Administration: Steven Day E-Mail: dayst360@gmail.com
Phone Number: 971-762-7557 Current Work Location: Southeast Virginia
CHRONOLOGICAL WORK HISTORY/EXPERIENCE
Old Dominion University; 13months; 8/21-Present; Cybersecurity Major
Lockheed Martin; 2 years, 6 months; 6/19-12/21; Systems Engineer
• Supports government as a contractor.
• Collaborated with Lockheed, government employed civilians, and United States Navy
personnel to maintain fleet readiness.
• Removed, installed, and repaired AN/SPY ID Radar array systems onboard multiple baseline
destroyers and cruisers.
• Trained active-duty military personnel on maintenance of signal processor, transmitter, and
array groups.
• Travelled to military installations to complete maintenance, upgrades, repairs, and training.
• Briefed command-level personnel during maintenance periods and tactical training scenarios.
• Taught new engineers during first three months of hire how to troubleshoot and repair.
• Succeeded in completing fiber optics certification to include building, cleaning, repairing, and
testing.
• Corrected network node connectivity on land and sea-based radar networks.
Lam Research; 2 years, 3 months; 3/17 – 6/19; Field Service Engineer II
• Supports Intel Corporation as a contractor by perform preventative and corrective
maintenance while minimally interfering with regularly scheduled operations at Intel’s Fab.
This keeps downtime low and production high.
• Established good working relationship with Intel’s engineers and technicians through
demonstration of product knowledge and communication.
• Collaborated with Intel during research and development through daily meetings.
• Brainstormed possible improvements of the tools in the fab while maintaining low downtime.
• Installed tools and perform upgrades to tools in Intel’s clean room fab with little to no
instructions or guidance.
• Diagnosed issues with tools with no documentation or resources.
• Restored robots to optimal performance and manually and electronically manipulated optics to
ensure tools are working as specified.
• Compiled and wrote training documents for internal and external use.
LPKF Lasers and Electronics; 1 years, 5 months; 10/15 – 3/17; Field Service
Engineer II
• Repair maintenance of prototype circuit board producing equipment at various customer
locations including Universities, electronics corporations, and engineering firms.
• Fielded 10-15 calls per day for telephone customer service trouble tickets satisfying customer
needs and complaints.
• Diagnosed and repaired circuit boards, robot movements, and PCB milling heads. This was
accomplished at the warranty service center and at customer site locations.
• Trained customers how to use the software and hardware of their circuit board producing
equipment and electroplating. Remote access, telephone, email, and in person demonstrations
were conducted to establish customer product knowledge.
• Employed best maintenance and safety practices with minimal complaints, incidents or losttime accidents.
• Established excellent customer service and product knowledge skills in-person, via email, and
on the telephone to become lead of Protolaser 3D technical training. This saved the company
thousands of dollars in warranty repair costs.
U.S. Navy, Naval Base San Diego; 1 year, 9 months; 3/13 – 12/14; Petty
Officer Third Class Fire Controlman, Administrative Assistant to the
Chaplain at Destroyer Squadron 1 and Administrative Assistant at Southwest
Reginal Maintenance Center
• Oversaw opening the office in the morning and closing it at night.
• Maintained daily schedule for Chaplain’s daily shipboard activities.
• Performed as liaison for ships crew upon arrival to DESRON to see the Chaplain.
• Coordinated with various vendors and military personnel for events.
• Purchased office supplies as needed adhering to a budget.
• Aided personnel through the check-in processes to the command.
• Organized setting up events, trainings, and meetings.
• Procured supplies for onboard training and personnel wellbeing.
U.S. Navy, USS Russell; 2 years, 10 months; 6/10 – 4/13; Petty Officer Third
Class Fire Controlman-AN/SPY-1D Work Center Supervisor
• Upon arrival to DDG-59, became one of five qualified maintenance persons and performed
preventative and corrective maintenance on the AN/SPY-1D Radar while ensuring the
proper alignment of the Signal Processor, and Transmitter equipment groups.
• Presented extensive knowledge of Radar theory, SPY operation, and missile kinematics to
command leaders in high threat environments.
• Successfully led work center through deployment during casualties proving superior leadership
and technical knowledge.
• Exhibiting vast knowledge and proficiency with the operation of the SPY Radar, was chosen to
become RPPO.
• Prioritizing withdrawal of over $300,000 in repair parts while paying meticulous attention to
Combat Systems department constricted funding, utilized resources to fabricate replacement
parts in which manufacture was discontinued, or expense exceeded necessity.
• When underway, briefed, and trained the command-level personnel on the combat readiness,
operation and casualties sustained on the SPY radar as well as the planned repair action to
bring the SPY Radar back to operation.
• Managed the training and professional development of two junior technicians.
• Provided with the skills and knowledge necessary to set up and employ the BMD 3.6.1 Aegis
Combat System in support of Ballistic Missile surveillance and engagement mission
operations. Topics included BMD planning and detection, functional description, control and
doctrine, engagement elements, Standard Missile characteristics, Signal Processor differences,
and BMD 3.6.1 Mission Planner operation and practical application.
• Awarded Navy and Marine Corp Achievement Medal for establishing a 98% radar readiness
during deployment. This enabled DDG-59 to be the lead ship during deployment during
tactical operations.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Academic:
BS, 2025, Old Dominion University, Cyber Security
Professional Licenses and Certifications:
• Fiber Optics, 2020