Systems Engineer Engineering

IFTIKHAR SHAHNAWAZ

**** ********* *****, #*, **** Los Angeles, CA 90025; Tel: 310-***-****;E-mail:*************@*****.***

SUMMARY

Over 15 years Subject Matter Expertise with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering implementation and lead skills

SKILLS WITH THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, OPERATING SYSTEMS, AND PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS

C, C++, Java, Tcl/Tk, MODULA-2, PASCAL, ADA, Smalltalk-80, FORTRAN, SIMSCRIPT II.5, Simula, Visual BASIC, VAX-assembler, Z-80

UNIX, Linux, MSDOS, Microsoft Office, Visio, Project, Windows, Access, BONeS/Designer, SES Workbench, Tortoise/SVN, MATLAB, OpNet, DODAF, SysML/XmL, Cisco CCNA, Cloud Computing, DO-178B/C, MIL_STD_1553, ARP5754

EDUCATION

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY at Northridge, Master of Science, Computer Science

NORTHROP UNIVERSITY, Inglewood, California, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI (BOMBAY), Mumbai (Bombay), India, Bachelor of Science,

(Major: Physics; Minor: Mathematics)

CERTIFICATIONS, PROFESSIONAL COURSES/SEMINARS TAKEN AT PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT

PMP Certification 40 Hour Preparation Bootcamp (5/25/19-5/31/19)

Systems Engineering, Number/ID: 3020703I-3110703I, Issue Date: Aug 2003,

Issuing Organization: California Institute of Technology

JTRS Software Architecture (IDS, BMC3 & SS/UCLA Extension)

Cisco Router Configuration (IDS, BMC3 & SS/UCLA Extension)

IP &Ad-Hoc Networking (IDS, BMC3 & SS/UCLA Extension)

Satellite Based Communications (BSS)

Satellite-Based Communications, Navigation & Surveillance for Air Traffic Management (BSS/UCLA Extension)

Software Development Policies & Processes (TRW)

Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MobiCom2000)

Mobile IP in the Current & Future Internet (MobiCom2000)

Telecommunication Networks Analyses, Models and Protocols (UCSB)

Introduction to Fiber Optics (RSS)

Software Project Management Principles (CSUN)

PMP Bootcamp (PMTI/Los Angeles)

Fuzzy Logic & Neural Networks Principles and Applications (CSUN)

Computer Aided Drafting (Evans & Sutherland System) (MD)

Dynamic Systems - Time Series Analysis (MD)

Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Northrop University)

Clear and Effective Writing (with emphasis on manuals, reports and proposals) (RSS)

PUBLICATIONS CO-AUTHORED

I.Shahnawaz, A. Pandya & A. Parikh, “COST OVERHEAD ANALYSIS ASSOCIATED WITH IPSEC IN THE NEXT GENERATION SATELLITE NETWORK”, Aerospace IEEE Conference, March, 2008.

A.M. Madni, I. Shahnawaz & J. B. Vuong, "Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Traffic Control", Submitted to World Automation Conference July, 2000. Selected Best Paper.

R. Doyle, I. Shahnawaz & J. Baker, "Tactical Communication Networks Using Multiband Multimode Radios", Submitted to IEEE MILCOM October, 1994.

J. Baker, I. Shahnawaz & A. Sastry, "Code Division Multiple access With Code Assignments Using Information Classes", IEEE MILCOM October, 1993.

R. Doyle, I. Shahnawaz & A. Sastry, "Impact of Communication Delays and Deadline Times on Distributed Processing in Packet Radio Networks", IEEE MILCOM October, 1992.

R. Doyle, I. Shahnawaz & A. Sastry, "A Simulation Model for Evaluation of Distributed Processing in Multi-Hop Packet Radio Networks", IEEE MILCOM October, 1991.

I. Shahnawaz & A. Sastry, "A Simulation Model for Performance Evaluation of ISDN User Part Basic Call Control Procedures", IEEE MILCOM October, 1990.

J. Agre, I. Shahnawaz & A. Sastry, "Transport Protocol Parameters in a Multiple LAN Environment", IEEE International Conference on Communications June, 1988.

