Stuart Yarost Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Al, Us

Provides Airworthiness Certification support to the Army Futures Command System Readiness Directorate (SRD) as a subject matter expert per civilian and military standards, such as the AMACC and DO-178C, including both DoD systems and commercial systems. Reviews and audits in all phases of software development to include software requirements, analysis, design, code, integration, unit, and verification test for compliance with airworthiness certification.• Attend audits and other supplier facing meetings, providing analysis in real time to US Government (USG) participants. Due to capability to assimilate and further explain certification issues, requested to attend supplier facing meetings for multiple rotor craft Programs.• Lead competition phase sub-supplier audits, leading to identification of issues to be resolved in future phases of development.• Sole USG reviewer for army software certification authority providing early review of USG created rotor craft Post Production Software Support (PPSS) planning documents, prior to internal formal USG review and formal submission to USG certification authority for approval. • Lead effort to propose updates to the Army Military Airworthiness Certification Criteria (AMACC) Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML). Worked with the AI Working Group (AIWG) and created initial draft of an outline of the necessary updates to the AMACC to the United States Government (USG) stakeholders.•​Reviewed and helped write a position paper on MOSA, and how the AMACC might need to be updated to support MOSA/MBSE/DE, etc. Reviewed paper as it was being developed, added content and helped develop position.

Huntsville, Al, Us

First engineer for new Certification group, hired to develop processes and provide oversight, allowing Abaco Systems COTS products to be part of DO-254 and DO-178C certified applications• Designed DO-254, DO-178C compliance Problem Report system in JIRA, and provided training in its use.• Created process to allow SAP to be used as a HC1/CC1 compliant document management system.• Set-Up structure for HC2/CC2 compliant file management system in Perforce Version Control System• Wrote Software Quality Assurance and Hardware Process Assurance processes and plans• Provided oversight on creation of all project plans.• Created and provided training for certification compliant review process• Providing oversight of SW and FW development and verification activities. Requirements maintained in DOORS.• Supporting (Stage of Involvement) SOI audits for SW and CEH product per DO-178C and DO-254• Developed and providing training Quality Assurance on how DO-178C and DO-254 Certification affects Quality Assurance.• Member of Engineering team to update Global Engineering Processes for all divisions as Process, Quality and Configuration support; Wrote first draft of new Global Process document based on existing checklists.• Member of Quality Assurance team guiding implementation of new Quality Management Documentation System; Created initial list of capabilities new system must have.• Leading design, development and rollout of new document management system for Abaco process documents.

Davenport, Iowa, Us

Performing First Article Inspections (FAIs) to support the Body Fuel Tank (BFT) for the KC46 Tanker per AS9102B. Using DISCUS 9.2.0 to generate bubbled drawings and initial Forms 1, 2 and 3. Using SwiftChill, TipQA and Oracle for data mining of remainder of historical data.

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Principal Engineer, AGCE Process/Quality Lead: 2016 - 2017Project Engineer, Quality Assurance: 2012 - 2016Promoted from Project Engineer to Principal Engineer responsible for leadership of Central Engineering Process Support team that performed regulatory and development oversight of many aerospace products• Technical Lead for Quality Engineers for Central Engineering, assigning duties and approving work products.• Supported (Stage of Involvement) SOI audits for SW and CEH products for Boeing, Bombardier and Gulfstream per DO-178C and DO-254• Active in Change Control Boards, Test Witnessing, Tools Qualification, Formal Reviews and formal test runs.• Managed reviews for Requirements, Design and code of Fly-by-Wire system software• Active as QA in Process Improvement for all Central Engineering Processes.• Active as QA in Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) process for avionics systemic issues.• Improved processes and created training for Problem Reports (PRs), Reviews of Firmware and Software products.• Led the creation of metrics to track the status and quality of Reviews and PRs.• Involved with Process Steering Committee for Central Engineering during CMMi effort

Promoted from Software Quality Engineer to Sr. Software Quality Engineer• FAA Designated Engineering Representative (DER) Candidate. Part 23, 25, 27 and 29• Performed oversight per DO-178B on the SW development of for all aerospace product, including Data Concentrator Units (DCUs), Data Acquisition Units (DAUs) and Smart Servo, integrated avionics display system for general aviation. Customers included Rockwell Collins and Sikorsky.• Supplier software management over SW supplier, • Provided oversight on Configuration Management (CM) improved standard processes for CM and SQA• Audits accomplished per DO-178B SW Level A. Participated in SOI reviews as both auditor and examinee.• Ran Test Readiness Reviews (TRR)• Inspected product as final inspector prior to shipment• Participated in AS9102 First Article Inspections (FAI)• Participated in successful AS9100B and 9100C audits.• Member of Change Control Board, participated in Tools Qualification, Formal Reviews and formal test runs.

