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• Manage scheduling/resources during IOT providing timely transfer of satellite to customer.• Handle program IOT budget to insure costing accuracy and project expenditure responsibility.

• Credited with design adaptation of a unit whose application realizes both a mass budget reduction and overall implementation cost savings.• Validated end to end wiring and signal distribution of protoflight model spacecraft 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.• Identify and analyze failures to determine troubleshooting steps, as well as conclude and instruct corrective action.• Aided in on-orbit anomaly research and resolution.

• System Test Development of cutting edge information transport technology using both optical and sub-carrier multiplexing principles.• Evaluate outcome-based attributes of innovative 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.• Familiar 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.• Inspire confidence and establish capability through flight critical readiness during launch operations. • Involvement in data review to improve system level test integration.• Writing and implementing procedures for new product lines.• Isolate spacecraft failures through the use of integrated schematics, wirelists, and firmware databases.• Organize test plan for off-shift activities to support a 24-7 manufacturing schedule.