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Responsibilities include assisting the Iridium NEXT and legacy ground systems team in fault resolution, participating in ground anomaly teams, defect resolution, satellite constellation support, supporting System Engineering, and data collection. Recommend or help implement methodologies or procedures that will improve customer savings in either dollars or engineering hours saved. Mentor, educate, and show respect for other team members to facilitate building a highly effective test team.• Develop/test Iridium NEXT procedures and documents that include Ground System Operations & Maintenance.• Real time telemetry analysis and spacecraft state of health monitoring.• Short term trending and analysis of the spacecraft subsystem characteristics to detect anomalous conditions. • Real- time fault detection and resolution to respond to Space Vehicle contingencies. • Generation and execution of Iridium contingency plans and procedures to respond to SV faults.• Maintain a log of SV configuration for the constellation of 66 spacecraft. • Generation and technical coordination of all real – time activities. • Execution of real – time state of health procedures, analysis of results, and development of change requests for telemetry limit updates.• Worked with various software operating systems including Windows, Unix, Linux and QNX.• Proficient in writing requirements, development structures and establishing several databases with DOORS and Software Planner to establish strategies of hierarchy.• Collect data from antenna systems using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). SNMP exposes management data in the form of variables on the managed systems, which describe the system configuration. These variables can then be queried (and sometimes set) by managing applications.

Valued Ka-Band team member of the Systems Engineering Integration and Test (SEIT) Earth terminal cross-functional development team. Responsible for ensuring development, integration, test, and assembly of the Navy MUOS project ground stations including satellite command and control, ground transport/gateways and network management interface verification. • Lead point of contact in the Ka-Band Team for base-to-user integration and testing.• Lead test engineer for Ka-Band Team Telemetry, Tracking and Command subsystem functions.• Verification & Validation processes to ensure end-to-end system integration, functional qualification tests, and final assembly. • Review and identify segment level software and hardware specifications and standards related to segment interfaces.• Responsible for a wide range of WCDMA infrastructure to satellite ground station integration, system development, and testing.• Support all technical and program requirements for Critical Design Review and other major milestone activities.• Lead point of contact for software based radio network controller emulator.• Create and present test procedures to customers and support customer reviews and acceptance.• Responsible for ensuring schedule status and updates with the customer on a weekly/monthly basis as required.• Responsibilities include developing appropriate integration test strategies, plans, cases, and identifying Site requirements.• Perform test development, data review and costumer sell-off of detailed Earth Terminal procedures• Worked on diverse engineering analysis teams to develop, maintain and operate an engineering and analysis environment for satellite control in the MUOS Satellite Control Facilities.

Arlington, Va, Us

Responsible for satellite system level verification including test readiness reviews, man-power allocation and schedule management. Strong background in generating, executing and maintaining test procedures, anomaly resolution, data review and customer sell-off. I traveled extensively to launch and ground stations around the world.• Payload Test Director on 7 Communication Satellites: UHF F/O F5, F8, TDRS H, PAS 10, INTELSAT 6, SBS and Galaxy 3. Test Engineering lead for multiple closed programs.• Coordination Lead for Priorities/Direction/Status.• Experience in initial payload integration and test, environmental testing (thermal vacuum and thermal cycling), Launch Site Test and On Orbit Test of Communication Satellites.• In depth experience in the following frequencies bands: UHF, L band, S band, C band, Ku band, Ka band, Q band and V band.• Broad expertise in writing RF Test Procedures and Test Requirement Documents.• Practical knowledge of UNIX and C++ software, proficient use of PC platforms, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.• Broad expertise in writing Test Database’s for STE and Repeater configuration.• Specification flow down including verification matrix and test planning documentation.• New Business activities included: test time durations, cycle time templates and cost models.• Support satellite launch efforts at various off site locations.• On-Obit support for several satellite programs.

Education record

General Education