Richard Schroeder

Program Manager and Electronics Engineer

rseaa6ca@westpost.net
Home 405 625 2995
4309 NW 48th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73112

DRC Experience From: 26 March 2007 To: 25 August 2009

Duty Title: Staff Engineer
Organization: Dynamics Research Corp.
Location: Oklahoma City, Ok
Supervisor: T Reneau
My responsibilities involve evaluation and specification of various new products
associated with the IUID contract at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. My publications are
available upon request.
USAF Experience From: 22 Jan 1996 To: 3 March 2006

USAF, Peterson AFB, Colorado

From: 16 July 2000 To: 3 March 2006
Duty Title: Electronics Engineer (0855) - Program Manager
Organization/Company: USAF AFSPC SMC Det 11 / RNDU
Location: Peterson AFB, Colorado
Supervisor: Tim Meyers
My responsibilities involve acquisition efforts for the missile test ranges at P
atrick AFB, Fl. and Vandenberg AFB, Ca. I was involved with program management a
nd engineering duties supporting an on-contract sustainment effort of $15 millio
n with an additional $5 million to be placed on contract in the near term. With
few exceptions, the sustainment effort involves state-of-the-art equipments. The
installations are non-organic involving a prime contractor and sub-contractors.
My primary focus is (1) cost, (2) schedule, and (3) technical performance. A so
lution to the requirement statement is developed through meetings with the user,
the Wing, the prime contractor, and this SMC office. After board reviews the re
quirement is placed on contract by the SMC PCO (contracting officer). My managem
ent and engineering responsibilities for the effort are typically exercised in a
series of planned meetings until the contract is completed and accepted by the
Wing. As team leader, IPT team is involved in the PDR, CDR, DT and E milestones
during the course of the contract. Certifications needed to perform the above re
sponsibilities include Level II SPRDE and Level I Program Management which I've
attained.
Specific actions during the course of all projects on contract involve monthly v
erbal stand-up presentations to upper management (GS-15 and Military). Bi-weekly
IPT meetings leading an IPT team in discussions and problem resolution. Travel
to attend Critical Design Reviews and to provide government concurrence was perf
ormed. The corresponding results are the successful completion of numerous proje
cts for the USAF test ranges in Florida and California. Retired from USAF on 3
March 2006.
USAF, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
From: 22 Jan 1996 To: 15 July 2000
Duty Title: Electronics Engineer (0855) - Project Manager
Organization/Company: USAF 38 EIW / EICG
Location: Tinker AFB, Oklahoma
Supervisor: John Alexin
My responsibilities involved world-wide organic installation of equipments and s
ystems.
In addition to a full installation, there were technical solutions and cost esti
mates provided to various organizations. Typically a requirement from an AF base
would initiate a site survey to collect details needed to provide a solution to
the requirement. The equipment types installed were VHF/UHF ground radio sites,
ground based radar (both precision approach and surveillance), in-plant telepho
ne switches, as well as control tower and RAPCON equipments. The installation pa
ckage was prepared and sent to the organic organization making the installation.

Specific actions during the solution phase included my travel to the AF base to
perform a site survey as well as coordinate with the CS during the in-brief and
out-brief. The corresponding results were successful equipment installation at (
1) Aviano AB, Italy, (2) Grand Forks AFB, ND, (3) Altus AFB, Ok, and (4) Sheppar
d AFB, Texas.
BTI Systems, Inc
Oklahoma City, Ok
Title: Consulting Engineer
From: Nov 1992 To: Oct 1995
Actions included engineering design, development, and support on high speed docu
ment handling equipment as well as assisting with manufacturing effort of new eq
uipments.
Frontier Engineering, Inc
Oklahoma City, Ok
Title: Consulting Engineer
From: 1985 To: 1992
Actions included contract engineering support to the FAA Aeronautical Center as
a consulting engineer. My responsibilities involved writing shakedown test plan
s/procedures for new equipment which the FAA intended to purchase. In addition,
frequent travel to various FAA contractor sites to review the progress of the F
AA contract with the contractor was my responsibility. I was involved in proble
m resolution of FAA system(s) on a continuous basis with the prime contractors.

Magnetic Peripheral Inc

Oklahoma City, Ok
Title: Senior Engineer
From: 1974 To: 1985
Provided design engineer services for several projects including the high speed
Page Printing System. I was responsible for all the font development and associ
ated programs. I provided reliability engineering services for a line of comput
er peripheral products. My responsibility included writing test plans/procedure
s and performing all environmental testing including EMC/EMI tests and FCC certi
fication activities.
Education
Graduate engineering studies:
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Ok 25 semester hours
University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo 12 semester hours
Bachelor's Degree - BSEE
June 1968, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo
William Cullen McBride High School, St Louis, Missouri

Training
For a complete training list, refer to my Career Brief for details of over 28 co
urses.
(1) LOG-131 Industrial Maintenance Management
(2) TST-101 ACQ Test & Evaluation
(3) SYS 208 Applied Risk Management
(4) LOG203 Reliability & Maintainability
(5) SYS201 Contract Management
(6) ACQ 201 Systems Acq
(7) Common Radar Principals-FAA
(8) EI Program management
(9) ACQ101, System Acq Management

Professional Certifications
APDP Certifications include:
(1) Certified Acquisition Professional Level-1 SPRDE, 05 Mar 2001, Peterson AFB
(2) Certified Acquisition Professional Level-2 SPRDE, 07 Aug 2002, Peterson AFB
(3) Certified Acquisition Professional Level-1 Program Mgmt, 18 June 2004, Peter
son AFB
(4) Certified Acquisition Professional Level-1 Life Cycle Logistic, 22 Dec 2003,
Peterson AFB
(5) Certified Acquisition Professional Level-1 Test & Eval, 28 June 2004, Peters
on AFB
(6) Certified FAA Commercial Pilot, Kansas City, Mo.
(7) Certified FCC Radio Operator N5VYQ, Oklahoma City, Ok
Recognitions
(1) Time-Off Award 11 times
(2) Letter of Recognition NAS Program

Richard Schroeder
rseaa6ca@westpost.net
405 625 2995