W5 Technologies’ System Engineers
- Understand the end user/customer needs. “What is the true purpose of the system?”
- Understand the functioning of the entire system
- Perform activities from the perspective of the contract, never losing sight of the product’s total lifecycle
Expertise
- System architecture design, partitioning into CSCIs/CIs, interface definition, CONOPs generation, communications planning, link budgets
- Use case development, UML and SysML modeling, design narratives, formal requirements definition
- Design for robustness, redundancy and fault tolerance
- Network topology definition, design and architecture (enterprise, LAN, WAN)
- Database architectures for “big data”, database modeling, definition and selection of database appliances and software
- Information Assurance, key management, enclave definition, intrusion avoidance and detection
- Network management design, design for situational awareness, system and user trending and performance analysis
- Selection of COTS hardware and software and definition of custom devices
- System performance under load, latency, jitter, BER