Jon Morris

Experience

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  NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Jun 2003 - Aug 2003

  Engineering Intern

  • Developed a prototype real-time health management system for rocket engine test stand.• Developed software to communicate between the health management system and a MATLAB analysis server.• Created hardware and firmware prototypes of a network capable smart sensor adhering to the IEEE 1451.1 Standard for Network Capable Application Processor.

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  NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Jun 2004 - Aug 2004

  Engineering Intern

  • Developed software for UDP-based communication between the prototype Integrated Systems Health Management (ISHM) software and a network of IEEE 1451.1 compliant smart sensors.• Significantly improved the performance of data simulations by developing a custom gateway application to stream historical data sets into the ISHM software; reducing the simulation's run time from 2.5 hours to 8 minutes.• Led a team responsible for writing the interface control document used by Kennedy Space Center to design a 2nd generation smart sensors for health management applications. Show less

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  Rowan University

  Aug 2004 - Jul 2005

  Research Assistant

  • Developed the system independent information model used at NASA Stennis Space Center for health-enabled smart sensors.• Developed the framework used to integrate a network of IEEE 1451 compliant smart sensors into a real-time expert expert system (Gensym's G2®) used by NASA Stennis Space Center's Integrated Health Management System.

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  NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

  Engineering Intern

  • Provided technical leadership for the design and integration of all software and hardware developed at Stennis Space Center for a multi-entity (government and university) technology demonstration project.• Assisted with the development of design and interface requirements for the several NASA Centers and Universities involved in the technology demonstration project; includingNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kennedy Space Center, and University of Southern Illinois. • Designed the IEEE 1451 communication model used to interface the Kennedy Space Center smart sensor prototypes with the Stennis Space Center Integrated Health Management system. Show less

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  Jacobs Technology

  Aug 2005 - Apr 2011

  Electrical Engineer

  Senior member of a technically diverse team that was able to rapidly respond to NASA-wide requests for low-cost, high-quality special measurement systems, mission support software, and custom hardware design. My primary responsibilities were: • Working with a team of engineers and programmers to develop enterprise software for data acquisition, distribution, and analysis of rocket engine test data.• Design of field-deployable data acquisition systems for a wide variety of measurements, including: temperature, pressure, flow, heat flux, acoustic pressure, and ignition overpressure.• Development of software to automate the health and configuration management of Stennis Space Center’s test facilities and assets. Major Projects and Roles (see Project Section for details):• Lead Engineer - Integrated Systems Health Management, August 2005 - January 2011• Lead LabVIEW Developer - Ares Launch Acoustics Test, 2010• Lead LabVIEW Real-Time/FPGA Developer - Shuttle Fuel Valve Testing, 2009• LabVIEW Developer and Ground Based Systems Engineer - NASA Engineering and Safety Center - Max Launch Abort System, 2008 - 2009• LabVIEW Real-Time/FPGA Developer and Systems Engineer - Smart and Intelligent Sensor Payload Technology Demonstrator, 2008 - 2009• Instrumentation Engineer - NASA Engineering and Safety Center - Vehicle Assembly Building Quantity Distance Study, 2007• LabVIEW Developer and Test Engineer - Methane Thruster Testbed Project, 2005 - 2006 Show less

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  Lockheed Martin

  Apr 2011 - May 2015

  Senior Electrical Engineer

  Software architect and technical lead for a team of 8 LabVIEW and web programmers developing the NASA Data Acquisition System (NDAS). This suite of LabVIEW and web-based applications replaced the proprietary system used on the rocket engine test facilities at NASA's Stennis Space Center (SSC) with a hardware-independent, government off-the-shelf solution. Along with high-level design of the seven applications and toolkits in the NDAS suite, I also managed quality assurance of all LabVIEW code changes - on average this was 3-4 feature branch code reviews per two week sprint from the 6 LabVIEW developers on the team. Using the code review process, internal "How To"​ postings, and informal "lunch and learn" sessions I coached the team in general software engineering techniques (source code control, bug tracking, Scrum techniques) as well as tools, techniques, and best practices for LabVIEW development. As a result of this mentoring, 4 of the developers recently passed the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer test and took the Certified LabVIEW Developer exam (results pending).In addition to my role as software architect, I was the chief advocate for instituting Agile Methodologies and the use of modern development tools at Stennis. I started a pilot program to use Git, bug tracking software, and Scrum on the NDAS project. Within a year the procedures and tools used during the pilot were incorporated into Stennis’ standard procedures for software development.Major Projects and Roles (see Project Section for details):• Software Architect and Lead LabVIEW Developer - NASA Data Acquisition System, April 2011 to May 2015• Measurement Engineer - Air Blast Overpressure Analysis of the E1 Test Stand, 2012• LabVIEW Real-Time/FPGA Developer - Cryogenic Tank Calibration System, 2012 Show less