1. Wayne Huffer
23370 Diza Street, Moreno Valley, CA 92553
Email Addresses: dwhuffer0507@gmail.com Cell: (951)488-6864
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a fulfilling and challenging engineering position supporting the design, development,
integration and test of RF electronics, subsystems and systems.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Electrical Engineer
Θ Responsible Engineering Authority (REA) - Expert in RF/Microwave test at
component, subsystem, system and payload level
Θ Level II IPT Lead/REA - Efficiently provided technical and administrative supplier
change management of complex space-based RF system products to Program
Management
Θ Project Lead for the Wideband Global Satellite Tuned Notch Filter production
Θ Project Lead for the Intelsat Satellite Field Aperture Probe upgrades/modifications of the
C-band and Ku-band dual linear smooth and corrugated horn probes
Θ Level II IPT Lead/REA, GPS IIF Program - supported GPS Satellite antenna/feed
design, development, production, sell-off
Θ Test Director of GPS IIF spacecraft antenna farm - development to sell-off, including end
to end manufacturing (Assembly, Integration, Test, and Proto-Qualification/Acceptance
Test) of 12 shipsets of antennas
WORK EXPERIENCE
The Boeing Company/Rockwell International (1983-1990, 1996-2015)
Job Title - Electrophysics Engineer/Scientist 4, Payload and Antenna Products & Passive
Microwave Devices
Roles: Project Lead, REA/IPT Lead II, Tech Manager (ITAR Enforcement), 2011-2015
Φ Managed critical suppliers and partner’s performance to ensure performance and on
time deliveries of passive MW products (Satellite systems/subsystems)
Φ Resolved nonconformances and prepared reports and briefings per Material/Failure
Review Board (MRB/FRB) nonconformance processes
Φ Mitigated problem with critical path effort – replacement of lost Wideband Global Satellite
Receive Filters (Budget, schedule, overall execution, sell-off and ahead of time delivery)
Φ Designed and implemented C- and Ku-Band Field Aperture Probe for the IntelSat suite
(IS-29, 33 and 35) of spacecraft (Budget, schedule, overall execution, sell-off and
delivery)
Φ Developed and validated RF and environmental requirements for space based units
Φ Developed architectures to integrate systems and components into higher level
platforms
Φ Defined and conducted trade studies, simulations, analyses and critical tests (validated
performance) to requirements
Φ Generated Nonconformance Reports, Dispositions, and Root Cause/Corrective Action
(MRB/FRB Certification) analyses for program office and customer
Φ Generated major sections of proposals (Satellite Subsystems Contracts) to support
development of new business
Φ Payload Module Testing on TDRS Satellite, to include thermal vacuum testing

2. Φ Monitored and Enforced ITAR requirements during international supplier and customer
briefings
Φ AWARDS: 5 Cash Awards for Outstanding Performance
Role: Responsible Engineering Authority (REA), 2010-2011
GPS IIF Navigation Data Unit and Frequency Synthesizer Distribution Unit. Conducted complex
product development and challenges with space qualified components, manufacturing
processes, and test equipment development
Φ Assisted the test and evaluation program, digital and analog and RF test methodologies,
test software and equipment validation.
Φ Instrumental in system test anomaly root-cause investigations.
Φ Prepared/released drawing packages, requirements specification, test procedures, test
reports and material/failure review packages
Roles: Environmental Test Director, REA, NAV antenna Payload IPT Lead III for the
GPS IIF Antenna Payload Suites, 1996-2010
Φ Directed Acoustic Vibration and Thermal Vacuum and High Power Testing of GPS IIF
Antenna payload suites for 12 shipsets
∞ Managed the technical and administrative oversight of a large team of engineers
in the Environmental Test Lab and Engineering
∞ Developed hardware, software and integration requirements and methodologies
and directed/authorized the design of the automated STE for testing antenna
high power and high power return loss measurements. Coordinated the fix for
the software bugs and STE RF deck redesign to handle more power midway
through production
∞ Resolved nonconformances resulting from test anomalies
∞ Designed TVAC test fixtures (GSE)
∞ IPT focal for capital purchases and software driven applications to support test
plans
Φ Managed and Orchestrated the assembly, integration and test at subcontractor site for
the GPS IIF Antenna Payload Suites. Managed a three shift operation and saved
Boeing $ 3.3M during production integration and test
Φ Supervised and conducted research, development, production, assembly, integration
and test of RF subsystems (beginning to end) on twelve shipsets of GPS IIF Antenna
Payloads.
Φ Supervised and Conducted RF component functional tests on GPS IIF Antenna and
Feed Networks
∞ High Power RF in TVAC, PIM, EMI/EMC
∞ Subsystem Acoustic Vibration and Thermal Vacuum
∞ Passive Intermodulation
∞ S-Parameter (to include antenna feed networks and antenna hat couplers) tests
∞ Antenna propagation data collection, processing, charting and presenting
∞ Created and implemented an Excel Visual Basic for Application tool to execute
data processing and analysis to demonstrate and validate component and
subsystem performances throughout production testing

3. ∞ Coordinated with multiple engineering disciplines, government customers, and
tier1/tier2 suppliers throughout manufacturing, production, acceptance and sell-
offs
∞ Initiated and edited subsystems’ test plans, procedures and specifications,
program reports, briefings (Program Status, Master Change and Failure Review)
and contractual documentation. Conducted failure analyses to address
nonconformance dispositions, cause and root-cause corrective actions for flight
hardware anomalies
∞ Established test requirements and Special Test Equipment (STE) build and buy,
combined with control software requirements (HP VEE)
∞ AWARDS: Three large cash awards and two awards for 100 shares of stock
each for going beyond the call of duty
Role: Associate Test Engineer and Antenna Lab Tech, 1983-1990
Φ Supported government satellite and airborne production contracts
∞ GPS II/IIA Satellite antennas and feeds (28 shipsets)
∞ Tune circular polarization for far-field slant range propagation patterns
∞ NAV Payload 12-Element L-Band helix array tuning
∞ Crosslink 8-element UHF array tuning
∞ Network/Spectrum analyzer testing on antenna and antenna feeds (micro-
strip, strip-line and coaxial transmission lines)
Clearances – 1979-1997: Secret; 1997-2009: DOD TS w/poly; 2009-2013: DOD TX w/
SSBI; 2013-: Secret
OAO Corporation @ The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) 1991 - 1996
Job Title – Environmental Test Specialist/Associate Engineer at the Space and Solar
Simulation Lab
United States Marine Corps, MCAS El Toro, Santa Ana, CA 1978-1983
Job Title – Avionics Communication/Navigation Technician & QA Inspector, Sergeant
(E-5)
EDUCATION
School andLocation Curriculum Year(s)
Univ. of AL, Huntsville, AL Test and Evaluation Certificate 2009
Univ. of Redlands, Redlands, CA B.S. InformationSystems 2007
Riverside City College, Riverside, CA A.S. Physical Science 1994
U.S.N. Avionics Tech. Schools U.S.N. Avionics “A” Schools 1978 – 1979
U.S.N. Avionics Schools, U.S.M.C. Comm/NAV “C” Schools 1979 – 1982
Univ. of TN, Knoxville, TN Engineering Core Classes 1975 - 1978