Systems Engineer System Engineering

ANDREW MUSELLA

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Colorado Springs, Colorado

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SUMMARY

Over thirty-four years of progressive experience in Engineering. An accurate, precise, dedicated, self-motivated employee, able to set effective priorities to achieve immediate and long-term goals. Ability to work stand alone or in a team environment with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

EXPERIENCE

Prime Technical Services Colorado Springs, Colorado October 2021 – Present

Systems Engineer

Participate as a member of the Sandman Team on the Northrop Grumman SMORS PARCS radar project: develop System

Requirements Document (SRD) and System Sub-System (SSS) Requirements documentation, Review weekly in team planning

meetings for accuracy and correctness, Use of DOORS for baselining documents, Confluence Jira and Kanban Board tools, Use of

Skype and MS Teams applications for team meetings and collaboration. Review draft and finished products with SPO and/or

program level personnel for approval/acceptance. Also, participate as a member of the Toolz Hardware Team, attend (either in-

person or remotely) Daily Standup meetings, Backlog grooming meetings, legacy documentation review. MS Teams/Skype

usage, work in office 3 days each week and remotely 2 days per week. Participate in PI Planning meetings to have an

understanding of project iteration tasks as well as product demonstration support. Attend Sprint Retrospective team meeting for

post iteration review (what could be done better, what was done correctly, kudos, etc.). Communicate with team Subject Matter

Experts (SMEs) on an as needed basis.

PCI – Strategic Management Colorado Springs, Colorado August 2018 – November 2018

Odyssey Systems Colorado Springs, Colorado November 2018 – October 2021

Senior Systems Engineer/Product Owner (PO) for the NISSC II Sustainment Project located at Peterson Space

Force Base. Work with project Scrum Master(s) to collaborate on CCIC2S Systems upgrades. Use of Rational Team Concert

(RTC) for requirements creation and tracking, SIPR Usage for classified elements, MS Teams usage for meetings and team \

collaboration, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile training, Attend and contribute during PI Planning sessions, Daily team

standups, Weekly sync meetings between Agile Release Trian (ART) engineers and POs, Weekly SPO briefings to communicate

expectations from sustainment contractor for each Sprint. Assigned the Book Boss role responsible for the creation, update and

review of the program System Engineering Procedure (SEP) and System Engineering Management Plan (SEMP).

Aerotek Colorado Springs, Colorado May 2018 – August 2018

Senior Systems Engineer

Support Deficiency Reporting, Requirements development and baseline activities for the SBIRS Survivable, Endurable, Evolution

(S2E2) program through all phases of development. Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation,

cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analysis for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system

product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal. Ensures the logical and

systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and

cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation and interface

definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. Collaboration with subcontractors,

local engineers, and geographically dispersed teammates.

a.i. solutions Colorado Springs, Colorado 2015 – 2018

Principle Systems Engineer

Contribute to integrated working groups to provide mission assurance expertise of MDA QS activities, Demonstrated

strong collaboration and communication skills fostering efficient workflow across multiple parties including: 3- letter government

customers, Mission Assurance Representative (MAR) technical staff, and other team contractors, Develop and brief charts to

Senior Managers on mission assurance issues and activities, including vendor requirements and risks, End of Month Report

briefings, Develop and maintain engineering analysis along with other technical experts, create End of Week (EOW) Reports

comprised of MAR weekly activities associated with MDA vendors, Coordinate, analyze, and maintain data coming from various

sources including QSI personnel, existing data management systems, and soft copy deliveries in the form of MAR Visit Reports

and MAR Action Plan Reports (VR / APR), Create and maintain various spread sheet matrices, Attend annual QSI MAR off site

meetings at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville Alabama.

Master Solutions / SGT Colorado Springs, Colorado 2014 – 2015

Senior Systems Engineer

Perform requirements analysis and development with minimal supervision for Integrated Space Command & Control (ISC2)

mission applications utilizing Agile Scrum methodology. The analysis will include verification of completeness/correctness,

traceability to Government source documents, identification of verification methodology, requirements allocation to subsystems

and components, and identification of impacts to ISC2 mission applications. Extract requirements from DOORS and integrate into

a System Specification document. Produce additional ABD life cycle artifacts using MS Office suite of products such as:

Technical Baseline Matrix (TBM), Subsystem System Description Document (SSDD), Internal Interface Description (IID),

Document Templates, classified and unclassified appendices (reference documents, acronyms), Interface Control Documents

(ICD), and Transition to Operations (TTO) Plan. The ability to work constructively with small teams of system engineers in

collaboration with the ISC2 management and functional disciplines (e.g., software, hardware, information assurance, tech docs,

integration and verification) is critical to success. DoDAF artifact generation.

