Soledad V Lewis
Grand Blanc
Summary
Results-driven Technical Project Lead skilled in systems requirements analysis and feature release planning. Facilitates international team collaboration and utilizes critical thinking to ensure project success. Delivers on-time solutions while enhancing stakeholder communication and aligning project objectives with customer expectations.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Project Lead
Continental Corporation/Aumovio Corporation
06.2022 - Current
- Provide technical leadership to software program manager, test validation lead engineer and systems lead engineer to ensure consistent on-time delivery to customer.
- Lead PI Planning to define deliverables on a quarterly basis.
- Weekly alignment with product owners to relay updates on priorities and align with customer expectation, track team status on deliverables
- Identified expertise for program start-up, defined program timeline, and clarified responsibilities to ensure alignment.
- Assessed viable solutions by breaking down problems, considering impacts, and applying SWOT and decision matrices for continuous improvement.
- Developed reports to negotiate resource needs with upper management, ensuring alignment with customer deliverables.
- Evaluated contract with team to understand customer deliverables.
- Produced reports for customer on status of deliverables.
Systems Lead Engineer
Continental Corporation
08.2016 - 05.2022
- Planned system engineering activities for GM Power Tailgate Module (PTM), Latch, and Articulated Running Board (ARB) for 2019/2020 applications, including milestones and technical objectives.
- Oversaw functional ownership for Latch, Tailgate, and Articulated Running Board, ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Led requirements discussions with the customer to resolve technical issues, align feature prioritization, and develop solutions to design challenges.
- Analyze customer requirements and develop System-level requirements and interface with discipline (SW/HW) engineers in decomposing system requirements and developing traceability
- Synchronized complex modules and requirements from Customer DOORS, Global Vehicle level, and ISO to product level for cohesive development.
- Mentored systems team members and system test engineers to clarify project expectations.
- Conduct product requirement reviews to ensure alignment to industry standards: ISO26262; ISO/SAE 21434
- Worked with Test managers to design test validation to fulfil traceability.
- Tested delivered library functions on bench to facilitate reverse engineering of requirements (Latch, Anti-Pinch/Obstacle Algorithm, Motor/Hall Sensor Errors).
- Lead team of systems engineers from Michigan, Mexico, Romania, Brazil and China to deliver project in customer’s cadence release
Systems Engineer
GHSP
03.2014 - 07.2016
- Leading requirements and architectural discussions with customer to resolve technical issues, align feature prioritization and develop solutions to design challenges
- Directed the design efforts for Ford & FCA Shift by Wire Mechatronic Shifters used in 2017/2018 applications.
- Facilitated technical interface with Ford & FCA teams to align project objectives and address customer needs
- Work with test and validation engineers to ensure the generation of verifiable test procedures resulting from software requirements
- Performed vehicle level testing of Mechatronic Shifters at Ford to validate design specifications
- Partnered with validation engineers to execute environmental testing, ensuring product reliability and compliance with specifications
- Developed and maintained DVP&R and systems-level test plans and work instructions to streamline testing processes and enhance documentation clarity
Software Test Analyst
Randstad Technologies
04.2013 - 03.2014
- Planned and executed requirements-based application test efforts for GUI driven navigation applications (737/767 Flight Management System).
- Created manual and automated test cases that fully validated requirement
- Executed tests, recorded results, and logged defect reports to ensure product quality
- Reported findings and collaborated with cross-functional teams to resolve issues efficiently
- Identified product, process, and schedule issues, proposed solutions, and collaborated with management for implementation
- Analysis of use cases, system requirements and software requirements
Systems Integrations and Test Engineer
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
01.2011 - 05.2012
- Performed tests and analysis of test results in SIL environment and prepared comprehensive system and subsystem level evaluation reports which verified and validated payload system performance including but not limited to Electro Optical /InfraRed Imaging Sensors, HMI Interface redesign and Mission Planning
- Supported requirement definition, design, analysis, and testing of airborne imaging sensors, contributing to the advancement of state-of-the-art technology.
