Onur Ozan Kalkan

Lead Systems Engineer | CSEP | MSc | Defence | Aerospace | Energy | Safety and Reliability

Luxembourg

About

Experience

  • Senior Technical Officer (Systems Engineering/Digital Engineering) at NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA)
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Lead Systems Engineer at GE Vernova
    Jul 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Led the systems engineering activities for 2GW HVDC Grid Connection Systems (BalWin4 and LanWin1) developed for TenneT under Consortium with McDermott. • Led the transition of the engineering processes by introducing the systems engineering principles to the energy industry. • Supported building the systems engineering processes in the business, namely requirement management, verification, validation, change management. • Built a systems engineering organization in the company to implement the processes and ensure the expected deliverables. • Prepared high level strategy documents for Verification & Validation and Requirement Management. • Established the requirements database for +13k requirements in IBM DOORS, including the verification and validation activities and their links with each other. • Onboarded a new Model-Based Systems Engineering tool (Relatics) and trained users.

  • National Delegate at AC/326 Subgroup B at NATO
    Jan 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Roketsan Missiles Inc. (Full-time · 13 yrs 8 mos)
    • Systems Engineering Unit Head
      Dec 2020 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      • Head of a multidisciplinary team consisting of highly skilled systems engineers leading more than 30 product development projects. • Responsible for hiring, training, and coaching employees for the team, monitoring and evaluating the team’s performance, and setting employee targets to achieve the company’s strategic goals. • Trained and coached systems engineers in the company by creating advanced training material, especially for developing requirements and managing the change, from interns to experienced ones. • Organized and facilitated the FMEA’s to define design and process risks and helped to identify the mitigation strategy through design to production. • Supported development teams to find creative and practical solutions for complex and difficult systems and ensured alignment with different projects and products to share lessons learned and uniform way of working. • Assessed design and manufacturing process changes as a part of the Configuration Control Board, regarding the cost, applicability, reliability and compliance with customer requirements with the CMII mindset. • Managed and led the architectural design and development processes and transition to production phase of several projects. • Performed and documented reliability and availability analyses for several projects. • Designed and documented the company’s systems engineering business process, reliability and safety management processes, and manufacturing readiness assessment process. • Participated in CMMI Dev. 1.3, ISO 9001, AS9100, AQAP 2210 appraisals.

    • Systems Engineer
      Oct 2013 - Nov 2020 · 7 yrs 2 mos

      • Led defence system projects for external customers one of them being an international NATO Project and several technology development projects sponsored by the board and national institutes. • Responsible for projects as part of the product development team performing systems engineering activities over the product lifecycle in accordance with ISO 15288, INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook, and the company’s business processes. • Elicited stakeholder needs and transformed them into requirements for the system developers using IBM DOORS. • Ensured commitment to the technical solution and design with the customer through design reviews. • Assessed the project deliverables to meet and be aligned with the customer requirements using 3DEXPERIENCE. • Prepared the technical volume of several product development project proposals for international customers. • Led and performed technical risk analysis using FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis and Root Cause Analysis. • Performed reliability and safety analysis of the products resulting in a paper presented at the Regional Applied Reliability and Durability Conference in 2019.

    • Research And Development Engineer
      Nov 2010 - Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      • Responsible for designing rocket motors using Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations and optimizing the design using ANSYS FLUENT and MINITAB. • Developed in-house software for better modeling the flow inside the rocket motors using FORTRAN and MATLAB. • Designed two small-scale test setups and performed the tests in collaboration with professors from universities. • Published and presented a paper named “Closed Bomb Applications of Ultrasonic Measurement Method for Propellant Burning Rate” at the National Aerospace Conference in 2012.

  • Engineering Intern at TEI - TUSAŞ Engine Industries, Inc.
    May 2010 - Aug 2010 · 4 mos

    Performed perfomance analyses of a turboshaft engine.