Ming jie Zhang

Computers and Electronics Manufacturing - Northrop Grumman - Senior Software Engineering Manager

Duarte, California, United States

About

I am a Senior Software Engineering Manager focused on defense ship and space manufacturing with deep software development experience and leadership skills in complex environments. My mission is to drive innovation and technology development in the ship and space sector while ensuring national security. With the mission of national security and technological innovation in mind, I bring my leadership and technical expertise to defense ship and space manufacturing. I welcome exchanges with other domain experts and partners to advance our nation's excellence in ships and space.

Experience

  • Northrop Grumman (14 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior Software Engineering Manager
      Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

      Leads software development projects, develops project plans, schedules and milestones, directs the software development team, assigns tasks and responsibilities, facilitates teamwork, collaborates with vessel fabrication engineers, collects, analyzes and defines software requirements, ensures that the software meets the vessel fabrication requirements, designs the overall software architecture, ensures that the software modules can work in harmony and integrate with the vessel's systems, resolves problems that arise in the course of the software development process that including errors, faults, and performance issues, ensuring thorough software documentation including technical specifications, user manuals, and operating instructions, ensuring that the software system meets safety and compliance standards for the vessel manufacturing sector, communicating project progress and decisions to manufacturing, management, and other stakeholders, managing project budgets and resource allocations, ensuring that the project operates within its financial constraints, and continually evaluating and improving the software's performance, Functionality and user experience to adapt to changing technology and market needs, exploring new technologies, tools and solutions to enhance innovation and competitiveness in software development

    • Software Engineering Manager
      Sep 2017 - May 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Leads and manages software development projects, develops project plans, schedules and milestones, ensures projects are delivered on time, assigns tasks and responsibilities, coordinates teamwork, collaborates with Vessel Radar Systems engineers, collects, analyzes and defines software requirements, designs the overall software architecture, ensures that the software modules work in harmony, optimizes software performance, ensures that the software operates efficiently and effectively in the Vessel Radar System, optimizes software performance, communicates project progress and decisions to vessel manufacturing, management and other stakeholders.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Nov 2011 - Aug 2017 · 5 yrs 10 mos

  • Software Engineer at Raytheon Technologies
    Jun 2007 - Oct 2011 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • System Architect at BAE Systems, Inc.
    Feb 2005 - May 2007 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Associate Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin
    Jan 2004 - Jan 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Microsoft (china) Co., Ltd. Beijing Office (1 yr 3 mos)
    • Junior Software Engineer
      Aug 2000 - May 2001 · 10 mos

    • Engineer Assistant Internship
      Mar 2000 - Jul 2000 · 5 mos