William Schmidt
Magnolia
Summary
Creative and motivated Senior Systems Engineer of 5 years with proven skills in data analysis, root-cause analysis, and agile methodologies. Supported two Naval weapons test missions through innovative radar search strategy development and timely, thorough data analysis.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin
09.2025 - Current
- Supported multiple teams as subject matter expert for SPY-1 radar search design.
- Devised new radar search strategies and improvements to achieve desired radar detection performance.
- Collaborated with baseline leads to break down customer needs into agile-based deliverables.
- Reviewed team members' software implementations to validate desired system performance and verify working, efficient code.
- Authored low-level technical specifications to support system validation and verification.
Systems Engineer
Apex Systems
06.2022 - 09.2025
- Developed a multitude of data analysis tools to greatly increase speed of performance and design impact analysis.
- Presented software designs and systems performance analysis to maintain communication with the customer.
- Trained teams members on lab testing technologies.
- Implemented design updates and bug fixes into system simulation to support data analysis tasks and timely deliveries to the customer.
- Monitored development releases for multiple baselines to mitigate negative impacts to radar search performance before system level integration.
Systems Engineer
L3Harris
10.2021 - 06.2022
- Derived system level requirements from customer specifications and NSA standards to support system validation and verification of End Cryptographic Unit (ECU) design
- Generated SysML models to verify that software development meets customer needs.
- Authored ConOps to communicate product design goals and intended system behavior to developers.
Software Test Engineer
ASRC Federal Mission Solutions
06.2020 - 10.2021
- Generated system level test procedures to verify software design before delivery to the customer.
- Performed as scrum master for multiple baselines to support agile-based development
- Oversaw multiple testing teams as Test Lead to ensure complete and timely lab testing efforts.
- Executed new functionality and regression system level test procedures to verify system performance and to report defects or undesirable performance.
- Collaborated with the test manager and team members to plan, design, and develop automated testing methodologies.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA06-2020
Skills
- Matlab, Linux, Python, C
- IBM Rational DOORS
- JIRA
- Git
- Data analysis
- System architecture design
- Root-cause analysis
- System testing
- Software requirement analysis
- Agile methodologies
Timeline
Senior Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin
09.2025 - Current
Systems Engineer
Apex Systems
06.2022 - 09.2025
Systems Engineer
L3Harris
10.2021 - 06.2022
Software Test Engineer
ASRC Federal Mission Solutions
06.2020 - 10.2021
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Drexel University
Clearance Level
SECRET