Systems Engineer Scrum Master

Authorized to work for any employer without sponsorship in the following countries: United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada(USMCA) 303-***-****

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Lyons, Colorado 80540

The Structures Company

Contracted to Aurora Flight Sciences Cambridge, Massachusetts, Remote ● 01/2022 – 12/2023 Projects:

• X66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator using Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) technology 01/2022 to 12/2023

• Virgin Galactic Mothership 10/2022 – 01/2023

Staff Systems Engineer

• Maturation of the Concept of Operations and initial draft of Systems Engineering Management Plan

• Understanding and designing changes to the Caution and Warning System

• Scrum Master and Agile methodologies coaching

• Using Model-based systems engineering through the design process

• Environmental requirements management based on RTCA/DO-160G specification

• Goals and objectives elicitation and refinement

• Automated gathering goals and objectives from input documents

• Started Intracompany collaboration, specifically: o Presented X-66 program to Boeing Aerostructures Australia o Introduced X-66 Program Management to Boeing Aerostructures Management General Atomics – Electromagnetic Systems, Centennial, Colorado ● 10/2020 – 01/2022 Engineer VI, Mission Operations Systems Engineer, OTB-2 MAIA Mission Operations Lead

• Lead development of and complete the Mission Operations and Ground System design through CDR

• Learn RF communications subsystem to further develop requirements and design

• Lead effort to meet uplink requirements, including understanding how to modify the FCC licence if required, and updates to the ConOps whether the decision is to modify uplink speed or change operations requirements

• Collaborate with the ground software team to implement the design within the Multi-Mission Ground System Architecture

• Develop and publish documents:

o Concept of Operations (ConOps), Mission Operations Plans and Procedures o GA-300 satellite bus User’s Manual

o Coordinate with each satellite IPT to develop the LEOP and Spacecraft Commissioning Plan o Verification and Validation Plan

o Work with KSAT to develop the OTB-2 Ground Station Services Provider SOW

• Work with the OTB-2 Bus Simulator team on ground system and client user operations needs ATR International ● 04/2020 – 10/2020 Contractor to Maxar Solutions Systems Engineer – Direct Access Program for the Direct Access Ground System

• Developed Image processing model using MBSE and defined its requirements, interactions, and interfaces by

• Write Software Description Specification Documents

• Communicate and liaise with subject matter expert staff to aide in system design and resolve issues SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION, Louisville, Colorado ● 03/2017 – 09/2019 (Aerotek contractor to SNC, 11/2016 – 03/2017) Senior Systems Engineer, Dream Chaser® Spacecraft

• Requirement ownership, IPT allocation, verification closure planning with NASA o Work with Avionics, Software and Communications Subsystem leads on meeting design requirements o Work with GN&C on software timing for their algorithms

• Channelization Lead – ensure all components are connected within constraints and documented o Wrote MATLAB code to error check and generate the system connectivity and component channel selections to ensure constraints are met

o Refactored the MATLAB code reducing run time from 20+ minutes to 1.7 minutes and provide proposed changes review and configuration management

• Maintain System Handbook, including automating component connectivity diagrams

• Avionics, Communications and Software Systems Engineer Liaison

• Evaluate Model Based Systems Engineering Programs

• Agile Coaching

EMERGENT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Littleton, Colorado ● 09/2015 – 10/2016 Senior Aerospace Engineer, Orion (Artemis) Spacecraft Timeline and Vehicle Management Scrum Team Embedded Tester

• Develop and execute test cases and procedures

• Collaborate with system test team to use my developed test cases and procedures

• Provide test writing support to GNC, Power Systems, system test 303-***-****

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RAYTHEON INTELLIGENCE, INFORMATION AND SERVICES, Aurora, Colorado ● 12/2012 – 09/2015 Ground Systems Engineer / Integration & Test Engineer / Scrum Master–JPSS Common Ground System (CGS) Block 2.0

• Integration and Test Team (System Level)

o Integration of Offline portion of the System – Command Loads, Orbit Operations, Mission Planning o Increased understanding of interfaces and requirements, including pass/fail criteria, by working with System Engineers to clarify requirements and diagram interfaces o Reported Earned Value status to help maintain performance

• Site Acceptance Team - Write Test Procedures to sign off Requirements for Mission Planning and Orbital Operations

• Operational Based Site Acceptance Team - Mission Planning and Orbit Operations o Write and execute test procedures for operational based test to verify requirements DATA DIPLOMAT LLC, Denver, Colorado ● 2011-2012 ● Sales Manager & Accounting, Data-Driven Marketing Solutions

