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Alexandria, Va

As senior SETA, provides technical and programmatic guidance and oversight for a national program supporting innovative acquisition and development. Work scope encompasses requirements review, Risk writing and tracking, CONOPS development, and providing consultative support to customer for vendor selection.

Chantilly, Va

Provides technical and programmatic support to Program Manager in an organization that fosters, coordinates, and implements innovations in technologies, systems, and CONOPs to solve hard problems for the IC and DoD. Provides technical support and advice to several development efforts in parallel in a high intensity environment, as well as delivering a strategic perspective, to help ensure that intermediate steps are on a path that helps achieve long term goals.

Chantilly, Va

Systems Engineer / Jul 2017 – Jun 2018Stellar Peak, Reston, VASupports specific Mission System Closure Team through reviewing CONOPS, assessing systems and enterprise risks, and leading Program Status Review effort. Experienced in working with SIGINT national systems that encompasses interacting with diverse entities for tasking, collection, processing and dissemination activities.

Chantilly, Va

Acts as Ground Segment Lead SETA on a national intelligence program. Directly supervises seven talented staff; coordinated efforts and provides direction to numerous engineers in matrixed organization. Works daily with the customers; reports directly to the Program Manager. • Works with segments to resolve issues with a System Integration end-to-end methodology; identifies programmatic and engineering issues and makes recommendations for their resolution to the government customer contractor.• Provides oversight of Program Ground Segment engineering processes to include evaluation of technical, risk, and cost impacts to the program baseline. • Participates with other SETAs, analysts and developers in a demonstration and development lab for planning specific tasking and processing approaches and sensor / collection demonstrations.

Chantilly, Va

Participated in major multi-agency systems engineering effort to integrate and test thirteen individual IT segments into a new building that encompasses work spaces for hundreds of military and government engineers and analysts. • Efforts included all aspects of schedule management, requirements verification, major milestone support, and supporting the adjudication of issues and actions.• Worked closely with operators/analysts in identifying issues and tailoring SOPs and operator handbooks as the teams migrated weekly into their new facility and positions.

Maintains systems and segment requirements sets across seventeen disparate multi-intelligence programs. Monitors results of test activities for completion of major milestone activities. Coordinates issues between government customer and developers on configuration management issues for installation and baseline configuration changes.

Chantilly, Va

Works as a SETA within a communications geolocation program, whose efforts are directed at coordinating activities supporting situational awareness, both for near real-time and term studies, in Central & Southern Asia and Far East theaters. Drafts CONOPs, systems architectures, requirements verification and test plans with theater and national military (USFK, CENTCOM) and IC entities. Ensured that integrated collected data from varied platforms was then properly disseminated to military and national customer sets. Effort required extensive interaction with government, FFRDC, and developer entities to accomplish stated goals. • Activities included preparing for and conducting segment and end-to-end tests in labs and at military sites; leading TEMs on data quality; and ISR platform TCPED issues. • Awarded Mission Integration Directorate “Contractor of the Quarter” for FQ2013. • Worked collaboratively on high altitude requirements derivation and trace for major milestone deliverable for DNI-level milestone. Develops the Mission Manager’s Program Status Review (PSR) briefings, to include preparing notes for the issues addressed. Reviews documentation that may have system impacts, delay key milestones, or incur cost or mission risk. Recommends the level of effort that systems receive by Readiness Review Teams; monitors system readiness, focusing on schedule slips, and discrepancy reporting from early verification testing.

Chantilly, Va

Supports System Integration activities by leading a specific Multi-Segment Test effort. Coordinates with developers and Core Team Leads. Reviews and manages the Integrated Verification Trace Matrix document, and all applicable test procedures for accuracy and completeness to formally verify Sponsor requirements. Helps to decompose higher level requirements to system and functional level requirements and specifications. • Selected to lead Requirements Verification effort for testing of major delivery to OCONUS facility, as well as technical meetings to reconcile requirements and procedures that were executed during testing. • Extensive experience with testing across delivery segments to satisfy military and civilian operators and analysts before acquisition is integrated into the baseline.

M.A., Pastoral Ministry

Mssc, Social Sciences

Ba, Asian Studies

Korean Language