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IT Systems Manager for Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving System Program Office (MCDSPO) at HMAS Waterhen on contract via Jacobs Australia.

• Coordinated a team of systems engineers to identify improvements and create templates for Systems Engineering Management Plans, Maintenance Management Plans, Interface Control Documents, System/Sub-system Specifications and System Design Documents. • Activities associated with CMMI, TeamTrack, DOORS, intranet and configuration management process development and administration including training and policy.• Authored corporate procedures, templates and policies for requirements analysis, system engineering management, design reviews, trade studies, systems architecture, validation, safety and risk management, project tools (including DOORS and TREK), defect and issue tracking tools and procedures using TeamTrack.

• Engineering, coordination and design authority activities for the AP-3C AFS full flight simulator, including tactical environment, upgraded avionics processors, off-board instructor station facilities, camera and video equipment, radar and Data Management Simulation etc.• Organised programme management, risk reviews, Data Management Review Board meetings and product acceptance reviews with the RAAF. Contract Change and Engineering Change Proposal preparation and negotiation, software and hardware design, scheduling, risk management, safety systems analysis, resource planning, cost estimation, AEO maintenance and DSM security accreditation.• System requirements analysis and management (DOORS database), Design Criteria preparation and approval, Preliminary Design (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR) presentations, integration, acceptance, accreditation, problem report coordination and defect database.

• Bid preparation, system requirements analysis and database management (DOORS), project scheduling, preliminary software and hardware design, work breakdown structures, risk and resource planning, cost and time estimation, conformance matrices and creation of project engineering management plans for military and naval projects.

(RAAF Airlift C130J upgrade, Air 87, ASLAV, Indonesian C130H, QANTAS Dash-8 upgrade, RAN ANZAC simulator, Vistagraphics DG design, Taiwan visual databases for Air China, Air New Zealand and the RAAF).Responsibilities included:• Bid preparation, requirements reviews, initial H/W & S/W design, cost estimates, scheduling, risk management, project management plans, compliancy matrices, training course analysis, feasibility and trade studies.

(AEW&C Airborne Early Warning and Control - IDA)Responsibilities included:• Technical bid preparation, requirements analysis, requirements database (DOORS), preliminary design, work breakdown structure, scheduling, cost estimation, staff resources, conformance matrices, trade studies, logistics, design reviews, risk and project management plans, system, hardware and software development plans.

Australian Army Black Hawk helicopter, RAAF C130J Airlift SimulatorsResponsibilities included:• Staff coordination and supervision, requirements analysis, cost estimation, work breakdown structures, scheduling, system specification, software design, configuration management, design reviews, MMI display design and layout, coding in C, C++, Fortran, test, integration, acceptance test procedures and accreditation to FSD level 5. Japan Airlines 777 Simulator, TDTS Train Describer• Staff supervision, software design, display definition and creation, database design, software configuration management, coding, testing, installation, integration and software support for the TDTS train control system.

Formed own contracting company and performed design, code, test and integration of the man/machine interface for industrial operations, messaging and real-time control system for Comalco Aluminium smelter using Graphical Modelling System (GMS) on Unix with C, Perl, shell scripts, HTML, JAVA and Case tools on DEC ALPHA workstations.

Hardware and software design and coding of real-time control systems and user interfaces for industrial control systems specialising in coal fired, hydroelectric and nuclear power stations. Using C, Windows NT, Hummingbird X-Windows, SQL, and Oracle on SUN workstations.

• Programme management of the Loy Yang Power Station control system for the SECV. (Digital Control System $10M) Involved costing, scheduling, design approval, customer liaison etc. The project entailed designing and building 23 cubicles of computer and support equipment each year for 4 years including the PC board manufacture, cabling, peripherals and software test and customer acceptance.

Project Manager, Instructor and Software/Systems Engineer for various control system projects including APPM, ANM, BHP, MIM, ALCOA and Woodside petroleum. (average $3M each.)