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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.• Expand knowledge to additional SW languages and tools to better assist programs in the future.

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. • Planned annual budget and resource needs to support supply chain while providing monthly reforecasting and alignment for production demands.• Debugged test software to help software engineers in resolving problems in a timely manner. • Updated multiple procedures for robustness, accelerating progression with minimal supervision.

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 drive software life cycles and releases.• 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.• Collaborated with software, hardware, and systems engineers during integration and testing to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues, reducing downtime.

Master Of Science, Engineering Management 2010

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Engineering 2005