Derrick Walton

Experience

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  L3Harris Technologies

  Jul 2018 - now

  • Senior Manager, Systems Integration and Test (SI&T) engineer, efficiently providing Mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. Involved in business development, with proposal and presentations cited as key to large contacts win on projects ranging from $150Kto $500M.• Establish and facilitate the personal and career development of six (6) multi-talented Systems Integration and Test Engineers (L1- L5) within the department, coordinating one-on-one meetings, quarterly meetings, to discuss, generate a personal development and professional career growth plan and provide the necessary training and growth development skills to be successful within the organization.• Successfully synthesizing customer contractual needs and requirements into system integration & test solutions which acknowledges technical, schedule and cost constraints, while establishing priorities of SI&T tasks, resulting in team successfully meeting Task Order Contractual Requirements (TOCR) on time without impact to cost and schedule.• Act as the key/ primary technical point of contact throughout various integration and test activities, leading technical support, proactively identifying, and resolving technical issues, ensuring smooth and efficient project execution.• Adopt a DE&I culture and facilitate a business rhythm of continuous improvement for systems integration and test processes and recurring I&T best practices, resulting in streamlining the Integration and test processes, minimizing Test Systems impact to yield, maximizing up time, optimizing utilization of test systems, enhancing troubleshooting capability, and improving real-time status and lifecycle management of test assets. Show less • Scientist, Systems Integration and Test (SI&T) engineer, efficiently providing Mission solutions for space and airborne domains with defense, intelligence, and commercial applications. Involved in business development, with proposal and presentations cited as key to large contacts win on projects ranging from $150Kto $500M.• Oversaw a diverse team comprised of SI&Test engineers, on the Meadowlands Base program values at an estimated $50M, ensuring the team meets the program overall objective of providing a next-generation platform for offensive & defensive space control, including non-traditional missions, resulting in a significantly reduced footprint with expanded mission capability and support for remote operations. • Provided technical supervision in the area of satellite Telemetry Tracking and Control (TT&C) and Ground Station control (GSC) in support of the Meadowland program, ensuring the Ground Station Operators (GSO) properly configured the resources to accomplish the planned scheduled test activities without impact to cost and schedule. • Work with and influence system engineering & design interfaces to include testing capabilities early in the development life cycle, resulting in identifying risks & opportunities early to optimize near-term test activities. • Efficiently led and managed the Systems Integration and Test (SI&T) efforts for the NASA Orion program valued over $100 million dollars, which composed of a group of thirty (30) Junior and Senior Multi-discipline engineers, tasked to execute both Acceptance and Qualification level testing for the Flight hardware for the near-term Artemis III and IV mission and its follow-on Built -to-Print program Orion Production & Operations Contract (OPOC) values at $60 million. Ensured all planned SI&T efforts met projected schedule in IMS and were within projected cost predicted to achieve CY21 AOP targets, and the successful transition for the follow-on program. Show less • Cognizant Engineering Manager for the Specialty Engineering Integrated Product Support engineering function for Proprietary business area: Strategically lead and direct a team of multi-talented skill Integrated Product Support (IPS) engineers within the Proprietary Business segment supporting ± 40 Proprietary Programs, within the S&IS business segment, while maintaining the confidentiality of proprietary and sensitive information, resulting in reduce time required to generate troubleshooting procedures, maintainer documents and implementing corrective actions in the field eliminating downtime by 2%.• Sr. Manager, Integration Production Support (IPS), efficiently managed a core group of Engineers and Logistic Technicians on six-sustainment programs value at $104K, ensuring quality and completion of work, business and organizational planning, coordination, and implementation, resulting in a 100% award fee, which surpasses Harris average of 90%. Show less

  • Senior Manager, System Integration and Test

    Apr 2004 - now

  • Scientist, Systems Integration and Test Engineering

    Oct 2019 - Apr 2024

  • Cognizant Engineering Manager for the Specialty Engineering Integrated Product Support

    Jul 2018 - Oct 2019