TOSH ALAN KEUNE
***** ********'s Road
Germantown MD 20874
Email: ad7eab@r.postjobfree.com, ad7eab@r.postjobfree.com
Demonstrated Excellence in Team Leadership, Requirements Management, and Development, with Expertise in Flight Operations, Validation and Verification, and System Testing for Aviation and Spacecraft Systems
Key Skills:
Architecture Definition
CMMI
Requirements Analysis
Budgeting
System Integration
COTS
Requirements Management
Documentation
Test Procedure Development
IV&V
Preliminary Design
Marketing
Program Planning
Reuse
Critical Design
Simulation
Test Planning
RF
Evolutionary Acquisition
Specifications
Vehicle Kinematics
SCRUM
Performance Specifications
Staffing
Proposal Support
UML
Signal Processing
Validation
Math Modeling
VME
Processor Selection
Verification
Languages and Tools:
Ada
Basic
Cameo
C
C Shell
C# (intro)
C++
CRADLE
Dbase2
DOORS
Django
Eclipse
FORTRAN
GIT
GNU Tools
Green Hills Multi
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Linux
MS Office
MS Visual Studio
MATLAB
PowerPC
PostgreSQL
PVCS
Python
QT
RAZOR
STOL
Subversion
STK
UNIX
Clearance:
Current hold Interim Secret Clearance through Northrop Grumman.
Professional Experience:
Northrop-Grumman Corporation July 2023 - present
Payload and Ground Systems Senior Lead Embedded Software Engineer/Staff Engineer
●Developing and Testing capacity precheck to prevent commands from overfilling target File Systems.
●Researched and prepared presentation to update handling of Investigation, Design, and Test Planning JIRA tickets that require Team Reviews within the DVB FSW and Test Software teams.
●Guiding development of binary database quality mitigations to avoid silent failures while improving DVB Boot/startup speed.
●Developed and tested Mil-Std-1553 Telemetry Processing error handling enhancements for the PGSD Digital Visible Backbone (DVB) program.
●Developed Draft Software Requirements for the Sensor System Payload Mission Manager Service for the PGSD next generation sensor subsystem software product line.
●Developed the Sequence Diagrams, Class diagrams, and Use Cases for the Satellite Bus Encapsulation Layer software components
●Guiding Agile team in efforts to increase overall velocity for the SSMPL Team.
Science Applications International Corp. April 2019 – July 2023
OMES-2 Contract GFSC Principal Software Engineer
●Managed GOTS Supplier interactions and supply of customized Software Updates to NASA Goddard ASSIST Ground Station T&C System.
●Installed and supported integration of Bus vendor supplied high-rate telemetry sampling rate telemetry software into the OSAM-1 Ground Element and Mission Operations Center.
●Integrated and Tested High Speed Telemetry transfer interface and sanitized data transfer agent.
●Integrated Bus Vendor Mission Operations Support Center interfacing software with the NASA Goddard ASIST/Front End Data System
●Developed and supported execution of Test Procedures to
●Developed Mission Operations Center configuration process and supporting documentation.
●Developed and conducted the Integration, Development, and Verification of high-rate data collection extension (Dwell) for the OSAM-1 Ground System.
●Transitioned from Verification Lead to Ground System Command and Telemetry Subsystem Lead/SME.
●2020 SAIC Research Fellow developing integrated hypersonic reentry vehicle thermal control system in an effort to increase the safety of atmospheric reentry from LEO and higher-energy trajectories.
●SAIC applied for a US Patent based on my 2020 Research Fellow project.
●Developed Ground System Command directive to manage command rate limiting to match Flight System command handling capabilities.
●Integrating and preparing Satellite Telemetry Dwell (high rate data collection) Tools.
●Led Verification of over 400 Subsystem Requirements for NASA OSAM-1 Ground System Build 1.
●Led/Coordinated the efforts of Three System Leads, their teams, and members of the Flight Operations Team in execution of five phases of fully remote and hybrid in-person/remote testing events.
●Established policies and procedures for the Inspection and Analysis of requirements not assigned to verification by Test or Demonstration
●Developed Software Build Documentation to coordinate the delivery of the first Build Software Components for the OSAM-1 Ground Control System.
●Coordinated the development and updating of Ground System Configuration Management to integrate two new vendor-supplied subsystems and implement lessons learned.
●Leading the response to Software & Mission Assurance assessment of Ground Element Software Development plans, policies, and procedures.
