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Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Oversaw hardware and software certification projects from proposal through production ensuring complying with federal regulations. Incorporated certification configuration management tools and processes meeting federal regulations for airborne products. Guided quality assurance, configuration, design, and verification activities. Collaborated with customers, program managers, certification authorities, and internal leaders and team members. Supervised three staff and four sub-suppliers into processes and procedures required for certification programs.● Led initial project through certification process including arranging schedules, monitoring status, and interfacing with customers, internal management, and certification authorities.● Guided team to complete 40% of Stage of Involvement certification audits and contribute to seven military project proposals including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with 40% success/win rate.● Incorporated configuration management and design assurance processes to successfully comply with federal regulations including planning, design, verification, and problem reporting in addition to existing engineering processes increasing accountability by approximately 50%.● Played key role in placing acceptable configuration management system online and approval for other tools.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Spearheaded program through partial certification. Liaised with customers and internal management for status and metric reporting, program meetings, and problem resolution. Led cross-functional team of 25 people to execute schedules within budget and schedule, including requirements, design, and verification. Generated and/or reviewed project plans and reports.● Appointed box/programmable logic manager on project from generating schedules to following progress and meeting with customers, internal management, and certification authorities to complete successful DO-254 certification audits.● Directed team through three successful DO-254 certification audits, qualification, and transfer to production.● Served as project Cost Account Manager meeting timeline and budget.● Ensured addressing all customer requirements and customer deliverable transmissions.● Designed and tracked cross-functional, resource-loaded schedules and tracked EVM and resource usage.● Oversaw firmware team through requirements and design generation and reviews.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Connected directly with customers and internal management on progress and metric reporting, program meetings, and issue resolution. Project-managed multiple commercial programs through certification and facilitated process enhancements. Directed 17 verification engineers across four projects.● Designed and followed cross-functional resource-loaded schedules for six projects on time and within budget.● Attended proposal and initial planning meetings of two programs.● Completed AS9100 audit in May 2013.● Led and completed certification audits on six programs from planning through final delivery including generating schedules, updating status, and meeting with customers, internal management, and certification authorities.● Created procedures complying with federal regulations, including Configuration Management Standard.● Oversaw certification of 10 projects from initial planning to accomplishment summaries.● Completed technical requirement and verification reviews.● Arranged and led several successful FAA audits leading to certification of related aircraft.● Supervised sub-supplier from planning through test and final certification including Statement of Work, scheduling, and budgeting concerns.● Partnered with FAA representatives and internal staff to produce process improvements maximizing and streamlining DO-254 process including design and training on two problem reporting systems and standard hardware directory structure.● Validated and verified four projects including purchase of test equipment to perform in-circuit testing.

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Debugged RTL and gate-level simulations including mixed-mode simulations. Constructed libraries and transferred simulation environment from ModelSim to Cadence NC.● Produced UNIX scripts to automate simulation and library builds.