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Name : Dr. Shibu BasuThakur
     
Citizenship : US Citizen, Holds secret clearance
     
Contact : (480) 675-1859
(480) 510-3534 (Cell)
     
Email :

Shibu.Basuthakur@gdc4s.com

     
Educational Qualification :

Univ. of Connecticut, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada, M.S., Mechanical Engineering
Univ. of Calcutta M.S., Electrical Engineering
Corporate Business Management Training at Temple Univ., Wharton, GE Corporate School
     
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Achievements :

#Published over twenty-five technical papers and received / plan to receive sixteen patents on all areas of satellite service provisioning, spacecraft subsystems and systems design.
#General Dynamics Gold Badge Recipient, Winner of Hughes highest technical award: Sector Excellence Award, General Electric's general manager and one in thousand awards, US Air Force's Technical Excellence Award (first ever given to a private individual), NASA’s Technical Excellence Award, National Academy of Science Fellow.
     
Experience Summary :

His most current experience involves business opportunity pursuits associated with DARPA SBIR initiatives, Systems concepts definitions associated with International pursuits, Smart Grid business pursuits. He has recently completed his assignment on the development & implementation of scenario based testing methodology for comprehensive end-to-end integrated ground system level testing of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS). This CONOPS based methodology includes Integrated Ground System operational Validation as well as requirement verification (V & V) of the integrated ground system that includes Secure Communication functionalities in the MUOS baseline program. He has also defined specifications for Waveform Development Environment (WDE) that is planned to be used as the secured user entry system for MUOS waveform as well as MUOS functional test terminal.

His domain expertise includes large-scale system deployment, complexity management and risk analysis including solving complex technical challenges requiring innovative solutions for mission-critical functions in such areas as the ongoing global war on terror and the transformation of the U.S. military in the C4ISR arena. His current tactical & strategic technology focus has been in the national security, intelligence and homeland defense including Port Security, Border Patrol & Movement Tracking Systems.

He also brings in extensive experience in the business/technical development and management of Scientific, Surveillance and Communication Systems for military and commercial missions using three-axis stabilized LEO/MEO/GEO satellites.

     
Special Skills :
  • Scenario based end-to-end system level testing
  • Integrated End to End Security & Management System
  • Innovative Satellite Based Service Provisioning
  • Large Scale Systems Development & Deployment Strategy
  • Business / Technical Architecture Dev & Implementation
  • Launch Vehicle Procurement & Injection Strategy
  • Long Term Strategic Core Techno- Business Competency
  • Design/Systems Engineering & Flight Operations
  • Spacecraft Attitude / Orbit Control & Embedded S/W Dev
  • Technology Development: P/L Adapter, Network Routing,
  • Advanced Systems Engineering
     
Systems & Programs :
  • Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)
  • Rescue 21, Integrated Wireless System, MTS
  • Dynamic Allocation & Routing, Commercial Ku Satellites
  • MUOS, Teledesic, HS601, UHF-F/O, IRIDIUM F/O, DSCS III
  • Teledesic, INX, Satellite Based Telemedicine Project
  • HS601, UHF-F/O, M-STAR, DSCS III/IABS
  • Business & IR&D Roadmap @Motorola SSSD & Hughes
  • UHF F/O, DSCS III, Landsat D, TIROS N, DMSP 6
  • UHF F/O, DSCS III, Landsat D, BS 2, IUE, SMM, ATS-F
  • Technology Development: P/L Adapter, Network Routing,
  • Iridium INX, Teledesic/Celestri, HS 702, HS 601
  • Opportunity Qualification & Capture Strategy of Big
  • Programs (MUOS, IWN etc.)
     
Professional Experience :
7/95 to Present
Chief Technologist / Advanced Systems Engineer, GDC4S / NSD, Scottsdale, AZ.
 
  • Responsible for terrestrial & satellite based technology development as well as US DoD leveraging of key commercial technologies. Led development of internal core competencies at General Dynamics in the area of Wireless Tracking System, Line of Sight & Beyond Line of Sight Communication, Large Scale Systems Architecture Evolution, Led Motorola SATCOM in the areas of : i) Systems architecture definition for precision pointing military & commercial space missions to support imaging & wideband communication needs; ii) Network Routing, management & optimization of inter-satellite laser links; iii) Efficient low cost modular satellite Bus & P/L adapter concepts for LEO/MEO/GEO missions.
 
 
7/94 to 7/95
CEO, B&R Foundation, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.
 