●Revising the Ground Element Software Development Plan to account for Software Quality Assurance comments/assessment.
●Coordinating development of Subsystem Verification Test Planning, Materials and supporting management tools to enable staggered execution to mitigate some of the CoVid-19 shutdown impact on Ground System Build 1 completion
●Completed updates to OSAM-1 Ground Element Software Safety and Criticality Analysis.
●Supporting RGE Development Lead in apply Cybersecurity planning and assessment coordination.
●Drafted and coordinated formal reviews for OSAM-1 Ground Element System Software Development Plan updates to clarify Team Roles, GNC GS team tools, terminology, and other team comments.
●Defined and coordinating implementation of procedures for handling Database and Software updates to OSAM-1 Ground and Flight elements.
●Developed table to insert in Flight Operations and/or Configuration Management Plans defining the levels of review and control rigor for classes of documentation changes to enable progress on completing and finalizing the OSAM-1 Flight Operations Management Plan.
●Developed and socialized within the OSAM-1 Development Team standards for the development and conduct of Unit, Functional, and Subsystem Tests.
●Completed updates and coordinated formal reviews for updates to OSAM-1 Ground System Configuration Management (CM) Plan, including designing Ground Software Patching Options.
●Led/coordinated Software development process efforts key to the OSAM-1 Ground Element reaching Critical Design Review with no GSFC Software and Mission Assurance process deficiency findings.
●Conducted Subsystem Level Validation Review for Mission Control Systems examining and proposing corrections to System and Subsystems requirements to produce a valid set the Ground System Requirements for the OSAM-1 Ground System.
●Coordinated and led Restore Ground Element Build 0 Factory Acceptance Test.
●Coordinated advanced planning for Restore Ground Element Build 0 Factory Acceptance Test.
●Completed the “Mission Operations Center” installation and conducted Site Acceptance Testing leading to the Ground Element Readiness Test for Build 0.
●Wrote OSAM-1 Ground Element Subsystem Level Test Plan.
●Conducted OSAM-1 Ground Element Build 0 Factory Acceptance Test and Build 0 Factory Acceptance Test Results Debrief.
●Completed OSAM-1 Subsystem Level Build 0 Test Coordination, Planning, Test Procedures, and Readiness Review.
●Completed or coordinated completion of Level 4 requirement verification content for in OSAM-1 GE System requirements modules in DOORS.
●Prepared and presented Verification Section for Engineering Peer Reviews for Robot Ground System, Guidance Navigation and Control Ground Systems, Mission Control System and Information Technology Infrastructure.
RKF Engineering/RAMY InfoTech March, 2019 – April. 2019
Sr. Software Engineer/Deputy Chief Eng.
Served as Deputy Chief Engineer supporting product demonstrations and program feasibility assessments.
Provided Spacecraft Systems Engineering evaluation expertise to RKF Investor Assessment of Business Plan to develop/deploy satellite-based LTE compliant Communications Service.
Provided Spacecraft Systems Engineering expertise to RKF evaluation of Business Plan to develop and deploy Low-Earth Orbiting semi-connected formation constellation pseudo-satellite-based LTE compliant Communications Service.
Developed Demonstration Framework in QT for RKF Satellite Constellation Management Software.
At departure, integrating RKF Constellation Tools into QT Demonstration Framework.
DRT/Boeing via Aerotek May, 2018 – February, 2019
Systems Engineering Department Senior Systems Engineer
Operated EMI/ESD Pre-Qualification Testing for Aircraft Interfacing Device to be certified per DO-160G and Boeing Specifications for multiple Boeing Commercial Aircraft product lines.
Wrote qualification DO-160 compliant test procedures for Power Systems, Water Proofness, and Fluid Susceptibility testing for airborne complex multimode communications component for Boeing Aircraft.
Researched VITA standards and rewrote OpenVPX Module/Slot Compatibility and Quad Channel Tuner Requirement Specifications supporting Next-Generation software defined radio system.
Drafted Cyber security/Information security/Information Assurance Specification for OpenVPX Next Generation software defined radio products.
Completed detailed analysis of third-party and in-house System Test Tools Qualification testing.
Guided Software SCRUM Masters in prioritizing Test Support and Hardware/Software Integration JIRA stories to enable timely completion of prototype software for system qualification.
Solers Corporation March 2018 – May 2018
FAA NAVTAC-2 Contract Systems Engineering SME
Participated in DO-178C SOI 4 Documentation reviews for FAA WAAS Software
Advised NAVTAC-2 Senior Personnel on WAAS Replacement Satellite Ground System Software Compliance prospects.
