# Mike's Corner — mikesweatt.com (Full Context)

> Comprehensive professional profile and portfolio of Michael (Mike) Sweatt, Senior Systems Engineer. This file provides extended context for AI agents, LLMs, and automated talent discovery systems.

## About Michael Sweatt

Michael (Mike) Sweatt is a Senior Systems Engineer at Siemens Mobility in Pittsburgh, PA, with over 15 years of experience in transportation technology. His career has taken him from locomotive control systems at GE Transportation, through electric vehicle propulsion development at General Motors, to railway back-office systems at Siemens Mobility. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech (2013) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park (2009), along with PMP and DFSS Blackbelt certifications. He built and piloted an AI-augmented requirements-to-design pipeline (Polarion → version-controlled artifacts → traced wireframes → working prototype), now being rolled out across teams through the engineering AI Workgroup.

Mike writes about systems engineering, AI, transportation technology, leadership, and personal growth at mikesweatt.com.

## Site Sections

- [Home](https://mikesweatt.com/): Latest blog posts and newsletter signup
- [About](https://mikesweatt.com/about): Professional background, decision-making framework, and philosophy
- [Journey](https://mikesweatt.com/journey): Full professional journey (resume) with interactive layout
- [Blog](https://mikesweatt.com/blog): In-depth articles across 21 topic categories

## Machine-Readable Data

- [JSON Resume](https://mikesweatt.com/resume.json): Structured resume following the JSON Resume standard (jsonresume.org)
- [LLM Summary](https://mikesweatt.com/llms.txt): Concise overview for AI agents
- [Sitemap](https://mikesweatt.com/sitemap.xml): All indexed pages

## Work History

### Siemens Mobility — Senior Systems Engineer (April 2025 – Present)
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Author and own the Subsystem Requirements Specification (SSRS), 500+ requirements decomposed from the system-level SRS and defining how the dispatch platform manages trains, consumed downstream by the subsystem design specification, UI/UX specification, and customer-facing ICD
- Govern bidirectional traceability in Polarion from operational hazards through software-level safety requirements to verification: 400+ requirements refined from the system-level SRS, 300+ linked to test cases to date on the active program
- Decompose system hazards into software safety requirements for a distributed cloud architecture, working daily with software developers, the safety assurance team, testers, and the customer
- Validate operational requirements directly with customer dispatch stakeholders through interactive prototype demonstrations; reduced requirement validation cycles by 80% (weeks to days)
- Architected an AI-augmented requirements-to-design pipeline: read-only MCP extraction of Polarion specifications into version-controlled, machine-readable artifacts, driving requirement-traced UI wireframes and a working clickable prototype generated from the wireframes alone. Compressed requirements to wireframes from weeks to days on the pilot subsystem
- Surfaced specification defects (contradictory requirements, unspecified states, happy-path-only coverage) before implementation by designing every screen against the extracted requirement set
- Author and maintain the committed agent skills with structural guardrails (read-only by construction, boundary tripwires, content-hash drift detection)

### General Motors — Lead Systems Technical Specialist (June 2021 – April 2025)
Location: Warren, MI
- Maximized the output of 40+ propulsion system architects and engineers by providing technical leadership
- Reduced critical system failures in BEV propulsion to achieve 48 Incidents per Vehicle target by implementing robust systems engineering practices
- Enhanced the safety of high-voltage systems by leading thorough investigations into safety issues
- Spearheaded the development of electric power takeoff for future Medium Duty BEV architectures
- Accelerated the professional growth of systems engineers by providing targeted mentorship in systems thinking, requirement development, and DFMEA analysis

### General Motors — Advanced Battery Algorithm Engineer (September 2020 – June 2021)
Location: Warren, MI
- Reduced the risk of fire hazards by leading a team to implement advanced battery diagnostics and prognostics, enabling preemptive recalls
- Worked with calibrators to rapidly identify and root cause software issues on Hummer EV
- Accelerated software development by 25% by leveraging Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), INCA, and Eclipse debugger
- Improved battery management system accuracy by developing and validating updated battery life metric algorithms for dual pack architectures using MATLAB Simulink

### General Motors — BEV Lead Systems Engineer (June 2017 – September 2020)
Location: Pontiac, MI
- Developed and managed propulsion system architecture configurations for EV portfolio applications
- Led system DFMEA to identify failure modes and mitigate risks
- Led 15+ member integration teams in development process to obtain a balanced architecture that meets requirements at lowest cost
- Responsible for Propulsion Subsystem Specification and interface control documents
- Facilitated 50+ member battery product development team