  • Led an international team of medical practitioners and satellite engineers to set up a satellite based Telemedicine capability to connect a medical facility in India with the Debakey telemedicine center at Southern Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas. Performed business feasibility, developed business plan & defined supporting broadband network architecture.
 
 
7/88 to 7/94
Hughes Space & Communication, Elsegundo, CA.
 
  • Chief Technologist (12/93-7/94): Responsible for coordinating and supporting Division levels strategic, technical and business issues. While reporting to the office of the President, he carried out business feasibility of Hughes Spaceway broadband system. Responsible for developing system level concept and business feasibility for Hughes next generation of Geosynchronous Satellite Bus (HS702). Defined a number of systems architectural configurations to support study missions including the Advanced Warning Satellite (AWS), GOES - N & POES, using Hughes HS601 Bus
  • UHF F/O Task Leader (07/90-12/93): Responsible for cost, schedule and technical performance of all UHF/EHF program activities in the areas of Systems Engineering, Control Systems Analyses, Mechanisms, Flight Software, Bus Electronics & Subcontracts. Successfully Delivered Three UHF/EHF Spacecrafts in Orbit
  • Laboratory Scientist (5/89-7/90) : Responsible for developing Hughes' first , three-axis stabilized , HS601-based , military communication satellite ( UHF/EHF ) - Led a technical team to define the system concept, all operational and acquisition modes algorithms, Rigid / Flexible simulation and flight software; systems configuration optimization for in-orbit deployment and testing of Hughes first three-axis military spacecraft, UHF/EHF.
  • Senior Scientist (7/88-5/89): Led system level conceptual configuration definition based on HS601 three-axis stabilized bus configurations for a number of special purpose LEO / GEO missions including DMSP - 6 & DSCS - III Follow On.
 
 
11/86 to 7/88
President, Systems Software Simulation Dev Inc., Sunnyvale, CA.
 
  • Program Manager, Advanced Projects (11/85 - 11/86): Responsible for formulating advanced technology enhancements to augment the capabilities of DSCS III satellites
  • Project Engineer (9/81 - 11/85) : Led a team of engineers and technologists to define, develop and flight qualify all acquisitions and operational modes of DSCS III attitude control systems - a three-axis , body stabilized, zero bias momentum , nuclear hardened , military SATCOM spacecraft with anti-jamming capability . Developed G.E.'s first internal core competency in RAM patch associated with the embedded software to counter serious mission-limiting DSCS III A1 in-flight anomalies associated with a number of space hardwares.
  • Supervising Engineer - Guidance & Control Department (9/79 - 9/81) : Led a section of engineers to support multiple programs including Landsat - D , Direct Broadcast Satellite, Japanese Broadcast Satellite BS-2 , ETS - 3 and BSE. Offered graduate level courses on modern control theory and stochastic Systems. Coordinated all IR & D projects in the control and stabilization area.
  • Lead Control Systems Engineer (7/77- 9/79): Architect of all DSCS III ACS modes of operation. Developed G.E.'s first comprehensive rigid / flexible hardware in-the-loop simulation programs for ACS performance demonstration and validation. Developed augmented simulation program for computer aided autonomous bit-level embedded software testing.
 
 
7/77 to 11/86
Program Manager- Advanced Projects, General Electric Space Division, Valley Forge, PA.
 
  • Won a technical contract to lead a team of technical staff from Lockheed Corporation to generate in-orbit operational procedures and RAM patch algorithms for DSCS - III A1 , B4 and B5 spacecraft; coordinated a team in implementing networking and computer automation for a San Jose based insurance company, All Coverage Insurance.
 
 
9/76 to 7/77
Senior Systems Engineer, OAO Corporation, Greenbelt, Md.
 
  • Developed training simulator for NASA's International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) program - A precision pointing, star tracker/gyro based observatory mission.
 
 
4/74 to 9/76
Systems Engineer, RCA Corporation, Lanham, Md.
 
  • Responsible for all nominal and anomalistic, in-orbit, operational support of ATS-6. Principal coordinator to interface with NASA/GSFC experimenters for ATS-6 in-orbit system configurations to support a number of planned mission experiments.
 
 
9/72 to 4/74
National Academy Of Science Fellow, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
 
  • Responsible for independent validation of Honeywell/Fairchild designed attitude control system for NASA's first three-axis stabilized zero-bias momentum communication satellite, ATS-6.
 
     
     
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