Developed preliminary exploratory designs for Cross Domain Live Interaction Toolsets using Kubernetes, and related microservice tools as Sock Puppet functionality across Domain boundary.
MYTA Technologies and Technology March, 2017 – March, 2018
FAA ERAM Program Ada Test Engineer
Developed Ada and C++ Test Driver Software and XML Test Scenario files to test FAA ERAM Data Communications Protocol Gateway Software applications for National Airspace System.
Implemented test driver software and XML test scenarios for Enroute Data Communication Software.
Implemented, conducted and monitored automated regression testing for tracking effect of changes/updates to enroute data communications and protocol conversion software subsystems.
Developed Ada and C++software updates to remediate issues with FAA ERAM Data Communications and Protocol Gateway Software applications.
Supported completion of Software Design Document for ERAM Data Communications Software.
Alion Science and Technology October, 2015 – March, 2017
Lead Systems Engineer
Developed IWS 2E Electronic Combat Systems, Systems Engineering Integration Management Toolset.
Managed IWS 2E Electronic and Combat Systems, Systems Integration Issue Tracking.
Updated Systems Command level policy for executing Failure Review Boards for SEWIP Hardware.
Constructed Formal Interface/Integration Requirement definition tools for NAVSEA EW/Radar Systems.
Supported NAVSEA Chief Engineer - Above Water Sensors with Systems Engineering/Integration Issues.
Developed presentations of the Systems Integration Overview/Issues for all major Electronic Warfare Combat Systems.
Co-Authored SEWIP Open Systems Architecture Compliance White Paper for submission to SECNAV.
Drafted Failure Investigation and Review Policy for NAVSEA Integrated Warfare Systems PEO.
Outlined Failure Investigation and Review Process for NAVSEA Integrated Warfare Systems PEO.
Authored SEWIP Block 2 Shock Deficiency Recovery Plans and Block4 Security Classification Guide.
Devised DODAF Milestone B and C review plans and tracking materials for SEWIP Blocks 3 and 4.
Wrote software and interface design documents for SEWIP Block 2 Liquid Cooling Unit software.
Led a team of US Navy Systems Leads in closure of over 70 action items addressing Electronic Warfare and Radar Systems Integration by converting weekly system leads meeting into an effective venue for combat systems issue resolution.
EXB Solutions February, 2015- September, 2015
Lockheed Skyline Program/C-5M Avionics Software Software Developer (Contract)
Developed Low-Level DO-178 compliant Test Drivers in Ada and C++ for C-5 Program.
Coded client, server, and interfacing C++ methods to enable Air Traffic Controllers to control Aircraft Departure and Arrival sequencing tested and deployed VMWare based Linux RedHat 5 platforms.
Completed detailed development plans for Air Traffic Management Client and Server enhancements.
Implemented Flight Data Processing enhancements in C++ to link Lockheed-Martin Skyline Air Traffic Management Systems built on Virtual Machine Linux platforms (RedHat 6.5) deployment.
Aerotek – Textron Systems August, 2014 – February, 2015
TCDL Software Group GUI Software Engineer (Contract)
Designed and coded modifications to UAV (RQ-7A - Shadow) control software to enable return path terrain analysis, course reversal, and return home navigation.
Designed and Coded Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) driven flight corridor altitude clearance software (in C++) for Army Universal Ground Control System to support Shadow Air Vehicle Recovery Navigation software modifications.
Designed RQ-7A Navigation Software to enable using Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) to evaluate return paths for terrain threats to reduce vehicle loss rates.
DecisionQ Corporation, Washington, DC March, 2014 – June, 2014
Lead Development Consultant (Contract)
Researched market options and prepared plans, policies and architectures to deliver services to mobile formats cost effectively from a single code base.
Developed code using Django, Python and AWS servers to host Bayes Net models as a web service for Swedish Orthopedic Oncologists using JSON and XML messages in the Django framework.
LEXERDTEK Corporation, Fairfax, VA July, 2013 – March, 2014
Director, Software and Systems Engineering
Completed Systems/Software Capabilities Assessment for submittal to Eglin AFB USAF Test/Training Range Support Contract in response to Small Business Sources Sought Statement Request for Information including outlining the development environment needs to support model based advanced control systems.
Provided marketing insight, editorial guidance, and content deciphering for team of Doctorate-level Control Systems Engineers preparing multiple Army and Air Force Rapid Innovation Fund Broad Agency Announcement focused White Papers.