• Performed Gap Analysis for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) effort to bring the new SAP magnetic archive procedures and policies into compliance with NRC RIS-2000-018 and NIRMA TG16-1998.

• Participated in reviews of formal artifact per DO-178B for Boeing 787 Dreamliner Common Core System.• Participated in SW SOI2 and SOI3 reviews.

New York, Ny, Us

• Conducted audits on SW and HW development on multiple projects per DO-178B and DO-254, including phase transition audits, oversight audits of formal artifacts and configuration management audits (DOORS)• Assisted in the development of Plans and Standards per DO-178B and DO-254 and DO-200A per AS9100B.• Led and participated in SW SOI reviews and HW SOI reviews.• Represented SQA at meetings, including Change Control Board, Tools Qualification, Formal Reviews and tests.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Quality Assurance Analyst for new E-Commerce web site for publishing house, responsible for developing test plans and scripts for two phase deliveries. Using Compuware tool set (QA Director, QA Central, Track Record, Test Partner, Reconcile and File Aid).

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Software Quality Assurance Analyst (Contractor): Monticello Nuclear Plant, Monticello, MNSoftware Quality Assurance Team Lead (Contractor): Palisades Nuclear Plant, Covert, MI • Team Lead for implementing new Software Quality Assurance (SQA) program at Palisades Nuclear Plant. Lead 3 technical writers in creating SQA plans for 28 applications. Completed on tight schedule.• Implemented new SQA program at Monticello Nuclear Plant.• Created new SQA Plan template based upon IEEE STD-730-1998 and ASME NQA-1-1994• Audited Software Product Managers for information necessary to complete the SQA Plans under the new program.• Created Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) for the existing applications.• Created Software Test Plans (STP) to test the requirements in the SRS.

Munich, De

• Technical lead on multiple programs, all of which came in on time and under budget.• Developed and modified software and hardware solutions to control sortation and routing of packages through conveyer systems.• Installed and commissioned software controlling sortation systems. Integrated software solution with controls. Minimal changes required at site. Programs increase daily production at all sites. Trained customers and supplied support documentation. • Led definition, testing of standard hardware platforms and requirements for 240-person Software Engineering organization, reducing project time and cost for all projects and increasing standardization and the maintainability of the systems in the field.• Tested off-the-shelf hardware and software necessary to implement high-reliability system architectures for use on projects. Created standard methods for use of hardware and software, and trained all other engineers in their use.• Specified and tested disaster recovery solutions, including both hardware and software solutions. This allowed Siemens Dematic to offer multiple levels of disaster recovery solutions to our customers, from a manual cold backup to and automatic warm failover. • Participate in successful ISO 9001 audit.

Worked directly for the president testing device drivers for VisSim; a graphical environment for simulation. 2nd Job.

Marlborough, Ma, Us

• Wrote Test Plan and Requirements Documents for the verification, validation and testing of the INSITE system, a system that remotely monitors an electrical substation. Tested, analyzed and provided model reports on every build of system. SQA records were subject to audit by the DOE Nuclear Regulatory Commission.• Developed a test station capable of generating coordinated signals necessary to test the INSITE system using LabVIEW.• Wrote Standard Operating Procedures for Quality Assurance; instrumental in passing ISO 9001 audit.• Wrote and implemented SOP for virus protection of critical company computer assets.• Analyzed and reported future hardware and software requirements for the Quality Assurance Engineering Group.

• Provided engineering expertise supporting the Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) program. Researched and briefed management on potential problems from different interpretations of standards between the US and non-US systems.• Attended Program Management Reviews, Preliminary Design Reviews and Critical Design Reviews as a Government representative for various AWACS projects.• Held Secret Clearance

• Provided technical support to the DoD digital simulation prototype project Radar Technical Working Group.• Validated and tested software written in Ada that simulated the electronic components of a radar system.• Wrote driver programs and UNIX test scripts in Ada, C and C++ in support of the testing.• Wrote an extensive report used as the basis for the Government validation of the simulation software.• Held Secret Clearance

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Computer Engineer at Center for Supportability and Technology Insertion (1991 to 1992)• Artificial Intelligence Systems Engineer at Artificial Intelligence Support Center (1990 to 1991)• Avionics Flight Test Engineer at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base (1986 to 1988)• Systems Analyst at the Air Force Flight Test Center (1985 to 1986)• Held Secret Clearance

Ms, Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering