Engineer Systems

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C H R I S T O P H E R D I C A R L O, P M P ®

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Systems Engineering, Directed Energy Weapons (DEW), High Energy Lasers (HEL), Gas/Chemical/Diode Pumped Solid-State/Semiconductor/ Free Electron/Quantum Cascade/and Fiber Lasers, Laser Optics, Atmospheric Effects, Lethality Assessment, Modeling & Simulation, Adaptive Optics, High Power Microwave & Millimeter Wave Technologies, EO/IR Sensors (InSb, MCT, QWIPs, VOx, “HOT” IR Material Research), ISR, Payloads, Acquisition, Tracking, & Pointing, Test & Evaluation, IRCM, LADAR/LIDAR/RADAR, Robotics, Hyperspectral/Multi-Spectral Imaging, Spacecraft (Satellites, Space Telescopes, & Launch Vehicles), Remote Sensing, Radiometric Calibration, Optical Coatings, Image Acquisition & Processing, MEMS, Finite Element Analysis, Algorithms, Emerging Technologies, Advanced Concepts, Shadow 200/M2/600 TUAS, Aerosonde sUAS, Scorpion ISR/Tactical Strike Aircraft, Program Management, EVMS, Technology Roadmapping, LEAN/DMAIC/DFSS, TT&C (Telemetry, Tracking and Command), GN&C (Guidance, Navigation and Control), GPS/GNSS/IMU/FOGs, RF, Cryptography & Encryption, HW & SW-In-The-Loop

OBJECTIVE

Lead Payload (ISR/Munitions, High Energy Laser/Directed Energy Weapons, as well as air and space-borne optical sensors) Systems Engineer with a broad spectrum of advanced technology, applications, personnel and program management seeking challenging leadership role in an innovative advanced technology organization. Intimately familiar with needs and operation of major aerospace and DoD/DOE/and DHS government customers, contractors (primes and subs), start-ups, and research & development labs at major universities as well as high technology fabrication facilities domestic and international.

EXPERIENCE

AAI Corporation (Textron Unmanned Systems) - Hunt Valley, MD 10/2012 - 1/2014

Lead Avionics Engineer – UAS Payload Integration (EO/IR/Munitions) SME

Wrote performance specifications, developed source selection criteria, and acted as Control Account Manager (CAM) for next generation EO/IR/Laser and SAR RADAR payload programs for the RQ-7Bv2 Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS) Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL) and variants (Army IDIQ Contract).

Managed and supported the development of multiple ISR-related IRAD payload projects for the Aerosonde MK 4.7G Small Medium Endurance UAS (sUAS) in collaboration with UTC/Goodrich ISR/Cloud Cap Technology.

Core responsibilities included definition and trade studies of camera optics, sensors, lasers, and packaging, as well as interaction with electrical (avionics/video), mechanical/aero, software, systems, and flight crew teams on integration of payloads onto UAS platforms.

Performed EO/IR Sensor Performance Characterization with NVESD SSCam IP and NVTherm IP, as well as analytical radiometric (“back of the envelope”) calculations.

Provided Payload Engineering support to the PM UAS Interface Control Working Group in order to keep up with up-and-coming requirements for NATO STANAG 4586 serial communication protocols, Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI), and Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI).

Performed trade studies to replace Raytheon’s APX-100 IFF (Identification, Friend or Foe) Transponder on Shadow 200 Legacy systems for foreign and domestic military applications.

Managed and trained all customers’ (i.e. U.S. Army, NATO, DHS, etc) Shadow 200 and M2 TUAS pilots in the operation of newly integrated payloads (gimbals, munitions) in both CONUS and OCONUS locations.

Performed several trade studies of existing and new payload capabilities for Shadow and Aerosonde as well as improved the NIIRS rating by working with vendors in minimal redesign efforts.

Cymer, Inc. - San Diego, CA 11/2010 - 5/2011

Principal Systems Engineer

Managed the overall architecture and design of a multidisciplinary crystallization system for manufacturing advanced LCD and OLED displays, including: optics, stage, laser, metrology, electronics, and software control. Developed the overall system architecture and managed all interfaces between the modules. This included updating BOMs and databases for logistics and oversaw the design efforts by our teams in San Diego, Germany, and South Korea. Defined critical experiments, specifications, and interpreted data to quantify performance.

Acted as the technical owner of the system stability performance for Deep and Extreme Ultraviolet (DUV/EUV) Light Source products at customer sites, responsible for assessing, implementing, reviewing and validating the system-level performance to enable customer functionality, improvement and problem escalation.

Completely responsible for working with Karl Zeiss AG in Oberkochen, Germany for the on-time delivery, performance, and reliability of all internal laser cavity optics that they were subcontracted to design and build. Also, in charge of the program schedule, budget, and laser safety briefings for all personnel working on the Systems Engineering/Design team within what formerly was TCZ (Team Cymer/Zeiss).

