Bryan Willis Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

- Managed a team of more than 20 contractors, interns and Civil Servants through various project milestones including Test Readiness Review (TRR), Software Acceptance Review (SAR) and Release Readiness Review (RRR).- Collaborated with multiple partners/users of GDS including domestic and international partners. Partners included Northrop Grumman, MAXAR, CSA, JAXA, MBRSC, ESA and a multitude of branches/divisions spanning across the various directorates and centers of NASA.- Obtained Multi-use Export Authorizations (MEA) for GDS and its data products as well as program level documents via the Gateway Export Compliance Team.- Provided quarterly Project Status Review (PSR) presentations to ER6 Branch Management.- Baselined multiple Gateway Program level Configuration Management (CM) documents.- Responsible for managing schedules, risks and software releases requiring Gateway Software Control Panel (SwCP) and the Gateway Systems Engineering and Integration Vehicle Control Board (GSVCB) approval.- Dispositioned SwCP Change Requests (CRs) and Discrepancy Reports (DRs).- Accessed requirements and revised the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) when necessary.- Coordinated with multiple branches and divisions, including S&MA, to ensure GDS compliance with NPR 7150.2, NIST, NAS-STD-8739 and other standards required of a Class C Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) project.

Houston, Texas, United States

- Coordinated with the AES/Radworks Project office to create/author Task Orders (TOs) capturing the work needing to be completed within the given fiscal year. - Collaborated with contracting companies for the submission and approval of Basis of Estimates (BOEs) - Sought approval for Task Order Modifications when necessary.- Responsible for the HERA Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE).- Attended Bi-Weekly budget and schedule meetings

Houston, Texas, United States

- Performed a Decisional Analysis Resolution (DAR) before deciding it would be best for the GDS team to transition from one Amazon Web Service GovCloud provider to another. Oversaw the transition from the JSC EA Cloud Technical Environment (CTE) to the NASA Mission Cloud Platform (MCP).- Performed a Causal Analysis Resolution (CAR) to investigate and resolve issues the GDS team were facing regarding velocity in sprint velocity variation.- Participated in the EA Spacecraft Software Engineering Team (SSET) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Audit- Presented at the GDS-FOD Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) and Gateway Data Services CDR

Houston, Texas, United States

- Designed, developed, documented, and tested Class A Safety Critical embedded software that was split across 3 different Core Flight Software (CFS) applications for the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) Caution and Warning System (CWS) of the xEMU, next generation spacesuit, project. - PLSS_CALC: Software that monitors an astronauts oxygen usage, battery usage, metabolic rates and more during an ExtraVehicular Activity (EVA) to determine remaining time based on current trends. - PLSS_DCU: Software that drives the Display and Control Unit of the xEMU space suit. - PLSS_EMU: Software that is responsible for downlinking all xEMU space suit telemetry via Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) Space Packet Protocol (SPP).- Participated in Hardware In the Loop (HITL) testing.- Presented at the xEMU Preliminary Design Review (PDR)- Collaborated with external branches/divisions to identify and resolve interface requirements and issues.

Houston, Texas, United States

- Served as the product lead for a Java based utility known as the Core Flight System (CFS) Command and Data Dictionary (CCDD). A graphical interface enabling users to enter space flight related data and generate data products from the data captured within PostgreSQL databases.- Managed public software releases including informal issue reporting/tracking, scheduling and documentation.- Managed a small team of contractors while ensuring we were adhering to appropriate NASA processes and standards.- Developed a Functional Test process for the CCDD to ensure the Graphical User Interface (GUI) based tool performed as expected during complex tasks that exceed the testing capabilities of basic unit tests. Involved importing large quantities of data, manipulating the imported data, generating products from the imported data, and comparing the generated products to ‘Vetted’ products.

- Authored JavaScript (JS) based software to extract and inject data to/from a PostgSQL database for the generation of Core Flight Software (cFS) header files, cFS scheduling tables, cFS MID files, and more.- Developed a Python based ground system tool that could send and receive Space Packet Protocol (SPP) compliant commands/telemetry from a Core Flight System (CFS) flight project running in a controlled environment for testing purposes.