Ryan Willick
Systems Test Engineer
Waco,TX
Summary
Experienced Flight Test Engineer with over 15 years supporting various C4ISR programs. Recognized for performance in multiple engineering disciplines. Experience supporting various airborne, space and ground sensor platforms and programs. USAF Intelligence Analyst Veteran. Current TS SCI Security Clearance. Current FAA Medical Flight Certificate Third Class.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Flight Test Engineer
L3Harris
Waco
01.2023 - Current
- Supported Project Engineering proposal development and Program Management
- Developing bid packages, leading bid development reviews and coordinating RFP responses with engineering technical leads, pricing, contracts, program management, executive leadership and prospective customers
- Support Acceptance Testing and delivery of new Compass Call C3D Gulfstream G550 platform
- Developed STC and MTC test procedures for Armed Overwatch/Sky Warden ISR program
- Performed DO-160 testing for multiple flight hardware components for Armed Overwatch program
- Represented conformance as L3Harris FAA 8130-9 authorized agent for DO-160 flight hardware testing.
Principal Systems Engineer
Willick Engineering Integration & Test
Reno
05.2016 - 01.2023
- Developed system specifications, Interface Definition Documentation, Key Performance Parameter documentation, Test Plans, Test Procedures
- Developed and presented slide decks for Preliminary Design Review and Critical Design Review presentations.
Research & Development Manager
Smartrise Engineering
Sacramento
09.2015 - 08.2016
- Managed the Research & Development (R&D) organization for new product development and release
- Directed the design, development, testing and release of new products
- Managed budget & schedule for over 8 projects concurrently
- Coordinated with and managed vendor relationships
- Performed organizational resource planning for Research & Development
- Developed forecasts & managed budgets.
Project Manager
Blue Shield of California/Kforce (Contract)
El Dorado Hills
10.2014 - 06.2015
- Managed the Blue Shield Application Retirement Project
- Worked as a Project Manager for the Office of the CIO (OCIO) managing a high priority critical few project critical to the Application Retirement program goal of saving $80-$110MM over a 5 year period
- Developed the executive business cases for 2015 Application Retirement Methodology and Capability, Application Retirement Execution and 2016 Application Retirement Planning projects
- Developed the Financial IT ROM Cost Matrices for the Application Retirement Program
- Developed & Managed project resource plans, Application Retirement Methodology & Capability project schedule and PlanView configuration
- Implemented the Application Retirement Factory Model for the retirement of pilot applications
- Managed the technical implementation of the Application Retirement data archival & retrieval platform capability.
Project Manager/Consultant
Delegata
Sacramento
03.2014 - 07.2014
- Managed the development of the CalPERS ITSB 2014-2017 Strategic Plan through the facilitation of focused workshops with the CIO, senior leadership and staff
- Workshops assessed and evaluated authoritative source documentation, current capabilities, and future to be desired capabilities, performed Gap Analysis, performed prioritization of strategic objectives and initiatives, assessed organizational needs and developed, refined and approved strategic objective and initiative language in alignment with CalPERS Strategic Plan
- Implemented a phased approach that involved customer business area leadership input early and often while developing inter-organizational communication channels that created a fun and engaging atmosphere encouraging organizational involvement
- Identified enterprise application initiatives with SLAs that focused on meeting customer / organizational needs
- Identified and selected Organizational Change Management (OCM) initiatives
- Organized and developed volunteer groups that focused on strategic planning communications and initiatives to increase probability of successful implementation.
Project Manager
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)
Sacramento
11.2012 - 11.2013
- Performed technical, functional and business viability evaluations of vendor bill payment and payment processing solutions utilizing a standardized scoring methodology
- Negotiated the Statement of Work (SOW), Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Bid Schedule
- Informed stakeholders, steering committee, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Business Technology
- Managed project schedule, communicated budget variances, responsible for managing resource allocations and coordinating with Supply Chain and Legal
- Performed vendor site evaluations.
Project Manager
Willick Project Management Solutions/Trimark
Folsom
09.2010 - 07.2012
- Managed several energy projects for Trimark Associates: Weston Solutions, Inc
- - AMI Metering - 1800+ meters & 900+ wireless devices utilizing secure network protocols, Lockheed Martin - Demand Response System Implementation Plan & Business Process Management & Implementation Plan, California State University Sacramento (CSUS) - 60+ Meter & Data Collector Smart Grid AMI - Secure Network Infrastructure project
- Directed multiple project teams in Washington DC, VA, MD, HI and CA
- Maintained customer relationships through regular meetings and reporting
- Implemented meter installation and configuration processes and database for standardizing installation records and problem reporting
- Accountable for project profitability, budgets, weekly, monthly and quarterly financial forecast reporting
- Increase project revenue by over $1MM through change orders and staffing modifications
- Developed over $2.2MM in new business through identifying RFP opportunities and developing winning proposals and strategic partnerships.