• Promoted business through networking, cold calls and warm calls. Managed budget; prepared proposals; and processed accounts payable / receivable

• Installed WordPress and Joomla for website build clients and served as technical back end in installation and troubleshooting issues

PURPLE AVOCADO CATERING, Denver, Colorado ● 2004 - 2010 ● President, Corporate Catering & Social Events

• Accomplishment: Increased sales at least 50% per year since start up in 2005, and increased revenue from $100K in 2006 to equivalent of $750K in 2010 when catering business was sold

• Accomplishment: Received the CO-LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneurial Man of the Year Award

• Promoted business through networking, opportunity calls. Managed budget; prepared proposals; and processed accounts payable / receivable

• Accountable for functional, business, and broad-company objectives by managing and directing all sales, operations, and financial functions of corporate and special event catering business. Assisted sales staff in developing individual sales plans; collaborated with kitchen personnel to reduce costs, increase safety, and client satisfaction; and managed all accounting / budget functions

• Managed Vendor Relations and all accounting functions

• Implemented a Kanban approach to sales

BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Boulder, Colorado ● 10/2003 - 05/2006 Ground Systems Engineer / Mission Support Area Developer - Deep Impact Project Ground Systems Engineer / Cmd & Tlm Database Manager - Kepler Space Telescope

• Deep Impact

o Mission Support Area Lead to design, procure, setup, and support o Supported Program and Test Engineers in clean room and test facilities; collaborated with software developers in resolving problems and updating database; and supported launch activities

• Kepler Space Telecope

o Database manager, worked with Ground Support Equipment Electrical Engineer on test bench design and development including database testing to scope telemetry and command requirements

• Provided OASIS-CC and AMMOS ground system support as well as creaed and updated ground system databases from test encountered errors and flight software updates for test support and flight operations and interfacing with QA where appropriate

• RECOGNITION: Recipient, NASA Group Achievement Award for Kepler Launch and Commissioning Team

• RECOGNITION: Awarded NASA’s Deep Impact Public Service Group Achievement Award for ensuring Mission Support Area was created and prepared for launch and on-orbit operations. Efforts ensured synchronization of ground system, proper operation and availability of telecommunication lines, and timely and rapid resolution of support issues LOCKHEED MARTIN, Gaithersburg, Maryland ● 1998 - 2003 Hardware Engineer - Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Science Instrument Test Systems (SITS)

• ACCOMPLISHMENT: Successfully relocated computers, hardware, and transferred responsibility from Hubble Space Telescope SITS facilities in CO, MD & GSFC to NOAA

• ACCOMPLISHMENT: Avoided potential and significant damage by testing software values against hardware register values and identifying software error in Normal Engineering Data Component that would probably have gone undetected until testing against real flight

• Wrote and executed acceptance tests and release regression tests to ensure stability and efficacy of systems upon release

• Interfaced with Quality Assurance to ensure adherence to appropriate processes and procedures

• Investigated issues and developed solutions which included unit and function tests ensuring correct implementation

• Lead efforts from concept, design, and update plan to publishing the user’s manual, technical reference manual, and lab documentation for each relase

• Engineered timeline/schedule tools for facilitating team members’ efforts in completing concurrent assignments 303-***-****

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• Crafted software tools to monitor use and location of government and company-furnished equipment and maintained property location database, program trouble reports, test procedures and project issues

• Developed flight software test template

• HST Wide-Field Camera 3 database manager, developing telemetry and command tables and operations definitions and supported the Cosmic Origin Spectrographs database manager as needed

• Presumed ground systems integration role for test system

• Collaborated with customers on minimal interference basis to establish requirements and successfully design, code and test MS Access version of Ground System Release Integration Plan

• Increased NASA Goddard team members productivity with support of ground system use in various test facilities by installing updates, providing training, and assisting users in identifying and resolving issues

• Recognized as the interface for Science Instrument Test System (SITS) facility planning by both Lockheed and Goddard Space Flight Center

DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION, Elizabeth, South Australia ● 06/1997 – 08/1997 GIS & Remote Sensing Internship

• Embedded ATREM code, developed at Univ of Colorado, into ENVI for use in target detection

• Managed a contractor for the software development portion SPACE PHYSICS RESEARCH LAB, TIMED Doppler Interferometer, University of Michigan ● 1997 – 1998 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan ● 1994 – 1998

