Stephen Barrow
Oceaneering International Incorporated
Marstons Mills,MA
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Certification
31
years of professional experience
Nuclear Physics Ph.D. and experienced software engineer skilled in writing software for NASA's space telescopes, subsea ROVs, and software to digitize and analyze data from nuclear physics particle accelerators. Also the lead author on 5 nuclear physics publications, and four years' of experience as a teaching assistant for an introductory physics class.
Work History
Staff Software Engineer
4 Years 10 Months- Wrote software to control and operate five hardware components of a subsea remotely operated vehicle (ROV)
- Wrote requirements and integrated control documents (ICDs) for components of a subsea vehicle
- Collaborated with partners from other companies
Senior Software Engineer
19 Years 10 Months- Responsible for developing, testing, and commissioning of operations software for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Roman Space Telescope.
- Developed a software tool to detect inconsistent commands in planned telescope activities against flight software constraints.
- Created Windows-based Javascript tool that compiled a series of commands for application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) hardware into a binary executable that's loaded to an orbiting telescope to configure the onboard detectors.
- Head system administrator and software developer for a spacecraft simulator test lab used to test NASA flight software projects on the ground before they are deployed in space.
Researcher
5 Years 11 Months- Engineered data acquisition system for CEBAF large acceptance spectrometer, enhancing data collection capabilities. Authored five (5) papers as lead author and contributed to eighty-five (85) papers as co-author in refereed journals.
Education
Ph.D. - Nuclear Physics
Thesis: A study of correlated structure in three systems: 28Si, 24Mg, and 20Ne + 20Ne.
B.A.
Cum laude, with honors in Physics.
Skills
Languages: JavaScript
C++
C
C#
Databases: MSQL
PM Tools: GITHUB
Sharepoint
Confluence
Cameo
DOORS
JIRA Waterfall
Agile
TS/SCI security clearance
Many years of experience with VxWorks
Certification
JavaScript Certified
Timeline
Staff Software Engineer
Oceaneering International Incorporated
11.2021 - 09.2026Read More
Senior Software Engineer
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
01.2002 - 11.2021Read More
Researcher
Florida State University
02.1996 - 01.2002Read More
Harvard University
B.A.
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University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. from Nuclear Physics
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AWARDS
2014 STScI AURA Award - ASIC Ground Tools,
2004 STScI AURA Award - Prototype JWST Event Driven Operations