CAREER SUMMARY:

• In the last eight years I have been engaged in a variety of Advanced Concept and Technology division (AC&T) and Mission Collaboration Environment (MCE) programs at Confidential as a Systems Architect.
• These programs afforded me the opportunity to work directly with customers on advanced technological ideas and influence their development into a final product.
• Supported programs include Multi - Function RF, Radar, Space, Weapons and C4ISR programs.
• Implementing MBE techniques in support of company s top initiative
• Leading Integrated Product Teams (IPT)
• Project technical design lead including vendor technology risk reduction
• System Safety project lead including subcontract management
• Data and Voice Networks
• Program and integrate Harris AN/PRC-117G tactical radio
• Program and integrate Raytheon AN/PSC-5D tactical radio
• Test, program, troubleshoot and integrate Aeronix 802.16 LAW-ANR (Advanced Network Radio)
• Engineering conferences
• Risk analysis results to customer
• Training lectures and lessons learned
• Technical interchange meetings with suppliers and customers
• WSESRB and SSSTRP system safety hazard acceptance panels
• JHU Masters capstone project presentation
• Mentoring
• Quick react development process
• Systems Engineering process
• Open Architecture (OA) framework
• System Safety Engineering process
• Business Development
• RFP requirements development
• Evaluating RFP responses from potential suppliers
• Bid proposals Basis of Estimates (BOEs)
• Posture design to capture new contracts

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IBM Rational ClearQuest, ClearCase and DOORS for configuration management

Altova XMLSpy for software management

Scooter Beyond Compare and Ultra Edit for software analysis

Altego Artisan Studio for Model Based Engineering

Oracle SQL Plus, Korn shell and various interface design simulators for software testing

Microsoft Office, Project, Visio and other proprietary internal applications for day to day organization and program management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principle Systems Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identifying key opportunities to better position the company’s posture to win follow on contracts
• Implementing Model Based Engineering (MBE) techniques utilizing Artisan Studio
• Providing technical briefs to customers, suppliers and industry partners
• Incorporating needs of potential EW payload and antenna suppliers into the OA framework
• Reducing risk on immature technologies and principles
• Developing RFP design requirements and evaluating responses from potential suppliers
• Developing and managing content for design description documents
• Leading weekly Integrated Product Team (IPT) and industry partner technical interchange meetings
• Transforming system use cases into test cases used for system requirements verification
• Submitting formal change package that was first to be part of the Open Mission Systems (USAF) standard for Multi-RF Function subsystems (payloads) sharing antenna aperture segmentable arrays.

Principle Systems Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• System requirements decomposition and flow down
• Defining a Fault Management strategy
• Defining Telemetry measurements in concert with hardware and software needs
• Developing a Data Model to implement information exchange and document within the Interface Control Document (ICD)
• Developing Operating Procedures (Ground Support)
• Running requirements verification test procedures in clean room integration area
• Clean, pack, ship and provide on-site support of hardware acceptance at integration facility

Principle Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead weekly IPT technical interchange meetings
• Provide modifications to the current security plans to gain acceptance for demonstration
• Work with radio vendor to reduce immature technology risk prior to demonstration
• Build functional data flow diagrams to help each subsystem understand how they fit into the demonstration
• Create and manage integration test plans for each subsystem that was to be part of the final demonstration
• Create IP based network across multiple subnets to transfer data from a flight platform to a ground station

Principle Systems Safety Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide Systems Safety Engineering Basis of Estimates (BOE)
• Develop System Safety Program Plans (SSPP) and Integrated Master Schedules (IMS)
• Identify unacceptable system designs utilizing a variety of hazard analysis techniques
• Provide safe design hazard mitigations and verify implementation
• Manage subcontractor’s Systems Safety Programs
• Present Systems Safety Engineering lectures and Lessons Learned seminars
• Conduct Systems Safety Working Group (SSWG) meetings and support major program reviews with customers
• Support Government Fuze and Initiation System Technical Review Panel (FISTRP), Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board (WSESRB) and Software System Safety Technical Review Panel (SSSTRP)
• Authored a System Safety paper to guide peers through a Quick React Development program and presented at the International Systems Safety Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

Senior Systems Safety Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Updates to the System Safety Program Plan and Integrated Team Plan
• Project customer requirements into the Statement of Work for new efforts
• Maintain and derive team cost estimates for future work
• Perform requirements, data, code and hazard analysis on the LCCP and MECS software
• Present Safety requirements, data, code and hazard analysis results to our U.S. Navy customer
• Write test cases and test procedures for LCCP and MECS formal test events
• Derive safety requirements and identify Top Level Mishaps for Army Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) and Navy VLS programs.
• Represent Safety team at monthly program risk management meetings
• Contribute to the future state of VLS by redefining the CPSA process to be more cost and resource efficient
• Mentor and train teammates on tasks required of a CPSA Systems Engineer

Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide module test support for Confidential software maintenance, including the testing of JOPES Editing Tool (JET) software embedded/re-used within DCAPES
• Module test support, including testing of the JOPES interface to Confidential as well as DII COE requirements to ensure compliance and proper interoperability with JOPES
• Use Oracle SQL Plus and Korn shell programming during white box module test process to evaluate data accuracy and integrity and to help isolate problems
• Troubleshoot, analyze and provide response to trouble tickets received through the Tier II Help Desk
• Provide analysis and support during Government directed tests at Eglin AFB.
• Provide configuration and requirements management support for the Confidential software maintenance team to include compliance with GCCS-AF configuration management requirements
• Build and write software releases containing fourteen different segments to compact disc, produced minutes for the Change Review Board meetings and make administrative changes to reports in Clear Quest problem reporting tool
• Write use case scenarios and diagrams for code transition from TCL/TK to Java

Software Safety Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Mitigate Test Team Lead Responsibilities for 815BA CPSA
• Write Software Trouble Reports against the Launch Control Computer Program (LCCP) and Interface Design Simulator (IDSIM)
• Write Hazard Assessments on safety related Software Trouble Reports
• Co-authored a System Safety paper describing the benefits of contracting independent safety professionals presented at the International Systems Safety Conference in Ottawa, Ontario
• Database programming using Visual Basic 6.0
• Help maintain data reduction tool using Visual Basic 6.0