Michael Pershall

Background

About Michael Pershall

U.S.A.F, repaired Doppler Radar Navigation Systems, used in B-52s and KC-135s, Field and Bench work. Secret Clearance. Northrop Electronics, worked on Peacekeeper missile inertial guidance systems, and helped build, and wrote the test procedure for, the mobile nuclear test facility used at Sandia National Labs for nuclear bombardment testing of these guidance systems. TRW Electronics Systems, worked on Top Secret electronic and RF satellite test systems, which included fabrication, assembly and test of electronic test boxes to component level from schematics and included the use of test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, sweep oscillators, synthesized signal generators, power meters, oscilloscopes, digital volt meters, and others. Secret and Crypto Clearances 4. TRW Space & Technology, worked as Scientific Instrument Manager for the Gamma Ray Observatory, writing and coordinating all instrument test procedures among the 4 instruments, and other spacecraft systems, produced at Marshall Space Flight Center, Ball Aerospace, Goddard Space Flight Center and MBB in Germany. Traveled to Kennedy Space Flight Center for integration of the spacecraft onto the space shuttle Atlantis, resulting in the successful launch and deployment of the GRO. Cuesta College ITS Dept. and Cal Poly Journalism Dept, installed, maintained, repaired and operated all classroom A/V equipment. Operated C-Band, Ku-Band and installed and operated DISH network satellite systems for downlink recordings. Maintain and repair mac and PC computers. Adobe Systems, Inc, Lab Manager for Flash Release Engineering. Deploy virtual machines including Windows XP, 7, 8.1, W2K8, Linux, Mac OS X. Repair HP and Mac servers. UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley, Desktop Support for all staff, students and instructors. Maintain hardware and software for Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.7 - 10.10. Built 3 Ticketing systems on CentOS 6.5 server, and Wiki for all Departments with DokuWiki.