Kyle Shannon Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Product Manager of a Dell made Kubernetes distribution on top of RKE2. This product provides common management and orchestration software that accelerated 12+ different product teams time to market, standardized on the management of cluster, applications, certificates, and infrastructure. The product is explicitly designed to be hosted in any environment from the core, to the edge, to the cloud and is designed to be agnostic of the technology used in the stack.• Identified and defined wider themes across product requests in establishing a product roadmap• Set, revised, and routinely communicated product strategy of what the product is and is not• Scaled permission schemes in jira to our feature lifecycle process increasing efficiency by 20%• Prioritized and ranked 100s of requests for various maturity customers from initial assessment, to in development, to in production• Routinely assessed trade offs in design of high availability architecture for the product's control plane• Prioritized Event Logging 1 (EL1) compliance ensuring a top Dell customer met Executive Order mandate• Advocated engineering team to reach the KPI of 80% unit test coverage of the code to facilitate a more automated CI/CD pipeline, increasing engineering availability for new feature development

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Product Manager for the Software as a Service (SaaS) based systems monitoring and administration tool called CloudIQ. In my role I directly influenced and oversaw: growth of adoption of the platform from thousands to hundreds of thousands connected devices, the onboarding of over a thousand customers, routinely evangelized the product internally and externally, and devised tactical priorities while simultaneously formulated strategic long term vision for the product. CloudIQ for Servers has directly influenced hardware purchasing decisions for Dell and has led to countless hours saved for IT teams.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Project Manager for mission-essential software used by the DoD and Intelligence Community. Our team's expertise is in sensor and platform network integration, application integration, cross domain solutions, and certification and accreditation on operational tactical networks.• Lead execution of 3-4 contracts with total budget exceeding $4MM annual contract value • Coordinate IT system administrator and operations teams to maintain 24/7 operational availability of software• Lead and facilitate scrum agile ceremonies including stand ups, sprints, planning, and retrospectives with varying team sizes• Prioritize fixes and new features for production software based on user, customer, operations, engineering, and system administrator input. • Routinely present to customers and stakeholders weekly usage metrics, network administration issues, and software development progress. • Develop ROM level of effort estimates, proposals, basis of estimate documentation to secure follow on funding for maintenance or new development efforts. • Migrate software development build pipeline and operational systems to a DevOps based, virtual AWS cloud infrastructure.• Track resource usage and project pipeline to ensure coverage for the team while ensuring project goals are met

Bethesda, Md, Us

Agile software development Baseline Delivery Lead (BDL) assigned to coordinate planning of epics / sprints, organization, control, integration, and completion of integrated software / hardware products within the cost and schedule baseline for the program. • Programmatic duties include being the primary POC to the customer and ensuring timely reporting of monthly Earned Value Management (EVM), variance analysis, and change documentation.• Technical responsibilities involve systems engineering of the Testbeds including breaking down / interpreting requirements from design, implementation, and through verification. • Responsible for coordinating technical leads from modeling, simulation software, and hardware teams to prioritize current and future work within Product Line.• Lead in preparing and executing PDRs / CDRs and delivering reports and contract deliverables to the customer.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Mechanical Engineer for the Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle human space exploration vehicle on the Environment Control and Life Support Subsystem (ECLSS). Maintain and update hardware specifications, write and maintain test requirements for ECLSS hardware to ensure vendor hardware meets requirements for performance. Exposure to the full life cycle of hardware from concept development, to requirements, to manufacture, through integration and test for the Active Thermal Control Subsystem (ATCS) on Orion. Management of qualification for temperature sensor testing through interfacing with various in house labs including pressurized vibration, thermal cycling, and leak testing, in certifying the component for flight.Project engineer for Potable Water Subsystem (PWS) assisting in managing the release of 60 drawings over a 7 month time frame for the Potable Water Dispenser (PWD). Coordinate and assist in closing feedback provided from quality, systems, manufacturing, integrators, human factors, and materials leads to ensure drawings and build of materials are released on schedule. Verify if technical content is accurate with stakeholders and the Certified Principle Engineer. Assist in developing component level and subsystem level requirements and devise test plans to verify these requirements. Operator for GPSIII launch through orbit checkout providing real time telemetry monitoring and issuing real time commands for the satellite. Active secret level clearance for the position

Arlington, Va, Us

Missile systems interface development, platform integration, and test engineering providing on call support to customers. Lead in assembling MUX data analysis and high fidelity sim analysis into Test Readiness Reviews to gain formal concurrence with customer / Raytheon senior management to conduct tests with various assets. Established and maintained documentation on the history of test asset build up, work-up missions leading up to tests, and the outcome of live fires of an air to air missile in formal test report documents. Responsible for analyzing MUX communications data between missile and aircraft to verify compliance to Interface Control Document / MIL-STD-1553. Performed MUX analysis on various internal and external HWIL systems as well as live fire missile tests as build up for certification of various Block 3 iterations for F-35.

Arlington, Va, Us

Front end of the business conceptual design, trade studies, and feasibility analysis of advanced systems leveraging industry standard and proprietary tools in a multidisciplinary optimization environment. Developed trajectory optimization models (Phoenix Integration ModelCenter, MATLAB, Excel VBA Script, Javascript) conducted analysis, presented results for a hypersonic vehicle entering a proposal phase. Worked closely with business development researching new / advanced concepts to develop a stronger business case for different missile design concepts. Investigated public released information on various missile programs to reverse engineer a profile of the missile capabilities in an effort to advance new business ideas at Raytheon and understand competitors capabilities.Software Systems Engineer that supported the full life cycle of a C++ tactical missile software build. Led software level requirement reviews, development, and implementation through Formal Qualification Testing in DOORS. Worked across multiple disciplines and communicated frequently with customers to identify the technical intent of software level requirements and ensured testing captured critical performance specifications. Verified system and software implementation complied to MIL-STD-1553 for the vehicle serial data bus. Assembled and presented evidence to deviation waiver board members in justifying failed software requirements did not warrant delaying / further modifying software prior to the delivery of a software build. Conducted analysis on a failed EO/IR requirement via high fidelity simulations and monte carlo stochastic simulations on UNIX operating system

- Analyzed and developed thermal and heat transfer simulations in MATLAB depicting the energy output of a concentrating solar power model- Built a solar trough prototype with proprietary design, performed tests on energy collection capabilities- Iteratively refined the model to mimic prototype heat transfer performance- Assisted in revising and writing proposals for solar power funding

- Coached ~80 kids aged 5 to 16 three times a week- Assisted in staging, line judging, and coaching track meets

Bachelor Of Science, Aerospace Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)