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RESUME'
Resume
William Scott (Scotty) Thompson III
Email: Whitebear32907@yahoo.com
Telephone: 321-693-1634
Objective: A position in Writing, Training, Multimedia, Systems Integration, or Operations & Maintenance.
Experience:
Spacelink International LLC., Tech III (Lead Field Engineer in most commercial companies.) 2001 to Present. Assisted the initial install of the first system at Al Udeid Air Base at Doha, Qatar. Operated, installed and trained additional systems and personnel. The site has now grown to include 6 Ku band hub satellite terminals with forward deployed and stateside distant end users. We support digital data, audio and video for the entire Middle East Theater. This is a 24-hour a day operational complex. We do all maintenance, preventive maintenance; as well we are a forward logistics shipping point to all end users in the Mid East. We have an Operations and control center in Dulles, Virginia that stands as a verification and communication center for our use. These are transmit/receive terminals using multiple vendors hardware for both uplink and down links. Systems are multiple level redundancy. We won the US Air Force's (Best Com Squadron In The AIR FORCE) 2004. This is not a gratuitous award, it is a competitive award.
Cometch Systems Inc., Field Engineer - Consultant & Technical Adviser to Northrop Grumman on a large radar and communications system in Algeria, Africa. In country adviser to Algerian Air Defense Command and Northrop Grumman personnel. System included Digital GHz Troposcatter, microwave, VHF, HF, land-line & fiber-optic communications subsystems, as well as power and grounding systems.
Logistics/Service Manager, Installation & Integration - Satellite Home Theater, Melbourne, Fl. Designed and initiated a logistics inventory system which gained control of the flow of inventoried items. Installing and integrating TVRO Satellite TV systems, including multi and trimode feed LNB Parasitic mounts. Make customer service calls to resolve outages and repair systems. Promoted 1/3/00 to Service Manager. I also Trained new Installers and Service and Logistics personnel as well as making presentations to new market personnel defining proper technical standards to be maintained. Acting Corporate technical consultant to all operations and markets.
Powderman Air-Jac Drilling., New Iberia, Louisianna: Responsible for the distribution , depth, coordination, management of process, and procedure of up to 15 drills in seismic research, and 3D recording.
System Owner Operator - Anchorage, Alaska: Operated an Internet Site, Local BBS, and Internet publishing service. Published newsletters for special interest groups and photographs of Alaska nature. Digital photography, the image is uploaded directly to the computer, no film stage. Responsible for all decisions relating to contracts, financing, scheduling, and quality control.
Course Developer (subcontractor) Harris ATCSD Division: . Lead Logistics Specialist in charge of originating and editing course material to be taught to FAA Air Traffic Controllers & Airway Facilities Engineers for the new Voice Switch Control System.
Chief Instructor, Reserve Wildlife Officer - Florida Game & Freshwater Fish. Commission, Hunter Education Program: Responsible for program mandated by law for all out-of-state applicants as well as all of those under age 16 prior to being issued a State of Florida Hunting License. Class size, to 40. Certified by State of Florida as Chief Instructor and Auxiliary Law Enforcement Officer.
Sr. Specifications Engineer - Grumman (Avionics Research). Writing of Integrated Item and Configuration Item Specifications to Mil-Std-490A and others. Nomenclature Assignment and document control system for maintenance of DOD forms, design graphics and line art to assist all disciplines with presentation materials.
Technical Instructor, Technical Writer, Integration Design Engineer - E.T.S., Inc., Melbourne, Fl. Performed Integration Design on E.T.S. Contracts and Subcontracts, including facility, shelter, rack and equipment integration. Preparation of detailed Technical Manuals and Customer Training on 11 & 13 Meter Domestic Standard & Non-Standard "B", "C" & "Ku" band satellite communications transmit & receive Earth Stations, as deliverable and independent CDRL items.
Lead Logistics Specialist - Harris Government Satellite Tactical Operations, Inc., Palm Bay, Fl: Responsible for course review and detailed critique of J.R.S.C. communications satellite mobile terminal training course for the U.S. Army, writing and production of a training video demonstration of course materials, hardware assembly, and use.
Technical Instructor, Senior Field Engineer - Harris Satellite Communications Div., Inc., Technical Instructor Writing and Presentation of company and customer technical instruction, formal classroom and lab. Performed Installation, Site Integration/Installation, and Operation/Maintenance of 13 Domestic 11 Meter Standard "B satellite stations in the Republic of Sudan. Performed Installation, Site Integration/Installation, and Operation/Maintenance two, 11 Meter Domestic "B" and one 13 Meter International station with TV, telephone and AM/FM rebroadcast facilities in Uganda, Station Manager of Arua Complex. Performed Operation & Maintenance of 15 Standard "B" Domestic stations in Saudi Arabia, Station Manager of Sharourah Site. In the coarse of the above multiyear programs I was certified by Onan and Fermont White on their Diesel Generating power systems. I routinely worked with klystron and TWT power amplifiers, up/down converters, SCPC equipment (analog and digital), ITT FDM Mux systems, Microwave equipment and links, Video processing equipment, phase monitors and waveform monitors, Television transmitters, AM & FM radio transmitters, HF, VHF, UHF radio transmitters and receivers. Waveguide, heliax, and transmission lines. I routinely utilized Spectrum Analyzers, Microwave-Link-Analyzers, power meters & attenuators, wave meters, Sweep Generators and etc.
Department Head - Documation, Inc: Responsible for improvising and developing unique test equipment for the manufacturing division. Developed and produced mini-computer simulators, ROM test fixtures, card punch head test fixtures, and Slo-Sync motor test platform as well as caring for test equipment calibration and scheduling.
Senior Production Technician - Harris Composition Systems, Inc. Responsible for setting up production test facilities for H-1600 video editing terminals and testing to component level all top assemblies. Responsible for Burn-In-Facility and test cycles of same. Responsible for Phototronic Typesetters production testing.
Electronics Technician - U.S. Navy: 6 Year advanced Electronics Program Advanced Electronics School , with equipment schools following. Responsible for maintenance of D.S.T.E., Auto-Din terminals, crypto equipment, UHF, VHF, HF, LF and VLF fleet broadcast transmitters and receivers as well as mobile and portable ground communications equipment.
Education
U.S. Navy Advanced Electronics Program ET School, and others 1968-1974
East Tennessee State University, 1968
Award:
2004 Best Com Squadron in the Air Force. (Competitive Award.)
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