Objective
A mathematical physicist with an extremely diverse academic and industrial background in research, management and business development r les seeking a dynamic career position in a high technology environment

Franklin Research Associates, Timonium, MD, President Technical consulting and proposal preparation. Areas include towed array shape estimation using a modified Paidoussis equation and Extended Kalman Filters and Support Vector Machines for IR image analysis

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, Senior Staff Physicist 2005 Research and development in target detection, discrimination and tracking algorithms in support of the Missile Defence Agency. Areas include Support Vector Machine classifiers for IR imagery, radar/IR sensor data fusion, super resolution and motion energy analysis. Also supported NATO Missile Defence Feasibility Study and represented USA at briefings in The Hague.

Applied Hydro-Acoustics Research, Inc, Rockville, MD, Senior Physicist 2004 Responsible for business development, program management and research in radar and sonar tracking and multi sensor data fusion.

Inc, Arlington, VA, Senior Principal Scientist 2001 - 2002 Responsible for business development, program management and research in signal and image processing, mathematical modelling and radar systems in support of DARPA, MDA and other agencies. Areas include SAR ATR, inverse scattering theory, ballistic missile detection, Space Time Adaptive Processing, vibration analyses and detection of biological contaminants.

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Advanced Technology Laboratories, Camden, NJ, Manager, Business Development 1998 - 2001 Responsible for business development, program management and research in signal and image processing, embedded processors, intensive computing and mathematical modelling. Areas include SAR ATR and feature aided tracking, radar waveforms for adaptive target detection, inverse scattering theory, code generation algorithms, sensor exploitation and intelligent agents.

Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Arlington, VA, Computer Scientist 1998 Responsible for research, management and business development in mathematical methods for intensive and adaptive computing platforms. Areas include SAR ATR like phase space processing, MSTAR algorithms, generalized variable precision filters and electromagnetic scattering like ray tracing, Fast Multipole and Method of Moments for FPGA and PIMS based architectures.

Employment

1996 -  1998
Senior ATR Engineer

support to DARPA for the MSTAR Program. Responsibilities included technical evaluation of SAR ATR algorithms, target modelling, feature extraction, electromagnetic scattering prediction codes and system tests. Also, involved in monitoring contractors, evaluation of technical proposals and policy formulation.

Essex Corporation, Columbia, MD, Staff Scientist/Project Manager 1995 - 96 Research in applications of optoelectronics to radar signal processing, SAR, ISAR, ATR and space time adaptive processing, medical ultrasound, magnetic resonance and optical image formation and satellite and cellular communications. Responsibilities included mathematical modelling, algorithm development, technical management and business development.

Developed new algorithms for enhanced computation of adaptive weight vectors for beam forming in STAP, narrow band clutter cancellation and k radar.

Development of spatially invariant filters for SAR ATR.

Supported development of acousto-optic range-Doppler processor.

Support activities in enhanced 3D ultrasound, sonar and seismic imaging, synthetic aperture microscopy and optoelectronic telecommunications switch and channelizer.

1992 -  1995

Technical translation and consultation, instructing physics at the Pennsylvania State University, York campus.

ASEC,
Hanover, MD, Program Manager 1992

Technical management of programs that would yield a system capable of acquiring GPS and acoustic sensor data and transmitting them over cellular and satellite communication links. Responsible for supervision of 3 subcontractors, maintaining technical liaison between them and the customer and designing and carrying out component and system level tests in the laboratory and in the field. These tests included antenna range measurements and performance of acoustic and GPS sensors, cellular telephone modules and mapping software.

1990 -  1991
Principal Scientist

Responsible for analysis of foreign technology in the areas of radar and magnetic detection. Required review and understanding of technical and intelligence information, comparison with US technology and the preparation of verbal and written reports for the customer to permit assessment of threats to national security. Fields of study included magnetometer development, modelling of local electromagnetic fields of the earth and various objects of interest, associated signal processing and low grazing angle radar for the detection of marine surface phenomena.

Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, Baltimore, MD, Fellow Engineer 1990

Participated in studies to determine technical and cost advantages of airborne staring IR sensors. Determined optimum sensor placement, areas of coverage and detection probabilities.

Supported activities in radar cross section reduction by developing new techniques and improving existing technologies through enhanced ease of application, superior durability and more effective coatings. Also participated in proposal efforts.

Evaluated new techniques for radar detection, ultra wide band and k radar.

1988 -  1989
Senior Engineer

Employed least squares and Green's function approach to develop algorithms for the interpolation and extrapolation of acoustic fields of underwater objects to enhance determination of target strengths.

Developed algorithms to compute complex weighting coefficients for submerged hydrophone arrays to produce particular wave forms and beam patterns for target strength measurements.

