Adam Hyler

About Adam Hyler

Senior Systems Engineer with 16 years of experience through various phases of system engineering life cycles from Feasibility to Operational System Maintenance on Various Programs supporting US Navy. Highlights include RF integration, test and evaluation, and requirements experience on various programs. AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), AN/ALQ-218 Electronic Warfare/Electronic Support/Electronic Intelligence System, AN/APG-81 AESA Radar, various Navy missile programs (SM-2, SM-3, SM-6) and AEGIS Weapons Control System (WCS) for Baseline 9 and Baseline 10. Performed lead analyst/Subject Matter Expert (SME) role at various test events for AEGIS BL10. Virtualized various BL10 and BL9 Virtual AEGIS Weapon System (VAWS). Built and maintained hardware infrastructure to support VAWS and Navy software tools. Authored numerous technical documents and presented to various audiences while receiving formal/informal recognition for contributions. Currently possesses active Secret Clearance

Experience

1. Senior System Engineer

   Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT)

   Sep 2021 — Present · Arlington, VA, US

   Performed Integration, Test and Evaluation of various military simulations in virtualized environments. Installed Virtualized US Navy AN/SPY-6 (AMDR) Detection Simulation (DETSIM). Integrated new SPY-6 software loads with Virtualized AEGIS BL10 Weapon System. Performed performance analysis and root caused various software defects to the element level. Leading Virtualization efforts on various US Navy AEGIS Weapon System - Virtual Baselines VAWS (Virtual AEGIS Weapon System) programs (AEGIS Baseline 9 and AEGIS Baselin 10) and serves as SME on integration of VAWS into AEP (ATRT- Automated Test and Retest Enterprise Platform). Acting as a go-to resource for virtualization and simulations- training and leading junior engineers accross multiple projects. Identifying hardware requirements of High Performance Computing (HPC)(VMware Vcenter, ESXI, NSX, CISCO Switching, Dell Servers, NVIDIA GPUs) and software requirements on new programs. Provides hardware and software integration support to various IDT stakeholders across all IDT business areas – ahead of schedule in support of high visibility/customer facing efforts.Authored over 10 documents that characterize installing, deploying troubleshooting, analysis and checkout of SPY-6, AEGIS BL9, and AEGIS BL10 simulations. Resident expert of NVIDIA graphics card, and GPU integration on Linux and Windows Environment.Experienced in shipboard integration of rapid capability installation and maintenance of virtualized IDT systems at US Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. IRIG issues across multiple ships had remained unresolved despite prior engineering and sailor efforts. Led troubleshooting of IRIG connections to the IDT System Under Test (SUT), resulting in a same-day resolution delivered to the program.

Education

• Youngstown State University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2004 — 2008

• Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals

  Master’s Degree, Technical Management

  2010 — 2013

Skills

• Microsoft Word
• Fortran
• Public Speaking
• Microsoft Excel
• Strategic Planning
• Microsoft Office
• Management
• Systems Engineering
• Project Management
• Engineering
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Matlab
• Leadership
• Customer Service
• Radar