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Arlington, Va, Us

Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, helping customers build Stardog applications across multiple markets. Building teams that understand critical data challenges, and how pulling your data together into a single unified knowledge graph finally realizes the promise of re-usable data. Leading knowledge graph solutions and deployments from on premise data systems to cloud based deployments to AWS, Azure, and GCP. Program manager for Stardog Voicebox Karaoke, a hardware/software stack in rack for customers who wish to keep their data outside of public cloud hosting. Chief Information Security Officer, leading compliance activities.

Mclean, Va, Us

Lead all aspects of the Common Data Services Framework for the Army Software Engineering Center with responsibility for 2-5M/year of tasking for 10 software developers. Managed subcontract relationships and built key business partnerships in the Command and Control (C2) area and the development of Army SOA security. Provided key technical analysis on Army G1 and Veterans administration on benefits and retiring procedures, analyzing file based unstructured document architectures for $300M recompete of the VA’s integrated disability evaluation system (IDES) for General Lawrence. Coauthor of Army Information Architecture (AIA) and the Common Operating Environment (COE) for the data team content.Implemented innovative code generation technology, similar to Rails or Grails, for scaffolding REST and SOAP based web services. Introduced first Android based mobile application capability in only 3 days of development for Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+), a next generation Army logistics program. Introduced, lead, and trained teams on agile development methodology, and brought in new customers to SEC, showing casing a CMMI Level 3 compliant agile capability.Provided client-site leadership, on-boarding 20 staff into an emerging market at Aberdeen Proving Ground, with many repeat contract wins, and serving as lead proposal writer for the SSES NexGen contract. Provided SME and section leadership in many government proposals, with over $7B of value. Briefed new clients in the C2 space, authoring numerous white papers on C2 innovation, and created other marketing collateral to build business in the C4ISR space.

Morristown, New Jersey, Us

Avaya SIP Reference Architecture Lead for SIP Endpoint Management: defined web services and SIP services used by next generation phones for downloading profile data, high availability signaling, presence information. Created a Section 508 compliant web interface with multi-lingual multi-device capability, available in both English and Japanese. Lead a Scrum (agile) team of 8 developers. Championed the web services SDK, available on Avaya DevConnect for 3rd parties. Scaled the web services implementation from carrier scale (100s of thousands of phones) to branch office (20 phones), including leading embedded development on a flash-based low-memory system. Worked across organizations to create cross-product working groups, standardization efforts, and knowledge sharing sessions on web services.Data Distribution Services: Defined and developed robust data distribution capabilities for next generation communication systems, capable of upward, downward, and sideways replication across different schema versions, different database technologies, and persistence requirements. Supported geographic redundancy and other high availability architectures required for enterprise communication systems.Lead Developer for Avaya SIP Enablement Services: Lead the 5.0 release, which introduced data distribution, TLS oriented plug-and-play installation and bootstrap capability that I personally designed and implemented. Trained team as it grew from 8 developers to 40 developers with 20 more sustainment team members in India. Represented development on Avaya Japan Core team for SIP, working directly with business partners in Tokyo. Prior, participated on the very first prototype team that created the first SIP applications at Avaya, creating all web interfaces, databases, and web services for the solution.

Morristown, New Jersey, Us

Requirements engineering, authored requirement feature specification for Avaya products, with a focus on web based administration, installation, serviceability, and platform maintenance. Developed the installation and upgrade requirement feature specification, system maintenance requirements feature specification, and worked closely with the development teams on the test case and implementation of the requirements.

Morristown, New Jersey, Us

Authored and executed system test plans and developer integration test plans for Avaya Communication Manager and S8300 with G700 system, with a focus on web based administration, installation, firmware upgrades, and backup/restore functionality. Developed and delivered training material to development teams on Linux.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Intern for Lucent IP Exchange System, setup lab and internal websites for use by project.