Mike Ormonde Email & Phone Number

Indialantic, FL, US

Falls Church, VA, US

• Responsible for integrating, planning, and team tasking for testing multiple complex BLOS payloads
• Provided leadership and mentoring to junior engineers in how they should address tasks and challenges.
• Spearheaded and collaborated with multi-discipline teams to accelerate and make possible a new capability to support a 2022 incentive event.
• Demonstrated Agile at its finest by utilizing a small team to produce the results needed for a successful high dollar incentive event
• Coordinated and Trouble-shooted a highly complex BLOS systems that required both over the air and terrestrial network knowledge of the system.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Responsible for integration and testing of Open Mission Systems software with BLOS Subsystems
• In a short time, I was able to learn and integrate multiple BLOS subsystems to a successful multimillion dollar demonstration with almost no onsite supplier assistance, due to covid pandemic.
• Utilizing my extensive experience and quick decision making I provided an engineering work around that led to a successful high dollar incentive event.

Falls Church, VA, US

• As the Product Definition lead of the Communications Payload Management team I would lead junior engineers on issues that dealt with the suppliers for production, repairs, and DMS (Diminishing Manufacturing Source).
• Lead, mentored, and discovered root cause of a complex issue that plagued the program many years that would inhibit payload data from being downlinked

Falls Church, VA, US

• As RE (Responsible Engineer) of the SMU (Sensor Management Unit) I manage the supplier for production, repairs, and DMS (Diminishing Manufacturing Source) items and ensuring that they meet cost and schedule.
• Drafted and released numerous SOWs that supported current and future proposals.
• Authored and Lead numerous RCCAs (Root Cause Corrective Action) on complex LOS/BLOS systems which resulted in fault isolation and mitigation plans.
• Instrumental in Operational and Sustainment activities, which involves real-time trouble shooting and problem resolution of highly complex communication systems.
• Authored various complex test procedures and engineering directives that enabled users to mitigate risk and perform functional checkouts.
• Experienced utilizing ClearQuest for deficiency reports to analyze and validate faults for the COMMS IPT and cross organizational IPTs.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Responsible for maintaining and functional operation of all SMU-2, SSR-2 (Solid State Recorder) and SCG (SMU Comms Gateway)
• Managed and Built 7 integration test stands for multiple labs that were utilized for integration and CERT testing. This involved communication system analysis, design, engineering capture, build, and integration to.
• Involved in over 10 configuration audits and ATPs to ensure that systems were delivered on time and under configuration.
• Utilized TeamCenter to release countless drawings and parts that are utilized by COMMS IPT and outside IPTs.
• Multifaceted and resourceful which allowed me to support three segments of COMMS IPT, which includes ICS (Integrated Communication System), Builds, and Operation and Sustainment.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

• Responsible Engineer for Block 40 Global Hawk Interoperability, which involves extensive collaboration with the system program office (SPO), defense contractor, and outside agencies to ensure that testing requirements.
• Stakeholder representative for the Air Force developmental test (DT) community during integrated test team (ITT), integrated planning team (IPT), and technical interchange meetings (TIM).
• Successfully conducted over fifteen interoperability tests involving numerous inter-agency players across the continental US during IFC FD/JD 3.1, 4.0 and KD 2.2.1 for Block 30 and Block 40 Global Hawk.
• Demonstrated exemplary leadership and interpersonal communication skills in providing a communications conduit between participants of conflicting personalities during Interoperability testing and ensuring mission.
• Helped to define numerous flight test documents to ensure technical feasibility and adherence to industry standards and government requirements.
• Headed numerous test readiness reviews (TRR) to ensure that all players were on the same page and that any possible issue had a mitigation plan to mitigate risk.

San Diego, CA, US

• Was responsible for peer reviewing Consolidated Afloat Networking Enterprise System (CANES) requirements to ensure that they were unambiguous, unitary, unique, and verifiable. If they did not meet these criteria I.
• Constructed automated excel spreadsheets that were utilized to keep track of System Integration Tests.
• Participated in peer reviews of test plans that were to be utilized for testing to ensure that they were in line with Application Integration CONOPS (Concept of Operations).
• Provided Q&A to the trouble reporting process for the lab to ensure that they were transparent and mitigated deficiencies accordingly.
• Provided conflict resolution and leadership to ensure the baseline test facility equipment was moved to the End to End lab in time to commence a system integration test for deployment of software and hardware to the.
• Constructed Technical Presentations utilizing power point and presented to senior management of a three month tour with Ballistic Missile Defense describing Flight Test Missile and Flight Test THAAD missions involving.

• Repaired faulty slot machines using electrical and mechanical techniques down to component level.
• Performed repairs or work arounds during peak business hours to ensure maximum profit of machines.
• Repaired and maintained electro-optic, magnetic, and safety interlock sensors to ensure slot machine integrity was kept.

Washington, DC, US

• Maintained Ultra High Frequency LOS and BLOS equipment on board US Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyers.
• Maintained the AN/SRQ-4 Hawklink (LAMPS MK III)
• Knowledgeable in the data paths that are utilized by the NAVY for HF, UHF, EHF, SHF, and INMARSAT.
• Accomplished hundreds of hours of corrective and preventive maintenance utilizing the following test equipment: Oscilloscopes, Signal Generators, and Communication Analyzers.
• Utilized root cause analysis and solved numerous equipment malfunctions that occurred during live military operations in the Persian Gulf where human life could be at risk.