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Falls Church, Va, Us

Falls Church, Va, Us

Leading the execution efforts of a systems engineering team simultaneously executing on a large contract through PDR and supporting proposal activities for one of the largest programs.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Leading a geographically distributed segment level requirements and verification team across 6 product teams

Mclean, Va, Us

Supported the GPS mission planning system as a systems engineer for SEMP development, requirements analysis, decomposition and allocation to the CSCI level, and mapping to SW user stories. Acted as systems engineering focal and liaison between program staff and external stakeholders for the external RFC process.Supported business development with proposal writing of technical volume, SOW, and sub-contractor SOW.

Arlington, Va, Us

SE on multi-disciplined team responsible for enterprise level performance specifications, functional decomposition, technical baseline, verification plans, program reviews, analyses and trade studies to evaluate internal and external stakeholder impact, and configuration control throughout sell-off. Supported development of test criteria compliant with design specifications and validate inter- and intra-faces. Supporting I&T with data review, anomaly identification and resolution. Reduced average number of late open engineering changes by 93% and total open engineering changes by 21% to support reviews and test events. Reduced total open program action items by 74% and late open action items by 100%. Deliver, track, and report enterprise and program metrics. Provided DOORS expertise.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Systems Engineer. Supported Force Brigade Battle Command Program (FBCB2) and ARAMCO programs as a Systems Engineer and DOORS database architect and administrator. Collaborated with the requirements management team to define best practices for requirements and verification management plan, assist with implementation of standard processes and training of program personnel. Responsible for documenting procedures, creating and providing training, and updating the SEMP with defined best practices.Software Test Engineer and Data Analyst. Supported FBCB2 as a data analyst in the Test Performance and Measurement lab responsible for creating software test procedures to meet program requirements, executing documented test procedures, and analyzing test results to determine contractual compliance.Proposal Support. As a member of the GSE systems engineering team, defined requirements management practices supporting good systems engineering. Collaborated with GSE proposal engineers to develop GSE System and lower level specifications. Provided DOORS database administrator support and training for proposal support personnel.

Arlington, Va, Us

Provided systems engineering support to a successful proposal team. Define and tailor standard requirements management best practices. Authored Requirements Management sections of proposal and SEMP and contributed to CDR. Provided lessons learned that led to the early involvement of a verification management lead closely tied to the requirements analysis and allocation effort. Participated in tool research and trades for software acquisition and deployment.DOORS SME and one of two DOORS instructors at the Boeing El Segundo. Led the development of the DOORS administrator training packages and provided support to the DOORS Enterprise in the development DOORS training to provide processes and standards for proper set-up, use, and maintenance of database. Provided customized layout DXLs. Work closely with IT and program personnel to ensure software upgrades are deployed transparent to users, and license agreements are compliant with contracts. Successfully led a collaborative Lean effort to develop processes, check lists, and scripts to improve the efficiency and quality of DOORS specification generation process and seamlessly integrate 2 DOORS databases by 45.6%.

Washington, Dc, Us

Supervised and worked with a wide variety of teams responsible for providing and maintaining the communication architecture at Al Asad Airbase, Iraq. Provided troubleshooting, maintenances and satellite acquisition support for the satellite communications system and successfully transferred responsibilities to regular on-station maintenance team.As manager of the satellite communications technical support group, successfully maintained uninterrupted service provided by 4 satellite communication systems operating twenty-four hours a day in Kuwait during Operation Iraqi Freedom and again in Fallujah, Iraq during Operation Enduring Freedom for a period of no less than 7 months. Maintained 100% accountability of personnel and over $12.5 million in communication systems, test equipment, and mission essential materials. Ensured strict adherence to quality control in repair cycle by conducting receiving, in-process, and final inspections of communications/electronics systems, associated components, and maintenance procedures. Responsible for documentation of maintenance plans, prevention techniques, procedural manual, and lessons learned. Developed and maintained metrics reporting system ensuring upper level management had insight into daily operations.Managed a team in excess of 100 members responsible for maintaining communication systems including secure/non-secure internet, secure/non-secure telephone lines, and secure video teleconferencing servicing over 200 users in Kuwait during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Assessed and prioritized job orders and assigned personnel to promote timely completion of maintenance activities.Researched and successfully implemented new logistical procedures to re-locate high dollar equipment that provided needed communication systems, test equipment, and mission essential materials to out-lying bases resulting in a 50% decrease of the number of transit days and a 100% increase the ability to identify location of equipment.

M.S., Systems Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Technical Management

Project Management & Systems Engineering

Satellite Communication Technician