Igor Braverman Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Woburn, MA, US

Woburn, MA, US

• Building and leading Systems Engineering, Advanced Automation, and Instrumentation teams. Setting up each team’s vision and strategic direction and supervising its implementation.
• Performing program management, budget creation and its administration, suppliers’ management, contracts negotiation, hiring, coaching and peoples’ management, tasks prioritization, schedule development, and its.
• Identified the need and implemented state of the art model-based engineering approach to facilitate the development of multiple Molten-Oxide Electrolysis systems.
• Leading requirements gathering, root cause analysis, and program risk analysis for multiple systems.
• Ensuring milestones, risks, and all needs are communicated to executive leadership on time.

Somerville, Massachusetts, US

• Recruited, coached and built first-rate, efficient and extremely capable team of model-based controls engineers from the ground up.
• Led the team to deliver highly complicated autonomous control system within very aggressive timeline for first of a kind unmanned robotic aerostat.
• Implemented complete solution for agile model-based control system development, including embedded software development, industrial automation hardware platform, signal logging, remote monitoring and control.
• Led commissioning, calibration, troubleshooting and flight testing for multiple prototypes and production aerostat.
• Developed and managed critical vendor relationships.
• Maintained hands-on approach and participated as individual contributor in all aspects of team operation, including plant modeling, control design, hardware design, sensor selection, scaling and calibration, subsystem.

Seabrook, NH, US

• Practiced model-based design to develop embedded control system for first of a kind 1.5 MW isothermal compressed air energy storage (ICAES) power plant.
• Commissioned, troubleshot and calibrated power plant’s subsystems and fully integrated plant.
• Led field acceptance tests for power plant’s auxiliary subsystems.
• Developed custom mixed flow (air/water) domain in Simulink and Simscape to model non-linear plant dynamics and perform “model-in-the-loop” control system verification.
• Built “hardware-in-the-loop” test stand and deployed plant model and control strategy on production hardware for real-time closed loop verification and “target-int-the-loop” verification..
• Led the effort, gathered requirements, supervised vendor implementation and deployed motion control interface for more than 15 power plant’s motors, pumps and linear actuators.

Seabrook, NH, US

Cambridge, MA, US

Commercial Orbital Transportation System, Cygnus Project- Advised on optimizing Simulink architecture for efficient embedded code generation using Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder

Natick, MA, US

• Participated in the following notable consulting projects and contracts:
• Extension of a helicopter flight simulator (Role: Engagement Manager)o Managed consulting engineers, gathered technical requirements from the client, created a consulting services proposal, performed day-to-day.
• Development of action game controllers (Role: Engagement Manager)o Managed consulting engineerso Ported controller positioning algorithms from MATLAB to Embedded MATLABo Optimized Embedded MATLAB algorithms for fixed.
• Data latency diagnostics for a space launch vehicle (Role: Engagement Manager) o Developed Simulink/SimEvents model of an inter-stage communication bus o Participated in data analysis of timing and communication bus.
• Development of a modernized handheld GPS device (Role: Senior Engineer)o Optimized customer’s Simulink model architecture for simulation performance and code generation efficiencyo Developed custom Real-Time Workshop.
• Development of a next-generation geared turbo-fan jet engine (Role: Senior Engineer)o Facilitated adoption of model-based design by the cliento Developed optimal large-scale Simulink model architecture o Implemented.

Natick, MA, US

• Developed and delivered technical lectures, computer labs and tutorials for MathWorks customers
• Specialized in teaching MathWorks tools for dynamic systems modeling and simulation, rapid prototyping, hardware-in-the-loop verification and automatic code generation

Natick, MA, US

• Assisted MathWorks customers with technical problems and product usage
• Specialized in simulation, modeling, control design and code generation products, including MATLAB, Control Systems Toolbox, Simulink, Simulink Control Design, Stateflow and Real-Time Workshop

• Developed mathematical model and simulated marine diesel engine speed control system
• Implemented a method for the optimal tuning of engine's PID speed governor

Worked as junior engineering officer in the engine crew that operated and maintained 10 MW marine power plant of the merchant ship.

Systems Engineering

M.S., Electrical Engineering

B.S., M.S., Industrial Automation And Process Control