MDA Command, Control, Battle Management and Communication (C2BMC) - G

Technical SME to the Warfighting and Counterspace, Combat Systems Branch.•Providing technical leadership to the acquisition activities for the Counter Communications Systems (CCS) family of weapons. •Technical contributor to the development of RFIs, RFPs, Sources Sought, Statements of Work (SOWs), and ECPs.•Technical evaluator of contractor responses providing feedback to government leadership.•Perform risk assessments of contractor product support plans across the complete lifecycle.•Evaluate contractor PMR data and assess program execution, earned value metrics, and risk burn down.•Acting as SME to Foreign Military Sales (FMS) activities for CCS to allied and coalition partners. •Performing technical assessment of acquisition packages and contractor proposals/performance.•Participate in contractor Agile Sprint Reviews and planning to achieve Minimum Viable Product delivery.•Evaluate and guide program development and integration with Space C2 modernization efforts to include artificial intelligence, data analytics, automation of tasking, and cloud-based technologies.

Portfolio Architecture Modeling & Simulation Senior Project Leader.•Led project teams in the analysis and evaluation of satellite prototypes, models, digital twins, and future space system architectures to inform and define future development efforts. •Performed project planning, assigned resources, determined staffing needs, coordinated activities and communication with customers, counterpart organizations and management. •Assessed and prioritized future satellite concepts and systems to be built and operated by the Air Force.•Developed analysis plans that defined objectives, specific questions or problems to be addressed and overall approach for resolution. •Determined assessment criteria and technical performance metrics to be used for evaluation. Evaluated the applicability of existing models and simulations and planned the development of new models and simulations. •Defined existing/programmed mission area capabilities and threat scenarios to be utilized. •Established baseline architecture performance and capability/resiliency gaps. •Assessed the contribution of prototypes and new system concepts to mission capability and resilience. •Interpreted, documented and presented analysis results to senior leadership.

Senior Systems Engineer, Enterprise Ground•Provided systems engineering support to the Enterprise Ground Services program.•Supported SMC in the development of common hosted payloads and associated ground elements.•Collaborated with government, contractor, and commercial program offices to conduct architecture assessments and develop requirements, standards, and interface control documents. •Developed plans to mature and integrate new capabilities into space systems.•Assured an integrated approach to systems engineering for end-to-end performance, integrity of interfaces, and user access to integrated capabilities.•Performed technical assessment of acquisition packages and contractor proposals/performance.•Identified risk management process improvements for the ground enterprise to improve agility, flexibility, and efficiency of development programs.•Provided SME support to the Space C2 Standards Consortium regarding Sat C2 and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) for Universal Command and Control Initiative (UCI) messaging.

Provide systems engineering support to the AF Space Defense Task Force (SDTF) Enterprise Space Battle Management Command and Control (ESBMC2) Division.•Performed systems requirements development, traceability, and reviews using the Open Mission Systems (OMS) approach and design derivation employing Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) in an Agile context (SAFE). •Ensured design compliance with the Universal Command and Control Initiative (UCI) interface definition.•Provided technical input to business development activities, proposal development and RFIs

Provide technical leadership and Site Activation support to GPS on site at Schriever AFB.•Managed the installation of Next Generation GPS (OCX) and the GPS III Space Vehicle Launch & Checkout System (LCS) at Schriever Air Force Base.•Performed technical reviews of engineering changes that had potential impact to GPS Transition.•Provided technical input to design and implementation reviews for the AEP to OCX ICD.•Performed Technical Evaluations of Special Study Reports.•Performed reviews on proposed OCX Operational Concepts for NAVWAR and Cybersecurity.•Provided technical reviews of Contingency Operations (COps) concepts and proposed designs

Provide technical leadership to both the government and contractor teams.•Requirements development, operational test, integration, validating ops concepts, Transition, Information Assurance (IA), Human Systems Integration (HSI), Training Systems, Life-Cycle Logistics, and Sustainment.•Supported the development of products for the acquisition decision process: Systems Engineering Plan (SEP), Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP).•Technical Lead for the creation of an Interface Control Document (ICD) defining data content and physical configuration for the interface between OCX and legacy GPS ground system.•Conducted programmatic reviews of OCX contractor assumptions for formal Design Reviews (IBR/SDR/PDR/CDR) to ensure appropriateness of assumptions, resolution of gaps and exceptions following a tailored MIL-STD-1521B. Received a personal letter of appreciation from the Air Force PM.•Provided technical leadership by establishing plans, performance required, and created status reports on all GPS Directorate Systems Engineering and Integration tasks related to Test, Integration, and Transition to Ops.•Developed the top-down requirements for development and analysis, define user needs, a plan for integration, verification at all levels, transition and a change request process including ICDs.•Provided technical input for OCX SOW and Sections L&M of the Phase B RFP.•Performed testing and verification of the GPS Interference and Analysis Tool (GIANT).•Created a performance based SOW for the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) Camp Parks maintenance contract for AFSPC MCWG/XX and developed the first Material Fielding plan for AEHF. •Provided technical input to corporate business development activities, proposal development and responses.

