Carole Barklow is a senior systems engineer and software manager with over 20 years of experience in aerospace and defense. She has held several leadership roles including as the GPS Ground Segment risk manager, software manager for NASA's X-43 project, and requirements manager. Her experience includes managing risks, requirements, and software development for projects involving GPS, hypersonic vehicles, and military systems. She has a bachelor's degree in astronomy and math and is trained in various engineering and management topics.

1. CAROLE A. BARKLOW
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
(661) 406-9906
cbarklow@yahoo.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/cbarklow
Secret Clearance
Senior Systems Engineer and Software Manager with over 20 Years experience in Aerospace/Defense
• GPS IPT Lead • Risk Manager • Requirements Manager • Software Test Lead • Data Analyst
Major Accomplishments:
 As Software Manager for NASA’s X-43 project, was instrumental in getting the Hyper-X in the Guinness
Book of World Records twice in one year.
 Selected to be the GPS Ground Segment risk manager.
 First Risk Manager to create sites on Livelink for Integrated Product Team (IPT) risk documents.
 Closed out several hundred Air Force Manual (AFMAN) Test Readiness Certification template items.
 Won People’s Choice Award from Air Force GPS Ground Control Segment Squadron for Operational
Control System (OCS) Risk Management.
 Awarded Lockheed Martin Certificate of Commendation for improvement and implementation of the peer
review process.
Experience:
ARES Corporation Risk Lead Engineer 2015 – present
Risk Lead Engineer for the GPS Space Segment at Los Angeles Air Force Base.
 Manage the Space Segment risks for GPS
 Conduct risk working group and risk review board meetings
 Create and update the risk charts using the Active Risk Management tool
 Help the risk owners to identify risks and create mitigation plans
 Present the status of the risks to Air Force management
 Monitor the risks of the prime contractors.
New Directions Technology, Inc. (NDTI) Requirements Engineer 2014 – 2015
Software Requirements Engineer working with Jacobs Technology for the Web Design group of the Information
Technology / Information Management (IT/IM) department of China Lake Naval Weapons Center:
 Wrote functional and detailed requirements for both web pages and for business applications on the web
for the Navy
 Created the requirements documents
 Created the traceability matrices and metrics for the requirements
 Collaborated with and backed up the test group.
SAIC GPS Senior Systems Engineer 2008 – 2011
GPS Senior Systems Engineer working with Los Angeles Air Force Base Acquisition as part of Systems
Engineering and Integration (SE&I):
As Operational Control System (OCS) IPT Lead for the ground control software:

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 Oversaw the transition to Ground Operations activities and sustainment
 Reviewed and modified system and segment specifications
 Created and maintained the OCS IPT Livelink site
 Presented status to Air Force and SE&I senior management.
As Risk Management Coordinator for the OCS and Common User Equipment (CUE) IPTs:
 Led the Risk Management Working Group and Government Risk Review Board meetings for both IPTs
 Updated the database, slide presentations, and other documents
 Created and maintained Livelink sites for OCS and CUE risk management documents
 Updated the risks in the Active Risk Manager (ARM) tool regularly and was certified as an ARM trainer
 Created and briefed risk charts for the Program Management Reviews and IPT meetings
 Assisted team members in identifying and assessing risks and developing and choosing handling plans
 Tracked the execution of mitigation handling plans and closed all of the more than one hundred risks
 Identified Enterprise-level risks and participated in the Enterprise risk board meetings
 Supplied reports, updates, and metrics to Enterprise
 Monitored the prime software development contractor risks and participated in their risk meetings
 Trained military, government and contractor personnel in risk management.
As the Lead for AFMAN Test-Readiness Certification and the Flight-readiness / Selective Availability and Anti-
Spoofing Module (SAASM) Readiness Checklists:
 Determined what events are necessary for flight readiness
 Created the checklists, charts and spreadsheets for tracking and briefing the status
 Coordinated with team members to complete their tasks
 Provided status to senior Air Force leadership.
As the Software Requirements Verification Lead:
 Analyzed the prime contractor’s Verification Completion Notices (VCNs) to verify that they fulfilled the
software requirements.
As Civil Signals Monitoring Analyst:
 Steered the change request through the formal change process
 Co-authored and edited the final report.
 Led the Enterprise Master Schedule (EMS) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) efforts for OCS
 Led the Office of the Secretary of Defense / Cost Analysis Improvement Group Task
 Central Test Authority test and evaluation oversight on several projects
 Integrated Data Environment: Technical Library analysis and Configuration Management document tool
testing.
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Senior Software/Systems Engineer, Staff 2006 – 2007
Senior Software/Systems Engineer / Subject-Matter Expert in the Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS)
Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Flight Software Test and Integration group:
 Test Lead for Communications (uplink and downlink), Flight Demonstration System, Orbital Flight
Maneuver, and System Services Subsystem tests for satellite flight software
 Wrote test scripts using Colorado Systems Test And Operations Language (CSTOL)
 Analyzed software integration test data
 Moderator, Recorder, and Reviewer for Peer Reviews
 Requirements verification using Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS)
 Opened, tracked, and verified Deficiency Reports (DRs) and Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) /
Change Requests (CRs)
 Authored and edited Software Test Descriptions (STDs) and Software Test Reports (STRs)
Sparta, Inc. Senior Systems Engineer / Flight Systems Engineer / Software Manager 1997 – 2005
Senior Systems Engineer supporting the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence,
Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Modeling and Simulation and the Experimentation Test and

