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    "name": "Michael Sweatt",
    "label": "Senior Systems Engineer | Requirements Engineering & System Safety Assurance | Safety-Critical Software Platforms",
    "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. 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. Proven leading cross-functional teams of 30–50 engineers.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Pittsburgh",
      "region": "PA",
      "countryCode": "US"
    },
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        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "michael-sweatt",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-sweatt-86150423/"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "mdsweatt",
        "url": "https://github.com/mdsweatt"
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  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Siemens Mobility",
      "position": "Senior Systems Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.siemens.com/mobility",
      "location": "Pittsburgh, PA",
      "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)",
        "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)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "General Motors",
      "position": "Lead Systems Technical Specialist",
      "url": "https://www.gm.com",
      "location": "Warren, MI",
      "startDate": "2021-06",
      "endDate": "2025-04",
      "summary": "Technical leadership across GM's BEV propulsion portfolio with a focus on functional safety and requirements governance.",
      "highlights": [
        "Provided technical leadership to 40+ propulsion system architects and engineers across GM's BEV portfolio (Cadillac Lyriq, Optiq, Silverado EV, Hummer EV)",
        "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",
      "url": "https://www.gm.com",
      "location": "Warren, MI",
      "startDate": "2020-09",
      "endDate": "2021-06",
      "summary": "Battery diagnostics and prognostics for electric vehicle safety.",
      "highlights": [
        "Led team implementing battery diagnostics and prognostics enabling preemptive recalls of vehicles with potential fire hazards",
        "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",
      "url": "https://www.gm.com",
      "location": "Pontiac, MI",
      "startDate": "2017-06",
      "endDate": "2020-09",
      "summary": "Propulsion system architecture and requirements ownership for the EV portfolio.",
      "highlights": [
        "Authored Propulsion Subsystem Specifications and interface control documents for the EV portfolio",
        "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",
      "url": "https://www.gm.com",
      "location": "Pontiac, MI",
      "startDate": "2015-08",
      "endDate": "2017-06",
      "summary": "Requirements infrastructure and European BEV feasibility.",
      "highlights": [
        "Spearheaded migration of requirement specifications from Excel to IBM DOORS, designing a requirements management process adopted by subsequent propulsion programs — foundational requirements-at-scale infrastructure work",
        "Led European BEV feasibility study coordinating GM Europe and Streetscooter third-party vehicle integration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "GE Transportation",
      "position": "Auxiliary Power Subsystem Team Lead",
      "url": "https://www.wabteccorp.com",
      "location": "Erie, PA",
      "startDate": "2011-09",
      "endDate": "2015-08",
      "summary": "Auxiliary power distribution and battery charging systems for locomotives.",
      "highlights": [
        "Integral contributor to GE Evolution Series Tier 4 launch (65-85% emissions reduction)",
        "Developed charging control strategies for lead-acid and NiCd batteries in C and MATLAB/Simulink",
        "Executed comprehensive DFMEAs against stringent customer and functional requirements"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "GE Transportation",
      "position": "Edison Engineering Development Program",
      "url": "https://www.wabteccorp.com",
      "location": "Erie, PA",
      "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": [
        "Rotations across Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation, Engineering Quality, Diesel Engine Control, and Trip Optimizer",
        "Led full design cycle for Tier 2 locomotive engine control unit with dead cylinder detection"
      ]
    }
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  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "The Meter and the Judge",
      "publisher": "mikescorner.io (pre-registered study, public repository)",
      "releaseDate": "2026-07-08",
      "url": "https://www.mikescorner.io/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."
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "CraftRole",
      "description": "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",
      "keywords": [
        "Next.js",
        "Supabase",
        "Anthropic API",
        "Claude Code",
        "Vercel"
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    },
    {
      "name": "AI-Assisted Requirements Decomposition System",
      "description": "Multi-agent system automating requirements decomposition workflows: 34% quality improvement over manual baseline with 100% output consistency across 110 tests. Presented to Siemens engineering leadership as proof of concept for AI-augmented requirements engineering.",
      "keywords": [
        "AI Agents",
        "Requirements Engineering",
        "Evaluation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Requirements Engineering Evals",
      "description": "Ongoing pre-registered evaluation framework for AI detection of requirement defects in safety-critical corpora, with frozen corpus and human-only seed authorship protocols.",
      "keywords": [
        "LLM Evaluation",
        "Safety-Critical",
        "Pre-registration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mike's Corner Blog",
      "description": "Personal blog built with Next.js 15, Sanity CMS, and Tailwind CSS.",
      "url": "https://mikesweatt.com",
      "keywords": [
        "Next.js",
        "TypeScript",
        "Sanity CMS",
        "Tailwind CSS",
        "Vercel"
      ]
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      "name": "Requirements Engineering",
      "keywords": [
        "Requirements authorship & decomposition at scale (system → subsystem → software)",
        "Safety requirements traceability",
        "Polarion (daily, MCP-integrated)",
        "IBM DOORS/DNG",
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        "UML/SysML",
        "Requirements process design"
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      "name": "Functional Safety",
      "keywords": [
        "ISO 26262 (Parts 3-6: hazard analysis, FSR/TSR decomposition, software safety requirements)",
        "BS EN 62267",
        "GERT8000",
        "FTA",
        "SEFA/SFMEA",
        "DFMEA",
        "Fail-operational & degraded-mode design"
      ]
    },
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      "name": "AI-Augmented Engineering",
      "keywords": [
        "Claude Code",
        "MCP integrations (Polarion, Figma)",
        "Agent skill authoring & guardrail design",
        "RAG architectures",
        "LLM evaluation design (pre-registered evals, judge calibration)",
        "Token-economics governance",
        "Prompt engineering"
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      "name": "Languages & Tools",
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        "Python",
        "MATLAB/Simulink",
        "C/C++ (familiar)",
        "Git",
        "Docker",
        "Linux",
        "SIL/HIL testing",
        "CI/CD"
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    {
      "name": "Project Management Professional (PMP)",
      "issuer": "Project Management Institute"
    },
    {
      "name": "DFSS Black Belt",
      "issuer": "General Motors"
    },
    {
      "name": "Deep Learning Specialization",
      "issuer": "Stanford / DeepLearning.AI"
    },
    {
      "name": "Machine Learning Specialization",
      "issuer": "Stanford / DeepLearning.AI"
    }
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  "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"
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