Carl has been leading engineering teams in aerospace programs since 2003.  Before co-founding Denslow Cattle Company with Eileen Kim, Carl led engineering efforts at Gogo Business Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Analex Corporation, Aeromech Engineering, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Zone 5 Technologies and as an independent contractor.  He is driven not just by product delivery, but by improvement which is why his experience has focused around internal tool development as well as integrated systems architecture and test.  He believes that being involved in both architecture and tests creates a feedback cycle that fosters continuous growth.  He is a hands-on engineer that enjoys making individual technical contributions. With Denslow Cattle Company, he is marshalling Artificial Intelligence fundamentals to deliver improvements across Renewable Energy, Defense Engineering, Sustainable Food Production and other areas crucial to our communities.   Carl’s software development experience has included bare-metal embedded on a variety of 16 and 32-bit processors, Windows Kernel Drivers, and user-applications for Windows, Linux and iOS.  His test experience with manned and unmanned platforms has included all levels of sub-system and fully integrated systems such as software unit-test, quantifying sub-system limits, casual exploration of system function, and demonstrating successful full-system performance.

Experience

Zone 5 Technologies
Software and Controls Functional Lead, Project Lead, Contract Engineer

From 2016 - 2021, Carl supported Zone 5 Technologies. He was Functional Lead for Software and Controls Engineers where he bolstered continuous improvement framework to realize measurable gains in team productivity and satisfaction. As the Project Lead for initiatives including manned urban air mobility concept vehicles and advanced hybrid electric propulsion vehicle for the U.S. Air Force, he was responsible for full-scope project success: technical execution and program management within schedule and budget allocation. As a team contributor Engineer, he architected communications solutions, developed embedded software, and tested systems at all stages of development.

Lockheed Martin (formerly Aeromech Engineering)
Senior Staff Engineer

Carl’s interest in autonomous systems drew him to continue his aerospace career as a project Technical Lead at Lockheed Martin (previously Aeromech Engineering).  There, he coordinated with engineering discipline leads to create requirements and development plan for all aspects of platform design to anticipate customer expectations.  He was the Product Owner for the system software “scrum” development process and individually, he developed internal software tools to support engineering tasks and test data review.   He was responsible for authoring block diagrams, functional diagrams, reliability analysis, requirements, test methodologies and other technical documents to communicate architecture and performance objectives.  He was heavily involved in design details for radio communications systems, wired data networks and computing infrastructure.  Across the program, he identified test points and test coverage requirements, performed concept and prototype evaluation, conducted integration testing, and supported acceptance and flight tests.

Gogo Business Aviation
Test Automation Lead

At Gogo Business Aviation, he was the agile team lead and individual contributor for the Test Automation Framework group responsible for development and maintenance of a combined hardware + software infrastructure that supports rapid development cycles.  This critical test infrastructure demands an extreme level of reliability to provide meaningful feedback of product defects without diluting the results with framework errors.  With this team, Carl began development of a self-monitoring system, and introduced a test-driven development approach for all new features, greatly increasing the reliability of the automation framework.

Sierra Nevada Corporation
Lead Systems Engineer

At Sierra Nevada Corporation, Carl was a founding system integration and test engineer for SNC Denver – ISR programs.  In this role, he stood-up the systems engineering, software engineering, and test engineering groups.  He became the site-wide lead systems integration engineer for military and non-military commercial derivative modifications and mission training devices.  This is where he provided design guidance for selection and successful integration of mission systems and coordinated daily with customers and end-users to provide highly effective solutions on constrained schedules.  He performed initial laboratory demonstrations of new products and unconventional configurations and executed test activities for both flight and ground test, accumulating 200+ hours of flight time testing EO/IR, Comms/Data Links and Collection/Location systems on a variety of small and medium-sized aircraft.

Analex Corporation (Now part of QinetiQ North American)
Computer Hardware Engineer

After graduating from Michigan State University with a degree in Computer Engineering, Carl began his career at Analex Corporation (now QinetiQ North American) where he worked as a member of a small team charged with the development and maintenance of custom emulator systems.  These emulator systems support the company role of software testing for navigation and guidance systems on multiple space-launch platforms.  Here, he developed abstraction software comprising drivers, driver APIs and a test suite to support the usability of the emulators on both Windows and Linux platforms.  Carl was responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the emulator’s on-board OS which monitors emulator health, runs a debugging console and interfaces to multiple processors.  He was involved in HDL development and verification support for firmware targeting Xilinx FPGAs and worked extensively in C/C++, Python and Matlab.

Carl donated his time and expertise to the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control as a Subject Matter Expert providing feedback on technical feasibility and proposal review for their first Multi-Mission Aircraft Program establishing the Colorado Firefighting Air Corps.

Formal Training

Private Pilot: Airplane Single-Engine Land
Remote Pilot: Small Unmanned Aircraft System

Machine Learning, Modeling and Simulation Professional Certificate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
High Intensity Radiated Fields, Oklahoma State University
TEMPEST for System Installation and Facility Design, Lackland AFB
Windows Driver Development, Open System Resources
Advanced Satellite Communications Systems, Applied Technology Institute
Geo-location Equipment Training, Fort Bragg
FAA Certification of Military Commercial Derivative Aircraft, Kansas University

Clearance

TS/SCI SSBI — PSI expired July 2018
Secret — Inactive/Current through July 2023