{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Michael Sweatt", "label": "Senior Systems Engineer", "email": "mdsweatt@gmail.com", "url": "https://mikesweatt.com", "summary": "Requirements engineering and system safety leader with experience on certified, safety-critical platforms across rail, automotive, and locomotive domains. Currently lead requirements engineering for the rail industry's first cloud-based safety-critical train dispatch platform, authoring and governing a 500+ requirement subsystem specification with lifecycle traceability in Polarion. Prior decade at GM spanning ISO 26262 hazard analysis, FTA/SEFA, DFMEA, and fail-operational design across the BEV propulsion portfolio. Published empirical researcher on AI evaluation reliability in engineering workflows. Proven leading cross-functional teams of 30–50 engineers.", "location": { "city": "Pittsburgh", "region": "PA", "countryCode": "US" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "michael-sweatt", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-sweatt-86150423/" }, { "network": "GitHub", "username": "mdsweatt", "url": "https://github.com/mdsweatt" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "Siemens Mobility", "position": "Senior Systems Engineer", "location": "Pittsburgh, PA", "url": "https://www.siemens.com/mobility", "startDate": "2025-04", "summary": "Requirements engineering lead for a cloud-based, safety-critical train dispatch platform — the first migration of safety-critical rail dispatch to the cloud — governed by BS EN 62267 (safeguards for driverless and unattended train operation) and GERT8000.", "highlights": [ "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)", "Design and govern AI-augmented requirements workflows (Claude Code, MCP-integrated Polarion auditing) under documented operational rules and evaluation criteria; reduced prototype development time by 95% (months to days)" ] }, { "name": "General Motors", "position": "Lead Systems Technical Specialist", "location": "Warren, MI", "url": "https://www.gm.com", "startDate": "2021-06", "endDate": "2025-04", "summary": "Provided technical leadership to 40+ propulsion system architects and engineers across GM's BEV portfolio (Cadillac Lyriq, Optiq, Silverado EV, Hummer EV).", "highlights": [ "Conducted hazard analyses, Fault Tree Analyses (FTA), and Single Element Failure Analyses (SEFA) feeding SFMEAs and system safety assessments for high-voltage propulsion under ISO 26262", "Authored and decomposed safety requirements for fail-operational and degraded-mode strategies: single-motor limp-home for dual-motor configurations, half-pack operation under battery cell faults, and active discharge (HV bus below 60 V within 300 ms of key-off)", "Led cross-functional NACS charging diagnostic investigation (20+ SMEs, 8-week sprint) to root cause of fleet-wide charging failures traced to a stale legacy requirement, avoiding a potential recall across four nameplates; block and sequence diagrams adopted as standard DFMEA artifacts", "Reduced critical system failures in BEV propulsion to the 48 IPTV target through structured DFMEA methodology; mentored systems engineers in requirements development and DFMEA analysis" ] }, { "name": "General Motors", "position": "Advanced Battery Algorithm Engineer", "location": "Warren, MI", "url": "https://www.gm.com", "startDate": "2020-09", "endDate": "2021-06", "summary": "Led team implementing battery diagnostics and prognostics enabling preemptive recalls of vehicles with potential fire hazards.", "highlights": [ "Developed and validated battery life metric algorithms for dual-pack architectures in MATLAB/Simulink", "Accelerated software development 25% via SIL methodology" ] }, { "name": "General Motors", "position": "BEV Lead Systems Engineer", "location": "Pontiac, MI", "url": "https://www.gm.com", "startDate": "2017-06", "endDate": "2020-09", "summary": "Authored Propulsion Subsystem Specifications and interface control documents for the EV portfolio.", "highlights": [ "Led 15+ member integration teams and 50+ member product development forums", "Drove design decisions through system DFMEAs and program reviews" ] }, { "name": "General Motors", "position": "Hybrid Systems Engineer", "location": "Pontiac, MI", "url": "https://www.gm.com", "startDate": "2015-08", "endDate": "2017-06", "summary": "Built foundational requirements-at-scale infrastructure for GM propulsion programs.", "highlights": [ "Spearheaded migration of requirement specifications