Brian Simms Email & Phone Number

Greater Denver Area

• Systems Engineering Consultant on Lockheed Martin's Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) mission
• Fault Management and Systems Engineering Consultant on BWXT's Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) mission
• Mentor the systems engineering team on Lockheed Martin’s Parsec mission, establish the requirements architecture
• FSW Manager on Earth Observant’s M Constellation
• Independent Review Board Chair - Design Reviews for Space Sciences Lab (SSL) Berkeley’s Escapade mission
• Requirements Manager on Lockheed Martin’s Cryogenic Demonstration Mission

Littleton, CO

• Managed the EMM SSR software development and test effort
• Collaborated with the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) FSW management team on process improvement, requirements elaboration, schedule development, and FSW system architecture
• Provided consulting support to EMM Spacecraft Technical Lead on fault protection and system-level architecture
• Supported Orion Fault Management team designing a robust, human-rated vehicle fault management architecture
• Developed architecture, conops, and documentation for Orion time, communications, and power-up / initialization
• Managed DOORS database module for Fault Management Design Documentation and links to FSW requirements

• Created a Systems Engineering primer to define process, architecture, and tool use
• Managed decomposition of requirements, compliance status, and verification method capture
• Managed programmatic risk

Louisville, CO

• Actively updated / improved processes and workflow on the Orbcomm Gen 2 satellite constellation program
• Established data review standards and reviewed tests on in-production satellites
• Created DOORS and requirements standards for the Space Systems Group

Denver, CO

• Systems Engineer on a team responsible for proposals, requirements, design, test, verification, validation, and deployment of proprietary hardware & software enabling computer-aided dispatch for mass transit authority.
• Created/developed strategies for process/efficiency improvements to enable greater ROI of company resources

• Fault Management Architect on GOES-R responsible for requirements, design, implementation, test, verification, and validation of the spacecraft’s autonomous single-fault tolerant Fault Management System in a.

Littleton, CO

• Systems Lead on MRO responsible for managing the Systems flight team resources and schedule for building/validating special command sequences, performing routine operations, and troubleshooting anomalies
• Requirements Lead on GRAIL (a NASA lunar gravity mapping mission) responsible for developing spacecraft-level requirements and verifications while acting as DOORS database admin
• Created/facilitated/led a users group of DOORS database admins upon discovering a need for such a group, while functioning as the DOORS POC for multiple programs
• Payload Interface Lead on MRO responsible for ensuring science instrument needs were met while guaranteeing spacecraft and instrument safety
• Developed MRO flight ops software tools for automating flight command review process, initiated basic CM

Littleton, CO

• Wrote requirements, designed, and developed MRO flight software (embedded C) to interface with multiple science instruments
• Unit-tested (100% coverage) flight software modules to verify requirements and aid in debugging
• Developed Perl middleware on R&D project IRAD-D05D (development and flight test review and analysis tool)
• Debugged and reworked JavaScript (with Livewire) front-end to a database on a classified system
• Delivered code to the customer site and assisted in debugging code on the operational system

King Of Prussia, PA

• Helped manage Interface Design Documents on a classified program, assisted with requirements / allocations

Master Of Science, Computer Science And Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Tennis, Squash, Academic Computing