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Independent consultant supporting safety-critical software verification effort for NASA program.

Greater Seattle Area

• Led the New Shepard Crew Capsule (CC) software (SW) team responsible for all aspects of the CC SW development lifecycle, including safety-critical certification for human flight.
• Spearheaded all new development efforts following the first CC SW certification event. Eliminated high risk and high operational impact technical debt while meeting program commitments to deliver new features for.
• Primary external interface for CC SW team responsible for maintaining alignment between cross-functional organization stakeholders, advocating for team objectives, and minimizing overhead for team members.
• Supported the first seven launches of the human-rated CC on console in mission control as CC SW operator, sending a total of twenty-six people to space. Responsibilities included real-time mission critical decision.
• Defined and managed the qualification program for all CC SW controllers supporting launch operations as the CC SW Engineering Backroom (EBR) Role Lead.

Greater Seattle Area

• Led team of four engineers through Formal Qualification Test (FQT) campaign for the first human-rated CC software release. Delivered reviews of several hundred System/High/Low Level Software Requirements utilizing.
• Led CC software team engagement for cross functional tasking with vehicle operations team. Support included vehicle anomaly investigation/resolution, data reviews to verify nominal CC software performance during.
• Streamlined New Shepard FQT processes with tooling to automate previously manual evidence gathering phase. This tooling managed HIL verification test execution, collection of results, and upload of results to evidence.
• Software Lead for miniature hardware in the loop (MiniHIL) verification environments. These are a combination of both real and emulated flight hardware, which enabled fault injection and robustness testing for FQT.

Houston, Texas Area

• NASA SBIR Phase 2 startup developing safety-critical flight and ground software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) utilizing custom fork of NASA's Core Flight System (cFS).
• Author of several apps in the Airliner flight software ecosystem critical for flight. Responsible for full life-cycle development of all authored apps including requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and.
• Developed the Pyliner scripting engine from concept of operations to initial flight proven version. Pyliner enables autonomous Python scripted drone flight control either on or offboard the vehicle.
• Ensured safe operation and FAA compliance as the Remote Pilot in Command (RPIC) during all flight tests. Led PID and flight parameter tuning efforts to optimize vehicle flight performance. FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot.
• Subject matter expert for the Command Ingest (CI) application of an interplanetary spacecraft's flight software as part of contract work. Responsibilities included implementation, unit/verification test, documentation.
• Architected and implemented novel automatic serialization techniques to allow for ABI independent communication with vehicles from any given platform.

Houston, Texas Area

• Developed the Database and Reporting Application for Code coverage on Orion (DRACO) tool using Agile methodologies with teams over two internship sessions, serving as Software Lead for the Fall term
• Provided flight software (FSW) developers and testers the capability to gather code coverage metrics of the Orion spacecraft FSW while running in an emulated avionics environment
• DRACO’s robust reporting features contributed valuable data to be utilized for both the Certification of Flight Readiness and ultimately the improvement of Orion FSW quality
• Presented technical demonstrations of DRACO to NASA Orion leadership, Wind River Systems, and Lockheed Martin Space Systems

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

• Developed an ARINC 664-7 network driver controller used on over 200 lab machines across the world that performed faster and more reliably than previous versions
• Worked with a senior engineer to develop a major update for aircraft equipment management software with over 300 active users
• Presented developed software and updates to customers to gather feedback. Tailored software to fit user's needs
• Assisted in software peer review process with manual verification work. Wrote scripts to allow for future automated verification process

Glenview, IL

• Quickly advanced in responsibilities since hiring in 2009
• Developed valuable customer service skills that were able to be utilized in more professional environments later in my career.