Engineer Manager

John A. Latimer

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**** *. **** ******* *******, Orlando, FL, 32808

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407-***-**** (C), 407-***-**** (H), 321-78719 (O)

EDUCATION:

MSEE, Stanford University, 1972

BSEE, Tennessee State University, 1970

System Safety Analysis Certification, University of Washington, 1973

WORK SUMMARY:

• Over 38 years experience in Systems Engineering and Management

• Career began in 1972 with a Systems Engineering assignment at Martin Marietta Aerospace

• After Martin Marietta, he had engineering and management assignments with major corporations such as Honeywell, TRW, Stromberg-Carlson, Burroughs, and Harris

• Since 1986, employed by one of the nation's largest research and engineering firms, Science Application International Corporation (SAIC) with extensive experience in concept formulation, development, integration, test, production and fielding of military and commercial systems

• Acknowledged expert in Risk Management and the Specialty Systems Engineering areas of Reliability, Availability , Maintainability, (RAM),Safety, and Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs) with the following proven attributes:

• Strong customer-focused orientation

• Excellent verbal, written and listening communication skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with multiple priorities

• Seasoned experience in project/program management

• Superior negotiation and presentation skills

• Experience in risk management (manned/non-manned spaceflights PRAs)

• Business acumen (proposal and marketing)

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

12/86 - Present: Staff Reliability Lead / Sr. PRA Engineer / Reliability Manager, SAIC

• Currently serving as the Staff Reliability Lead on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Expendable Launch Vehicle Integrated Support (ELVIS) contract. He establishes, directs, schedules and controls the daily execution of the NASA reliability effort.

• One of his signature accomplishments was the design, development, and implementation of the Residual Risk Evaluation Technique (RRET) Model. RRET provides NASA decision-makers with quantifiable reliability insight into the severity of the cumulative residual risks impact on each expendable launch vehicle mission. RRET incorporates the proven methodology of risk management, fault tree analysis (FTA), and reliability prediction. RRET was approved by the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance at NASA Headquarters and has been used for risk assessments on Delta II, Delta IV, Atlas V, Pegasus, Taurus, and Falcon launch vehicles

• Due to his critical Reliability expert support, ELVIS SMA received back-to-back 100% award fee evaluations

• Prior to the ELVIS assignment, performed the following tasks:

o Staff Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Lead Engineer on NASA’s Orbital Space Plane (OSP) program at Kennedy Space Center. He directed and led the technical and administrative effort for the generation and implementation of the PRA Plan during the conceptual phase. This effort included defining the scope and requirements for such areas as initiating event analysis, systems analysis, accident sequence analysis, consequence analysis, success criteria development, human reliability analysis and uncertainty analysis.

o Senior Systems Engineer on the 45 Space Wing Launch Operations & Support contract (LO&SC). He provided systems engineering expertise to ensure reliable and safe launch systems.

o Project Reliability Engineer on the US National Data Center (NDC) contract where he served as the subject matter expert providing hardware and software reliability analyses.

o Reliability Availability and Maintainability (RAM) Engineering Manager on the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center Hydrophone Replacement (AHRP) contract and was directly responsible for marketing and proposal preparation that won this contract.

o Program Manager for the Web Based Retrieval System (WBRS) contract for Ford Motor Company and he was directly responsible for successful marketing and proposal activities. His responsibilities included overseeing the everyday operations of the program.

o Reliability and Maintainability Manager for the STRICOM Close Combat Tactical Trainer (CCTT) contract. He directed and led the reliability tasks associated with Predictions, FMECAs, Fault Trees, FRACAS and Design for Reliability. He created and delivered weekly and monthly status reports and supervised staff to ensure deliverables and objectives were met. Per his management, the highest award fees rating were received each reporting period. His budget responsibility was over $1.75M which was met per earned value management.

o Delivery Order (DO) Manager for several STRICOM Quality, Mission Assurance, Configuration and Database tasks. He was directly responsible for marketing, winning and implementing this effort. His budget responsibility which was over $1.2M.

07/84 - 12/86: Reliability, Maintainability and Safety Supervisor, Harris Corporation

• Supervised the Reliability, Maintainability and Safety Systems Effective Group for several major Government Test Programs.

05/82 – 07/84: Reliability Manager, Burroughs Corporation

• Supervised the generation and implementation of a Reliability Program Plan for the development and production of a laser, high speed printer program.

04/80 – 05/82: Lead Software Quality Engineer, Stromberg-Carlson Corporation

• Established and implemented a Software Reliability Measurement program for several Government Digital Branch Exchange Switching Systems programs.

12/78 - 04/80: Reliability and Test Manager, TRW Incorporated

• Supervised the Reliability, Quality, and Safety Group for the design, development, testing, production, and fielding of Automatic Teller Machines.

01/75 - 12/78: Senior Systems Engineer, Martin Marietta Aerospace

• Performed the Systems Engineering tasks on several missile programs.

11/73 - 01/75: Systems Engineer, Honeywell Inc., Aerospace Division

• Functioned as a Systems Engineer on the design of the Shuttle’s Monitor subsystem.

04/72 - 11/73: Systems Safety Engineer, Martin Marietta Aerospace

• Served as the SAM-D Missile Fault Tree Analysis Task Leader.

Professional Activities and Achievements:

• SAIC ‘s Award Of Continued Excellence for the generation and implementation of the RRET model

• NASA’s Achievement Award for the Atlas V 401 Successful Reliability Certification

• The approval of the RRET model by NASA Headquarter

• RRET White Paper written and presented at the Space Systems Engineering and Risk Management Symposium; and the 2009 Applied International Reliability Symposium

• The Reliability Group received high award fee evaluations (Exceeding Customer Expectation-100%) during his seven years tenure

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