Ron Pendleton Email & Phone Number

Mclean, Virginia And San Diego, California

Provided management and systems engineering support to U.S. Navy and DARPA undersea surveillance programsMapped functions to requirements, created Risk Analysis spreadsheets, operational availability estimates, Design Reference Mission Profile (DRMP) information and graphics, and Physical Configuration Item (CI) Interface diagramsDeveloped and maintained B1 Spec/Requirements Traceability MatrixDeveloped and maintained a multi-year, multi-contractor budget and schedule in MS ProjectPrepared draft System Security Authorization Agreement (SSAA), wrote Cost as an Independent Variable (CAIV) report, contributed to the Cost Analysis and Requirements Document (CARD), and wrote other program documents and reportsPrepared program progress reports, project planning and tradeoff studiesPrepared documents to report compliance with Federal regulationsSupported test and evaluation activitiesParticipated in design reviews, requirements analyses, test program planning, software testing, acceptance testing, configuration management, and risk management activitiesPrepared and presented briefings to customers and other organizationsLed Amron’s quality advisory committee, working closely with senior management; performed two internal quality assessments of the companyWrote proposals

Fairfax, Virginia

Developed and taught courses on quality management and process improvement to several software development organizations around the country, based on the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM, now CMMI)Helped develop Pragma's software process improvement Implementation Acceleration Method (IAM) and workshop, taught the workshop and provided follow-up support to clientsParticipated in intensive, on-site process improvement efforts for a number of leading software development corporationsDeveloped action plans and outlines for implementation of improvements

Mclean, Virginia

Performed a Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) of the Category II Instrument Landing System for the FAA, including a detailed reliability analysis, partially based on review of failure statisticsPerformed risk analyses for FAA automated data processing facilities, involving estimation and calculation of probabilities of all types of risks to various types of facilitiesSupervised several programmers in a demonstration to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of translation of real-time air traffic control radar tracking algorithms from assembly language to a higher-order languageLed a small programming team in developing an aircraft performance advisory computer program for the U.S. Navy TA-4J aircraft; prepared User's and Programmer's Manuals

Master Of Science (M.S.), Advanced Technology, W/Specialization In Systems Science, 3.8/4.0

My coursework included probability and statistics, modeling and simulation, adaptive programming and software engineering. Graduate.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics, 2.89/4.00

Activities and Societies: Sigma Pi Sigma, writer and artist, collegiate newspaper, intramural football, volleyballTwo quarters advanced.