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Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC
Johnson & Johnson
Northrop Grumman
Experience
SDLC Advisors
Corporate Strategy & Development
Principal - Business Operations and Strategy
6/2017 - Present
• Utilize Agentic AI to create autonomous workfows, enhancing business development and operational strategies with 40% improved effciency.
• Develop proof-of-concepts for proposals, integrating structured software development with innovative vibe coding techniques.
• Focus on continuous process improvement to optimize operational effciency and strategic planning.
• Authored white papers and solution briefs that mapped customer objectives to MBSEdriven architectures, security controls (NIST, FedRAMP), and deployment patterns.
• Develop proof-of-concepts for proposals, integrating structured software development with innovative vibe coding techniques.
• Focus on continuous process improvement to optimize operational effciency and strategic planning.
• Authored white papers and solution briefs that mapped customer objectives to MBSEdriven architectures, security controls (NIST, FedRAMP), and deployment patterns.
SDLC Advisors
Corporate Strategy & Development
Solutions Architect for Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC
9/2023 - Present
• Design and author compliant technical solutions for RFPs and RFQs by researching emerging technologies and aligning architectures with client requirements and industry standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure technical solutions are innovative and meet client and industry standards.
• Develop prompts and workfows using Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Copilot to generate technical approaches with graphics and artifacts tailored to evaluation criteria; contributions supported multiple awards, including a $2B Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).
• Research solutions to meet or exceed objectives, requirements, and evaluation criteria of RFPs and RFQs.
• Create architecture diagrams, system designs, and narratives; facilitated solutioning workshops and risk reviews; ensured alignment to NIST, FedRAMP, and DoD guidelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure technical solutions are innovative and meet client and industry standards.
• Develop prompts and workfows using Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Copilot to generate technical approaches with graphics and artifacts tailored to evaluation criteria; contributions supported multiple awards, including a $2B Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).
• Research solutions to meet or exceed objectives, requirements, and evaluation criteria of RFPs and RFQs.
• Create architecture diagrams, system designs, and narratives; facilitated solutioning workshops and risk reviews; ensured alignment to NIST, FedRAMP, and DoD guidelines.
SDLC Advisors
Information Technology
Jira, GitHub and IBM Rational Administrator for General Services Administration (GSA)
6/2017 - Present
• Update ClearQuest SQL Queries to Oracle SQL using LLM within a ChatGPT wrapper, ensuring they run without error in TOAD and SQL Developer.
• Conduct performance analysis and integration assessments to evaluate cloud migration readiness; authored migration plans, security updates, and verifcation procedures; validated code imports from ClearCase VOBs to GitHub "sandbox."
• Led and advised on Atlassian platform strategy; established Jira/Confuence information architecture, workfows, and governance aligned to Agile DevSecOps practices.
• Lead migrations from legacy IBM Rational tools and Atlassian Jira Datacenter to Jira Cloud, GitHub Enterprise, and SailPoint IDN for effciency and to reduce cybersecurity exposure while employing Agile Kanban techniques for task management and traceability
• Confgured FedRAMPcompliant GitHub Enterprise SaaS environments for HR and Finance systems; coordinated with Citrix and Oracle DBA teams to ensure compatibility.
• Performed audits to identify security risks and compliance gaps; communicated maintenance windows and upgrades, and managed AD group membership using NetIQ.
• Conduct performance analysis and integration assessments to evaluate cloud migration readiness; authored migration plans, security updates, and verifcation procedures; validated code imports from ClearCase VOBs to GitHub "sandbox."
• Led and advised on Atlassian platform strategy; established Jira/Confuence information architecture, workfows, and governance aligned to Agile DevSecOps practices.
• Lead migrations from legacy IBM Rational tools and Atlassian Jira Datacenter to Jira Cloud, GitHub Enterprise, and SailPoint IDN for effciency and to reduce cybersecurity exposure while employing Agile Kanban techniques for task management and traceability
• Confgured FedRAMPcompliant GitHub Enterprise SaaS environments for HR and Finance systems; coordinated with Citrix and Oracle DBA teams to ensure compatibility.
• Performed audits to identify security risks and compliance gaps; communicated maintenance windows and upgrades, and managed AD group membership using NetIQ.
SDLC Advisors
Engineering
Systems/ Software Architect for Northrup Grumman / NAVAIR
6/2022 - 9/2023
• Employed Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) techniques to defne "tactical cloud computing on the edge" for Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR).
• Developed Quality Attributes, Viewpoints, Views, and CONOPS, including Use Cases with Scenarios, to support the defnition.
• Created Block Defnition and Interface Block Diagrams as part of a Technical Reference Framework model used as a template for Cameo System Modeler.
• Developed Quality Attributes, Viewpoints, Views, and CONOPS, including Use Cases with Scenarios, to support the defnition.
• Created Block Defnition and Interface Block Diagrams as part of a Technical Reference Framework model used as a template for Cameo System Modeler.
