1997 Systems Engineer/Collins Class Submarine/Boeing Australia

Systems Engineer in the System Integration Team for the Collins Class Submarine Contract. This position involved working within the Integration Team to document, isolate, analyse and, where necessary, provide fixes for faults arising from integration of control systems within the submarine. The scope of the position also included planning and execution of high level system integration tasks.

The above translates to hands on experience in problem solving and rectification in most aspects of the Collins Class Combat System and development environment. This includes CSC’s Tactical Data Handling System, Thomson Marconi Sonar and extensive experience with the CS’s connection with the UNIX/Sun network test environment.

Basic skills gained/enhanced are as follows:

• Ada Programming - VADS
• UNIX/Sun Network – administration, programming, scripting, fault finding (sniffer)
• VME architecture - DY4 744/740 Ethernet Card especially, Vmetro
• All aspects of system from low level hardware, through to software and top-level design specifications.
• Planning, review and execution of test plans.