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, CO05.2016
Bachelor of Science - Aerospace Engineering, minor in Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA06.2014
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