• Managed physical control of program assets and modification activities. • Established on-site logistics records of program assets and spares to finally achieve 100% identification for inspection by ILS/Customer Property Management/Security/Maintenance.• Coordinated purchases with material planners, finance, and buyers capturing PMR/PR/POs status for system spares purchases for program lab support.

• Completed independent analysis, trade-off costs, proposal, illustrative drawing to get equipment purchasing approval for FPGA Maintenance Test Chassis. Updated ILS listings and developed training artifacts, performed site installations and training for O&M use.• Led Technical Training Manuals development team with on-time delivery of maintenance instructions/procedures and O&M Lectures to users and students to safely operate and maintain Ground Terminal and the Mission Operations Center. • Developed subsystem interconnect diagrams to aid in training system interfaces, controller operations and anomaly resolution. • Presented numerous factory and on-site/customer training events for operations controller, planner and maintainer positions. • Sustained Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action (FRACA) DB to establish system reliability metrics.• Performed system modeling to identify system performance characteristics, defect trends and supplies for maintainer safety and equipment protection to meet customer requirements.• Generated/sustained program obsolescence tables and conduct vendor surveys, gathering product EOL and EOS information to support system sustainment and sparing needs. • Conducted component engineering evaluations for FFF/alternative replacements for vendor products determined as obsolete.

• Planned and organized test activities for numerous program releases of critical satellite Orbit Determination Software.• Developed Software Test Plans and test procedures to verify software development code and validate the successful integration of software under test.• Identified software coding issues to S/W development team and recommended system design changes to satisfy customer’s requirement and operational needs.• Revised system requirements documentation and operations user manual to capture new S/W features and enhancements in the delivered products to customer.• Performed COMSEC handling duties for on-site communications equipment.

• Led proposal efforts to identify development activities of interface requirement specifications for conceptual GPS OCX Control Segment.• Performed functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into H/W and S/W specifications.• Ensured systematic conversion of customer requirements into a systems solution that acknowledged technical, schedule and cost constraints.• Prepared document plans and task schedules for integration into program master schedule.• Defined program system interface specifications and allocations.• Researched and documented interface detail descriptions, test methodologies and specification traceability in (DOORS) database.• Documented inter-segment H/W and S/W communications interfaces that received Engineering Review Board (ERB) and Configuration Control Board (CCB) approvals.

• Developed Software Test Plans and test procedures to verify software development code and validate the successful integration of software under test. • Identified coding issues to S/W development team and recommended system requirement design changes to satisfy customer’s H/W performance requirements and operational needs.• Conducted quality assurance (QA) audits on software builds prior to customer delivery. • Revised system requirements documentation and operations user manual to capture new S/W features and enhancements in the delivered product to customer. • Planned and organized test activities for numerous program releases of critical satellite Orbit Determination Software.

• Acquired as Subject Matter Expert (SME) with extensive knowledge of interface engineering of satellite programs. • Responsible for executing Systems Engineering work to meet program requirements and objectives with defined scope, time and cost constraints.• Developed a Master Interface Document (MID) reference tool which the customer requested it become a contract deliverable item.• Redefined interface engineering (IE) task level processes and shortened product delivery timelines to customer and lowered development costs.• Developed DoD satellite programs Interface Specifications (IS) that defined hardware and software interfaces with the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN).• Developed training courseware materials describing Systems Engineering principles and step-by-step interface-engineering development processes.• Generated document development cost proposals which were awarded customer funding.• Conducted Technical Interchange Meetings (TIM) that identified and resolved customer network interface issues.• Supervised Peer reviews of documentation being released to customer and DoD users.• Presented development status, team metrics and technical interface issues to the customer during Interface Control Working Group sessions.

• Revised interface engineering processes and procedures to achieve ISO-9001 compliance.• Developed DoD satellite programs Interface Specifications that defined hardware and software interfaces with the AFSCN.• Managed task planning and work schedule of the interface development team.• Developed an Interface Engineering Plan and Interface Engineering Guide for team guidance in developing new documents.• Facilitated team reviews and guided research of engineering change proposals to identify potential impacts and risk to customer baseline specifications.• Aided customer in co-chairing Interface Control Working Group forums with satellite user community.• Facilitated field office relocation move without loss of daily business activities or communications.• Conducted Environmental, Safety and Health evaluation of field office and provided quarterly and annual reports to corporate ESH management.

Performed duties for the following job titles:Senior Advanced Systems Engineer, Integration Contract Representative, Senior R&D Engineer, Integration Contract Representative Jr., AFSCN Technical Trainer, AFSCN Wideband & Narrowband Communications Operator/Maintainer AFSCN Communications Operator/Maintainer