Robotic Midwives, Ltd.
Aerospace

Client: Scepter Scientific, Dublin, CA



  • Housing design and fabrication drawing package military dual band (visible
    and infrared) optical system.
  • Drawing package for F-18 Optical Window thermal controller.

Employer: Litton/Integrated Automation, Alameda, CA



  • Preliminary design for Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster bore inspection
    tool (Morton-Thiokol).
  • Preliminary design for aircraft Master Plaster scribing system (MacDonnell
    Douglas).

Client: Campbell Rocket Works, Campbell, CA



  • Production drawing package for fabrication of High Power hobby rocket
    components. Package included mold design for spin-molded nose cone.

Client: Advanced Cybernetics Group, Sunnyvale, CA



  • Design and integration of a surface mapping end effector used with a very
    large crane robot to map the entire surface of any aircraft in the USAF
    inventory up to a C-130 Hercules. This is preparation for automated paint
    stripping, which is part of periodic maintenance.

Client: KMI Energy, Livermore, CA



  • Contract Technologist to LLNL: Performed assembly and checkout on Vacuum/Air
    Interface for Advanced Test Accelerator (a "Star Wars" device).

Employer: Shrader Scientific, Hayward, CA



  • Design Engineer: Designed custom equipment used in aerospace testing
    including Thermal/Vacuum test systems for Loral (used to test comsat
    transponders and the ISS battery systems). Responsibilities ranged from entire
    system layout to sub-component design.

Employer: Tracor Aerospace, San Ramon, CA



  • Test Engineer: Worked on several USAF passive counter measures (radar chaff,
    infrared flare) programs. Responsibilities included instrumentation of the test
    subject, high speed, multi-channel data recording and analysis. High-speed
    photographic data were gathered with Redlake Hycams. Motion analysis was done on
    a Vanguard Motion Analyzer.

Employer: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Sunnyvale, CA



  • Associate Engineer, Senior: Responsible for coordinating subcontractor
    inputs into the Stockpile-to-Target Sequence for the Mk 500 re-entry body. This
    document describes all of the logistics and environments a re-entry body
    undergoes from the stockpile, through transport, loading, maintenance,
    launching, flight, and re-entry.

Employer: General Electric Co, Space Division, Sunnyvale, CA



  • Systems Operations Analyst: Position duties included analysis, management
    and use of large software systems; on flight support of Air Force satellite as
    Command Generator which involved the real time generation of satellite command
    messages from Program Office inputs.
  • Senior Command Generator: Supervised four shift personnel (command
    generators) in the performance of above duties. Monitor vehicle station passes
    to give CG inputs in case of vehicle anomaly.