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Mariana Perez

Northville

Summary

Systems Engineering professional with over 10 years of expertise in requirements management and cross-functional collaboration. Proven ability to lead teams in translating stakeholder needs into precise system specifications while ensuring compliance throughout development phases. Skilled in implementing ASPICE standards and delivering KPI reporting, with a strong focus on problem-solving and project success. Open to opportunities that expand into broader lifecycle or architectural responsibilities.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Systems Engineer

Borgwarner
Auburn Hills
08.2022 - 04.2025
  • Project Overview: STLA 400V/800V platform project.
  • RASIC contributions relative to the ASPICE process.
  • Responsible for ensuring process adherence, supporting all levels of the engineering organization, including SW, HW, and Mechanic, and informing upper management of status, mitigating and addressing roadblocks.
  • Ensure SYS1 – SW6 traceability according to the defined Requirements Management Plan.
  • Leading meetings with the customer for alignment and clarification.
  • Coordination of cross discipline teams (Architecture, Mechanical, Electrical, Verification and Software) to handle reviews, baselines and releases of requirements according to the planned milestones across India, Mexico and USA.
  • Management of activities for the team through the creation and tracking of tasks in Jira and Polarion.
  • Implementation of ASPICE 2 compliance for the project.
  • Creation and implementation of a dedicated Requirements Management Plan document, and flow diagrams for information consolidation, to document the process aligned with the company-defined Engineering Framework.
  • Reporting weekly KPI metrics to upper management.
  • Peer reviews and baseline creation for SYS1 requirements documents.

Systems Engineer

Magna Electronics
Auburn Hills
03.2021 - 08.2022
  • Project Overview: Mid Range Radar project
  • Coordination of the Requirements team across Germany, India and USA
  • Management of activities for the team through the creation and tracking of tasks in Windchill and PTC
  • Implementation of ASPICE 2 compliance for the project
  • Creation and implementation of a dedicated Requirements Management Plan document
  • Writing System Requirements
  • Coordination of cross discipline teams (Architecture, Mechanical, Electrical, Verification) to handle reviews, baselines and releases of requirements according to the planned milestones and KPIs.
  • Peer reviews of SYS1 requirements documents ensuring SYS1 – SYS2 traceability according to the Management Plan
  • Analysis of new functionalities to be implemented in the project.

Systems Engineer

Alten USA Inc.
Troy
06.2019 - 03.2021
  • Project Overview: Interior VNI global division
  • Write System Requirements in a shared platform (DOORS) for the Trailer Brake Control module based on Customer Requirements Documents for Toyota as the main customer.
  • Coordinate and lead reports for the customer and communicate the feedback and agreements to the team
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary review meetings for Customer Stakeholder Documents and System Requirements.
  • Review, document, analyze and maintain Customer Requirements Documents in DOORS
  • Review and modify attributes for System Requirements and Customer Stakeholder Documents
  • Creation of baselines in DOORS modules, create and apply template structures to DOORS functional modules
  • Analyze RIDs and DIDs in Vector CANdela Studio to detect and trace potential failures against software baselines working in coordination with the Software team

Systems Engineer

Continental Automotive
Querétaro
07.2017 - 06.2019
  • Project Overview: Vehicle Dynamics Architecture
  • Design and document System Architecture definitions as a high-level overview of the Electronics, Hydraulics and Software components that define the architecture for a brake system for preproduction stages, used as reference/planning for later releases.
  • Review the Functional and System internal requirements against the customer requirements to elaborate a system definition project proposal.
  • Document the specific components in the architecture for the Breaking System for different customers, based on predefined architectures like MKC1 and MK100 variants.
  • Coordination of cross competency teams to define Architecture components for a customer project given a Model-Year update requirements.
  • Identify potential issues and challenges in a project during quotation so that risks can be properly assessed.
  • Project management of deliverables and system definitions related activities to comply on time and with quality with the project milestones
  • Elaboration of a formal document (Product Description) that contains the functionalities and characteristics of the system architecture design proposed to the customer for project negotiation.
  • Updates of components in the system definitions for projects in late development stages in coordination with the management and experts from the multidisciplinary teams to comply with the customer changes and specifications.
  • Create the Design Document Safety Concept (DDSC) that contains accurate and complete descriptions and reports of all monitoring functions used in a project for a specific Software Release.
  • Coordinate between software, testing and management teams to release, create or update failure reports as DDSC documents for the customers.
  • Support on the Interdisciplinary Architecture Team for the Input/Output and Communication signal chains
  • Coordination with the team in FMI, reviewing the Functional and System internal requirements for compliance and the outputs of external testing to provide a release recommendation for projects in different stages of production.

