Experience

Real Time Consulting LLC (RTC)

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior System Engineer

  • Apr 2023 - Present



Astronautics Corporation of America

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Scrum Master

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  • Coached and supported an engineering team in the implementation of the Scrum framework, helping foster commitment to scope, transparent planning and demonstration on progress of deliverable product increments• Facilitated communication and coordination between multiple verification scrum teams, helping identify and address cross-team technical issues, program schedule concerns• Coordinated verification and development schedule dependencies within a multi-month software project Integrated Master Schedule, using Azure DevOps, Power BI• Contributed to program staffing forecast by communicating agile team bandwidth and capabilities as identified by development team to program level• Facilitated audits by Design Engineering Assurance (software quality assurance) and improved engineering processes to help balance rigorous process requirements with aggressive delivery schedule• Contributed to development of automated DO-178D verification framework (C and Python) of Aircraft Condition Monitoring System (ACMS) for major airframer• Established an automated testing pipeline, using Azure DevOps to execute automated unit and integration testing on target hardware• Interfaced with customer engineering teams to jointly establish scope and technical definition of the highly configurable ACMS functionality, including aircraft parameter acquisition, computation, reporting and offboarding• As part of transition to agile, initially implemented and facilitated practice of Kanban-based approach to agile development of the ACMS by the software development team• Converted pre-existing waterfall-based Work Breakdown Structure into reportable and deliverable product increments, enabling team to effectively plan, accomplish and report• Authored best practices and work instructions for use of on-premises work management tool (Azure DevOps), including basic use, automation and configuration Show less

• Senior Software Development Engineer

  • Apr 2021 - Oct 2021

  • Helped in implementation of Scrum practices during the formative stages of new team, comprising primarily remote contributors• Served as Scrum Master, facilitating scrum rituals including Standups, Sprint Planning and Spring Reviews• Implemented and integrated back-end (golang, sqlc, swagger) for AWS-hosted avionics configuration tool

• Senior System Security Engineer

  • Jun 2019 - Apr 2021

  • Established and executed Security Assurance process, compliant to DO326/DO-356 and ED-203/ED-202 guidance for fielded connectivity solutions.• Designed and implemented software composition and vulnerability analysis tool to enable continuous vulnerability analysis of in-development and fielded avionics solutions• Implemented and facilitated transition of waterfall-based development team to Scrum as a Certified Scrum Master

• Systems Engineer

  • May 2013 - Jun 2019

  Senior Systems Engineer, Astronautics Corporation of America [May 2013 - Present]• Planned, coordinated and reported on progress of Systems design engineering effort on several time-critical programs.• Implemented agile development practices within a Systems engineering scrum team.• Worked closely with customers to define technical and process requirements on display, server and Electronic Flight Bag products.• Authored systems requirements, design and safety (Failure Path Analysis, PSSA, SSA) documentation (activities performed in accordance with ARP4754, ARP4761).• Interfaced with sub-suppliers, flowing down technical and process requirements to ensure sub-suppliers meet programs’ functional and safety objectives.• Provided technical input for commercial pursuits, including technical writing, prototyping and effort estimation.• Performed requirements and test validation and verification in accordance with ARP4754• Authored system and process requirements, interface control documents and TSO compliance documents for multi-functional displays.• Authored departmental procedures and associated training for validation of system requirements.• Assisted in testing and systems integration of major product features of the A400M Network Server System (NSS), including dataloading capabilities, built-in test equipment• Fielded A400M NSS at Airbus Toulouse facilities• Contributed to design and implementation of automated test suite for test benches integrating AFDX, ARINC 429 and discrete avionics I/O with the A400M NSS. Show less

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2010 - May 2013

  Lead Software Developer, Astronautics Corporation of America [October 2011 - May 2013]Contributed to the design and implementation of the A400M NSS installation service, comprising a ARINC 665 dataloader and configuration management system (DO-178B Design Assurance Level D).Designed and implemented installation client to run on a Linux-based access terminal connected to an airborne network server, intended to install ARINC 665 packages over a network connection (DO-178B Design Assurance Level D).Authored software requirement and design documents for the Installation Service (using IBM Rational DOORS), API documentation and other technical writing as required.Assumed leadership role and ownership of development effort on the Installation team, helping bring the team in line with program expectations under a restricting schedule.Software Developer, Astronautics Corporation of America, Server Team [October 2010 - October 2011]Contributed to the design, implementation and maintenance of the Printer Service, targeted for redundant Debian based airborne network servers, providing printing capabilities to applications hosted by the server and written in C or Java, networked access terminals using Internet Printing Protocol and networked avionics devices via a TFTP upload. The design included a TFTP server to be used by avionics devices.Designed and implemented a TFTP client, configurable with user-defined callbacks for any point in the TFTP protocol in order to aid testing of the printing TFTP server, in Python.Authored test cases, procedures and applications for various DO-178B Level D software parts of an airborne integrated network server system.Performed manual code analysis for various DO-178B Level C and D software parts of an airborne integrated network server system. Show less



UW-Milwaukee Libraries

• IS Comprehensive Professional

  • 2008 - 2010