Dallas/Fort Worth Area
- Current
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- Chief Technologist at AgileCast, Inc.
- Past
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- Senior Software Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones
- Test Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones
- Senior Test Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones
- Test Engineer at Intertek Testing Services
- Research Assistant at Rhodes College
- Education
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- Rhodes College
- Connections
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- Industry
- Defense & Space
- Websites
Ed Pichon’s Summary
I am adept at synthesizing large amounts of information about complex systems in order to develop a clear understanding of how those systems work. This has allowed me to work with companies across a wide range of industries to develop defense and security applications for their technologies, and craft proposals and presentations tailored to the interests and needs of their audience.
My goals are to use those skills to help companies developing new technologies and concepts that can use these analytical skills to bring their products to market in the commercial world, or into the hands of the warfighter in the defense world.
Ed Pichon’s Specialties:
Presentation composition and delivery. Tactical use of Directed Energy weapons. UAV systems and operations. Concept development. Government acquisition programs. Product testing. Systems automation.
Ed Pichon’s Experience
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Chief Technologist
AgileCast, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Defense & Space industry)
April 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
Designing military simulation exercises and wargame events. Worked with small businesses with promising technologies to secure government and Department of Defense funding. Created briefing materials and white papers on numerous topics, and gave briefings to various DoD organizations.
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Senior Software Engineer
Nokia Mobile Phones
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
January 2004 — March 2006 (2 years 3 months)
Responsible for testing of software on developmental handsets using the TestQuest hardware interface. Designed, implemented and executed a number of custom tests for customer and internal requirements. Also responsible for performing pre-compliance and R&D RF parametric testing for GSM, CDMAone and CDMA2000 protocols using multiple different test systems.
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Test Engineer
Nokia Mobile Phones
(Defense & Space industry)
2000 — 2006 (6 years)
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Senior Test Engineer
Nokia Mobile Phones
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
June 2000 — March 2004 (3 years 10 months)
Performed environmental/mechanical reliability tests on mobile phones. Designed and implemented new test systems and methodologies. Automated a number of mechanical test systems using CRS robotic arms, Lego bricks, custom systems and a robot scripting system of my design. Served with global test working group to refine and update Nokia-wide test standards and methods.
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Test Engineer
Intertek Testing Services
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
October 1998 — June 2000 (1 year 9 months)
Performed environmental reliability tests on telecommunications equipment to various BellCore (GR-1089, etc.) standards at 3rd party test lab. Developed a number of systems to automatically generate customer reports from data generated by test systems. Wrote control software and calibration system for high-voltage (1000V, 100A) power-cross test racks. Operated and wrote control software for gaseous airborne contaminants test system.
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Research Assistant
Rhodes College
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
May 1995 — September 1997 (2 years 5 months)
Assisted with ongoing development effort on fscat, a C and FORTRAN simulation tool for modelling the light-scattering behavior of near-solar interplanetary dust. The goal was to determine the composition of the dust by comparing simulated scattering models with real-world observation of the zodiacal light.
Ed Pichon’s Education
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Rhodes College
BS , Physics, Computer Science (Minor) , 1994 — 1998
- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma Pi Sigma (Society of Physics Students), Rhodes Singers and Rhodes Mastersingers Chorale, Rhodes by Night
