Michael K Bartosewcz is seeking a leadership position as a Senior Systems EO/IR Engineer and/or Program Manager on an EO/IR space flight hardware/software/algorithm program. He has significant experience in systems engineering and program management for C4ISR systems including SBIRS High, ABL, IKONOS, U-2 Multispectral Camera, and more. He has expertise in requirements analysis, system architecture analysis, interface definition, mission analysis, certification as a Thermal Vacuum/Vibration Test Engineer, and program/project management. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont and an MS in Physics from the University of Vermont.

1. Michael K Bartosewcz (Bart) _________________________________________
7700 E. 13th
St. N., #34 Wichita, KS 67206 303-249-8618 michaelbarkus1@gmail.com
CAREER GOAL: I am seeking a leadership position as a Senior Systems EO/IR Engineer
and/or Program Manager on an EO/IR space flight hardware/software/algorithm program.
EO/IR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE:
• Significant systems engineering and program management experience in the
design/building/testing of end-to-end C4ISR systems including SBIRS High (ONIR),
ABL, IKONOS, U-2 Multispectral Camera, Look Down Stabilized Gimbals and
Battlefield Ordnance Awareness (MASINT) Programs.
• Conducts system, subsystem and component level requirements analysis, requirements
flowdown to lower level specifications and test procedures. Risk identification and
mitigation.
• Conducts system architecture analysis and trade studies to optimize design and mitigate
risks.
• Defines interfaces at sub-system and component level in line with requirements
Architecture and sub-system level products for specification and requirements
traceability
• Develop ground segment specifications, space segment interface definition, conduct
mission level trades, define and document space segment architecture
• Mission domain knowledge in missile defense, missile warning, technical intelligence
and battle space awareness
• Certified Thermal Vacuum/Vibration Test Engineer for Space Flight Hardware.
• Leads successful DoD compliant design reviews such as PDR, CDR, etc.
• Significant management, technical and business experience gained in running my own
company, EO Space Systems for 10 years.
• Design, develop integrate and test spacebased and airborne military EO/IR systems
EDUCATION:
University of Vermont
• BS Electrical Engineering 1974 – Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society, top
10% of class
• MS Physics 1976 University of Vermont
• Experimental Optics, Detectors and Lasers
University of Santa Clara Coursework on MBA Program Management
Two week course completed at Ball Aerospace for Program Management
Certified Principal Engineer (CPE) CORE Training (completed at Lockheed Martin).
COMPUTER PROFICIENCY:
• DOORS, Visio 2003, Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Project), Matlab,
ENVI, and MathCad

2. TECHNICAL AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE:
January 2014 to Present, Sr. EO/IR Systems Engineer (Contractor, self employed)
Mike Bartosewcz EO/IR Space Systems
Engineering Company
Senior Space Systems
Architect – responsible for
satellite space system
architectures supporting LEO,
MEO, GEO space missions
-Provide system level concept development for new EO/IR sensors, with focus on missile
track/missile warning hyperspectral imagers, lidars, and large deployable optical systems
-Provide leadership and training to engineers who are new to the field
-Development and building of space flight EO/IR hardware
-Model and analyze radiometric calibration and performance of future sensors
-Support strategic positioning and marketing to win new optical sensor contracts
L-3 Cincinnati Electronics, Mason OH.
Traveled to OSD and supported the NewEyes effort, supplementing SBIRS from LEO as a
hosted ONIR payload.
Created provisional patent pending in the area of on chip, hyperspectral pushbroom imaging in
the MWIR and LWIR.
Traveled to AFRL/VS in New Mexico and presented our revolutionary VIPR (Video Image
Processing Radio) concept to Air Force. It was well received a $100K contract is in the process
of being funded. VIPR can provide real time missile plume state vector to the WarFighter in
near real time and relieve the required downlink bandwidth requirements. VIPR is sensor and
algorithm agnostic. Submitted a concept to DARPA involving VIPR on an unmanned
autonomous boat.
Submitted a concept to NRO involving a small rugged IR camera on a cubesat to track large
ships day and night.
Received $10,000 of Bid and Proposal (B and P) charge number, to form and lead a technical
team to propose new advance focal plane technologies to NASA Goddard for a Landsat Weather
mission replacement. Use the hyperspectral FPA referenced in above patent application.
Create space EO/IR payload concepts, specifications, functional block diagrams to integrate L-3
various ‘downspout’ component companies into a single unified EO/IR space sensor center of
excellence. Define government, civilian and commercial markets and customers for space

