SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Proven problem-solver with analytical skills that maximize existing resources and uncover breakthrough opportunities for the organization or project. Able to manage and design complex engineering projects over their life cycles. Provided leadership on issues such as reliability, logistics, coordination of different teams, requirement management, evaluation measurements and work with different disciplines that come with large, complex projects. Worked both technical and human-centered disciplines such as control engineering, industrial engineering, organiztional studies, and project management. Improved work-processes, investigated optimization methods and developed tools to manage risks on large projects. Ensured that all aspects of a project or system have been considered and integrated into a whole.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Northrop Grumman Marine Systems Sykesville, Maryland 2012 - Present
Fellow Systems Engineer
• Performed Requirements analysis on Corporate policies and procedures that reduced project cost by over 600 man-hours by creating analysis tools
• Analysis tool generates metrics, analyzes linkages and generates heat maps of requriements allocations
• Created a tool to collect, analyze and generate requirements metrics that gained corporate visibility and became the sector standard for requirements metrics collection and is projected to save over 800 man-hours of effort per year
Northrop Grumman Maritime Systems Charlottesville, Virginia 2003 – 2012
Integrated Project Team Lead
• System Architect and Technical Team Lead engineer for 18 person team
• Developed PLC-based hardware and data distribution system solution for US Navy DDG 1000 Zumwalt destroyer
• Designed automation system that cut initial delivery schedule by 50%
Engineering Program Manager
• Engineering Program Manager for shipboard machinery control system
• Managed multidiscipline team of engineers to develop VME based shipboard control system for the US Navy LHD-8 amphibious assault ship
• Designed database driven code generation tool that streamlined object definition and distribution
Invensys Software Systems York, Pennsylvania 1999 – 2002
Wonderware Corporation York, Pennsylvania
Technical Product Manager - Invensys Manufacturing Systems
• Identification of product purchasing trends
• Develop and manage requirements for multiple products, including latest release of InTrack (7.11)
• Coordinate multiple departments from product inception to delivery
Senior Applications Engineer
• Lead Project Engineer for all releases of the SPeCTRA product
• Developed goals and guided the SPeCTRA project as member of Change Control Board
• Reduced the SPeCTRA project’s 2 year enhancement and change request backlog by 80%
Millennium Technologies Lake Forest, California 1998 – 1999
Senior Applications Engineer
• Technical advisor and project manager for a multi-million dollar InTouch Application
• Designed and implemented an advanced logging and reporting feature for InTouch
• Technical support to customers of Wonderware Factory Suite products
• Engineering support for marketing and sales
ObjectAutomation, Inc. Santa Ana, California 1996 – 1998
Object Automation, GmbH Munich, Germany
Internationalization Engineer
• Developed corporate localization guidelines
• Planned, organized and directed multiple localization projects
• Coordinated interdepartmental and international teams
• Presented and demonstrated products
• Reduced toolkit complexity by using Corel Catalyst to consolidate resources of 25 project modules
• Reduced product build time over 50% by using Visual Basic to consolidate and automate proces...
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