Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Mars colony advocate. Extensive experience in military/aerospace systems design. STEM ed design (e.g. the HOF space careers & Africa outreach program). Graduate of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology in physics working in the Proton Linear Accelerator LINAC Lab, & designing electro-optic spaceflight hardware in the Cosmic Ray Research Lab for the OSO-I Orbiting Solar Observatory. Aerospace flight hardware systems design engineer on: Apollo manned moon mission spacecraft, Thor-Delta rockets, Skylab Space Station, Space Shuttle, SR-71 Blackbird spyplane, the McDonnell Douglas RF-4C Phantom II reconnaissance fighter, & the Lockheed C-5A Galaxy heavy cargo plane. Consultant to: Goodyear Aerospace, Collins Radio, Honeywell Aerospace, Fairchild-Hiller, & NASA's Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology. Electro-Optic systems design for military reconnaissance & CBW agent remote sensing applications. Consultant to: Northstar Research Institute; Midwest Research Institute; Franklin Institute; Institute for Defense Analysis; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); Rome Air Development Center; U. S. Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, VA; Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate Fort Belvoir, VA; U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories Ft. Detrick, MD; U.S. Army Chemical Weapons Laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; & Air Force Systems Command Biological Chemical Weapons Armament Laboratory Eglin Air Force Base, FL. Biomedical systems design & product development in: patient monitoring systems, portable medical electronic devices, & mobile telemedicine systems. Failure mode and effects analysis for complex aerospace and government systems. Imaging systems product development and marketing for global military, industrial & commercial customers. Educational programs design & development. Technology focused media productions for newspapers & television. Specialties: New technology commercialization, Global marketing development, Aerospace technology transfer, Competitive analysis, FMEA, Workforce development, STEM curriculum development.
TCC Systems specializes in: systems design & failure analysis; product development; & marketing consulting to hi-tech companies and government agencies in nanotechnology, biomedical systems, electronic systems & aerospace applications. In 1976, executive director Kyle was invited by Rear Admiral B.H. Shepherd to land on the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in the Gulf of Mexico to review and report on operating methods and procedures of the Naval Air Training Command based in Pensacola, Florida. In 1979 he was invited to the White House to meet with the president, vice president, the national security advisor, and key cabinet members to review and discuss various policy and technology related issues surrounding the period of the assassination of South Korea's president, Park Chung-hee, and South Africa's testing of a nuclear weapon. In 1999, he was commissioned to analyze security risks and manage implementation of his recommended changes for all computer control systems for the greater Rochester, New York metro area in all key departments including the 911 Call Center, Airport, County Hospital, Sheriff's Department, & Water Treatment Plants. TCC Systems also provides workforce development counseling and pipeline filling programs to increase minority and female participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) career paths. Developers of the "House of the Future" (HOF) space careers & Africa outreach program, we work with educational institutions and hi-tech firms to increase the diversity and excellence of the nation's workforce. TCC has over 40 years experience working with DARPA, DoD, NASA, NIH, Senate Space Shuttle Advisory Committee; and numerous industrial incubators, colleges, and universities including: Carnegie-Mellon, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, University of Minnesota, and the Macalester College Upward Bound Program.
Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI) stimulates critical and creative thinking skills, encourages students to develop a vision for the future, and prepares students for leadership roles. Developed long range future scenarios in a broad range of technology areas including: orbital space debris, ocean pollution, global water shortages, & biomedical implants. Judged student competitions. Promoted FPSPi as integral part of the TCC Systems "House of the Future" (HOF) program in various K-12 school systems nationwide. See this article to learn more about FPSPi at: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5LWWD-fuc-dVy1Jb3F2cnRIa3M
Taking support from NASA's nationwide volunteer network and periodic input from project scientists to develop free presentations and hands-on activities for students in K-12 schools to help inspire the next generation of space explorers with an emphasis on encouraging more minorities and females to pursue STEM career goals. Extensive interaction with Rochester Astronomy Club & Mayo Planetarium on various star parties & outreach events including the 2009 digital link with the president's White House South Lawn event during World Space Week. Coordinating with education departments of regional universities, workforce development agencies, and local school administrations to aid in the creation of K-12 charter school STEM academies to increase the national supply of technical workers. In 2012 worked with the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, Minnesota as STEAM (STEM + Arts) mentor and technical advisor to student team selected to present their Mars simulator portable planetarium dome design (the "iMarsinator") to the international ArtScience competition in Paris, France. In 2013 worked with NASA Ames Research Center and the NASA Astrobiology Institute to conduct a live interactive educational video/data satellite link experience with students at California's Lassen Volcanic National Park and Rochester, Minnesota's Mayo High School Honors Biology classes searching for extremophile microorganisms in hot volcanic pools in a region with geological similarities to certain areas on the planet Mars. Discussions with astrobiologists and engineers helped students understand the instrumentation and latest data coming from the Curiosity rover's operations on Mars.
Lectured at: Carnegie-Mellon University, Dunwoody Institute, Luther College, Macalester College, Rochester Community and Technical College, Rochester Institute of Technology, State University of New York Brockport Educational Opportunity Center, St. Mary's University Winona, University of Minnesota, University of Rochester New York Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), & Winona State University on: the history of space exploration, Mars colonization, aerospace careers, & space technology transfer for improved quality of life in developing nations.
Developed & managed multi-million dollar installation partnerships with Xerox using UFO Systems designed hardware and software to provide high performance document imaging systems for a variety of networked digital cameras, scanners, work stations, file servers, raster image processors (RIPs), and high speed color and black & white laser printers, digital presses, and wide format plotters for: commercial, industrial, education, military, national security, and litigation support applications in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, & North and South America. Managed deployment of the UFO Systems CALS EDMICS Engineering Document Imaging and File Management RIP hardware & software and related high speed image printing systems in conjunction with XSIS (Xerox Special Information Systems Division), SAIC, Computer Sciences Corporation, Litton PRC, Intergraph, and other major systems integrators for all global operations of the United States Defense Logistics Agency, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) installations, and U.S. Navy submarines & aircraft carriers. Partnered with FDR High School in Hyde Park, NY to develop their "Classroom of the Future" wide screen virtual reality multimedia installation sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the White House.