Nailah Salaam

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

Apt. **

Poway, CA 90264

xaut86@r.postjobfree.com

443-***-**** (cell phone)

CLEARANCE:

Current Secret Clearance.

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

Visio, Cadence, Unix, MS Office, Pro/E (2D, RSD), Mentor Graphics CHS & VeSys 2.0, AutoCAD 14, C++, Perl/JavaScript, E3 Zuken, Orcad Capture 16.3

PDM systems: Wildfire, TeamCenter, SAP

EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS:

Spectrum analyzer, Oscilliscope, Mulitmeter, & Signal generator, Cirris Tester CH2

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Contracting for Aurora Flight Sciences June ’12 to Oct ‘12

(Apex Services Inc)

Senior Electrical Engineer Dulles, VA

• Development of Electrical Cable Harness for Medium Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Air Vehicles

• Produce Technical Documents Package for UAV harnesses both flight, prototype, and Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation

• Supporting all types of communications bus protocols including CANbus, RS232, RS422, ARINC, etc

• Integration of 1st Article units and limited-rate initial production for Validation & Verification

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Contracting for Orbital Sciences Corporation November ’11 to June 2012

(Precision Resources)

Principal Engineer Dulles, VA

• Development of Electrical Cable Harness for Spacecraft

• Produce Drawings, Bill of Material, and detailed Schematics, and Wirelist

• Responsible for EMI/EMC requirements imposed upon harness and maintained through physical electrical interface throughout spacecraft

Comtech AeroAstro February ’11 to November ‘11

Spacecraft Harness Engineer Ashburn, VA

• Developed Electrical Cable Harness for Spacecraft

• Supported Procurement and manufacturing of all Test, Flight, and Mock-up Cables

• Produced Drawings in accordance with GD&T of ASME Y14.5M-1994 (R1999) & ASME Y14.100, Engineering Drawing Practices, Bill of Material, and detailed Schematics, and Wirelist

• Selection of parts in accordance with preferred, approved, and screened parts in accordance with EEE-INST-002

• Developed electrical modification and installation work instructions, procedures and recommendations

• Responsible for EMI/EMC requirements imposed upon harness and maintained through physical electrical interface throughout spacecraft

Contracting for General Dynamics – Land Systems May ’10 to February ‘11

Electrical Engineer Woodbridge, VA

• Support development of requirements and generate specification documents for military electronic components, subassemblies, modules and boxes.

• Gathered technical information, analyze technical problems and provide technical solutions in areas related to cabling, high speed buses, power buses, power distribution, high and low voltage converters, power supplies, and power generation.

• Supported Technology Research, Feasibility Assessments, cost estimates, proposals and demonstrations.

• Supported concept and design development, implemented and tested components and subsystems.

• Wrote test requirements, procedures, reports and performed tests in the laboratory and in vehicles as required.

• Prepared paper work to investigate and closeout technical problems as required.

• Developed and Coordinated Project Objectives, Schedules and Budgets.

• Conduct and participate in peer reviews of work product documentation

Contract for Northrop Grumman July’09 to April ’10

Electrical Cabling Lead Azusa, CA

• Served as a single point of contact for all technical issues related to Engineer & Flight Cables for Space Based Infrared Satellite (SBIRS)

• Worked closely with Design Engineering, Quality, Production/Material Control, IPT Lead, Manufacturing Supervision and hourly Production Personnel

• Provided guidance to Mechanical Design Engineering regarding routing design concepts and specification requirements for space-grade product selection and qualification such as connectors, backshells, shielding, cable & wire

• Responsible for schedule and timely delivery of drawing packages for both Engineering & Flight cables

• Secret Clearance Required

AAI Corporation Sep’07 to July ‘09

Contract for AAI Corporation Sep’06 to May’07

Electrical Hardware Engineer III / Electrical Lead Hunt Valley, MD

• Responsible for designing shelter, box wiring harnesses, and to know military wire and fiber connectors.

• Responsible for requirements analysis, preliminary design, and detail design. Tasks include packaging, determining performance, and preparation of specifications as required.

• Performed work that involves conventional engineering practices but includes a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of standard materials and difficult coordination requirements.

• Participated in and responsible for material and component selection.

• Participated and planned for hardware integration.

• Worked closely with manufacturing to assure production of items to attain cost goals.

