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Simi Valley, California, United States

• Responsible for putting together a Systems based development process.
• Rebuilt, updated, and maintained DO-178 requirement management system utilizing JIRA’s “Requirements for JIRA” application.
• Developed templates for procedures and reports, checklists for document reviews/releases, and a requirements management process.
• Updated the Acceptance Test Procedures for numerous product lines in order to improve test coverage, better clarify/define test steps, and provide consistency across all product lines.

• Responsible for system integration and V&V testing, developing test plans and procedure, and test reports.
• Subject matter expert for the Next Generation Ground Control System.
• Instrumental in early detection of software/hardware shortfalls and bugs throughout the Next Generation Ground Control Station development.
• Tested and lead improvement task for several additional ground station projects, including the Long-Range Tracking Antenna project, Extended Range Antenna project, and various improvement projects for the legacy Ground.
• Conducted flight tests for Fixed-wing, VTOL, and Quad rotor UAVs to prove safety, reliability and effectiveness for the vehicle’s use cases.
• Mentored several interns in both the Systems Test and Software development group in addition to two junior System Test Engineers.

• Responsible for board, system, and box level acceptance testing and development for several Defense & Aerospace customers.
• Supported the production floor with troubleshooting failures, developing additional tests, and improving the test process.
• Provided test status and recommended improvements to the end customer in regards to their test procedures and test equipment.
• Developed/Maintained thermal chambers profiles and test procedure, and oversaw the technicians running them.

Woodland Hills, CA

• Responsible for the overall system development, including requirement writing/management, test planning/design, and system verification. Continued to update/maintain test equipment software as well as engineering tools.
• Awarded recognition for the research and analysis work that saved the company from having to fully requalify a system for an optional software configuration.
• Prevented production line stoppage by identifying that the root cause of a failure was due to the test equipment software, and spent the weekend making the test equipment software changes, verifying the new software.
• Consistently facilitated the interaction between the systems, software, and test equipment groups to effectively accomplish the overall program requirements.
• Designed the Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS) station which reduced thermal cycle testing by 3 days while reducing customer failures to less than 1%.
• Reverse engineered an acceptance test specification from the existing test software and compared to the current system specifications, in order to identify gaps and improve the test coverage.

Agoura Hills, CA

• Analyzed failures to determine root cause and provide corrective action in order to reduce failures and increase reliability. Troubleshot the failures that could not be determined on the production floor.
• Advanced from co-op position to a full time position after the first month with the company, and onto the lead engineer within six months of being hired.
• Prevented delivery delays by providing timely detection, analysis and repair of manufacturing defects.

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology