Peter D. Tran

302 Quail Ridge, Dickinson, TX 77539; (Cell) 832-364-5324; PdtJobSearch@comcast.net _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

SUMMARY

An energetic, competent, dependable, hardworking engineer who has 25+ years of professional career experiences in

various industries such as deep sea Oil & Gas drilling, Gas Transportation, NASA, and DoD with degree in Petroleum

and Electrical Engineering majors.

A strong team builder with good communication skill who will bring pragmatic insights and solution to meet

objectives. The experiences encompass an entire range of software/hardware life cycle including deep sea Blow-

Out Preventer (BOP) Control System, Cyber Security in GE products, system safety for the real-time avionics

software, network, communication and Application Software in various industries such as Oil and Gas

commercial, NASA, and DOD F16 Fighter. The following are highlights of experiences:

o A senior engineer in GE Oil & Gas Fleet Management group who provided utmost and excellent support to

the drilling customers on GE built BOP Control System products and also ensured the products are in good

working condition so customers can fulfilling their drilling contracts. An excellent problem solver who

methodically resolved all encountered problems quickly and satisfactorily and strived to deliver products to

customers in timely manner.

o A software developer who performed various roles in the software life cycle including in SW design / SW

development / maintenance, SW verification / validation, Quality Assurance for numerous software

applications and projects in Gas & Pipeline, NASA, and DOD entities.

o A tester with years of experience in software verification/validation arena using various testing techniques

such as performance, black box, white box to ensure products were implemented per specified

requirements.

o Performed QA/QC role to ensure delivered products were in compliance with institution and governmental

rule and regulation and assurance processes to attain the expected quality with proper documentations.

o A safety advocator for NASA Mission Control Center System (MCCS)’s hardware and software system

through system engineering analysis with sophisticated tools to promote compliance to NASA safety

standards and provided effective communication to proper management.

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE

Programming Languages: C, C++, Visual C++, JAVA, SQL, Motif, X-Window, Perl, UNIX Shell scripts,

JOVIAL.

Computer Systems: BOP Control System, UNIX workstations and PC.

Operating Systems: QNX, UNIX, Linux, UNIX System Administrator.

Database: Sybase, SQL Server, Oracle DBA.

Utilized Tools: Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), RealityChart RCA tool, Oracle

Enterprise Manager, McCabe, Sapphire, Microsoft Excel, Visio.

Training: Cyber Security+, Cloud, CompTIA 2008 Network+, CCNA.

Certification/Licenses: GE certified Root Cause Analysis leader, GE Green-belt, TX Financial Planner (1998),

Home Inspector (2005)

EXPERIENCE

GE Oil & Gas Subsea Systems & Drilling September 2011 to Present

A Senior Professional Band (SPB) engineer in Product Service / Fleet management group who has continuously

and exceptionally served the customers by diligently performed and led engineers to study, resolve, and provide

quick and reliable resolution to the customers’ reported issues, especially the rig down or near rig down. Few task

examples are:

Developed the comprehensive Work Instruction document for the Product Service team with detailed

process flowcharts and emphasis on understanding of customer needs and expectations and also considering

safety when resolving issues. This approach would help producing reliable resolutions to the reported issues.

The Work Instruction was approved and signed off by Drilling Services director, Engineering director,

Drilling Quality leader, Global Field Service leader, and Product Service managers.

Led/participated in many FMEA and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) sessions to identify all possible failures in a design,

a manufacturing or assembly process and obtained Corrective Actions and Prevention Actions for the raised issues to

address and/or eliminate current and possible future issues. Examples are: the FMEA on 720VAC BOP power supply

from Surface through copper communication to 120VDC/80VDC Subsea power supply; RCA on vendor and in house

printed circuit board manufacturing and classification process.

Led several key Principle/Senior SW/HW engineers in many occasions to develop solutions to avert many near or rig

down situations to allow customers back to drilling contracts. An example is with Transocean customer GEN 1

system. Through technical data analysis, convinced customer to accept the presented risks and proposed reducing

numbers of Emergency Disconnect Sequences that could accommodate current GEN 1 HW capabilities.

Mentored several junior engineers, Field Service engineers on rigs, Special Operation team, and SW developers on

BOP Control System on SW design approach and structure, troubleshooting and error elimination techniques.

Reviewed and improved technical and quality conditions of Technical Communication and other technical documents

prior to release.