• Tasked to meet technical requirements within schedule and budget constraints.

• Provided program planning/schedule/proposal/strategy inputs & perform Cost Account management functions for all assigned tasks. Support typical DoD milestones such as SRR, SFR, PDR & CDR. Secret Clearance required

Smiths Detection (John Galt Staffing) May’07 to Sep’07

Electrical Hardware Engineer Edgewood, MD

• Responsible for cable sizing, and connector selection in military products; Electrical integration activities.

• Test plan development; Power analysis; conduct analysis of power consumption at a system level to understand AC generator sizing and ratings; Interface with equipment manufacturers to understand electrical interface and communication specifications.

• NEXGEN meteorological military shelter prototyping.

Lockheed Martin/ (DUA Computer Resources) Oct’05 to Jan’06

Electrical Engineer Baltimore, MD

• Responsible for the interconnect wiring within the chassis and outside of boxes. Used board level I/O provided by other design engineers and integrated system design requirement into wiring schematics, and wire running lists documents.

• Utilized the Routed Systems Designer and ProCabling in a ProE (Wildfire) environment.

• Worked on NLOS-LS, Non Line of Sight – Launch System for the Army.

United Defense now known as BAE Systems (TAC Worldwide) Apr’05 to Jul’05

Electrical Engineer York, PA

• Responsible for electrical design engineering of Future Combat Systems (FCS) Military Recovery and Maintenance Vehicle (FRMV).

• Specifically supported design updates and development of Integrated Computer System (ICS) and the Joint Tactical Radio System(JTRS).

• Evaluated, within Vehicle electronics, the power, size, and weight for cost analysis and design of physical architecture.

• Involved in all phases of the ICS and JTRS development life-cycle as well as all general C4ISR design support of military vehicle.

General Dynamics Land Systems (Total Tech) Oct’04 to Apr’05

Electrical Engineer Westminster, MD

• Responsible for electrical design engineering of harness and cable assemblies on Mobile Gun System and complete system integration of cabling harness. Integration, development, and revision of electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, harness hardware(BOM), and Engineering Change Notices.

• Responsible for Root Cause Corrective Action process related to Electrical Harness Design

• Designing to adhere to Military Specifications and Standards. Using PRO-E (Wildfire) to create 2D drawings from complex 3D models.

Boeing Aircraft (Q & C International) Jul’03 to Nov’03

Electrical Hardware Engineer St. Louis, MO

• Responsible for the generation of specifications to procure simulated instruments and design simulated cockpit panels.

• Schematic capture of wire routing and design layout utilizing Mentor Graphics 8.9, Logical Cable.

Orbital Sciences Corporation Oct’99 to Jul’01

Senior Engineer Germantown, MD

• Lead the concept development, specification and design for particular spacecraft harness systems.

• Knowledgeable in design of spacecraft telemetry and command using CAD/ CAE systems (AutoCAD 14, Cadence, Visio) for design entry, simulation/ analysis and component placement.

• Capable of delivery of harness design from preliminary requirements through flight hardware delivery.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Jun’99 to Oct’99

Avionics/Electrical Designer Savannah, GA

• Designed layout for wiring schematics in Mentor graphics 8.6, researching, verifying, and updating harnesses to latest Engineering changes documentation.

• Translated dummy schematics to intelligent diagrams that provide functional data on wire attributes in Oracle database format

Space Systems Loral Jul’98 to Jun’99

R&D Engineer Palo Alto, CA

• Automated and published data gathered from systems engineering for command, telemetry, and auxiliary harness wiring for satellite.

• Compiled inter subsystem data for access company-wide, for customers, and for vendors.

• Provided Technical writing and editing for requirements and user manuals documenting processes.

Lockheed Martin Dec’95 to Jun’98

Harness Design Engineer Newtown, PA

• Involved in all phases of harness design integration and manufacturing support.

• Responsible for compiling design requirements and analyzing performance specifications of spacecraft components for use in generating correct system connections.

• Calculated voltage drops, allocated interface connectors, and wrote test procedures.

• Used Mentor Graphics Logical Cable and created electrical payload schematics for 3 satellite programs.

• This effort involved the release and maintenance of over 1000 sheets of engineering wire lists and associated engineering changes.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, May’95

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Certification in Perl, Java, and Javascript, Feb’00

Northern Virginia Community College, Sterling, VA

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