Andy Mcbride Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Developed hardware in the loop emulators and simulation infrastructure for the human-rated MK2 moon lander program - Developed qualification plans and drafted requirements for the hardware in the loop vehicle test bed - Assisted the FSW team with initial operating system development and prototype board bring-up

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Product line manager for optical payloads under the mission specific flight software product line- Manager of 7-15 direct reports- Certified principal engineer and account manager for customer funded SmallSat program

• Software Product Owner (PO) for several SmallSat and CubeSat projects and 1 demo project• Primary point of contact for internal and external customer-facing interactions for 6 small satellite programs• Helped coordinate crossover work between projects to effectively reuse flight software across the enterprise

Littleton, Colorado, United States

• Worked primarily with embedded C++, C, Python, MATLAB, Xilinx, VxWorks, RTEMS, FreeRTOS, Simulink, and CoreSim, across multiple projects• Main point of contact with outside organizations for the flight software team on IRAD project, taking the lead in developing software to integrate multiple software and hardware platforms• Envisioned and developed complex TLYF functional testing platforms for multiple satellites

Littleton, Co

• Completed functional verification testing and SIQT to close out a $0.5M internal research and development program. • Provided trade study metrics and initial developmental support for various RTOSs and embedded platforms • Directly interfaced with outside organizations and took the lead on flight software developments as an entry level engineer

Boulder, Co

• Mentored around 50 students in writing and debugging embedded software. Responsibilities included hosting office hours, grading interviews, and writing lab questions.• Scripted embedded assembly and C solution code for real time applications on PIC18 microcontrollers used in the Microavionics labs.• Worked on various projects for the department to improve labs, including Altium board development, soldering and surface mount techniques, and LabVIEW development of a satellite mockup for use in automatic control labs.

Casper, Wyoming

Worked primarily on updating city and project autoCAD files that contained information about water, gas, sewage, and electrical lines. Learned how to survey and import GPS data into autoCAD to accurately depict work done by the contractors.