Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Training
Timeline
Generic

Alexandra Wassenberg

Denver

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Systems, Integration, & Test Engineer

Sierra Space
Louisville
09.2021 - 09.2025
  • Developed test plans and procedures, led Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), and scheduled and directed integrated vehicle test for subsystem functional and performance checkouts
  • Led troubleshooting and closure of vehicle non-conformances identified during vehicle testing
  • Interfaced and led coordination with Chief Engineers, Subsystem Subject Matter Experts, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, and Facility Management
  • Planned joint testing with NASA International Space Station (ISS) teams
  • Developed and taught lessons on Environmental Control and Life Support Subsystem (ECLSS) functionality to Flight Controllers (FCs)
  • Scripted and implemented ECLSS malfunctions during mission simulations to assess FC performance
  • Evaluated and provided performance feedback to ECLSS FCs following mission simulation events
  • Trained ISS crew members on nominal and emergency Dream Chaser operations in vehicle mockups

Senior Systems Engineer

Lockheed Martin
Centennial
05.2019 - 09.2021
  • Led team of four co-contractor organizations in establishing a collaborative Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) process to facilitate iterative and flexible system architecture development
  • Developed and managed deliverables schedule, delegated team tasking, and led delivery of a joint product to the customer within an accelerated timeframe
  • Decomposed use cases through functional, logical, and physical architectures in Cameo to define system interfaces and requirements
  • Converted previously existing system architecture documents into model-based format and developed modeling and report generation guidelines for the program and customer use
  • Coordinated with Subject Matters Experts (SMEs) to develop system-level requirement specifications and led System Requirements Reviews (SRRs)
  • Worked with Engineering Team to align requirement content with Verification Events
  • Interfaced with co-contractors to define Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for mutual interfaces

Human Systems Engineer

Virgin Galactic
Mojave
07.2016 - 05.2019
  • Developed passenger nominal and emergency equipment systems through full life cycle
  • Wrote Statements of Work (SOWs), requirements documents, and Requests for Proposals (RFPs)
  • Led SRRs, Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs), and Conceptual Design Reviews (CDRs)
  • Managed vendors for custom modification of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) hardware and software
  • Wrote test plans for and led verification, validation, and human factors testing of equipment
  • Monitored equipment performance during flight test from mission control
  • Worked with SS2 pilots and flight doctors to develop and train crew on SS2 emergency egress procedures in vehicle mockup environment
  • Wrote procedures and conducted training for in-flight SS2 cabin evaluations, passenger emergency equipment usage, and payload activation
  • Characterized physiological effects of flight environment via analysis of flight test sensor data

Education

Master of Science - Aerospace Engineering, focus in Bioastronautics

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
05.2016

Bachelor of Science - Aerospace Engineering, minor in Architecture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
06.2014

Skills

  • Top Secret Clearance (last active 2021)
  • DOORS 96
  • DOORS Next
  • Cameo
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Test planning
  • Test execution
  • Python

Accomplishments

· MIT Apollo Award (May 2014): Awarded to an MIT undergraduate student for work in human spaceflight research

· LM Bronze Award (August 2020): Awarded by LM upper management to individuals who have shown achievement beyond normal job requirements and have had a measurable, project-specific impact

· LM Spotlight Award (September 2020)

· Sierra Space Spotlight Award (September 2022, November 2022)

Training

· Acceleration & G-Tolerance Centrifuge Training, The National AeroSpace Training and Research Center

· FAA Altitude Chamber Physiological Training, Arizona State University High Altitude Chamber Lab

Timeline

Senior Systems, Integration, & Test Engineer

Sierra Space
09.2021 - 09.2025

Senior Systems Engineer

Lockheed Martin
05.2019 - 09.2021

Human Systems Engineer

Virgin Galactic
07.2016 - 05.2019

Master of Science - Aerospace Engineering, focus in Bioastronautics

University of Colorado Boulder

Bachelor of Science - Aerospace Engineering, minor in Architecture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Alexandra Wassenberg