Who Is Michael Parks?

November 2009

Education

Work Experience

Designed web pages for the Engineering Department Intranet. The website allowed midshipmen and professors to search for available parts and the associated technical documents from anywhere on campus. They could request parts to be set aside for various projects as well as make requests for special orders.

Designed, assembled and tested various electronic systems to the specifications provided by professors to be used for Academy classroom demonstrations and laboratories. See below for specific project examples.

Managed a $20-million/year Public Works budget and supervised over 100 personnel . Responsibilities included utility and energy analysis, resource budgeting, establishing key performance monitoring metrics, administering environmental and safety programs, space allocation planning, developing statements of work, contract monitoring, senior officer briefs, and liaison to state government agencies.

Developed and managed a $300-million integrated project list to repair hurricane damaged facilities at NAS Key West. Led an interdisciplinary rapid damage assessment team tasked with thoroughly documenting all damage to facilities and infrastructure and provide cost and schedule estimates for repairs.

Work Experience

Support an organization responsible for the Research, Development, Acquisition, Test, and Evaluation (RDAT&E) of Navy and Marine Corps aircraft and weapon systems by maintaining over 2100 research and development facilities (including 1-million acres of test ranges) with a plant replacement value in excess of $5-billion supporting over 32,00 NAVAIR employees .

Guide NAVAIR programs as a technical lead in developing construction projects for Research, Development, Acquisition, Test, and Evaluation (RDAT&E); training sites, shore operational, and maintenance facilities. Perform requirements analysis to translate aircraft requirements into facilities requirements.

Consult with the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Facilities Enterprise Team to conceptualize an integrated process model that ties together the MILCON project development process, planning and budgeting process (PPBES), and the DoD 5000-series Acquisition Model .

Serve as a shore facilities subject matter expert for Independent Logistics Assessments (ILA) of NAVAIR programs to provide technical and budgetary recommendations on facilities acquisition plans. Apply experience in integrating systems engineering, facilities acquisition, and logistic support analysis.

Ensure current readiness of Naval aviaition programs through financial, policy, and technical reviews of facility projects. Ensure proper various funding streams used in the facilities world (i.e. MILCON, working capital, RDT&E, O&M) to support facility planning, design, construction, operations and maintenance, restoration, and sustainment, and equipment installation in support of various DoD and Navy activities as well as major defense acquisition programs.

Credentials

Level-one certification in information systems , systems engineering , life cycle logistics , and project management .

Technical Skills

Hardware/software solution to control automation electronics through a control unit connected to a personal computer via RF links as well as parallel, serial, and USB ports. Graphical User Interface designed with Visual Basic. Web-access provide through combination of PHP, mySQL, and HTML.

Circuit and software design experience with the AVR, Stamp, Zilog and PIC microcontrollers. Projects include motion detectors, RFID reader, intrusion detection systems, lighting control, and range finders.

Developed a fire detecting robot using the BASIC Stamp and various thermal and optical sensors.

Designed and built an automatic temperature control embedded system using a thermistors and an electromechanical system to maintain a programmable, ambient temperature.

Other Skills : Networking (wired and wireless), digital logic design, mixed-signal circuits, hardware/software troubleshooting, Access database design/management, website administration and webpage design, VLSI design, technical writing ability, embedded systems, computer architecture, physical computing, software engineering.

Languages : C, C++, PHP, SQL, HTML, BASIC, Visual BASIC, x86 Assembly, Wiring, Processing.

Software and Web Development : Xemacs, Emacs, VI, GCC Compiler, GDB Debugger, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, SharpDevelop, Microsoft FrontPage.

Hardware Design Tools : Cadence Design Suite, Electric VLSI Design System, CircuitMaker, TINA, Altera MAX+Plus II, Xilinx ISE, ModelSIM, EagleCAD PCB, Fritzing .

Special Software Applications : Microsoft Office, Visio, Primavera Project Planner, Microsoft Project, Cost Xpert, OpenProject, Soffront Defect Tracking, Dia, PhotoShop, VMWare.