• Built and grew a cyber engineering workforce into a new market in the UK • Championed numerous Communities of Practice; e.g. Systems Engineering, Data Science, and DevOps to grow and upskill staff • Responsible for identifying and developing program technical metrics, ensuring delivery of quality and value to the customer • Ensured internal and contract research strategies were aligned to program technical strategy • Liaised with customers at all levels to understand key mission goals and priorities • Acted as a Solutions Architect, identifying growth opportunities across multiple customer organisations, shaping customer business, and developing solutions (personnel, process, and technological) to support those opportunities

• Responsible for interacting with internal and external customers, developing new requirements, and shepherding those requirements from initial Request-for-Change through development • Identified and recommended improvements to Systems Engineering processes, increasing transparency and visibility into the Program • Identified opportunities and developed approachs for growth both for the Program and Operating Unit in support of Chief Engineer strategic initiatives • Co-author of 4 NG innovation grant proposals • Advised on technical direction, focus areas of research, and technical staffing profiles for multiple proposals

• Ensured adequate physical resources, system architectures, and testing tools necessary to successfully execute the Integration and Test component of the program • Developed test plans and processes in support of Development Test and Operational Assessment (DT/OA) contract deliverables • Designed a cross-organizational automated test framework • Identified Program risks & opportunities and coordinated with Program leadership to realize solutions • Coordinated multiple IPTs across the organization • Represented Operating Unit at cyber technical deep-dive for cross-diversion proposal kickoff

• Acted as primary contract liaison for the Network Defense baseline to the customer • Advised Program leadership on risks as they arose • Identified growth opportunities for the Program • Lead an IPT of 15 consisting of systems engineers, integrators, and testers • Advised and guided the customer on distributed-system architecture design • Drove testing approach and strategies for new system capabilities as they were delivered by partner projects • Ensured new capabilities met both technical specifications and mission need • Lead the incorporation of test automation to facilitate broader scope of end-to-end testing • Developed initial architecture designs and context diagrams for proposal supporting a new customer • Provided technical critique and edited majority of cyber architecture chapter for proposal of global emerging markets • Evaluated Technical Volume as part of Red Team and co-authored I&T sections of follow-on proposal for existing work

• Lead the design of a new, packaged end-to-end system-of-systems cyber architecture for delivery to an external customer • Primary technical POC to both internal and external stakeholders • Directly managed team of 10 integrator/testers and lead the direction for more than 30 additional personnel across multiple organizations throughout the system life-cycle • Identified technical, programmatic, and schedule risks and advised stakeholders of best solutions for mitigation • Refined customer use cases and concepts of operations • Created architectures and system functional allocations • Defined integration standards and processes for the baseline • Oversaw the creation of all test plans including verification, validation, reliability, performance, and user interface • Improved time-to-market and team awareness of new capabilities through implementation of Agile Scrum techniques and tools

• Developed Agile Earned Value Management methodology • Coordinated multiple projects between development and research organisations such as performance testing of key Program requirements, high-bandwidth data blender/streamer, and PUPPET scalability testing • Developed business case and built high-bandwidth (10Gbps+) performance test platform • Coordinated the build of multiple lab test systems

• Engineer for Modeling, Simulation and Analysis IR&D • Developed robust models for numerous analysis tasks such as SEWIP (Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program) and Navy Gapfiller • Developed automation routines to improve simulation time efficiencies and fidelity • Integrated automation routines and component models into multiple simulation architectures

• Created performance analysis approaches to better understand Ballistic Missile Defense support, layered defense, Quality of Coverage, and similar • Developed analytical approaches to time-space point selection for booster and payload design trades • Lead small group to address Payload-independent Boost-Phase tradespace Requirements • Developed analysis approaches for evaluation of various combinations of multi-stage booster stacks, Emerging Threat, and other trade studies • Authored performance analysis documents and briefings

• Focused on Counter-Counter Measure (CCM) modelling techniques and analysis • Developed distributed processing algorithms; facilitating increased productivity, higher fidelity and reduced turn-around time of analyses • Created modeling and simulation tools for analysis of advanced CCM concepts • Coordinated with government and industry engineers to increase fidelity of results • Briefed analyses to numerous MDA customer organizations and program leadership • Provided guidance for incorporating CCM analysis capabilities into other modeling algorithms