Engineering Chief at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

Served as the Engineering Chief of the Systems Architecture and Integrity Group for the Lockheed Fort Worth Company. During this period, served as an avionic systems engineer and supervised a staff of engineering personnel responsible for the system engineering and development of the avionic systems for the F-16 and F-22 fighter aircraft program.

·      Supervised a staff of engineering personnel responsible for development of F-16 avionic system performance specification, interface design and development, OO software specification, and engineering application development.

·      Responsible for the avionic MIL-STD-1553 system integration testing laboratory.

·      Improved 7 business processes through use of automation, tools, and metrics.

·      Member of the management team that transformed an SEI CMM Level 1 rated software organization into an SEI CMM Level 3 rated organization. (1991-1993)

·      Received a corporate Incentive Award for “Sustained Innovation in Leadership” May 1994.

·      Served as avionic system design lead engineer for the design and development of the avionic architecture for the Navy’s ATF (1989 - 1990)

·      Served as lead F-16 interface design engineer for 12 aircraft avionic system configurations. (1987 - 1989)

·      Served as technical software consultant on the Avionic Scientific Advisory Board’s Advanced Tactical Fighter Team committee representing the Lockheed, Boeing, and General Dynamics Team. (1990)

·      Designed and implemented seven software based tools for automation of engineering tasks. Was awarded two LFWC corporate meritorious awards for these efforts. (1984 - 1990)

·      Served as IPD-team member on more than 40 design team efforts responsible for the design and integration of new weapons, sensors, subsystems, and system functional capabilities for the F-16. Personally led 18 of these teams. (1984 -1987)