04/2012 to Present: Legacy Engineering, LLC, Irvine, CA

Legacy Engineering, LLC 18662 MacArthur Blvd. Suite 457 Irvine, CA 92612-1426 Telephone: (949) 794-5860 Home Page: www.Legacyeng.com

KRIS N. VU OBJECTIVE I am seeking a part-time position in the communication systems engineering or proposal support activities. I am interested in assignments where I can apply my extensive experience in the systems analysis, systems engineering, design, and development, as well as risk management.

EXPERIENCE

04/2012 to Present: Legacy Engineering, LLC, Irvine, CA  Consultant.

10/2005 to 04/2012: Raytheon Network Centric Systems, Fullerton, CA  SEIT IPT Lead/CAM. Global Positioning System (“GPS”) Ground Control Segment, Specialty Engineering. Led a SEIT IPT of diversified engineering disciplines (PSICA, safety, risk management, & algorithm) on the GPS OCX program. Planned team activities, issue Individual Work Authorizations (“IWAs”), reported IPT status to program manager & used EVMS to manage the IPT. Provided technical directions & guidance to team members on task executions. Represented the IPT in customer briefings, TIMs & weekly internal program reviews. Wrote a paper on CRC coding performance requirements for OCX data protection.  Senior Principal Systems Engineer. Navigation & Landing Systems. Provided systems engineering supports for the Wide Area Augmented System (“WAAS”) SEIT IPT. Document & investigate anomalies observed at the Ground Uplink Subsystem (“GUS”) of the Geostationary Command and Control Segment (“GCCS”). Supported proposal activities. Wrote a paper on GPS signal acquisition performance on Satellite-Based Augmented Systems (“SBAS”).  Lead. Mobile Communication Networks. Led a systems engineering team on a tactical mobile radio network program (FBCB2). Provided systems engineering supports (requirements flow down, verification, validations & demonstrations of designed systems) on mobile ad hoc communication networks & radios for weapon systems. Co-authored a paper on a non-line of sight communications system over water.

11/2003 to 09/2005: Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA  Lead Communication Systems Engineer. IPT Lead for the telecommunication subsystem of the Space Interferometer Mission (“SIM”) spacecraft. Responsible for requirements flow down, architecture development, trade studies, cost, schedule & subcontract management. Systems Engineering Lead on the Advanced EHF (AEHF) program. Responsible for communication requirements (acquisition & tracking, payload performance, network timeline), system link budgets, waveform analysis, & verification activities of RF and antenna subsystems. Wrote a paper on the effects of self interferences on communications through AEHF transponders. Taught in-house classes on random processes & digital communications systems.

11/1990 to 10/2003: Boeing Satellite Systems, Los Angeles, CA  Sr. Scientist. Communication Systems Engineering. Analyzed end-to-end performances of communication systems for alternative payload designs & make design recommendations to program offices. Performed trade studies to optimize satellite payload performance. Evaluated system performance degradations due to interferences & hardware imperfections. Provided analytical bounds on the end-to-end communication system performance (BER) & built simulation models to verify compliance for payload units and satellite transponders. Analyzed acquisition & tracking performance of spread spectrum receivers. Prepared & presented analytical & simulation results to support sell-offs. Wrote in- house technical reports & white papers. Topics include cross talks, modulation transfers, intermodulation KRIS N. VU EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED) Page 2

effects, Noise Power Ratio (“NPR”), uncoded & coded BER performance of signals in band-limited non- linear channels. Gave technical presentations on the effects of imperfect hardware & recommended solutions on payload designs. Provided communication systems engineering analysis to NASA programs (TDRS, GOES), DOD programs (WGS, UHF), and commercial communication satellite programs. Supported verification & validation activities during satellite payload integration & test phases. Performed power subsystem analysis & conducted customer trainings on commercial communication satellites. Taught an in-house class annually on the simulations of satellite-based communication systems using COTS programs (SPW, MatLab, Simulink) from 1997 to 2000.

02/1989 to 10/1990: TRW Mead, San Diego, CA  Technical Staff. Communication Systems Engineering. Built mathematical models for channels & receivers to validate receiver designs via Block-Oriented System Simulator (“BOSS”) simulations. Developed simulation modules for hardware components & validated model response with test data. Wrote application-specific subroutines (Pascal, FORTRAN) to support the simulations. Conducted an IR&D project on airborne radar warning receivers.

06/1986 to 01/1989: Harris Controls and Composition, Melbourne, FL  Senior Engineer. Product Development. Developed application hardware for minicomputer-based power control systems. Prepared subsystem functional requirements & interface specifications. Designed microprocessor-based hardware to support user requirements.

06/1982 to 05/1986: Dresser Atlas, Houston, TX  Research Engineer. Research and Engineering. Designed new analog & digital circuits for data acquisition instruments. Analyzed & analog circuit responses via SPICE simulations. Wrote computer programs for data reductions and analyses.

EDUCATION M.E., Communication Systems Theory/Digital Signal Processing – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL B.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering & Engineering Physics – University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

ADDITIONAL TRAINING 47 credits in a Ph.D. program (EE- Communication Systems) at USC, Los Angeles, CA Training Certificates in Program Management, Business Capture & Development, DoD Systems Acquisition Management.

CLEARANCES DoD clearance References available upon request