Lucian P. Crosthwaite ("Pat")

(760) 480-7848
lpc-ucla-cv@cox.net

Education

PhD in Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, graduated 2001

MS in Astronomy, San Diego State University, graduated 1993

BA in Mathematics, San Diego State University, minors in Physics and Art, graduated with honors 1977

Experience

EMPLOYER: Northrop Grumman AeroSpace Systems, 2004 to present

POSITIONS:

System engineering, architecture, and integration for unmanned air vehicles (UAV) (see www.as.northropgrumman.com). I've been doing a very diverse range of things at Northrop, here's a sampling:
1) Field support of a video frame capture utility for the extended range multi-purpose (ERMP) UAV program (ERMP at Ft. Hauchuca).
2) Software support of the real-time component executive (RTCF) ported to the Green Hills Integrity RTOS.
3) Software development and hardware integration of simulation benches, communications downlinks, and lots of miscellaneous activities for the KillerBee UAV prototype (testing at Holtville).
4) I built a master simulation controller (MSC) used to control the execution of a network of simulation computers in Northrop's Cyber Warfare Integration Lab (CWIN).
5) System engineering for a USMC Tier II UAV proposal including: requirements capture and allocation to operational, functional, and/or physical component decompositions (using CORE).
6) Trade studies, acquisition, and budgeting for small UAV embedded computers, command and control (C2) radio systems, and high speed data links.
7) Systems engineering and modeling for DARPA's Oblique Flying Wing program (animation avi file).
8) Monte Carlo modeling of the turnaround maintenance activities for AFRL's Fast Access to Space Technology (FAST) program at Northrop (FAST maintenance concept).
9) Systems engineering IPT lead for the DARPA's Rapid Eye program at Northrop (animation avi file).
10) Architecture development for Northrop's Common Mission Management Segment (CMMS) and support for the Universal Control Segment (UCS) architectural standards group.
11) Modeling of Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) missions for the Next Generation UAS (NGUAS) AFRL contract.
12) Systems engineering IPT lead for the DARPA's KQ-X High Altitude Aerial Refueling Demonstration program at Northrop (KQ-X).
13) Current position: Requirements and Verification Lead for the Global Hawk Program.

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EMPLOYER: Astute Networks, 2001 to 2004

POSITIONS:

1) Software engineer building cycle accurate simulators in C++ for a TCP/IP network protocol offload (TOE) and content processor ASIC.
2) Development of RISC core diagnostic programs to exercise functions available on Astute's TOE ASIC.
3) Definition of the message interface to a Fibre Channel MAC embedded in Astute's ASIC.
4) Development of Ethernet, Fibre Channel and PCI Express MAC simulators.

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EMPLOYER: University of California at Los Angeles, 1994 to 2001

POSITIONS:

Graduate student researcher. My dissertation was based on 115 and 230 GHz single dish radio telescope observations of carbon monoxide molecules and 1.4 GHz interferometer observations of continuum and atomic hydrogen line radiation in nearby galaxies. Research involved the analysis of error beams and scattered radiation in antennae, aperture synthesis image reconstruction, signal recovery from low signal to noise data, analysis of radiative transfer effects, and a great deal of modeling and visualization. My publications can be viewed at: www.astro.ucla.edu/~lucian/papers.html.
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EMPLOYER: Systech Corporation, 1993 to 1994

POSITIONS:

Software engineer performing maintainance and new feature development for multi-platform, UNIX/TCPIP based, remote terminal concentrators. Concurrent development and modification of UNIX drivers on Motorola, Data General, NCR and IBM AIX platforms which interfaced through a variety of bus architectures to a board with an embedded XINU real time operating system, a socket implementation of the Berkeley TCP driver, and Intel ASIC IP chips for the network connections.

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EMPLOYER: San Diego State University, 1991 to 1993

POSITIONS:

Graduate Teaching Assistant, instructor for Astronomy laboratory sections. For my thesis I did theoretical modeling and statistical analysis (in "C") of doubly ionized oxygen emission line intensities for the purpose of determining the rms variation of temperature and density in an observed column.

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EMPLOYER: NCR/AT&T San Diego, 1982 to 1991

POSITIONS:

Software engineer developing telecommunications protocol drivers and applications.
1) Research and development for a System Network Architecture (SNA) Network Management application running on NCR hosts.
2) Design of a general purpose, asynchronous, interface driver for a multi-tasked network management application.
3) Development of a runtime support module to host platform independent applications onto NCR proprietary operating systems.
4) Development of a high level interface (API) to SNA Logical Units application protocols, providing simplified session establishment (enable/disable) and data exchange (send/receive) protocol management via finite state machines (FSM).
5) Conversion of a 3270 terminal emulator LU2 communication protocol component from NCRL (extended Pascal) to "C" programming language.
6) I was a developer and later project leader for NCR's X.25 DTE protocol driver. This included: upgrading the existing driver to conform to the 1984 CCITT X.25 standard and user requested interface enhancements; overseas support for X.25 PTT certification testing; development of a full integration test of X.25 protocol software on multiple Unix hardware platforms; port of our X.25 and SNA protocol driver software to a Unix Kernel Streams environment (Streams Multiplexing Driver).

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EMPLOYER: The TRW Fujitsu Company, 1980 to 1982

POSITIONS:

Software engineer developing embedded applications for a new generation of financial terminals.
1) Development of Motorola 6800 microprocessor based, controller down-loaded, table driven, banking terminal application, communicating with branch controllers via and SDLC link. Mix of higher level and assembly languages.
2) Project leader for development of financial terminal and printer work station software.

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EMPLOYER: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo, 1974 to 1980

POSITIONS:

Computer technician performing initial hardware bring up, problem isolation and repair for NCR Century Series minicomputers.

Computer operator supporting software development division at NCR.

Software engineer on several projects:
1) Development of assembly language disk formatter and initializer utilities for NCR's VRX OS.
2) Test planning and execution of IVS, NCR's timesharing software for the VRX batch OS. Developed a script driven terminal user simulator to support automated test execution and verification.
3) Development of the IVS Logon software that handled initial input from pre-session terminals, verified and initiated a time sharing session for users (written in NCRL, a Pascal derivative).
4) Design of IVS HELP, a general purpose, menu driven, online help facility.

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