Personal Details Resume Christopher John Wilkinson Date and place of birth: 24th April 1949, Leeds, England Citizenship: United Kingdom Visa Status: Green Card Current Employer: Senior Research Scientist, CALCE Electronics Products and Systems Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Tel 301 405 4563 chris.wilkinson@iee.org Current Contracts, Grants & Activities Data Reduction Algorithms for Environmental Data (System Excelerator, Crofton, MD) C++ codes for the reduction of voluminous environmental data into form compatible with electronic failure models. The application of failure models to electronics prognostics (ephm) Member RTCA SC200, Design Guidance and Certification Considerations for Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) Working Group Completed Contract, Grants & Activities [2004] Backplane Databuses for Modular Avionics (CALCE Project) Research into the desirable characteristics of a backplane databus to provide, performance, safety, scaleability and sustainability of integrated modular avionics. [2004] Semiconductor Trends and Technology Roadmaps (Contract) Research into current technology trends and the impact these have on avionics architectures, particularly IMA. [2003] Ultrasonic Sensor Datalink Performance in High Acoustic Noise Environments (Lockheed Martin, Fort Worth) Investigation into the useability of ultrasonically equipped sensors for transmission of environmental data through an airframe. Previous Work November 1999 to October 2003, Program Manager for US Air Force MANTECH program (4yr/$7m), 'Physics of Failure Approach to Sustainable Electronic Systems' (PASES website). Program scope includes Physics of Failure, Obsolescence, Parts Selection and Management, Uprating, Life Consumption Monitoring, Life Cycle Cost
Modeling and full-scale implementation/demonstration. (prime with Honeywell, Price Systems, Lockheed Martin) Technical contributions in: Application of commercial electronic components to civil and military avionics equipment. Algorithms and mathematical models for the estimation of failure free operating period, confidence interval and goodness-of-fit tests using the 3-parameter Weibull distribution. Previous Employers Smiths Aerospace, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, England July 1992 to November 1999 May 1986 to July 1992 February 1981 to May 1986 October 1978 to February 1981 Principal Research Engineer, Corporate Research Group Led teams for formalized processes for avionic equipment development (Parts Selection and Management, Obsolescence Management, Reliability Assessment, Uprating) Principal Engineer, Flight Control Systems Hardware development group leader for Flight Management and Flight Control products Electronic Engineer. Flight Control systems Hardware development team leader for Flight Management products Research Engineer, Flight Control Systems (i) Sidescan Sonar Receiver, (ii) Helicopter Hover Controller Group 4 Total Security, Tewkesbury, England August 1973 October 1978, Project Engineer, Access Control Systems Racal (Slough) Ltd., Tewkesbury, England August 1972 August 1973, Electronics Engineer, Secure communications products Marconi Avionics, Rochester, England September 1971 August 1972, Graduate Engineer, Avionics test equipment design and development Education University of London, London, England, 1971, BSc (Hons), II-1, Electronic Engineering Professional Qualifications MIEE, Chartered Engineer (CEng.), Associate Member IEEE Skills IT - MS Office XP, MS Windows XP admin and networking, MS Project, MS Visio
Programming - C/C++ (MS Visual Studio.NET), Matlab, MathCad, MS Access, HTML (Frontpage/Dreamweaver). Statistics - S-Plus, Statistica, Weibull++, Minitab Optimization - Knitro, Optsolve, Tomlab. Consulting Services Electronic Component Management Plan Electronic Component Uprating Plan Obsolescence Management Plan Consulting BAe Systems Hamilton Sundstrand Short Courses The Avionics Roadmap, Avionics Roadmap2000 Conference, University of Maryland Uprating of Electronic Parts for Avionics Applications, University of Maryland August 8-9 2000 External Activities Secretary IECQ-CMC Avionics Working Group Member RTCA SC180/Eurocae WG46 Design Assurance for Complex Airborne Hardware subcommittee Member AIEM WG on Component Obsolescence Management Member ARINC 659 Databus Specification sub-committee January 1998 to June 1994 to February 1996 to September 1997 April 1993 to April 1996 Professional Memberships IEEE (USA), 1999 IEE (UK), 1998 Spheres of Interest Developing a methodology to allow electronics maintenance to be scheduled thus improving asset availability through reducing unscheduled downtime and simplifying the typical four-level maintenance infrastructure to two levels. This objective encompasses several sub-objectives: Prognostics and Health Management (ephm) Ultrasonic Communication