3. EO/IR sensor payloads. Identified several new military and civilian space sensor applications
allowing enabling technologies (from L-3 CE) to be identified.
Proposed space concepts include: SBIRS-like at GEO, Space Situational Awareness at GEO,
IKONOS/GEO-EYE-like LEO, SAR, ultra large FPA, Hyperspectral FPA and Hypertemporal
SWIR to track missiles under clouds. Created 6 DOORS requirements documents, for 6
different concepts, showing top level customer requirements, requirements then flowed to the
system and subsystems level.
Lead the following “L-3 CE EO/IR Space Payload” Initiatives:
• Put a tactical L-3 CE IR FLIR in production onto a Cubesat (with University of
Colorado) and fly it in space
• Create a monolithic hyperspectral pushbroom FPA via Fabry-Perot etalon
(created by Ohio State University, Nanotechnology Lab, via ion etching
• Supported novel and industry leading concept for Video Image Processing Radio
(VIPR) which has gained Air Force attention
March 2013 to January 2014, Sr. Systems Engineer (Contractor, self employed)
ITT Space Systems (Exelis) at Ft. Wayne IN.
Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) (payload) for GOES-R (NASA/NOAA sponsored)
• Co-Authored instrument (ABI) integration to bus (A2100) and test Program document
(TVac/Vib/EMI/EMC, dynamic interaction testing, etc.) detailed test plan
• Co-Authored instrument “ABI Emergency Procedures for A2100 Integration and Test
Plan”
• Supporting GSE hardware (ABI) development via requirements generation for thermal
vacuum testing EO/IR spaceborne multispectral sensor (payload)
o Blackbody (radiometry)
o Solar thermal load simulator (mission hot)
o Wrote GSE hardware thermal control requirements for testing payload in thermal
vacuum while integrated to bus (LM A2100)
o LN2 and heater thermal control console requirements
 Mission hot to mission cold (ABI instrument)

4. • Writing software requirements changes in DOORS/XML in support of:
o Payload (ABI) integration to bus (LM A2100) in TVAC testing in Denver
 Incorporating ground testing only temporal delays between commands
and received telemetry
 Comparing and modifying telemetry command lines with
instrument/sensor response in telemetry for these tests
 Generating XML files and schemas mods to support
o Stacked payload/bus/launch vehicle (Atlas V) at Cape Canaveral testing
 Comparing and modifying telemetry command lines with
instrument/sensor response in telemetry for these tests
 Generating XML files and schemas mods to support
o Robust DOORS requirements editing/auditing of a formal program document
• Introduced ITT Space to a new Alion flat black silicon paint (MH2200) and it is being
space qualified due to my recommendation for use on thermal vacuum GSE for thermal
control. It will be used near the flight payload. The selected paint meets Program
emissivity, outgassing, particulate shedding, ease of use, responsiveness of vendor and
mechanical durability requirements
• Introduced ITT Space to using an ionizer in the gaseous nitrogen cleaning of flight optics.
This process change has been embraced by the contamination control group and the
optics group. Also am proposing to use this same ionizer in the standard ITT Space ESD
practice (around circuit boards, spacecraft, etc.).
• Investigating quantitatively the effects of unbalanced scan mirror torques on the line of
sight of the instrument with image quality in mind, found no issues
• Created multiple BOEs for Systems Engineering to take to NASA/NOAA to justify
funding and contract mods
• Enhanced skills learned at ITT Space (Exelis)
o Further ENVI image processing experience
o Further Matlab image processing experience

