1. Kevin R. Taylor www.linkedin.com/in/efficienaryofenergy
2340 Masters Rd kevin_roger_taylor@yahoo.com
Carlsbad, CA 92008 Phone: 858-366-5699
Aerospace Test Engineer
SUMMARY Seeking an opportunity to utilize twenty years of engineering and test experience.
EXPERIENCE 5/2008 – 4/2012 AeroVironment, Inc. Monrovia, CA
Power Test and Applications Engineer
Provided automated power cycling testing expertise, technical training, and service,
as part of a team, to power test systems customers.
* Assembled electrical equipment as part of upgrades or repair activities
* Integrated test item, power cycling machine, monitoring equipment, and test
control equipment with test software
* Coded test plan in “C” like language from learned and developed test techniques
* Interacted with multiple internal and external customers of various disciplines to
derive requirements and verification methods for numerous projects
* Presented technical startup, operations, maintenance, and calibration training at
customer sites in auditoriums and on the floor in labs in multiple domestic locations,
and a few international
* Supported customer issues including LabVIEW implementation to control the power
cycling test machine
* Tested new versions of the Remote Operation System program that controls the
equipment
4/2007 – 5/2008 AeroVironment, Inc. Monrovia, CA
Test Engineer
Managed projects, schedules, and coached a lab assistant; developed and executed
automated “C” test execution scripts for a six-station battery test lab.
* Executed capacity, performance, characterization, lifecycle, and specialty battery
testing programs including charge algorithm, battery management, and next
generation fast charge development, analysis, and specification
* Setup National Instruments data acquisition hardware for data collection of
voltages and temperatures, and automated electrolyte watering
* Performed competitive product testing, demo and future programs support, and
process improvements
* Setup a customer’s test of PosiCharge chargers with a single on-battery
monitoring and information device while at customer site
1/1995 - 1/1996 Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space
Physics – CU Boulder
Boulder, CO
Battery Engineer – Graduate Research Associate
Designed and built, as part of a primarily student team, the Student Nitric Oxide
Explorer satellite (for $4.3 million in 2 years; operated for nearly 6 years).
* Developed technical specifications, including capacity & performance, heat
generation, V-T charge control, maintenance conditioning, pack construction, and
radiation environment for the NiCad flight batteries
* Authored a comprehensive test plan for the acceptance, test, & analyses
associated with the flight batteries
* Responsibilities included researching, developing, documenting, and designing a
battery acceptance plan
* Designed Battery Acceptance Plan hardware including test, monitoring, charge,
and discharge fixtures
Other Experience 4/2013 – 2/2017 Security First Corp Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Software Quality and Test Engineer
Facilitated software test process from Statement of Work to delivery for an agile
data security company.

2. * Worked closely with Operations to provide test planning, progress, tracking,
metrics, and task support as needed
* Promoted and populated TestLink test tracking software
* Analyzed, graphed, and reported performance data
3/2013 – 4/2013 Thales Avionics Irvine, CA
Senior Software Quality Engineer
Assured quality process of Inflight Entertainment and Communications product
through everyday schedule, acceptance tests, and process reviews.
* Participated in engineering milestone reviews throughout the various phases of
software development, including all phases from initial planning and requirements
definition, through system level design, software design, implementation and
testing and final system testing
* Captured and recorded essential meeting outcomes and maintained records
* Worked with engineering team, oversaw execution of final system acceptance
tests of customer projects and represented Quality department in customer
acceptance tests
* Reviewed system and software traceability, analyzed documents for correctness
and completeness, and facilitated resolution of any discrepancies identified
7/2003 - 3/2007 HMS Software Inc. Carlsbad, CA
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Managed the Software Quality Assurance process of an integrated J2EE with TCL
product for a Manufacturing Execution System.
* Installed and updated complex integrated application into test environments
* Performed requirements and issues verification; regression and performance
testing; and documented issues with a bug tracking database software.
* Reviewed Test Cases, created and executed Test Plans, and released software
11/1998 - 3/2003 First American CREDCO Poway, CA
Quality Assurance Analyst
Developed, executed, maintained, and improved test procedures and QA processes for
risk assessment offormatted data reporting software in an UNIX environment. Auto-
mated testing with C shell scripts otherwise performed manual testing and executed
load and stability testing over TCP/IP network, with database population verification.
2/1996 - 11/1998 Lockheed Martin Astronautics Denver, CO
Guidance and Navigation Software Engineer Secret Clearance
Developed and certified mission specific software versions of Titan/Centaur closed
loop guidance scientific simulation tools.
* Built new software modules definition through integration of the old definition and
software change requests
* Validated software through inspection, testing (automated where possible), and
analysis against requirements, test plan, and a truth model
* Explained differences or identified and corrected inputs, code, and design
* Analyzed, confirmed, and compared performance and errors, mission accuracy,
and preflight to post-flight results
EDUCATION 2000-2002 Software Quality Engineering courses
Creative Software Testing, Managing the Test Process, Systematic Software Testing
12/1995 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO
Master's Degree Aerospace Engineering GPA 3.90
SKILLS C, CAN, DMM, Oscilloscope, LabVIEW, National Instruments, RS-232, Windows 10,
MS Office 2016, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, TestLink,
Phabricator, Tcl, Perl, SQL, Visual SourceSafe, vi, Shell Scripting, HTML, DOS, Awk,
Oracle Agile PLM, MS Access, MS Project, XML, Design Works, MathCAD