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Assessment IPTs of the Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS):
 Authored and edited requirements, simulation and test documents
 Worked with Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) type databases
 Wrote LabVIEW scripts for the Special Test Equipment testing
 Prepared a technical display for a national demo.
Flight Systems Engineer / Software Manager assigned to the staff at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
supporting the cutting-edge, award-winning X-43/Hyper-X Project:
 Managed the contractors’ software development efforts (Capability Maturity Model (CMM) level 5) for the
complete life cycle, reviewed their documentation and code, conducted reviews, verified requirements, and
monitored their qualification testing
 Recommended a delta Preliminary Design Review (PDR) on software, determined the entrance/exit criteria
and pass/fail requirements, and created a Software Working Group
 Performed systems analysis and design, evaluating designs and test plans and procedures
 Participated in Hardware-in-the-Loop, Aircraft-in-the-Loop, and other testing and integration of the Hyper-X
vehicle and stack
 Led the test software development effort for the project, defined the requirements, and designed,
developed, pseudocoded, and tested displays for the Control Room and the simulator
 Staffed the Control Room during tests and flight
 Created the official timelines of the flights
 Analyzed flight and test data using MATLAB plots
 Made key presentations to the 200 – 300-member team
 Participated in a mishap investigation and corrective action plan and co-authored a report showing that the
software was not a contributing factor
 Participated in the Configuration Control Board, Risk Management Board, Engineering Review Board,
Software Working Group meetings, and Systems IPT meetings
 Authored documents, including specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), test plans, procedures,
and reports
 Coordinated the Software Independent Verification and Validation efforts for the project
 Compiled software metrics for NASA Headquarters.
Other Experience:
 Senior Engineer/Scientist on the F-18 Flight Software Development staff at China Lake Naval Weapons
Center
 Senior Software Engineer/Analyst on the Tactical Aircrew Combat Training System Development staff.
 Performed software analysis and design, requirements derivation, and unit/module testing for:
 Operational Flight Program (OFP) and Embedded Global Positioning System / Inertial Navigation Set
(EGI) software upgrades and OFP tools development
 Phoenix Missile and F-14D/F-14A/B Air Combat Maneuvering / No Drop Bomb Scoring and other
weapon simulations
 Mobile Sea Range software development effort, including the real-time data link message traffic (Link-
11) and scenario generation.
 Coded real-time embedded OFP software for EGI and the Head’s Up Display (HUD) and tools in Assembly
and C languages
 Performed database development using Concurrent’s Reliance database system and FORTRAN
 Implemented and maintained several graphics packages
 Implemented and maintained math/statistics and real-time and scenario-generation subroutine libraries.
Education: B.A. Astronomy/Math San Diego State University
Training: Risk Management; Active Risk Manager tool (Certified as trainer); Systems Requirements; Deficiency
Reporting, Investigation and Resolution; Peer Review Moderator; Earned Value Management System (EVMS);
Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF); Systems Engineering (Certificate); Software System
Safety (Certificate); Software Management; Capability Maturity Model – Integrated (CMMI) (Certificate); ISO 9001;
Real-Time Structured Analysis (Certificate); Object-Oriented Design (Certificate); Ada Programming (Certificate); IT

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Security (Certificate); Software Development Process (Certificate); Hazard Analysis; Flight Research and Safety;
Propulsion Flight Research; Software Quality Assurance; Software Safety; Fault Tree Analysis and Probability and
Statistics; Training Instrumentation Architecture Overview; Introduction to Information System Security Engineering;
Computer Security; Aviation and Flight Safety Awareness; Advanced Simulation Software Engineering; Information
Visualization and Process Simplification; and Space-Based Analysis.
Publications:
Various X-43 Hyper-X Project documents, including co-authoring two papers for the Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air
Force (JANNAF) Interagency Propulsion Committee:
 JANNAF Paper: APS-CD-1C-01 "The Hyper-X Research Vehicle Flight Systems Validation Program”
 Mishap Investigation Report on the flight software of the Hyper-X and the launch vehicle (co-authored)
 NASA TM-2007-214620 “The Hyper-X Flight Systems Validation Program” (co-authored)
Articles on Hyper-X for the Spiral Newsletter and Sparta Columns magazine.
Awards:
GPS Ground Control Segment Squadron People’s Choice Award for OCS Risk Manager
Lockheed Martin Certificate of Commendation for improvement and implementation of the peer review process
Sparta Publication Award (for JANNAF paper)
Sparta President’s Recognition Award
National Association of Professional Women Woman of the Year.
Professional Organizations:
China Lake Astronomical Society
High Desert Engineering Association
National Association of Professional Women
Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Women in Aerospace (WIA)
Women in Defense (WID)
Women’s Aerospace Network.
Computer Languages and Systems: FORTRAN, Assembler, C, Ada, Pascal, CSTOL, machine and command
languages, PDP-11 assembler; UNIX, Solaris, Oracle, Sybase.
Software Packages: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Publisher, programming editors, graphics
packages, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Access, Active Risk Management, FileMaker Pro, MATLAB, LabVIEW,
Livelink, Meeting Maker, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated
Reliability Evaluations Fault Tree / Event Tree Software, DOORS, Rational Verdix Ada Development System
(VADS) and Apex Software Development Tools, ClearCase, ClearQuest, OASIS, Distributed Defect Tracking
System (DDTS), Citrix, TopVue, PureEdge Viewer, Lotus Viewer, SnagIt.