Principal Systems Engineer
Aurora, Co
2018-2020 Program (Magnus): Development through Factory Acceptance Test (FAT)• Promoted to Chief Engineer. Section Manager for SE team of 2-3 FTEs.• Integration Lead responsible for functional integration, coordination meetings, and deployment controller.• SE Lead responsible for managing requirements baselines, ICDs, Giver/Receivers, and Analysis reports.• Agile Scrum master for daily scrums, executed sprint planning, backlog grooming, and story management.• DRRB chair to adjudicate discovered defects.2010-2018 Program (JPSS CGS): Multi-Block Development through Site Acceptance Test (SAT)• Led test development, coordination, and execution of 2.1 SAT (conducted with operational system) and 2.1 FAT to successfully verify over 400 requirements.• Drove SEIT team priorities to execute 2.1 to deploy and verify SW at formal FAT & SAT acceptance tests.• Section Manager for SEIT team of 8-14 FTEs.• Led efforts to resolve many OPS issues leading to Block 2.0 Operational Readiness, including deploying fixes to OPS.• Led Offline IST SEIT team of 10-14 Engineers in SAT test preparations, execution, and verification testing.• Led team through dev, coordination and execution of defect verification tests on the OPS environments.• Executed Test Procedure to exercise detailed Mission Management capabilities during Operations-Based Site Acceptance Test.• Authored the ATOM SAT Test Plan, Test Case, Test Procedure, Configuration Drawing, and Test Report.• Executed the ATOM SAT RFR, using live telemetry downlinks from the operational S-NPP satellite.• Developed the ATOM Detailed Deployment Schedule for site installation/integration activities.• As the Flight Operations Mission Thread technical lead, provided I&T guidance and mentoring to the team.• Developed integration sequences, covering relevant system dependencies, interfaces and functionality.• Developed proof of concept smoke test automation sequence for STA ATOM in Java, using IBM RFT IDE.
