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PETER KOUMP

Gainesville, VA 20155 703.989.5971 pkoump@hotmail.com LinkedIn URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterkoump/ Clearances TS/SCI issued by DOD SSBI 20091026, TS 20100930 With CI Poly.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Professional Summery: Design and develop embedded systems based on microprocessors and microcontrollers. Develop FPGA designs for digital circuit cards. Design circuit cards for VME and PCI based systems. Summary: Hardware Engineer Designed microprocessor based embedded systems, and worked on EGSE Test hardware to test flight hardware. Designed circuit cards and FPGAs for high reliability space flight programs. Designed VME and PCI circuit boards. Able to work independently and as a team member. Has worked on Commercial, Defense, and Space electronics. Designed space qualified cables, wrote cable test and verification procedures. Debugged analog circuit cards. Competencies: Circuit card, and FPGA development. Developed FPGAs using Actel, Altera and Xilinx ICs with VHDL . C/C++ software development and assembler experience. Debugged microcontroller systems using incircuit emulators, logic analyzers and oscilloscopes. Used ModelSim for simulation. Developed Circuit boards for high reliability satellite systems. Used Hyperlynx for signal integrity analysis of circuit boards. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, VA (06/2008 03/2013) Senior Principal Engineer Developed test stations, and Space hardware. Oversaw integration into spacecraft. Electrical Systems Engineer - Defined, Developed, and tested embedded systems. - Develop digital and mixed logic circuit cards for satellite communications and mixed I/O. - Provide for spacecraft telemetry gathering and processing. - FPGA development- PCI Master and Target, and mixed I/O logic FPGAs developed in VHDL. - Master FPGA based on Actel 54SX72A and Target based on Actel 54SX32A - PCB Board Development, definition, debug and verify CCA. - Developed cPCI based backplane - Designed space qualified cables and wrote test procedures for space qualified cables. - Created engineering drawing and technical documentation. - Provided hardware support for developed hardware for ongoing software development. Spacecraft Avionics Engineer - Designed and wrote test procedures for space qualified cables. - Design, analyze, document and qualify, integration and test of spacecraft components and subsystems. - Developed IO Interfaces for command and data handling of computer systems (RS-422 and others). - Architected spacecraft MIL-STD-1553B Bus - Definition and development of ground support equipment for testing and integration of spacecraft electrical systems. - Approval and release of documents and drawings for space craft hardware and Ground Support Equipment through Configuration Management software. - Authoring test plans, safe to mate procedures and certifications procedures for Circuit cards, test equipment, and space qualified hardware. - Developed EGSE equipment for testing and verifying space hardware. - Verifying Avionics components in standalone bench testing, environmental testing , and during Spacecraft integration and test. - Conducted EMI testing on spacecraft electronics. - Created and updated documentation with Engineering Change Orders

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Orbital Sciences Corporation, Beltsville, MD (01/2005 06/2008) Principal Electrical Engineer Electrical Engineer in Command and Data Handling - Developed Master and Target PCI FPGAs for International Space Station ELC Program. - Developed Master and Target PCI interface PCB boards for multiple spacecraft. - Performed signal integrity on circuit boards using Hyperlynx. - Master FPGA based on Actel 54SX72A and Target FPGA based on Actel 54SX32A Thales Communications, Clarksburg, MD (11/2002 11/2004) Digital System Designer Engineer - Developed, and defined embedded systems for military communications device. - Responsible for layout and development of Printed Circuit Board (PCB). - Developed Xilinx FPGA designs based on Altera 1K30 - Developed and implemented a Network serial interface between DSP and Crypto Chip - Wrote Detailed specifications on all designs - Developed for circuits for small battery operated embedded communications devices - Developed users manual for designs - Responsible for building and debugging working prototypes Northrop Grumman, Baltimore, MD (11/2000 02/2002) Digital Designer Engineer - Developed Fiber Optic receiver board, with two high speed optic receivers - FPGA based on Altera 10K130E. - Fiber Optic receiver, received data at the rate of 622 Mb/s - Fiber Optic receivers are based on TI TLK1501 transceivers. - Responsible for layout and development of Printed Circuit Board (PCB). Litton Amecom, Beltsville, MD (11/1998 11/2000) Digital Designer Engineer - Developed two VME communications circuit cards and a Backplane board for a EA-6B aircraft. - Xilinx design based on two XL4036 FPGAs. - Developed VME Card that allowed a slave VME card to execute commands that were sent from a Command card. This allowed the Main VME Black box to control two additional VME Black boxes. EDUCATION Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, State College, PA Digital Technician Certification Lyons Institute, Cherry Hill, NJ Additional Training and Certifications: OrCAD used to develop circuit card schematics. Hyperlynx signal integrity analysis tool for circuit boards. Developed microcontrollers based embedded systems. C/C++ Test code, Embedded applications, microprocessors, and microcontrollers. Assembler language for microprocessor and microcontroller systems. Debugged microcontrollers using in-circuit emulators. VHDL and Verlog for FPGAs and CPLDs. Developed Printed Circuit Boards (PCB)- Complete design cycle. preliminary concept, BOMs, design reviews, supervision of PCB design and authoring of test procedures. Schematic capture using OrCad and Mentor Graphics. Experience with various analyzers, scopes and emulators.

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