• ACCOMPLISHMENT: Wrote chapter for the first-year programming class book PROJECTS

Pluto System Orbital and Kuiper Belt explorer Mission Concept Study, Volunteer Systems Engineer, SwRI, 2020 Paper, manuscript 2020JE006563, Mars' Blue (400-450 nm) Seasonal Approximate Reflectivity Averaged Over Mars Years 24-28 from Mars Orbiter Camera with Dr Stuart Robbins submitted for publication to Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 06/2020

EDUCATION

Colorado State University – M.S. in Systems Engineering (SysEng), Graduation: May 2024 (expected) Colorado State University – Certificate in Systems Engineering 2019 University of Michigan – M.Eng in Space Systems

University of Michigan – M.Eng in Applied Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems University of Michigan – B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, study abroad Monash University, Clayton(Melbourne),Australia Summer Science Program (ssp.org) Participant – NSF Young Scholar 1991 CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES

Certified Scrum Product Owner 2014- 2022, Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster 2014-2022, Scrum Alliance

Amateur Radio License, Novice 1985 – Present

Raytheon Six Sigma Certified, 2013-2015

AGI Systems Tool Kit, Level 1 Certified

COMPUTER SKILLS

Ground Systems

SSTL UK Ground System Software ● JPSS Common Ground System from Raytheon ● OASIS-CC from CU LASP AMMOS from JPL ● Control Center System for Hubble Space Telescope Engineering, MBSE, and Agile Applications

DOORS ● Visio ● IBM’s Rational Functional Tester Rational Quality Manager Rational Rhapsody Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect ● Dassault Systèmes Cameo Systems Modeler ● Magic Systems of Systems Architect Atlassian JIRA Confluence Crucible JIRA Align ● Code Collaborator ● Perforce Digital Image Processing

ArcView ● ArcInfo ● IDRISI ● NIH Image ● ER Mapper ● TNT ● TransCAD ● Desktop Mapping System CAD and Laboratory Software

LabTech Notebook ● SDRC I-DEAS Master Series

Programming Languages

Python ● C ● FORTRAN ● MATLAB ● TCL ● HTML ● CSS ● Unix Shell Scripting Beginner: Java ● Javascript ● PHP ● C++ ● R and RStudio Business, Accounting and Other Applications

MS Office ● WordPerfect ● OpenOffice ● FrameMaker ● PageMaker Intuit QuickBooks ● Peachtree Account ● ABECAS by Argos Software 303-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / PRESENTATIONS

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

International Council on Systems Engineering

Agile Denver

Roger B Chaffee Scholarship Fund Award Dinner featured Guest Speaker, 2005

Roger B Chaffee Planetarium Van Andel Museum, Grand Rapids, Guest Lecturer, 2005

CONFERENCES ATTENDED / CLASSES AND WEBINARS

• AIAA SciTech, Orlando Florida January 2024-01

• AIAA Annual Technical Symposium, Colorado, 2012-2013

• AIAA ICES Conference, San Diego, CA July 2012

• Mile High Agile Conference 2014-2017

• Agile Portfolio Management Course, Agile University, April 2015

• AIAA Webinar

• Flight Dynamics and Einstein’s Covariance Principle (AIAA Webinar) Nov 2012

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Colorado LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce

Entrepreneurial Man of the Year Award 2008

IGLA Masters Swimming Championships, Melbourne, Australia 2020 Silver Medal – 5000m Open Water Swimming ● Bronze Medal – 1500m Freestyle KEYWORDS

Systems Engineer ● Requirements ● Interfaces ● Interactions ● Risk Analysis ● Project Management Integration and Test ● Scripts ● Automation ● Regression Testing ● Hardware Testing ● Verification Launch / Operations Support ● Command and Data Handling ● Technical Writing Agile Development ● Scrum ● Kanban ● ScrumMaster ● Agile Portfolio Management Strategic Planning ● Team Leadership / Motivation Process Improvement ● Expense Control Internal Controls ● Budgeting ● Resource / Schedule Management ● Business Development / Sales Employee Management ● Manager ● Start Ups / Turnarounds ● Event Planning ● Vendor Relations Programming and Scripting

Start Ups / Turnarounds ● Event Planning ● Vendor Relations NOTES

Disciplined, focused, and detail-oriented, experienced in supporting all project phases. Possess strong understanding of space systems and satellites and experience in developing creative solutions. Particularly skilled with understanding the system and architecting solutions.

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