5. EO SPACE SYSTEMS CONSULTING COMPANY, Wichita, KS (Contractor, self
employed) • May 2011 – March 2013
Chief Systems Engineer at PV Labs, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• Responsible for integrating various airborne Hyperspectral and Vis/IR HD
Overhead Persistent IR (OPIR) imaging cameras into line of sight stabilized
gimbals (< 5 urad.) with highly accurate geolocation capability (<1.5 mrad.) for
various DoD customers. Create airborne OPIR CONOPS and OPIR Flight Test
Plans. Follow up with in the field flight testing, data analysis, data reduction then
brief potential customers.
• Lead Systems Engineer on an airborne wide area OPIR surveillance system with a
state of the art large area coverage, resolution and scene refresh rate.
LWIR/MWIR FPA’s FOV is scanned with a fast turning polygon and has a very
long TDI capability. Defining requirements and requirements flowdown for
system.
• Proficient in motor and gearhead selection for smart (digital) servo control
• Lead in FMEA for certain failed PCBs
• Lead successful Critical Design Review with customer MIT/LL
• Wrote then executed thermal/vibration qualification documents for new line of
stabilized gimbals
o Thermal/Vibe testing was at MDA in Toronto
o All LOS stabilized gimbal thermal/vibe test results were successful and
accepted by Lockheed Fire Control Orlando
GOODRICH ISR SENSOR SYSTEMS, Chelmsford MA
Senior EO/IR Systems Engineer
• September 2009 – May 2011
Job Description:
• Systems lead for Airborne MultiSpectral Detection (MSD) Program
o Used COTs camera/gimbal hardware integrated with custom Visual Basic
(VB) command/control software
o Short quick reaction schedule to demonstrate airborne concept
o Wrote flight CONOPS and Flight Test Plan
o Runs (tactical) NVTHERM and SSCAM to predict system
detection/identification range performance. Flight dual band image data
(SNR) confirms what was predicted by math code within 20%
o Flight test image results good as “materials of interest” were detected
• Co-lead U-2 (SYERS) multispectral camera ground systems
o Using Image Chain Analysis in calculation of radiance at aperture or digital
number
o Provided relative and absolute radiometric calibration and error budget for all
six U2 camera bands
o Wrote in field radiometric calibration procedure of U-2 camera using hangar
blackbody and integrating sphere radiometric calibrations

6. o Result was the target spectral band-to-band shape was now to a higher
accuracy and therefore can be processed using hyperspectral processing
algorithms, which allowed more accurate specific material identification or
material of interest ID
o Using ENVI scatter plots and PCA to derive best material identification
algorithm across spectrum
o Identified and procured materials to provide in scene radiometric calibration
via the empirical line method (ELM)
o Wrote procedure on how to implement ELM for radiometric calibration of
flight sensor
LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS, Denver CO (Lateral transfer at LM from
LMCT.)
Laser Comm. System, Senior Staff Systems Engineer • October 2008 – September 2009
Job Description: Updating multiple space flight subsystem and overall system specifications to
a new “boilerplate” format. Conducting top level (A-spec) system requirements flowdown.
Responsible for troubleshooting vendor and flight test hardware issues.
• Independently verified direct detection laser communication (SNR) link budget
• Updated overall laser communication system equipment specification (A Spec) to a new
revision
• Updated 5 space flight subsystem specs to new “boilerplate” while incorporating all
approved technical changes and updated set of reference documents
• Wrote flight subsystem and full system test reports based on thermal vacuum, vibe, etc
test data
• Provided overall system requirements flowdown to support flight hardware test
° System interfaces defined
° Traceability/linkage of quantitative requirements across these interfaces
• Requirements flowdown/traceability (all ‘shalls’) from system A spec to lower level
(subsystem) specifications
° A few ‘surprises’ found
• Performing functional and physical audit of system ‘engineering design unit’
• Provided technical support to test engineering mainly electrical engineering
° Identified and resolved differential ECL phase and crosstalk issues
• Provided technical support to CPE (lead engineer) mainly as an electrical engineer
• Loaned to LM Sunnyvale SBIRS program fall of 2008 (4 months) to lead the “Mission
Disaggregion Study”
° Detailed cost/technical/risk tradespace based on ‘systems of systems’ analysis
° Coordinated between LM Sunnyvale (Prime/Integegration/Test), LM Boulder
(ground station) NG Azusa (payload) and Newton (bus)
° Discovered that satellite ‘complexity’ as well as weight drives system cost
° Separated 4 main SBIRS missions onto smaller less complex satellites
° Received ‘good grades’ from SBIRS Program on IRAD results
° Provided SBIRS with unique tactical weapons flash phenomenology resulting in
improved on-orbit payload absolute radiometric calibration

