SUMMARY:

• Systems Engineer/Analyst/Test
• Experienced in various aerospace technologies:
• Space - rated Hardware, Electro-optical, GPS, Electro-mechanical.
• Commercial Aerospace, especially Engine Controllers
• Experienced in engineering procedures: Verification and validation, CMMI, ISO 9000, Requirements traceability, Trade studies, Design reviews, Scheduling, Progress tracking, Change control board procedures, Algorithm development, Test reports, Test instrumentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: National Instruments LabVIEW programming, communications interface to GPS via FPGA, RS - 422, RS-485, RS-232, ethernet, IEEE1553, AR INC 429, GPIB, HPIB National Instruments TestStand Mathworks Matlab Telelogic Doors UNIX/LINUX System Administration PERL/C/C++/FORTRAN/BASIC/Shell/BASH Scripting Numerical Analysis IBM Rational ClearQuest IBM Rational Requisite Pro Microsoft Visual Source Safe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia City, IN

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining requirements for Navy Sonobuoys
• Requirements management in Doors

Confidential, Gulf Breeze, FL

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining requirements for Army helicopter communications equipment
• Cockpit Management Unit (CMU) for Air Ground Networking Radio (AGNR)
• Jama for requirements management

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

Systems Test Engineer / Lead Test Conductor

Responsibilities:

• Developing military hardware System Integration Tests in a Hardware in the Loop (HWIL) System Integration Lab (SIL)
• For Improved Data Modem (IDM)
• Testing for Black Hawk (UH-60), Chinook (CH-47), Apache (AH-64) platforms
• Effort was to absorb OEM-platform testing effort in-house as a cost-saving measure

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

Systems Test Engineer/ Test Conductor

Responsibilities:

• Tested Space Flight Hardware
• Secondary Payload Deployment System
• For Space Launch System (SLS)
• Wrote detailed test procedure
• Designed test procedure to verify requirements
• Executed test procedure
• Noted issue during integration testing
• Involved in review board
• Received Confidential Silver Medal
• Tested Integrated Avionics Software
• Systems Integration Laboratory (SIL)
• High-fidelity simulator for SLS
• Fully integrated system incorporating fully-functional sub-system controllers
• Inserted/simulated faults to verify proper response
• Execute tests for dry-run and formal testing
• Post-test analysis
• Requirements/Verification Analysis for Payload Deployment

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

Systems Test Engineer/ Test Conductor

Responsibilities:

• Three-axis vibration testing
• Thermal cycling (Thermatron chambers) life cycles release under load contingency release mechanism
• Developmental testing (design feedback)
• Acceptance testing (manufacturing)
• Qualification Testing (Verification/validation)
• Provided design feedback/input for the development of test fixtures
• Developed LabVIEW software used to control fixtures/hardware
• Parkermotion servo motors
• Load cells to measure force
• Controlling Solid-state relays to apply power
• Controlling Non-explosive Actuator (NEA)
• Conducted test readiness review for test procedures/hardware
• Interfacing with Confidential personnel to schedule and perform 24/7 environmental (vacuum) testing

Confidential, Melbourne, FL

Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Positive Train Control
• White box software testing

Confidential, Grand Prairie, TX

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successor to M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle
• Requirements maintenance during contract competition, leading to Preliminary Design Review
• Working on gap analysis, updating requirements.
• Doors application for requirements management

Confidential, City of Industry, CA

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing software test plans for International Chinook helicopter rotary wing platform.
• Writing Test procedures for helicopter platform in the Green Hills MULTI Integrated Development Environment and National Instruments TestStand
• Rational suite for requirements management

Confidential, Windsor Locks, CT

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing software tests for flight critical FADEC (Electronic Engine Controller) to DO 178B Level 1 standards
• Requirements maintenance using Doors
• UNIX BASH shell programming
• Ashling MPC 5500 toolset, including:
• Ashling Pathfinder C source level debugger for Freescale (Motorola) PowerPC
• Ashling Vitra for MPC5500 using Nexus 5001 on-chip debugger interface
• Pratt & Whitney Next Generation Power Family engine
• Electronic Engine Controller.

