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Curriculum Vitae

Education

Graduate Studies Georgia Institute of Technology 1982
Bachelor Electrical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 1980

Work History

Engineer, Avionics Test and Analysis Corp (part time) 7/2018 - present
Field Applications Engineer, Zodiac Data Systems 10/2015 – 4/2018
Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute 9/1982 – 10/2015
Engineer, Bendix Avionics 1/1981 – 9/1982

This is what I really do

The two passions in my life are aviation and electronics. I am a 450+ hour instrument pilot. I am also a Maker. I make things. The last half of my career I have been fortune in being able to bring these two together in developing aircraft instrumentation.

Aviation

I hold an Airplane, Single Engine, Land with Instrument Rating license. I passed my private check ride in Dec 1980, worked on my instrument rating for 12 year (passed the written twice) and finally passed my instrument check ride in May 1998. I don't hold a commercial rating so every hour I've flow has been on my nickle. Between my flying, hanging out with flying friends, and doing electronics research work for the US Air Force I've gotten had some interesting experiences. Here are a few pictures of some of them.

I got my love of flying from my dad Flying in the Florida Keys in 1981 The Titusville CAF airshow in 1982 One of my flight instructors crewed on a P-51 There was one ride available. I lost the coin toss. Playing ramp pilot during a C-130 project Got a lot of C-130 time working an EW program I've even got about 10 hours of helicopter time All my complex time is in this Mooney Flying back from Florida in the Mooney The Zodiac 601 is a real fun airplane to fly Flying the Sea-Rey with Fly the Beach in Destin, FL Flying with my neighbor Harry

Electronics and Instrumentation

Most of my career was spent developing military systems, mostly for the US Air Force. The last half of my career was spent supporting flight test programs, writing analysis software, performing flight test data analysis, and developing instrumentation. I became active in the DoD Range Commmanders Council in 2005, helping develop the IRIG 106 standard for flight test instrumentation. I write open source software libraries and tools that implement the IRIG 106 standard and make them available through my irig106.org web site. One of my last projects was to assemble a telemetry downlink receiving station.