Richard W. Dargusch
PMP, Distinguished MTS at Draper Laboratory
- Role
- Distinguished Engineer at Draper
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Richard W. Dargusch
Project Manager, Technical Director: Space Systems Development, Systems Integration, Autonomy, Systems and Software Engineer. Skilled at team leadership, customer interaction, relationship building/maintenance, and fostering collaboration across multi-disciplinary / multi-functional teams.Experienced in Spacecraft Systems and Feature extraction, Model Based Design and Engineering (UML), Object oriented software development, Requirements Management, Proposal Development.
Experience
Distinguished Engineer
Jan 2002 — Present · Cambridge, MA, US
Project Manager, Systems and Software Engineer2021-current: Group Lead for \"Space and Mission Critical Systems\" 2020: Systems Engineering Team Lead for NASA\'s Human Lander System (HLS)20••••20: Deputy Program Manager and Integration Team Lead - CRS2 Dream Chaser - Program management and technical teams leadership on a program developing the fault tolerant flight computer and flight software for a space plane designed to ferry cargo to and from the ISS. 20••••17: Technical Director - Actively Guidance Ordnance (AGO) Secure Modules - technical oversight of a multi-million dollar cryptographic communications system.20••••16: Program Manager - UAV Autonomy and Vision Aided Navigation - multiple programs involving GPS-denied navigation capabilities and autonomous flight control.20••••16: Technical Director - Advanced Sensor (Processing) Technologies - wireless, networked, self-powered sensors - and the development / application of decision making algorithms.20••••14: Flight Software Verification Team Lead for SNC\'s \"DreamChaser\" - a commercially operated space transportation system for humans, primarily to ISS (and back).20••••12: Technical Director and Program Manager, SmartGen Energy - an expert system providing predictive maintenance and diagnosis of (impending) failures in rotating machinery.20••••10: NASA: Flight Software Design Team Lead for the Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle 20••••07: Task Lead for JAGUAR - a DARPA initiative for modeling, monitoring and rapid planning/replanning of tactical Air missions - a Decision Making System for the Air Force.2004: Flight Software Design Team for SPIDR, an SMEX spacecraft for NASA2003: Failure Detection System Software Architect for the \"Orbital Express\" satellite (DARPA).2002: Autonomy developer for DARPA\'s HMTM robot (for urban recon applications)
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
1984 — 1988
Boston University
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Communications & Information Theory
1991 — 1993
Skills
- Software Design
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Software Engineering
- System Design
- Matlab
- Simulations
- System Architecture
- Embedded Systems
- Spacecraft
- Embedded Software
- Sparx Enterprise Architect
- Requirements Management
- Object Oriented Design
- Robotics
- C
- Algorithms
- Digital Signal Processors
- Engineering Management
- Telelogic Doors
- C++
- Sensors
- Earned Value Management
- Sysml
- Space Systems
- Configuration Management
- Integration
- Distributed Systems
- Public Speaking
- Signal Processing
- Simulink
- Linux
- Uml
- Unix
- Cloud Computing
- Systems Design
- Management
- Program Management
- Java
- Autonomous Systems
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