7. LOCKHEED MARTIN COHERENT TECHNOLOGIES, Louisville CO
Senior EO Systems Engineer, LIDAR Programs • September 2007 – October 2008
Job Description: Technical management led of a successful PDR involving putting a coherent
3-D lidar/vibrometer on an existing fighter Targeting Pod (team of 7 engineers)
• Requirements for each coherent 3-D LIDAR subsystem defined through requirements
flowdown from top level system specification
• Proved Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) compatibility to existing aircraft pods
° Signal Processing (FPGA programming) effort continues today on Company IRAD,
based on these previous (my) efforts (algorithm definition)
• Independently validated coherent LIDAR SNR equation supporting range, x-y resolution
and vibrometery accuracy and precision
• Provided overall system requirements flowdown to support flight hardware test
° Intra-system interfaces defined
° Extra-system interfaces defined
° Traceability/linkage of quantitative requirements across these interfaces
• Optical bench and signal processing SWaP reduction incorporated
• Lead competitive proposal submitted to AFRL/SN in late March 08 to move program
from TRL2 to TRL8
EO SPACE SYSTEMS, Louisville CO (Contractor, self employed) • March 2003 – September
2007
Chief Systems Engineer at ARSPACE (SMCD Army Battle Labs, Space Directorate- Colorado
Spring CO •
Job Description: Designing, procuring, integrating and testing of Satellite Tactical Ground
Station (TGS) for Command/Control of TACSAT-3 (Successfully launched 20 May 2009)
• Wrote TGS CONOPS, COMMs ICD and Test Plan
• The satellite’s primary payload is the Advanced Responsive Tactically Effective Military
Imaging Spectrometer (ARTEMIS), a sophisticated camera that collects images of Earth
and breaks down reflected light into hundreds of spectral bands that can be analyzed to
reveal the elemental composition of surfaces or objects on the ground. ARTEMIS
imagery has been used in the past year to assist earthquake relief efforts in Haiti and
Chile.
Systems Test Engineer, Airborne Laser Program (ABL), support subcontract from Boeing
SVS (Reported to Mike Meline)
Job Description: Operator, on the ABL jet, of the Beam Control Fire Control (BCFC)
Subsystem
• Utilized my knowledge of Lockheed’s Space Based Laser Program
• Conducted software (SW) testing using a real time (embedded) UNIX based work
station, commanding target acquisition/tracking/ranging in real time via GUIs and UNIX
command lines.
• FC Command, control and diagnostics (IP sniffer) of beam pointing control loops,
active/passive trackers, vis/IR sensors, illuminators and state transition logic.
° Trouble shooting the ACQ/Plume/Active Fine Tracker algorithms, software and
performance

