Experience

APT (A-P-T Research, Inc.)

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Team Lead and Sr. Software Airworthiness Engineer

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  Team Lead and Senior Engineer supporting APT Research for the US Army Apache helicopter software airworthiness assessment. Provide software technical expertise and technical support through review and evaluation of developer and government aviation system and component technical reports, safety assessments, airworthiness documentation, hazard analyses, and safety risk assessments, Safety Assessment Reports, technical and operator’s manuals, technical specifications, and changes. Review software requirements, design, software source code, build procedures, verification tests, and analyses documentation for compliance with software safety qualification standards and requirements.



COLSA Corp

• Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• Software Airworthiness Engineer

  • Mar 2020 - Feb 2021

  Senior Engineer supporting COLSA Corporation for the US Army Apache helicopter software airworthiness assessment. Provide software technical expertise and technical support through review and evaluation of developer and government aviation system and component technical reports, safety assessments, airworthiness documentation, hazard analyses, and safety risk assessments, Safety Assessment Reports, technical and operator’s manuals, technical specifications, and changes. Review software requirements, design, software source code, build procedures, verification tests, and analyses documentation for compliance with software safety qualification standards and requirements. Security Clearance: Secret DOD



MAG Aerospace

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Test Engineer

  • Jan 2019 - Mar 2020

  Supports component and system-level performance testing of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) aircraft avionics/flight control systems, radios, associated ground control stations and supporting equipment. Tasks include: analysis of system requirements and system architectures, development of test models and test artifacts to define system verification plans and development and execution of procedures needed to validate system capabilities. Conduct lab and field performance verification testing, formal system acceptance testing and develop test reports with detailed performance analysis. Security Clearance: Secret DOD



General Electric-Hitachi Nuclear Energy

• Wilmington, North Carolina Area

• Software Verification and Validation Engineer

  • Aug 2012 - Dec 2018

  Software Verification and Validation Engineer. Thoroughly verify all software requirements with integrity, safety, and quality. Very strong skills in multi-tasking, detailed oriented, and having a questioning attitude. Create detailed and accurate V&V test plans, test procedures, and test reports for integration, subsystem, system, and FAT testing of nuclear instrumentation and controls to meet or exceed customer and NRC regulations. Highly involved with all levels of the product lifecycle process by reviewing requirements, creating requirement traceability, and providing input for technical design reviews. Proactively identify and clearly define any issue and take ownership to resolve an issue. Brainstorm to create alternative and creative verification of requirements and eliminate non-value-added processes or steps.



Danaher Corporation

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • Feb 2002 - Apr 2004

  Senior Software Engineer developing embedded firmware, debugging and troubleshooting industrial controllers, timers, and counters. Created training courses to aid other engineers in software development processes. Validated software and hardware changes to an updated Voting Machine to FEC requirements. Created all levels of documentation and all test cases to FEC regulations. Responsible to ensure all FEC regulations and requirements were met or exceeded. Traveled extensively certifying the Voting Machine with the FEC and training technicians and election officials



Lucent Technologies

• Raleigh, North Carolina Area

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • Dec 1996 - Nov 2001

  Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead, and Team leader of 6 Firmware Engineers developing VxWorks based real-time embedded control and I/O interface software for many types of circuit packs that transmit SONET signals through fiber optic cables using DWDM technology on the PowerPC microprocessor. Responsibilities included overseeing an engineering team developing firmware, documentation, debugging software, hardware and the entire system by using emulators, analyzers, and oscilloscopes. Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead, and Team leader of 6 Firmware Engineers developing VxWorks based real-time embedded control and I/O interface software for many types of circuit packs that transmit SONET signals through fiber optic cables using DWDM technology on the PowerPC microprocessor. Responsibilities included overseeing an engineering team developing firmware, documentation, debugging software, hardware and the entire system by using emulators, analyzers, and oscilloscopes.