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Systems Engineering Technical lead for interdisciplinary program to enhance Maxar's nextgen ground system for earth observation satellite constellation. As tech lead I am responsible for technical scope and understanding of programs as well as making sure programs meet timelines and budgets. This involves interfacing with multiple development teams, developing requirements, and working with stakeholders to ensure commitments are met.

Agile Product Owner and Systems Engineer at Maxar Technologies.As Product Owner I managed agile feature backlog for multiple software development teams that provide services as part of satellite ground systems. This required balancing schedules, budgets, and capacity to rapidly bring new functionality to new and existing systems.As a Systems Engineer I design and spec requirements for our next generation ground systems at a development team level to ensure software engineers… Show more Agile Product Owner and Systems Engineer at Maxar Technologies.As Product Owner I managed agile feature backlog for multiple software development teams that provide services as part of satellite ground systems. This required balancing schedules, budgets, and capacity to rapidly bring new functionality to new and existing systems.As a Systems Engineer I design and spec requirements for our next generation ground systems at a development team level to ensure software engineers have clear priorities and requirements to build to. Show less

Longmont, Colorado

Responsible for 24/7 live support in operations for DigitalGlobes nextgen satellite ground system. This ground system currently controls the WorldView4 high-resolution earth imaging satellite from commanding through production and delivery of imagery to customers. Maintains third party COTS tools as part of the operational ground system.Assists with live support, architecture changes, and defect discovery, tracking, and resolution. Works closely with agile scrum team for system… Show more Responsible for 24/7 live support in operations for DigitalGlobes nextgen satellite ground system. This ground system currently controls the WorldView4 high-resolution earth imaging satellite from commanding through production and delivery of imagery to customers. Maintains third party COTS tools as part of the operational ground system.Assists with live support, architecture changes, and defect discovery, tracking, and resolution. Works closely with agile scrum team for system improvements. Manages live problem resolution. Show less

Responsible for verification tests of robotic motion control software and prototype hardware. Works directly with software development team to ensure quality of code and interface with robotics hardware. Collaborates with robotics hardware design team to ensure functionality of hardware. Creates, documents, and executes test plans and test cases.Spearheaded testing with the next generation R4 (rapid, reliable, robust, robotics) hardware. New R4 units increase speed by 30% on average… Show more Responsible for verification tests of robotic motion control software and prototype hardware. Works directly with software development team to ensure quality of code and interface with robotics hardware. Collaborates with robotics hardware design team to ensure functionality of hardware. Creates, documents, and executes test plans and test cases.Spearheaded testing with the next generation R4 (rapid, reliable, robust, robotics) hardware. New R4 units increase speed by 30% on average saving customers considerable overhead in data read times.Experience with Kanban (Agile, Scrum), Jira, and software engineering. Responsible for writing and executing test plans for robotics equipment. Experimental hardware testing. Test case and test plan development and execution. Work in a UNIX environment. SQL database queries. Manual and automated testing. Show less

Lakewood, Co

Performed installations, maintenance, and data analysis for slope stability monitoring synthetic aperture radars. One meter synthetic aperture radar units provided sub-millimetric movement profiles of unstable geological features. Provided in-situ and remote support for hardware and software. Compiled and performed analysis of radar data. Performed site analysis and preparation for installations of remote sensing equipment.

Performed hardware repairs for campus computer labsMaintained Apple and Dell hardware warranty certificationsKept track of repair and financial records

Designed, tested, and published new labs for CU Physics Optics Lab course that included digital data acquisition and data analysis in MatlabWrote database analysis software package in Python for analysis of survey results to improve the physics education curriculum at CU.Developed a new software control program for CU Physics Advanced Lab’s Scanning-Tunneling Microscope in LabVIEW

B.S, Engineering Physics

Atmospheric And Oceanic Studies, Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology