Nirmala

5/5/2014
Houston, TX

Position Desired

Systems Engineering
Bellaire, TX; Houston, TX; Pasadena, TX
Yes

Resume

Career Objective

Experienced Systems Engineer with active US Secret Security Clearance and MS in System Engineering seeking a challenging opportunity to increase value to a dynamic team that will further help develop the career. Specialization includes Risk Management, Process Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Quality Management.

Professional Experience

The Boeing Company
Title: Systems Engineer
July 2005 - Present
Summary: Provides leadership in different phases of NASA Spacecraft development and Boeing Defense Systems. Utilizes Systems Engineering principles to ensure technical integrity, customer satisfaction and profitability.

Project: NASA Commercial Crew Transportation (CCTS) – The Boeing Company
Risk Management Lead
Jul 2011-Present
• Supervise and provide technical counsel to mitigate technical, cost and schedule risks.
• Determine the most effective methods for handling risk exposures and recommend mitigation.
• Identify hazards/hazardous situations and decompose them to lower levels.
• Identify and drive improvements to overall Risk Management processes.
• Develop and present reports and metrics to Engineering Control Board and Risk Review Board.
• Identify Opportunities, create achievement plan and lead the program to recoup lost resources.
Requirements Engineering
• Integrates and leads design compliance, traceability and verification maturation for five major requirements specifications.
• Integrates & coordinates Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR) and Critical Design Reviews (CDR).
• Conducts design compliance across systems, subsystems, and components to identify gaps.
Project Engineering
• Provide counsel in project management and technical issues brought to the Chief Engineer’s office.
• Lead the effort of project/program integration in technical and business aspects.
Process and Quality Management
• Lead QMS/ISO and CMMI audits, develops root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action.
• Trains a team of 300 employees, aligns process and maintain configuration of records.

Project: NASA Shuttle Program - The Boeing Company
Jul 2009-Jun 2011
Shuttle IT Associate Management: Acted as team manager in absence of primary manager.
• Prepared budget estimates and project schedules for Shuttle Information Technology.
• Developed project proposal to accommodate schedule/budget changes.
Requirements Engineering: Developed requirements, verification-validation criteria, test plan and led the development of two key software applications for the shuttle program.
Shuttle Drawing System (SDS): Provided technical supervision to Shuttle Drawing System.
• Coordinated with customer/developers/users with technical updates to SDS system.
• Created and presented SDS metrics to NASA on a monthly basis.
Process and Quality Management: Quality Management & LEAN lead.
• Led the effort of attaining QMS/ISO 9100 certification and CMMI Level III.
• Provide supervision and trained staff and maintained configuration of records.

Project: Future Combat Systems – The Boeing Company
Jul 2005 – Jul 2009
Quality Engineering (QE): Led Software Quality Engineering Effort.
• Accumulated findings/observations, performed root cause analysis, developed corrective action, implemented them and tracked them to closure as per Boeing quality management system.
Architecture & Design: Worked with the chief architect on a variety of architectural projects.
• Developed Software Architectural Design Document and led study/analysis to develop Design Compliance documents.
• Maintained architectural-design by integrating requirements, and algorithms for all interfaces.
Milestone Review: Provided leadership in various milestone reviews.
• Provided leadership for Architectural Design Review, Requirements and Architecture Review, Te...

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