SDLC Advisors
Engineering
Systems Engineering Consultant for Johnson and Johnson
4/2022 - 8/2022
• Developed user stories in alignment with Agile Scrum methodologies for a next-generation Operating Room project, assigning Fibonacci Agile Estimation for effective prioritization.
• Formulated Design Input Requirements for an Operating Room (OR) Medical Device by integrating Voices of the Customer, as well as User and Business Needs, ensuring compliance with IEC-60601 and 62304 standards.
• Ensured adherence to regulatory requirements, including FDA 21 CFR 820.10, 820.20, and 820.30, as well as ISO 13485, throughout the design and development process.
• Formulated Design Input Requirements for an Operating Room (OR) Medical Device by integrating Voices of the Customer, as well as User and Business Needs, ensuring compliance with IEC-60601 and 62304 standards.
• Ensured adherence to regulatory requirements, including FDA 21 CFR 820.10, 820.20, and 820.30, as well as ISO 13485, throughout the design and development process.
PDS Tech, Inc.
Engineering
Systems Engineering Contractor
10/2020 - 3/2022
• Created Use Case, Functional, Logical, and Interface Models and Verifcation Cross Reference Matrices (VCRMs) using Digital Engineering/ Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) techniques in Cameo Systems Modeler for an on-board / off-board aircraft software subsystem using the MOSA, SOSA, GARA, DO-178, DO-278, and DO-331 (Supplement) Standards as guidance.
• Researched and drafted white papers for "on-premises" shared services to migrate to FedRAMP compliant cloud computing SaaS, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) service models.
• Allocated and decomposed/ derived architectural, functional, performance, interface, and constraint requirements and business needs and user needs in Cameo Systems Modeler to develop CONOPS for the on-board / off-board aircraft subsystem of the Digital Enterprise.
• Managed Product Backlog in Jira for Agile Scrum and assigned user stories to each Sprint.
• Allocated "lessons-learn" from each Sprint to the Sprint Retro.
• Researched and drafted white papers for "on-premises" shared services to migrate to FedRAMP compliant cloud computing SaaS, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) service models.
• Allocated and decomposed/ derived architectural, functional, performance, interface, and constraint requirements and business needs and user needs in Cameo Systems Modeler to develop CONOPS for the on-board / off-board aircraft subsystem of the Digital Enterprise.
• Managed Product Backlog in Jira for Agile Scrum and assigned user stories to each Sprint.
• Allocated "lessons-learn" from each Sprint to the Sprint Retro.
Medtronic
Engineering
Project Manager / Senior Systems Requirements Engineer
2/2014 - 6/2017
• Managed project team using the Jira, Confuence, and Cognition Cockpit to deploy requirements management system across fve (5) sites for pneumatic and electronic powered surgical tools (Midas Rex™) and Surgical Navigation and Imaging (StealthStation™) Projects.
• Taught requirements fow-down course and SME for project system and software architecture/ design issues across Business Unit.
• Traveled across Business Unit to coach projects on systems architecture design, user needs, requirements, and test protocols creation.
• Created and updated standard operating procedures (SOPs), Test Plans and Procedures and work instructions per ISO 13485, FDA Design Control 21 CFR 820.30, and IEC 60601.
• Wrote custom Java-based software scripts via the Active Scripting Engine and delivered these customizations via the cognition cockpit software per stakeholders needs.
• Systems engineering lead on projects to develop internal 1) Requirements Management Process and tool, 2) Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Management Process and Tool and 3) Test Engineering Management Process and Tool using MBSE for the Quality Management System (QMS) per FDA Guideline.
• Taught requirements fow-down course and SME for project system and software architecture/ design issues across Business Unit.
• Traveled across Business Unit to coach projects on systems architecture design, user needs, requirements, and test protocols creation.
• Created and updated standard operating procedures (SOPs), Test Plans and Procedures and work instructions per ISO 13485, FDA Design Control 21 CFR 820.30, and IEC 60601.
• Wrote custom Java-based software scripts via the Active Scripting Engine and delivered these customizations via the cognition cockpit software per stakeholders needs.
• Systems engineering lead on projects to develop internal 1) Requirements Management Process and tool, 2) Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Management Process and Tool and 3) Test Engineering Management Process and Tool using MBSE for the Quality Management System (QMS) per FDA Guideline.
TeamGlobal
Engineering
Systems Engineering Contractor for Lockheed Martin
5/2013 - 5/2014
• Modeled and created Interface Control Documents (ICDs) of electrical signal wiring to mechanical box interface Printed Wire Assemblies (PWAs) Architectures for Technological Demonstration Army Tank Program.
• Evaluated and created test plans, test design, test cases and test procedures for the "Independent" Verifcation and Validation (iV&V) Team for a Field Programmable Gate-Array (FPGA) based nuclear safety system per ASME Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) Standard.
• Trained team members on requirements development and traceability using IBM Rational DOORS tool.
• Documented design and process anomalies of design work products per IEEE 1012 for software validation
• Wrote and reviewed requirements, work product procedures and interface control documentation for commercial nuclear business unit.