Designed least squares tracking filter to predict pinger delay times for a moving, submerged target to provide a feed signal to an acoustic array beam former leading to enhanced data collection.

1985 -  1988
Manager

Designed and selected algorithms for radar detection and tracking from multiple surface platforms in support of NAAWS and other programs. Also designed algorithms for merging radar, IR and acoustic sensor data to generate target tracks.

Studied application of k radar to detection of marine surface phenomena.

Developed techniques for generating tracks of low flying cruise missiles by analyzing frequency content of homing radar signals. Developed computer simulation of surface multipath effects.

Conducted company and government financed research in new classes of radar absorbing structures. Contributed to mathematical modelling of signal attenuation, electromagnetic scattering and laboratory tests. Also involved proposal efforts and management of 4 subcontractors.

Theoretical development and design of conformal arrays of fibre optic hydrophones using Mach-Zender interferometry.

Developed a scheme for long range detection and localization of submarines using acoustic tomography. Provided estimates of thresholds for detection of various submarine signatures like bubble wake, vortex shedding and temperature scars.

Developed a theoretical model for void free ultrasonic curing of resins under ambient conditions. Led to government financed research.

Developed algorithms for automatic selection of stars for SHAD spacecraft experiment, pointing optical instruments and estimating refraction effects to provide a feed signal to these instruments.

1978 -  1983
of the Technical Staff

Design of spacecraft attitude control systems using thrusters, magnetic coils and gyroscopes.

Design of spacecraft attitude determination systems using infrared bolometers, magnetometers and star trackers and mappers.

Design of scientific payloads for the measurement of magnetic fields, x-rays and high energy particles.

Designed systems to prevent differential electrostatic charging for SATCOM, GSTAR and DBS spacecraft.

Developed software to predict reliability and life cycle cost of large space systems.

Participated in redesign studies of ultrasenstive acceleration compensation system on the NOVA spacecraft specializing in spin and electromagnetic instabilities. Also served as resident technical liaison between RCA and The Applied Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University where most of the work was carried out.

Developed simplified technique for magnetic calibration of NOVA spacecraft and on-board magnetometers resulting in significant cost reduction. Also wrote software and supervised tests.

Performed theoretical analysis and experimental verification of stress in collapsible gravity gradient boom for NOVA spacecraft resulting in customer acceptance of proposed structure.

Developed software to calculate trajectories of ballistic launch vehicles and parameters of orbits achieved by payload.

Analyzed effects of spacecraft attitude motions and orbit perturbations on pixel location and studied wind speed determination from satellite observations of cloud motion.

Projects of shorter duration included studying effects of varying earth infrared radiance on attitude determination, design of nutation dampers, plume impingement studies and analysis of microwave transmission through various materials.

1976 -  1977

Responsible for research in quantum field theory.

1975 -  1976

Taught Functional Electronics.

1970 -  1971
Instructor

Education

Miscellaneous
Taught General Physics.

American Physical Society

W.R.
Franklin, T.C. Miller, M.M. Bierbaum, A Support Vector Machine Classifier for Plume to Hard Body Handover, APL Technical Memorandum A1F 4 - 05 - U-065 September, 2005.

W.R.

Franklin, R.R. Kallman, Complex Spatial Filters for Automatic Target Recognition and Feature Aided Tracking, SPIE Proceedings, vol. 4053, April, 2000.

W.R.
Franklin, R.R. Kallman, Optoelectronic Signal Processor for SAR Image Formation and Correlation , Applications of Photonic Technology 2, George A. Lampropolous and Roger A. Lessard, eds., Plenum Press, 1997.

William R. Franklin, Leslie E. Gesell, Stephen Evanko, Robert R. Kallman, Robert Bowden, Advanced Sensor Signal Processing using Optical Techniques, AFRL Final Report RL-TR96 - 228 February, 1997.

W.R.
Franklin, T.M. Turpin, J.L. Lapides, C. Price, P. Woodford, L.D. Peachey, The Synthetic Aperture Microscope, Proceedings of the Microscopy Society of America, 1996.

P.J.
Roth, W.R. Franklin, R.R. Kallman and D.H. Goldstein, Complex Valued Image Correlations using the ImSyn Processor, SPIE Proceedings, vol. 2754, April, 1996.

W.R.
Franklin, Optical Signal Processing at Essex Corporation, Optical Engineering, February, 1996.

K.R.
Frampton, L.H. Gesell, P.J. Roth, T.P. Lillis, R.J. Redman, W.R. Franklin, Acousto-optic Range-Doppler Processor Performance SPIE Proceedings, vol. 2562 - 07, July, 1995.

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LANGUAGE ABILITIES

Fluent in English and French, competent in German, Spanish and Italian, familiar with Basque, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

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