Help people develop resiliency skills, as well as help them work through past trauma through the art of tableaux. Lead, oversee, and implement operational and managerial procedures of Gray Matter Resiliency, to include raising funds for programs and operations, as well as securing sponsorship for events and programs. Serve as a charismatic leader and industry expert in the community. Create and maintain advantageous partnerships and collaborations with individuals, businesses, and organizations. Develop and lead program goal discussions and objectives; evaluate the effectiveness of GMR activities and regularly update programing to optimize success. Develop and steward individual donors, local, state, and federal grants, and cooperate sponsorships. Oversee business operations of GMR to include budget creation, expense tracking and reconciliation, artist and contractor payments, and delegating duties to GMR employees and volunteers.

Analyzes, integrates, documents, tests, troubleshoots, and debugs large complex application software, hardware, and networking components. Ensures software, hardware, and interface standards are met. Conducts systems analysis and integration activities related to the development, maintenance, and/or installation, deployment of service oriented and networked computer programs to support proprietary application systems or internal business operations.

Lead, oversee, and implement operational and managerial procedures of The Pikes Peak Arts Council, to include raising funds for programs and operations, as well as securing sponsorship for events and programs. Lead PPAC Educational team in securing and booking educators to teach the business side of art. Plays a role as a critical arts leader and advocate within the Pikes Peak Region. Leads Curation team and administer exhibitions, lectures, and other events. Serve as a charismatic leader and industry expert in the community. Create and maintain advantageous partnerships and collaborations with individuals, businesses, and organizations. Develop and lead program goal discussions and objectives; evaluate the effectiveness of PPAC activities and regularly update programing to optimize success. Support Board of Directors to optimize community relevance and ensure adequate financial resources for PPAC programing. Lead Social Media Manager to promote and drive participation in PPAC programming and Events. Develop and steward individual donors, local, state, and federal grants, and cooperate sponsorships. Implement ancillary programming to generate earned revenue to fund programming and microgrants. Oversee business operations of PPAC to include budget creation, expense tracking and reconciliation, artist and contractor payments, and delegating duties to PPAC board members and volunteers.

Provides systems engineering support to Kratos Space Research and Development group. Duties include but not limited to Engineering Advisement for development, integration, and testing of new Space capabilities. This includes assurance of a well-documented baseline and standardization of appropriate engineering documentation with a heavy focus on requirements, testing, workflow, and roadmaps. Utilizes extensive experience in disparate disciplines in various advisory roles, including but not limited to revising engineering drawings and creating new and updated templates to meet or exceed engineering standards, redirecting, and setting expectations for appropriate documentation standards, and improving document management. Creating test methodology, documenting test results, test plan, and conduct scheduling deconfliction.

Provides systems engineering support to the Space Systems Command SZQS Program Office. Duties include but not limited to Engineering Advisement for development, integration, and testing of new capabilities within an existing architecture. This includes assurance of a well-documented baseline and standardization of appropriate engineering documentation with a heavy focus on requirements, testing, workflow, and roadmaps. Utilizes extensive experience in disparate disciplines in various advisory roles, including but not limited to revising engineering drawings and templates to meet or exceed engineering standards, redirecting, and setting expectations for appropriate documentation standards, and improving document management. Test Management role includes but not limited to the development of test methodology, documenting test results, plan, and conduct test programs, scheduling deconfliction, and advising Chief Engineer of results and way forward.

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Senior professional with strong knowledge of job area and broad knowledge of project management. Manages complex projects or processes with general oversight. Communicates within and outside of own function to gain cooperation on operational processes, practices, and procedures. Makes moderate to substantial improvements to systems and processes. Contributes to achievement of departmental goals and operating plans with direct impact on the departmental results. Responsible for the assembly, integration, and testing of Ground Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) software and hardware components. Develops, reviews, and approves integration planning and process documentation and artifacts. Develops automated and manual integration tests and system checkouts. Tracks integration progress and system maturity through the integration phase. Establishes an engineering assessment of product maturity to proceed to formal test and release.Analyzes, integrates, documents, tests, troubleshoots, and debugs large complex application software, hardware, and networking components. Ensures software, hardware, and interface standards are met. Conducts systems analysis and integration activities related to the development, maintenance, and/or installation, deployment of service oriented and networked computer programs to support proprietary application systems or internal business operations.Mentors and provides daily guidance to GEODSS Integration team members. Responsible for the assignment of Integration tasks for integrators assigned to multiple ongoing projects.