Member of cyber security product leader to improve security awareness and provided security feedbacks to GE

products for all Tollgates milestones.

Continuously informed and alerted management with 4-Blocker tool to raise several issues that would

require management intervention for speedy result and to serve our customers better. Few examples are

the obsolescence and qualification of Data Logger, TeamViewer to improve remote service network (RSN) tool.

SoHar Corp. / GHG Corp Houston, TX – Sr. Software/System Engineer August 2005 to Nov. 2010

Led a Software/Hardware Assurance team of four engineers to perform engineering analysis for MCCS utilizing approved

commercial software tools and techniques to promote MCCS system safety and also efficiently documented and

communicated safety issues to project management throughout all MCCS software milestones.

o Provided safety inputs to the MCCS hazard reports through the analysis of the MCCS requirements, architecture,

and designs per NASA safety standards. Documented potential MCCS system hazards, hazard control methods,

and ensured that the identified hazard controls are effectively implemented and verified throughout all phases of

MCCS software lifecycle. The MCCS Phase I Hazard Reports were successfully presented and accepted by the

Constellation Safety Review Panel.

o Reviewed all MCCS’ subsystems related technical documents and plans throughout all MCCS milestone to

identify and document all possible safety concerns on the identified safety critical requirements, design, coding,

and testing phases and also tracking the acceptable safety resolutions until closure. The coding programming

languages for MCCS’ subsystems are mostly written in C/C++ and Java.

Developed methodology for handling software risk via Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) technique. PRA is a

comprehensive, structured, and logical analysis method that aims at identifying and assessing risks in complex

technological systems for cost-effectively improving their safety and performance.

o Studied all defined hardware’s basic events using Sapphire tool for the Lunar Sorties mission’s activities to

identify software components that are associated with the hardware, controls, or effectors that would contribute to

an unsuccessful mission event or failure.

o Proposed a software PRA approach by creating a software PRA model using historical data in the International

Space Station (ISS), Shuttle, and Satellite programs’ databases that have similar software failure occurrences.

USA / BestStaff, Houston, TX - Software Engineer Consultant March 2001 to Jan. 2005 Performed system engineering analysis to formulate display requirements and developed automated test scripts to verify and

validate the performance of requirements’ functions for the Shuttle Cockpit Avionics Upgrade (CAU) Project. The CAU

project was to provide better situational awareness and improve flight safety for the astronauts.

Developed Ground Avionics Displays requirements and inspected codes for Electrical Power System (EPS).

Developed test scenarios and automated test scripts to verify the Shuttle Main Propulsion Systems (MPS) and

Ascent/Entry Primary Flight Dynamics (PFD) display requirements in the Software Production Facility (SPF).

Boeing / Cimarron. Houston, TX - Software Engineer Consultant May 2000 to May 2001 Provided automated test scripts written in C Language to verify and validate the Node Control System (NCS) requirements for

the International Space Station (ISS) flight software through Formal Qualification Testing (FQT) documentation and process.

NCS software was a portion of ISS that controlled the equipment located in the United States On-orbit Segment portion of the

Space Station prior to the arrival of the new Command and Control computer.

Performed verification of NCS requirements by analyzing and developing/modifying automated test scripts to verify

the performance of NCS requirements through 1553 Bus environment using sophisticated simulation software tools

and PASS-1000 1553 Bus Analyzer.

Provided formal validation and certification of NCS requirement through well defined documentation and process.

El Paso Energy / Proview, Houston, TX - Software Consultant. August 1998 to April 2000 Maintained and enhanced the El Paso Energy’s Gas Transportation Business (GTB) software applications that creating

contracts to provide natural gas transporting services through El Paso Energy’s pipeline system around the United States. The

programming languages for most software applications were written in C/C++ and databases’ SQL.

Led a successful Y2K project that implemented, verified, validated, and delivered the Y2K compliance for all

Validation Server’s Gas Transportation Business software.

Coordinated, evaluated and analyzed software discrepancy reports on GTB’s Validation Server software and

implemented approved software correction/enhancement. Verified the performance of software upgrade on several

test environments to ensure proper software quality and control before it is migrated to the production environment.

Developed several ad-hoc tools as needed to improve daily production support and diagnoses of customer’s reported

problems.