Integrated Modular Avionics Technology Roadmapping Reliability Data Analysis Thermal Management for Avionics Component Management Commercial Components Uprating Failure Free Operating Period Distribution parameter estimation (maximum likelihood, least squares) Obsolescence Management in Aerospace Applications Reliability Improvement, modeling and assessment methods Commercialization of military and civil avionics Books, Chapters, Publications & Conferences Wilkinson, C., "Prognostics and Health Management for Improved Dispatchability of Integrated Modular Avionics Equipped Aircraft," 23rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 2004. Wilkinson, C., Avionics Architecture Approach to the Sustainable Utilization of Commercial Technology, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 7-10, Oct, 2004. Wilkinson, C., Humphrey, D., Vermeire, B., and Houston, J., Prognostic and Health Management for Avionics, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, Mar. 2004. M. Pecht et. al., Parts Selection and Management, John Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. Wilkinson, C., Wasson, J., and Condra, L., Recommendations for Future Avionics Hardware Development, World Aviation Congress, Phoenix, AZ, Nov. 2002. Pecht, M., Solomon, R., Sandborn, P., Wilkinson, C., and Das, D. Life-Cycle Forecasting, Mitigation Assessment and Obsolescence Strategies, College Park, MD: CALCE EPSC Press, 2002. Das, D., Pendse, N., Wilkinson, C., and Pecht, M. G., Parameter recharacterization: a method of thermal uprating, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 729-737, Dec. 2001. 1521-3331. Wilkinson, C., Calhan, D., Sahasrabudhe, S., and Sandborn, P., Implementation and Interpretation of Failure Free Operating Periods and Associated Confidence Limits in Electronic Systems, Defense Manufacturing Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Nov. 2001. Wilkinson, C. and Wasson, J., Component Obsolescence Management For Military Electronics, 5th Annual Commercialization of Military and Space Electronics Conference, March 2001, Los Angeles, Feb. 2001. Wilkinson, C., Development of a Risk-Informed Avionics Technology Roadmap, Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Philadelphia, Oct. 2000. Humphrey, D., Condra, L., Pendse, N., Das, D., Wilkinson, C., and Pecht, M., An Avionics Guide to Uprating Parts, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, vol. 23, pp. 595-599, Sep. 2000.
Das, D., Pendse, N., Pecht, M., Condra, L., and Wilkinson, C., Understanding Electronic Part Data Sheets for Parts Selection and Management, IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 26-34, Sep. 2000. Wilkinson, C., Wasson, J., Condra, L., Fink, J., Scheidt, C., Brennom, T., Porter, Z., Chopin, J.-M., Hoad, R., Matthews, J., Chapman, J., Humphrey, D., Feussinger, P., and Sagot, Y., Component Obsolescence Management for Aerospace Electronic Equipment, Proceedings 1999 Avionics Conference - Civil and Military Convergence?, 17-18 November 1999, London (Heathrow), UK, Nov. 1999. Condra, L., Hoad, R., Humphrey, D., Brennom, T., Fink, J., Heebink, J., Wilkinson, C., Marlborough, D., Das, D., Pendse, N., and Pecht, M., Terminology on use of electronic parts outside the manufacturer's specified temperature ranges, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technology, vol. 22, pp. 355-356, Sep. 1999. Condra, L., Bosco, C., Deppe, R., Gullo, L., Treacy, J., and Wilkinson, C., Reliability assessment of aerospace electronic equipment, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, vol. 15, pp. 253-260, Jul. 1999. Wilkinson, C., Humphrey, D., and Jackson, M., The Necessity of and a Methodology for Uprating Electronic Components for Use in Aerospace Systems, 1998 Military/Aerospace (Transportation) COTS Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Aug. 1998. Wilkinson, C., The Necessity of and a Methodology for Uprating Electronic Components for Use in Aerospace Systems, Boeing ECMP User Forum, Seattle, WA, July 1998. Wilkinson, C., The Economics of Using Non-Military Components in Avionics Applications, 1995 Avionics Conference and Exhibition, Low-Cost Avionics - can we afford it?, November 1995, London, Heathrow, pp. vi+404, 43-51, Nov. 1995.