Alex Minick Email & Phone Number

Allen, TX, US

Plano, Texas, United States

• Led Model-Based Systems Engineering Process Development Scrum team to help establish directorate-wide guidelines and procedures for standardized Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) products
• Agile Scrum Master and Product Owner overseeing multiple Scrum teams to support contract proposal efforts, focusing on requirements definition and bid efforts for initial systems engineering design team
• Developed requirements definition, refinement, flow down, and traceability for complex electronic systems for foreign military sales (FMS) contracts
• Site emergency management team member, responsible for responding to health, accident, or disaster incidents

-Define product format requirements for new products to meet integration and interoperability requirements of National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NGS)-Provide recommendations to end-to-end programmatic approaches solutions to technical problems- Create new -and streamline existing- business processes by re-engineering, including analysis of.

• Go-to expert for developing SPLUNK solutions (dashboards, triggered alerts) to provide 24/7 operations crewsimmediate detection of mission-impacting outages that would otherwise go undetected reducing downtime 65%
• Trained factory support and operation crews in efficient SPLUNK use to improve root cause analysis andtroubleshooting data collect— allows crews to diagnose, and remedy, user and customer issues in real time
• Pivotal shift lead during crucial mission testing and check-out events, helping secure milestones, objectives, aswell as positive customer and manager feedback—ensured customer acceptance of operational system
• Spearheaded program-wide training revamp; transforming into an operational format based on ISD principals
• Developed initial procedural and logging processes for brand new satellite system and ground C2 system
• Team lead responsible for developing, maintaining, and improving existing training and operational materials

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Coordinated across multiple agencies, both in the IC and the DoD, to develop, lead, and facilitate training eventsto diverse audiences; trained over 200 students in GEOINT products and tools
• Administrated online database of geospatial products, ensuring metadata integrity and account management
• Organized and wrote end of year report, summarizing activities across the fiscal year for Senior Leadership
• Quality assurance team member, checking web service metadata to ensure compliance with governmentmandated metadata standards—ensured that legacy products could be ingested into new web based system

Vandenberg AFB

• Commanded 26 member team responsible for designing, creating, maintaining, planning, and executing trainingprograms for DSCS, WGS, Milstar, AEHF, and GPS satellite systems
• Briefed weekly presentations to leadership on training status of over 200 students and status of coursedevelopment/management—ensured leadership was aware of struggling students or manning impacts
• Creatively adjusted training schedule and resources to maintain throughput despite a 60% manning shortfalland sequestration

• Led five member team in designing objectives, developing all training materials (tests, lesson plans, study guide,slides), and executing an intense 75 training day course to ensure the Air Force had top notch WGS.
• Coordinated with geographically separated Boeing contractors via teleconference, email, and site visits to ensurethat course development and content was on target to meet end user needs
• Created and maintained, using the Instructional System Design process, 2,500 pages of lesson plans, studyguides, and slide show presentations, as well as 80+ training scenarios, exams, and quizzes.
• Delivered over 1000 hours of WGS and DSCS technical training instruction to audiences varying from brandnew high school graduates, to thirty year space operator veterans

• Led three person team responsible for both initial evaluator training and quarterly recurring training for all evaluators at the 50th Operations Group
• Created and implemented analysis tool that showed trends in errors committed during training and recommended corrective actions Wrote and executed training scenarios to ensure crew force maintained 99.9% mission.

Khowst, Afghanistan

• Directed 14 member Joint Army/Air Force mentor team on remote outpost during critical 2009 Afghan Presidential Election, minimizing military casualties, and resulting in zero civilian casualties
• Advised Afghan National Security Forces Senior Officers on cross organizational coordination, logistics management, and intelligence sharing

• Responsible for developing and maintaining all WGS training materials for Mission Qualification Training and Monthly Recurring Training for 3d Space Operations Squadron
• Trained new operators in 12 week course to become WGS Satellite Vehicle Operators

Schriever AFB

• Executed satellite contacts on WGS satellites, ensuring proper ranging data and the health of the satellite
• Implemented emergency safing and recovery procedures for malfunctioning satellites, saving $300M DoD asset
• Provided 24/7 monitoring of satellites to ensure communications and data for 130K+ warfighters in CENTCOM

Various

Attended the following military training courses:Air and Space Basic Course, Officer Undergraduate Space Training, Satellite Command and Control Course, Satellite Systems Operator Course, Wideband Global Satcom SVO Course