Summary




An audio and video systems design engineer with sales, technical department, program, project and product management experience. Technical experience includes analog, digital and RF systems for NTSC, PAL, DTV and HDTV systems.
Active : TS/SCI Poly Clearance





Awards

Innovations in Technology Award Winner EIA/CES 2 Consecutive Years
Several Awards of Merit - NASA
Contributor : Decoder Circuitry Act and ATTC-HDTV Standards Committee
Contributing Author - Career Guidance Text So You Want To Be In Television
Re-wrote Teaching Plan for Daytona Beach Community College Electronics Certificate Program
Who s Who in Science and Engineering ? Who s Who in Entertainment and Television
Several Awards of Merit Central Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office


Employment

2002 -  2008
Senior Staff

Assignment 1 : Lead Engineer, Network Operations Center, USG IC Open Source Center. Upgraded system to mixed standards, mixed format worldwide collection network collecting 6000 hours + video per week for various USG Agencies. Considered Subject Matter Expert in Video Technology.

Education

Miscellaneous

Assignment 2 : Miami, Fl. 2008 - September 2009 ; Lead Design Engineer responsible for the overall design of the SouthCom Video Information System to be installed in the new SouthCom Headquarters campus. This IPTV based system consists of 2 large display walls 84 VTC suites, digital signage and streaming media to 2800 work stations. This $14.6M design total list price cost plus installation was estimated by the customer to cost $20M.
TGS,
Inc Chantilly, VA 2000 2002 Broadcast DTV Design Engineer Designed digital audio production systems, installation of DTV transmitting towers and HDTV transmission systems, HVAC, remote control systems.
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES,
Inc Chantilly, VA 1999 - 2000 Director, Audiovisual Services Group - promoted to Director, Office of Program Management Division Manager, P and L, Forecasting, Federal Government Sales, Marketing
CTSI/NRO, Chantilly, VA 1998 to 1999 Chief Engineer Department Manager, Responsibilities included the re-design and upgrade to DTV/HDTV standards a $13.6M video system consisting of 5 non-linear editing systems, 4 workstation CGI center with rendering farm, on/off line production system consisting of GVG 4000/Accom editor/Accom DDR, Yamaha O2R, 14 SDI cameras, duplicating system, SMS-7000 router, CATV system, auditorium presentation system, more. Installation and maintenance of the above system, operational, capital, maintenance budgets, consulting services to several NRO offices, departmental HR duties.
PEIRCE-PHELPS, Inc Beltsville, MD Senior Sales Engineer Video systems Design, Consulting, Proposal Writing, Purchasing
Corporate Presentation Services, Inc Alexandria, VA Senior Design Engineer Designed CCFV system for the Air Mobility Command division of the USAF. Multiple Air Force base flight line security and surveillance systems worldwide.
PBS,
Alexandria, VA Senior Transmissions Engineer Responsibilities included : Management of the PBS Satellite Distribution network operations center NOC. Provided technical support to all member stations of the network nationwide.
SSDS,
Denver, CO Consulting Engineer Developed and wrote standards and procedures to be used for the development, deployment and operation of General Instrument s new 4DTV network.
Welcome to the Future Columbia, MD Hardware Engineering Manager- involved in the development of ITV and advanced web browser technology. Budget responsibilities of $1.5M+. Key Accomplishments : Project management responsibilities for all consumer and cell site products.
American Systems Corp.Chantilly, VA St.Engineer Audio/Video Group Lead project engineer responsible for the design of analog/digital hybrid video capture and editing system used at Ft.Polk, LA. System elements included 1000 cameras, 4 Avid non-linear editors, 3 80 gig hard drives and 27 9 gig hard drives and digital projection system.
EON Corporation, Reston, VA Director of Hardware Engineering DSP integrated circuit development and wireless pager development, developed plan to reduce the cost of an RF Modem by 83%. PCS and DSP RF modem ASIC development
National Captioning Institute. Vienna, VA Director, Consumer Product Engineering Duties included : development of 3 closed caption decoders and assistive listening system for theater and home use. Development of closed caption decoder ASIC, integrated circuit and specification and consultancy on caption decoder ship used in TV sets sold throughout the country. Managed full life cycle on all mentioned products from conception to program termination. Import/export procedures, UL, BEAB. Outsource evaluation. JIT, ISO, COG evaluation. BOM development. Key Accomplishments : $19 Million income generated under my management for 1 product for 5 year product life ; $4.8+Million in additional unscheduled income in 1 products 4 year cycle ; kept cost of goods 12% under target, product into production 39 weeks ahead of schedule and $156000 under budget ; Project manager responsible for the development of a full custom, mixed signal ASIC ; project manager responsible for development of 4 4 highly successful consumer products, developed and wrote specification for 2nd generation integrated circuit used in many consumer TV sets ; program management role of 6 6 company s engineering and manufacturing personnel
Stellacom, Inc Houston, TX Senior Systems Engineer, NASA subcontractor - Key Accomplishments : designed special application video systems for NASA ; developed configuration management systems ; project management responsibilities over 30 NASA video projects ranging from video simulation systems to cable television systems to video teleconferencing systems.
Private Consulting Services various Project manager and lead systems design/build engineer for 1 $300000 and 1 $2.5 Million industrial religious video systems. Service operational and maintenance contracts for both 3 years
Allied Bendix/Ford Aerospace, Houston, TX Field Engineer NASA subcontractor Key Accomplishments : Saved $100000+ annually in reduced satellite usage time ; developed 4 point laser/ir video tracking system for STS SRB launch sequence observation ; video PM. responsible for planning co-ordination of video operations on 15 manned space flights
Gray Communications Consultants, Daytona Beach, FL Video Systems Sales/Sales Engineer Key Accomplishments : improved sales base from 24 to 250+ clients in 13 months ; designed interactive video system for Disney World in Florida ; designed commercial broadcast systems ; designed, sold and installed several video conferencing systems in client locations.
BROADCASTING ENGINEERING