Derek Kitchen Email & Phone Number

California, Md, Us

Lexington Park, Md, Us

Mr. Kitchen currently serves PMA-231 as a Senior Avionics Communications Engineer/Analyst supporting the E-2 and C-2 carrier-based fleet. Duties revolve around leading the program office's engineering division through communications hardware and software initiatives including COMSEC mandate compliance upgrades, equipment obsolescence, and directing technical teams across the enterprise.

Lexington Park, Md, Us

Supported PMA-207 as the Avionics Systems Project Engineer (ASPE) on the C-130 platform. Responsibilities revolved around serving as the lead Avionics Engineer for our legacy aircraft C-130T and providing modernization improvements to the program office's numerous platforms such as radio upgrades (e.g. ARC-210) and COMSEC equipment (e.g. KY-58M).Promoted to Team Lead in July 2023 - responsible for managing a contract of 6-8 personnel

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Owner and manager of a rental property portfolio consisting of eight rental properties netting an annualized average cash flow of 25% and an average annual total return of 105% (includes appreciation).

Lexington Park, Maryland, Us

Served as a Test Lead supporting program execution and systems engineering processes through the design and development of test events for complex Naval Aviation weapon systems. Responsibilities included developing test plans, procedures, and reports, leading various test-related meetings, managing stakeholders and vendors, developing test strategies, managing test resource logistics and schedules, performing data collection and analysis (both pre- & post-testing), and providing on-site test event support. These responsibilities required a great deal of direct customer interaction, functional management, project engineering, and program management to plan and support T&E, systems engineering, and integration activities.

Alexandria, Va, Us

Worked for PMA-209's ARC-210 Tactical Communications (TACCOM) division performing systems engineering on radio technology that is fielded on more than 140 platforms throughout the Navy, USMC, and in 40 nations. Duties included testing newly-developed radio technologies in the Common Systems Integration Lab (CSIL), serving as a government representative during developer collaborations, responding to platform assistance requests, performing cost and quality analyses, leading planning efforts to expand PMA-209’s test lab capabilities, developing wiring diagrams and laboratory blueprints, creating project management schedules, and providing technical reviews on test scripts, software, CDRLs, and requirements.

Manassas, Va, Us

Served as a Software Systems Engineering for Progeny working on the development of the anti-submarine/surface P-8A Poseidon aircraft, being managed by the Navy’s Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft Program Office (PMA-290). More specifically, his efforts were focused on the aircraft’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) development termed as the Applications Based Architecture (ABA). Tasks included creating use cases for new capabilities, requirements analysis, performing end-to-end system analysis, testing, and developing test plans and procedures. He took on the role of being a leader in bringing the aircraft’s legacy Acoustics system into the ABA.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Served on the Systems Engineering team responsible for supporting the Naval Tomahawk Command and Control System for PMA-281's Theater Mission Planning Center (TMPC) program. Responsibilities included:- Conducting extensive end-to-end system analysis- Developing recommended solutions and identifying impacts for government change requests- Specification-based requirements management and tracing- Presentation Layer (PL) specification document lead- JIRA DLN administrator- Member of the IBM DOORS administrative group- Scrum team leader (secondary)Additional responsibilities included supporting the Navy's Common Control System (CCS). Tasked with developing CCS's Statement of Work (SOW) and coordinating directly with the Chief Systems Engineer.

Building/Configuring large-scale system solutions including Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS). Heavily involved in the integration of equipment such as roadside cameras (CCTV and AID), sensors (MVD), and traffic-directing signs (DMS and LCS). Additional responsibilities include programming dynamic plans using JavaScript, building/configuring servers, wiring equipment, client relations, performing multitudes of tests (as well as conducting SiAT and FAT), etc. Projects include I-495 Express Lanes, I-95/I-395 Express Lanes, and Hampton Roads/Tunnels.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Engineering team member tasked with developing a solution for updating radios via data transfer between a smartphone and a server using TCP/IP and VPN protocols. Program an iOS device to send data via Bluetooth to a Harris proprietary device. Project entailed entire life cycle from design conception through prototype development.

Lynchburg, Va, Us

Developed and implemented a way of integrating Bluetooth data transfer into a system for managing wattage consumption of high-powered electrical strips.

Ludwigshafen, De

Traced the facility’s water system and targeted points in which efficiency could be improved. Assisted company engineers, made detailed spreadsheets, edited blueprints, tagged equipment, edited safety forms, and various other activities.

Master Of Science (Ms), Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering With Intelligence