Professional Profile

Successful award winning lifecycle engineer with over ten years experience in a wide range of industries that include defense, space, aviation, telecommunications, and energy. Good communication skills with top level technical management to non-technical staff members. Proven ability to perform research and analysis for high-end technical solutions. Strong problem solving skills for process and design issues, proven customer satisfaction, cost analysis and more. Possess an active security clearance.

Education

B.S., Electronics Engineering Technology, Texas Southern University, 3.49/4.0 Houston, TX

M.S Systems Engineering, Southern Methodist University, 3.6/4.0 (5/2016) Dallas, TX

Work Experience

04/14-Present Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Grand Prairie, TX

Sr. Reliability Engineer Lead

Requirements analysis that leads to requirements flow down

System Functional Analysis and partitioning to sub-functions

Risk and Opportunity management including developing program documents and business rhythm

Manage production risk by evaluating cost, schedule, and requirements that impact the success of the program. By doing so, I ensure threats are mitigated through this process. As the risk manager I ensure that the necessary disciplines, customers, and suppliers work together as a team to recognize and manage production and sustainment risks.

Lead all Production and Sustainment Reliability related activity

Lead Specialty Reliability studies including nuclear program FMECA analysis that helped in winning a new market, Internal Reach and Development (IRAD) lethality study led to in lethality enhancement, IRAD cost/benefit analysis led to the incorporation of upgraded product

Led failure analysis activity resulting in proper root cause definition, corrective action identification, decreased Turn Around Time, improved fault isolation, improved testing procedures, improved fault detection, better failure mode description

Responsible for production and post-production reliability and maintainability analysis (Field MTBF, FMEA, FMECA, Reliability Predictions, Maintainability Predictions and Built-in-Test Analysis). Incorporated Design for Sustainment during the early stages of a program and filled in the gaps where not present during later stages

Support and participate in Supportability and Logistics analysis by providing inputs to spare analysis and developing maintenance task analysis

Responsible for manufacturing, testing and maintenance improvements through trend and analytical analysis

Lead parametric and prognostic studies to support BIT, Condition based maintenance, Scheduled based maintenance and Reliability centered maintenance

Lead recapitalization and upgrade activity extend the performance and availability of the systems

Lead and conduct Failure Review Board

Conduct and/or support component and system level testing

Maintain FRACAS database to support failure traceability and documentation, failure analysis and trend analysis

Budget and Cost Account Manager

Bid and Proposal estimation

Team Task development resulting in proper staffing, challenging assignments and proper schedule and cost projections

Communicate line of sight commitments to employees

Ensure employee commitments are realistic, challenging and aligned to the needs of the business

Provide training and development opportunities to employees needs to enhance their performance

Facilitate mid-year and annual career discussion and performance check-in

Assign performance ratings to employees

Develop and enforce Performance Improvement Plans

01/13-04/14 Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Grand Prairie, TX

Sr. Testability Program Lead

Budget and Cost Account Manager

Bid and Proposal estimation

Team Task development resulting in proper staffing, challenging assignments and proper schedule and cost projections

Developed Testability Program Plans and Documentation development including Testability modeling and prediction/allocation analysis

Conducts Built-In-Test and Ambiguity Group analysis

Conducts Special Test Equipment Analysis to identify need and potential equipment

Fault Detection and Fault Isolation analysis and strategy development

Requirements Analysis

02/12-01/13 Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Grand Prairie, TX

Sr. Reliability Engineer/Human Factors Engineer Lead

Budget and Cost Account Manager

Bid and Proposal estimation

Task development

Reliability duties listed in previous position

Apply human performance principles, methodologies, and technologies to the design of human-machine systems and products.

Develops and implements research methodologies and statistical analysis plans to test and evaluate developmental prototypes used in new products and processes

Interfaces with design engineers to establish system design, operating, and training requirements and to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.

Identifies and analyzes technological problems or risks, performs theoretical human factors investigations, and develops and implements research and analysis plans.

Human Factors Engineering Workspace Analysis: Jack Modeling

Human Factors Engineering Crew Performance and Workload analysis: IMPRINT Analysis

09/03-02/12 Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Grand Prairie, TX

Sr. Reliability Engineer Lead

Budget and Cost Account Manager

Bid and Proposal estimation

Task development

Develop, coordinate and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts

Perform component reliability analyses

Develop reliability prediction and FMECA documentation to ensure the system meets its reliability requirements

Develop maintainability prediction and Built In Test Design Information Release documentation to ensure the system meets its maintainability requirements

Program Point Of Contact to the customer as well as to Lockheed Martin personnel

Use the FRACAS and failure analyses to support product from design inception through field deployment

Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability

Compile and analyze performance reports

Investigate and analyze relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes

Ensure that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards

Perform failure analysis and develop failure reports for nonconforming items

Propose changes to design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability

Work with design, component engineering, and suppliers to develop and qualify electronic and electrical components for high reliability application.

Work with design, quality engineering, and suppliers to develop and qualify electronic-mechanical and mechanical components for high reliability application.

Participate and contribute on project reviews focusing on reliability and systems engineering

Manage production risk by evaluating cost, schedule, and requirements that impact the success of the program. By doing so, I ensure threats are mitigated through this process. As the risk manager I make sure that the necessary disciplines, customers, and suppliers work together as a team to recognize and manage production risks.

06/01-06/03 Hernandez Engineering, Inc-Lockheed Martin Space Operations Houston, TX

Systems EngineerII

Serve as team lead on special assignments.

Design and develop flight wire harnesses schematics.

Design and develop architecture models.

Provide and resolve design issues within and between subsystems, as well as, design issues that fail to meet architecture implementation.

Provide data entry support for the creation of vehicle data files.

Responsible for design integration/wiring of vehicle subsystems including Data Management System (i.e. Flight Computers, 1553 bus, Command and Telemetry, Ethernet, IEEE 1394, serial and parallel communications), Electrical Power Distribution System, Guidance and Navigation (i.e. GPS and SIGI), Communication (i.e. Sband, UHF, ATC), Life Support, Instrumentation (i.e. Data Acquisition, Operational sensors, Feedback), Propulsion.

Perform analysis and integration of V201 and Ironbird subsystem functional connectivity

Import or create the detailed subsystem wiring harnesses info including its drawings in the relational database using CAD.

Verify completed cable/harness designs of other wiring team engineers prior to cable/harness kit fabrication.

Awards

LOCKHEED MARTIN INSTANT RECOGNITION AWARD FOR FRACAS IMPROVEMENTS

LOCKHEED MARTIN INSTANT RECOGNITION AWARD FOR RELIABILITY PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

LOCKHEED MARTIN INSTANT RECOGNITION AWARD FOR HFE LEADERSHIP

LOCKHEED MARTIN INSTANT RECOGNITION AWARD FOR MOCKUP DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP

LOCKHEED MARTIN TEST LEAD AWARD

LOCKHEED MARTIN THADD TEAM AWARD

LOCKHEED MARTIN INDIVIDUAL AWARD

NASA X-38 TEAM AWARD

AT&T SCHOLARSHIP

DEAN’S LIST

HONOR ROLL

NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY SCHOLAR

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