Project Engineer

PROFILE

Project Management, Project Engineer, Engineering Manager with solid

experience managing diverse multi-discipline project teams with a strong

desire to contribute. Over ten years of proven project management

experience built upon twenty five years of experience in telemetry and

space craft ground processing systems engineering, Integration, and test.

Strong skills in applying conceptual thinking to design and plan

development, processes, procedures, functional and data requirements

analysis, system analysis, and documentation preparation for complex

systems supporting our nations manned space flight program.

WORK EXPERIENCE

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1996 to 2013 United Space Alliance Inc.

Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

NASA's primary industry partner in human space operation, including the

Space Shuttle and International Space Station.

8/2005-3/2013 Department Manager

- Manage the work assignment, budget allocations, and schedule of 100+

Engineering professionals.

- Significant experience with matrix management, CMMI assessments, and

ITIL Service Delivery.

- Managed projects, performed detailed project planning, directed

integration of technical activities

throughout the project lifecycle ensuring project completion within

schedule, cost, and performance.

- Ensure project teams adhere to proper engineering principles and

processes.

- Conduct engineering technical reviews.

- Consult & negotiate with customer to prepare project specifications.

- Presented proposals, reports, and findings to customer.

- Reported project status to management using MS Project, Visio, and

other MS Office tools.

- Enforced configuration control and work flow processes.

- Identified and initiated purchase of materials and services using

Peoplesoft.

- Conferred with end user, operations, engineering staff, and management

to determine systems

needs for sustainment, improved infrastructure capabilities, and

services.

- Review proposals for compliance with specifications.

- Planned and coordinated activities concerned with complex problem

resolution.

- Utilized project tracking and work control tools (e.g. Share Point,

Maximo, Documentum, and

PeopleSoft ).

KEY SUCCESSES

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** Shuttle Transition and Retirement - The project helped prepare the Space

Shuttle Orbiters for museum display, ensured that historical records were

preserved in accordance with federal government policy, and demolished and

excessed legacy firing room equipment, ensuring that government property

accounting and property management systems were accurately updated.

** Shuttle Data Center Lite - Post Space Shuttle retirement, the project

reconfigured the retired data center supporting Space Shuttle data

processing and data store to support further the Kennedy Space Center

twenty-first century spaceport. The project required redesign of the

system servers, SAN, and Ethernet infrastructure.

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4/1999 - 8/2005 Project Engineer, perform detailed project planning,

direct integration of technical activities throughout the project

lifecycle ensuring project completion within schedule, cost, and

performance.

. Direct and coordinate activities of technicians and operational

personnel, deploying, modifying, and testing Shuttle Ground System

upgrades.

. Managed projects, performed detailed project planning, directed

integration of technical activities throughout the project lifecycle

ensuring project completion within schedule, cost, and performance.

. Identified and initiated purchase of materials and services using

PeopleSoft.

. Plan and conduct operational and readiness tests on prototype system

hardware and equipment.

. Develop design criteria for hardware systems, including testing

methods, quality standards.

. Write technical reports and other documentation for use by engineering

staff, management, and customers.

. Utilized Earned Value Management (EVM), project tracking and work

control tools (e.g. Share Point, Maximo, Documentum, and PeopleSoft).

. Reported project status to management using MS Project, Visio, MS

PowerPoint, and other MS Office tools.

KEY SUCCESSES

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** Ground Operations Sustainability Project - This multimillion dollar

phased project was a complete systems upgrade for the Space Shuttle's

telemetry ground station at Kennedy Space Center. Project completed on

time, on budget, and with no impact to the Space Shuttle Launch manifest.

Major systems upgraded include; telemetry data processors, database

platform upgrade to Linux Operating System, RAID Storage, Pulse Code

Modulated Data processing and data report software applications, and

Ethernet network infrastructure.

** Launch Processing System Modernization - Project required the deployment

of modern ACI processors combined with updated custom system software to

emulate the timing of the legacy Modcomp computers. Project requirements

additionally required new console enclosures and a full retest of the

custom developed command and control application software.

** Shuttle Data Center Re-platform - The team was required to Replatform

approximately 120 servers from HP-UX to LINUX. Requirements also called for

all new hardware and the retest of approximately 7 million lines of custom

developed data center applications software.

1996- 4/1999 Engineering Manager of System / Sustaining Engineer, Directed

and coordinated activities of technical personnel, fabricating, modifying,

or testing of ground processing station and data transmission systems.

. Formulated conceptual design of systems to meet customer requirements.

. Planned and coordinated activities concerned with investigating and

resolving problem reports of technical problems with telemetry systems

and launch processing system.

. Planned and conducted operational and readiness tests on prototype

system hardware and equipment.

. Evaluated product data and design from inspections and reports for

conformance to engineering

specifications, customer requirements, and quality standards.

. Developed design criteria for systems, including testing methods,

quality standards.

. Generated technical reports and other documentation for use by

engineering staff, management, and customers.

. Reviewed performance reports and documentation from technicians and

field engineers, and inspected malfunctioning or damaged hardware to

determine problem resolution.

KEY SUCCESSES

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** Analog to Digital Recording Technology Upgrade - Project replace forty-

five analog instrumentation tape recording drives with fourteen analog to

digital signal multiplexers and digital recorders eliminating approximately

1M in annual recording media procurement costs, the need to operate a tape

re-certification facility, and resolved a media storage facility over

capacity problem. Recovered 6.5M dollar project cost in 3.5 years through

cost savings achieved by successful project implementation.

** Copper Cable Off-load to Fiber - Multimillion dollar upgrade from an

analog / copper cable transmission system to digital fiber optic

transmission system is support of the Space Shuttle downlink data from all

Space Shuttle processing locations. Fiber optic system deployed without

impact to Space Shuttles operational testing.

Other Employment

. 1983-1996 Hardware Engineer / Supervisor Northrop-

Grumman Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

. 1979-1983 Technician / Hardware Engineer Computer

Science Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

EDUCATION

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University of Central Florida (1982)

Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology, Electronic Engineering

Brevard Community College

Certificate in Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning

RECOGNITION

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NASA - Manned Flight Awareness Launch Honoree

Northrop-Grumman Corporation - Supervisor of the year

CLEARANCE

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US Citizen

OPM/Homeland Security - NACI Certification

Past Security Clearance - Secret, Confidential

COMMUNITY WORK & AFFILIATIONS

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Volunteer with Operation Rainbow

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