Dr. Michael Gooden, PhD

Experience

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  General Dynamics Information Technology

  Aug 1999 - Dec 2012

  Principal System Engineer

  Principal Engineer• Supported the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) National Team as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM), Training, and Logistics.• Served as the SME for System Level Requirement development for the following weapon systems: C2BMC, THAAD, PATRIOT, Aegis BMD, GMD• Provided logistic and technical support for Ballistic Missile Defense System Specification (BMD SS) development of BMD System Level Requirements using Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS).• Developed initial System Level Requirements for several Proof of Concept Satellites and Sensor Systems. • Conducted Missile Defense model and simulations scenarios using RAPTOR 7.0 software.• Lead an effort to improvement system reliability by working with various other Missile Defense Program Offices (C2BMC, THAAD, PATRIOT, Aegis BMD, GMD). • Consistently delivered high quality products (briefing, whitepapers, and analysis) that exceed the customer’s expectations. • Participating member of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Joint Reliability Maintainability Evaluation Team (JRMET) which collects and evaluates RAM data from all Missile Defense Program Offices. Support Data Scoring Review (DSR) which is held with each Program Office both monthly and quarterly. Developed refinements efforts to improve the RAM data collect process through modeling and simulation. • Served as Chief of Staff for the Alternative Divert and Attitude Control System (ADACS) Study. Supported RADM George Meinig (Ret.) task to study the Standard Missile-3 kinetic warhead. Served as the team's POC for 13 company / laboratory visits across the country and 3 local team caucuses during the course of the study. Merged various team member sections into the final technical report for distribution to various DoD departments and defense contractors. Show less

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  Booz Allen Hamilton

  Dec 2012 - Sept 2017

  Lead Systems Engineer

  Senior Reliability Engineer <br>• Led a team of six Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) engineers to apply knowledge and experience using reliability software tools on the Army Enterprise Product Lifecycle Management Integrated Data Environment (ePLM IDE). develop and analyze model simulations for various weapon systems.<br>• Developed RAM models and simulations for U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) that resulted in improved weapon system performance and substantial cost savings.<br>• Provide technical expertise in Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) analysis to support the Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) technical assessments. <br>• Develop strategies, map business processes, and identify key performance indicators and metrics in support of CBM+ requirements. <br>• Used distribution and statistics expertise to analyze operational RAM field data to calculate failure rate probabilities. This resulted in a higher level of confidence for CECOM leadership to make programmatic decisions.<br><br>Career Manager <br>• Provide career path guidance and set annual performance goals for several employees under my direct charge. <br>• Deliver consistent direction to team members to perform their daily activities. <br>• Review and approve team member timesheets bi-monthly. <br>• Provide leadership with weekly status reports derived from team inputs. <br><br>Lead Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) Course Instructor <br>• Developed a RCM and RAM training curriculum based on multiple standards for US Army CECOM. Developing training material for RCM task to “train-the-trainers”. Lead instructor for RCM and RAM at US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground<br>• Taught Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Supportability Analysis, and other modules.<br>• Led students through the Failure Modes and Effects and Critical Analysis (FMECA) workshop. Show less

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  F-35 Joint Program Office

  Sept 2017 - Jun 2022

  Prognostics & Health Management (PHM)

  Provides life cycle Management for the F-35 Prognostics & Health Management (PHM) system, including people, processes, technical knowledge and Software and Hardware.<br>- Provides coordination and control of sustainment contractual requirements, and develops processes, policies and standards for maintaining F-35 PHM system performance for System Development and Demonstration (SDD)<br>- Support development and implementation of strategy and planning within PHM team<br>- Integrates across the IPTs and domains both vertically and horizontally for the design, development and implementation of the PHM capabilities across the JPO<br>- Management of derived Joint Capability Specifications (JCS) requirements that enables the program’s O&S cost reduction objectives. <br>- Produces the PHM integrated products, status and documents such as requirements, reports, presentations and releases<br>- Continuously assess PHM performance metrics and adjust<br>- Reports to the AS Design team leads on issues and risks<br>- Support the identification and mitigation of F-35 Air System and PHM risks<br> Show less

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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Oct 2021 - Apr 2022

  Postdoctoral Fellowship

  Machine Learning University Fellowship

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  United States Department of the Air Force

  Jun 2022 - now

  Chief Modeling and Simulation Office, Workforce Development and Culture Lead
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  Harvard University

  Jun 2024 - now

  Senior Executive Leadership Fellowship