Technician Electrical

Employment History

Sr. Principal Electronic Technician

**/**** – 02/2018 Orbital ATK 45101 Warp Drive Dulles, VA

Responsible for certification, setup and maintenance of EGSE. My duties also included safe to mate and electrical integration of spacecraft’s from open panel testing through launch site activities. I was also responsible for the execution of satellite test scripts. My responsibilities also included mentoring the junior staff during the integration process. I have proficiency with ground command and telemetry and support troubleshooting on both spacecraft and EGSE. During my career I was chosen as a launch team member approximately 18 times traveling to many different locations.

Sr. Electrical Integration & Test Technician

11/1995 – 05/2015 Orbital Sciences Corporation 45101 Warp Drive Dulles, VA

Responsibilities included a wide variety of tasks from building, operating and maintaining ground support equipment for the test and integration of satellites, from component and module level to sub-assembly and completed spacecraft acceptance tests. Talking lead role in working with junior technicians. Involvement in trouble shooting satellite issues by way of communicating previous techniques used as well as new ideas. Duties also included launch campaign support for successful integration to launch vehicle, as well as, commanding spacecraft functions via scripts and/or individual commands as well as monitoring nominal and critical telemetry points. Operation of a wide variety of electrical ground support equipment including Digital Multimeters, Oscilloscopes, Strip Charts, Power Supplies, Signal Generators, Network Analyzers, Current Probes, Electronic Loads, Solar Array Flash Testing specific equipment and RF Testing EGSE including Spectrum Analyzers, RF Power Meters & Sensors as well as script testing.

Quality Assurance Component Test Group Leader

10/1981 – 10/1995 Fairchild Space and Defense Century Blvd. Germantown, MD

Responsibilities/ Duties: Overseeing the testing of satellite components are performed in accordance with customer and company procedures and specifications. Involved with all stages of component test flow, including initial resistance safe to mate checks, functional test, thermal & vacuum tests, vibration testing and Final Performance Test. As Group Leader Responsibilities included overseeing and point of contact for a group of 4 to 5 fellow technicians.

Quality Control Test Technician

01/1979 – 10/1981 Weinschel Engineering Clopper Rd. Gaithersburg, MD

Responsibilities/ Duties: The Inspection and Testing of a wide range of RF & Microwave Components and Subsystems. Duties include receiving inspection and testing of incoming RF components, the In-process flow stages of manufacturing and Final Audit Inspection & Test of Components and Subsystems for shipment. The use of RF Testing GSE include the following: Spectrum Analyzers, RF Power Meters & Sensors, Signal & Function Generators and Amplifiers

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