2d Space Operations Squadron, GPS Operations Center Lead Operations Engineer.•Led team of 12 engineers and analysts working 24/7 in support of the GPS Operations Center (GPSOC). Directly responsible for sustainment, improvement and testing of all GPSOC information technology infrastructure and oversight of all mission planning and GPS outage investigation support activities. •Provided sub-system and high level test and integration support to DOD, DOT, and civilian GPS users to resolve issues involving receivers and other GPS dependent systems to include weapons platforms.•Provided mission planning, Integrated System Test (IST) planning, anomaly resolution, and GPS interference analysis using GIANT, SCOPES, JLOC and GALE-Lite.•In support of Systems Integration duties, performed reviews of requirements, specifications and ICDs for the GPS Space Segment: Block II/IIA/IIR/IIR-M/IIF Satellite Vehicle bus subsystems, payload components, on-orbit flight characteristics, and ops (GPS space vehicle simulator development).•Provided detailed engineering support to the MCS Architecture Evolution Program (AEP) transition effort to resolve hardware, software and network issues between legacy, development, and users.•Provided GPS performance/sensitivity analysis and trades to Air Force leadership, the Independent Review Team (IRT) and GPS Constellation Sustainment and Assessment Team (CSAT).•Provided modeling and simulation direction to GPS Directorate (GPG) SE&I team.•Provided technical input to business development activities, proposal development and responses.

•Responsible for leading and managing the development of satellite ground system projects to include assisting customers in requirements analysis, design tradeoffs, and developed system architectures. •Responsible for business development, proposal development, and cost estimates. •Managed direct engineering support to MUOS, Skynet, EPS, Orbital Express, SBIRS, and STSS.•Supported design of next generation satellite TT&C cryptographic methodologies and algorithms.•Supported test and integration of experimental satellites and ground system components.•Performed OCONUS travel in support of operations center upgrades.

•Supervised the Simulation SW development team comprised of Boeing and several subcontractors to develop GPS Satellite and Ground Systems Simulation products to support Training, Integrated Logistic Support and Test activities.•Developed Verification Criteria, Integrated Master Schedule and Integrated Master Plan inputs.•Cost Accounting Manager (CAM) for the project. Tracked and reported Earned Value.•Responsible for identifying, tracking and mitigating program risk.•Responsible for the test, deployment and integration of new and upgraded systems (HW, SW, Networks and Security Packages) to customer locations at Schriever and Vandenberg AFB.•Responsible for managing Operations and Maintenance of Simulators at remote sites.•Produced NTE, ROM, BOEs and Proposals.•Briefed Air Force leadership on a weekly basis.•Provided inputs for program CMMI accreditation.•Participated in SW Specifications, Interface Specification development and ICD Working Groups.•Producing and evaluated Technical Performance Measures (TPMs).•Supported efforts to be the first Boeing program validated in Rational Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) for requirements management and traceability.

•Provided technical leadership for advanced military navigation systems, Emerging Navigation Systems, Joint Precision Approach Landing System (JPALS), multi-spectral ISR systems, Unmanned Air Combat Vehicles (U-CAV), GPS simulators, and RF data storage system development.•Led GPS Selective Availability Anti Spoofing Module (SAASM) receiver design team and provided development plan to the JPO to receive SAASM developer status.•Responsible for system requirements analysis, system architecture, software requirements analysis, preliminary design reviews, and detailed design reviews through system integration, testing and fielding.•Responsible for risk management: proactively identified, analyzed, prioritized, and monitored the areas of the software development project that involved potential technical, cost, or schedule risks.•Managed budget, schedule, and resource planning for development projects.•Performed formal design reviews and product demonstrations for DOD customers.•Performed ITAR export compliance activities and acted as POC of Foreign Military Sales for the company.•Provided technical input to business development activities, proposal development and responses.

•Supervised cross-functional software development teams, including test and integration of multiple scale, complex, and concurrent projects using DevOps methodologies and processes. •Ensured compliance of projects with company's process and procedures throughout lifecycle. Systems include GIS enabled customer data derived from legacy systems delivered near-real-time via the web in a secure environment resistant to cyber attack.•Technologies utilized include Java, C++, iPlanet, Weblogic, CORBA, JSP, XML, HTML, secure Sockets, and TCP/IP. Designed multiple-tier distributed systems with high availability, geo-failover, on large enterprise Sun UNIX/Solaris servers with Oracle databases in multiple firewalled/DMZ environments.•Responsible for the design, development, test and implementation of Sprint’s CRM system.•Coordinated project planning to estimate resources, work efforts, and delivery dates in conjunction with business objectives and key stakeholder requirements.•Managed vendors to deliver solutions and meet IT and business unit Service Level Agreements.•Performed risk analysis, contingency planning and continuity of operations planning.