Fred Majd

*** ****** ***

Placentia, CA *****

714-***-**** (C)

ad4jjy@r.postjobfree.com

Security clearance: Active current secret clearance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Webasto Charging Systems — Monrovia, CA 2022 - present Software Engineering Manager

Responsible for functional management activities such as staffing and workload forecast; employee engagement, mentoring and career development; and identification and training of skills required to execute on the programs

Supporting Business Strategy Efforts including proposals and estimates for new work

Providing the processes and tools required to meet the current and future needs of programs

Technical oversight of design, development, and integration of software components

Control Account Manager (CAM) using Earned Value Management System (EVMS)

Responsible for sustainable continuous improvement, including by collating and deriving insights from data

Moog, Inc. — Torrance, CA 2020 - 2022

Sr. Software Engineer

Technical team lead of 11 software engineers responsible for development and testing of real-time embedded software for Bell’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) helicopter and Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Advanced Vehicle Concept Demonstrator (AVCD) tilt-rotor aircraft (aka V-280) programs per DO-178C level A guidelines.

Responsibilities include, real-time software development, staffing, bidding required software engineering hours, interfacing with system engineering to generate software/system requirements from customer provided spec., design and review of software architecture, EVMS, interfacing with customer, software metrics, weekly execution of the program.

Leading a team responsible to audit CMMI level 3 processes and address audit findings. Certified CMMI associate.

Parker Aerospace — Irvine, CA 2019 – 2020

Sr. Software Engineer

Technical lead of 16 software engineers responsible for development and testing of real-time embedded software for an actuator Remote Electronics Unit (REU) for Bombardier 7500 aircraft per DO-178B level A guidelines.

Responsibilities include, bidding required software engineering hours, generating software requirements, design and review of software architecture, model-based development, man-power allocation, metrics, interfacing with customer, execution and reporting of the program.

PortoLab — Placentia, CA 2017 – 2019

Co-Founder/Software Architect

President/Software Engineer of a start-up company responsible for designing and manufacturing of a portable urine analysis machine.

This product provides urine analysis capabilities to companies which like to perform drug screening of their employees or candidates on their facilities.

Responsibilities included, president of the company, staffing, developing functional requirements, chief software architecture and design engineer.

L3Harris — Anaheim, CA 2015 – 2017

Software Engineering Manager

Software engineering manager responsible for development of embedded software for new products as well as maintaining/enhancing the legacy products.

Software products were developed to monitor, implement control loops and manage the high output power inverters, converters as well as degaussing systems used on Navy submarines and ships.

Major responsibilities included managing the software team, providing software engineering input for proposals, meeting the program’s schedule milestones, enforcing and improving the software development processes, directly interacting with Navy customers. Started and obtained CMMI 3 certification.

Led a team to achieve CMMI level 3 certification for Anaheim site.

Updated/maintained software engineering standards.

Participated in design reviews for all new products and major changes to the existing products.

Safran Morpho Detection — Santa Ana, CA 2013 – 2015

Software Engineering Manager

Hands-on engineering manager responsible for development and testing of the application and firmware software for all the trace products within the company.

Traced equipment was used to detect explosives, narcotics and radiation at airports, seaports and other sensitive facilities.

Major responsibilities included, managing a team of software/firmware engineers, deriving software/firmware requirements from the Marketing Requirement Documents (MRD); design, code and testing of C++ and Verilog code.

Main accomplishment was defining the required processes and obtaining CMMI 3 certification.

The Boeing Company — Huntington Beach, CA 2004 – 2013

Embedded Software Engineering Manager (2011 – 2013)

On a special assignment from Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) executive to assemble and deploy approximately 100 Boeing SW/System engineers to assist Honeywell (Boeing sub-contractor) in expediting the development of Boeing 787-9 aircraft Flight Control Electronics (FCE) embedded software and hardware.

Responsibilities included:

Identifying the technical bottlenecks in Honeywell development cycle.

Determining the required skill-set across the Boeing sites and re-locating them to Honeywell in Phoenix, AZ to assist in resolving the identified bottlenecks.

Establishing tier II schedule and identifying the critical paths.

Meeting the milestones identified in schedule.

Participating and reviewing the software/hardware design.

Performing performance evaluation of Boeing direct employees.

Technical management of the outsourced (offshore) software development activities.

Metrics/ EVMS.

Monthly progress presentation to Boeing executives.

Embedded Software Engineering Manager (2004 – 2011)

Technical engineering manager responsible for the development of application, test/simulation software, integration of hardware and software components and conducting Formal Qualification Testing (FQT) for Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) Ground Mobile Radio (GMR) Non-Waveform (NWF) Integrated Product Team (IPT).

