Systems Consultant Resumes in US-North Carolina-Western/Asheville: Stephen

Systems Consultant Resume

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Name:

Stephen

Location:

US-North Carolina-Western/Asheville

Experience:

Most Recent Job Title:

Systems Consultant

Objective:

To obtain a Systems Engineering position that is a good match to my skill sets and experience.

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SUMMARY:

I possess over twenty-five years engineering and technical management experience involving technical sales, technical support, systems training, systems analysis, technical writing, design and development of software, firmware and hardware. My experience spans both the Commercial and Military sectors in the areas of Automated Test Systems, Electronic Communications, Electronic Design Automation, RFID, Sensor Systems, Signals Intelligence and Terrain Analysis.

QUALIFICATIONS:

· Proven record of sound management principles resulting in successful project scheduling and completion.

· Consistently rated superior in both technical expertise and supervisory ability by all employers.

· Demonstrated application of a broad background in software, electronic and hardware design skills.

· Proven experience in performing technical research, systems analysis and technical writing.

· Self-starter with a proven ability to quickly acquire new skill sets as systems and project requirements demand.

· Skilled at managing multiple critical tasks simultaneously and reprioritizing assets as needed.

· Previously held DoD security clearance to the TS/SCI level.

SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE:

Systems Consultant June 2005 – Present

Design Engineer, Embedded Systems May 2007 – April 2008

· Consulted on existing High Frequency (HF) Automatic Antenna Tuner Unit (ATU) prototype designs that suffered from design issues requiring further hardware and firmware development.

· Responsibilities included development of firmware, engineering hardware design modifications, Schematic Capture, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design layout changes, releasing PCB Gerber files to prototype board manufacturer, testing new prototypes and writing draft user documentation.

SIGINT Database Project Manager May 2006 – May 2007

· Performed Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) data analysis, resolution and data entry into restricted database where monitoring logs received 24/7 are correlated daily from a worldwide High Frequency monitoring network on 5 continents. The SIGINT network provided comprehensive 24-hour coverage of the HF spectrum of all current and emerging HF communication standard waveforms and protocols. The resulting database product is available in a restricted edition for U.S. Government Users only, which was developed in collaboration with the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Software Developer, SIGINT HF Receiver Systems June 2005 – May 2006

· Developed an extensive Communications Receiver Control Library as a single MS-Windows Dynamic Link Library (.DLL) in to provide the Centurion HF signals decoding/analysis suite of tools with fully integrated receiver control. The radio control library supports all computer controlled professional HF SSB receivers from manufacturers such as Cubic, DRS-SS (WJ), Harris Radio Corporation, Japan Radio Corporation (JRC), ICOM, Racal, Rohde & Schwarz, Ten-Tec and others. The addition of Radio Control support provides the Monteria SIGINT tool suite a complete tuning-to-decode intercept solution with features such as scan and detect tuning in support of the collection of short-duration calling, selective calling, link establishment and link management signaling systems which to intercept depends on effective receiver control and rapid channel scanning.

Pro Bono Software Development, Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS) Present

· Developer of MARS-ALE, an MS-Windows software based, MIL-STD-188-141A Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) modem/controller which utilizes the PC Sound Device as the main data modem. MARS-ALE is an MS-Visual C++ Windows MFC based multi-threaded application that leverages the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) capabilities of the PC sound device as an inexpensive data modem asset. The need for MARS-ALE is based on the MARS program being an Amateur Radio volunteer based organization, which needs to support ALE interoperability with various U.S. Government Agencies (e.g. U.S. Military, FEMA, SHARES etc.) and the fact that for most MARS members can not afford the cost of ALE hardware systems.

Beta Lambda Inc. Oct. 2000 - Jan. 2005

Englishtown, New Jersey

Applications Sales Engineer

· Beta Lambda Inc. was an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) CAD tools sales and technical services company covering the sales territory of Southern NY through Virginia for over 20 years.

· Beta Lambda EDA product line included: HDL Designer, ModelSim, Leonardo Spectrum, Precision Synthesis and FPGA Advantage from Mentor Graphics Corporation in support of FPGA/ASIC Hardware Development Language (HDL) development supporting C, Verilog and VHDL languages.