• Evaluated and created test plans, test design, test cases and test procedures for the "Independent" Verifcation and Validation (iV&V) Team for a Field Programmable Gate-Array (FPGA) based nuclear safety system per ASME Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) Standard.
• Trained team members on requirements development and traceability using IBM Rational DOORS tool.
• Documented design and process anomalies of design work products per IEEE 1012 for software validation
• Wrote and reviewed requirements, work product procedures and interface control documentation for commercial nuclear business unit.
Raytheon
Engineering
Engineering Test / IV&V Lead / Test Director / Senior Systems Engineer II
7/2007 - 5/2013
Systems Engineering Test / IV&V Lead / Test Director / Senior Systems Engineer II Jul 2007 - May 2013
• Led, composed and executed embedded hardware and software test plans test descriptions, test cases, component test, unit test, acceptance test procedures (for DD-250 with Customer present), and test reports to verify and validate variants of the Ethernet-based Multi-spectral Targeting System (MTS) Electro-Optical (EO/IR) thermal sensor; ensured sensor met Customers environmental and fight control law constraints for drone aircraft.
• Updated, Verifed and validated Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) 10.2 software test scripts for accuracy and completion.
• Created SQL queries and collaborated with Confguration Management to create software list for each DCGS confguration.
• Developed System, Subsystem, and Component-Level Hardware and Software Requirements Specifcations and Supplier Statements of Work (SSOWs) guided to release via Rational CM Synergy.
• Directed Improved Target Acquisition System (ITAS) EO/ IR Integrated Tow Missile Launcher confdence test units through manufacturing and confdence.(qualifcation) test fow to ensure required thermal imaging of Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) sync.
• Developed Trade Studies including Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) analysis, CONOPs, Use Cases (with scenarios), and Technical Management plans for Tactical Data Links and EO/IR Sensors for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems (ISRS) Mission Systems Integ
• Led, composed and executed embedded hardware and software test plans test descriptions, test cases, component test, unit test, acceptance test procedures (for DD-250 with Customer present), and test reports to verify and validate variants of the Ethernet-based Multi-spectral Targeting System (MTS) Electro-Optical (EO/IR) thermal sensor; ensured sensor met Customers environmental and fight control law constraints for drone aircraft.
• Updated, Verifed and validated Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) 10.2 software test scripts for accuracy and completion.
• Created SQL queries and collaborated with Confguration Management to create software list for each DCGS confguration.
• Developed System, Subsystem, and Component-Level Hardware and Software Requirements Specifcations and Supplier Statements of Work (SSOWs) guided to release via Rational CM Synergy.
• Directed Improved Target Acquisition System (ITAS) EO/ IR Integrated Tow Missile Launcher confdence test units through manufacturing and confdence.(qualifcation) test fow to ensure required thermal imaging of Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) sync.
• Developed Trade Studies including Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) analysis, CONOPs, Use Cases (with scenarios), and Technical Management plans for Tactical Data Links and EO/IR Sensors for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems (ISRS) Mission Systems Integ
Rockwell Collins
Engineering
Senior Systems Engineer / Requirements Manager
2/2005 - 7/2007
• Created Change Package System using IBM Rational DOORS for FCS Future Force ICS reducing man-hours by 50%.
• Led electronic packaging design team for the Very Low Frequency Radio Frequency (VLFRF) receiver Line Replaceable Unit (LRU).
• Created Advance Action Bill of Material (BOM) for components of Ground Element Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN) System (GEMS) VLF RF Receiver electronic packaging design.
• Administered and allocated requirements in IBM Rational DOORS for a $360M software-defned radio communication system.
• Used MBSE to composed System-Level Use Cases (with scenarios) and Sequence Diagrams for hardware/ software integration effort using UML and SysML techniques.
• Managed Cost Accounts for Requirements Management using Earned Value Management System (EVMS) principles.
• Setup and administered requirements database in a DIACAP information secure environment.
• Updated the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to refect changes to system test milestones.
• Collaborated with the Test Integrated Product Team (IPT) with system level verifcation method of each functional requirement.
• Developed Trade Studies to analyze the functional requirements of each potential Future Combat Systems (FCS)Integrated Computer System (ICS) LRU confguration.
• Led electronic packaging design team for the Very Low Frequency Radio Frequency (VLFRF) receiver Line Replaceable Unit (LRU).
• Created Advance Action Bill of Material (BOM) for components of Ground Element Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN) System (GEMS) VLF RF Receiver electronic packaging design.
• Administered and allocated requirements in IBM Rational DOORS for a $360M software-defned radio communication system.
• Used MBSE to composed System-Level Use Cases (with scenarios) and Sequence Diagrams for hardware/ software integration effort using UML and SysML techniques.
• Managed Cost Accounts for Requirements Management using Earned Value Management System (EVMS) principles.
• Setup and administered requirements database in a DIACAP information secure environment.
• Updated the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to refect changes to system test milestones.
• Collaborated with the Test Integrated Product Team (IPT) with system level verifcation method of each functional requirement.
• Developed Trade Studies to analyze the functional requirements of each potential Future Combat Systems (FCS)Integrated Computer System (ICS) LRU confguration.