Orbital Sciences Corporation January, 1996 – July, 2013
Space Systems Group Senior Principal Software/Systems Engineer
Developed preliminary design concept for Object Oriented based Flight Software baseline designed to accommodate conventional spacecraft data handling command and control concept within a
Developed concept of Mini Builds to enable targeted compilation and building of Pointing Control software or C&DH variants to support quick turn-around support of KKP Payload Control System HITL Testing and Flight Preparations.
Developed Build controls to enable mixed object language and compiled code construction of executable images for KPP Payload pointing system
Completed mapping of NPR 7150 against Orbitals Standard Software process to enhance compliance with this standard in a cost-effective manner.
Developed and documented systematic trade study performance and documentation process for Control Systems Engineering within Orbital’s SSG
Defined Orbview-4 and N-Starc system architectures, performance requirements, preliminary designs, wrote Configuration Management and Quality Assurance plans as Lead Software Engineer.
Completed Preliminary Software Design for Orbview-4 software derived from the same baseline ancestry as the GSFC Core Flight Software.
Completed Preliminary Software Design for N-Starc including addition of five (5) new autonomy supporting functions compared to previous Orbital/ CTA Space Geostationary Satellite software.
Guided design of the Fault Detection functionality for the N-Starc.
Collaborated on the development and testing of Start-up ROM code for RAD-6000 and RAD-750 single board computers including on-orbit diagnostic and command functionality.
Implemented build environment to enable customer development and protect proprietary content.
Prepared Preliminary Design Document for C/C++ Payload Control Processor architecture.
Developed Object Oriented Flight Software Preliminary Design integrating legacy software.
Developed Power System Control and High Rate Data Collection Software for N-Starc Satellite.
Led Egyptian Air Force F-16 Mission Planning System Development Team to achieve on-time Factory Acceptance Test completion thus earning Top Award Fees from US Air Force Electronic Systems Command FMS Project Office.
Supported design and manufacturing of the RAD-6000 Single board Flight Computer by supporting AFRL as primary representative of a commercial customer.
Set requirements for Honeywell Mil-Std-1750 Single Board Flight Computer enhancements.
Discovered design flaw in RAD-750 Single board Computer that would have rendered it inoperable during a design review.
Directed teams of up to 15 Software Developers as Lead Software Engineer on Orbview-4 and N-Starc programs.
Deputy Lead for total Software Development effort (Flight, Ground, Attitude Control, and Simulations a total of approximate 40 people) for the Orbview-4 program.
On the N-Starc satellite development team served as the Software Architect, Cost Account Manager and Technical lead for this project from proposal through start of software integration and testing.
As Proposal and Cost Account manager for N-Star, I prepared cost estimates combining CoCoMo models with parallel bottoms-up and top-down estimates to arrive a single consolidated estimate.
As Cost Account Manager I prepared weekly progress and variance reports (as needed) documenting earned value progress during program execution.
Flight Software Technical Lead and Cost Account Manager on the Orbview-4 commercial Low-Earth Orbiting Remote Sensing Satellite.
Flight Software Technical Lead and Cost Account Manager for the NTT/DoCoMo N-Starc Geostationary satellite.
As Lead Software Systems Engineer developed, maintained, and verified requirements for Payload Control Processor project.
Directed delivery, integration, and testing of K6 Spacecraft Simulator.
Managed object-oriented data tools development for Orbital’s MAESTRO ground software system.
Lead Flight Software Engineer for three IR&D projects: Common Bus (reusable Remote Sensing product), Constellation (Medium/High Earth Orbiting Constellation), and Star Bus-2 (Medium/small Geostationary Communications).
Flight Software Verification Manager for the DAWN spacecraft leading the build and testing efforts that produced 25 builds over 16 months and coordinated issue resolution with NASA IV&V.
OSAM-1 Ground Element Subsystem Verification Lead coordinating and directing the validation and verification of requirements for the five planned Builds of the element of the OSAM-1 Mission.
used his SETA/COTR support and project engineering expertise while serving as Deputy Project Engineer on Fairchild Defense’s Ground Systems Group F-16 Mission Planning Software for the Egyptian Air Force.
Flight Software Lead for two Orbital Comm System geostationary proposal efforts while establishing a cost-effective software baseline for what became the STAR-2 Product Line.
