PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
To obtain a position with an aggressive forward
thinking company, where as part of a team, I would be provided the
opportunity to apply my project management, system engineering and
engineering skills. Specific areas of interests include Information
Technology, Telecommunication and Radio Frequency Communications.
Project Management/System Engineering
experience
SPAWAR Systems Center - San Diego, CA. (July 1989 -
Present)
Onsite Project Manager for US CINC PACIFIC FLEET - San Diego
MAN/Global Information Grid Pilot
Involves
managing numerous San Diego Teams tasked with the migration of 300 DoD
Commands in the San Diego Region onto a San Diego Base/Metro Area
Network. In addition,
responsible for establishing and running a Voice Video Data Convergence
Pilot that will investigate current industry technologies that could
apply to Navy and DoD requirements.
(Direct
Management responsible for 16 Full Time Engineers/IT Tech.’s.
Aug 2000 - Present
Project Management/Systems Engineering support to U.S. CINC
PACIFIC FLEET – Intranet
Member of the Project Management and System
Engineering Team charged with the design, installation and operation of
the U.S. Pacific Fleet Intranet. Responsibilities
include budget creation, project planning, scheduling, and design review
for both the Pacific Northwest Region, located in the Seattle
Washington, and the Pacific Southwest Region, located in San Diego
California. Resulting network will be ATM to the desktop serving 25
thousand users Voice, Video and Data.
(Direct Management responsibility of 10 Full Time Engineers/IT Tech.’s)
June 1999 – Aug 2000
Technical Project Manager on the Navy Wide Intranet
project
Working as a project manager responsible for developing
the network design and project budget/schedule for the Department of
Navy World Wide Intranet (NWI). Proposed network contained an ATM
backbone with TCP/IP to the desktop. Initial design phase of this effort
involved establishing a Government/Industry design build team whose
members included Lucent, Computer Science Corporation (CSC), Boeing,
SAIC and Wang. (Feb 1999- June 1999)
Staff Assistant for Communications - Deputy Assistant Secretary
of the Navy - C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computers and
Intelligence) - Washington D.C.
Oversight responsibility for numerous multi-million dollar Naval and
Joint defense command, control, communications and computer related
programs. Was familiarized with every C4I system currently under
development in the Department of Navy. This highly sought after
temporary assignment provided invaluable experience and insight in the
operations and politics of both the US Navy and US Government.
Government agencies outside the Defense Departments realm for which I
interfaced with on a regular basis included; NTIA, FCC, US Congress, and
Navy International Program Office. (July 1997-Feb 1999)
Formal Management Courses
SSC SD - Software Program Management
Course
5 day course that
addresses developing and managing software projects; Expressed emphasis
place on the Software Engineering Institutes (SEI) - Continuum Maturity
Model. (May 2000)
ACQ-201 - Department of Defense
Acquisition Program Management Course
3 week course that
addressed the DOD 5000.2R Program Management Process. (Dec
1998)
IT
and Communications experience
SPAWAR Systems Center - San Diego, CA. (July 1989 -
Present)
Web Enabled
Navy (WEN)
Member
of the WEN Team tasked with developing a Technical Architecture
for Web Enabled Navy (WEN). This effort involved
exploration into some of the new enterprise level technologies such as
J2EE and .NET as well as cross enterprise XML technologies, such as
ebXML. From a top level these were applied to a 3 tier
architecture made up of a presentation layer, application layer, and
data/content layer. First draft delivered on the19th of January
2001. (1 month effort)
Global 2000
Exercise
Responsible for connecting two shore-based commands and
one ship to a common ATM network that would be used for a two week War
Gaming Exercise. Effort involved collecting requirements from three
different organizations, developing a functional solution to meet these
requirements and then coordinating with three different networks and
personally getting most of the equipment installed.
Total project was completed within one month’s time.
(Directly involved with about 10 Full Time Engineers and Techs.)
(1 month project)
California Wide Area Research Network.
Designed, managed and installed a ten-node research
TCP/IP network throughout the state of California in support of a DARPA
R& D program. Responsibilities included design of network, site
preparation, installation, test and turn-on. Specific technical hands-on
experience included the programming and installation of CISCO Routers,
CSU/DSUs, military encryption devices, and SNMP software tools.
(Directly involved with about 3 Full Time Engineers.)
(6 month project)
Computer Network Modeling and Simulation
Used Comnet-III to develop a computer network model
for a global US Department of Defense network. For this effort designed
and implemented a laboratory computer network test-bed to verify
simulations. With this test-bed utilized numerous protocol analyzers and
package-capturing tools. Received formal training from the creator of
Comnet-III, CACI Corporation. (1
year project)
Automated Digital Network System (ADNS)
Charged with the installation of complex
interconnecting communications network aboard two US Navy ships and
multiple US Navy shore sites. Task included design layout, management of
the installation and final test of operational network. This experience
highlighted my ability to improvise in a technically oppressive,
politically charged environment. (6
month project)
HF Receiver Adaptive Null Steering Antenna Array.
Worked for two years with a small design team
developing a HF Receiver Adaptive Antenna Array model. Direct
involvement included designing and coding of FIR filters, Hilbert
transformers, and side-band reconstruction algorithms.
With this model tested and evaluated numerous signal
identification algorithms used to differentiate between desired signal
and unwanted interferes. (Junior member of a 5 person engineering
team.) (2 year project)
LO STACK Phased Array Satellite Antenna Project
Developed power budgets for all U.S. Navy Satellite
Systems to included; UHF, SHF, EHF; Also involved with the Phased Array
Design that would be placed schedule for test ship. (Member of a 5
person engineering and business development team) (6 month effort)
Field Work
Have system engineered numerous other
communications systems used by operational forces in the field. These
include:
Other related experience
Cougar Cottage - Golf Course - Development
Project
Donich-Stark Group
Partnership (April 1999 – Present)
Setup a partnership
with a college friend to build a Log Cabin on a golf course in Seeley
Lake Montana. This
involved developing business plan, arranging finances, creating design,
managing construction activities remotely, and developing management
agreement with Double Arrow Golf Resort.
Project started April 1999 was completed by December 1999.
By June 2000 property was making money.
(Best project management experience ever).
Link to informal Cougar Cottage Web Site: http://www.oocities.org/peter_d16/CougarCottage.html
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Montana State University Bozeman, MT. (Sept 1988 -
June 1989) Taught junior level electronics, which involved public
speaking in the classroom and practical use of electronics, design
techniques in the laboratory.
Meteor Communications Corp. Kent, WA
Field Technician; (summers 1985/1986)
Assisted with field test of meteor burst
communications systems. Accumulated, analyzed and reported on data.
Education
M.S. Electrical Engineering June 1989.
Montana State University Bozeman, MT.
B.S. Electrical Engineering March 1988.
Montana State University Bozeman, MT.
Additional Education
University of
California, San Diego Doctoral Candidate in the Communications Theory
and Systems (CTS) program in the ECE department. Completed 24 credits
hours towards this degree in classes such as digital communications,
coding theory, and random processes.
Hobbies
Bicycling, soccer, golfing and dry fly fishing in
Montana.
References
Available upon request
