Gerard Armstrong Email & Phone Number

Bech, Grevenmacher, LU

Prague, Czechia

Freelance consultant for Telespazio working for the EUSPA on Galileo and EGNOS Logistics (Inventory and Asset Management, Obsolescence, RAMS)

Czech Republic

• Freelance consultant for Rhea working for the EUSPA on ILS & Operational aspects of Galileo
• ILS activities for the Galileo Ground Segments (GMS, GCS, GSC etc.)
• Organizer/chairing the GMS & GCS ILS Working Groups
• Managing Inventory, Assets, Spares, Training, Maintenance, Obsolescence, Logistics Processes
• Interfacing with RAMS and Deployment teams, Anomaly Review Boards etc.
• Evaluating Monthly & Quarterly Operations & Service Progress reports from the Galileo Operator

Noordwijk-Binnen, South Holland, Netherlands

• Galileo Ground Mission System Engineer with RHEA SYSTEM SA - long term ESA contract. D/OPS division (Galileo operations)From 2009 – mid 2017 supporting the management of Galileo GMS (Ground Mission Segment) Operations..
• Evaluation of Galileo Operations KPI reports for EUSPA (in particular Ground Mission Aspects)
• Established the OPS-GMS Working Group (a forum allowing feedback from Operations for improvements to be discussed and agreed for the Ground Mission Segment)
• Chaired the GMS CCB (configuration control board) and WAB (work around board)
• Evaluated incidents and anomalies (attending ARBs & NRBs) and coordinating with System & Ground Mission Procurement teams to track Workarounds and eventual fixes.
• Attended and reporting on Operations led testing (Satellite SCTCs and in-orbit commissioning – for Ground Mission Segment aspects, Validation of Ground Segment element releases etc.).

Galileo Ground Mission Engineer in the ESA Operations team

London, England, United Kingdom

• Project Manager for the CTSP - a key component of the EU GMES (Copernicus) TANGO project & the NSFRITS ITS system. [a web portal site allowing Satellite Service providers to discover and provision telecommunication.
• CTSP (Common Telecommunications Service Platform) Satellite Terminal/Service Provisioning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f74FnYAW8Ck http://www.copernicus.eu/projects/tango.
• NSFRITS (https://trimis.ec.europa.eu/project/north-sea-freight-and-intelligent-transport-solutions Intelligent Transport System).
• DVB-RCS standardisation (network management aspects). For these projects I
• Developed the concepts & design for the projects, organised the work, interviewed and hired the staff, prepared most of the technical, financial & project management documentation
• Tracked the work effort & prepared the annual financial audits (for EU review).

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium

• Ground Segment network design for Galileo (Europe's GPS system) project (2000 & 2006-2007)* Earth Observation EGSE (Pleiades) 2005* DVB-RCS satellite telecommunication (2000-2004)
• GALILEO (Navigation): Design of Galileo Networks (MDDN) and work on the MDDN & SDDN performance budget file. Development of the interface requirements (for MNE, GNMF & GACF) (3 years).
• PLEIADES (Earth Observation/EGSE): Development & debugging of the Pleiades image processing EGSE system (50,000 lines of C++, IDL & HP Labview) running on a Linux platform (1 year).
• AMERHIS (Satellite Telecommunications): Creation of the Test plans for the Integration & Verification (against system requirements) of the Amerhis (DVB-RCS) satellite telecommunications system - (2 years work & several.
• Amariska (Satellite Telecommunications): Development of the network management system for the ground segment of the Aramiska (DVB-RCS) satellite telecommunications system (2 years).
• Technical environment & tools:DOORS, HP Openview on SUN SPARC, vi, cvs, Bugzilla, C++ & IDL on Linux, document writing (System, Specification, Test etc.)

Mechelen, Flemish Region, Belgium

• Installation & troubleshooting of a Cable Telephony and Internet network (for Telenet Belgium).
• Network Operations (Level 2 Operations Support & onsite installations/troubleshooting):Installation, troubleshooting and management of a Cable based internet/phone network. On-site at the Network Operations Centre and.
• Technical environment & tools:SUN SPARC, Motorola proprietary network management system, remote login (telnet / ftp) to site equipment; hardware & software installation, configuration, debugging etc.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Software developer: Web content management system (Sports News)
• Technical environment & tools:Linux, Microsoft, Perl, Javascript, vi (editor)

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Software developer: Web browser based Network Management system for BT's ADSL network
• Technical environment & tools:Sun Sparc, PC, EMACS (as a development environment), HTML & Javascript, CMIP, Makefile build system etc.

Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

• Development of TETRA private mobile radio system, requirements engineering (management of requirements in DOORS), system analysis
• Technical environment & tools:DOORS, TETRA PMR standard

M.Eng, Telecommunications

2 years by research - MoNET (EU sponsored research into UMTS networks) 1986 - 1990 B.Eng Electronic Engineering University of Limerick

B.Eng, Electronic Engineering