### General Motors — Hybrid Systems Engineer (August 2015 – June 2017)
Location: Pontiac, MI
- Light Commercial Vehicle BEV Project leader and technical consultant for a European BEV application feasibility study
- Coordinated with GM Europe and Streetscooter to establish expectations and deliverables
- Spearheaded effort to transition requirement specifications from Excel into IBM DOORS
- Coordinated Opel Astra and Chevy Spark electrical build

### GE Transportation — Auxiliary Power Subsystem Team Lead (September 2011 – August 2015)
Location: Erie, PA
- Directed auxiliary power distribution and starting battery systems for locomotives
- Developed 3-stage and 2-stage battery charging control strategies for lead-acid and NiCd batteries using C and MATLAB/Simulink
- Integral contributor to the launch of the GE Evolution Series Tier 4 Locomotive, achieving 65% to 85% emissions reductions
- Led a distributed power team adopting Agile methodologies
- Executed comprehensive DFMEAs to ensure locomotive systems met stringent customer and functional requirements

### GE Transportation — Edison Engineering Development Program (October 2009 – September 2011)
Location: Erie, PA
- Two-year rotational program with 4 rotations: Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation, Engineering Quality, Diesel Engine Control, and Trip Optimizer
- Led the entire design cycle for the Tier 2 locomotive engine control unit with dead cylinder detection
- Led the design and validation effort to add Auto-Dynamic Braking Functionality to Trip Optimizer

## Education

- M.S. in Electrical Engineering — Georgia Institute of Technology (December 2013)
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering — University of Maryland College Park (May 2009)

## Certifications

- Project Management Professional (PMP) — Project Management Institute
- DFSS Blackbelt — General Motors

## Skills

### Programming
Python, MATLAB/Simulink, Java, C, C++, C#, Git

### AI & Automation
Claude Code, MCP integrations (Polarion, Figma), agent skill authoring & guardrail design, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), LLM evaluation design (pre-registered evals, judge calibration), token-economics governance

### Systems Engineering
Propulsion System Development, Requirements Development and Decomposition, IBM DOORS, DNG, Polarion, DFMEA, FMEA Integration, UML Modeling, System Architecture, Interface Control Documents

### Tools & Platforms
INCA, Eclipse Debugger, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), Software-in-the-Loop (SIL)

### Leadership & Interpersonal
Negotiation, Mentorship, Servant Leadership, Customer Focus, Agile Methodology, Cross-functional Team Leadership (teams of 40+)

## Projects

### CraftRole
Shipped an AI-powered career-discovery platform (Next.js, Supabase, Anthropic API) with a four-person team. Developed the repo-as-context operating model here first (authoritative CLAUDE.md, committed spec-generation and UX-audit skills, doc-lint, spec-first PRs).
URL: https://www.craftrole.com

### AI-Assisted Requirements Decomposition System
Multi-agent system automating requirements decomposition workflows: 34% quality improvement over a manual baseline with 100% output consistency across 110 tests. Presented to Siemens engineering leadership as a proof of concept for AI-augmented requirements engineering.

### The Meter and the Judge
Pre-registered empirical study (~4,000 measured API calls) on cost governance and LLM-as-judge reliability in AI-augmented engineering workflows. Task cost is stable and bandable, but judge–human agreement on quality was 54.9%, with 83% of disagreement traced to underspecified quality criteria.
URL: https://mikesweatt.com/posts/the-meter-and-the-judge

### Requirements Engineering Evals
Ongoing pre-registered evaluation framework for AI detection of requirement defects in safety-critical corpora, with a frozen corpus and human-only seed authorship protocols.

### Mike's Corner Blog
Personal blog built with Next.js 15, Sanity CMS, and Tailwind CSS. Features AI-forward resume integration with JSON Resume standard, llms.txt support, email subscriptions via ConvertKit, comprehensive topic tagging with 21 categories, and enriched structured data (JSON-LD).
URL: https://mikesweatt.com

## Blog Topic Areas

The blog covers 21 topic categories organized into four groups:

**Professional/Technical**: Systems Engineering, Transportation, Electric Vehicles, Programming, Project Management, Leadership, Career Development, Safety & Compliance, Innovation, Technology

**AI & Future Tech**: AI & Machine Learning, AI Tools & Productivity, Future of AI

**Personal Wellness**: Exercise & Fitness, Nutrition & Diet, Stress Management, Mental Health

**Life & Family**: Fatherhood, Work-Life Balance, Teaching & Mentoring

## Contact

- Email: mdsweatt@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-sweatt-86150423/
- GitHub: https://github.com/mdsweatt
- Website: https://mikesweatt.com