Christopher Kaplan Email and Phone Number

Execution manager for EGSE, STE, MGSE and other items for numerous stakeholders within Ball Aerospace.

*Matrix Manager/Functional Manager of test engineers in electronic solutions for spacecraft payloads, instruments and components.*Test Lead for a large competitive program with accelerated timelines and delivery dates*Responsibilities include but not limited to: schedule updates and assessments, ETC updates, technical oversight for all things test, authoring test plans/procedures/specifications, focal point for customer and prime as Subject Matter Expert on test, creator and presenting to customer, prime and government advisors for PDR/CDR*Position requires cross-functional capabilities to work with systems, electrical design, mechanical, quality and manufacturing in order to succeed *Heavily influence requirements derivation, requirements allocation and creating RVTM/VCRM from DOORS*Responsible for the design of 11 EGSE Custom test sets with flight like hardware in the loop emulations as well as harnessing*Responsible for creation, planning and execution of all environmental tests: EMC (CE01,102,06;CS101/102;Power Quality), Thermal, Thermal-Vacuum, Random Vibration, Shock, Acoustic

*Functional Manager and Electrical Engineer for Space and Intelligence Systems focused on automated test*Integrated Product Team Lead responsible for hardware and software architecture of a $20M test effort for a >$500M space program. Efforts include but not limited to: Complete overhaul and refactoring of existing HAL in LabVIEW and framework in TestStand, designed common wiring designs for 13 unique test sets to reduce cost per test set, instituted standardization of hardware across all test sets to facilitate software re-use, executed technical document writing to include Test Description Documents, ATPs, Operation and Maintenance manuals and PDR/CDR content for all test sets. Authored, presented and successfully defended PDR/CDR packages to customer and customer advisors. Owner of the integrated master schedule (IMS) for the Test effort to link to other IPTs as well as manage and reforecast milestones. *Integrated Product Team Lead responsible for automated test of optical 1 & 10 Gigabit Ethernet, IPMI, GPIO, RF S-parameters (10MHz) and PPS testing, including custom optical and RF switching, from cradle to grave over a custom backplane UUT for the F-22 Raptor.*Authored various documents included Integrated Test Plan, Test Set Specification, Acceptance Test Specification, Acceptance Test Procedure and developed/presented PowerPoint slides from Technical Baseline Review to Critical Design Review with both internal and external customers.*Developed highly complicated DAQmx code to capture and detect 1 microsecond pulses, audio, silence and discrete level changes that was accredited by the FAA for use of testing UUT.*Utilized LVOOP (LabVIEW Object Oriented Programming) in a Hardware Abstraction Layer to standardize developing environmental profiles on controllers.*Refactored extensive LabVIEW GUI/Test Sequencer code to promote more scalable and modular implementation techniques.

*Lead Architect for Hardware and Software efforts for >$10M program including common architecture for 10 test stations and proprietary Software/Hardware Abstraction Layer (SHAL)*Expertise in developing custom RF distribution panels for amplification/splitting/attenuating applications*Subject Matter Expert for VHF Transceiver Radio and NAV Receiver (Marker Beacon, GNSS, VOR, Glide Slope, Localizer) testing*Utilized LabVIEW CLAD certification to design/develop/release software for hardware instrument drivers for both traditional boxed instruments and PXI based hardware *Led cross functional teams in analyzing processes and applying creative problem solving techniques to optimize throughput of product*Practice and utilize Lean Six Sigma techniques and tools to identify improvements and reduce the cost of non-conformance to customers*Spearheaded technical issues both internal and external to the customer for root-cause corrective action exercising the 8D analysis *Served as project manager over multiple capital developments overseeing the schedule, cost and quality of the programs