Michael Elliott Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Leading Engineering efforts across our Ground Combat Systems portfolio. Responsible for execution of multiple development and production contracts, as well as several high visibility capture and IRAD efforts. Responsible for cost, schedule and cross-functional technical scope, while building out a world-class engineering team. Engaging with our US Army customer to deliver meaningful warfighter capability, specifically in hard-kill Active Protection Systems (APS), situational awareness, counter-UAS and mortar systems.

Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Leading Elbit America through a complete transformation of how we build and deliver software. Building out a modern software factory uniquely suited our domain - particularly embedded software, FPGAs and firmware. This role includes process, tools, digital transformation and workforce development across all of our business areas.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Built and led the Cyber Secure Software team at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, which exists to enable our software development teams to build the most secure software possible. Responsible for a broad variety of projects related to AppSec, SBOMs, FOSS assessment, automated approval of software for classified environments and fuzz testing. I led a small, high performing team that sought to change the way we secure software in aircraft systems. I also managed a portfolio of transformation projects improving software quality on the F35 program, totaling ~$1.7M.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Led the F-35 DevSecOps team as part of the Digital Transformation organization. Applied my experience with automation and process improvement to build an Enterprise pipeline for aircraft software. Led a team of 20+ software engineers. Responsible for bidding new contracts and managing cost and schedule across multiple projects. Drove change across multiple lines of business, delivering speed and agility to multiple programs.Led the implementation and use of build automation and test automation across hundreds of embedded software developers. Led the development of fully automated system testing using a virtualized aircraft simulator, which today can execute over 50k test points nightly.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Led a team of software engineers to integrate F-35 Mission Systems capabilities. Prototyped an agile process for software development and integration on the F-35 program, driving both technical direction and cultural change. Served as both product owner and scrum master on different scrum teams. Created software platform for automated nightly build checkout and regression testing, utilizing tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket and SonarQube. Responsible for cost and schedule estimation and execution for our team.Personally integrated several capabilities, including Embedded Training, Datalinks and Multi-Ship Sensor Fusion. A member of the Auto-GCAS team that won the 2018 NAA Collier Trophy.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Coordinated and planned construction and integration of new software integration lab. Utilized this lab to increase efficiency and scope of software testing for F-35 Mission Systems software. Also provided training and support to system test engineers.

Bethesda, Md, Us

- Took new position in System Integration and Test as part of Lockheed Martin's leadership development program - Developed new processes for testing and verifying data fusion software- Provided training classes on software tools to leverage my past experiences in order to help my new team- Created formal test procedures and performed testing in a hardware-in-the-loop software integration and simulation lab- Started integration of a new software test lab to ease schedule and cost pressure for system test team- Received 2 SPOT awards for going above and beyond with given tasks

Bethesda, Md, Us

- Developed automated testing and algorithm verification toolset. Our tool accelerated our V&V process, leading to higher quality software with fewer defects.- Analyzed flight test data sets to validate complex data fusion algorithms.- Developed new processes and metrics for the data analysis team reducing overall analysis time per item by 50%.

Bethesda, Md, Us

- Developed embedded Mission Systems software for the Joint Strike Fighter program- Created robust and maintainable C++ software with an emphasis on object-‐orienteddesign, using UML and IBM Rational Rhapsody- Operated in an agile environment, emphasizing test-‐driven development

College Station, Texas, Us

Impact is the second largest student organization at Texas A&M. As director, I lead our 12-member leadership team, and cast a vision and direction for our 400+ member staff. I was also responsible for managing a $250k budget.Each August, Impact puts on three 4-day retreats, involving over 1100 incoming freshmen and plugging them in to local churches and student organizations.

College Station, Tx, Us

- Co-developed an ASP/C# application to replace an existing call management system.- Worked directly with software users to design and optimize user interface.- Gained experience in problem solving, collaboration and teamwork.

Tyler, Tx, Us

Worked with 50+ person staff to organize 11 weeks of camp for 2nd-5th grade students. Was responsible for and lived with 7 students each week.

Tyler, Tx, Us

Was responsible for coordinating multimedia presentation with weekly invited guest speakers.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Master Of Science, Software Engineering