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Centennial, CO

Centennial, CO

El Segundo, CA

El Segundo, CA

• Mission concept development that translates user/customer needs into mission and system requirements
• Operational concept development constructing and executing system-level trades
• Define and evaluate measures of effectiveness and measures of performance
• Perform mission utility analysis and CONOPs development and force structure analysis
• Define mathematical algorithms based on requirements received from mission engineering
• Implement algorithms into simulation analysis tools to support system architecture studies, systems trades, mission utility analysis

Redondo Beach, California

• Program lead for geographically desperate cross-sector team developing integration framework between national and tactical assets
• Develops new and/or integrates existing system simulation frameworks, performance models and algorithms, threat models and command and control models
• Simulates real-time operations, develops models that simulate behavior of systems and performs operational analysis and mission effectiveness analysis
• Model operational environments, performs trade studies via computer simulation and recommends alternative architectures

Redondo Beach, California

• Developed cost competitiveness analyses, models and tools to support decision making and effective engineering integration on NGAS programs
• Developed analysis tools and provided results to support strategic program decision making by program leadership
• Key tools and integration support include: PCE, PLM Development/Support, CAD Support/data integration and automated metrics for program/ functional decision makers
• Key analyses tools and models include: CAIV/LCC/DTC, System Economic/Effectiveness, Value Engineering and ROM/BPE

• Planed, executed and report on multiple concurrent Developmental and Operational EW test programs supporting the DoD worth $18M/year
• Lead $455K Developmental Test followed by Operational Test and Evaluation flight test missions, verifying Radar Warning Receiver system integration and capabilities
• Guided aircraft survivability fight test and training, using high-level scenarios to validate airborne EW tactics with $1B in assets
• Conducted long-range planning inclusive of the required strategic investment strategy for advanced electronic attack test programs

• Developed, taught and expanded IADS Modeling and Simulation (M&S) capabilities and tools
• Expanded algorithms and explored new methodologies to evaluate and exploit foreign threat IADS functionalities
• Applied advanced knowledge to time-sensitive products, which evaluated IADS characteristics and performance
• Provided M&S expertise to Intelligence Community on effectiveness, strengths, weakness and survivability of foreign IADS

• Materials analysis and testing to include: turbocharging, charge decay, surface and volume resistance
• Setup and operation of ESD Materials Testing Laboratory
• Presented findings to Medtronic leadership of current charge/discharge levels in fabrication facilities
• Developed training documents and processes diminishing ESD vulnerabilities within fabrication facility

Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

• Researched and analyzed International Space Station (ISS) Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) failure rates
• Presented findings to Space and Life Sciences Board of Directors

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical Engineering

• Student of MSEE with concentration in Guidance Control and Navigation • Graduate thesis developed, tested, and verified optical flow.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: AF ROTC Women's Lacrosse Society of Women Engineers• Student of BSEE with concentration in Electromagnetics •.