Guiding Air Force's portion of DoD Joint Technical Architecture (JTA) in the use of common Information Technology.  Coordinating with Air Force CIO to align both JTAs and recommended product lists.  Researched and reworked electronic messaging architecture sections of the Air Force JTA.

Successfully completed Air Force Year 2000 (Y2k) program management effort.  Managed Infrastructure hardware and software inventory, assessment and renovation.  Investigated vendor efforts to evaluate, test and certify computer and communication products including computers, embedded systems and telephone switches.  Automated Excel spreadsheets with Visual Basic macros to track individual organization progress in solving Y2k problems.

Lead a group of engineers and analysts in performing logistic, engineering and technical review and analysis of Automatic Test Equipment and Test Program Sets for the Army's Aviation and Troop Command (ATCOM). Completed a special project overseeing a Built-In-Test demonstration at McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems resulting in reduced maintenance costs. Evaluated and testified as a software expert during an informal GAO hearing in a vendor originated legal protest concerning automatic hydraulic test equipment, which ATCOM won.  Reviewed testability documentation and other software systems engineering technical material.

Administered Novell network with 100% up-time and provided hardware and software support.  Exploited Borland's Delphi RAD to create stand-alone Windows and database applications tracking of test data.  Created Clipper 5.1 dBase application with object extensions for staged retirement of helicopters.

Designed, developed and field supported Automatix and Allen Bradley CVIM visual systems integrated with control computers, conveyor, pneumatic and PLC equipment.  Provided customer demonstrations setup, programming, and checkout of machine vision systems.  Designed and customized Macintosh based vision system for customer specific user interface and real time process control; using an application specific C language.  Programmed a robotics three axis motion control servo system with stack oriented language similar to Forth to de-palletize large tea chests and bags from three skids to a conveyor.

Represented Midwest at the Parsons, Kansas Army Ammunition Plant to solve machine vision and robot alignment problems, while maintaining secondary vision system.  Achieved 98% up time on secondary machine vision inspection stations in addition to robot alignment problem.  Only a lightning strike prevented 100% up time.

Established an improved motion simulation subsystem on Navy F-14/A-6 flight simulators and future MDTS flight simulators.  Redesigned existing motion cueing system as a result of experience, experimentation and analysis of both previous and replacement systems.  Persuaded project management to redesign long standing previous system.  Achieved nearly 60% material and maintenance cost savings.  Increased performance 10% through the use and intelligent placement of leading edge electro-pneumatic control devices.  Designed special purpose daughter board for a Motorola 68020 CPU card.
Programmed and integrated the combination CPU/special purpose daughter board into a multiple chassis VME bus system.  Interfaced daily with customers, project managers, mechanical designers, planners, procurement, parts control, and fabrication personnel to assure timely integration of my subsystem.  Completed successful Critical Design Review of motion cueing subsystem.

Designed layout of Target Station control panel and crew intercom for the Army's Fire Support Team Vehicle.  Programmed a database for analysis of navigational Circular Error Probability and data entry program for data validation.  Analyzed and simulated servo control systems on three anti-aircraft weapon systems, Millimeter Wave radar and T-40 Jet Trainer radar.  Analyzed, designed, programmed and implemented embedded computer-in-loop optimal control system during two-year project.

Programmed and performed control system simulations, digital linear programming model analysis, and graphical analysis in Pascal, FORTRAN and ACSL (Analog Continuous Simulation Language).  Initiated and instructed department personnel on usage of self-written Pascal and commercial control system analysis and graphic programs.  Designed and developed missile control unit motherboard with EMI/RFI reduction techniques.  Integrated flight simulator real time I/O system with fully instrumented AV-8B cockpit in McDonnell Douglas flight simulation department team.  Designed, simulated, and debugged military standard 1553 data bus Remote Terminal with Mentor/Apollo Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) workstation, Tektronix Motorola 68000 emulator, and VAX host.

B.S. Electrical Engineering from SIU at Carbondale, 1979.
Nine semester hours graduate classes UMSL/Rolla extension. 
C4 Systems Management seminar at Scott AFB, IL.
DataPro's Advanced Data Concepts and Network Design.
Communications technical seminar at Lincoln Labs, Boston, MA.
Advanced hands on training on Allen Bradley PLC-5 industrial controllers.
Corporate training Motorola 680x0 processors, Pascal and Forth.
Attended Modern Control Theory and Numerical Control seminars at UCLA.

“Modern Control Approach to Gun Firing Accuracy Improvements”