Responsibilities included technical management of 23 employees; capturing system/software requirements; software architecture, coding, defining the HW/SW integration and FQT strategies and automation plans; development of software test plans, descriptions and reports; development of simulation software and test drivers in accordance with the CMMI-5 standards; lab personnel and equipment management; risk management; Earned Value Management (EVM) and sell-off of hardware and software components to customers.

FQT and integration Control Account Manager (CAM) overseeing $18M budget; responsible for earned value management and providing cost, schedule and ROM estimates for proposed GMR software development and testing.

Technical management of sub-contractors performing software/hardware integration, CSCI FQTs and simulation software development; generating sub-contractors statement of work; interfacing and building relationships with customers, Boeing management and various development, system engineering and quality control organizations.

Proven track record of process improvements in areas of software development, integration and testing of the Boeing GMR program.

Indra Systems, Inc. — Winter Park, FL 2002 – 2003

Senior System Engineer

Lead System engineer responsible for capturing system level requirements; hardware/software integration and testing of the Navy AV8B aircraft Full Mission Flight Simulator (FMFS).

Job duties included development of test/simulation software (C++) for various parts of the system specifically for Instructor Operator Station (IOS) and High-Level Architecture (HLA) sub-systems.

Also oversaw the software FQT activity and sell-off of the HLA and IOS sub-system software requirements.

Rockwell Collins, Inc. — Melbourne, FL 1997 – 2001

Senior Software Engineer

Software project engineer responsible for development/maintenance of real-time avionics embedded software for the Rockwell Collins’ navigational/communication equipment.

Responsibilities included taking the project from requirements capture through verification and testing.

Extremely familiar with avionics software development processes including regulatory issues and ARINC429 protocol.

Modified/developed real-time embedded code (C++ and Intel Assembly Languages) for Rockwell Collins’ VOR, ILS and VHF radio per given requirements.

Developed graphics software for Primary Flight Display (PFD) of the Boeing 767-400 aircraft utilizing primary development languages, ADA (in Aonix ADA environment) and C (for developing Windows DLL’s in Visual C++ environment) and OpenGL.

Generated Technical Standard Order (TSO) packages (i.e., Requirements, Design and Verification) for re-certification of the equipment in compliance with FAA regulations.

Prepared technical bid proposals in response to customer requests.

Led the FQT/verification and integration groups responsible for software verification per FAA RTCA/DO-178B level A and B guidelines.

GE Power – Melbourne, FL 1993 – 1997

Formerly Harris Controls Division

Staff Software Engineer

Responsible for developing and maintaining C code for layers six and seven of the data link software of the GE XA/21 Energy Management System (EMS).

Also responsible for implementing the electric utility specific data link protocols such as WSCC and IDEC.

These application protocols resided on top of Motorola X.25 protocol.

Staff Electrical Engineer

Hands-on team leader responsible for development of digital hardware design, boot software/firmware, low level device drivers and system diagnostic software for all the newly designed products in the division.

Further responsibilities included reviewing the new hardware development for testability, hardware/software trade-offs, selection of the required test equipment, sustaining boot and diagnostics software of existing products, production support, Factory Acceptance testing and FQT.

The firmware code was developed in C and Intel Assembly language for various parallel processing boards such as I/O, disk controller and CPU boards.

Developed firmware and diagnostics code in C language for Harris LOCOTROL system.

This product was mounted on various locomotives and was used to synchronize lead locomotive function with the rest of the follow-up locomotives.

Led the development activities of the boot firmware (C and Motorola Assembly) as well as the off-line/on-line diagnostics software for the UNIX based Data Acquisition and Control system of the GE XA/21 Energy Management System.

This sub-system utilized the Motorola microprocessor family and controlled up to 400 remote terminal stations.

EDUCATION

Florida Institute of Technology — Melbourne, FL

M.S., electrical engineering

B.S., electrical engineering

SKILLS

Leadership

Boeing Process-Based Management (PBM) methodology, Lean+, Managing within Law, Certified CMMI associate

Programming languages

C, C++, ADA, PL/M, Pascal, FORTRAN, VHDL, Motorola 680x0, Intel 80x86, MCS-51 and Zilog Z80 Assembly, STM32H745 Arm-based MCU

Operating systems/development environments

UNIX, VMS, Windows, Psos, VxWorks, ClearCase, DOORS, Microsoft office, Visio, Code composer, Visual DSP++, JIRA, Subversion(SVN)

Protocols/Hardware

RF receiver/transmitter circuits, FPGA design, ARINC429, Digital circuit design, MIL-STD-1553, RS232/422/485, TCP/IP, Ethernet 802.3, DO-178B/C

Microprocessor hardware Architecture

Motorola 68000, Zilog Z80, Intel MCS-51 and 80x86, MPC5554

Test Equipment

Logic Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer, Protocol Analyzer, BUS Analyzer, Oscilloscope, In-circuit Emulator

Verification tool

VectorCAST

Security clearance: Active current secret clearance

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