WHITE PAPERS AUTHORED

■“TSAT SYSTEM Performance Measures” ■TSAT IP Multicasting Issues”“EPS Modeling, Simulation & Analysis Plan (MSAP)”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

California State University Long Beach 2/20/23 – Present

Lecturer, Computer Science Department, teaching Software Project Engineering

Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, IT Services Division PMO 4/30/18-4/30/21

Applications Programmer supporting the LADWP Information Technology Services Division Program Management Office (ITSD PMO)'s Initiatives, covering all Establishment to Implementation Phases, of Program/Project Management Policies, Procedures via:

Development of Project Management Lifecycle (based upon IT PMO's adoption of Program Management Institute's Body Of Knowledge - PMBOK)

Software Development of Project Reporting Database Tool with Microsoft Access

Development of IT PMO Processes & Procedures Documentation Templates, Status Reports, Systems Analysis, Management Guidelines

Establishment of Project Management Requirements for IT PMO itself

Presentation of the above artifacts for PMO Team membership review and discussion

Development and Implementation of Proof Of Concept and Trade Study leading to selection of PPM Tool for adoption across ITSD

Supporting development of Training materials for PM's

DFARS Cyber Security Systems Engineer (Contract) ACRO SERVICES CORPN 7/17 – 4/30/18

Provided consultation in support of Remediation efforts of Aerospace Defense Contractor to conform to new regulations from Government pertaining to Acquisition of Systems and control of data flow. Responsibilities included:

Development of NIST SP 800171 compliant Architecture and Requirements documentation.

Development of VISIO diagrams of solutions

Development of Requirements and their maintenance on Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Development of a Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) for resolution of InfoSec findings

Development of a System Security Plan in concert with InfoSec Engineer

Leading a Virtual Technical team, functioning as the Project’s Technical Solution Lead

Following the Agile process as Requirements evolve

Development of Risk Management documentation and remediation strategies

Following Corporate, ES&CSO and owning Sector standards and procedures in remediation

Development of a technical Bill Of Materials for the solution

Development of Waivers when existing standard solutions are not employed

Following Northrop Grumman Systems Design Lifecycle processes in project solution development

Working with IT Systems Architects in developing the technical solution

Working with sector and InfoSec Engineers in developing the solution

Ensuring architecture and design alignment with standards & strategic direction specific to the cyber and information security solution

Assisting in the development of rough order of magnitude & committed pricing estimates

Implementation of the technical solutions for DFARS 252-***-**** compliance

Establishment of test plans, requirements traceability matrix & transition to production artifacts

Ensuring system validation is performed against requirements

Having deep understanding of the following technical domains: Information/cyber

security, IT infrastructure, network, and/or virtualization

Familiarity with SDLC processes as well as with security requirements, services and enterprise solutions

Experience with Agile SCRUM methodologies

Irvine Technology Corporation, Irvine, CA 1/15 – 4/15

Systems Engineer (Contract) DirecTV (DTV)

Responsible for overhaul/update as needed of Architecture, Technical Requirements (In SPIRA environment), Systems Specification, Software Testing Epics/Stories (in JIRA environment), and Interface Control Documents for Business Analysis and Systems Engineering Department of DTV's Entertainment Delivery System (of Systems) Cloud Computing based Enhanced Voice Services in an Agile Development and Management environment.

Independent Consultant 10/11 – Present

Providing educational consultation in the areas of Systems and Software Engineering (C/C++/Java), Architecture, Requirements Allocation, Verification and Validation via Modeling Simulation and Analysis, and Effort Estimation throughout Software Development Life Cycle. Consultation supports proposal development and development of STEM technical/management courses and seminars at Community Colleges and Trade Schools.

