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Resume: Ken Kessler$Senior Manager - Engineering Programs - Systems

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4114-L Village Dr
Chino Hills, CA. USA 91709

Cell: 1-714-448-1312

 


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 Objective


A challenging and responsible Contract position in Southern California.

• Corporate      -  Consulting
• Corporate      -  Management
• Management -  Engineering Programs
• Management -  Engineering Project
• Management -  Systems Engineering
• Director         -  Chief of Engineering


 
Education

· United Electronics Institute (Engineering) ,Louisville, Ky
· Jefferson Community College, Louisville, Ky
. Professor - United Electronics Institute
. US Army - West Point Academy – Candidate
. US Army - Officer - Candidate
. US Army - UH - 1D Aviator – Candidate
. US Army Signal School - UH - 1D, Avionics
. US Medical Patent - Number 5,898,034, Cure for Psoriasis
. Author – Lotteries are not random
. Copyright on Theories of Randomness
. American Management Association
. The Association of the Old Crows
. NASA Space Shuttle Engine Activity, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
. NOAA/NASA - Weather Satellite Receiving Station Install, VA
. Web Designer/Programmer - HTML
· Book Author/Publisher
. CHICAGO TRIBUNE contacted me for definition of NASA Space
  Shuttle recent destruction. Inquiry concerning comment by
  NASA Shuttle Director; Fault Tree Analysis used to locate
  Shuttle Problem.

      
Employment History

Self Employed
Author, Publisher , Contract Engineer
Chino Hills, CA. USA
May 03 - Current


Collins Rockwell - Pomona Systems
Member of Technical Staff
Project Manager - Systems Engineer
Pomona, CA. May 03

FAA/Boeing Customer Contact and Mitigation, Total Entertainment System design support, DOORS, SLATE, Translated Contract Requirements and Requirements Analysis, Hardware/Software Systems Requirements Analysis, Design Support, Program/Project Operational Requirements, Systems Safety Report, Aircraft Internet, Customer needs, Customer requirements.  
Boeing McDonnell Missile Systems
Technical Staff - Senior Project Engineer
Systems Engineer
St. Louis, MO. May 96 - May 99

F-15 Projects
United Arab Emirates F-15U EW/ECM System

Government of Israel F-15I EW/ECM System
(Prototype RWR Antennas)

Royal Saudi Air Force F-15S EW/ECM System

(Suite 3 Software Validation/Verification)


Avionics engineering department, production aircraft programs. Assigned to the United Arab Emirates F-15U EW/ECM suite, Band 1.5 & 3, procurement program. Activities Classified. Non-Classified activity: Prepared formal technical activity characterizing the installed performance of the F-15I SPS-3000I prototype Radar Warning Receiver antenna assemblies. Test configuration with and without external aircraft stores. Essential report components are Far Field Radiation Polar Patterns and Inter-System Isolation Patterns. Report developed for the Government of Israel - GOI -. Lead engineer for (IBS) Interference Blanker Set. Assigned to RSAF MSIP, Suite II (EW Bands 1, 2 and 3) RF test and Radar compatibility analysis. Additional assignment: RSAF TEWS System production support to include GSE support and analysis. 
Self Employed
Author, Publisher , Contract Engineer
Melbourne, FL. USA
May 92 - May 96


Author, Publisher and Contract Engineer: Authored, published and distributed publication through mail order. Accepted numerous short-term engineering assignments (End of Cold War peroid). 
Northrop Grumman Melbourne FL Division
Manager - Technical Staff - ILS Design
Melbourne, FL. USA
May 87 - May 92


Project: Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar
JSTARS


Subcontract mitigation/management, Strategic mission planning project responsibility for LSA/LSAR, GPS, cost schedule/budget preparation, engineering team lead, developed 400+ Mil-Std 1519 Test Requirement Documents, supportability, reliability, maintainability, provisioning decisions, responsible for research and development program on ATE/STE/GSE maintenance concepts, fault detection and isolation, systems cognizant engineer, subcontractor technical interface, review subcontractor data. Submitted display redesign for improved MTBF.

Prepared IEEE white paper utilizing thermographic "Infrared" scanning techniques for complex SRU fault isolation on SRU's with dense VLSI 6000 SMT IC's.

Cognizant engineer for JSTARS subcontractor technical interface data. Investigated maintenance facilities at Warner Robins against JSTARS support requirements.

Defined special test equipment requirements and approach's.
 
Boeing McDonnell Aircraft
Project: F-18 F-15 EW/ECM System
St. Louis, MO. USA
May 82 - May 87



Project: F-15 EW/ECM System Band 1, 2, 3,
ATE/TPS Design - TISS

Directed engineers in the hardware and software redesign of the F-15 internal countermeasures RF tuning unit ATE TPS. Generated test strategy reports for improved mean time to repair. Modified Mil-M-38807A illustrated part's breakdown manuals. Software, Mate/Atlas - 716.

F-15 EW/ECM System GSE/ATE/TPS Design
TITE

Designed automated test diagnostic for TWT power amplifier output. Reconstructed performance and diagnostic fault isolation paths in critical areas of test program. Generated ECP's/SCP's and TRD changes.