Principal Systems Engineer
Alpha Research/ETG/ENTEGEE (Contract & Perm)
El Dorado Hills
12.2006 - 08.2010
- Performed integration of FBI Cessna Caravan Video Surveillance/Reconnaissance Imaging System components
- Supported system architecture design, selected subsystem components (performed trade studies), defined & documented system interfaces & cabling and managed system requirements
- Defined and documented system power requirements, developed system specification, interfaced with the customer, managed program schedule (production, integration & test), procured components and sub assemblies, defined detailed requirements for software development, hosted weekly team and customer meetings, presented at PDR & CDR
- Developed and presented weekly and monthly status reports
- Directed and performed DO-160 thermal chamber & vibration testing of Secure Network Server (SNS) at Martin Test Labs
- Developed test plans & Procedures.
Principal Systems Engineer
Leidos/SAIC/Boeing
Huntington Beach
06.2005 - 06.2006
- Performed System Requirements interpretation, verification and validation for Future Combat System program
- Utilized DOORS for requirements mapping and traceability
- Developed requirements traceability matrix
- Defined derived requirements
- Performed architecture feasibility assessments and trade studies
- Developed use case models
- Performed trade studies.
Flight Test Engineer
Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems/ETG(Contract & Perm)
El Segundo
07.2004 - 06.2005
- Coordinated integration, test and field operations support for Global Hawk at Edwards & Beale AFB
- Reviewed acceptance testing requirements, developed mission plans (sensor collection plans for defined mission navigation plans) for A-3 and Global Hawk air vehicles
- Supported Global Hawk field operations at Beale as a Sensor Operator / Field Support Engineer
- Coordinated military range scheduling of restricted airspace & RF frequency requests in support of flight test at Edwards AFB
- Performed lab and field ATPs of Global Hawk subsystems
- Very Familiar with the Receiver Exciter Controller (REC), Integrated Signal Processor (ISP), Sensor Electronics Unit (SEU) and Power Distribution Unit (PDU)
- Managed flight test sensor deck collection activities for Global Hawk missions as DAWS Mission Control Element (MCE) Operator
- Attended weekly executive steering committee meetings
- Supported weekly lab working group meetings
- Developed Global Hawk mission reports
- Performed real time troubleshooting in support of flight operation anomalies
- Familiarity with Crypto systems (KG-75/175)
- Supported Site operations as Raytheon lead field engineer
- Performed required Unix system administration for archival and management of mission data.
Principal Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman Corporation
El Segundo
04.2003 - 07.2004
- Joint Strike Fighter F-35 Imagery sub-system (Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) & Electro Optical (EO) Distributed Aperture System (DAS)) – Air to Surface Tactical Imagery Model Systems Engineering Integration and Test Lead
- Defined Subsystem Interfaces and coordinated approaches
- Incorporated target decision algorithms into the Tactical Imagery Model CSCI
- Utilized Object Oriented Design (OOD) utilizing Rational Rose for software design
- Developed object oriented models, use cases, activity diagrams, deployment diagrams and functional flow diagrams
- Developed Preliminary Design Packages (PDPs) and detailed design software requirements
- Coordinated with, mission systems management, test pilots & software engineers.
Senior Systems Engineer
L3Harris - Aeromet
Tulsa
09.2001 - 02.2003
- DC-10 Widebody Airborne Sensor Platform Primary (WASP) Sensor System (PSS) Engineering Lead
- Performed interface management between government, vendors, IPT leads, configuration management, quality, procurement, production, program management and sub-contractors
- Performed functional analysis
- Developed and presented various technical presentations for IBR, SRR, PDR, CDR and quarterly reviews
- Managed requirements traceability
- Supported National Missile Defense (NMD)/Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO)/Space & Missile Defense Command (SMDC) GIIB IR/EO High Altitude Observatory (HALO) II aerial reconnaissance system through integration, testing and calibration of aircraft mission sensor systems
- Developed test plans/procedures and directed subsystem, integration and system ground & flight testing of large aperture telescope system, consisting of visible CCD, MWIR & LWIR sensors
- Developed and implemented Environmental Control and Monitoring Subsystem (ECMS) test procedures
- Performed analysis and reduction of sensor data to include; high speed pressure transducers, multi-axis accelerometers, and thermal couples
- Performed optical calibration of large aperture telescope assembly utilizing extended black body, point source & collimator.
Radiometric Calibration Engineer
Northrop Grumman Corporation/ETG(Contract 1099)
Azusa
12.2000 - 09.2001
- Test lead for Space Based Infrared Satellite (SBIRS) High GEO and HEO starring and scanning array FPAs
- Performed radiometric characterization & data analysis of Focal Plane Array (FPA) data
- Analysis consisted of SCA/FPA and pixel level linearity, response, sensitivity and Line of Sight (LOS) calibration & analysis of the optical telescope assembly
- Developed interactive radiometric calibration models which determined Internal Calibration Unit (ICU) current levels and irradiance by performing calculations consisting of NEFD, Aopt, Topt, Adet, Offset counts, integration times and SCA gain switch point
- Models calculated gimbal acceleration, deceleration, turn-around and process times
- Coordinated with lead physicist and engineering design leads
- Presented at weekly status meetings and TIMs as well as PDR and CDR.