Oberon Associates, A Stanley Company - San Antonio, TX 10/2009 - 5/2010

Space Sensor Data Crypto Engineer – Senior Systems Engineer II

Provided technical support in the acquisition of encryption & decryption devices for space-to-ground, ground-to-space, and satellite-to-satellite cross link data in the US Air Force’s Cryptologic Systems Group Special Projects Directorate (CPSG/ZJ) for the GPS III/OCX Program.

Reviewed contractor specifications, designs, test plans, and results for accuracy and to ensure proper application of engineering principles. Participated in requirements reviews, design reviews, program management reviews, and technical interchange meetings.

Witnessed contractor testing and reviewed and evaluated test data. Conducted engineering assessments, reviews of Requests for Proposal (RFPs), and evaluated Change Proposals (ECPs).

Performed system integration, verification and validation, risk assessment and mitigation planning, supportability, and effectiveness analysis for embedded software-intensive crypto systems.

BAE Systems, Inc. (Technical Staffing Associates) - Lexington, MA 1/2009 - 4/2009

Senior Systems Engineer/Architect (Contractor)

Led the development of cooled (HgCdTe) and uncooled (VOx) thermal imaging systems for military, scientific, and commercial programs.

Provided sensor system architectures for new business initiatives including soldier weapon sights, air and wheeled vehicle-mounted sensor packages, surveillance cameras, ultralow-cost missile seekers, and first-responder imaging cameras.

Northrop Grumman Space Technology - Redondo Beach, CA 12/2007 - 7/2008

Mission System Engineer

Performed systems engineering for government-sponsored programs in Advanced Concepts, ISR, SATCOM, Missile & Space Defense, Directed Energy Systems (DES) including: Lasers & Kinetic Energy Weapons, and Civil Space market areas. Supported the end-to-end concept definition, design, launch, and on-orbit operations of space and ground systems. Defined mission conops and architectures, performed requirements definition and flow down, trade studies and analyses, modeling and simulation, reliability and safety, integration and test, and interfaced with customers, system end-users, product centers, and technologists.

Drafted Technology Roadmaps for DES, Nanophotonics, Advanced Concepts, Responsive Space, and Civil Space markets.

Assisted in the definition of the Mission System Engineering process; reviewed technical products; managed indirect IR&D, training, and PM&P budgets; reviewed program milestones; contributed to proposals; supported definition of future concepts in Responsive Space, acted as liaison to sector, & corporate System Engineering initiatives. Supported Mission Assurance for DES components and Fiber Optic Gyros (FOGs) with NGES in Azusa, CA.

Assisted the Modeling & Simulation Group with Directed Energy effects based on HELEEOS, an Air Force laser propagation code, which allowed variables such as clouds, wavelength, humidity, and other variables to enhance fidelity.

Textron Defense Systems - Wilmington, MA 4/2006 - 11/2007

Laser Systems Engineer

Managed the design and development of a performance evaluation system for a 150 kW Nd:YAG Diode Pumped Solid State Laser, including requirements definition, opto-mechanical design, performance analysis, and integrating diagnostics/controls programming with electro-mechanical, electro-optic, opto-mechanical, and data acquisition hardware.

Conducted laser system and subsystem analyses and trades to minimize risks and develop mitigation alternatives as necessary. Identified risks to performance, hardware components, schedule, and cost within the framework of the established system architecture.

Contributed to proposals and white papers for Gas/Chemical/Organic-Dye/Solid-State/Semiconductor/Free Electron/and Fiber Laser Systems.

Supported senior scientists and engineers in design, analysis, assembly, and testing of laser hardware for programs including SMDC/JTO JHPSSL (Nd:YAG), DARPA HELLADS (Nd:YAG), and GE SILEX (CO2).

Designed, installed, and operated several electro-optical experiments and non-lethal Directed Energy (AEOS) and LIDAR Applications for Vehicles with Analysis (LAVA) contract at the Maui Space Surveillance System managed by AFRL on Mt. Haleakala in Kihei, Maui.

Performed aerothermal modeling of composite heat shield materials for future NASA crew vehicles.

Philips – Advanced Metrology Systems, Inc. - Natick, MA 5/2006 - 8/2006

Hardware Systems Engineer (Contractor)

• Designed, tested, and improved cutting-edge nondestructive test (NDT) equipment using Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) and IR reflection technologies for measuring semiconductor interconnect metal film thickness for monitoring of advanced wafer processing.

• Responsible for identifying and solving design issues in optical equipment comprised of wafer handling robotics, precision motion control, complex optical assembly, IR lasers, and software control system. Worked with electrical, mechanical, software engineers, research scientists, and manufacturing engineers to ensure a successful product development from conception to manufacturing transition.

• Supervised the assembly process inside a class 10,000 clean room, calibrated, and aligned all the optics in the laser heads to ensure best performance.

Ion Optics, Inc. - Waltham, MA 8/2003 - 4/2006

Research Development Engineer

Developed a new class of infrared MEMS optical CBRNE sensors based on Photonic Bandgap Technology.