· Responsibilities included managing the office, inside sales, help desk, logistic support for outside the sales staff, review of all sales quotations and the processing of all purchase orders.

· Developed sales proposals against U.S. Government Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and U.S. Commerce Business Daily (CBD) Request For Proposal (RFP) opportunities.

· Organized technical sales and training seminars in conjunction with Mentor corporate support representatives.

· Managed pre-sales demonstrations, product evaluations, post-sales support and product startup installation to include Macrovision FlexID licensing issues.

· Managed the corporate ACT! database and our interface to the remote Mentor Corporate Onyx based, RSA secured database, performing SQL queries for marketing and customer support.

· Maintained corporate web sites, e-mail servers, list servers, office computers and training laptops.

· Supported Quest Consulting Inc., a Beta Lambda company that focused on the placement of FPGA, ASIC, DSP design engineers as full time employees and right to hire consultants.

Sovereign Technologies Corporation June 1997 - May 2000

Brick, New Jersey

Director of Systems Engineering

· Sovereign designs and manufactures sensor based Asset Management Systems and provides hardware, software and systems integration.

· Responsible for PalTrack proposal development, system quotation development and risk mitigation.

· Customer support point of contact to resolve all PalTrack post sales system related support issues.

· Supported the successful technical marketing of PalTrack to Secure Care Inc., NASA/Goddard and the Veterans Administration (VA). The VA contract was the largest to date with a requirement for tracking over 4,000 pieces of medical equipment over a 1.3 million square foot facility.

Senior Engineer

· Project Leader, later Project Manager for the MS-Windows based Advanced Monitor Display System (AMDS) in support of the U.S. Army Improved Remotely Monitored Battlefield Sensor Systems (I-REMBASS).

· Developed an improved Simulation and Training tool for the U.S. Army AMDS/PPS-5 Radar mission data simulators under MS-Windows providing an RS-232 and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) interface.

· Developed a TCP/IP interface between AMDS/I-REMBASS and the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) for the U.S. Army Nightvision and Electronic Sensors Directorate Survivability Integration Laboratory (SIL) providing simulation of Intelligence/Electronic Warfare (IEW) and attack systems in near real-time to optimize precision targeting, particularly against moving and short dwell targets.

· Provided systems development in support of the PalTrack RF telemetry zoned based, RS-485 networked asset and personnel tracking system.

· Developed the PalTrack database in Visual Basic/SQL and rapid prototyping of the PalTrack asset and inventory tracking systems data entry modules.

Engineering and Professional Services (EPS) Incorporated July 1993 – June 1997

Tinton Falls, New Jersey

Senior Engineer

· EPS is a defense contractor providing systems integration, software engineering and information technology training solutions in the area of Electronic Warfare Systems.

· Provided life cycle software engineering to the Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Software Engineering Directorate for Night Vision Electro-Optic Systems.

· Provided analysis, comment and recommendation on a wide range of technical subjects and U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Software Engineering Directorate (SED) customer relation topics in direct support of the EPS Project Manager in pursuit of business growth.

· Supported the Project Manager in the interview process for the staffing of all technical positions contract wide.

· Project Leader/Lead Programmer (ADA and C++) for the I-REMBASS Advanced Monitor Display System (AMDS). The AMDS is an MS-Windows Geographic Information System (GIS) toolset that implements National Imaging and Mapping Agency (NIMA) Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED1/2) and ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (ADRG/CADRG) mapping formats and overlays I-REMBASS targeting information.

· Project Leader on the Forward Area Air Defense Electronic Support Measures System (ESM) Non-Cooperative Target Recognition (NCTR) System portion of the AN/VSX-2 Avenger Ground to Air Missile System.

Planning Research Corporation (PRC) Sept. 1990 – July 1993

Eatontown, New Jersey

Systems Analyst

· PRC is a prime defense contractor providing systems integration, software engineering, systems engineering, information technology outsourcing, critical information and infrastructure solutions.

· In support of the U.S. Army Concurrent Engineering Directorate (CED), Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, I performed hardware, software Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) to include Requirements Analysis, Design Analysis, Test and Evaluation, Program Documentation, Source Code Review and Automated Test Equipment (ATE) Test Program Sets (TPS) analysis

· Provided IV&V support to include functioning as the government test witness at Formal Qualification Testing (FQT) on the U.S. Army ATE systems AN/USM-410 Electronic Quality Assurance Test Equipment (EQUATE) and Integrated Family of Test Equipment (IFTE); Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I) Systems AN/GSC-40/40B Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Satellite Communications Terminal; AN/TYC-39(V) Message Switch Automatic Central Office.

