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Pete Carter
Systems Engineer | Technical Leader | MBSE, Sustainment, and Requirements
Systems engineer with public resume evidence across requirements, MBSE, sustainment, contracting, project execution, and policy-compliant AI process improvement.
- Public status Active U.S. Secret security clearance
- Completed B.S. Electrical Engineering, Kennesaw State University
- Completed M.S. Engineering Management, University of Arkansas
- Admitted, expected January 2027 start Systems Engineering Ph.D., University of South Alabama
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2021-2024
Department of Defense / U.S. Air Force
Lead Systems Engineer / Systems Engineer
Role Overview
Supported aircraft navigation, sustainment, modernization, readiness, and special-project activities across multiple military platforms. Coordinated engineering, supply, depot, contractor, program, and leadership organizations to resolve technical issues and improve operational supportability.
Selected Accomplishments
- Led an engineering flight and projects function supporting more than 30 engineers and nine redesign efforts valued at $19.2M.
- Served as government POC and lead engineer on a $4.6M navigation modernization project, coordinating contractors, program office, depot, schedule, cost, and prototype scope.
- Developed a Cameo/SysML model for a public navigation avionics system using packages, requirements, and diagrams to represent design, interfaces, and structure.
- Defined training requirements for an engineering-flight SOP adopted by all five squadrons.
- Served as COR on a $36M IDIQ engineering-services contract, providing contractor oversight, tracking performance metrics, authorizing funding, and ensuring compliance.
- Developed a sustainment tracker that reduced issue-to-action time by 35% across 54 avionics systems.
- Directed, reviewed, and approved monthly and quarterly engineering-project briefs for senior leadership.
- Owned sustainment-to-end-of-life for navigation avionics across C-130, C-5, C-17, F-15, F-16, B-52, and U-2 airframes.
- Coordinated depot and supply-chain stakeholders, reducing missing parts by 52% and increasing testing and repair rates by 70%.
- Used centralized sustainment visibility and stakeholder coordination to reduce missing-part conditions by 52%.
- Reduced critical MICAP conditions from 16 to zero through coordinated engineering, supply, depot, and program action.
- Created and delivered SOWs, PWSs, and Market Research Reports.
- Served as lead POC for development of a five-year, $50M engineering-services contract.
Engineering Responsibilities
- Supported PDR, CDR, PMR, and SRR reviews.
- Resolved DMSMS and obsolescence issues using engineering and logistics solutions.
- Aligned engineering, supply-chain, depot, contractor, program-office, and leadership stakeholders.
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2024-2025
L3Harris
Systems Effectiveness Engineer
Role Overview
Supported reliability, maintainability, sustainment, provisioning, depot analysis, integrated logistics support, control account management, and model-based systems-engineering activities for complex defense and communications systems.
Selected Accomplishments
- Served as ILS Manager coordinating the 12 IPS elements to support availability, readiness, supportability, and lifecycle cost objectives.
- Defined logistics provisioning data for a major Navy program, establishing part-level supportability and material-management requirements.
- Built a Cameo MBSE model using logical and physical architecture, imported requirements, profiles, value types, tables, and BDD, IBD, and Activity diagrams.
- Managed cost, schedule, requirements, forecasts, variances, and deliverables as CAM on a $9.1M sustainment effort.
- Coordinated procurement, reliability, and systems teams to produce a spares CDRL using availability, cost, reliability, repair-cycle, turnaround-time, and lead-time inputs.
- Reviewed and interpreted SOWs, DIDs, ICDs, and program documentation.
- Developed and owned CDEs and CDRLs including LORA, Product Support Plans, Product Support Analysis, and Depot Maintenance Studies.
- Used policy-compliant AI to decompose requirements, analyze documents, and improve Excel macro and script development.
- Worked with program management and design engineering teams to integrate sustainment and maintainability from design through end-of-life.
Engineering Responsibilities
- Supported lifecycle and product-support decisions across engineering and program teams.
- Connected provisioning, reliability, maintainability, and systems inputs to supportability decisions.
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2025-Present
Northrop Grumman
Systems Engineer - Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test
Role Overview
Supports complex aerospace and defense systems-engineering activities involving requirements, architecture alignment, traceability, Agile workflow coordination, and cross-functional technical execution.
Selected Accomplishments
- Collaborates with SMEs and Product Owners to define, decompose, allocate, and validate system requirements using systems architecture and DOORS.
- Manages requirements decomposition, derivation, and bidirectional traceability in IBM DOORS.
- Maintains parent-child linkages to synchronize requirements with MBSE architectural models.
- Participates in an Agile environment with daily stand-ups.
- Oversees Jira Kanban workflow, story progression, team-task visibility, and completion coordination.
Engineering Responsibilities
- Supports public requirements, architecture-alignment, traceability, and Agile coordination activities.
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Education & Development
Learning Path
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Completed
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Kennesaw State University
Completed the engineering degree as a non-traditional student while building a new technical career path.
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Completed
M.S. Engineering Management
University of Arkansas
Completed graduate work with a 4.0 GPA.
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Completed
A.S. Science
Dalton State College
Early academic foundation that supported Pete's later engineering path.
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Certified
Project Management Professional
Project Management Institute
Public credential supporting project leadership, schedule, stakeholder, and execution discipline.
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Admitted
Systems Engineering Ph.D.
University of South Alabama
Admitted with expected January 2027 start; this is upcoming, not completed.
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Planned
INCOSE / MBSE / OCSMP Development
Planned professional development
Planned growth path aligned with systems engineering, MBSE, and AI-enabled engineering.
Accomplishment Evidence
Selected Engineering Impact
Impact Details
Sustainment Process Improvement
The public evidence shows Pete building structure around recurring sustainment problems: centralizing visibility, aligning engineering and supply-chain stakeholders, and translating status into action. The result was a faster issue-to-action path and a process adopted as a squadron tracking requirement.
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Repair and Test Improvement
The public resume evidence supports a coordination-heavy engineering response rather than a single-person claim. Pete helped connect technical constraints, stakeholder action, and sustainment priorities so repair and test performance could improve.
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Missing-Part Reduction
The public evidence connects this result to sustainment visibility, data tracking, and cross-functional coordination. The story demonstrates how Pete uses process and systems thinking to turn recurring support issues into measurable improvement.
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Engineering-Services Contract Oversight
The public evidence shows contracting work that combined technical understanding with program execution discipline. Pete also created SOWs, PWSs, Market Research Reports, and supported development of a five-year engineering-services contract.
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