Contact:

James T. Godfrey

Email: jtgodfrey@computersysanalytics.net

Ancillary: www.systemsengineeringanalytics.com

Background:

I have spent the majority of my working experience in the defense industry in support of systems engineering and software applications, predominantly in an analytical capacity with some project management responsibility, which included extensive software development and mathematical modeling.

During my career I have worked for the following companies: Westinghouse (now Northrup- Grumman) as a radar hardware developer; Planning Systems Incorporated as an analyst and project manager in the acoustic intelligence field – primarily submarine sonar systems; MITRE as a weapons system engineer and project manager; EG&G as a sonar systems analyst; Intelsat as a software engineer; George Mason University Chemistry Department as a researcher; Center for Naval Analysis as a naval operations analyst; and Information Systems Laboratories as a radar and test engineer with some project management experience.

For the past four years I’ve had a small consulting company, Computer Systems Analytics Inc., where I have addressed a variety of applications in support of environmental and economic problem areas.

Education:

A.B., physics, University of California, Berkeley;

M.S., physics, University of Colorado, Boulder; and

Ph. D., physics, University of Colorado, Boulder.

I have written 3 textbooks on software programming (Prentice-Hall), and taught introductory computer science at the Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Center for 3 semesters.

Experience Areas:

Software: MATLAB, Visual Basic, Fortran, C, C++, IBM & Intel assembly language; MS Word & Office (Excel & PowerPoint); O/S Windows

Technical: Digital and statistical signal processing; adaptive filtering; SAW device development; ILS Glide-slope modification and analysis; radar hardware and software development; sonar system analysis and processing systems; stochastic modeling & random processes; detection & estimation theory; decision support systems and modeling; Bayesian estimation; operations research; linear and non-linear optimization; communications and weapons systems analysis; hardware and software systems architecture development, implementation, and integration; and other mathematical modeling and optimization techniques. Modeling includes deterministic as well as dynamic implementations.

Project management (examples):

- led development of SAW pulse compression subsystem for Air Force E3A radar Maritime mode,

- led development of advanced submarine surveillance equipment program data reduction system for acoustic intelligence processing,

- led design team on remotely configured satellite ground station – MILCOM LST 8000 reconfiguration – software installation, and

- test director – proposed adaptive clutter rejection subsystem – Navy SPY-1B radar system, Wallops Island; and extensive modeling projects for electronic systems and subsystems (both analog and digital).

Systems Engineering and Signal Processing:

The work involved over 40 projects requiring the application of systems engineering techniques (both technical and management). Experience includes system architecture design and development, modeling and implementation, and subsequent integration and test. Primary focus was on defense systems with an emphasis on architecture and mathematical description, as well as, definition and adherence to: planning, issue & milestone development, scheduling, activity allocation, and test design and implementation. A great deal of the effort included application of statistical signal processing techniques to project applications.

Membership:

IEEE: Life Member; Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement “—one of the “Outstanding Reviewers of 2010;” American Physical Society; American Economic Association; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Representative Publications:

1. T. A. Dillon and J. T. Godfrey, “Pressure Broadening of the O2 Microwave Spectrum,” Physical Review A, Vol. 5, p. 599 (1972).

2. J. T. Godfrey, C. R. Vidal, E. W. Smith, and J. Cooper, “Effect of Time-Ordering in the Unified Theory,” Physical Review A, Vol 3, p. 1543 (1971).

3. J. T. Godfrey, H .F. Hartley, G. J. Moussally, and R. A. Moore, “Terrain Modeling Using the Half-Plane Geometry with Applications to ILS Glide Slope Antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Succinct Papers, p. 370, (May 1976).

4. J. T. Godfrey, C. H. Grauling, and C. E. Nothnick, “Pulse Compression Results Using Metallic Reflective Array Lines,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-15, No. 5, p. 673 (September 1979).

5. J. T. Godfrey, G. D. Foster, and K. A. Lippa, “Estimated Annual Loads of Selected Organic Contaminants to Chesapeake Bay via a Major Tributary,” ACS Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 8, pp. 2059-2064 (1995).

6. J. T. Godfrey and G. D. Foster, “Kalman Filter Method for Estimating Organic Contaminant Concentrations in Major Chesapeake Bay Tributaries,” ACS Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 2312-2317 (1996).