8. ° Updated missile tracking thresholding, clutter rejection, centroid/correlation track
algorithms
• Supported successful testing for Program Critical ‘knowledge Point’ in last fall of 2006
in Wichita KS at Boeing Heavy 747 Mods building
EO Senior Systems Engineer Consultant, Supporting Orbital Sciences proposal to NASA of
Landsat-8 Satellite System
Job Description: Generated technical requirements, internal and external interfaces, RFQ and
top level specifications for the imaging instrument as issued via RFP to the candidate instrument
providers
• Proved specific expertise in image quality, contamination control and geolocation of the
Landsat-8 proposal
Senior Sensor Systems Engineering Consultant on DARPA’s CROSSHAIRS (Tactical
MASINT) program
Job Description: Development of a very low cost MWIR/LWIR sensor, tracker and range
system with algorithms for counter enemy RPG/MANPADs/mortar system
• Provided detailed tactical weapons MWIR/LWIR weapons flash signatures and
backgrounds
• Provided projectile kinematics on a frame by frame basis
• Performed radiometry and SNR calculations using an advanced uncooled microbolometer
as a sensor
° Benchmarked math model with actual muzzle flash signature collected data
• Provided all weapons flash IR signatures and kinematics in a detailed hypertemporal
spreadsheet
Senior EO Systems Engineer, subcontracted to Boeing SVS, Albuquerque, NM
Job Description: Working various sensor and tactical directed energy laser programs/proposals
• Provided space qualification plan for certain ultra-precise LIDAR program components
• Performed detailed radiometry, SNR calculations, NEA verification, camera non-
uniformity calibration procedure, CONOPS for Airborne Tactical Laser (ATL) and
Airborne Laser (ABL) Programs
• Specified a LWIR camera system for mortar round tracking in flight at YUMA Proving
Grounds as part of a directed energy weapon system
° Benchmarked SNR equations with actual collected mortar signatures against sky/cloud
LWIR data
° Participated in world’s first active/passive tracking of a mortar round in flight
• Lead design team constructing a tactical, low cost, launch on demand, compact deployed
secondary imaging satellite for AFRL/VS. Successfully completed program PDR
Program Manager/CSE of Laser Threat Warning and Attack Reporting Program
(LTWARS) for SMDC Huntsville, customer was AFRL/SN Wright Patterson AFB
Job Description: Responsible for all technical, financial and schedule aspects of the effort
• Drove the requirements identification, requirements flowdown and risk management
• Accomplished a successful CDR and maximum award fee
• This nationally important space technology flew in 2007 as secondary payload
successfully
BALL AEROSPACE, Louisville CO • March 1996 – March 2003
Program Manager

9. Job Description: Led multi-disciplinary (technical, risk and cost estimating) team on a National
ONIR advanced concepts study at Aerojet in Azusa. New enabling focal plane and on board
processing technologies identified, customer requirements flowed down to the subsystem level
• Responsible for al technical, financial and schedule aspects of the effort
• Requirements identification, risk management, requirements flowdown effort included
• This effort resulted in a highly successful Final Report, with a technology development
path to a highly advanced space system
Program Manager, MDA SETA Team of 15 engineers on RAMOS Program
Job Description: SBIRS LOW-like, international space program with Russians. As MDA’s
lead SETA CSE, my team was responsible for verifying for MDA all Program end-to-end
performance parameter, such as image quality, geolocation and line of sight jitter
• The MDA Director of International Programs (Rich Sokol) personally commended in
writing); during this period for my technical excellence in leading the MDA SETA team
• Accomplishment was a 95% MDA award fee, for technical oversight, during my one-
year period as CSE, for Ball Aerospace (~$250K)
Program Manger for the XSS-11 Micro-Satellite and Orbital Express Programs
• Responsible for all technical and cost aspects of both proposal efforts. We lost XSS-11
but WON Orbital Express (value ~ $10M/year over 5 years).
Program Manager of Battlefield Ordnance Awareness (BOA) for five years
Job Description: Successful four week tactical airborne demonstration or real time
identification and location of ordnance firing, at Aberdeen Proving Ground December 2000
• Effort started with a proposal to SMDC in March 1996 and culminated with successful
flight tests at Aberdeen
• Managed the BOA team, size was an average of 15 engineers, half software and half
hardware
• During these six years collected 100% of the available award fee available to the program
from SMDC, total contract value $15M over 5 years
• In this major demonstration, my team successfully identified (from muzzle flash) and
located, in real-time, with 95% accuracy US and foreign tanks, artillery, mortars, C-4 etc
at long slant ranges
Nineteen years at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company as Systems Engineer on ‘certain’
large space program (1977 – 1996)
• Launch campaigns, Titan 4, 3 launches
• All aspects of environmental testing (qualification) of large space vehicles (Shuttle bay)
• Some time is contamination/EMI/EMC lead
• Deorbit
• Anomaly resolution of on orbit assets
Publications:

10. 1. “Large Deployable Reflector”, Report prepared for NASA Ames Research
Center, NASA Contractor Report # 152402
2. Wavefront Sensing and Control Aspects in A High Energy Laser Optical Train”,
SPIE Vol. 293, Wavefront Distortions in Power Optics, Page 225-231.