PROFILE: Detail-oriented and dependable Systems Engineer with more than ten years of DoD engineering experience, exceptional communication skills, and Top Secret security clearance
KEY STRENGTHS:
* Excellent technical analysis, problem-solving, organizational, and time-management skills
- Successfully coordinated $1M Engineering Change Proposal project to plan and develop an isolated command and control system to resolve a need for a data collection system that could manage varied classification levels
* Natural ability to work well with a wide range of individuals varying greatly in role, responsibility, personality type, knowledge, and leadership level
- As Mission Technical Director for MDA’s FTO-01 mission, successfully led a team of real-time console operators comprised of contractors, government leads, scientific advisors, and one MDA analyst
* Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Well-written requirements/support documentation and organized meeting facilitation, as evidenced by consistently smooth mission execution
* Effective leader who maintains a productive climate and confidently motivates others to meet high performance standards
- Hand-picked by superiors three times to be promoted to a position of greater leadership
* Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Adeptly handle multiple concurrent programs, projects, and efforts
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Jacobs Technology, Colorado Springs, Colorado
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER II – September 2015 to Present
Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System (PARCS) Program Office, Peterson AFB
* Directly support government oversight of prime contractor activities and data products in the DoD
Acquisition environment
* Provide technical expertise for advice and counsel to the government program office to support technical planning, cost estimating, and proposal evaluations, to identify and address program technical issues, to support risk management, and to assist in the preparation of necessary technical documents and briefings
* Review and evaluate system specifications, designs, analyses, test plans and procedures, integrated master schedule artifacts, and technical data packages to determine compliance with requirements
* Support technical interchange meetings with prime contractors, providing evaluations of analyses and trade-off activities, assessments of contractor efforts, and recommendations to the program office
Kwajalein Range Services (KRS, Bechtel / Lockheed Martin joint venture), Reagan Test Site (RTS), Kwajalein, Marshall Islands and Huntsville, Alabama
MISSION TECHNICAL DIRECTOR (MTD) / Systems Engineer – August 2007 to September 2015
Promoted to Systems Engineer IV in August 2013
* Managed all facets of range planning and support for flight test operations for a broad spectrum of government and commercial customers, including multiple missions for MDA, USAF, DARPA, SMDC, SpaceX, and NASA
* Primary interface between KRS personnel and the range, working directly with both RTS government evaluators and range customers in support of mission planning and execution
* Managed range programs through requirements definition, cost account management, test plan development, mission simulation activities, mission execution, and analysis and delivery of post-mission data
* Constructed/reviewed system engineering artifacts including requirements documents, test support plans, interface control documents, engineering change proposals, and mission assessments
* Developed and presented briefings and facilitate discussions to convey range support to government stakeholders, focusing on issue resolution and risk mitigation
* Coordinated and led range support across multiple departments within an integrated team environment for both pre-mission and real-time efforts and activities
* Interfaced proficiently with real-time command and control equipment and display systems
* Utilized post-mission analysis tools to extract and analyze test event results and data
Mission support provided:
* Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS)
- MDA/OTA Layered BMDS Tests: FTI-01, FTO-01 (Aegis/THAAD/PATRIOT)
- Aegis BMD: FTM-15
- Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD): FTG-06, FTG-06a, FTG-07
* ICBM and Hypersonic Reentry
- USAF Minuteman III: GT-194 through GT-215
- SMDC Advanced Hypersonic Weapon: AHW FT-1, AHW FT-2
- DARPA/USAF Falcon 2: HTV-2A, HTV-2B
* Space Exploration
- NASA Exploration: Orion EFT-1
- NASA Ionospheric Experiments: EVEX/MOSC
- NASA Pegasus Satellite Launches: CNOFS, IBEX, NuSTAR
- NASA Space Shuttle: STS-119 through 135
- SpaceX Falcon I: Flights 3, 4, 5
* Meteorological Rockets: Viper-IIIa, multiple events
MANAGER, TEST OPERATIONS – April 2010 to December 2013
* Managed all aspects of the Test Operations group at both the Kwajalein and Huntsville sites
* Supervised a distributed team of 11 Mission Technical Directors, Mission Planners, and Operations Directors, and indirectly supervised support staff
* Continually improved communications between geographically distributed sites
* Ensured all Performance Work Statement elements related to Program Support, Mission Planning, and Test Execution were satisfactorily achieved
* Coordinated budgeting and provided resource management to support Plans and Operations functions, including RTS mission su...
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