F-18 Radar System GSE/ATE/TPS Design
RSTS

ATE/TPS Design engineer for the F-18 Radar Receiver-Exciter and Transmitter RF automatic test equipment development. Responsibilities included RF and high speed digital test methodologies. Additional activities required the development or modification of test requirement documents, test flow diagrams, test diagnostics, illustrated part's list, organizational maintenance changes and much more.
Northrop Defense Systems Division
Site Manager TAC Headquarters
Chicago, ILL. USA
June 74 - May 82

Site Manager TAC Headquarters, Langley AFB, VA


Responsible for squadron operational readiness of Tactical Electronic Warfare equipped, F-15 aircraft. Developed training program for operational and intermediate level support cadre.

Senior Engineer, St. Louis, Missouri
Cognizant F-15 TEWS engineer assigned to the RF countermeasure's amplifier Tiger-Team for ATE test program set Design/Development.

Senior Engineer, Kedenna, AFB, Okinawa, Japan

Representative to PACAF Command for F-15 TEWS activity.

Developement Engineer, Eglin AFB, Fla. First F-15


F-15 TEWS Operational Flight Profile/s (OFP/s). Evasive defensive activitys implimented for SAMs, Air-to-Air Vehicles, Triple A ground emitters. Activity included: Threat verification, Lethality reduction, Single/Multiple threat environment, Detection, Identification, Prioritizing, Correct Technique, Response Time, Pilot Cue's, More!



Professor
United Electronics Institute (Engineering)
Louisville Kentucky, USA





 Accreditations
Summary of Qualifications:

· Director of Engineering
· Program Management
· Site Management
· Project Management
· Program/Project accounting
· Subcontract Mitigation
· Fault Tree Analysis
· Doors
· Slate
· Requirements
· System Requirements
· Technical Writing
· Systems Analysis
· Failure Analysis
· Electronic Warfare Systems
· AAA thru IR
· F15 FLIR System
· F15 Radar
· TEWS
· F18 Radar
· Joint Stars Radar
· ATE Ground SE
· Sustaining Engineering
· Logistics
· ATE, TRDs
· Ground Based Satellite Receiving Station
· Systems Test/Integration
· Hardware Design
· Sustaining
· HTML Programming
· In-flight Entertainment Systems
· Web Site Design and construction.


· Design Team Lead F18 Radar ATE TPS
· Design Team Lead F15 TEWS ATE/GSE/TPS


· Manpower-Material Scheduling
· Ground SE
· Proposal Writing
· Digital ECL Data
· RF/Microwave Systems
· AM, FM, PM
· Noise Measurements Systems
· High/Low Power TWTs
· Frequency Agility
· Wide/Narrow Band Receivers
· Transmitters
· VHF, UHF, GHZ, SHF, IR
· Crystal Oscillators
· Synthesizers
· VCO's · Mixers · Modulators
· High Power RF Microwave Systems
· Mixed Signal Systems/Circuitry
· High/Low Power TWT's
· Spread Spectrum
· GPS · Secure Communications
· VSWR

· Digital Signal Processing · SMT
· Complex Digital Signal Processing Units
· Design Verification for Testability
· VLSI-6000 · Bread boarding
· Prototype Development
· Test Program Sets
· TRD Analysis
· Special Test Equipment
· Failure Analysis
· Fault Insertion Analysis
· Field Failure Analysis
· Sneak Circuit Analysis
· Complex Digital Circuitry - Testability

· Analysis of complex Analog · Video · Audio
· High Voltage 25+ KV
· Duty Cycle Controled PS
· High Current Switching Power Supplies
· Television (B/W, Color)
· Video Graphic CRT Display Systems
· Electronic Fault Detection/Isolation Analysis
· Failure Detection/Isolation Recovery - FDIR

· Design support/systems safety reports
· InfraRed Systems
· Field Test and Maintenance Operations
· Equipment Installation Maintenance
· Liaison Engineering
· Product Support
· Sustaining Engineering
· Logistics Planning · Technical Writing
· Editing · Statements of Work
· Formal Reports · High Current DC 1K+ Amps
· Troubleshooting Capability
· DOD-2167a · ADA · C++ · Mate Atlas-716



Prior Projects
F-15 EW TEWS Test Set - TITE
LRU/PIMAS


F-18 Radar Test Set - RSTS
LRUs/SRUs


Joint Stars Aircraft
Ground Surveillance/Mapping
Phased Array Antenna System
GPS, Radar, Terrain Following
 Professional
· Microsoft Word
· Microsoft Excel
· Powerpoint
· Lotus Spreadsheet
· HTML Programmer
· More

· Collins Rockwell Systems
· Pomona, CA
· Invention Submission

· Boeing McDonnell Aircraft & Missile Systems
· St. Louis, MO.
· Release of Invention
· Mr. Tom Gunn, Vice President

· Boeing McDonnell Aircraft & Missile Systems
· St. Louis, MO
· Saudi F-15 Program
· Individual Performance Accommodations

· Northrop Grumman Defense Systems
· Chicago, Ill
· Three Individual Performance Accommodations
· Mr. Wallace Solberg, Vice President

· Pacific Air Force Command (PACAF)
· Okinawa, JA
· Three Individual Performance Accommodations, F-15

· Web Site Business: http://www.psoriasis-remission.com

· United States Army Officer Candidate

· Association of Old Crows

· BOEING, ST. LOUIS: Vice President; Patent release letter.

· NORTHROP CHICAGO: President; Letter of Accommodation.

· PACAF Commander: Letter of Accommodation.

· Professional References: Upon request.



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Ken Kessler
 

 Senior Manager - Engineering Systems