Ried has served as a Senior Software Engineer with Wabtec Railway Electronics (WRE), where his duties included full-lifecycle design and development, with an emphasis on software architecture (especially state machine mechanics), safety-critical development aspects (RTCA/DO-178B), and low-level hardware/software interfacing (BSP/kernel development).
Prior to joining WRE, he spent over six (6) years as the Deputy Software Manager for Alenia North America (ANA), where responsibilities included assistance of the supervision of a 15-member avionics software team that develops the RTCA/DO-178B Level “A” (safety critical) operation flight program (OFP) for the C-27J platform. His duties include technical leadership, software architecture, direct software development (Ada, C/C++), and numerous other aspects of full-lifecycle development.
Prior to joining ANA, he spent over eight (8) years with Lockheed Martin, serving as both a Software Engineer (C-27J, F-22) and a Systems and Integration Engineer (C-130J). As a Systems Engineer on the C-130J Program, he was responsible for overall system design and integration of flight control, radar, and defensive systems. Upon receiving graduate-level Software Engineering Design Certificate during appointment to the prestigious Lockheed Software Engineering Retraining Program (SERP), Ried became full-time software engineer and subsequently performed Structural Test Coverage on the C-27J Program OFP before spending over five (5) years on the F-22 Program, where duties included requirements-based testing (RBT) of the safety-critical Avionics Diagnostic Health Monitor Manager (ADM) OFP on board the Common Integrated Processor (CIP), software development (Ada, C/C++) of the MOSA-based Enhanced CIP (ECIP) OFP, and many other aspects of the entire software lifecycle.
Education includes a BS degree with High Honors in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the University of Florida (U of F, 1994) and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech, 1998), which included a specialization in Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Digital Controls, and Digital Communications.
Ried has professional expertise in the areas of safety critical avionics software development, with particular focus on RTCA/DO-178B Level “A” aspects and processes. Ried has been part of at least four (4) teams that eventually acquired, or are actively seeking, FAA certification for the developed platform/product.