LinQuest Corporation, Los Angeles, CA 10/05 – 09/11

Principal Systems Engineer

Provided Systems and Software engineering technical assistance including workflow definition and implementation to Government Customer (SMC) for Enhanced Polar System (EPS/CASIES) and Transformational Satellite Communications Architecture (TSAT) program areas of:

End To End Network Systems Engineering, including User Terminals, Satellite Payload telemetry, command signaling and timelines, Gateway, legacy terminals and payload control traffic processing, End To End Network performance (including protocols performance at various Layers - Circuits v/s Packets, ATM, IP, TCP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, RSVP-TE, QoS, Ipsec, Application Traffic Modeling, etc)

Requirements Verification & Validation,

Architecture modification impact to Mission Threads and CONOPS, Requirements, Verification and Validation via Modeling, Simulation and Analysis in both planning and implementation aspects,

Direction, oversight and evaluation of contractor’s technical work with regard to fulfillment of Requirements, Requirements Verification Plans (RVPs), Interface Control Documents (ICD’s), System Integration and Test Plans

Definition and development of System Performance Measures (SPM’s),

Integration Activities,

Earned Value and Acquisition effort.

Boeing Inc, Integrated Defense Systems (IDS, BMC3 & SS) Company 12/02 – 09/05

Networking Technologies Group, Anaheim, CA

Systems Engineer, Modeling & Simulation, System of Systems

Technical Lead for the Software based Modeling and Simulation Inter Product Team (IPT) established for the Terrestrial Network proposal Research & Development Announcement (PRDA) effort for Transformation Communications Architecture MILSATCOM Operations System (TMOS) Program. Responsibilities included:

Providing technical direction including workflow definition and implementation to IPT in addressing Technical Trade Studies parametric studies in accordance with technical issues originating from Network

Supervising Architecture and Systems Engineering IPT’s, effort, schedule, presenting results at periodic Technical Interchange Meetings (TIM’s) and Design Reviews, and participating in development of Contract Deliverable documentation (CDRL’s).

Developing individual models involved in Mission Threads and CONOPS, addressing of Trade Studies (such as Mobile Terminal to Satellite Communications Handovers, Telemetry and Command signaling timelines), in addition to above mentioned responsibilities.

Providing Software development Basis of Estimates (BOE’s) for Modeling and Simulation effort slated for Proposal post-win phase

Developing individual OpNet based wireless BMC3, C4ISR related network performance models from requirements, basic scenario participant and resource availability information for the Future Combat Systems program

Model development effort also included proof of concept investigation of new approaches to wireless communication resource management algorithms.

Provision of Systems Engineering support, including Modeling & Simulation, for Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Cluster 1 program

Boeing Corpn, Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS) Company, El Segundo, CA 09/00 – 12/02

Scientist, End to End Networking Systems

Developed for requirements investigation, performance software model of network involving ground based terminals requesting services from (SPACEWAY) satellite based bandwidth controller and producing traffic based upon granted requests.

Developed enhancements to End to End Service provider Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO) satellite based Network performance model characterizing ground based network users exchanging communications traffic via satellite and terrestrial links.

Performed Systems Engineering (Communications and Networking Operation Concepts development and workflow definition) for GNCS/Air Traffic Management, Guidance, Navigation and Control System.

TRW/Northrop-Grumman Mission Systems, Inc., Carson, CA. 05/94 – 08/00

Network Systems Engineer

Designed, developed, documented and maintained software that models, behavioral characteristics of Battle Management Command, Control, Data Processing Mission Threads, Communications (BMC3, C4ISR) equipment and protocols participating in experimental tactical mobile wireless network (System Integration Group Projects Appliqué/FBCB2, and WIN-T).

Models were developed with OpNet, 'C', SES-Workbench tools for the purpose of verifying Systems Engineering design, requirements, conducting network Mission Threads and equipment performance related trade studies, analyzing equipment capabilities pertaining to handling heavy communications traffic while providing optimal throughput, queuing and service response time.

Also served as technical liaison providing direction to and co coordinating with project team member counterparts representing other organizations

Prior project assignment involved design and development of software emulating complete internal hardware operations of BISDN/ATM Network Backbone Switch (developed by TRW's HPN project) serving telecommunications network requirements. Models were developed in C programming language and BONeS/Designer (Block Oriented Network Simulator) software development Environment Package and were utilized by Engineering and Marketing Departments for performance and architecture design trade-off studies, and product planning as per customer requirements pertaining to ATM-Cell processing capabilities, Line and Server speeds such as DS3, OC-3,OC-12, and higher,Traffic Modeling/Shaping, Policing and Congestion Control.

