Engineer Software

Harold L. Johnson

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Simi Valley, CA 93065 **********@*********.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Experienced engineer with expertise in software development, signal processing, avionics, expert systems and navigation. Experience in both development and testing of software.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Simulation, design and implementation White box testing Test reports

Requirements/Spec writing Requirements tracking Test design

Black box testing Functional testing Test specification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Northrop-Grumman, Woodland Hills, CA Engineer 2001-2010

Performed formal testing and integration tests of OFP software. Create formal test reports and maintenance of test software.

• Operate CAST (Lynx) commercial GPS/inertial navigation tester.

• Implemented and tested the moding operations for numerous navigators.

• Implemented and tested the 1553 interface for numerous navigators.

Litton, Woodland Hills, CA Engineer 1987-2001

Serve on software engineering development teams as well as systems engineering test teams. Perform maintenance and repair operations on support equipment and test equipment.

• Support existing PDP (Fortran) based airborne vehicle simulator.

• Translate Fortran simulator to work on PC platform running C/C++.

• Develop and maintain User’s Guides for PC simulator.

Honeywell, Hopkins, MN Engineer 1984-1987

Design and build test simulator for support of torpedo system. Develop User’s Guide and implemented diagnostic software for isolating failures within this large multi-processor system.

• Design and build large multi-processor simulator to replace existing analog computer (VAX, Aptec, Array Processors [Numerix]).

• Develop Expert System to diagnose start up problems with the large multi-processor simulator mentioned above (VAX).

• Develop graphic interface for multi-processor system to allow real-time graphic display of data (VAX, Sun).

• Operation of lab for evaluating operation of torpedo system.

General Electric, Syracuse, NY Engineer 1981-1984

• Implement sound propagation model for estimating target depth based on multi-path results (Fortran, VAX).

• Developed graphic display system for the display of sound propagation data (Tektronix).

• Implementation of code for operation of acoustic speed sensor (8086 assembler).

Logicon, Dayton, OH (WPAFB) Engineer 1978-1981

• Provide computer support for senior analysts.

• Develop graphic software to help visualize test results (Cyber, Tektronix).

• Review vendor-supplied documents with a list of questions submitted from the military members of the projects.

Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN Instructor 1976-1978 Developed several computer aided instruction programs for history, chemistry, mathematics and physics.

• Operated computer lab with remote terminal and in-house mini-computer (Harris) with 24 terminals.

• Taught courses in introductory Basic, Cobol, Algol languages.

EDUCATION

Master's Degree, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, Major: Atmospheric Physics

Thesis: Radio Detection of Severe Electrical Storms

Bachelor's Degree, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois Major: Math and Physics

Senior Project: Build telescope

COMPUTER SKILLS

LANGUAGES OPERATING SYSTEMS HARDWARE

Ada NOS(Cyber) CYBER CDC Computer

Assembly (various) JCL (IBM) IBM 360

BASIC VMS(DEC) DEC VAX Mini-computer

Fortran RT-11(DEC) DEC PDP Mini-computer

Pascal LYNX Distributed (Federated) Systems

Visual Basic DOS Embedded Systems

Lisp UNIX Real-Time Systems

C/C++ WINDOWS 3.1 to XP Tektronix Display

COBOL Harris Mini-Computer

JOVIAL & ALGOL Numerix Array Processor

PL/1 Aptec – Bus Extender

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