Hardworking Deputy Director with wealth of continual process and operation improvement experience. Successfully oversees daily operations, planning and quality control and develops and monitors resources. Broad variety of experience for electrical engineering, software engineering, and systems engineering in establishing standard operating procedures and tracking and reporting processes, tools and information flows. Actively engages direct reports to achieve business goals, tracks progress toward goals and increases effectiveness and efficiency of leaders.
Hi, I’m
S. Cassady Ritter
Austin,United States
Summary
Overview
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Trident Research
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
03.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Responsible for planning, prioritizing, communicating, and executing all software and electrical engineering work efforts and resources across Trident Research to ensure engineering products and services are delivered on time and within scope
- Proactively searched for, reviewed, recommended, and implemented new technologies, tools, and processes
- Tools implemented include Jira, Altium CircuitStudio, Jenkins
- Process improvements implemented include pipeline, versioning system, MBSE systems engineering designed testing, automation with Microsoft Power Automate, roadmapping, documenting best practices and knowledge transfer
- Participated in full cycle of engineering development, from identifying, recruiting, and training talent through overseeing and engaging on engineering design reviews, to participating hands-on in Hawaii engineering test event while promoting knowledge transfer between departments and offices
- Worked daily with project managers to ensure negotiated customer expectations and contractual requirements are met
- Daily mentorship/coaching of 6 team members to achieve individual, team, and mission success; including bi-weekly one-on-ones, weekly stand-ups, demonstrations of work product
- Optimized team productivity by providing ongoing training and support for staff members
- Enhanced communication within organization through regular interdepartmental meetings and updates
- Developed strategic plans to achieve organizational goals, ensuring alignment with company's mission and vision
Wise Systems
TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
05.2022 - 12.2022
Job overview
- Defined and promoted processes within engineering and product that created transparency and efficient communication between engineering and rest of company - largest solo project was re-strategizing and training entire company to release software every week for CI/CD in 15 different regions throughout week
- Drove successful product launches by coordinating with stakeholders, managing schedules, and mitigating risks
- Encouraged alignment around scrum and agile best practices, and owned engineering execution for all Jira tickets
- Assessed and reported all customer-facing incidents, developed lessons learned system for releasing, designed system rollback and hotfix plans, and designed bring-up system for employees to learn and understand release process
- Managed Jira and business systems for company - including monitored accounts that needed activated, closed, or otherwise assessed for all onboarding needs to reduce developer bring-up time
- Managed product releases & timelines, coordinating heavily with QA, product, and stakeholders to ensure only fully tested software reaches production to reduce downtime to customers
- Enhanced software quality by conducting thorough code reviews and implementing automated testing tools
BAE Systems
Engineering Leadership Development Participant
02.2019 - 05.2022
Job overview
- Graduate of Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP) to develop junior engineers into future leaders
- Three one-year rotations that provide diverse set of experiences within various Engineering areas and disciplines
- Leadership Universities quarterly throughout entire program to learn important topics such as presentation skills, business etiquette, negotiations, and engaging and motivating as leader
- Facilitated growth of individual's leadership skills through annual, week-long leadership development conference (LDC) that are designed around year of participant
- Cultivated culture of continuous improvement, inspiring staff to take on new challenges and achieve professional goals
- Committee involvement: STEM Committee, Community Outreach Committee, Collegiate Connections, Year One Lead
BAE Systems
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
08.2021 - 03.2022
Job overview
- Tracing all proposals related to reprogramming labs updates to evaluate overlapped work to reduce project bid costs
- Hardware Lead; managed Integrated Test Engineering and QA teams across 3 programs to determine all work necessary to bring all relevant labs up to date
- Program Engineering Lead; supported $12.4 million bid for Windows 10 upgrade, $8.8 million bid for redesigning digital subsection of labs, and $3 million tech refresh, developing roadmap to manage proposals
- Ruggedized Portable Computer (PC) using existing diagnostics tool utilized by field service representatives unable to identify cabling issues in F-35 EW Systems in $8.8 million project staffed by 9 engineers
- Continued as Systems Lead and Software Lead described below
- Provided expert guidance on best practices in systems engineering, improving team performance and product quality
BAE Systems
SYSTEMS ENGINEER II
07.2020 - 05.2021
Job overview
- Deputy Program Engineering Manager; created engineering staffing plans by building full-time employee (FTE) charts, master schedule predictions, modeled cost analyses with engineering Basis of Estimates through analyzing lines of code (LOC) and expected test hours, managed bill of materials (BOM) in detail
- Maintained all Jira tasking and team member's daily tasking with team daily stand-ups to assess all story and tickets progress
- Software Lead; led software engineering SCRUM, maintained master schedule predictions, constructing Algorithm Description Document, assisted data verification for algorithmic improvement
- Systems Lead; led systems engineering SCRUM, wrote concept of operations, presenting Technical Readiness Review (TRR) slides, interfaced with customer to understand their needs and fulfill action items
- Streamlined troubleshooting processes by creating comprehensive documentation to guide support teams
- Each module cost $60,000 to replace; fixed 15 modules over 4 months totaling $3,600,000 saved for company profit
- Improved unit down-time by streamlining engineering processes to hand-off modules and record lessons learned.
