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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Responsibilities:- Managing software teams to develop cutting edge military products for Australian defence customers.- Managing all software & related engineers in the Insitec MIS business.- Development of Software Engineering Processes.- Bid Response development.- Project Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Leader and Business Analyst of the Samsung S23 Tactical Edge Device sovereign binary and middleware development project.- Scrum Lead of the AusTAC BMS-Lite project.- Business Development.

Bothell, Washington, United States

Responsibilities • Work directly with individuals in the organization as part of a matrix, managing them and their careers over several projects. • Career development, mentorship, training, morale, performance management and reviews. • Interviewing potential candidates, recruiting and advertising for positions. Achievements • Developed a leadership training program to train all engineers under my team. This program was designed to teach each engineer how to be a leader in his field, regardless of position within their team. Training on different styles of team leadership, servant–leader approach, leader-leader approach and how to manage specific issues as they arose within their team. • Lead the office events committee, organizing several employee morale events including Christmas parties, movies nights, games nights etc.

Bothell, Washington, United States

Project Lead, managing large software projects in the Avionics, Medical and Energy industries. Experience with numerous Tier 1 suppliers to Airbus, Boeing and Embraer. All aspects and levels of DO-178B software development from Systems and Software Requirements, Design, Architecture, Code, Testing, Process Management, Team Management & Reporting. Managing large teams in multiple locations and countries.

Bothell, Washington, United States

Lead various software engineering projects mostly DO-178B related. See experiences below.

Long Beach, California, United States

Boeing 737-NG / MAX - Next Generation FMS- Developed simulation models to test 737 Flight Management System models in MATLAB.- Culminated in developing a Virtual Pilot that controlled the 737 exactly as dictated by the Flight Crew Operations Manual, Flight Crew Training Manual and Flight Test pilots. Reviewed extensively by Boeing Test Pilots and 737 Captains from Alaska Airlines for accuracy.- Simulated accurately all Flight Plans filed by 737 commerical crews around the world. 8000+ individual flight plans tested. Flights plans gathered and tested using python scripting.- Attended Boeing Flight School where I passed FAA PPL Ground Theory, Instrument Theory and Instrument Ground Instructor.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

Panavia Tornado GR.4 - Mission Computer Update• Developed HTTP Server to display maps and other data in C using LynxOS and VxWorks RTOS.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Airbus Helicopters H160 - Wireless Airborne Communication Server, • Developed Linux service on Debian Linux in C, to start, reboot and stop multiple platforms in avionics platform.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Tesla Defibrillator (now LifePak 20)• Project Lead for Infrastructure development • Developed Data Management, Thread Management, Logging, Touchscreen, Software modes, Error Handling and Propagation in C on QNX OS. Updated Requirements and Software, and PR investigation and resolution.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

Flight Management Software - Bombardier C-Series (Now Airbus A220)• Project Lead to remove dead C++ code from existing FMS software. • Updated Requirements, Design and Software, CR investigation.

Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

VECB APU Control Unit - Airbus A350• Project Lead to develop automated tests utilising Python for testing the Airbus A350 Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) Versatile Engine Control Box (VECB).• Led team to develop over 150 tests in short period for customer in Germany.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Honeywell KSN-770 Flight Management Software • Developed the system and software requirements, design and C code for the Area Navigation Precision Landing System using high precision GPS.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

787 Electronic Log Book - Boeing (Project Lead) • Project lead for small team to assist Tectura update the existing logbook portion of Electronic Flight Bag for Boeing 787 program in Groovy/Grails.

Developed systems and software requirements, design requirements and code for the Embraer 550 Landing Gear Hydraulic Control System.• Lead the Hydraulics Team as a Project Lead. • Developed system & software requirements in DOORS. • Developed Hydraulics control code in C.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Next Gen FMS - Boeing 747-8 • Developed the requirements, design and code for the Step Mode for Honeywell B747-8 Next Gen FMS in C++. Flight Management System - Airbus A330/340 • SCR investigation. Resolving code defects in Ada. Direct Mode Flight Control System - Boeing 787 • Updating design & C code for SCR issues.

Lynnwood, Washington, United States

Responsibilities • Software Lead for the Sensing Team on the 787 BCMS. Responsible for planning, execution and technical direction for the development of the sensing requirements & embedded software on the 787 BCMS. Managed local and remote teams located in diverse areas including Michigan, Montana, California,Washington and India. Team included 3rd party software developers from GE (Aviation), Performance Software and HCL India. • Software developed to RTCA/DO178B (Level A) in C language. • Provided technical and administrative leadership for the Lynnwood office of Crane Aerospace, supervising all 787 personnel in that office. • Chaired Engineering Review Board (ERB) and developed improved processes to ensure the highest quality of disposition of change reports and tasking. • Developed automated metrics tools for management use & presentation to customers that queried CM Synergy database, became authority on the CM database and provided teams and QA with the required queries and metrics to help them perform their roles. • Developed improved processes to help meet schedule deadlines while remaining complaint with DO178B processes. Helped to define, assemble and maintain a process repository to replace email and tribal knowledge low-level internal processes and work instructions. • Help to define processes, work instructions and manage out-sourced work to Indian sub-tier supplier HCL India. • Championed traceability efforts to keep requirements consistent across all tiers.

Kent, Washington, United States

RAAF 737 AEW&C - Wedgetail Project Responsibilities • Senior Software Developer for the Displays Team, Architecture Team & Communications Team for Mission Computing for the Boeing 737 AEW&C Wedgetail Project over several years. • Design, Code & Unit Test & Integration of the software using C++, JAVA, CORBA & KDA SPIDER UIS HMI proprietary technology. • Lead Designer of the Frequency Management system. • Lead Engineer on the SATCOM Radio integration into Mission Computing. • Technology Focal for Frequency Management, SATCOM Radios, V/UHF Radios, Surveillance, Alarms / Alerting & Transceivers. Achievements • Primary Reviewer of DP Transceiver code, developing checklists that produced consistently high quality of code and lead to a massive decrease in transceiver software PR’s. • Lead the SATCOM Integration team to a successful conclusion. • Successfully concluded the Frequency Management project on schedule with only 2 small bugs found post-delivery in 15,000 lines of code. • Developed Lean (agile) processes for multiple programs on Lean Process Tiger Team, • Developed process for easy examination of DP (Display Processor) cores from integration testing for all developers, halving time of problem resolution in integration.

Raaf Base Amberley, Qld

RAAF F111 - AGM-142 Standoff Weapon Project Responsibilities • Software Developer on the AGM-142 Standoff Weapon Integration project. • Responsible for the documentation, design, code development & testing for the CDU / BSIU Displays for the F-111 and integration with the F-111 Mission Computer. Achievements • Developed streamlined process for Control Display Unit (CDU) builds from 8 hours down to 1.5 hours, making significant time savings for CDU developers.

Hmas Watson, Watsons Bay, Nsw Australia

Collins Class Submarine - Weapon Data Convertor Responsibilities • Developing Ada 83 software for the Weapon Data Computer on the Collins Sub. • Solving Development Trouble Reports (DTR’s) raised on the WDC. • Lead for UGM84 Harpoon Testing at Cat 0 and Cat 1 Testing. Achievements • Achieved Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) status on the UGM-84 Harpoon Cruise Missile, one of the main Computer Software Components on the Weapon Data Converter (WDC), achieving some of lowest closure times on DTR’s in the team. • Passed Advanced Ada course as part of Masters program at Macquarie university • Won Macquarie University Micro-Mouse programmable mechanical mouse maze competition.

Engineering, Aerospace, Honours 2Nd Class

Science, Computer Science

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