Confidential, Bohemia, NY

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Short Term Contract position
• Writing Test reports for exterior light systems for Boeing 787

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Verification Logic Network review
• Asset and Event Allocation
• Constellation PDR Document Review
• Interface requirements document review board
• Integrated Test Plan for Ares Rocket
• Requirements Control using Doors and Windchill/Cradle
• Upper Stage Flight Software PDR Document Review
• Flight Test Working Group

Confidential, Anaheim, CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed architecture and developed test equipment to demonstrate compliance to JPO GPS-167 BiDirectional Data Port of a MUE GPS receiver using LabVIEW to interface through NI PXI Chassis with a 7831R FPGA card
• System was designed and built to utilize Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation hardware
• Designed system architecture, logging and scripting to implement automated host simulation and messaging and control auxiliary equipment via RS-232 and RS-422/485 interfaces

Confidential, Lynnwood, WA

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed test plans in Telelogic Doors for custom high sample rate test equipment using LabVIEW/PXI Chassis for non-contact door sensors across Mil-Std-1553

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained requirements traceability for hardware and software for a commercial jet engine controller/thrust reverser using Doors between level 1 and level 2 requirements
• Doors DXL scripting
• Excel/VBA scripting
• Verification gap analysis
• Doors application for requirements management

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop Software Verification Test procedures
• Maintain Interface Control Document
• Execute Qualification test procedures

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with program manager to resolve contract issues
• Tracked revision changes to establish significant scope changes
• Test and Verification (LOTIS): Developed and implemented a test plan, reviewed requirements, prepared baseline schedule and detailed test procedure
• For the Scene Generator, an image projection device used for high-resolution testing of space telescopes, executed the systems acceptance test
• For the Hexapod Actuator, used in a configuration of six to support and control the secondary mirror for a space telescope, developed and executed tests to verify the step size resolution met the requirement of 0.2 microns
• Was involved in requirements validation, ensuring that the requirements for LOTIS were adequate and correct
• Wrote requirements for the Scene Generator
• Tracked progress for various tasks, and ensured that various technical parameters were being met
• Was involved in integration efforts for the Scene Generator
• Conducted design reviews
• Performed systems analysis, assisting program manager
• Wrote software test plans and procedures
• Executed software tests
• Requirements creation and maintenance using Doors.
• Wrote test reports
• Performed trade studies
• Worked on change control board
• System acceptance tests for scene generator and mechanical actuator
• Designed test hardware
• Algorithm development for LIDAR
• Doors application for requirements management

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed integration test procedures for mining dispatch system
• Developed configuration management and release methodology
• Involved in testing differential and RTK GPS systems
• Responsible for selecting and purchasing equipment for qualification in next-generation of product
• Involved in the selection criteria for the classification and elimination of products
• Visited open pit mining operations to observe and improve deployment of product
• Documented configuration of entire product line

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• White box testing of embedded software modules written in C, PL/M and ADA
• Compliance to DO178B specification per FAA standards
• Built and configured a full-service dial-up internet service provider from scratch, including mail server, web server, news server, RADIUS authentication server
• Web site design and maintenance. Set up Local- and Wide-area networks
• Strong UNIX system administration and C programming skills
• Programmed in Perl
• Performed all billing, marketing and administrative tasks managed 4 employees

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Adjunct Faculty

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and delivered lectures to lower division physics classes and laboratories,
• Established course requirements and final grades

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built ccd camera and all associated hardware and software to extract image data and process image (C language) while full-time graduate student working towards Ph.D

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on co-phasing and aligning the six mirrors on the multiple mirror telescope and speckle interferometry
• Small projects in C
• Presented results to an optics conference

Confidential, Los Angeles

Instructor

Responsibilities:

• Taught lecture and laboratory classes to undergraduates, established course requirements and decided final grades

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on FLIR infrared imagers and computerized performance and prediction
• Battlefield high energy lasers, design and performance
• Passive ranging and analysis

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Systems Engineer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Precision Navigation Analyzing Navigation Simulators writing military specifications
• Fortran programming on a VAX/VMS 11/780

Confidential

Representative

Responsibilities:

• Was the systems engineering representative on the failure review board
• Redefined the requirements for a through-sight gun video system
• Troubleshot failures of radar, optical, hydraulic, and microprocessor sub-assemblies on the prototype DIVAD launch system