Clay Watson Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Bethesda, Md, Us

System integration and test automation lead for on-board Mission Systems of F-35 air system.• Project Manager for test automation team of 20+ engineers. Responsible for SAFe PI planning, meeting plan milestones, coordinating automated test script development, and executing tests across multiple mission system capabilities.• Optimize Agile processes to increase overall team productivity in support of ever expanding test coverage requirements and maintain regression testing legacy.• Develop, deploy, and maintain tools and infrastructure supporting integrated testing, including data management, issue tracking, backlog management, and performance metrics reported to executive management. (Python, Eclipse, C#, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Jira, Git, Bitbucket,Jenkins, Confluence, and Tableau).• Develop and mentor new and early career engineers to become mature and highly effective contributors. Ensure that proper training for use of software products, tools, and standard processes takes place.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Software engineering and integrated test lead for the Battle Management Command and Control organization, supporting product development using Lockheed’s Open Mission Standard.• Automate test procedures for C++ GUI applications software using TestComplete and JavaScript. Verify XML messaging interfaces between GUI and service products via peer-to-peer, networked interfaces. Develop test reports for final acceptance.• Ensure software development tasks are performed using Agile and DevOps methodologies. Interact with development teams to ensure high-quality software products are developed using appropriate CI tools (Git, Jira, Jenkins, Artifactory. MS Office, JavaScript, and C#).• Engineer solution for automated testing infrastructure. Define requirements for regular regression testing, on-demand testing for development teams, and reporting of test results and associated metrics to fellow team leads, program managers, and the customer.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Software project lead and individual contributor for F-35 Flight Test Data Center, providing applications development support for flight test instrumentation system software builds and post-test data analysis.• Develop and maintain C++ and C# software applications supporting data center. Manage IPT flight test instrumentation data reporting requests. Analyze data bus loading factors to assess ability of test instrumentation to support requirements for telemetry broadcasting and onboard data recording during flight test.• Perform trade analyses and recommend architectural and design changes to system software. Propose, plan, estimate, schedule, and manage software development projects.• Design and normalize data models. Optimize data analysis algorithms and Oracle queries using PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, and Oracle Analytics. Develop/maintain desktop and web applications using C++. C#, MVC/Razor, LINQ/EF, JQuery, CSHTML, HTML, CSS, SOAP, WPF, WCF. • Establish and maintain software system installation baselines and patches for deployment to airbase, operational testing, and portable system environments. Provide operations backup support. Troubleshoot system failures. Train end users.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Systems engineering subject matter expert supporting process improvement initiatives for air system engineering development life cycle.• Facilitate domain SME workgroups to define work product standards for technical data that supports vertical and horizontal air system integration.• Integrate work product standards into technical planning framework models. Define maturity states and review/assessment criteria to maintain air system technical integrity.• Lead objective evidence collection, qualification, and presentation efforts for CMMI Maturity Level 3 appraisals in 2007 and 2010. Develop Process Implementation Indicator Description (PIID) database toolset for collecting, reviewing, and tracking maturity of objective evidence for CMMI/SCAMPI appraisals using SQL Server, MS Access, and VBA.

Los Alamos, Nm, Us

Director of software management for facility safety and control systems, waste transport modeling codes, and IT data centers. Personnel manager and data center software development project lead. • Forecast budgets and develop new project campaign proposals. Implement project initiatives. Track and report project performance to executive management. • Establish/maintain software management plans for hazardous waste management facilities software. Suite of plans included plans for V&V, Risk Management, Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Requirements Management, and project plans and schedules.• Data center development team supervisor responsible for staffing, performance appraisals, staff development and training, budgeting, and strategic planning.• Representative to company SEPG (Software Engineering Process Group). Institutional process SME for requirements management, verification and validation, and configuration management.• Data center applications software development using Visual Basic.NET, Oracle Forms, and PL/SQL. Telelogic DOORS, RMTrak, Telelogic Synergy, and Visual Source Safe CASE tools.

Houston, Texas, Us

Senior systems integration consultant and personnel manager for team of junior consultants. Responsible for business development, revenue generation, performance appraisals, and training. • Real-time software development for linear accelerator prototype controls and diagnostics system using C and FORTRAN. Develop front-end drivers, run-time database, message queueing, and GUI modules. Various buses, interfaces, and backplanes (CAMAC, GPIB, VME, VXI, Modicon/Modbus+, RS-232, RS-422, RS-423 …).• Data acquisition and database development for environmental monitoring system. Telemetry communications, web applications, and Oracle database development using C and Visual Basic.• Network operations center support for DECNet and IP routing, user authentication, Ethernet troubleshooting (thin wire, thick wire, bridges, and repeaters), • General IT consulting (architecture and design, system management, LAN/WAN network administration for TCP/IP and DECNet networks, database systems, and applications).

Los Alamos, Nm, Us

Programmer for data management and data acquisition systems supporting the Underground Nuclear Test Containment and Nuclear Threshold Treaty programs at the Nevada Test Site.• Team member for GEODES (GEOanalysis Data Evaluation System) data system development, storing, maintaining, and analyzing geologic logging data. FORTRAN and C programming.• Developed data acquisition software using FORTRAN and Z-80 assembly languages for ground motion sensing system deployed during underground nuclear tests.• Develop data acquisition and reporting software in FORTRAN for cavity collapse rate measurement system used for post underground nuclear test containment analysis.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science

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