- Prepared technical reports, test plans, and procedures to meet customer and program requirements, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
- Authored written system discrepancy reports and performed integration regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes to software, components, subsystems, and systems
- Developed systematic approaches to transform customer requirements into comprehensive system solutions while addressing technical and schedule constraints.
- Performed functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
- Exercised considerable latitude in determining technical objectives and approaches to assignments while working across multiple engineering disciplines and senior management
- Established traceability to verify requirements, developed responses to customer queries and provided technical recommendations
- Developed training programs for incoming System Integration & Test personnel on regression test performance and ramp-up for use in multi-aircraft laboratory.
Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
05.2010 - 09.2011
- Incorporated and updated subsystem specifications using DOORS, developed Statements Of Work (SOW) for suppliers, and supported proposal activity across multiple disciplines and senior management.
- Developed processes for handling and routing hardware, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Worked with multiple disciplines on project to define and document multiple authorized configurations to complete a customer requested task
- Captured information and provided comprehensive approach for IPT Leads, senior management, and customer.
- Assessed and disposed of non-conforming hardware and material for assigned products during Material Review Board (MRB) meetings.
- Developed process for release of drawings, presented to management and team members
- Documented meeting minutes. Ensured CDRLs were accurate prior to release to Customer
Aerodynamics Engineer
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
06.2002 - 01.2010
- Performed Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Analyses and created supporting structured and/or unstructured grids on four different programs in support of vehicle configuration analyses to include subsonic, transonic, and hypersonic vehicles.
- Validated and calibrated CFD results against wind tunnel and flight test data, creating statistical databases to support findings.
- Used CFD++ and CATIA V4 to model/simulate and calculate system performance, including efficiency, temperatures, and pressure losses.
- Collaborated with design engineers to evaluate and optimize exhaust system performance, enhancing overall vehicle efficiency.
- Iterated inlet designs with propulsion engineers to significantly improve pressure recoveries and inlet performance.
- Completed propulsion system evaluations with emphasis on reducing vehicle IR signature and increasing vehicle performance.
- Documented program results and analyzed data to identify optimized solutions, contributing to performance improvements.
- Prepared and presented analysis results/findings to program management and customers using Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, and Power Point
Infrared Signature Analyst/Propulsion Analyst - Comanche Program
Sikorsky Aircraft Systems
01.2000 - 06.2002
- Developed CATIA and FLUENT models for Infrared signature modeling supporting Comanche and Blackhawk helicopter exhaust suppressor systems.
- Performed CFD analyses with unstructured grids to iterate inlet designs, enhancing inlet performance using Fluent and CATIA V4.
- Performed numerical analysis of Propulsion Subsystems.
- Incorporated and updated Main Engine Start Sub-System specifications using DOORS.
- Coordinated subcontractor trade study activities for feasibility study of Microclimate Cooling System integration.
- Coordinated activities associated with incorporating new analytical features into the Sikorsky suite of computational fluid dynamics tools
Education
BS - Mechanical Engineering with Concentration in Aerospace
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA01-1999
Skills
- Requirements analysis
- Release planning
- Integration testing
- Systems integration
- Critical thinking
- Time management
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Global collaboration
- Leadership skills
- Written communication
- Emotional intelligence
Timeline
Technical Project Lead
Continental Corporation/Aumovio Corporation
06.2022 - Current
Systems Lead Engineer
Continental Corporation
08.2016 - 05.2022
Systems Engineer
GHSP
03.2014 - 07.2016
Software Test Analyst
Randstad Technologies
04.2013 - 03.2014
Systems Integrations and Test Engineer
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
01.2011 - 05.2012
Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
05.2010 - 09.2011
Aerodynamics Engineer
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
06.2002 - 01.2010
Infrared Signature Analyst/Propulsion Analyst - Comanche Program
Sikorsky Aircraft Systems
01.2000 - 06.2002
BS - Mechanical Engineering with Concentration in Aerospace
Worcester Polytechnic Institute