• Participated in all Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) – R series (GOES-R) peer reviews, including setting up, announcing, reviewing, and collecting metrics • Conducted monthly product audits • Attended project meetings as required or as requested by technical leads• Monitored testing activities, including reviewing test flows and test scripts • Participated in GOES-R management-level meetings• Supported management team by reviewing and providing inputs to deliverables• Led the effort to become CMMI assessed, including conducting regular process audits per CMMI PPQA process• Reviewed and updated project documents on all Carr projects• Audited employee expense reports• Created templates for all QA activities, such as audit logs, schedules, and checklists• Created GOES-R deliverables repository on Carr internal network• Created schedules in MS Project for project proposals

• QA Engineer on Mission Assurance Team for GOES-R ground system• Software Testing Lead for GOES-R ground system• Team Lead and software engineer on Sounding L2 Algorithm CSC, Radiation L2 Algorithm CSC, EXIS L1b Algorithm CSC, EUVS L1b Algorithm CSC, and MAG L1b Algorithm CSC for GOES-R ground system• Software Engineer on ABI L1b Calibration CSC and Land L2 Algorithm CSC for GOES-R ground system • Software Engineer on Product Performance/Product Monitor for GOES-R ground system, including comparing existing and GOES-R systems to allow the team to get a better understanding of the work involved• Wrote and edited software requirements using Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS)• Presented software requirements for all above CSCs except ABI at formal software requirements reviews with customer (NOAA)• Prepared preliminary and detailed design on all above CSCs, including Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT), use case, activity, and interface diagrams• Presented preliminary and detailed designs, software requirements (SWRA), code and unit tests (CUT), and software integration test (SWIT) results at multiple peer reviews

- Proj Mgr for upgrade to Geostationary Oper. Environ. Satellites (GOES) Archive Sys. (GAS) - GAS sw lead, incl maint db in Oracle, & correct, impl, & maint sw enhance using C++, & prep sw rel using SourceSafe - Test lead for Office of Satellite Oper (OSO) SW Branch; incl publishing the generic test plan, sample test proc, & testing policy for the branch; reviewing tests plans for all sat ground sys; & attend. formal testing as OSO Software Branch rep; preformed on Windows, VAX, and UNIX machines; code written in C, C++, & assembly lang.- Des, impl, & maint the GIMTACS sch sw to super rapid imager & sounder scan operations as req by the National Weather Service; incl extracting the appropriate oper & scan sector from the req & retriev the sector info from the db. Created the flat-file db & tool to acc it- Des, impl, & maint the GIMTACS cmd & sch sw to support GOES oper at Fairbanks, AK, incl expanding the cur sch validation to utilize new flat-file db for scan reg in the W Pacific

- Designed & maintained the GIMTACS command & scheduling subsystems - Des, impl, & maint the GIMTACS cmd sch sw to support Motor Winding Operations (MWO); incl extracting the set names & Epoch times of the 3 Image Motion Compensation (IMC) MWO sets & storing them in displayable globals. When a MWO schedule is updated, the appropriate set names will be inserted into the schedule. The globals are also saved in the ckpt file & preserved during failover- Des, impl, & maint the GIMTACS workstation sw to support telemetry retrieval by Flight Dynamics (FDF).; incl extracting the ground receipt time (GRT) & the current values for each of the req mnemonics from each Intermediate Storage Area (ISA) update. This data is written in a data packet & sent to the HP workstation through a socket using the TCP/IP protocol & the C prog language - Analyz & correct OATS user interface sw problems for the GOES satellites using C++ - Design & maint the cmd & sch subsystems for the N-STAR satellites

• Assisted undergraduate students with programming, general hardware, and software related problems• Monitored student access to and use of lab equipment

• Evaluated and enhanced Grid Generation and 3-D Surface Definition programs in FORTRAN in the Grid Geometry Lab (GEOLAB)• Evaluated and compared two Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) visualization packages used in GEOLAB• Updated the database of users of symbolic algebra