Ben Ungs

About Ben Ungs

SUMMARY:Systems engineer with experience delivering safety-critical, autonomous medical, space, and aerospace products with safety lifecycles and regulated industries. Expertise in hazard analysis, requirements development, risk management, verification, integration, technical writing, and managing a system of systems. Cross-functional leader for mission-critical programs with rigorous standards standards.\"What are we building today?\"I love seeing the big-picture view, then diving into the details and learning how everything works, system by system, and then taking a step back to see the macro-scale emergence of behaviors, interactions, and patterns.EXPERIENCE- Systems engineering- Software systems & functional development- Technical project management- Integration, V&V, Qualification & Acceptance- Mission Operations- Quality/QMS/Process improvement- Safety - hazard analysis, FMEA, root cause analysisGOALS- to work on ambitious, difficult projects, whose products effect the progress of humanity- to build our future through the lens of science, data, communication, and nurture a culture of long-term vision- to challenge myself and grow as a person and contributor- to be a responsible steward of that which i affect, and- to leave every place better than I found itSEEKING- Opportunities in autonomous technology development. CURRENTLY- Working as a Software Systems Engineer on NASA\'s Lunar Gateway program, Power and Propulsion Element- Studying in Purdue\'s MSE interdisciplinary engineering program, with a concentration in Engineering Management & Leadership. Enrolled 2020EDUCATION- Graduated with B.S.E in Chemical engineering from Iowa, 2013- Minor in chemistry, focus in Energy & Environment\"No I\'m from Iowa, I only work in outer space\"

Experience

1. Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer

   Lanteris Space Systems

   Feb 2024 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US

   DBA Maxar Space Systems Feb 2024 - Oct 2025DBA Lanteris Space Systems Oct 2025 - PresentSystems Engineer and CDRL manager for programs including NASA\'s Artemis/Lunar Gateway – Power & Propulsion Element and Sirius XM series- Systems Engineering lifecycle management supporting human rated PPE and CMV segment of NASA\'s Lunar Gateway- Manage >50 deliverables, including schedules, development and V&V plans, & requirements for various Computer Software Configuration Items (CSCIs)- Facilitate communication between >100 systems engineers, architects, designers, PMs, customers, and development groups, including Mission systems (Flight + Ground), simulations, infrastructure, integration/V&V, operations, hardware, safety, QA, platform + automation teams- Flight System development, including use cases, systems functions, and architecture of Propulsion, Power, Data Handling, Command & Telemetry, GNC, Thermal, Mechanisms- Safety analysis, Fault Management development, FDIR, CBCS, redundancy planning, FMEAs, Common Cause Failures, Must-Work & Must-Not-Work Functions, Fault Trees, controls, safety-criticality- Wrote whitepaper identifying necessary improvements in safety documentation to achieve CoFR supporting human rating, including a root cause analysis identifying procedural deficiencies- Evaluate equivalence of commercial practices to NPR 7150.2, NASA-STD-8719.13, NASA-STD-8739.8- Created org charts to better understand the modes of communication within the company- Wrote onboarding process used by 9 new hires, including identification of tools, logins, access, and readmes necessary to contribute - Process improvement - wrote new internal requirements to satisfy CMMI & NASA standards & identified >30 unique internal software products- Mapped the development process & data flow to determine givers/receivers- Identified gaps in subcontractor deliveries, saving hundreds of hours of work- SAFe PO training

Education

• University of Iowa

  Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Chemistry

  2008 — 2013

• Purdue University - Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars

  MSE, Engineering Management and Leadership

  2020

Skills

• Chemical Process Engineering
• Photovoltaics
• Design of Experiments
• Sustainability
• Piezoelectric
• Space Enthusiast
• Stem
• Thin Films
• Training
• Tutoring
• Chemical Engineering
• Nanotechnology
• Research
• Uv/Vis
• Matlab
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Technical Writing
• Thermodynamics
• Ir Spectroscopy
• Engineering
• Environmental Awareness
• Wind Power
• Chemistry
• Nanomaterials
• Sports Coaching
• Powder X-Ray Diffraction
• Characterization
• Process Engineering
• Product Development
• Physics
• Process Simulation
• Microsoft Office
• Process Optimization