Embedded Software Engineer

General Electric Infrastructure Querétaro
Querétaro
03.2014 - 07.2017
  • Project Overview: Avionics section in the Aviation Digital team
  • Validation and Verification of high level and Low-level requirements
  • Development of Low-Level requirements, test cases and test procedures, teamwork with Agile methodology.
  • Development of Test Cases with Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC) for level B software to satisfy Customer Requirements.
  • Writing High Level requirements for HMI display on the cockpit, related to the design of the interface, action buttons, layers and events.
  • Documentation of High Level and Low level test cases and Low Level and High Level requirements in IBM Rational Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS).
  • Software development and design for cockpit Human-machine interface (HMI), working with ARINC protocols and ADA language
  • Design and execution of automated and manual Test Procedures for Test Cases.
  • Writing Low Level test cases for HMI displays on the cockpit, using the ARINC protocol for construction of A661 blocks.
  • Design of HMI cockpit display with SCADE, working with layers, flight routes, buttons, panels and events to represent the Flight Maps and routes result of interactions between the Flight Management System and the user.
  • Programming of Flight Management System events based on Test Cases and Requirements to display information from the Navigation calculations in the cockpit display using ADA language and Navigation databases.
  • Coordination of development teams using AGILE methodology for testing and SW development, as Scrum Master and team member.

Education

General Electric Infrastructure Querétaro Mex.
Querétaro, Mex.
01.2017

BS -

Computer Systems Engineering
Querétaro, Mex.
12.2013

Skills

  • Requirements management
  • KPI reporting
  • Agile methodology
  • Problem solving
  • Customer relationship management
  • Process documentation
  • Requirements verification and validation
  • ASPICE compliance
  • System architecture design
  • Project management
  • Multidisciplinary teamwork coordination
  • Requirements Traceability

Certification

  • Level 1 OCSMP (SysML) - certification in progress
  • Finances (ITSM, Querétaro, Mex, 2018)
  • Six Sigma: Green Belt (GEIQ, 2016)

Trainings

  • Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) - OCSMP Accelerator™ SysML Training Course
  • DFSS – 6 Sigma
  • ASPICE
  • AGILE methodology
  • Presentation Skills
  • Facilitating Effective Meetings
  • Change Acceleration Process
  • Avionics: Avionics and Flight Management System

Languages

English
Full Professional
German
Limited
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual

Programming Languages:

· ADA

· Java, C, C++

· Visual Basic

· Symbolic Programming: (Mat lab)

Configuration Management:

· Polarion Requirements

· JIRA

· IMS MKS

· IBM Rational DOORS

· Integrity Lifecycle Manager

· Application Lifecycle Management – PTC

Git, Subversion, Tortoise SVN

Tools

· Vector CANdela Studio

· Optimized Project Planning (OP2)

· Enterprise Architect

· ETERELTechnologies SCADE Display (HMI Software Design)

· UML modeling

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Sr Systems Engineer

Borgwarner
08.2022 - 04.2025

Systems Engineer

Magna Electronics
03.2021 - 08.2022

Systems Engineer

Alten USA Inc.
06.2019 - 03.2021

Systems Engineer

Continental Automotive
07.2017 - 06.2019

Embedded Software Engineer

General Electric Infrastructure Querétaro
03.2014 - 07.2017

General Electric Infrastructure Querétaro Mex.

BS -

Computer Systems Engineering

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