Engineer Manager
Resume:
Edward C. "Jake" Jacobs
***** ****** **** *** ******, CO 80134
Email: ablbi1@r.postjobfree.com
Mobile: 720-***-**** Home: 303-***-**** Office:
EXPERIENCE
**/**-******* ******* ******ations International Corporation:
Senior Risk Manager & Systems Engineer, Washington U.S. Navy
Yard, Washington D.C.
. Primary focal point for Risk Management (RM) and Systems
Engineering/Integration/Forecast support to the Program Executive
Office Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO-IWS) team, and contractor
teams.
o Developed, execute, and sustain Enterprise/IPT risk management
plan, procedures, tools, and training program. Examine,
introduce, and integrate temporary/long-term capabilities into
current/future baselines.
Senior Risk Manager & Systems Engineer, Los Angeles Air Force
Base, California.
. Global Positioning System Wing (GPSW) team member primary focal
point for Risk Management (RM), Mission Assurance (MA), and
Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) support to the Space &
Missile Center (SMC), HQ Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), other
Government agencies and associated GPSW contractor teams.
o Received customer and SAIC reward/recognition of Outstanding
Achievement Award (2008 Engineering & Technology Division).
. Created and maintained a successful and effective risk management
plan, program, and training effort to identify and track areas of
OCX / Operational Control Segment (OCS), Enterprise/System level
risks, concerns, opportunities and issues, while designing
mitigation and process improvement and execution options.
o Saved the customer significant budget (multi-million dollars)
and schedule impacts through early risk identification and
mitigation execution.
. Introduced and integrated temporary/long-term capabilities into
the current/future GPS baseline system.
o Ensured that all options/updates concur with ICDs, requirements,
CM processes, test involvement with program development/vision,
and integrated operational transitions.
Senior Risk Manager & Systems Test Engineer, Mclean,
Virginia/Huntsville, Alabama.
. Member of MDA - Decision Support System (DSS) & NATO IFS Bid &
Proposal (B&P) contract teams for Risk/Issue/Opportunity
Management (RM) program/plan design, training, database, and
register/log; document review, Basis-of-Estimates (BOEs), and
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) assessment.
.
Chief Integrator, Senior Space Systems Engineer, Buckley Air
Force Base, Colorado.
. Defense Support Program (DSP)/Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS)
program Subject Matter Expert (SME), provided System Engineering
Technical Advisor (SETA), BattleSpace Characterization (BSC),
situational awareness, and intelligence (sensor/telemetry event
and missile analysis) support to the SMC, JSpOC, SPADOC/NORAD,
Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and other Government agencies.
o Use of Primavera Scheduling and Project tools, Microsoft Office
products, and program unique software applications (IAW the SMC
Systems Engineering Primer & Handbook); received customer and
team accolades and appreciation for introducing and integrating
temporary and long-term Missile Defense capabilities into the
SBIRS ground baseline and ground-to-space tasking system ahead
of schedule and under budget.
. Primary focal point for all SBIRS involvement with Ground-Based
Missile Defense (GMD)/Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS)
program development/vision, test, exercise, and integrated
operational transitions. Represent US government best interests
at all program level activities. Provided CONOPS development,
Primavera integration/scheduling product support, and missile
type coordination.
o Certificates and letters of appreciation provided by customer
and team for the use of concept execution of RM and CM, to
provide program information/view, coordination, guidance and
leadership to ensure optimum operational compliance/application
through participation in National Defense testing.
. Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration
(CWID)/exercise/simulation Network and Operations Manager for
SBIRS/GPS international trial coalition support. Research,
development, and planning for USAF with Government and Foreign
Nationals regarding JCS demonstration test and execution events.
Includes simulation/analysis support, missile/event review, and
Foreign Military Sales (FMS) activities.
02/00-12/03 Scitor Corporation:
Chief Integrator, Space Systems/Operations, Colorado Springs,
Colorado.
. As a DSP/SBIRS program and Air Force Satellite Control Network
(AFSCN) SME, provide integrator SETA BSC, situational awareness,
and intelligence (sensor/telemetry analysis) to HQ AFSPC, JSpOC,
SPADOC/NORAD, 50 Space Wing (50 SW), and other associated
government agencies regarding current operations capabilities,
future program development/vision, ground-to-space tasking, and
integrated launch rehearsal/readiness operations.
o With use of RM and CM processes and at the behest of the USAF
and the warfighter, provided customer program information/view,
operations advocacy, coordination, guidance and leadership to
participating organizations and development teams. Provided
CONOPS development and Primavera integration/scheduling product
support. Responsible for requirements development, accuracy,
clarifications, and operational compliance/application to
implement the satellite processing and ground element. Ensured
optimum requirements flow-down and traceability mapped to budget
guidelines.
11/87-02/00 Lockheed Martin Corporation:
A variety of space and ground related positions including Lead
Spacecraft Engineer/Instructor (Boulder/Aurora, Colorado), Lead
Mission Manager/Launch Lead (Thornton, Colorado), Supervisor,
Satellite Operations/Systems Engineer (Aurora, Colorado), and
Senior Satellite Operations Engineer (Colorado Springs, Colorado
& Sunnyvale, California).
. These positions permitted a bottom-up career path with an onset
of crew operations team support as a certified Mission
Tasking/Controller, Primavera Scheduling Planner/Analyst, and
Ground Controller for the multi-million dollar GPS, DSP/SBIRS,
and IKONOS satellites and associated program resources.
o Provided classified real-time, anomaly, and launch
rehearsal/readiness technical assistance/advice with the use of
program and AFSCN resources. Analyzed system discrepancies.
Recommended procedures, modifications and resolutions for
problem areas. Provided statistical analysis according to
pass/fail criteria. Performed operational hardware and database
support testing. Provided event/mission tasking and telemetry
analysis. Coordinated and scheduled all necessary resources to
perform vehicle operations.
o Continued career progression as a satellite SME to provide
technical advice, event signature analysis support to the
sustainment ramp-up, current and future operational transitions,
satellite engineering, and launch rehearsal/readiness/operations
efforts. Instituted TQM guidelines for the operations
environment. Provided guidance to operations personnel.
Provided CONOPS development.
o Provided legacy program information, coordination, guidance and
leadership to SBIRS training and development teams. Responsible
for overall research, design, development and instruction of
SBIRS Telemetry, Tracking, and Commanding (TT&C) training course
material (per CDRL requirements).
o Responsible for overall command, control, mission ground-to-
space tasking, and launch operations guidance of the Commercial
Remote Sensing System (CRSS) Operations and Maintenance (O&M)
team. Design and instructed training/course material. Plan,
coordinate, and schedule IKONOS resources. Perform routine and
contingency satellite commanding/tasking and verification via
satellite telemetry.
12/78-11/87 MILITARY: United States Air Force (USAF), Honorable Discharge
. Variety of space systems operations and maintenance career
positions for Air Force Space Command, Strategic Air Command,
JSpOC and SPADOC/NORAD. Primarily responsible for command,
control and maintenance procedures of deployable and fixed
ground station space systems electronic equipment that retrieve,
collect and transmit pertinent satellite data and information to
appropriate agencies. Maintained and monitored real-time
configurations of the spacecraft's, mission computers,
communications, antenna systems and associated electronics at a
joint United States/Australian space defense unit for the DSP
program. Includes operational positions for the Defense
Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP).
SECURITY Current Top Secret/SCI with CI-Poly/SSBI - January 2007
(Dual Agency)
CLEARANCE CNWDI, Crypto/COMSEC, COSMIC, UN/NATO, ATOMAL
EDUCATION BS-Information/Business Systems Management
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