Donna Williams Email & Phone Number

Randallstown, MD, US

Reston, VA, US

Test Lead for Joint Mission between NOAA/NASA and EUMETSAT:o Responsible for writing sections of a test plan and test procedures.o Coordinated test activities.o Analyzed and presented test results.Working Group Lead:o Responsible for documenting the current mission operations and deviations from concept of operations.o Presented findings to management and.

Lanham, Maryland, US

Test Conductor for Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS II):o Responsible for integrating and testing Focal Plane Electronics (FPE) subsystem.o Wrote standard operating procedures for the Main Electronics Box (MEB) Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) rack.o Wrote standard operation procedures for the Spacecraft Simulator rack.o Developed software to dump.

Lanham, Maryland, US

Test Conductor for ATLAS (Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System):o Responsible for integrating and testing the Power Distribution Unit (PDU) subsystem, Laser and Flight Software (FSW) Algorithms.o Wrote technical documents for the PDU and Laser subsystems that describe the interfaces, constraints, commands, telemetry, operating scenarios.

Laurel, Maryland, US

• Test Conductor for the RBSP (Radiation Belt Storm Probes) spacecrafts using the L3 InControl-NG Ground System and responsible for testing the following instruments: Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma.
• Developed a script to extract data such as center of gravity, inertia, mass and density for each subsystem and part on the RBSP spacecrafts that is needed for mechanical analysis.
• Developed a script to automate the process of calculating the power summary totals for the various subsystems and instruments on the RBSP spacecrafts.
• Assembled and installed the ground data systems software that tracks the number of writes to EEPROM memory on the Command and Data Handling (C&DH) instrument that is made during the integration and testing of the RBSP.
• Test Conductor for the Integrated Electronics Module (IEM) instrument on the RBSP space mission using the L3 InControl-NG Ground System.
• Developed and tested scripts for RF communications subsystem on the RBSP space mission using the L3 InControl-NG Ground System.

Laurel, Maryland, US

• Senior Software Engineer for MESSENGER, New Horizons and RBSP (Radiation Belt Storm Probes) Space Programs and Ground System Liaison for New Horizons Mission Operations:
• Participated in a study for a Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) system that involved a constellation of 1000 satellites. Activities included costing the ground system required for the SBI system.
• Developed requirements, design, and operational concept to track the number of writes to EEPROM memory on the Command and Data Handling (C&DH) instrument that is made during the integration and testing of the RBSP.
• Developed requirements and design, implemented and tested Ground System software to generate a report of reconstructed spacecraft memory that contains instrument commands for the RBSP space mission.
• Designed, implemented and tested ground data systems software for the spacecraft’s fault protection system for the RBSP space mission. Developed requirements and design, implemented and tested Ground System software to.
• Developed trending plots for the C&DH, Guidance and Control (G&C), ALICE, LORRI, PEPSSI, RALPH, REX SDC and SWAP instruments on the New Horizons spacecraft. This was accomplished by extracting data points from the.

Laurel, Maryland, US

• Senior Software Engineer for MESSENGER, STEREO (Solar-TErrestrial Relations Observatory and New Horizons Space Programs:
• Planning Software Technical Lead for the Ground System. Responsible for managing and leading 4-6 technical staff members, managing and updating the schedule and assigning technical tasks to the appropriate staff members.
• Designed, implemented and tested ground data systems software for the spacecraft’s fault protection system for the MESSENGER and STEREO and New Horizons space missions. Developed requirements and design, implemented.
• Developed requirements and design, implemented and tested the command load generation software that allows the Mission Operations staff to load the MP instrument on the MESSENGER spacecraft and the C&DH instrument on.
• Designed, implemented and tested the processor load software. The processor load software allows Mission Operations staff to create an ASCII formatted file in STOL containing commands to load the executable software on.
• Designed, implemented and tested a script in Perl which automates the parameter generation process for the G&C instrument on the MESSENGER spacecraft.

Laurel, Maryland, US

• Senior Software Engineer for Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) Space Program:
• Developed requirements and design, implemented and tested command load generation software that produced a file containing commands in STOL ASCII format that was loaded onto the C&DH instrument for the CONTOUR.
• Designed, implemented and tested load, dump and compare software used in the comparison of actual and expected memory images from the C&DH and G&C instruments on the CONTOUR spacecraft
• Developed and derived requirements for the Ground System on the load, dump and comparison of on-board memory on the C&DH and G&C instruments for the CONTOUR spacecraft.
• Designed, implemented and tested a script in Perl which automates the planning process. The end product is a binary command load file that was loaded onto the C&DH instrument for the CONTOUR spacecraft.

• Software Engineer for Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Space Program:
• Designed, implemented and tested software to convert EEPROM and RAM on the Flight Computer (FC) and Attitude Interface Unit (AIU) instruments to engineering units.
• Designed, implemented and tested software to compare EEPROM and RAM for the FC and the AIU instruments.
• Integrated all memory utilities used by Mission Operations Team via X-window and X-motif interface.
• Enhanced software support tools.
• Designed and implemented the scheduling system for the NEAR spacecraft which involved the integration of COTS software.

• Responsible for the design and the enhancement of mission planning software.
• Responsible for the design and the development of system operational concepts.
• Developed and derived system level design requirements.
• Designed and developed critical design review document and test validation plan for mission planning software.
• Participated in technical presentations and meetings.

• Senior Software Engineer:
• Lead Software Engineer for the design, implementation and test of signal processing software. Efforts included scheduling, specifying design requirements, allocating tasks among four software engineers and providing.
• Designed, implemented and tested telemetry software.
• Designed, implemented and tested risk reduction software, which involved part failure analysis.
• Test Conductor for a digital signal processor at the factory and at the site. Activities included requirements verification, system test plan development, the design of specific tests, the development of test.
• Enhanced software support tools.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering