Summary
Phillip Holtzman is a seasoned software engineer with over three decades of experience delivering safety-critical embedded systems for aerospace and transportation, currently contributing to Positive Train Control software at Alstom/GE. He has led full life-cycle development, verification, and DO-178B certification activities across avionics projects including TCAS, transponders, radios, and flight control systems, working in both C/C++ and legacy languages like Ada, Jovial, and assembler. Comfortable across host and target environments (Windows, VMS, UNIX; PowerPC, Motorola, Intel), he pairs deep low-level expertise with modern Agile practices and toolchains such as Green Hills and Wind River. Phillip brings practical quality-driven skills from Lean, Six Sigma, and DFMA training, enabling measurable process and reliability improvements. Outside of avionics he applies software architecture skills in Python and pursues hands-on hobbies like animating holiday light displays, hinting at a playful, systems-minded curiosity. Located in Melbourne, Florida, he combines proven technical leadership with a long track record of shipping certified, mission-critical code.
8 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Florida
Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Sciences, Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Sciences at University of Florida, Engineering College
Largo High School