System architecture process including requirements generation, system requirements/design reviews, preliminary design, peer reviews, detailed design, test plan generation, and integration and test. Support customer proposals for complex architectures (Basis of Estimates (BOEs), Cost Volumes, and Technical Volumes). Capable of leading teams of designers to realize architectures in collaboration with other disciplines. Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. Review and support development of documentation, analysis, and reports related to test results. Review and support development test tools & scripts in support of testing. Review and support development test related artifacts to include test plans, procedures, reports, cases, problem reports, deficiency reports, and briefings. Lead and manage Test Bed and Integration activities. Perform defect tracking during testing and assist in analysis of system and component level issues and deficiencies and assist in the mitigation and resolution. Support evaluations and provide technical assessment at system and software level reviews. Support the development of technical documentation outlining test configuration, levels, methods, and environments. Support test activities to include trial periods, operational test events, prototype demonstrations, and training. Develop and instrument standard test processes. Recommend and implement process improvement initiatives.

Responsible for developing upgraded hardware and associated interfaces for the Solid State Phased Array Radar and Optical Systems. Designs and configures hardware and networks for Radar and Optical systems. Analyzes / develops requirements for sustainment and modernization engineering projects. Subsequently, develops briefings, trade studies, project deliverables and associated documentation. Formulates requirements and analysis, develops and formalizes designs into systems, schematics, and ICDs. Determine the technical objectives and top level project requirements necessary to satisfy Customer requirements, deliverables, and expectations for sustainment and modernization hardware projects. Develop a design based on the requirements and associated architectures allocated to the subsystem level. Design activities that include design analyses, modeling, simulations, drawing development, and bread boarding and prototyping activities. Ensure compliance with the approved Systems Specifications/Requirements and allocates requirements to the appropriate configuration items. Support reverse engineering of obsolete components; create new specifications for purpose of procurement of functional replacement of obsolete components. Develops and presents technical briefings to upper management, government representatives, and Air Force personnel.

Assists in planning, executing and reporting on all aspects of command-directed Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) of joint and allied weapon systems for HQ AFSPC and ACC. Evaluates system effectiveness and suitability by assessing collected data versus MAJCOM operational requirements. Ensures emerging space and Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) technology continues to meet warfighters' operational requirements. Explores new space and missile warning technologies and develops new operational procedures in support of space and missile warning testing. Identifies deficiencies and highlight enhancements to system performance directly supporting the warfighter. Co-authors test plans, test procedures and test reports. Supports coordination of test documentation through AFSPC,ACC, Air Staff and DoD.

Perform strategic and theater missile detection in a real-time operations environment. Analyze and report worldwide surveillance. Provide direct support of national security and global air and space defense. Monitor areas of interest and process infrared data to ensure valid battle space characterization for war fighters worldwide. Analyze the quality of mission data and associated ground systems to maintain global warning coverage as well as monitoring activities of satellites. Create, implement, and validate policies and procedures to support performance upgrades to architecture. Perform missile detection, collection and reporting.

Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems, and information technology related responsibilities including design, development, and analysis of computer systems and programs based on and related to user or system design specifications; applying systems analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users to determine hardware, software, or system functional specifications.

Performs software application maintenance on assigned mission systems running a variety of operating systems to include Solaris, UNIX, Linux and Windows. Help establish requirements for software enhancements. Detects, isolates, documents, quickly reports, and resolves system outages, or problems encountered during operations of the operational system baseline, which includes the collection of diagnostic data, restoring the system operation, development of workarounds, and other activities necessary for recovery of a system.

Develop software and hardware test methods, test plans, and test procedures; assist in the design and evaluation of test equipment and facilities to be used in testing software and prototype hardware; analyze and interpret performance data; support development of requirements for new systems, development of test measures and criteria for requirements-based testing, test execution and reporting activities; support data management activities associated with testing and analysis of test data to determine satisfaction of test.

Briefed, developed and presented reports with management and personnel from cross-organizational departments in team meetings to identify and resolve problems. Preformed impact assessment of customer requests by properly staging and planning of wafer start times and end of process times. Knowledgeable and experienced in integrated circuit process. Developed, organized and delivered technical training programs for personnel. Trained new hires on job specifications in a Class 1 clean room.