Senior Systems Engineer
Raytheon Systems
El Segundo
10.1999 - 11.2000
- Performed radiometric characterization of the SBIRS Low MWIR and LWIR Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs) in the integrated test facility thermal vacuum chamber
- Developed Engineering Test Procedures (ETPs) for the background measurement testing and characterization of the SBIRS Low MWIR & LWIR FPAs
- Created test procedures consisting of over 2,500 background irradiance measurement points
- FPA / SCA testing consisted of multiple thermal profiles & integration times
- Lead the testing of the MWIR and LWIR FPAs utilizing multiple filter wheel settings, integration times & thermal profile changes of the thermal vacuum chamber with SBIRS Low surrogate satellite structure and Track Sensor Assembly (TSA)
- Calculated Non-Uniformity Correction (NUC) & bad pixel map from FPA pixel analysis and data reduction.
Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin
San Jose
08.1997 - 12.1998
- Performed requirements interpretation and verification and developed & implemented test plans & procedures for the Air Force Mission Support (Planning) System (AFMSS), ASARS and SYERS imagery software applications
- Supported software development and integration of South Korean Hawker 800XP airborne sensor platform and ground processing imagery intelligence system through software architecture design, interpretation and verification of requirements and testing
- Developed project planning Gantt and Pert charts to support system engineering testing and application integration
- Developed test plans and procedures for all phases of testing.
Systems Engineer
BAE/Modern Technologies
Dayton
12.1996 - 08.1997
- Performed requirements definition for foreign military contract
- Coordinated with Wright Patterson AFB Foreign Military Sales organization, NIMA, NGA, Lockheed Martin (Prime contractor) and Foreign customer as liason/intermediary
- Attended PDR & CDR.
Multi-Source Intelligence Operations Analyst (1N0X1)
United States Air Force
Langley AFB
02.1993 - 12.1996
- Correlated and disseminated near real time imagery intelligence (IMINT), electronic intelligence (ELINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT) and special intelligence reports as a Multi-Source Intelligence Analyst with the Contingency Airborne Reconnaissance Systems (CARS) Deployable Ground Station (DGS) Langley AFB, VA
- Performed U-2 ASARS and SYERS mission and sensor planning
- Prepared and presented weekly intelligence presentations to senior staff, foreign and U.S
- Dignitaries
- Supported the 1st Fighter wing, 71st Fighter Squadron and 4412th Rescue Squadron.
Education
Associate of Science (A.S.) - Communications Applications Technology
B.S. - Business Management
Skills
Scheduling
Planview
Labview
Microsoft Project
Requirements Management
DOORS
Slate
PVCS Dimensions
Object Oriented Design
Unix System Administration
Use Cases
Activity Diagrams
Trade Studies
DO-160 Testing
Intelligence Analysis
Mission Planning
Thermal Vacuum Chamber Testing
Focal Plane Array Characterization
Imagery Analysis
Technical Documentation (Test Plans, Test Procedures, ICDs, System Specifications, etc)
C & C Scripting
Certification
Systems Integration and Formal Test
Locations
USA
Awards
- Global Hawk Priority 1 Team Excellence Award – Raytheon Systems
- Integrated Test Facility Team Excellence Award – Raytheon Systems
- Outstanding Performance Award – Raytheon Systems
- SBIRS Low Outstanding Performer Award – Raytheon Systems
- Achievement Award – Modern Technologies Corporation (MTC)/BAE Systems
References
Available Upon Request
Timeline
Flight Test Engineer - L3Harris
01.2023 - Current
Principal Systems Engineer - Willick Engineering Integration & Test
05.2016 - 01.2023
Research & Development Manager - Smartrise Engineering
09.2015 - 08.2016
Project Manager - Blue Shield of California/Kforce (Contract)
10.2014 - 06.2015
Project Manager/Consultant - Delegata
03.2014 - 07.2014
Project Manager - Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)
11.2012 - 11.2013
Project Manager - Willick Project Management Solutions/Trimark
09.2010 - 07.2012
Principal Systems Engineer - Alpha Research/ETG/ENTEGEE (Contract & Perm)
12.2006 - 08.2010
Principal Systems Engineer - Leidos/SAIC/Boeing
06.2005 - 06.2006
Flight Test Engineer - Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems/ETG(Contract & Perm)
07.2004 - 06.2005
Principal Systems Engineer - Northrop Grumman Corporation
04.2003 - 07.2004
Senior Systems Engineer - L3Harris - Aeromet
09.2001 - 02.2003
Radiometric Calibration Engineer - Northrop Grumman Corporation/ETG(Contract 1099)
12.2000 - 09.2001
Senior Systems Engineer - Raytheon Systems
10.1999 - 11.2000
Systems Engineer - Lockheed Martin
08.1997 - 12.1998
Systems Engineer - BAE/Modern Technologies
12.1996 - 08.1997
Multi-Source Intelligence Operations Analyst (1N0X1) - United States Air Force
02.1993 - 12.1996
Air Force University - Associate of Science (A.S.), Communications Applications Technology
University of Phoenix - B.S., Business Management