Ken Vaughan Email & Phone Number

St Louis, Missouri, United States

- Provide technical consulting, mentoring, career coaching for our engineers.- Recruit, interview, and hire prospective new engineers.- Foster university relations with outreach, career fairs, senior design projects, and internships.- Consult and advise the CEO.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

- Provide technical oversight, mentoring, coaching for the engineers.- Recruit, interview, and hire prospective new engineers.- Develop system engineering practices and procedures (configuration management and control, requirements management, verification/validation testing and team communication).- Internal reviews, trade studies, safety oversight, and.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Adjunct Professor in the Electrical and Systems Engineering Department. Teaching the Introduction to Engineering Design (ESE-205) course for Dr. Jim Feher who is on a sabbatical for this semester. Excited to be in the lab with my 60 students showing them how to use a Raspberry Pi, Python, Linux, and GitHub. Final project is using a PiCar Mars Rover Robot.

Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA

Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Specialty in Real-Time Embedded Software using C++ (Real-Time Embedded Software in Time Critical Systems (ICOM-5995, aka Microprocessors 3). Also teaching the pre-requisite course: Embedded Systems Design (ICOM-4217, aka Microprocessors 2). On the electrical engineering side, teaching this.

Greater St. Louis Area

• System Engineering, Integration and Test (SEIT) Capability Lead responsible for all SEIT activities (eg. Model-Based System Engineering, Risk Management, Verification / Validation Testing, Airworthiness Certification.
• BDS St. Louis Dedicated Hiring Team for System Engineering skill areas – recruiting / hiring engineers.
• Phantom Works / BDS representative to the One Boeing / NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) New Aviation Horizons X-Planes programs.
• Provided technical monitoring via independent reviews, Mission Assurance Council, Flight Test Mission Assurance Readiness Reviews, proposal reviews, Enterprise Standard Gated Process reviews, Engineering Excellence.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Chief Engineer for Advanced Boeing Military Aircraft (2015) and for Advance Global Strike portfolios.
• Provided technical monitoring for the Advanced Air Dominance, Phantom Fusion, Electronic Effects & Enhancements, Hypersonics, Advanced Concepts, and various Proprietary efforts via independent reviews, Flight Test.
• ABMA / Phantom Works representative to the Mission Assurance Council.
• Lean+ Focal for ABMA and coordinating Engineering Excellence initiative across portfolio.
• Participated in Adaptive Vehicle Management System customer TIMs (Philadelphia).
• Coordinated with the St. Louis Engineering Skill Managers (Staffing, Capital, Recruiting Activities).

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Chief Engineer for a proprietary IRAD project in Phantom Works.
• Project Lead for a proprietary technical research project.
• Supported multiple proprietary and an Advanced Weapons / Platform Integration proposal.
• Managed a multi-disciplined team of highly skilled engineers in an IPT organization.
• Used Boeing Program Management Best Practices (Earned Value Management; Risk, Issues, and Opportunity Management; Requirements Definition; Program Communication).
• Managed team to both cost and schedule goals across multiple geographic sites.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Managed software development effort that produced on-schedule, first-time quality, flight critical software that was used for multiple years without update.
• Fostered the development of the Naturally Integrated Engineering Architecture (NIEA) invention that enabled the on-time, within budget release of flight critical software.
• Participated in development of new computer and coordinated supplier’s software development.
• Coordinated and established excellent relationships across IPTs especially with System Engineering.
• Received one of the 2007 Special Invention Awards and a Phantom Works Silver Award in 2006 both for Naturally Integrated Engineering Architecture (NIEA).

St Charles, Missouri, United States

• Lead the terminal guidance portion of the software development effort.
• Designed, coded and tested Ada-83 software for the target acquisition/tracking, Stop Motion Aimpoint Updates, Automated Target Acquisition, and warhead arming.
• Participated in flight-test of the telemetry-fitted missile at Pt. Mugu, Calif.
• Coordinated SLAM-ER software team’s successful participation in SEI’s CMM Level 5 assessment.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Lead a portion of the Store Management Set (SMS) Upgrade software team on F/A-18 C/D that was responsible for the Mil-Std-1760 weapons (AMRAAM, Harpoon, SLAM) and additional HARM and Walleye weapons.
• Established the architecture (ADART) and development environment used for SMS Upgrade.
• Lead a portion of the Signal Data Computer software team on A-12 Navy attack aircraft that was responsible for the Engine Monitoring, Fuel System, and other subsystem monitoring / control.
• Designed, coded (in AYK-14 assembly language), and tested the Multi-Source Integration (early sensor blending) in the AYK-14 Mission Computer. Integrated with the sensor displays.
• Coordinated Mission Computer software team’s early process documentation and participation in and preparation for SEI’s CMM Level 3 successful assessment.
• Designed, coded (in 1750 assembly language), and tested the fuel monitoring/control software for the Signal Data Computer on the F/A-18 C/D. Integrated with the Mission Computer displays.

Msee, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

Activities and Societies: None

Bse Computer Engr, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma Kappa (social fraternity)