Posted by on March 21, 19100 at 04:42:55:
Christopher McGouey
Post Office Box 5234
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
(919) 345-4647
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
-An educational and professional background as an Engineering Electronics Test Technician with 10+ years work experience which
has included state-of-the-art technology in aviation and naval warfare prototype equipment.
-Strong management, supervisory, training, problem solving and people skills, with the ability to develop and follow tasks through
to completion.
EDUCATION:
Associate in Applied Science - Electronic Communications Technology - Dec 1992 Alan Hancock College, California 93454
Associate of Arts - General Education/University Breadth Requirements - May 1990 Cuesta Community College, California 93403
MILITARY: Honorable discharge from the United States Air Force
Active Department of Defense SECRET clearance
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
April 1998 - January 2000 ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN III
Raytheon Corporation, Atlantic Undersea Test & Evaluation Center, Andros Island, Bahamas
Responsible for the operation, maintenance and repair of a highly complex In-Water Signal Processor time tagging detection system.
This consisting of a Sun Microsystems SPARC 2CE and TMS320C4x Digital Signal Processor boards, an AT&T Multiplex
Extended Sensor Hydrophone Array, AN/WQC-2A Sonar Communications Set and integral automatic test equipment that supports
the Naval Undersea Warfare Center test range. This includes the operation of a Unix based local area network computer system
during real-time testing, troubleshooting analog and digital equipment to sub-assemblies and component level when necessary.
October 1998 - Present: Security Officer (casual): assigned to Command Control Building & Weapons Range area.
December 1993 - October 1997 SMALL BUSINESS MANAGER
Cary Inn Efficiency Motel, Cary, North Carolina 27513
Oversee of all daily operations including the rentals, collections; schedule of maintenance repairs; employee and outside
contractors hiring and supervision, advertising, purchasing, computerized accounting, daily and monthly reports, inventories,
responsible for motel office and bank checking account, employee payroll. Revised the logistics from a small apartment status
to an operational motel then profitable business with an average annual income of $132,000-$140,000.
May 1993 - July 1994 MONITOR AND PERSONAL COMPUTER ASSEMBLER
International Business Machines, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2195
Assembled personal computer and monitors in a ISO9000 manufacturing environment. Operated test station, utilizing diagnostic
test software, troubleshoot and repair down to component level when necessary.
June 1991 - December 1992 STUDENT
Allan Hancock College and Cuesta Community College
Associate in Applied Science - Electronic Communications Technology. Completed courses in microprocessor hardware
and software theory (which included debugging Motorla 6800 microprocessor assembly language).
March 1990 - May 1991 ENGINEERING ELECTRONICS TEST TECHNICIAN/SR.
Boeing/McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 3855 North Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, California 90846-0003
Responsibilities included fabricate, assemble, calibrate, modify, troubleshoot and repair of prototype and production electronic
systems and test equipment. Working with design and flight test engineers in the laboratory wire wrapped and manufactured aircraft
experimental circuitry (US Navy T-45 trainer/USAF C-17 data acquisition computers), and debugged prototype electronic systems
from sketches and limited schematics. Installed fiber optic cable for data transfer in laboratory. Made changes to and updated
drawing packages for engineering department documentation. Installed instrumentation equipment such as laying strain gauges
under a microscope, accelerometers, aircraft wire harnesses and a real-time data acquisition computer with MIL-STD 1553B
serial bus interconnection on board the C-17 military experimental aircraft. Attended Total Quality Management System
training (TQM). A three week course of the study under Dr. Demming, which included an introduction to the Just-In-Time
Management concept.
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June 1989 - February 1990 STUDENT
Cuesta Community College
Completed all California Polytechnic University breadth requirements. Resulted in Associates of Arts Degree.
October 1987 - May 1989 FLIGHT TEST TECHNICIAN/SR.
Northrop/Grumman Corporation, Edwards Air Force Base, California 93524
Responsible for the installation, set up and checkout of a highly sophisticated asynchronous serial MIL-STD1553B Avionics and
Digital Vax Computer Flight Test Laboratory used for the flight testing and evaluation of experimental U.S. Air Force military
aircraft. Required duties were to follow directions from design and flight test engineers, fabricate, assemble, calibrate, modify, wire-
wrap experimental circuitry and debug prototype electronic systems and test equipment from limited sketches, schematics, blueprints
and manuals. Assisted with change out and upgrade from a Vax 780/5 series to an 8650 mainframe computer system. Using IBM
CADAM, made changes to and updated drawing/schematic packages for engineering documentation and quality assurance
requirements. Utilizing a variety of automatic test equipment and computerized test stations, analyzed for verification and
certification of avionics Flight Management and Communications test benches, LRU's, specialized test instrumentation and
connection to the Digital Vax computers for quality assurance requirements. Verified flight test wiring and instrumentation systems
on board the Northrop/USAF B-2 Stealth Bomber experimental aircraft according to wiring diagrams.
January 1987 - September 1987 ENGINEERING TEST TECHNICIAN
Northrop/Grumman Corporation, Pico Rivera, California 90660-3765
Working from engineering drawings in a logistical environment, duties required tracking, follow-up, procurement and delivery
of electronic parts and materials. Inventoried, placed procured components into kits and ensured proper shipping to Edwards AFB
test facility for the buildup of the Flight Test Avionics Laboratory. This required interfacing with multiple departments and
sometimes other Northrop Corporation divisions due to in-house outsourcing of manufactured assembles and sub-assemblies.
September 1986 - January 1987 ENGINEERING TEST ELECTRICIAN
Boeing/McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 3855 North Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, California 90846-0003
Responsible for the installation of a data acquisition computer and flight-test wiring aboard experimental aircraft.
July 1981 - February 1986 NAVIGATIONAL AIDS TECHNICIAN
United States Air Force
Responsible for the operation of critical radio-navigational aids consisting of multiple sites containing Solid State Texas
Instruments AN/GRN27 with parabola antenna reflection system, Wilcox AN/GRN29 VHF Localizer, Middle Marker and
UHF Glideslope Instrument Landing Systems; and two UHF AN/GRN19A and 20B Tactical Air Navigational Transceivers
(TACAN). This involved system testing preventive maintenance, analyzing a variety of RF radiation patterns, aligned, adjusted
and tuned power supplies and single sideband transmitters, corrosion control and total site maintenance. Implemented repairs by
trouble-shooting electronic systems, sub-assemblies down to and including component level. Certified all systems by F.A.A. annual
flight checks. Supervised, developed o-j-t programs and trained newly assigned personnel. Office requirements were to maintain
individual system data, critical items on bench stock, order parts, special component level reserve and schedule test equipment
calibration. Attended the Community College of the Air Force.
Test equipment used: capable of utilizing all shop hand tools, soldering to aerospace specifications (under 10x microscope),
attended high-reliability soldering courses, Fluke Digital VOM, analog and digital Textronics dual trace oscilloscopes,
H/P frequency counter, vector voltmeters, various spectrum analyzers…i.e. H/P 35670A dynamic signal analyzer, Collins ILS 436
signal generator, Byrd wattmeter, Colorado Data Systems (automatic test equipment), and Loral Serial Bus Analyzer (SB100).
Familiar with MS-DOS, Windows 3.1/95/98, Office97 with Word, Access and Excel, Digital Vax DCL programming,
IBM Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, Visio Technical Drawing v4.5, and Unix Series V software packages.
LICENSES & HOBBIES:
Federal Communications Commission:
-General RadioTelephone license w/ radar endorsement: #PG-11-37778
-Amateur Radio license (Extra Class) - Call sign: K I 2 N G