering
-1987 to 1991: Position: TT&C Systems Engineer
Full management & engineering responsibility for software & hardware development & sustainment of GE’s mission-critical SOCC network that controls GE’s global fleet of fifteen in-orbit satellites ($1 Billion asset)
Developed TT&C ability for single operator console position to operate multi-generation & multi-family of satellites manufactured by Lockheed Martin, Loral Space, and Alcatel. Provided remote control of SOCC sites and satellites
Real-time computer systems using HP, Unix, X-Windows and distributed data processing; massive data archiving and remote retrieval; real time alarms, graphic
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