Curriculum Vitae

Work, lead, and mentor a team of engineers in system engineering duties.

Aerospace Dominance Division — Control & Reporting. Advised and assisted in frequency management, verification/validation testing, and fielding of weapon systems, communication systems, radars, and simulators. Interfaced and coordinated software testing/implementation and cyber testing/operations, with an operational understanding of threats, sustainment, and acquisition across the product’s lifespan.

MMIII Mission Thread Lead. Led a team of engineers in progressing Minuteman III test programs. In-depth understanding of the LDTO test process and procedures and of MMIII weapon systems and operations. Coordinated with contractors and other DoD organizations to facilitate testing and fielding of sustainment changes and components. Trained and mentored junior engineers and evaluated and communicated risk to upper command. Coordinated with the SCI community to evaluate impacts on future fielded systems.

C&L Lead Engineer — Command & Launch.Helped lead a group of engineers implementing requirements for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (Sentinel) nuclear weapon system. Worked with contractors to ensure requirements were implemented correctly and according to contracting agreements. Authored and briefed risks, participated in formal reviews and TPWGs/TPTs to refine requirements, drive risk out early, and negotiate testing processes. Travelled to test locations as a government test observer. Oversaw approximately 8 engineers in C&L day-to-day tasking and led C&L risks in all Risk Management Boards in the CTF.

Managed infrastructure development, facility and land preservation, and road enhancement projects. Assisted in developing procurement packages and acted as Contracting Officer Representative (COR) on Military Construction (MilCon) projects.

Tier 1 Supervisor of the Spectrum Exploitation, Sensors, and Signals Collection Branch — 27 engineers, scientists, and technicians. Project Manager / System Engineer / Branch Head responsibilities included:

• Survivability, vulnerabilities, and threat analysis of adversarial weapon systems, operations, and tactics.
• Decoys and unconventional/asymmetric weapons; using cellular communications and cellular ISR to influence kinetic and non-kinetic weapon systems.
• SPECINT, COMINT, SIGINT, and ELINT applied to weapon systems and tactical operations.
• Cyber vulnerabilities of Navy weapon systems and aviation platforms, and adversarial techniques used to defeat them.
• System engineering on the FA-18, E-6B Mercury, F-35, ScanEagle, RQ-21 Blackjack, and a variety of Group 1 UAVs incorporated into special operations.
• Counter-Unmanned Aerial System methods, policy, resources, and applicability — including networking with DoD research labs, academia, and industry on passive and active flight defeat, UAV weaponization, and UAV fuzing. Tier 1 supervisor for the DoD’s premier C-UAS Red Team.
• Worked with Naval Special Warfare (NSW) futures directorate to implement future UAV payload, decoy, electronic-warfare, and weaponization capabilities — integral in standing up Naval Special Warfare’s UAV program in 2019 (SEAL Team 10).
• RF beamforming, passive/active antenna design, RF engineering, jamming, spoofing, and using RF decoys to exploit tactical scenarios.
• Researching strategic and tactical adversarial capabilities — primarily China. Managing multiple ACAT3 programs including SAP. Scheduling, planning, and briefing high-ranking military and civilian leadership.

Previous duties (2012 – 2015):Project Manager for the Irregular Warfare Technology Office (IWTO). Skywalker Project Manager; BLOS-SE Project Manager (terminal certification for UAV over MUOS satellite system); Black Lagoon (S2ME2 demonstration); countermeasures R&D for Naval aircraft and UAV systems; Cyber Thrust Knowledge Manager. Authored four FY17 219 proposals in collaboration with DPSS, IWTO, and the Miniature Munitions Lab. Lead for S2ME2 ANTX (2017), assistant coordinator for NAWC-WD’s participation at Camp Pendleton.

Ordnance Test & Evaluation, Environmental Engineering (2013 – 2015). Environmental engineering, vibration, shock, and temperature conditioning for DoD ordnance programs; static propellant testing; static firings of missile systems to validate solid and liquid propellants.

NAWC-WD Touring (ESDP). Graduated from the NAVAIR Engineering Science Development Program — a five-year program completed in 3 years, 10 months under rare circumstances. Tours covered: SPIKE missile system planning and development; development and testing of a reactive wrap for the Sidewinder developmental warhead (arena testing, water-submerged warhead scoring); and an Analysis of Alternatives for solid propellant rocket motors for the Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Track (SNORT), including linear acceleration methods to replace SNORT sled techniques.

Worked in a team environment assimilating facility engineering reports and travelled to installations to develop facility assessments. Researched and wrote a report advising the 1-star general on the implications of pulling out of Afghanistan and the handling of Left Behind Equipment (LBE) for the 2012 Iraq draw-down — concluding that it was more feasible and cost-effective to leave much of the equipment in theater rather than shipping it back.

Supervised a team under the direction of a mechanical engineer designing and fabricating secret passageways for custom homes. Read detailed CAD drawings, used SOLIDWORKS and BOBCAD 3D, and provided cost estimates of initial mechanical systems.

Learned basic engineering operations and skills, including development and finish work, and implemented engineering designs.

Assisted in all drilling operations including depth calculations, rigging, supervising a crew of five, and maintaining drilling fluid by calculating flow rates, mud quality, and viscosity. Operated, repaired, and maintained all drilling equipment and heavy machinery (skid loader, front-end loader, dozer, backhoe, track hoe).

Racked pipe, performed general construction duties, and was versed in rig operations. Inspected and tested all equipment prior to drilling and coordinated and reviewed standard drilling procedures.

General construction with a wide variety of equipment operations.

TACAMO provides a joint strategic communications system between the President and the national command authorities — Strategic Command Airborne Command Post (“Looking Glass”), the Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS), the Non-Strategic Nuclear Forces (NSNF) Theater Commanders ABNCP, and the TACAMO EAM Relay missions — via a survivable, reliable, and endurable airborne communications link.

• Plane Captain — directed and supervised all ground maintenance operations.
• Collateral Duty Inspector — signed off on and inspected areas of maintenance.
• Quality Assurance Officer — ensured safety and code compliance on all aircraft maintenance activities.
• Tested, troubleshot, removed, repaired, and modified aircraft systems and components on 707 airframes.
• Fuel system final test and calibration; leak-path analysis with pressure, vacuum, dye injection, helium, and argon checks.
• Maintained hydraulics, flight controls, structural components, landing gear, and related systems; metal-shaping, corrosion control, painting, window replacement, and fiberglass repair.