Russell B. Brinkmann
915 Atwood Street
Longmont, CO 80501
(303) 931-6409
russell@aeroastro.com

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, July 1994,
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Passed Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (formerly the EIT)
Design project: light sensing robot, focus on light sensor circuitry

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

AeroAstro, July 1996 to present
Network system administrator duties
    Installed Ethernet for Virginia and Colorado offices
    Installed and set up various UNIX platforms, including the company's mail server
    Purchased machines for new employees
Electrical engineering duties
    Built stimulators for horizon crossing indicators, sun sensors, magnetometers on TERRIERS
    Wrote software to control TERRIERS stimulators
    Debugged TERRIERS satellite hardware problems
    Designed conditioning board and enclosure for HCIs on TERRIERS
    Designed, built and tested I/O board for PA-X rocket project
    Revised DSP board for use as PA-X processor
    Revised board layout for PCMCIA DMM
    Researched CPU, data acquisition and sensing possibilities for Kit Comm

American Association of School Administrators (AASA) Contractor, Winter 1995
    Edited AASA documents
    Verified statistics for AASA documents

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Summer 1994
Provided technical assistance to Dr. C. E. Nunnally of the Virginia Tech Electrical Engineering Department
    Revised lab manuals
    Evaluated lab software for the department's Electronics I course
    Evaluated Software
    Wrote Motorola 68HC11 assembly programs

Naval Research Laboratory, Co-op, Summer 1993
    Documented and prototyped circuits
    Constructed wiring harness for a remote-controlled airplane
    Assisted the EMI/RFI testing of a military payload

COMPUTER SKILLS:
    Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 3.11 and 95, Macintosh, and several flavors of UNIX
    Languages: C, (68HC11) assembly language, FORTRAN, BASIC, Visual BASIC, HTML
    Software packages: various math, simulation, schematic capture, PCB layout, CAD packages
    Software written: device drivers (custom devices), micro controller serial and parallel communication,
                            robot control, web pages (see http://charlotte.aeroastro.com/~russell)

PAPERS:
"Design, Integration and Testing of the TERRIERS Attitude and Control Determination System," by Dr. John Hanson, Senior Engineer, AeroAstro LLC; Richard Warner, Chief Technical Officer, AeroAstro LLC; Russell Brinkmann, Electrical Engineer, AeroAstro LLC

REFERENCES:
Sean Geiger
550 East Rogers Road
Longmont, CO 80501
303-651-7552
303-651-7327 FAX