There were a number of other papers in such venues as the Ultrasonics Symposium (5 papers); the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2007 (1 paper); and other symposia.

Ph.D. Thesis: “Pressure Broadening of the 3.39 Micron Line of Methane Perturbed by Noble Gases,” University of Colorado, Boulder (August 1972).

Textbooks:

1. J. Terry Godfrey, IBM Microcomputer Assembly Language: Beginning to Advanced, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 (1989); ISBN 0-13-449505-5

2. J. Terry Godfrey, APPLIED C: The IBM Microcomputers, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 (1990); ISBN 0-13-039686-9

3. J. Terry Godfrey, Programming the OS/2 Kernel, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 (1991); ISBN 0-13-723776-6

Employment time-line:

1974-1979 Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Defense Electronics System Center, Elkridge, MD – initially worked at the Advanced Technology Laboratory ; work included assessment of the ILS glide-slope antenna system performance for the FAA; design, fabrication, and test (as well as integration) of a number of surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters for IR&D and the Air Force programs including the initial development through production installation of the E3A Maritime mode pulse compression filter; also worked 1 year on the US Army DIVADS project as a support analyst for the program office determining future system performance.

1979-1983, 1991-1992 Planning Systems Incorporated, McLean, VA – initial work in support of DTNSRDC involved the analysis of submarine acoustic intelligence data (ACINT) for US attack submarines and the modeling of the AN/BQQ-5 Tracker-H sonar system processing to determine design flaws in the digital hardware. Subsequent work was to lead the development and implementation of a new Submarine Surveillance Equipment Program (SSEP) data reduction system for NAVSEA. Some later work included looking at advanced sonar hardware capabilities at the end of the later SUBACS program.

1983-1984, 1986-1991 MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA – initial work was for SPAWAR (then NAVALEX) on an underwater fiber-optic network design for submarine strategic communications, as well as, supporting the development of an adaptive processor for high-speed analog data collection. Subsequent work spanned a number of projects in support of SPAWAR, NRL, NAVSEA, and other Navy agencies. In 1986-1990 I led a team on the Modular Building Block Program where we converted an existing satellite ground station (MILCOM LST-8000) to a remote shelter environment. This latter work included design, development, implementation, test and integration of suitable software and hardware to complete the effort.

1984-1986 EG&G, Manassas, VA – work involved supporting the SUBACS Program for NAVSEA; sonar systems engineering.

1991-1994 Intelsat, Washington, DC – work involved the support of various systems engineering software development subsystems.

1994-1998 George Mason University Chemistry Department, Fairfax, VA – worked as a research associate in environmental chemistry. Basic effort was to collect, process, and categorize pesticide contaminants in the lower Chesapeake Bay tributaries. I applied standard statistical signal processing techniques to analyzing the contaminant data to look for trends and to project contaminant levels.

1998-2000 Center for Naval Analysis, Arlington, VA – initial work looked at several systems engineering applications for the Navy in the area of employing and modeling performance of ship-launched unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) against land and sea targets. This included extensive modeling of the UAV generic systems implementations. Also, support for PAC Fleet international exercise (RIMPAC 98) in the field during 5 country exercises – was on board the USS Carl Vinson for the exercise and then we supported the data analysis effort at Pearl Harbor. Final work was the analysis of high-level Navy administrative architectures to improve efficiencies.

2000-2006 Information Systems Laboratories, Inc., McLean, VA – worked developing software (C++) implementations in support of DARPA advanced radar processing systems. This included writing and installing software packages for adaptive processing subsystems. The later effort focused on writing and implementing a test plan in support of NRL for the improvement of the adaptive clutter rejection subsystem (under development at ISL) for the SPY-1B shipboard radar system. I eventually served as test director for the operational test.

2006-present Computer Systems Analytics, Inc. , Falls Church, VA – this is the consulting company that I developed to initially look at affordable environmental test equipment: specifically a low-cost efficient methane detection subsystem. Following this I have started to look at techniques to apply more advanced stochastic modeling to a host of areas, primarily in the finance and economic systems arena. Specific problem areas include foreign exchange rate modeling – implications for projecting the impact of changes on macro-economic areas – and the effect of projecting stochastically various indicators and the results on subsequent parameter sets. The approach is basically to implement a systems methodology to analyzing these disciplines.