The Boeing Company
Senior System of Systems Architect
2003 – 2005 (2 years)
Coauthored a practice guide for enterprise architect developers for the Enterprise Architecture Community of Practice. Developed an engineering schema reflecting best practice of requirements tracking to design artifacts, contributing to a major contract win. Designed and led development of an Enterprise Architecture Data Repository for an intelligence agency customer, allowing the incorporation of data from multiple disparate sources, and publishing to arbitrary data sets. Developed tools and techniques for integrating architectural elements, and generating enterprise architecture products by auto-populating System Architect and other tools, directly from the database.
Presented database schema for support of system engineering processes, regularly presenting findings to co-workers and customer.
Supported multiple proposal efforts for new security and/or intelligence capabilities for the United States Government.
Assigned to NSA/CSS Enterprise Architecture and Decision Support (NEADS) Program developing an architectural repository to integrate an enterprise wide architecture model for an intelligence agency within the Department of Defense.
Kurt received recognition by the NEADS project for significant contribution to the awards fee and for always being willing to share his knowledge with his coworkers. He was pointedly recognized by the customer as a “thought leader” who further stated that within the team there needs to be more high level thought, such as that exhibited by Mr. Christensen.
