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Colorado Springs, Co, Us

- Provide innovative internal and external technical leadership, collaboration across all stakeholders, and effective communication to meet customer and program requirements- Maintain cognizance of relevant technical issues and concerns, elevate to SE&I and government leadership appropriately and provide resolution recommendations- Coordinate and lead the resolution of enterprise level technical issues; engage with appropriate government and SE&I teams, and ensure PoR and technical… Show more - Provide innovative internal and external technical leadership, collaboration across all stakeholders, and effective communication to meet customer and program requirements- Maintain cognizance of relevant technical issues and concerns, elevate to SE&I and government leadership appropriately and provide resolution recommendations- Coordinate and lead the resolution of enterprise level technical issues; engage with appropriate government and SE&I teams, and ensure PoR and technical baseline updates and corrections are tracked and accomplished- Conduct development product technical assessments to ensure solutions are integrated and effectively meet customer needs prior to program delivery- Manage and review the SE&I team execution required to meet or exceed performance work statement (PWS) requirements for technical, schedule, cost, and quality performance; perform hiring, work management, and performance assessments- Support improvement and innovation for process execution, data and tool utilization, enterprise/system architecture updates and improvements- Identify opportunities to leverage corporate staff, teammates, processes or tools and ensure the proper collection of metrics to measure execution effectiveness Show less

Supports and advises the government on daily activities within the Integration and Requirements Branch in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization. Develops initiatives to ensure robust mission integration, Programs of Record success, delivery of the PNT "To Be" architecture, and achieve a successful outcome for the overall PNT architecture and the SE&I program.

- Serves as secondary senior interface to SMC/GPL & GPT, as well as GPV3, GPGX, GPGC, GPEI, GPEP, and GPEV- Plans, integrates and makes technical recommendations in the execution of GPS SE&I Sustainment and Transition to Operations activities. Plans, integrates and makes technical recommendations in the sustainment of OCS, OCS Modifications, GPS Block IIA, IIR, IIR-M, III, and IIIF satellites, and the development of MCEU and OCX .- Provides technical and operational expertise for… Show more - Serves as secondary senior interface to SMC/GPL & GPT, as well as GPV3, GPGX, GPGC, GPEI, GPEP, and GPEV- Plans, integrates and makes technical recommendations in the execution of GPS SE&I Sustainment and Transition to Operations activities. Plans, integrates and makes technical recommendations in the sustainment of OCS, OCS Modifications, GPS Block IIA, IIR, IIR-M, III, and IIIF satellites, and the development of MCEU and OCX .- Provides technical and operational expertise for LiveSky, Integrated System Test, and Operational Tests- Develops long-term planning for GPS Enterprise activities and spending plans while providing assessment of interconnectivity in the complex GPS system for impacts, opportunities, and risks.- Assesses strategy changes impacting GPS Modernization CONOPS & Resources and facilitates O-6 level coordination and collaboration across GP Divisions, 50th Space Wing and HQ AFSPC to include: Min Crew Manning (MCM), Space Mission Force (SMF), Contractor Ops (Ktr Ops), Integrated Ops Environment (IOE 2.0), Enterprise Ground System (EGS), Joint National Space Defense Center (NSDC), Training Transformation, Space Enterprise Vision (SEV), Space Warfighting Construct (SWC), Multi-Domain Command & Control (MDC2), and Future payloads impact to and integration with Operations to include GPS IIIF and additional payload data dissemination. Show less

Plan, integrate, and assist in the execution of GPS Operational Control System (OCS) upgrades, contingency operations, Next-Generation Operational Control System (OCX) and other long term control segment study solutions to create a seamless transition from current to future systems. Track and integrate the evolving technical baseline to ensure integration across the GPS Enterprise, as well as develop GPS system and segment level requirements. Review developer and sustainment products and… Show more Plan, integrate, and assist in the execution of GPS Operational Control System (OCS) upgrades, contingency operations, Next-Generation Operational Control System (OCX) and other long term control segment study solutions to create a seamless transition from current to future systems. Track and integrate the evolving technical baseline to ensure integration across the GPS Enterprise, as well as develop GPS system and segment level requirements. Review developer and sustainment products and deliverables to verify compliance with the technical baseline and assess impacts to other prime contractors or agencies, including performing impact analyses on engineering change proposals. Review Interface Control Documents and Contract Data Requirements List deliverables. Develop test, operational readiness, and risk assessment recommendations. Develop processes to administer sustainment cybersecurity action reviews, addressing items through identification, prioritization, engineering development, testing, installation, and sustainment, leading to a higher cybersecurity posture. Show less

Supporting development of GPS Next Generation Operational Control Segment, GPS-OCX. System Engineering responsibilities include authoring Segment and Subsystem use cases, activity diagrams, and Operational Concept documents. Additionally, validation of requirements from CS800 through element, subsystem, and configuration item levels. Critical assessor of preliminary design and detailed design engineering artifacts to meet requirements and operational suitability of delivered capabilities… Show more Supporting development of GPS Next Generation Operational Control Segment, GPS-OCX. System Engineering responsibilities include authoring Segment and Subsystem use cases, activity diagrams, and Operational Concept documents. Additionally, validation of requirements from CS800 through element, subsystem, and configuration item levels. Critical assessor of preliminary design and detailed design engineering artifacts to meet requirements and operational suitability of delivered capabilities. Member of select team ensuring technical baseline and delivering an operationally suitable system. Show less

Directs development and employment of tactics and countermeasures. Provides space operations expertise and tactical support. Directs strategic integration activities for GPS User Operations Center supporting civil/military organizations. Develops/implements mission software and hardware changes/upgrades.

Conducted satellite maintenance actions including payload initializations, ion pumps and orbital maneuvers– maintained NAVSTAR compliance requirements. Analyzed monitor station data to maximize resource availability and satellite orbital predictions. Evaluated satellite payload health through trend analysis to guarantee operational resource availability. Generated and updated required monthly system files to ensure system accuracies and estimation guaranteed.

Ensured health, status and proper operability of navigation payload, monitor stations and external user interfaces. Executed over 4000 navigation uploads without error – ensured 99.9% availability of GPS signal to users worldwide. Assessed, detected and corrected GPS payload and monitor station anomalies – delivered precise navigation signal for warfighters and restored 100% GPS signal monitoring integrity.

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity Managment And Policy

Bachelor Of Science, Public Administration