Regulatory and Environmental

Extensive experience designing, testing, and managing projects which include regulatory requirements for both environmental testing and the design process, including FAA, FCC, MIL-STD and CE requirements including experience with multiple test labs.

Summary

FCC Part 15 – conducted and radiated emissions and susceptibility, unintentional and intentional radiators, AC power
FAA RTCA/DO-178B – high-reliability software design practices as required by the FAA for airborne products. Experience writing planning documentation, software requirements, authoring standards, setting up configuration management and problem reporting systems, and more
FAA RTCA/DO-254 – high-reliability complex hardware (HDL code) design practices as required by the FAA for airborne products. Experience writing planning documentation, requirements, setting up configuration management and problem reporting systems, and more.
FAA RTCA/DO-160F – experience selecting appropriate environmental test categories, authoring and conducting tests to the requirements of the FAA for airborne equipment
MIL-STD – vibration, shock, thermal and other testing conducted as defined in MIL-STD documentation
DoD Spectrum Management – experience with the military spectrum management process, including DD1494
CE mark – consumer electronics safety testing as required by the European Union
Quality Management Systems (QMS) – authoring high-level QMS documentation that dictates company activities as well as developing low-level R&D processes and procedures that fall within the larger Quality directives. Experience with both ISO 9001 and AS9100

FCC Part 15 (CFR Title 47 Part 15)
- Spent extensive time in a test lab qualifying a consumer product which involved several radios (GPS, WiFi, and a dual-band superhet) a microcontroller, FPGA, multiple switching/linear power supplies, and attitude- and heading-sensing system (AHRS)
- Subpart B – Unintentional Radiators
  - Conducted Emissions
  - Radiated Emissions
  - Conducted Susceptibility
  - Radiated Susceptibility
  - AC Power
- Subpart C – Intentional Radiators
FAA Environmental Testing Requirements (RTCA/DO-160F)

EMI (radiated/conducted emissions/susceptibility), thermal shock, random and swept sine vibration testing, rapid decompression, and more
Test plans, including choosing appropriate test categories and how that affects the system safety assessment, as required by the FAA

FAA High Reliability Design Requirements (RTCA/DO-178B, RTCA/DO-254, TSOs, etc)
- Experience with FAA High Reliability Design Techniques (RTCA/DO-178B, RTCA/DO-254) and the TSO process to Design Assurance Level C (DAL C)
- Experience working with DERs and ACOs, including DER SOI audits and FAA audits
- Sole author of PSAC, PHAC, and PSCP that passed Stage of Involvement #1 (SOI1) and received concurrence/approval from the FAA Seattle Aviation Certification Authority (SACO)
  - Software (RTCA/DO-178B) Included authoring:
    - Plan for Software Aspects of Certification (PSAC)
    - Software Development Plan (SDP)
    - Software Verification Plan (SVP)
      - Review of requirements, design, and code
      - Testing of executable object code
      - Code coverage techniques
      - Black- and white-box testing, acceptance testing
    - Software Configuration Management Plan (SCMP)
      - Subversion for source code control
    - Software Quality Assurance Plan (SQAP)
      - Bugzilla for Problem Reports
    - Software Requirements Document (SRD)
    - Software Requirements Standards (SRS)
    - Software Design Standards (SDS)
    - Software Code Standards (SCS)
  - Complex Hardware (RTCA/DO-254) Included authoring:
    - Plan for Hardware Aspects of Certification (PHAC)
    - Hardware Development Plan (HDP)
    - Hardware Verification Plan (HVP)
      - Review of requirements, design, and code
      - Testing of executable object code
      - Code coverage techniques
      - Black- and white-box testing, acceptance testing
    - Hardware Configuration Management Plan (HCMP)
      - Subversion for source code control
    - Hardware Quality Assurance Plan (HQAP)
      - Bugzilla for Problem Reports
    - Hardware Requirements Document (HRD)
    - Hardware Requirements Standards (HRS)
    - Hardware Design Standards (HDS)
    - Hardware Code Standards (HCS)