I’m a software safety engineer with over 20 years of experience of software safety analysis for unmanned autonomous vehicle systems in the defense industry. My entry into the field of software safety engineering was preceded by several years as a software engineer, writing safety critical software for real time embedded systems in the medical device industry. I began the first 18 years of my safety career with Northrop Grumman, starting with the engineering and development of the USAF RQ-4 Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial System, developing software safety analysis processes and building a software safety team to contribute to the achievement of the first Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to receive Military Type Certification. I developed new processes for software safety change analysis and software Level of Rigor (LOR) assessments for follow on programs, including the NASA KQ-X, Navy MQ-4C Triton, and NATO AGS RQ-4D Phoenix. In 2021, I was hired into Boeing to bring my software safety expertise with unmanned autonomous vehicle systems to the engineering and development of the Navy MQ-25 Stingray, Navy Orca XLUUV, and Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat programs. I’m currently a technical lead engineer for a software LOR audit team and software safety engineering team, developing software safety analysis processes, providing technical oversight, training, mentoring, and serving as a software safety subject matter expert to multiple programs.
Listed skills include Embedded Systems, Systems Engineering, System Safety, Earned Value Management, and 1 others.