- Leading and supporting team members in achieving business objectives and fostering professional growth- Supporting the orientation of new team members and cultivating knowledge-building capabilities- Sharing insights and reflections with colleagues while ensuring credit is given where due- Commitment to developing talent and knowledge within the team by providing guidance and advice- Independently determining appropriate approaches and solutions to technical and support concerns, leveraging expertise and experience

A brand news program in a newly formed startup (now a NASDAQ listed company) where every decision necessitated meticulous consideration. It was imperative to outline strategies, determine guidelines, establish methods, create checklists and templates, and address a multitude of daily challenges.In accordance with aerospace regulations AC 20-115D, RTCA DO-178C (EUROCAE ED-12C), and RTCA DO-331 (EUROCAE ED-218):• Involved in defining the verification strategies for safety-critical airborne embedded software• Contributed to software planning activities for a DAL-A software product• Generated plans, guidelines, methods, checklists, and templates related to various aspects of software verification (review, analysis, and testing)• Review standards and participate in Change Control Board (CCB) activities for the artifacts • Own software verification life cycle data (review forms and results, verification/test cases, verification/test procedures and results, etc.) prepared and stored in various tools such as Simulink Test, Simulink, Siemens Polarion, Tortoise SVN, Atlassian JiraIn accordance with aerospace regulation RTCA DO-330 (EUROCAE ED-215):• Defining the qualification strategy, planning the activities, and outsourcing the Tool Qualification activities for various TQL5 toolsAnd for all projects, regardless of applicable aerospace regulations:• Review Statements of Work (SoW) concerning the outsourcing of verification activities• Participate in supplier selection by evaluating proposals from potential suppliers and carrying out on-site visits and team interviews• Facilitate weekly coordination of tasks with the chosen international suppliersContribute to the hiring process for Lilium's internal team by evaluating resumes, assessing technical tests, and conducting interviewsAgile Methodology: Scrum

In charge of strategising the verification and validation tasks (following ARP-4754A guidelines) for electric motor control and actuation units within the aircraft's electric propulsion system, with a special focus on reusing V&V strategies for similar components.• Collaborated extensively with software verification, electronics, test rigs, and simulator development groups• Generated user requirements for test rigs and simulator setup• Prepare the initial integration, verification, and validation plans (IVVP)• Serve as the facilitator for coordinating activities with various departments• Liaise with external recruitment partners in the selection of a consultant partner (review resumes, conduct interviews, negotiate the contract)Agile Methodology: Kanban

Acting as the Scrum Master for the Software team in charge of developing Engine Control Unit (ECU) and Servo Control Unit (SCU), and supporting planning for development and verification activities• Responsible for leading, training and coaching of our team members and Product Owners in Agile adoption• Organize and moderate the agile team routines such as Sprints, Reviews or Retros• Ensure that upper-level requirements are precisely articulated and prioritized.• Responsible for ensuring that the agile tools are used consistently• Discover impediments and remove/resolve them• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed• Ensure that the development teams have a full pipeline of well-defined requirements with clear priorities

• Ensuring that members of the test specialist team are qualified and do successfully verify system and software requirements (integration testing, load testing, performance testing):• Preparing project test plans based on project management plan (PMP), resource assignment and project technical specifications• Making sure that test specialist team resources are efficiently allocated to tasks in order to meet project deadlines (task allocation)• Represent software verification team in software planning phase • Ensuring the process of test automation in the company is inline with R&D council guidelines (cost, return of investment, progress)• Providing bi-monthly employee performance (Big Five Performance Management system) of team members• Member of a task force team on deploying product base approach within the company and moving away from project based approach• Authoring and executing automated test scripts, as well as performing manual testing, on airport traffic control tower simulators and system integration facilities• Conducting initial interviews of candidates for vacant positions and makes hiring recommendations• Suggesting and implementing performance and process improvements • Co-operate with QA team in maintaining files in compliance with ISO requirements

Involved in successful certification of Pratt & Whitney PW1000G GTF (for Bombardier & Airbus), PW814G (for Gulfstream), and APS3240 (for Embraer APU) engines’ FADEC systems.Perform project life cycle documentation reviews, process audits (problem reporting, change control, and configuration management), and software verification product auditsLiaise with Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) or Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) representatives by participating in intermediate and final Stages Of Involvement (SOI) meetingsEnsure CS Canada suppliers (in India and Romania) follow industry and regulatory guidelines in verification of airborne embedded softwareParticipate in producing the necessary compliance data, in order to confirm that CS Canada and its suppliers have satisfied all certification authority requirements for software verificationReview supplier documentation including conformity reports and supplier resident SQA recordsPrepare Software Conformity Review reports (per RTCA/DO-178B §8.3) to be presented to TCCA or FAA at the final Stage of Involvement (SOI4) meetingWhere necessary, request corrective actions (per AS9100) from CS Canada or supplier teams to make their processes and products safe and certifiableHold continuous improvement meetings to reduce the cost of internal workflow process

Verification (software integration testing) on FADEC application embedded software algorithms for Pratt & Whitney airborne engines, DO178B – Level ADevelop functional test cases and test procedures to verify high level requirements (requirements based testing)Artifacts reviews (specification, code, test cases, test procedures and data)Work actively with other teams to investigate and report software bugs, preparing detailed bugs reportsCoach and assist new team members throughout their training periodSubmitted a complete review of training materials for future improvements

1) Coordinated re-design, construction and assembly of an experimental setup used for validation of the target system, which would later measure the spatio-temporal dynamics of a test flow geometry2) Prepared documentation for experimental test planning, execution processes and procedures3) Acquired extensive knowledge of turbulent fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and heat transfer applicable at both laboratory and industrial scales3) Installed Hot-Wire and Laser Doppler test systems, provided technical support for failure investigations and reported on a previously unnoticed technical issue with the CVA anemometer device4) Inspected frequency response analysis for two different velocity measurement systems using system identification techniques5) Acquired steady- and unsteady-state velocity measurements using automated DAQ systems with NI LabVIEW 6) Conducted data analysis via MATLAB (MathWorks), validated results in both calibration and test stages, and prepared timely project and test reports