Systems Consultant June 1989 – Sept. 1990

Lakewood, New Jersey

· Marketed Medical office management and ICD-9 based computer-billing systems as an authorized reseller of Pacific Medsoft, Sourcemate Accounting, Dell Computer and Best Power Technology.

Entron Industries (Lavoire Laboratories Div.) June 1982 – June 1989

Morganville, New Jersey

Assistant Senior Engineer

· Entron is a prime defense contractor and contract manufacturer of electronic communications and weapons sub assemblies and systems.

· Responsible for the design of Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) Automated Test Equipment (ATE) systems consisting of computer controlled Special Test Equipment (STE), Cincinnati Sub-Zero Test Chambers, Ling Random Vibration/Shock Systems, standard IEEE-488 and RS-232 test instruments and PLC controllers.

· ATE systems were designed to meet U.S. Air Force requirements to provide Test Analyze and Fix (TAAF), Production Reliability Acceptance Test (PRAT), Acceptance Test Procedure (ATP) and Burn-in testing of Air Infrared Missile-9 (AIM-9) Sidewinder missile launcher power supply sub-systems.

· ATE systems were designed to MIL-STD-810 Environmental Test Methods, MIL-STD-2077 General Requirements for TPS, MIL-STD-1801 User/Computer Interface, MIL-STD-334 Displayed Messages for ATE.

· Responsible for system wide documentation in accordance with MIL-HDBK-63038-2(TM), configuration management, training of supporting test personnel and on-line systems support services.

ITT Corp., Avionics Division June 1981 – June 1982

Nutley, New Jersey

Tester-Engineering Specialty

· ITT Avionics is a prime defense contractor providing Electronic Countermeasures Systems and related engineering and support services.

· Assigned to logistic support of U.S. Air Force B-52 ALQ-117 Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) System. Duties included: environmental testing, trouble shooting, failure analysis and repair of the black box systems power supplies (through 15Kv D.C.) and testing of the systems Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifier supporting modulated video signals through 18Ghz at pulsed kilowatt power levels.

· Participated in the preliminary testing of the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) developed by the ITT Defense Communications Division (DCD) for the U.S. Army CECOM, Fort Monmouth.

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Assembler (Intel 80x86, Motorola 68xxx, Atmel MCU, Microchip PIC), Ada, Access, C-ATLAS, dBase, Forth, FoxPro, Java, Pascal, PowerBuilder, SQL, Visual Basic, Visual C/C++/MFC and others under MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Unix/Linux and VMS. Also HTML, CGI and Java for Internet publishing.

EDUCATION: DeVry Technical Institute, Electronic Technician Diploma, June 1981

TRAINING: Mentor Graphics, FPGA CAD Sales Training, Portland, Oregon, March 2001

Mentor Graphics, FPGA CAD Sales Training, Boston, Mass., October 2000

FasTrak Training Inc., Ada Programming Course, 4 CEU, August 1994

Intermetrics Inc., Effective Technical Writing Course, Ft. Monmouth, NJ, Fall 1991

U.S. Army IFTE Test Program Set Development Training, Ft. Monmouth, NJ, 1991

Kennedy-Western University, Computer Science Program, 1990

NCMA Contract Procurement and Management Course, 1990

NCMA Solicitations, Bids and Proposals Course, 1989

AWARDS: Mentor Graphics HDL Designer Sales Excellence, 2002

Mentor Graphics HDL Team Excellence, 2001

U.S. Army Certificate of Appreciation, Armed Forces Day, 1996

Syracuse Research Corp., Certificate of Appreciation, U.S. Army Electronic Warfare Reprogramming Analysis Team (ARAT) Course Refinement, 1993

PRC Exceptional Performance Award, 1992

PRC Warfare Systems Operations Center Quality Award, 1991

KEY WORDS: ATE, Designer, Firmware, Hardware, Manager, Programmer, Sales, Sensor, Software

REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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