Leon Starr

About Leon Starr

17+ years guiding, training, and embedding with teams internationally to specify the requirements, internal logic, behavior, and architecture of large, complex safety critical systems using models, code, and more recently AI.Proven skill untangling complex state behavior and exposing nuanced system logic to produce safe, transparent, configurable, and highly reliable model solutions that integrate safely with AI components.Seeking a staff or senior level engineering position (employment or contract) to drive development and validation with the use of models and AI in an exciting new system or technology where safety is essential and failure is not an option.My focus is on helping you solve the hard problems and build useful, maintainable models using whatever tools and standards suit the your project and organization.My past projects have included aerospace and avionics, autonomous vehicles, medical and scientific instrumentation, implantable medical devices, manufacturing automation, semiconductor fabrication and testing, battle simulation, and image processing.

Experience

1. Model Based Software Systems Engineer Mbse Platform Architect

   Model Integration, Llc

   Jun 2023 — Present · Oakland, CA, US

   Designed and developed an open source modeling tool chain to support executable, platform independent modeling of safety critical system data, logic and highly distributed behavior. Defined high granularity, asynchronous action-data flow primitives. Developed primarily in Python on top of C libraries. Works in conjunction with existing commercial tools and standards such as Cameo, Arcadia, MagicDraw, SysML2. Produced a series of top reviewed animated Youtube videos explaining how to avoid common mistakes and modeling large complex systems.

Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Computer Science

  1979 — 1982

Skills

• Analysis
• Objective-C
• Product Requirements
• Embedded Systems
• Bash
• Concurrency
• Executable Uml
• Uml Tools
• Xcode
• Agile
• Concurrent Programming
• Software Development
• System Architecture
• Python
• Distributed Systems
• Requirements Analysis
• Domain Modeling
• Data Architecture
• C
• Rational Rose
• Object Oriented Design
• Omnigraffle
• Business Logic
• Object Modeling
• Object Oriented Modeling
• Application Architecture
• Database Design
• Bpmn
• Relational Databases
• Training
• Uml
• Pl/Pgsql
• Enterprise Architect
• Ooad
• Oop
• State Machines
• Sequence Diagrams
• Agile Methodologies
• Application Development
• Software Engineering