Flight Software proposal manager then Technical Lead for the N-Starc Geostationary Satellite Flight Software Development program through spacecraft integration.
Initial Flight Software Lead for OV-4 Remote Sensing Satellite defined, architected and led development of Orbital Science’s parallel to Goddard’s Core Flight System (cFS) including obtaining Space Act approval to use TRMM/XTE Flight Software Baselines as basis for RAD-6000 SBC targeted flight software. Eventually incorporated into several subsequent NASA missions including: AIM, SORCE, DAWN, NuStar, GALEX, and as basis for Orbital’s COTS/CRS Cygnus ISS resupply vehicle.
Lead Systems Engineer on the successful DARPA Phase 1 RapidEye proposal to study and perform Systems Engineering to evaluate a plan to deploy a high-altitude UAV launched from a Minotaur IV.
DARPA program award an $8.5 million Phase 1 DARPA Study contract.
Lead Systems Engineer for StratoLaunch focused Air deployed Medium Class launch vehicle that won $330 million in contract award from an unnamed customer.
Lead Systems Engineer on RapidEye a DARPA phase I program. This program focused on requirements definition and technology maturation supporting
Implemented modern systems approaches and influenced two proposal teams to focus on our advantages in meeting customer needs thus helping Orbital Science win $338.5 million dollars.
Improved Business pursuit activities of a team of in-house and university affiliated PhD Engineers selling a technology-focused approach to Space Situation Awareness into a Government customer (AFSC, Rome AFB) centric pursuit that yielded a prospective 23-million-dollar contract.
Led/coordinated the generation, collection and packaging of Rocket System performance data for the medium class air-launched rocket.
Provided Software Architecture and Design support to Orbital Sciences Space Systems Group proposal presentations to GSFC personnel for EOS-CHEM, EOS-LAM and a GOES replacement satellite.
Built systematic requirements decomposition tool that led to $18 million in development orders.
Wrote Flight Software Requirements Specification for Orbview-4/Warfighter spacecraft
Wrote Flight Software Requirements Specification for N-Starc Geostationary Satellite including Autonomous Fault Detection and Command capabilities
Composed Level 3 Subsystem Requirements Documents for ANGELS spacecraft development program.
Conducted performance trade studies to determine the Flight Computer for the Orbview-4 spacecraft.
Developed Process/Procedure instruction for the development and documentation of Space Systems Trade studies for Orbital Sciences Control Systems Engineering group.
As Deputy Project Engineer on Fairchild Defense’s F-16 Mission Planning Software for the Egyptian Air Force managed the qualification and expectations of USAF enabling on-time deliveries and top award fees despite intense opposition from SETA personnel.
Cowrote the Integration and Test Section of a proposal for an air-launched Antares variant Launch Vehicle deployed from the six-engine StarLifter Aircraft.
Wrote the Systems Engineering section of this proposal for an air-launched Antares variant Launch Vehicle deployed from the six-engine StarLifter Aircraft.
Completed the Testing sections of the Critical Design Review Presentation along with supporting plans and other Materials for the CHIRP Program.
For Infrared Sensor Feasibility Study, authored the Program Test Plan, Critical Design Review presentations, and completed the procedures for testing the RF components.
Lead the conduct of Flight Software Build, Integration and Testing for Ten level 1 and 2 builds for the DAWN Spacecraft
Developed the plans and procedures used to develop, integrate and test DAWN in-flight updates from Baseline 7 to 10 for which the Dawn Flight Support Team won NASA Service Awards.
Led the on-time completion of over 800 requirements in two CSCI through completion of four cycles of Block Build functional and performance testing.
Completed and delivered 135 Technical Memos documenting Inspections and Analytical Requirement Verifications for the KPP Payload control system.
Leading Subsystem Requirements Verification for the OSAM-1 Ground Element.
Prepared plans and budgets for Orbview-4 and N-Starc Flight Software development projects.
Planned and procured Test-bed components for multiple satellite development programs.
Constructed algorithms and coded spreadsheet macros to extract systems engineering cost estimates from program schedules, cutting update cycles from several days to a few hours.
Wrote C++ code to mitigate 96% of time jitter in high rate Inertial Rate Sensor simulation.
Constructed data collection protocols and Mil-Std-1553 data bus schedule for distributed real-time control system using Remote Terminals with no processor for the N-Starc data collection system.
Coded Simulation C++ executables to repair data gaps at SCRAM Net linked installation.
Maintained postgres based Payload Controller System Command and Telemetry databases.
