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• Responsible for ensuring all program needs and customer requirements are met in automated test equipment.
• Maintain and develop LabVIEW test applications for guidance systems and inertial sensors
• Author Kotlin analysis applications to enable data-driven decisions, maintain situational awareness of assets, and evaluate test station correlations.
• Lead and implement program-wide system updates to support current Windows OS and software application environments.
• Support multiple production and test facilities to ensure normal test operations.
• Redesign obsolete test equipment to expand life of service across multiple programs, including providing detailed proposals, estimates, and schedules utilizing Microsoft Project for test system requirements.

• Involved in the research, design, and development for all aspects of electrical control systems/devices, equipment, and machinery within a production and manufacturing area.
• Installed and provided technical support of PLC based hardware and software.
• Developed controls system design solutions based on engineering principles.
• Defined equipment and parts from external suppliers to create accurate Bill of Materials.
• Supported manufacture, build, and validation of systems.

• Managed all test equipment program needs, directly responsible for ensuring station capacity met throughput demand and customer requirements, while providing outstanding customer support.
• Led team of three technicians to ensure daily repair and maintenance of factory test equipment was conducted with minimal factory floor disruption.
• Managed test equipment to ensure production tooling, accessories, and systems were available, operational, calibrated, safe, and properly configured which consistently drove throughput capacity above monthly demand line.
• Continuously monitored trends using Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) strategies to prevent problems by collaborating with customers and internal functional groups to eliminate uncertainties.
• Served as program focal point for communicating and resolving equipment failures, minimizing schedule impacts.
• Identified and coordinated key resource availability with engineers and managers to maintain line stability.

• Designed, developed and integrated test level software used for supporting subassembly and acceptance testing on multiple defense and space products from Inertial Navigation to Ballistic Missile Defense Systems.
• Delivered quality applications on schedule by developing and tracking multiple project plans simultaneously. Set goals and milestones, created schedules, contingency plans, budgets, and allocated available resources to.
• Restructured software test applications to automate test procedures, providing higher quality and reducing cost.
• Redesigned software test sets to accommodate new hardware implementations and to test multiple units at once, exceeding production capacity demands and earning schedule contract incentives.
• Defined and integrated new software enhancements on multiple programs to reduce operator errors and report data log files.
• Mentored developers by providing technical leadership, guidance, and assistance that resulted in higher confidence and performance.

Master Of Science, Engineering Management 2010

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Engineering 2005