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Brief bio... for your reading pleasure...

 

What Do I Do

 

Machinery Automation, Systems Integration.

Electrical / Hardware / Database / Software Engineering, Troubleshooting, Data Mining, Requirements & Compliance Development, contributing wherever I can, building consensus.

Research, design, selection, implementation, test, and documentation of hardware, software, instrumentation, data acquisition, and control systems.

Career spent in Electrical and Systems Engineering departments of Prime and Second-Tier defense contractors, designing electrical systems for surface and subsurface combatants, large commercial ships, and the electrical enclosures installed within them.

Worked SSN774 Virginia Class Fast Attack Nuclear Submarine; TAKE MSC Lewis and Clark Cargo Ship; DDG-1000 Zumwalt Destroyer.

 

Professional Background

 

I'm a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer at Raytheon working on the DDG-1000 Zumwalt Destroyer program.

Before that, I was an Electrical Engineering Manager at AP Labs, designing custom rugged VME chassis for most of the prime military defense contractors.

Before that, I was a Sr. Electrical Engineer at EB and NASSCO divisions of GD, designing the shipboard electrical systems for submarines (Virginia SSN774) and cargo ships (TAKE).

Before that, I was a Licensed Electrician working residential, commercial and industrial electrical construction.

 

I think an engineer becomes strongest by combining discipline with innovation.  A disciplined engineer follows procedures and meets deadlines.  An innovative engineer brainstorms solutions to problems that have no clear-cut procedures, essentially inventing new processes.

Education & Certificates

Associate Degree, Electrician, Dean Tech, 1987

Engineer in Training EIT Certificate, 1993

Bachelor of Science, EE, University of Pittsburgh, 1993
   College internships with Siemens Stromberg-Carlson and the IBM Advanced Workstation Division
Master of Science, EE, RPI , 2000

Interests

Enjoy beach volleyball, inline staking, and hiking. Favorite beer: Widmer Hefeweizen; Favorite wine: Honey Nut & Apple from the Haight Vineyard in Connecticut; Recent reading: A Desert Place by Graham Mcintosh, The Meaning Of Everything - A History of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (loved it), Special Circumstances by Sheldon Siegel, Da Vinci Code and Deception Point by Dan Brown, Conclave by Greg Tobin, The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner (really loved it), LA Dead by Stuart Woods: Collections: lots and lots of metal and wood brainteaser puzzles like the types sold by Tucker Jones.