
Senior Staff Engineer, Air Traffic Systems Products and Programs
Syracuse, New York Area

Senior Staff Engineer, Air Traffic Systems Products and Programs
Syracuse, New York Area
Formed small group specializing in networking infrastructure
deployments for airport surface and wide area surveillance surveillance / Air Traffic control systems. Working on process improvements and work flow with some system / product / software development responsibilities.
Air traffic management systems product research and development. Process, and product improvement initiatives. Software and system architecture and development.
Wireless air traffic control infrastructure research. Deployed mesh sensor network at Cleveland Hopkins, Burke Lake Front, and Lorain regional airports as part of the NASA communications, navigation and surveillance next generation air transport testbed at Glenn Research. Develop IP, various defense and government proposal work.
Rapid software prototyping, brain storming, algorithms, voice/data communications, wireless, analysis of algorithms and system performance. Kernel hacking, real time, security, privacy, digital identity, VoIP, advanced antenna technology.
(Privately Held; Defense & Space industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Product network architecture and communications infrastructure engineering, requirements analysis, proposals, product development processes, cost reduction, software architecture and development, systems integration, wireless infrastructure analysis, troubleshooting, operations research, training, mentoring, system modeling and simulation, analytical modeling.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)
Air Traffic Systems strategy group in Chief Technologist's office. Working on wireless infrastructure for air traffic management systems.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CVG; Wireless industry)
March 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 4 months)
Researched Federated Digital Identity, Liberty Alliance, SAML. Investigated large scale VOIP systems. Some Java development.
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)
June 2002 — April 2003 (11 months)
Several Ex-Meshnetworks employees formed this LLC. We experimented with a dual band wireless infrastructure not unlike the one commercialized by SkyPilot, Inc. in the bay area.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)
February 2001 — May 2002 (1 year 4 months)
Was a private startup in Maitland Florida while I worked there. I did a lot of analysis of the media access control (MAC) layer, and submitted several invention disclosures. Discovered severe scalability problems in first generation mesh networks due to self-interference. The company was purchased by Motorola.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; COM; Wireless industry)
February 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Researched Bluetooth, Wi-Fi integration with cable modems. Some IETF work.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Wireless industry)
February 1989 — November 2000 (11 years 10 months)
Personal Area Networking research, WLAN research, open base station transport protocol standardization. Seamless mobility IETF work. IP work. 2G, 3G cellular infrastructure real time software development. Network fault tolerance. Cellular system performance analysis, analytical modeling, simulation, measurement.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
May 1992 — February 1994 (1 year 10 months)
Worked on communication software for fast food market POS systems. Interfaced POS systems with Hospitality management software. Managed small team of developers.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IRIC; Market Research industry)
September 1987 — November 1989 (2 years 3 months)
Managed small team of software developers. Created many internal PC database production systems for automated delivery of PC based software products and databases. Worked closely with telecom / networking groups on mainframe and mini-computer PC interfacing.
BS , Mathematics / Computer Science , 1983 — 1986
MS , EECS
Wireless, Amateur Radio, Hunting, Fishing, Outdoors, Fringe Science, Anti-gravity, Conspiracy Theories
IEEE, IETF, ACM