Engineer

CHRISTOPHER ALCOTT

Havre de Grace, Maryland, 732-***-****, ********@******.***

Overview: Systems engineer with MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS in mechanical engineering with 20 years combined experience in requirements development, systems engineering, C5ISR Army acquisition, and foreign military sales. April 2022 - Present Work Sabbatical

• Pursuit of academic courses and certification in Cybersecurity Engineering, focusing on risk management, asset security, identity and asset management, software development, security assessment, utilizing tools such as nmap and greenbone OpenVAS,

• Passed the ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam April 29, 2024.

• Pursued academic and self-study of network architecture, TCP/IP, routing protocols, Python development and scripting.

July 2020 - April 2022 CACI, Inc., - ARAT Program Office, CECOM, U.S. Army

• Developed and maintained 20 to 25 Excel simulations of electronic warfare waveforms, including radar, anti-aircraft, fire control, and missile guidance systems.

• Developed user interface algorithms, troubleshooted, and debugged simulation conversion tools in Visual Basic for Excel and Access, Java, and C# using GitHub.

• Led a team of 5 junior engineers, performing onboarding tasks, touchpoint conversations, performance reviews, and salary adjustments.

February 2015 - July 2020 C5ISR U.S. Army DEVCOM - Security Assistance Management Directorate

• Wrote price and availability studies, commerciality confirmations for Acquisition Requirements Packages for several contract awards.

• Delivered acquisition requirements package to provide system hardware and services to pseudo-FMS and FMS customers. Requirements package included Statements of Work

(SOW), Government Cost Estimates (IGCE), Contract Security Classification Specification

(DD254), Justification for Sole-Source and Approval (J&A).

• Analyzed requirements and provided system support for data link hardware, RF communication equipment, digital signal processing applications such as MATLAB SIMULINK, LINK 16 terminals, PRC style radios, radios with MUOS, ESRI mapping software, electromagnetic equipment, isotropic antennas and phased-arrays. July 2010 - February 2015 U.S. Army DEVCOM, Program Management Office, Tactical Radios

• Fielded tactical radios at the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) at Fort Bliss, TX.

• Lead developing the Integrated Logistics Support Plan (ILSP), Core Depot Assessment (CDA) for spares, repair, and maintenance planning. Let Integrated Product Teams (IPT) to accomplish ILS goals.

• Operationally tested hand-held RF tactical radios by coordinating test scenarios and plans; provided technical feedback and analyses to fellow test coordinators; performed radio, waveform, and test equipment troubleshooting procedures.

• Verified and Validated (V&V) training, maintenance, repair, and operational manuals.

• Coordinated requirements withTRADOC TCM Tactical Radio to develop/refine DODAF level 1 AN/PRC-154 Rifleman and Man Pack Radio systems concepts and requirements. Results were added to the Master Test Plan, Life-Cycle Sustainment Plan.

• Performed business case analyses, Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP), level of repair analyses (LORA), source of repair analyses (SORA), and core logistics analyses (CLA), Bill of Materials (BOM) on tactical radios to determine optimal acquisition and supportability strategies.

• Developed and maintained Security Classifications Guides (SCG) for all contracting efforts regarding tactical radios such as legacy SINCGARS. November 2004 – June 2007 Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD)

• Led the I2WD SIGINT Technology Branch of the Electronic Warfare Division in the design of the Invicta IED trigger geo-location detection system. Triggers included cell phones and other RF transmitting devices. Successfully conducted developmental testing to move project forward to a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) award.

• Worked with the I2WD Fabrication, Integration, and Fielding Facility (FIFF) in the development of custom vehicle rapid prototyping installation hardware for quick-reaction direction-finding and geo-location systems. Coordinated with the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) for funding resources and successfully implemented system development and fielding ahead of schedule.

• Tested a direction-finding antenna array system at a Lakehurst Naval Air Warfare Center test facility. Algorithms were modeled in MATLAB code.

• Led a project in developing a self-calibrating digital direction finding antenna array for RF detection time difference of arrival. Measured S-parameters and calculated VSWR.

• Performed independent laboratory in-house research on fast constellation pattern recognition methods of signals in digital communications. Tested and compared waveform recognition software for accuracy, efficiency, and ease-of-use. Co-authored “Comparative Study of COTS Automated Modulation Classifiers” (2006

EDUCATION

Advanced Certification for Post-Master’s Study - Johns Hopkins University, Position, Navigation, and timing, Ethernet TCP/IP data communications, satellite and tactical network integration.

MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering - Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey

BS, Mechanical Engineering - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey CERTIFICATIONS

Level 3 Defense Acquisition Certification (DAU) in Engineering, Level 3 DAU Certification in Life-cycle Logistics, Level 2 DAU Certification in Program Management - DAU University US Army Civilian Education Advanced Leadership Course Software Quality Engineering Course, CACI Lead People Management Course. International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2 Associate Certification - obtained April 2024.

Skills - Matlab, Simulink, Excel VBA, Access VBA, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Office 365 Suite, Pages, Numbers, Google Drive, UML, SysML, virtualization using VMware and VirtualBox virtual machines, Python, GitHub, HTML, XML, Java, C++, RF measurement tools including spectrum and network analyzers, signal generators, power sensors. C5ISR - Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

DEVCOM - U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command

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