Curriculum Vitae

Matthew Collaro. Systems engineer working across aerospace, defense, and automotive, currently building an AI engineering platform alongside a senior systems role.

Experience

Senior Systems Engineer, Lucid Motors

November 2025 to present

• Cross-domain integration of infotainment and driver feedback systems on autonomy-enabled vehicle builds, resolving notification timing, media routing, and vehicle state synchronization defects affecting feature readiness.
• MBSE and SysML behavioral models of vehicle audio architectures and HMI interaction flows, clarifying signal dependencies and functional ownership within infotainment controllers.
• Platform bring-up and integration readiness across Cosmos midsize architecture variants and Lucid Gravity.

Platform Systems Architect, Vector Stream Systems LLC

October 2024 to present

Patent-pending Autonomous Requirements Traceability and Engineering Synchronization System, the basis for MBE3Dstudio: an AI assisted systems engineering platform that keeps requirements, model context, semantic relationships, and system constraints synchronized across MBSE workflows.

• Designed a hybrid reasoning architecture combining ontology modeling with accessible graph structures to support traceable review and decision workflows.
• Explored Model Context Protocol coordination patterns so AI-assisted tools and agents access structured, versioned, and governed system context through controlled interfaces rather than open-ended access.
• Built CLI, API, and data-ingestion workflows for defining system entities, normalizing engineering artifacts, querying related context, traversing traceability relationships, and validating constraints during model development.
• Prototyped integrations across CAD, CAE, PLM, MBSE, and requirements-management toolchains including CATIA, Ansys, MATLAB, Cameo, DOORS, JAMA, SysML, UML, and XMI ingestion.
• Investigated machine-learning methods for retrieving related designs, grounding natural-language engineering queries in semantic context, and detecting patterns across graph-based engineering datasets.
• Engineered prototype infrastructure in Rust, React, Python, Docker, and Linux with CI/CD workflows supporting reproducible development and testing.

Lead Model Based Systems Engineer, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

September 2022 to November 2024

• Created model-based Interface Control Diagrams identifying networked system vulnerabilities in support of aircraft cybersecurity threat analysis.
• Authored the Systems Engineering Management Plan for a next-generation long-range aircraft program, defining modeling governance and development workflows.
• Developed model-based safety and hazard assessment tooling integrated into engineering workflows for certification-oriented analysis.
• Conceptualized distributed aircraft network architecture enhancements across 777 and 787 platforms for safety, redundancy, and cyber resilience.
• Led a community of practice of more than 100 engineers advancing MBSE adoption within Cabin and Network Systems.

Systems Engineer, Interface Design and MBSE, Space Systems Prime (Defense)

January 2022 to August 2022

• Restored and expanded degraded system architecture models in Cameo, improving traceability, usability, and stakeholder confidence in model-driven artifacts.

Systems Engineering Consultant, Deloitte Government and Public Services

August 2021 to January 2022

• Developed MBSE architecture representations for advanced naval concept systems using OOSEM methodologies.

Systems Engineer, Defense Prime

June 2020 to July 2021

• Developed SysML and DoDAF architecture models enabling integration planning, verification alignment, and configuration-controlled technical communication.
• Prepared technical data packages and coordinated subsystem integration instructions with software, electrical, and test teams.

Manufacturing Engineer, Parker Hannifin Aerospace

January 2019 to May 2020

• Created repair and overhaul work instructions for electro-mechanical flight control actuation systems supporting military aircraft sustainment.
• Coordinated implementation of Solumina MRO process planning software, improving production workflow visibility.
• Replaced legacy analog hydraulic test units with digital data acquisition systems, improving measurement repeatability and diagnostic capability.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida

Georgia Tech SysML 101/201 MBSE Certificate, plus Software Architecture and Computer Networks coursework

Skills

Software and data. Python, Rust, React, structured dataset normalization, directed graph modeling, TensorFlow time-series forecasting.

AI and automation. LLM integration, Model Context Protocol, ontology and graph reasoning, constraint validation, data-ingestion pipelines.

Infrastructure. Linux system configuration, Docker, reverse proxy networking, secure remote access, CI/CD automation.

Systems engineering. MBSE, SysML behavioral and interface modeling, requirements traceability, DoDAF and UAF viewpoints, UML.

Tooling. Cameo and MagicDraw, DOORS, JAMA, Figma, JIRA and Confluence, Teamcenter, Enovia, Windchill, Solumina.