Manager Engineer
Resume:
Mike Erdahl
*** **. ***** **** #***, Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
email: ***********@*********.***
Systems Engineer - Project Management - Business Development
Technical professional with strong project management and business development skills. Comprehensive experience including design engineering, systems engineering, project management, and business development. Proven ability to effectively plan, coordinate, and meet deadlines on multiple projects. Effectively interacts with the project team, management, and the customer.
Manufacturer’s Representative/Technical Consultant – October 2002 – December 2011
Self employed consultant and technical sales representative in the telemetry, avionics, and communications industry. Have specific expertise in aircraft avionics and instrumentation, flight test, tracking airborne aircraft, launch systems, range safety, ground data processing systems.
Acterna Corporation(formerly Cheetah Technologies) - Bradenton, Florida. – February 2000– April 2002
Sr. Program Manager/Product Manager - Manager of a product management team. Developed and managed a broadband telecommunications product line used for status and health monitoring of fiber/coaxial systems in the cable and internet service provider industry. This product line comprised $20M of a $40M business.
Veridian Systems, Inc. – California, Maryland, January 1996 – February 2000
Manager of Systems Applications Engineering - Technical business development position providing applications engineering and sales support in the southeast territory.
Lead technical pre-sale and post-sale support to the aerospace and defense industry. Specialized in telemetry systems comprised of; instrumentation and avionics, RF transmission and tracking, data recording and data processing. Have strong working knowledge of ARINC and IRIG standards with extensive proposal writing experience.
Microdyne Corporation - Ocala, Florida, May 1995 – January 1996
Systems Manager – Management of a systems engineering and marketing team in domestic and international sales of telemetry, RF, and communications systems.
This position involved working in a start up division of the company to expand and grow the systems engineering business. It included managing a team of sales representatives and engineers, making sales calls to prospective customers, evaluating customer requirements, preparing technical proposals, and designing/integrating custom systems.
Loral Data Systems (Now L-3 Communications) - Sarasota, Florida, October 1983 – May 1995
Senior Applications Engineer - Technical business position in a systems engineering organization specializing in telemetry, avionics and communications systems. Marketing special engineering and customized systems integration for use in flight test, satellite TT&C, aircraft, launch vehicle tracking systems, and power plant health monitoring. The position involved meeting with domestic and international customers, evaluating their requirements, and providing technical solutions. Duties included extensive technical proposal writing.
Program Manager - Lead engineer in a systems engineering group. Responsible for designing and integrating telemetry and instrumentation systems to specific customer requirements. Work experience also included designing and managing a product line of instrumentation products. The position required system design, documentation, integration and installation, management of the project team, and profit/loss responsibility.
General Dynamics - Ft. Worth, Texas, October 1982- November 1983
Design Engineer - Design of microprocessor based field test equipment for use in field testing the weapons delivery system on deployed F-16 fighter aircraft.
Hughes Aircraft Company - El Segundo, California, July 1981 – October 1982
Production Engineer - Maintenance, modification, and design of automatic test equipment for in-house use in a manufacturing and production test area.
Education: BS in Electronics Engineering Technology
Missouri Institute of Technology, Kansas City, MO
AS in Engineering
Missouri Institute of Technology, Kansas City, MO
Specific Areas of Expertise
IRIG-106 Telemetry Standards
ARINC-429/629 Standards
MIL-STD-1553
L, S, C-Band Transmission
Microsoft Office
Computer Networking
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