• Languages including C, FORTRAN, Ada, C++ and 1750A + other Assembly languages.
• CASE tools: Rational Corp. Clearcase, Clearquest, UML and Rational Rose, under Mil. Std. 2167A standard.
• Operating systems including UNIX / LINUX, VMS, DOS, WINDOWS.
• Understand the mathematics and algorithms of physical dynamics.
• Have held a "Secret" DoD security clearance at L3 Communications and Lockheed Martin, no longer active.

L3 Communications, Link Simulation and Training, Arlington TX

1999-Sept. 2001

Makes flight simulators for the military.

• Added a feature to the KC-10 Boom-Operator-Trainer, modeling the motion of the refueling hose after it has struck and bounced off the fueling aircraft. This worked off an outstanding Discrepancy Report and completed the contract.
• Worked with team to upgrade the Swiss version of the F18 trainer. Went to Switzerland with 5 team members to install it. The team earned a commendation for good work.
• Also experience with the Apache helicopter training simulator and helicopter Combined Arms Trainer (AVCATT contract).

Lockheed Martin / Martin Marietta - Astronautics Group, Denver, CO

1981-1998

This unit of Lockheed Martin makes rockets and analyzes rocket launches for the Dept. of Defense and other customers.
    Independent Verification & Validation contract. 1997-1998

• Verified Mil. Std. 1750a assembly language modules of the upgraded IMS Flight System, for the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) program.
• Wrote drivers and stubs in Ada as part of the IUS IV&V project, with a particular emphasis on Ada low-level features.

• Modified and enhanced Range Safety Software for launch vehicle analysis. Applied concepts of co-variance and probability.
• Maintained 3 degree-of-freedom (POST3D) and 6 degree-of-freedom (POST6D) trajectory simulation and optimization tools for Lockheed Martin's Titan contract with the Air Force. Supported analysis for more than 60 Titan rocket launches. Resolved more than 200 Software Change Requests.
• Provided application programming support to the Titan Launch Vehicle program. Tasks included developing various autopilot, propulsion and guidance software models for the trajectory simulation programs.

• Enhanced POST3D and POST6D tools under contract to NASA Langley Research Center. Enhanced or revised 50,000 lines of code in FORTRAN language.
• Developed mathematical formulations and designed software for company funded development of rigid body constrained dynamics multiple body simulation tool. The tool, STAGEN, remains the primary Titan Staging and Separation analysis tool.
• Worked on Atlas propulsion and guidance software simulation for a special program; received a letter of commendation.
• Tasks also included some post-flight processing and work on an assembly language day-of-launch winds receiving program on a micro-computer.

Training, L3 Communications Link Simulation: in Unified Modeling Language (UML) and in C++, 2000.

Martin Marietta Evening Institute, Company sponsored education, Littleton, Colorado. Ongoing course-work in technical writing and software engineering, including Ada and C++, 1987-1993, 1998.

University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, with a Physics concentration. Graduated Summa Cum Laude, 1981.

Letter of Commendation and an award as part of the Verification team, verifying flight software for the Inertial Upper Stage Independent Verification and Validations contract, 1997.

Certificate of Recognition, NASA. "For the creative development of a technical innovation which has been proposed for publication as a NASA Tech Brief entitled 'Program to Optimize Simulated Trajectories (POST), (Silicon Graphics version).'" 1994.

Letter of Commendation for work on simulating Atlas propulsion and guidance with software, 1983.

Grand Prairie Toastmasters Club. Promoting speaking skills. Vice-President of Education, and Secretary.

Highpointers Club. Geographic and outdoors travel club. Club Archivist, 1994-1997. Created an index of past issues, 1987-1997, of the club magazine.

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