Vamadeva Balakaneshan, Consultant

Vamadeva Balakaneshan

Consultant

Boeing

Location
United States
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics
Experience
14 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months

Consultant at Boeing
  • United States
  • My current job since April 2021

Responsible for writing simulation model requirements to verify the UAS subsystems, air vehicle, and the communication with the ground
control station.

Consultant at SAIC
  • United States
  • May 2019 to August 2019

Clearance - Secret
• Responsibilities included writing avionics system, subsystem, interface, FMECA, and FTA requirements Using DOORS.

Consultant at Boeing
  • United States
  • August 2018 to January 2019

Clearance - Secret
• Responsibilities included writing systems, segments, and subsystems, requirements for the airborne mission system and ground support
segment using DOORS. Duties include creating product baseline based on other programs, creating or modifying requirements, allocating
requirements, and validating links.
• Also, worked for cyber security group. Responsibilities included applying NIST’s cyber security risk management framework to AWACS
programs.

Consultant at Hyper Velocity Projectile Crypto Module, Systems Engineering Group, Draper Lab
  • United States
  • January 2018 to July 2018

Clearance - Secret
• Responsibilities included writing systems, subsystems, and interfaces requirements for the crypto module using DOORS. Duties included
encryption, decryption, key management and working with NSA. The crypto module was used in Navy’s Hyper Velocity Projectile (HVP)
IR&D program.

Senior Systems Engineer
  • June 2017 to January 2018

MQ-25 UAS Program Ground Station, Sabre Systems, Lexington Park, MD
• Supported PMA 268 on the MQ-25 UAS program. Responsibilities included writing systems/subsystems specifications using DOORS and
tailoring systems engineering technical review processes and technical review checklists.

Systems Engineering Consultant
  • United States
  • April 2017 to October 2017

Clearance - Secret
• Responsibilities included writing proposal, SOW, SEMP, Configuration Management Plan, and Risk Plan for the High Energy Laser (HEL)
Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator (TVD) New Army program.

Systems Engineering Consultant at Aircraft In-Flight Entertainment Connectivity (IFEC) System Group, Thales Avionics
  • United States
  • July 2016 to April 2017

Responsibilities included writing system and subsystem requirements documents from customer’s Concept of Operations (CONOPS) and
Product Requirements Document (PRD) using DOORS. The capabilities provided by the IFEC include internet, live TV, and audio and
video on demand to the passengers in the aircraft. These capabilities were provided by subsystems: touch screen display (like Android
Tablets), television streaming unit, Ethernet switch, Ethernet bridge, antenna, antenna control unit, RF to IF down converter, and power
supplies.

Systems engineering Consultant at Parker Aerospace
  • United States
  • December 2013 to November 2015

Responsibilities included reviewing customer requirements, modifying Systems Requirements Document, Configuration Index
Requirements Document, ICDs using DOORS, and State Flow Diagrams, creating functional test engineering requirements to write flight
test procedures, reviewing and approving integrated test procedures and test reports generated by V&V teams, writing problem reports, and
system integration and testing

Systems Engineering Consultant
  • January 2013 to December 2013

Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) IR&D Radar Program, Telephonics, Farmingdale, NY
Clearance - Secret
• Responsibilities included reviewing customer’s technical requirements document and writing performance specification, system design
specification, subsystem specifications, interface documents using DOORS, and master test plan. Also, reviewed RTCA documents, FARs
and ACs, and SAE documents, and incorporated relevant requirements into the system design specification. Attended weekly IPT meetings
with the customer and liaised with sub-contractors.

Systems Engineering Consultant at Astronautics Corporation of Americ
  • United States
  • April 2012 to July 2012

Responsibilities included reviewing and analyzing system level requirements, system integration, and testing of network server system used
in Airbus A400M aircraft.

Senior Systems Engineer at Technology Security Associates
  • United States
  • January 2010 to April 2012

Clearance - Secret
• Supported warfighter analysis group on the analysis of alternatives, trade studies, modeling and simulation, writing system engineering plan,
performance specification, RFP, and certification documents.
• Also, supported PMA 299 program office on a multi mission helicopter program. This included program management, life cycle systems
engineering support, schedule and cost management, reviewing contractor’s deliverable design documents (CDRLs), liaising with different
IPTs, and attending contractor’s design reviews.
• Worked on Anti Tamper (AT) handbook for NAVIR.

System Engineering Consultant at Future Combat System
  • April 2009 to July 2009

(FCS) Program, System Engineering Group, General
Dynamics, Woodbridge, VA. Clearance - Secret
Responsibilities included writing manned ground vehicles suspension SSDD, SRS, and ICD using DOORS, updating Use Cases, flow down of
requirements, and validating links.

System Engineering Consultant at ATK Mission Systems
  • United States
  • July 2008 to April 2009

Clearance - Secret
• Responsibilities included preparing engineering estimate (i.e. man hours) for projects, writing proposals, CONOPS, SEMP, Master
Verification Plan (MVP), and system/subsystem specifications using DOORS for EAPS, KEI CGG, SM3-Block II, and ARES I solid rocket
motor programs.

System Engineering Consultant
  • December 2007 to July 2008

Chemical, Biological, and Protective Shelter (CBPS) program and Meteorological Measuring Set Profiler
program for the Army, System Engineering Group, Smiths Detection, Edgewood, MD.
Clearance - Secret
• Worked as a lead systems engineer responsible for writing system specification, subsystem specification, and IRS using DOORS. Other
responsibilities included updating System Engineering Plan (SEP) and technical specification and writing test plan.

System Engineering Consultant at Rockwell Collins
  • United States
  • January 2007 to December 2007
System Engineering Consultant at Flight Control System Engineering Group
  • United States
  • March 2006 to January 2007

Responsibilities included architecture development, writing requirements for system monitor function, signal consolidation function, and
AFDX (ARINC 664) Bus function using DOORS. Developed test procedures to test different functions of the flight control electronics (i.e.
high lift, primary flight control, and auto flight). Verified the control law models in the system integration lab using MATLAB Simulink and
analyzed the test results using strip chart recorders and bus monitors.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics
  • at University of SussexPenn State University
  • August 2021

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High school or equivalent, Electronics
  • at University of SussexPenn State University
  • August 2021

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High school or equivalent, Electronics
  • at University of SussexPenn State University
  • August 2021

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Specialties & Skills

SIMULATION
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
PROPOSAL WRITING
SPECIFICATION
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
FUNCTIONAL