Provided Systems Engineering and Modeling & Simulation based analysis regarding processing and performance requirements definition for GSSA (U.S. Army) global network to handle Enterprise software (SAP) user processing and traffic.

Provided Modeling and Simulation support via BONeS/Designer to Space & Electronics Group’s Classified Project Riesling SEIT efforts

ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Thousand Oaks, CA 01/85 – 05/94

Technical Specialist

Designed, developed, documented and maintained software implementing Discrete Event Simulation models to study performance characteristics of conceptual Local and Wide Area Networks configured with various protocols, resources (surface and space based), hardware architectures and traffic loads.

Network studies examined issues having wide product applications, ranging from Manufacturing Automation to multiple satellite/vehicular communications areas of R&D relevance to parent corporation's products.

Network protocols included those based upon International Standards Organization's "seven layer" architecture model, packet switching, TDMA, CSMA/CD/CA, Token passing Ring and Bus methods, ISDN Signaling System 7, with Frame Relay, Reception and verification techniques.

Simulation/emulation models involved investigation of network issues relating to Multi-Band Multimode Radio (SINCGARS/Soldier Handheld Radio), Packet Radio Networks with and without jamming, power control, directional and non-directional antennas, Spread Spectrum Random Access with Frequency Hopping, Slotted and Unspotted ALOHA schemes with and without jamming, ISDN (User Part System Connection/Call Setup and Signaling), etc.

Models utilized the programming languages C, C++, SIMSCRIPT, FORTRAN and the BONeS/Designer software development Environment Package and operated on workstations such as Sun Sparc (under UNIX/Open Windows/Motif Environment).

Provided Grid generation support to Computational Electromagnetic Group in their investigation of electromagnetic field strength studies around antennas, utilizing CAD (for geometrical definition of antenna setup) and Universal Grid Generation software (UNISG, for zonal grids).

Documentation responsibilities included Provision of post-simulation data analyses and graphical representation to aid researchers in analysis and trend studies and technology assessments related to Network Delays, Throughput, Utilization, etc., along with incorporation of results for technical research publications.

BIF-ACCUTEL, Camarillo, CA 02/84 – 01/85

Programmer/Analyst

Developed and/or modified software for Automated Process Monitoring System comprising of Real Time Data Acquisition and Control programs applied to telemetry systems of Water Processing/Treatment plants.

Documented the developed/modified software, prepared software User Manuals and provided User training.

McDonnell DOUGLAS CORPORATION, Long Beach, CA 08/79 – 01/84

Engineer/Scientist- Structural Mechanics Department (Dynamics Flutter/Loads Groups)

Developed standardized, computer software algorithms to frequently used detailed engineering analyses, using approved analytical techniques.

Generated code implementing the analytical approaches to produce software tools for usage by Structural Engineering personnel

Consolidated best features of similar and duplicate programs (but in dissimilar languages) producing subsequent standardized programs, and was responsible for their checkout and maintenance requirements. Also prepared software user manuals outlining theory and application examples

Performed loads analysis on DC-10 aircraft horizontal stabilizer, vertical tail, nacelle and pylon, and in loads analysis of DC-10 Flight Demonstrator Winglet Aircraft (NASA contract), supporting Advanced Design Group

Developed scientific software (FORTRAN) efforts in the:

Design of Wind Tunnel flutter model as well as the actual C-17 aircraft's vibration analysis, along with development of Dynamic Test data reduction and graphic visualization algorithms.

Structural Fatigue Analysis for the A-4 Skyhawk Service Life Examination/Extension program.

HI-SHEAR CORPORATION, Hawthorne, CA 05/79 – 08/79

Design Engineer

Designed and initiated development of Swage action aerospace fastener.

NORTHROP UNIVERSITY DRAFTING DEPARTMENT, Inglewood, CA 06/77 – 04/79

Draftsman

Drew engineering drawings and modifications, and performed redline changes on Rockwell contract drawings for Avionics

Development Laboratories and Structures Group on Space Shuttle program

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