from Excel to IBM DOORS, designing a requirements management process adopted by subsequent propulsion programs", "Led European BEV feasibility study coordinating GM Europe and Streetscooter third-party vehicle integration" ] }, { "name": "GE Transportation", "position": "Auxiliary Power Subsystem Team Lead", "location": "Erie, PA", "url": "https://www.wabteccorp.com", "startDate": "2011-09", "endDate": "2015-08", "summary": "Directed auxiliary power distribution and battery charging systems for locomotives.", "highlights": [ "Integral contributor to the GE Evolution Series Tier 4 launch (65–85% emissions reduction)", "Developed charging control strategies in C and MATLAB/Simulink" ] }, { "name": "GE Transportation", "position": "Edison Engineering Development Program", "location": "Erie, PA", "url": "https://www.wabteccorp.com", "startDate": "2009-10", "endDate": "2011-09", "summary": "Competitive two-year rotational program: four engineering assignments plus graduate coursework applied toward M.S. at Georgia Tech.", "highlights": [ "Completed 4 rotations across Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation, Engineering Quality, Diesel Engine Control, and Trip Optimizer" ] } ], "publications": [ { "name": "The Meter and the Judge", "publisher": "Self-published (pre-registered)", "releaseDate": "2026", "url": "https://mikesweatt.com/posts/the-meter-and-the-judge", "summary": "Pre-registered empirical study (~4,000 measured API calls) on cost governance and LLM-as-judge reliability in AI-augmented engineering workflows. Key finding: task cost is stable and bandable, but judge–human agreement on quality was 54.9%, with 83% of disagreement traced to underspecified quality criteria — directly relevant to ML evaluation V&V and safety argumentation." }, { "name": "AI-Assisted Requirements Decomposition System", "publisher": "Proof of concept — presented to Siemens engineering leadership", "releaseDate": "2026", "summary": "Multi-agent system automating requirements decomposition workflows, achieving 34% quality improvement over manual baseline with 100% output consistency across 110 tests." }, { "name": "Requirements Engineering Evals", "publisher": "In progress", "releaseDate": "2026", "summary": "Ongoing pre-registered evaluation framework for AI detection of requirement defects in safety-critical corpora, with frozen corpus and human-only seed authorship protocols." } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "url": "https://www.gatech.edu", "area": "Electrical Engineering", "studyType": "Master of Science", "endDate": "2013-12" }, { "institution": "University of Maryland College Park", "url": "https://www.umd.edu", "area": "Electrical Engineering", "studyType": "Bachelor of Science", "endDate": "2009-05" } ], "certificates": [ { "name": "Project Management Professional (PMP)", "issuer": "Project Management Institute" }, { "name": "DFSS Black Belt", "issuer": "General Motors" }, { "name": "Deep Learning Specialization", "issuer": "Stanford University" }, { "name": "Machine Learning Specialization", "issuer": "Stanford University" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Requirements Engineering", "keywords": [ "Requirements authorship & decomposition at scale (system → subsystem → software)", "Safety requirements traceability", "Polarion (daily, MCP-integrated)", "IBM DOORS/DNG", "Enterprise Architect", "UML/SysML", "Requirements process design" ] }, { "name": "Functional Safety", "keywords": [ "ISO 26262 (Parts 3–6: HARA-adjacent hazard analysis, FSR/TSR decomposition, software safety requirements)", "BS EN 62267", "GERT8000", "FTA", "SEFA/SFMEA", "DFMEA", "Fail-operational & degraded-mode design" ] }, { "name": "AI-Augmented Engineering", "keywords": [ "Claude Code", "MCP integrations", "RAG architectures", "LLM evaluation design (pre-registered evals, judge calibration)", "Token-economics governance", "Prompt engineering" ] }, { "name": "Languages & Tools", "keywords": [ "Python", "MATLAB/Simulink", "C/C++ (familiar)", "Git", "Docker", "Linux", "SIL/HIL testing", "CI/CD" ] } ], "projects": [ { "name": "CraftRole", "description": "AI-accelerated product built from concept to deployment; documented end-to-end process as a replicable operating procedure for AI-accelerated product development.", "url": "https://www.craftrole.com", "keywords": ["Next.js", "Supabase", "Vercel", "Claude Code"] } ], "meta": { "canonical": "https://mikesweatt.com/resume.json", "version": "v1.2.0", "lastModified": "2026-08-10" } }