Designed a solid-state microspectrometer for integration into a custom drill segment of the Mars Deep Drilling Platform on the Mars Spirit Rover with Honeybee Robotics and NASA/JPL.

Designed and implemented automated test equipment for experimental R&D and volume production as well as developed LabVIEW software for data acquisition and six sigma repeatability experiments.

Designed, constructed, and executed experiments in infrared absorption spectroscopy, photonic crystal physics, as well as MEMS device and materials characterization.

Stoneridge Pollak – Actuator Products Division - Dorchester & Canton, MA 6/2001 – 10/2002

Electro-Mechanical Engineer (Co-Op)

Designed complex electro-mechanical fixtures using AutoCAD and I-DEAS for testing automotive actuators.

Machined, assembled, and tested automotive actuators and documented results in technical reports.

Performed Design of Experiments (DOE) for Six Sigma Quality Control of actuator production.

Created sound chamber software using MATLAB and developed LabVIEW VIs for data acquisition.

Investigated and troubleshot customer returned products to determine root cause of failure.

The Gillette Company - South Boston, MA 6/2000 - 1/2001

Instrumentation Engineer (Co-Op) – Shaving Technology and Research & Development

Convinced the Gillette Executive Team to purchase 500M RFID tags from startup Alien Technology, which saved the company over $1.2M.

Designed and implemented customized nanoscale instrumentation for evaluating razor blade performance.

Reduced cost of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) operation by over $500k annually while tripling the output rate of evaluated blades in the development of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM).

EDUCATION

University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ 5/2007 - 5/2010

MS Optical Sciences

Northeastern University - Boston, MA 9/1999 - 9/2003

BS Mechanical Engineering w/Minors in Electrical Engineering & Physics

Defense Acquisition University (DAU) - Fort Belvoir, VA 12/2009 - current

Equivalent DAWIA Coursework in Program Management, Systems Test and Integration, Program

Systems Engineering, Business Acquisition, Contract Management, and Technology Management

COMPUTER SKILLS

Systems Architecture DOORS, DoDAF, Rational Rose, System Architect, SLATE

Optical System Design Zemax OpticStudio, CODE V, FRED, OptisWorks, LightTools

Metrology Software Spatial Analyzer, MeasureMind 3D MultiSensor, 4Sight Data Analysis

MCAD UG NX, CATIA, AutoCAD, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, Inventor, PRO/E (Creo)

FEA ANSYS, NASTRAN, PATRAN, COSMOS, ALGOR

Electrical Systems Design NI Multisim, OrCAD, PADS, pSPICE, ETAP

Simulation Simulink, STK (EOIR), Monte Carlo, HFSS, Stateflow, STARS

Sensor Modeling NVThermIP, SSCamIP, NVLaserD, IINVD, FLIR 92

Atmospheric Modeling MODTRAN 5, WaveTrain, SensorCAD, ExPERT, SHaRE MATLAB Graphical Programming NI LabVIEW, Agilent VEE Pro, CEC TestPoint

Project Management MS Project, MS Office

Statistical Analysis MathCAD, Origin, Minitab, JMP, Maple, NWA Quality Analyst, SAS

Programming/Scripting MATLAB, C/C#/C++, R, Python, Perl, Ada, Verilog, VHDL, FORTRAN, SQL

Parallel Programming CUDA (GPGPU), MPICH

Imagery Analysis ENVI, E3De, IDL, IAS

Operating Systems UNIX, Linux, VxWorks, Sun OS, Windows Platforms, MS-DOS, MAC OS X

PERSONAL

Over eighteen years as an active member of Northeastern University and Textron Defense Systems’ FIRST Robotics Competition team, the NU-trons, as well as participating as Lead Engineer on Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Mira Costa, and Redondo Union High School’s Beach Cities team, on which I designed, developed, and integrated mechanical, electrical, optical, and software subsystems and acted as a mentor for middle, high school, and college students. I also designed and fabricated my own robot for participation in the 2006 Robot Wars Competition in Las Vegas. I am fluent in German, speak Dutch on a professional level, studied six years of Latin, two years of Greek, some Italian conversationally, and also speak a little Russian. Love playing all kinds of sports, going to the beach, spending time with friends, traveling, watching movies, listening to music, and building custom computer systems. I’m very interested in emerging technologies such as: multi-kilowatt through multi-megawatt laser systems, IR countermeasures for defense, tele- and satellite communications, and terrestrial, airborne, underwater, and space-borne sensing applications (i.e. DARPA/IARPA, ONR, JTO, SMDC, etc.).

CERTIFICATION AND TRAINING

Defense Acquisition University transcript available upon request

Certifications in Design for Six Sigma Green Belt, NI LabVIEW Certified Developer, UG NX, and PMI Project Management Professional also available upon request

CURRENT DOD SECRET CLEARANCE

DETERMINED SECRET ELIGIBILITY ON 1/16/13

EXPIRATION DATE - 12/2/16

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