Tiffany Berry
(425) 283-2503

Education

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Ca; September 1996 – June 2000.

Bachelor of Science in Physics with a strong background in physical chemistry, computer science and economics.
Course work includes mathematics through Fourier analysis; two years of chemistry; four years of physics; six semesters of physics laboratory; three semesters of programming; one semester of systems engineering; twelve semesters of humanities and arts, with a concentration in economics.
Research includes summer work listed below and nine months during the school year investigating giant magneto resistance and the effects of magnetic fields on low temperature, specially designed semiconductor films.
Senior thesis and presentation: “Parasitic Current on Cobalt/Silicon Structured Samples”.

Yoga Teacher Training, Various; January 2008 – Present

Yoga Works Yoga Teacher Training, Seattle, Wa; January 2008 – June 2008: 200-Hr Training Certification
Yoga Barn: Low Back Therapy Teacher Training, Issaquah, Wa; November 2008: 45-Hr Continuing Education

San Jose City College, San Jose, Ca; 1990-1996.

Candidate for an Associate of Arts in Math.

Work Experience (References available upon request.)
The Boeing Company, Seal Beach & Huntington Beach, Ca; Kent, Wa; June 2000 – Present.
Software/Systems Engineer

IDS – P-8A and P8-I Mission System Software; August 2008 – Present
Project engineering/technical coordination to support CMMI appraisal preparation and conduct. Lead effort to update and implement software processes for a new program. Represent program IPT at organization process council. Manage process improvement and release.

IDS – P-8A Mission System Integration and Test, System Test; January 2008 – July 2008
Supported integrations of flight-ready hardware and software, test procedure development, and execution of startup/shutdown for requirements sell-off in a lab environment. Particular attention was given to sequencing, timing, power, and reliability concerns. This included a significant coordination role to address system design issues and concerns over the system impact of late design changes.

IDS – P-8A Mission System Software Employee Involvement; January 2007 – December 2007 (Concurrent with below)
Initiated and led an employee involvement team bringing together the ten groups of the Mission Systems Software IPT for the P8-A program. The team started with an internal survey to identify IPT specific issues, analyzed the results, and created action plans for the team and management to address the issues identified.

IDS – P-8A Missions Systems Software Real Time Simulation; October 2005 – December 2007
Simulation software development, supporting algorithm identification, design, implementation, and test for internal and external needs. Subsequent roles included software review board support and process improvement. Led a cross IPT team to define requirements, refine architecture, schedule, implement, test, and deliver a simulation suite to support system test

Systems Engineering and Assessment Employee Involvement (EI); September 2000 – September 2005 (Concurrent with all below)
Assisting a director-level functional manager to develop and work within budget constraints, improve communication and team building at all levels, increase partnership with academia, assisting EI activities on programs, and maturing the team itself. Became co-lead in January 2004. The Team was invited to present to an executive training class and awarded the Air Force Systems EI Team of the Year 2nd Place Award in January 2005.

IDS – Future Combat Systems; April 2004 – September 2005
Reviewing systems and subsystem level requirements for testability, representing internal work group at external meetings, supporting customer demonstrations, developing and implementing internal SCM and PR process consistent with program processes. Team lead for software test document writing effort (includes test procedures, plan mapping, requirements tracing, and review), and supporting customer installation of software.

Phantom Works – Space Based Space Surveillance Proposal; June 2003 – Oct 2003
Proposal development, focusing on DoDAF support, requirements (development, analysis, management, and verification), and review of final draft of submitted proposal. Additional responsibilities include design and management of a web-based file sharing environment and an introduction to performance analysis.

Phantom Works – Strategic Development and Analysis – SNAPM, SkyTrak, Sentry; June 2000 – March 2004
Designing, implementing and analyzing algorithms for pre-existing software and new utilities for pre-existing software; adding, testing, and documenting new features; training into the use of Kalman filters in simulations; integration and verification of release versions of software; problem report resolution.

Momentum Yoga, Newcastle, Wa; June 2008 – Present
Owner, Teacher

Evening and weekend classes, workshops and private instructions in hatha and vinyasa yoga asana.

Kofax Image Products, Irvine, Ca., May-August 1998, January 1999, May-August 1999.
Software Quality Assurance Intern.

Performing end to end ad-hoc, scenario, and feature testing of pre-release software, interfacing with software developers solve bugs, and testing of modules to interface with other software to verify for release. Reviewing documentation and prepared in-house project reports.

Development Office of Harvey Mudd College – Claremont, Ca, Feb. 1997 – May 2000.
Phonathon Manager.

Responsibilities include reaching fund raising goals of the HMC Alumni Fund, duties include operation and organization of the program, representing the program to the Alumni Board of Governors. Promoted to manager summer 1997.

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Ca, May 1997 – January 1998.

Math Department – Student Worker (May 1997-Jan. 1998)
Assisting writing and proofing of a differential equations textbook for publication with multi-media teaching supplement.

Upward Bound – Tutor (Feb. 1997 – Dec. 1997)
Tutoring local high school students in math and science, as well as helping with SAT preparation

Biology and Physics Departments – Student Research (May 1997 – Aug. 1997)
Research involving Arabidopsis thaliana, implementing an optical coherence microscope, to understand the growth of the shoot apical meristem. Also included nutrient dependent and mutant growth experiments.

Computer Experience
Operating Systems: MS Windows, UNIX/LINUX (primarily RedHat and SGI), OS X, DOS.
Programming: Java, C++, HTML, and ClearCase
Tools: ClearQuest, Microsoft Office, Eclipse, JTest, DOORS, Rose, OpenOffice, Photoshop, etc.

Organizations
Harvey Mudd College Alumni Board of Governors (2001-2007)
Yoga Works Teacher Training Alumni Association

Awards
Appreciation Award from the Harvey Mudd College Alumni Association, Pride@Boeing Awards for project and functional accomplishments, Orange County Engineering Council Young Engineer Award 2005, Air Force Systems Employee Involvement Team of the Year Second Place Award 2005, Margaret and Alex Oser Endowed Scholarship, National Merit Commended Scholar, National Physics Olympiad Medal

Interests
Yoga, hiking/backpacking, photography, rock-climbing, running, cooking, painting, reading, swimming, kayaking.