Midcom Corporation Colorado Springs, Colorado 2012 – 2013

Lockheed Martin Corporation Colorado Springs, Colorado 2013 - 2014

Senior Systems Engineer

Support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) organization with system

engineering practices, procedures and independent verification & validation tasks to include: Complete product

life-cycle associated with information technology-oriented projects for missile defense Command and Control

Ballistic Missile Communications (C2BMC) integration and testing; Responsibilities include customer interface,

system requirements analysis, requirements development, requirements management, risk management,

functional analysis, functional architecture development, system design support, trade studies and white papers;

Also requires interface control specification development, impact assessment of customer requests, briefing

development and presentation, cross-organization coordination, testing and verification of delivered products and

services, validation of documentation and verification case development.

Delta Solutions and Strategies Colorado Springs, Colorado 2011 – 2012

Systems Analyst

Assist the Warfighter and developer in visualizing key actors, roles and responsibilities, functional processes,

operational event sequences, and information exchanges IAW JCIDS guidelines. Assist the government in

developing CONOPS and operational requirements. Provide visual modeling of linkages between required

operational capabilities and the solutions developed to enable those capabilities. Update architectures to respond

to changes in threats, mission requirements, organizational changes, associated changes in roles and

responsibilities, interfaces and new capabilities. Produce DoDAF views utilizing Ration Software Architect

(RSA) UML/UPDM tool, use case specifications, delta integration roadmaps, support applicable communities of

interest. Summarize existing JCIDS documentation to assist in planning, system engineering, analytical support

to Integrated Capability Teams.

P3I, Incorporated Colorado Springs, Colorado 2010 – 2011

Senior Systems Engineer

Provide Systems Engineering, Integration and Change Management support for Combatant Commanders

Integrated Command and Control System (CCIC2S). Provide engineering and sustainment for all CCIC2S

activities in direct support of interoperable air warning, missile warning and space situational awareness C2

systems supporting United States and Canadian decision makers; Co-chair Daily Operations Status Meeting

(DOSM) to assess systems status, analyze systems availability and failure trends, monitor and prioritize

adjudication of problem reports; Support government efforts to ensure delivered capabilities are integrated and

sustained in a manner which supports CCIC2S operational and technical requirements and schedule deliveries;

Ensure full range of configuration management, change control management and engineering processes,

procedures and functions; Support government efforts to analyze and assess changes and avoid introduction of

any modification that could degrade operational capabilities; Ensure changes to Integrated Tactical Warning and

Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) systems are prioritized, integrated and evaluated to determine impacts of the

ITW/AA mission systems. Provide assessment and validation compliance with standards for engineering, change

control, technology insertion as well as integration across the CCIC2S program and prime contractor; verify

Reliability/Maintainability/Availability (RMA) matrix data on a weekly and monthly basis; Present all findings

to the government customer during regular staff meetings; Determine feasibility of changes to CCIC2S and

ITW/AA systems and for missile, space and air subsystems; Attend off-site meetings for requirements and design

review activities.

Master Solutions/SGT Colorado Springs, Colorado 2005- 2010

Systems Engineer

Support government customer in upgrading the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA)

system at Peterson AFB Test Development Facilities and Cheyenne Mountain AFS Missile and Air Warning

Center; Analyze requirements to develop Test Steps, Test Plans, Test Procedures, and Success Criteria for System

level test and document/analyze test results; Verify those requirements through the use of the scenario injection

into missile and air warning systems as part of overall verification/validation of the Combatant Commanders

Integrated Command and Control System (CCIC2S); Analyze requirements in DOORS database Review and

debug binary code in missile warning scenarios and develop scripts for tool support; Provide support as test

manager for mission systems test and verification for both internal and external customers utilizing the Missile

Analysis Reporting System (MARS) and Air Mission Evolution (AME) mission elements; Provide support for

missile and air scenario services using SIGS as a test platform to verify scenario content and events; Modify

existing missile and air scenarios before injection into Communication Processing System (CPS), missile and

air resources; Support contractor and formal testing of missile and air missions for government operational

acceptance (OT/E) and provide both informal and formal briefings of those results; Dry run missile exercise

scenarios with emphasis on verification of events on MARS and Processing and Display Subsystem Migration

(PDS-M) displays; Troubleshoot missile scenario content in an effort to determine source of errors during

injection.; Utilize MS Access to create database(s) for SIGS performance test results; Review Test Requirements

to assure system test assets (software and hardware) conform to customer test objectives. Verify all system

level Software Change Form (SCF) activities are incorporated into latest software build(s).

Provide supervision for seven engineering and technical personnel and provide training where necessary.

EDUCATION - Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences - Chapman University - Orange, California

CERTIFICATIONS - Systems Engineering Certification – California Institute of Technology - Los Angeles, California

IPC 610/IPC 620 Certification - Missile Defense Agency - Colorado Springs, Colorado

SECURITY CLEARANCE - Top Secret / SCI

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