Aaron Pressman

• Served as Acting Division Chief with responsibility for assigning and balancing workloads, establishing expectations for work products, coaching and mentoring staff, resolving conflicts, and supporting a collaborative, high-performing team culture.

• Managed division dynamics during the transition from hybrid to full-time in-office operations, facilitating open communication, addressing concerns, and promoting a constructive work environment.

• Supported team morale and engagement by implementing employee recognition efforts including award nominations that highlighted contributions and reinforced a positive performance culture.

• Team Leader of a multi-functional system team to develop and coordinate Engineering and Programmatic input to system test, evaluation, and acquisition documents.

• Author and presenter of critical Test and Evaluation products and skilled at gaining leadership and stakeholder buy-in.

• Experience in performing quantitative and qualitative analysis on test and modeling data to determine system effectiveness and operational mission capability contributing to thorough acquisition determinations.

• Accomplished presenter of substantial and controversial system evaluation briefings in both large and small forums to senior leaders within the Army and across the Department of Defense.

• Functioned as a technical expert and command representative in multiple forums ensuring command positions were represented and enabling comprehensive system analyses and evaluations.

• Knowledgeable on current Army and Joint weapons and munitions systems, and test and evaluation practices and policies implementing the latest methodologies and utilizing cost savings initiatives.

• Provided system of systems design and analysis expertise to the US Army Program Executive Office for Command, Control, and Communications - Tactical (PEO C3T).

• Provided systems engineering expertise to the US Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) for the Warfighter Injury Assessment Manikin (WIAMan) program.

• Provided test and evaluation and systems engineering expertise to the US Army Rapid Capabilities Office (ARCO) to designed a test and evaluation strategy to assess an integrated suite Electronic Warfare Support systems.

• Served as a technical advisor and sought out as subject matter expert to the office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation DASD(DT&E) for the space systems portfolio.

• Supported Joint Program Manager-Guardian (JPM-G) in the planning and execution of an Advanced Technology Demonstration to demonstrate the military utility of utilizing COTS biological detection devices and transmitting their results across DoD operational networks.

Modeling and Simulation Engineer for the J-NEST (Joint National Capital Region Enhanced Surveillance Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) Special Project.

• Designed a distributed modeling and simulation architecture to test cruise missile defense scenarios

• Reviewed technical specifications and publications and coordinated with subject matter experts to ensure that modeled entities accurately reflected live system performance characteristics

• Utilized simulation tools to model missile system performance

• Performed analysis of live test and simulated data to validate and verify model performance and to assist in the development of cruise missile defense tactics techniques and procedures

• Created visualization tools to fuse data between test database and google earth to assist in the analysis of test results and for planning of future test scenarios

As a member of the Soldier and Support Systems Evaluation Directorate, I supported the mission of the US Army Evaluation Center to conduct independent evaluations of Army and Joint systems which will be used to protect and defend our Soldiers, Civilians, and Country. I was responsible for leading test and evaluation efforts including planning, execution, analysis and reporting efforts for the US Army Test and Evaluation Command.

Key Projects:

• Lead Evaluator and System Team Chair for the Javelin and TOW missile systems. Efforts include traditional acquisition as well as the rapid fielding of missile system integration efforts

• Lead Evaluator and System Team Chair for non-lethal weapons systems

• Lead Evaluator and System Team Chair for large caliber weapons systems

Served as a Reliability Analyst and Evaluator in support of the Army Evaluation Center’s independent evaluation of Army and Joint Systems. My role was to coordinate, plan, analyze and report on reliability, availability, maintainability and suitability.

Key Projects:

• Served as Lead Reliability Evaluator for the MRAP family of vehicles. Coordinated joint efforts with OSD and the US Marine Corps to support the rapid acquisition and fielding of the MRAP vehicles

• Served as Lead Reliability Evaluator for HMMWV and MRAP related rapid initiative systems and integration efforts

As a Test Engineer for the Aberdeen Test Center, my role was to plan, conduct, and report on technical test efforts in support of the US Army and other Department of Defense agencies.

Key Projects:

• Ammunition Qualification and Lot Acceptance of large caliber weapons systems

• Ammunition Compatibility Certification of the Stryker Mobile Gun System Ammunition Handling System

• Proof Acceptance Testing of 120mm and 105mm tank cannons