Brian Monroy Ugarte Email & Phone Number

Falls Church, VA, US

• Cognizant Engineer for Lidar and Star Tracker components on the Cygnus spacecraft.
• Design, develop, test, and integrate GNC systems for various aerospace applications.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure that the GNC system meets all customer and regulatory requirements
• Maintain detailed documentation of all design, testing, and integration activities
• Work closely with software engineers to integrate hardware components into the overall GNC system design

Falls Church, VA, US

• Lead a small team of engineers and technicians through multiple testing phases for geostationary satellites.
• Resolved complex issues through monitoring telemetry from the spacecraft and trouble shooting.
• Modified and updated testing procedures in efforts to streamline and improve current process.
• Supported development of test plan and schedule in order to meet system requirements.
• Utilized shell scripts to configure Frontend/Backend RHEL Workstations for production testing of the spacecraft.
• Wrote utility and test scripts using STOL language to integrate additional sub-systems into the spacecraft.

Newport News, Virginia, US

Researches, develops, designs, and tests electrical components, equipment, systems, and networks. Designs electrical equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems for commercial, industrial, and domestic purposes.

• Trained in high performance computational techniques for applications to cyber-security research.
• Implemented Apache Spark to leverage parallel processing for Big Data.
• Utilized Python’s Machine Learning library for radio frequency signal intelligence, and Deep Learning techniques for wireless security attacks.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Supported launch of OA-9, as well as integration and testing of NG-10.
• Aided EE team on executing test procedures as well as being an operator when needed. Familiar telemetry data for Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE).
• Utilize data acquisition system to record and analyze hardware systems. Generated batch scripts for data retrieval.

Dulles, Virginia, US

• Assisted research regarding to cost reduction of solar cells by creating ampules.
• Worked in clean room creating test samples for further experiments.

Master Of Science - Ms, Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Minor, Computer Engineering