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Employee of the Year

2011

Mark Scardina ACTS- Lead Tech/ Field Engineer, Eglin AFB, FL

Job Performance Recognized expert Air Combat Maneuvering and Instrumentation Technician, selected this year to hold the position of Bering Sea Group’s Lead ACTS Technician Attended both the April and November 2011 ACTS Working Group Prepared BSE’s Power Point Presentations collected inputs from all the P5 sites Presented the positive results obtained during Eglin’s Positronic Connector replacement tests and briefed Monthly GPS key loading procedure On 15 Jun 2011 post loaded pod P50020A on F-16 Aircraft 90-0841Station 2A and found when he shook the front of the pod the whole launcher wobbled Contacted Weapons finding loose Under Wing Adapter bolts His actions prevented a potential aircraft safety of flight mishap Performed connector modification for the SPO, his team removed 19 Positronic back shells on a P5 pod and replaced them with modified screw on type back shells Modification successfully demonstrates the rigidity of the new design Assisted Eglin Technicians in the performance of unscheduled maintenance actions this year replacing 36 pod components and completing comprehensive Failure Reports Directly supported 1,748 total P5 sorties flown with a 97.3 % effectiveness rate Readied four P5 pods for software regression testing for SPO and Navy representatives Detubed, removed GNP-10’s, installed DIGS units, and functional checked all pods for the flight testing Readied and loaded seven P5 (V1) pods for a deployment to Alaska in support of a Northern Edge exercise, 85 successful sorties flown during the Alaskan deployment Key performer in the success of the P5 Modeling and Simulation engineers ability to develop pod flight simulations Worked many days providing P5’s Computer Display Unit operating parameters tweaking and rerunning flight simulations with test engineers Fabricated interconnection cables to facilitate communications between two pods With his assistance the project has successfully been able to inject flight data into a P5 Pod and “Fly” it on Live Monitor while stationary on a work bench Assisted SPO, DRS, and Cubic in Air-to-Air weapons and DLT 3.9 software tests. Provided load support on a F15C, F15E and F16 aircraft, upgraded DLT software, bench checked three P5 pods, and monitored Live Monitor operations Performed acceptance testing of two new ruggedized CDU kit for SPO and DRS, performed all pod power on sequences, 1553 emulation, and DRD maintenance tests Performed AIM-9 connector grounding testing for the SPO, cycled pod P51197A through 50 power ups/downs sequences, no ADIU re-flash issues were noted during his testing Conducted in-shop preliminary frequency analysis testing with SPO test engineers Validated test objectives and methods in preparation of critical chambered tests Key player in a week long inter-range frequency interference test in the J-Primes facility Provided invaluable technical expertise during simultaneous operations of three Control Display Unit test stations during the interference test Configured hundreds of DRD’s with varying Data Link Frequencies Archived 90 Gigs of DRD data for post testing analysis  Provided ISO Certification Evaluator detailed information on RAMPOD Documentation procedures during the BSEn certification and BSE’s annual recertification visit Detubed four P5 V1 pods and performed Data Link Transceiver version 4.0 Software upgrades and operational checkout for Flight Testing Prior to the flight test a pod failed to identify correctly on a F-15C aircraft due to an Aim-120 connector mating issue, with aircraft waiting to taxi his team swapped the pod with a spare saving the test mission Prepared SPRAMs transfer paperwork for the shipment of a Transportable Ground System to Volk Field ANG, ground system was received on time for acceptance testing Assisted Shaw AFB pod technicians in troubleshooting a pod GPS keying issue Provided technical guidance to the technicians and base COMSEC personnel on SKL setup and key loading procedures on newly implemented monthly keys Supported P5 Software Regression testing ensured new software is backward compatible Readied four P5 V1 pods; detubed, removed GNP-10’s, installed DIGS units, and performed functional checks prior to flight testing Installed an additional Remote Range Unit with portable antennas in the Eglin Live Monitor network, provided three units with different software in the network Removed 10 GNP-10’s from P4 pods and readied for delivery to Shaw AFB in one day Increased the quantity of reliable GNP-10 equipped pods in use at Shaw AFB Self Improvement Enrolled in Penn Foster College studying towards his Engineering Technology Degree Completed Technical Writing, Math, Science, and Computer courses this year while maintaining a 93% course average Attended a Spirent Federal Systems GPS testing class, received a Certificate of Training on the operation of the Spirent GSS8000 GPS Simulator test station  Community Involvement Third base umpire and Score Keeper of the Crestview City League’s Department of Juvenile Justice Softball Team Active church member raised funds for a youth patron to attend a mission in South Africa Yard sale coordinator, donut drive fund raiser and Pancake cook raised funds--Crestview High Chorus able to participate in international competition in Toronto, Canada

 

Last Update: 01/30/2012