Zachary Wells

Career Summary

Outgoing and energized leader in the Systems Engineering field that has accomplished significant technical achievements in the fields of logistics, web-hosting, and full mission training.

Work Experience

04/2017 to Present Lockheed Martin, Rotary and Missions Systems, Orlando, Florida

Systems Engineering Asc. Manager

●Growing and developing 16 engineers, driving their career paths, and coordinating with other management personnel to focus company performance

●Management responsibilities gained on top of all other program responsibilities as the Systems Engineering Integration Team (SEIT) Integration & Test (I&T) Lead for F-35 Pilot Training Devices

10/2016 to Present Lockheed Martin, Rotary and Missions Systems, Orlando, Florida

Staff Systems Engineer

●SEIT I&T Lead for the F-35 Pilot Training Devices Program

●Revamped process development, implementation and program execution for Integration & Test activities for a team size of 300 engineers collaborating over multiple sites and shifts.

●Directed the baseline and 2017 Comprehensive Estimate at Complete (CEAC) effort for Block 3

●Combined Release Milestone and Inch-stone Plans to feed Functional Integration Plan (FIP) across entirety of Block 3 disciplines (Design, Architecture, Software Development, Integration, Verification)

●Tracked status on I&T efforts across multiple releases to brief Program Senior Leadership and Executive Leadership, on a daily and weekly basis, respectively,

05/2013 to Present Lockheed Martin, Missions Systems and Training, Orlando, Florida

Senior Systems Engineer

●Propulsion Integration Technical Lead responsible for leading a team of 20 Engineers through multiple concurrent test activities involving external parties and across LM companies towards mission success and attribution of Air Force Initial Operating Capability of the F-35.

●F-35 Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) Test Automation Lead overseeing multiple teams with sizes of 6 and 12 Engineers on a web-application based logistics system through successful automated load testing and performance improvement cycles for multiple software releases well within project cost and schedule constraints.

●Control Account Manager responsible for $3M across multiple development baselines

●Created Automated Regression and Performance Testing Teams, increasing test efficiency over 60%.

●Responsibility for estimating, planning and managing all Automated Test Team technical, cost, and schedule of multiple concurrent software releases.

●Providing active assistance with the composition of Certification and Accreditation packages for software releases in order to obtain Authority to Operate (ATO) at program sites.

08/2011 to 05/2013 Lockheed Martin, Global Training and Logistics, Orlando, Florida

Systems Engineer

●Utilized complete system knowledge to create test architecture and verification plans encompassing ALIS Software Releases

●Lead Verification Engineer for the ALIS Pilot Memory Device (PMD) Reader project.

●Assisted with Basis of Estimate submissions for verification efforts.

●Worked on the End-to-End Performance team effort as an integration engineer, assimilating scripts from multiple developers and automating windows processes using batch files.

●Initially developed coding/ scripts to inject load into the ALIS system.

●Accountable for a major part of the successful completion of Certification, Test & Evaluation for multiple software releases on the ALIS program.

05/2008 to 08/2011 Lockheed Martin, Simulation, Training and Support; Orlando, Florida

Systems Engineer, Asc.

●Worked in Design Assurance & Productivity/ Engineering Excellence department assisting the performance management of company-wide programs through the creation of automated Program Scorecards and data analysis

●Migrated to the F-35 ALIS Systems Integration, Verification and Deployment Team.

●Developed test plans to verify requirements, aiding integration efforts for new builds/ releases, and participating in formal requirements sell-off.

Honors and Awards

01/2017 Program Vice President - “All In” Award

07/2016 SRA - Special Recognition Award for Individual Excellence

11/2014 SRA - Special Recognition Award for Team Excellence

04/2014 Program/ Customer Award

10/2013 NOVA Award

11/2011 SPOT Award

10/2009 SPOT Award

Education

2005-2009 University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida.

●Bachelor of Arts & Sciences in Engineering Technology

Technical Knowledge

●Microsoft Office Suite (including

●Active Secret Clearance w/SAR

Microsoft Visio and Project)

●Technical Writing

●Earned Value Performance Management

●Risk Management

●Requirements Engineering

●DOORS Requirements and Test Plan Management

●RFI/ RFP/ RFQ

●Systems Integration

●VB.Net, C, C++

●Oracle Architecture and Tuning

●Enterprise Architect

●Defect Management Tools (ClearQuest, JIRA, Dimensions)

●Agile Lifecycle Management

●Scrum Methodology

●Scaled Agile Framework

●System Test

●Test Automation

●Backlog Management Tools

(JIRA+Agile, Version One)

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