About Me

Name: Daniel Price
Address: Los Angeles, CA
Phone: (301) 247-5719
Email: dan.tofu.price@gmail.com

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Objective

Engineering Management in the design and test of themed attractions, immersive experiences, and enabling technologies.

Summary

Currently a System Integration Engineer with Virgin Hyperloop! Technical leader, providing engineering expertise to deliver system-level capabilities. Eleven years of experience in government aerospace software and hardware acquisition. Proven success in Developmental Test, systems engineering, and program management of complex systems-of-systems. Twenty years of leadership experience in a fast paced and diverse, team-oriented environment with demonstrated strategic planning, organization, communication, and people strengths. Reputation as a process improvement change agent and experience in:

Design and Test
Hazard Analysis
System Integration
Risk Management
Human Machine Interface
Requirements Derivation
Schedule Management

So, no kidding, there I was...

Developmental Test

Once led a test evaluating clarity of new radios that required real-time comparison of what was heard vs a script. But once airborne, realized we forgot the script. Always adaptable, I had to find text everyone would have handy or know by heart. So naturally: Pilot Relief Bag, to use, bend tab open.. and then later: I'm a little tea-pot...

System Integration and HMI

Many times people having a bad day in the jet were told to "unbox suck," where unboxing is a common way to turn off a capability. It wasn't a joke when we had to design new user interfaces that added a Sensor Under Control button. Poetic justice then that the button ended up buried three display formats down despite being used a lot...

IPT Leadership

Took over a rapidly expanding, geographically diverse team and had to develop new ways to report and predict cost and schedule. When I created a shared Excel spreadsheet and Access database, I received a great compliment from one of my site leads: "You just automated my job" and then dripping in sarcasm: "Now I have to do real work, like actually leading my team!"

Hazard Analysis/Risk Management

Hazard Analysis and Risk Mitigation are critical tasks considering the inherent risks of Flight Test, used on an everyday basis in all forms...from briefs to risk cubes. Because you don't need to do everything in a 4g inverted dive with a Mig-28 at one and a half meters...

Designing this Website

Self-taught in HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Javascript, and Amazon Web Services.

Bachelor of Science

Aero & Astro
Engineering

Concentrations:
Dynamics and Controls,
Propulsion

Minor

Applied Physics

Master of Science

Aerospace
Engineering

Concentrations:
Stability & Control,
Navigation

Sigma Gamma Tau

Graduate Certificate

Systems Engineering

Class 130

Airborne Systems
Syllabus

Capstone Project:

MH-60R

Certifications

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
DAWIA: Test&Evaluation LVL III; System Engineering LVL II; Program Management LVL I
NAVAIR Lean Six Sigma Black Belt trained

Affiliations

Themed Entertainment Association
International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions

Personal Projects

Interactive Wand: Using Raspberry Pi, Python, and OpenCV, track an IR reflective wand and compare gestures to known images of "spells" to trigger different effects.
Home Automation: Docker implementation of Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi allowing full control of lighting on personal devices. Developing plan to apply Machine Learning to predict desired states based on device position and behavioral database.
Unity Game Engine: Multiple courses through Unity Learn including Create with Code Live and Introduction to XR.; Studying for Unity Certified User: Programmer.
Training Trackers: Designing and building Access databases with Visual Basic (front and backends) to track qualifications and completed required training for personnel. Experimenting with Swift to take these concepts mobile.
Website Design: As previously mentioned, coded this responsive website with HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap. Still learning, so more brute force than elegance. Now if I can just get that animated plane to "fly" a different profile on mobile...