Employer: Tracor Aerospace, San Ramon, CA

• Test Engineer: USAF contract to upgrade the radar chaff loads for the F-111
  Aardvark. Responsibilities included instrumentation of the test subject, high
  speed, multi-channel data recording and analysis. High-speed photographic data
  were gathered with Redlake Hycams. Film analysis was done on a Vanguard Motion
  Analyzer. Tests were conducted at ambient, +200°F and -70°F.
  
• Test Engineer: tested the can-launch sequence for “Advanced Flare”
  development (a flying infrared flare).
  
• Development Engineer for assembly machine to automate the fabrication and
  assembly of fusing ribbons on sub-munitions of a 155mm NATO anti-tank round.
  
• Design Engineer: design update for the fuze on the Mk 82 bomb (standard 500
  lb iron bomb).
  
• Design Engineer: design for a robot-based laser system for sealing glass
  ampoules of TiCl₄ used in “cold smoke” practice bombs.
  
• Design Engineer: design of the individual rocket rounds of the “Swarmjet”
  proposal (a “Star Wars” terminal defense system).