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I live in San Diego, before that Connecticut, born and raised in Pittsburgh, go stillers, 'sgo dahntan ah gemme a cole arn dahn at Primantis en at.

 

What's My Line

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

Advanced/expert skills using VBA, Microsoft Access & Excel.

 

Professional Background

I'm a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer at Raytheon working on Navy Destroyers.

Former Electrical Engineering Manager at AP Labs, designing custom rugged VME chassis for most of the prime military defense contractors.

Former Sr. Electrical Engineer at EB and NASSCO divisions of GD, designing the shipboard electrical systems for submarines and cargo ships.
Former Licensed Electrician working residential, commercial and industrial electrical construction in Pittsburgh.
Brought up in the family business, managing and maintaining residential rental property.

 

Education & Certificates

Master of Science, EE, RPI , 2000

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

Engineer in Training EIT Certificate, 1993

Associate Degree, Electrician, Dean Tech, Pittsburgh, 1987

 

Philosophy Of Engineering

Having the right answers makes you a good guesser.
 Successfully defending them makes you a good researcher.
  Drawing important conclusions from them makes you a thinker.
   Productively acting on them makes you an achiever.
    Doing all four, on a regular basis, makes you a strong engineer.

At the beginning, accomplishments are secondary to motivations. At the end, it's the other way around.
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking... Sir Joshua Reynolds

Engineering careers

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The top earners of the Class of 2011 were engineering students, who were raking in average starting salaries of $61,872 upon graduation -- a 1.5% increase from the previous year.
Computer engineering majors were the highest-paid of that bunch, bringing in a whopping $70,400 a year.
Computer Science graduates weren't far behind, with the biggest increase in pay out of all the disciplines. Students in this field landed jobs with an average starting salary of $60,594 last year, up 4.1% from 2010.
 

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