Kendrick Wheat
Alexandria,VA
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Mission Planner/Orbit Analyst
Lockheed Martin Space
06.2023 - Current
- Led a team of engineers in spacecraft trajectory planning and orbital maintenance, ensuring compliance with system requirements and tasking.
- Conducted orbit determination using ground-based and space-based measurements. Tuned measurement statistics to remove unwanted bias/noise and reduce orbit uncertainty in support of conjunction analysis.
- Participated in exercises and implemented lessons learned into system-level CONOP changes.
- Planned and coordinated vehicle maneuvers, payload utilization, resource allocation, and on-orbit checkout calibrations.
- Tackled the program’s toughest technical challenges on a daily basis and was recognized by the customer with an award of excellence.
- Directly collaborated with customer and briefed technical plans and project updates to government and contractor leadership.
- Conducted on-the-job training of multiple new personnel to increase resiliency and staffing capability.
Scrum Master
Lockheed Martin Space
08.2022 - 06.2023
- Organized and documented the team's progress towards Mission Critical deadlines
- Led daily stand up and bi-weekly retrospectives and SW demonstrations for four teams
- Communicated team progress, metrics, and deliverable completion to program management
- Introduced weekly backlog refinement/Sprint lookaheads to minimize story carry-over.
Software Engineer Asc.
Lockheed Martin Space
06.2022 - 06.2023
- Performed software development, integration, and test tasks to enable mission success
- Integrated digital simulator with code baseline to meet needs of Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations team, Systems Engineering Integration and Test team, and SPP Developers
- Built and released software to allow verification and acceptance of updates
- Provided needed software and releases to Quality Assurance, Testbed and Simulations, and developers
- Documented and implemented best practices for using the Digital Simulator and building releases
- Balanced schedule and cross-team needs to prioritize and execute on high-priority deliverables.
Electrical Test Engineering Intern
Lockheed Martin Orion
05.2021 - 08.2021
- Completed test activities for hardware verification supporting Orion 1 and 2
- Identified proper tests to measure hardware performance against program requirements
- Coordinated hardware availability and available staff to ensure proper resources available to test
- Prototyped Command Screen Interface used by a team of engineers to streamline Orion 3 testing.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Aerospace Engineering
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VASkills
- Security Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly
- Certificates: Grandmaster STK Certification, ODTK Level 1
- Computer Languages: C, Python, Java, VBA
- Programs: LabVIEW, MatLab, Cameo, DOORS, SolidWorks, Git, Jira, Microsoft Office
- Skills: Systems thinking, Requirement decomposition & verification, Budgeting, Conflict resolution
Timeline
Mission Planner/Orbit Analyst
Lockheed Martin Space
06.2023 - Current
Scrum Master
Lockheed Martin Space
08.2022 - 06.2023
Software Engineer Asc.
Lockheed Martin Space
06.2022 - 06.2023
Electrical Test Engineering Intern
Lockheed Martin Orion
05.2021 - 08.2021
Bachelor of Science - Aerospace Engineering
Virginia Tech
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