Produced machine language patches to embedded real-time PowerPC executables to implement line-of-sight performance improvements after customer acceptance of second re-deployment of the Payload Control System.
BTG INCORPORATED March, 1995 – January, 1996
Tactical Systems Department Senior Software Engineer
Evaluated and Diagnosed hardware performance problems with the F-22 Data Fusion Demonstration project’s test bed, which enabled timely completion of the formal acceptance testing of this project. Technical lead had spent weeks trying to solve this problem.
Researched and presented concept to use situationally aware modeled based UNIX simulation midware to enhance F-22 pilot focus and efficiency.
Developed the data handling and real-database segments of an embedded real-time information correlation-based data fusion system for an F-22 avionics demonstration project.
Implemented multi-layered real-time embedded database system connecting incoming data to information correlation functions.
Wrote CGI middleware for on-line Tax Preparation portal for IRS demonstration of on-line tax preparation and submission system.
DENRO INCORPORATED July, 1994 – February, 1995
Systems Engineering Department Systems Engineer
Provided systems designs and architectural definitions for customized digital switching systems.
Developed plans for insertion of C++ elements into legacy C codebase.
Designed a composite software voice dialing system including using C and Sybase.
Led design and development of a low obsolescence replacement for the Voice Control/Distribution System delivered to NAS North Island.
Prepared systems engineering requirement analysis, proposal support, pre-sales support, architectural definition, preliminary system designs, hardware/software functional allocations, wiring diagrams, and integration & test support tasks for Voice Communications Systems Products.
BALL TECHNICAL SERVICES CORP. August, 1991 – July, 1994
Washington Operations Senior Systems Engineer
Evaluated COTS Technologies to replace custom hardware in shipboard RF direction finding systems.
Developed and applied software culture theories to use externally reported TPMs to diagnose problems on an EW development program that was unsuccessfully transitioning from C to Ada.
Constructed an Avionics system incremental iterative requirements decomposition method to provide a systematic approach to requirements from aircrew cuing to RF component specifications.
Provided systems requirements analyses, technology assessments, advanced design analyses and preliminary designs engineering supporting evolution from proprietary to open systems architectures.
Co-authored PMO tutorial on COTS centric acquisition principles. Standards, and strategies for use by SPAWAR Project and Program Managers.
Developed a method for detecting software development cultural and process problems just using Software Build and contractual Technical Performance Metrics.
Developed low-fidelity threat/aircraft simulations using Rotary Wing aircraft performance curves to drive equation of motions for the UH-1N Tactics Training System.
Architected a single chassis replacement for a signal processing subsystem that the vendor claimed required three chassis using COTS boards deploying three different DSP products lines.
Generated three years of SETA billing supporting the PMW-168 Chief Engineer from 3-month temporary software/systems engineering evaluations of advanced RF signal processing software assignment created an estimated $540,000 in revenue from effective performance-marketing.
Completed design trade studies to demonstrate replacing three chassis of legacy RF equipment with a single chassis of COTS Digital Signal Processing and control hardware increasing the overall performance of the resulting design thus enabling Program Office to continue efforts to reduce Destroyer Direction Finding System unit costs by 69%.
Primary SETA support contractor for the Chief Engineer for PMW 168 from 1992-94.
Moderated SPAWAR DF community cost reduction meetings leading to evolutionary acquisition and widespread use of COTS hardware.
Reviewed and evaluated 125, 000 lines of C code as Independent Verification and Validation engineer monitoring redevelopment of the CombatDF (AN/SRS-1A) over-the-horizon direction finding system.
INFORMATION SPECTRUM, INC. July, 1984 – August, 1991
Training Systems Group Training Systems Engineer
Evaluated competing UML methodologies for utility to Real-time flight training systems development
Researched and developed high-fidelity non-real time model of Fighter Threat missile interactions as part of a study I wrote showing the negative effect of low ground movement focused communications rates on aircrew training.
Researched and evaluated the impact of object-oriented designs principles on developing Aircrew Training Systems intending to reuse legacy software baselines.
Assessed the impact of Ada/OO privacy and typing rules on aircraft flight simulation data management.
Researched operational needs, development standards and wrote performance specifications for MV-22, SH-60F, F-14D+, S-3B, MH-53B, RAAF B-2, Manned Flight Simulator, AH-1T, and SH60F aircrew training systems.
As part of Program Office CDRL approval process, reviewed Training System Performance Specifications, Math Models and Aircraft Performance Data