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Los Angeles, California, United States

Expertise: Autonomous Vehicle (AV) non-nominal behavior resiliency and recovery, Fleetwide events, Remote Assistance, AV ecosystem & connectivity, Integrated testing strategies

Los Angeles, California, United States

Led development of concepts of operations, requirements, verification and validation strategies, and execution for Autonomous Vehicle (AV) features in the following areas: non-nominal behaviors, incidents, remote assistance, returning the AV to the mission.

• Systems Engineer participating in a two year rotation program consisting of 6 month rotations across the company designed to facilitate rapid maturation of the participant's technical skills, and business and.
• Rotation 4: Los Angeles, CA - (Space) | Developed MBSE functional architecture & MBSE processes for class A satellite program
• Rotation 3: Los Angeles, CA - (Space, ~$4.5B) | Developed SW integration strategy & DevOps transition plan for incremental validation
• Rotation 2: Colorado Springs, CO - (Space, ~$12M) | Deputy Deputy SEIT lead, requirement & verification plans, budget tracking
• Rotation 1: Baltimore, MD - (EW, ~$1.8B) | MBSE Lead - Functional Architecture, ConOps design

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• IBCS - A revolutionary command-and-control (C2) system enabling integration of current and future sensors and weapon systems with a ballistic missile defense system.
• SW Verification Lead (6 person team, ~$1M)
• Author on competitive proposal awarding NG ~$66M
• Lead SE for agile pilot leading to ~$66M contract
• Concepts, Architecture, & Requirements

Orlando, Florida Area

• IRST Block II - F/A-18E/F Super Hornet mounted search and track sensor system
• Developed system states & modes, and critical functional flow diagrams,
• Performed system timeline and memory analysis & defined requirements
• Prepared and presented System Requirements Review (SRR) and Preliminary Design Review (PDR) presentations

Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States

M88 Hercules - Supported architecture development for communication / electrical system redesign

Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, CA

UH60V - Supported design of Flight Management System Bingo Fuel algorithm & supported automated requirements tool to save hundreds of man-hours

Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, CA

Navigation & Positioning Systems - Programmed navigation algorithms for GPS challenged environments

Athens, OH

Received First Place, Best Presentation, and Best-Written Paper awards received at the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Conference in Nashville as well as the 2nd and 3rd annual Institute of Navigation (ION) Autonomous Snowplow Competitions in St. Paul Minnesota for the MACS team project

Athens, Ohio

University tutor in the fields of mathematics, physics, and computer science

Master Of Engineering, Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Electrical Engineering; Minor Of Mathematics, Computer Science