Lockheed Martin - USAF Project. Houston, TX Nov. 1996 to August 1998 Provided software system design and supports to the Range Standardization and Automation (RSA) project. The RSA project

improved the reliability and reducing the operations and maintenance costs of the Air Force Space Command's Space Lift

Ranges by consolidating and centralizing controls of the Eastern and Western Ranges facilities. The programming languages in

these projects were written mostly in C and X/Motif Window.

Designed and developed the infrastructure software for RSA project by tailoring and adding new UNIX TCP/IP and

socket network programming capabilities that provided selected RSA site real time workstations readiness using the

existing JSC NASA Mission Control Center (MCC) infrastructure software.

Performed Unix administrator and Oracle database administration (DBA) functions for the Air Force Space

Command's Space Lift Ranges program with credential through a professionally DBA trained by Oracle. Developed

shell and SQL scripts utilizing Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Server Manager, and Oracle SQL Plus in

conjunction with UNIX system administration skills to effectively support the database management functions.

Unisys - USA, Houston, Texas June 1991 to Nov. 1996 Performed software design/development and maintenance tasks for four projects that supported various Shuttle’s activities and

payloads. The programming languages in these projects were written mostly in C and X/Motif Window.

Designed, developed, upgraded, and maintained several science computational programs for the Tether Satellite

System (TSS). Also developed the Satellite Commands/Data Editor application that provided the error-free capability

with extensive built-in data validation and notification when the TSS coefficient data is modified in a restricted access

area. These applications were used during the two Shuttle’s TSS payload flights that allowed users to perform various

science experiments to prove the theory of moving a metal conductor through the earth magnetic field would produce

tangible electricity.

Developed and maintained numerous GUI analysis applications for Shuttle Propulsive and Environment Control

Systems such as:

o The Propellant Usage and Mass Analysis (PUMA) application which performed the Shuttle vehicle mass

determination based on the sequential timeline inputs and users’ specifications of the detailed Orbiter

Maneuver System/Reaction Control System propellant budgeting and analysis.

o The Propulsion Early Assessment application which performed the preliminary propellant usage assessment

of PUMA process.

o The Environment Control Systems application which performed an extensive calculations of water, air, and

electrical usage for each shuttle flight.

Designed and developed the GUI Universal Planning System Automation (UPSA) application that provided satellite

commanders the capabilities of interactively or automatically accessing, modifying, and validating the Tracking and

Data Relay of Satellite (TDRS) Scheduling activities. UPSA application also provided reliable data transmission

between different hardware configurations at JSC, Texas and Goddard, Maryland facilities for all Space Shuttle flights.

The UPSA application was delivered to users on schedule and on budget.

Upgraded and maintained numerous Data Processing System (DPS) applications such as: The Onboard Fault Summary

application which tracked, searched, and displayed the real-time scrollable fault message lists of the Orbiter and

Spacelab faults messages; The Scratch Pad Emulator application which enabled users to keep track of the Shuttle’s

crew scratch pad line entries and keystrokes.

General Dynamics - Fort Worth, Texas January 1986 to January 1991

Designed, developed, and maintained the F16 C/D jet fighter real-time Weapons Control System avionics software

written in JOVIAL that provided monitoring, conditioning, and controlling of the fighter weaponry inventory system

every 20 milliseconds. Responsible areas included Air-to-Air weapons: AIM-9 Sidewinder, AMRAAM, and Air-to-

Ground weapons: AGM-88 HARM/AGM-45 SHRIKE.

Participated in developing numerous F16 Avionics Familiarization Trainer (AFT) system-level hardware designs.

Defined and instituted training procedures for different domestic and foreign customers according to their AFT

specifications. Troubleshooting various F16 C/D AFT and kept them in very high degree of readiness.

BACKGROUND

Obtained Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering and fulfilled all required courses in Electrical

Engineering at Mississippi State University since 1986.

US Citizen with expired Secret Clearance since 1988.

AWARDS

Many recognitions from GE Oil & Gas Subsea Drilling system.

Ovation Award for contributions to the MCCS Constellation Program Preliminary Design Review Team. July 2010.

Kudos Award for outstanding performance on the expedited Orbital Phase 1 Safety review and Orbital PDR.

Employee of the Month Award from Unisys, May 1992.

Chairman’s Team Quality Award from Rockwell, November 1993.

Short Term Achievement Award from Unisys, April 1993.

ACTIVITIES

A choir member at Shrine of The True Cross Catholic Church in Dickinson, TX 77539.

A member of International Toast Master Club from 1987 to 1989.