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San Jose, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

• Drive high visibility delivery of security-related engagements, for widely recognized Infotech clients.
• Provide single point oversight, dependency resolution, and coordination of project scheduling, logistics, and related technical issues.
• Identify and track milestones, related tasks/issues, and risk mitigation techniques to ensure timely and successful completion.
• Create trusting relationships with business & technology client stakeholders including consultants, architects & development teams.

San Jose, CA

• Manage scope, milestones and budget across projects/program to ensure completion of goals.
• Develop appropriately structured and detailed project/program plans.
• Secure development, quality assurance and site operations estimates & resources commitments on which the schedules and roadmaps will be built.
• Optimize resource and capacity planning to support project/program goals.
• Monitor and measure progress to ensure that the projects/program meet or exceed performance target, ensuring that teams document accurate status.
• Oversee program and project performance and reporting across geographic locations.

Campbell, California

• Define creative solutions for business professionals to improve visibility to their prospective clients using innovative syndication and analytics software.
• Scrutinize customer feedback and hold associated reviews, while coaching designers and supporting stakeholders through product reliability improvements.

• Provide various methods and measures in support of a project's detailed integration concept under rigorous CMMI practices.
• Substantiate system capability and combat vehicle readiness through comprehensive requirements analysis and regimented test plans flow-down.
• Coordinate daily safety meetings and pre-test hazardous operation briefings to insure a faultless test execution environment is preserved.
• Maintain budget costing accuracy and project expenditure responsibility.

• Manage scheduling and team resources during IOT providing timely transfer of satellite to customer.
• Survey various earth stations for viability to successfully integrate support equipment during IOT campaigns.
• Reporting liaison between customer representatives and internal program directors on status of readiness for IOT.
• Collaborate with payload design engineers on establishing link budget input for procedures.
• Compose presentation of completed mission data package to customers for buyoff and contract milestone achievement.

• Validate end to end wiring and signal distribution of proto-flight model satellites completing Final Acceptance Test in preparation for shipment/launch.
• Compile manufacturing critical feedback of anomalies to enhance baseline procedural content.
• Assemble comprehensive readiness assessments to convey test accuracy and completion.
• Provide electrical schematic upkeep derived from Engineering Change Documentation.
• Interpret Contract Test Plan and Systems Technical Information Requests in development of a Test Requirement Document.
• Accumulation and detailing of trending analysis data across test phases to insure unit health.

• System Test Development of cutting edge data transport technology using both optical and RF sub-carrier multiplexing principles.
• Evaluate outcome-based attributes of innovative network systems for criticality to advertised performance specifications.
• Convert design requirements into functional automated test cases, verifying results conform to predicted limits.
• Diagnose TL1 command messaging layer for syntactical content, provisional parameter blocks, and response correlation in accordance with all applicable Telcordia and NSIF documents.

• Responsible Engineer for Integration and Test of Loral's flagship OMEGA Bus Electronics Platform for INTELSAT, and OMEGA II for Satélites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. (Satmex).
• Well versed with all facets of testing the LORAL FS-1300 model spacecraft.
• Translate requirement documentation for development of test software resource files.
• Facilitate process improvements as it pertains to test requirement compliance.
• Involvement in data review to improve system level test integration.
• Writing and implementing procedures and test automation for new product lines.

• Specialized in satellite communication aircraft enhancement modification, saving unnecessary rework facility costs.
• Avionics liaison to Rockwell International during aircraft p-static inspection and testing.
• 93% mission completion rate while serving as lead avionics troubleshooter.