User:Bartowj

Jules Bartow is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col, O-5) specializing in RF, systems engineering, and software development for critical communications and networks. Growing up on glaciers on the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges and on tug boats plying Lake Washington Puget Sound with gravel barges and log rafts, he's a geek with an adventure streak. Graduating early from high school, young Jules traveled solo to the Arctic Circle before obtaining a ROTC scholarship and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the University of Washington in Seattle, MS in Software Systems from Air Force Institute of Technology in Dayton Ohio, an MS in Administration from CMU, and graduate of Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Because foliage attenuates RF Jules used the GI Bill to study arboriculture (tree hugging) and obtained a commercial drivers license (CDL) to operate large bucket trucks and cranes for environmentally and aesthetically mediating signal paths at height. Colonel Bartow spent much of his military career in joint and combined operations including sea, space, avionics, intelligence and security. He's held Low Observable (LO) radar cross section (RCS), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Communications Intelligence (COMINT) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Top Secret Special Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearances with counterintelligence (CI) polygraphs. He's flown a jet upside down; operated the refueling stinger of a KC-135 while laying on his belly, catapulted off an aircraft carrier backwards; cleared to use the AV8-B ejection seat at China Lake Naval Weapons Center; fabricated MK-48 torpedo exploders; duct taped avionics wiring to an Israeli F-16 at Edwards AFB in the Mojave Desert; hiked the Snake trail to the summit of Masada with the IDF in the Negev Desert; managed software B-2 avionics flight test, software architect plank owner for the F-35 Lightning II $T Joint Strike Fighter. rode the Trans-Siberian railway from the Ural Mountains into Moscow and played golf in Japan before landing next to Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake in Siberia while monitoring nuclear weapons; investigated human rights violations from within Abu Guraib prison in Baghdad Iraq; reconfigured nuclear submarine command and control systems; swam ashore from a boat in the Persian Gulf and launched and tracked satellites for the CIA, NSA and NGA while assigned as a Operations Center Watch Commander at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Jules also received tactics and techniques training affectionately known as “run & gun” or “shoot & scoot” near the Mexican border while working for the Deputy Director of National Clandestine Service, USMC Major General Michael Ennis. Since retiring Jules was trained and certified by the Virginia Department of Corrections in Rape Detection and Prevention for his work in detention facilities as a registered locksmith and electronic security technician with the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). He's installed and troubleshot personal residential alarms and automated home systems for FBI special agents and detectives for the Nationwide Security Company. Unlike many professionals his age he remains active outdoors in austere environments as a Comtrain certified climber for antennas, tower mounted amplifiers (TMAs), SCADA telemetry, FAA lighting, and surveillance from cellular and broadcast towers, agricultural silos and utility water tanks. He's OSHA-10 certified with extensive construction experience installing and configuring intelligent traffic systems (ITS) while directing highway patrol and truck mounted attenuators (TMAs) in compliance with Movement of Traffic (MoT) regulations on active freeways. Indoors, he's a member of BICSI (Building Industry Consulting Service International, Inc.), threading high density polyethylene (HDPE) underground fiber optic innerduct and riser and plenum ENT smurf tube vertically from Dmarcs, MDFs and IDFs to telecom closets in high rise office complexes, as well as factories and data centers where he works with carriers and network operations centers (NOCs) as the remote end responsible for test and turn up (T&TU) of broadband and out of band (OOB) circuits. An expert in grounding and bonding Jules inspects systems ensuring they meet lightning and transient surge protection criteria for commissioning and manufacturer warranties. The colonel also installs and troubleshoots audio visual (AV) systems including traffic counters and menu boards in fast food restaurants, payment kiosks, projectors and TVs in sports bars, sports complexes and executive conference rooms, motorized movie screens and drapery, Wireless Access Points (WiFi WAPs), plus amplifiers, equalizers and ceiling mounted 70.7V constant voltage speakers for music and paging. Contact Jules to request an account to watch quarter horses, a Chincoteague pony and American Saddlebred on his In-the-Vein communications & security (COMSEC) laboratory & Horse Ranch from IP cameras mounted on and in the barn, linked to the internet via an underground DSL circuit using rooftop Line-of-Site (LoS) Ubiquiti 5GHz radios transmitting across paddocks 2 and 3. Northern Virginia's Dulles Technology Corridor is the data center capital of the world with as much as 70% of internet traffic passing through the routers and switches here. With a diverse professional background spanning three-decades Jules repetoire ranges from low tech hauling timber, mulch and pulp wood from raw land cleared for a new data center to the through West Virginia on other side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, to a mill at the headwaters of the Potomac River in Luke Maryland... then returned to the same site a couple years later, exchanging his Kenworth, walking-floor trailer, hard hat, sexy orange vest and steel tipped boots for business casual wear and a Cisco console cable bonding circuits on multiple router Small Form Pluggable (SFP) LC single mode 9µm/125 interfaces and setting up Universal Threat Management (UTM) appliance for international Information Communications Technology (ICT) firms such as Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT) in locations as Verizon's Terremark in Culpeper, Equinix in Ashburn and Coresight in Reston.