BAE Systems
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
02.2019 - 07.2020
Job overview
- Internal Research and Development: Digital Channelized Receiver Techniques Generator Capabilities Group
- Developed excel conventions for schematic pinouts and signals that can be shared between programs to streamline internal product management, such as compatibility analysis and net-naming practices
- Began initiative to reduce junior engineer training time by constructing power dissipation calculators, power de-rating analysis guide, and customizing new Python scripts to reduce development time in Vivado and Cadence
- Created functional block diagrams and mapped symbols in Cadence that are program-agnostic to upload to company database thus reducing duplicated design work
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative solutions for complex engineering challenges
- Mentored junior engineers, sharing opportunities for technical expertise and providing guidance on best practices in industry
Booz Allen Hamilton
SUMMER GAMES INTERN
06.2018 - 08.2018
Job overview
- Designed drone kit to detect and report location of sniper for Army/Marine Corps within square meter accuracy
- Acted as daily lead for interdisciplinary team of 5 while developing electrical subsystems and communication protocol
- Conducted research for various project areas, leading to well-informed decisions and successful outcomes
- Developed organizational skills through managing multiple tasks simultaneously while adhering to strict deadlines
Belden Incorporated
SYSTEMS ANALYST INTERN
05.2016 - 08.2017
Job overview
- Reengineered company tool site for customers, mapped out SalesForce.com to Request for Quote for flexible data integration, redesigned company help portal's navigation and UI, created custom company API through TinyURL
- Assessed company needs through weekly department meetings to create projects for business improvement listed above
- Led cross-functional team to deliver SharePoint based global employee directory, including linking across all acquisitions
- Applied research, information gathering and analysis skills to information and resolved system problems
- Streamlined processes for improved productivity through thorough systems analysis and optimization
- Implemented strategic IT initiatives, contributing to overall company growth and success
Dayton Analytics
RESEARCH ANALYST INTERN
06.2013 - 08.2013
Job overview
- Software development using R for modeling dropsonde data for Air Force Research Labs to discover any correlations of altitude with humidity, air pressure, moisture, and temperature to affect air package drops
- Self-managed research with mentorship to develop stand-alone tools to reduce future software onboarding
- Enhanced research accuracy by implementing rigorous data validation techniques
Education
Stevens Institute of TechnologyHoboken, New Jersey
Masters in Engineering from SPACE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
05.2022
University Overview
- Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society) member
- 4.0 GPA
- Relevant Coursework: Systems Modeling and Simulation, Project Management of Complex Systems, Mission and System Design Verification and Validation & Decision and Risk Analysis
- Thesis: Non-intrusive Electronic Warfare Tester (NIEWT) with Integration and Test Optimization
University of KentuckyLexington, Kentucky
Bachelor of Science from COMPUTER ENGINEERING
12.2018
University Overview
- Minor in Computer science
- Minor in Mathematics
- Relevant Coursework: Algorithm Design and Analysis, Computer Organization, Circuits I&II, Design of Logic Circuits, Introduction to Embedded Systems & Discrete Mathematics
- Capstone Project: NASA ROBOTICS MINING COMPETITION TEAM - Designed and constructed a rover to mine icy regolith in a simulated arena of Mars; my role managed constraints and requirements defined by NASA to keep data transfer minimal to the command center
Skills
Electrical/Test Engineering:Cadence (Allegro PCB/Schematics Design and Layout), Vivado IO Planning, Test Stand, TIPQA, Solumina, Lattice Diamond, OrCAD, LTspice, Bitbucket
Software and Systems Engineering: C, Python, PHP 7, R, ARM Assembly, Innoslate, SPARX, CORE, AWS, Gitlab pipelines, Jenkins, Jira Server and Cloud, Slack and MS Teams integrations
Program Management and Process Management: MS Power Automate, Golden Eagle, MS Project, Jira Administration
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- TABC ACCREDITTED, Texas School of Bartending – licensed bartender
- SOCCER TEAM CAPTAIN, BAE Systems – began a competitive soccer team with fellow colleagues
- FOUNDER, Talkables – established a business venture that gave pets their own customizable voice with Talkables smart collars
using NFC protocols, microcontrollers, embedded systems, and IoT; won over $1,700 in venture competitions - PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS CAMPS, University of Cincinnati, University of Miami, University of Kentucky – top financial plan for
inner city kids project, top business plan for environmentally friendly start-up featuring work for handicapped individuals,
onsite company visits such as GE to solve in-house IT setbacks, organized a $500,000 annual expo
Clearance
Clearance
active Secret Department of Defense security clearance
Timeline
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
Trident Research
03.2023 - Current
TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
Wise Systems
05.2022 - 12.2022
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
BAE Systems
08.2021 - 03.2022
SYSTEMS ENGINEER II
BAE Systems
07.2020 - 05.2021
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
BAE Systems
02.2019 - 07.2020
Engineering Leadership Development Participant
BAE Systems
02.2019 - 05.2022
SUMMER GAMES INTERN
Booz Allen Hamilton
06.2018 - 08.2018
SYSTEMS ANALYST INTERN
Belden Incorporated
05.2016 - 08.2017
RESEARCH ANALYST INTERN
Dayton Analytics
06.2013 - 08.2013
Stevens Institute of Technology
Masters in Engineering from SPACE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
University of Kentucky
Bachelor of Science from COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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