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Biograph
Kenneth B. Winiecki, Jr.
was born in 1965 and raised in New England until
relocating near Dallas, Texas in 1978. He attended
Plano East Senior High
and then the University of Texas at Austin
where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering with a focus on digital systems.
He obtained a position as Engineer at
Airmar Technology Corporation
in Milford, New Hampshire where for three years he developed ultrasonic
transducers, test equipment, control systems, and software.
He then left to pursue graduate studies at
Clemson University
in South Carolina where he performed research for
Dr. Walter B. Ligon, III
and in 1994 received a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering
with a focus on computer architecture.
He is currently Senior Principal Engineer for
Orbital Sciences Corporation
working under contract at
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Originally with the Microelectronic Systems Branch (Code 521, now defunct; see
remnants)
designing state-of-the-art
satellite telemetry ground system components,
he is currently designing FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) applications
and researching the acceleration of data processing using
commercial reconfigurable computers.
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