[January 2000 - May 2004]Founded a website devoted to the collection and dissemination of Open Source Intelligence materials with an archive of over 22,000 news articles and over 1,000 documents as well as a mailing list with over 2,200 membersWebsite can be viewed via Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org/web/20071011013010/http://www.intellnet.org/)[March 2014 - Present]Resurrected IntellNet to begin experimenting with and learning how to use AWS cloud services to process news articles and extract geopolitical relationships from themMigrated the Intellnet database from MySQL v3.23 data files to PostgreSQL v9.x using AWS RDSDeployed the Intellnet website to Elastic BeanstalkDeveloped multiple Lambda functions designed to process the GDELT feed, download the news articles cited by GDELT, and then extract, summarize, archive and ingest into Elasticsearch the plain-text from the HTMLDeployed Lambda functions, along with additional AWS resources via CodeStar → CodeCommit → CodePipeline → CodeBuild → CloudformationModified Tiny Tiny RSS server (written in PHP) to use RDS and authenticate via IAM role instead of a standard MySQL installation

Tech lead for a team of nine (9) Software Engineers with expertise including front-end, back-end and mobile application developmentLed technical refinement sessions with development team to identify full-stack requirements, including API endpoints, access patterns, and data modelingDesigned, architected and led the implementation of a new cloud-native ingest and processing platform, incorporating best practices in resiliency and high-availability, security and engineering flexibilityDesigned and developed a cloud-native processing pipeline designed to convert JSON to GeoJSON to MapBox vector tiles using AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)Implemented CloudFormation and Serverless Application Model (SAM) within multiple existing and new codebases consisting of API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, ECR, and Fargate servicesCollaborated with Sales, and Customer Success Managers to identify and implement platform metrics most relevant to User Experience, and Value Proposition necessary to justify customer renewalsDefined and helped implement an internal health metrics dashboard geared towards non-technical users, that describes internal failures and their impact on user experience

Software Engineer on the DIA Enterprise Application Architecture Delivery (EAADS) program.Worked on a team of 12 engineers, designers and architects supporting the development of a cloud-based application that monitors and tracks application migrations from on-premise to cloud infrastructureDeveloped primarily in Java using Spring, and AWS Java SDK’sParticipated in an Agile development environment with daily scrum standups, 2 week sprints and regular releasesLed the development of an epic-level module that triggers Notifcationstyle health checks using Amazon SQS to decouple various components of the applicationProvided support in troubleshooting application, and data errors, latency issues and infrastructure problems in a production environmentDeveloped new and improved upon existing unit tests by introducing a mocking frameworkDesigned and developed core components and external applications to stream, collect and analyze application-level metrics using Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS with the goal of improving performance

Participated in the development of an analytic pipeline to enrich streams of free text with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and geolocation tools with the aim of better understanding spatial and temporal trends and relationships represented within the textDeveloped the back-end processing pipeline for ProximityArchitected hardware, software and network layers for Proximity using AWS Cloud services (Elastic Load Balancer, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, Kinesis, RDS and S3) Automated deployments of various remote services using shell scripts, Docker containers and Amazon Machine ImagesImplemented REST endpoints within Proximity using Java EE and deployed the ingest pipeline into Wildfly Application ServerImplemented NLP and geocoding as remote RESTful services to provide Named Entity Recognition and geolocation extractionIntegrated a graph database into Proximity as a remote service to map the relationships inherent within TwitterImplemented an authentication mechanism for Proximity using OAuth2 management servicesDeveloped a JSF-based web-application with RDS and Hibernate to allow users to score the precision and recall of Proximity's pipelineDeveloped Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL schemas to model the Twitter API and GDELT event modelsImplemented Stripe credit card processing using AWS Lambda for serverless functionality

Managed all aspects of the station (finance, operations, compliance, personnel, sales) Led the hiring effort for all positions (after 100% turnover) in order to manage both current and new business opportunities Created and hired for warehousing and logistics positions for new retail distribution accounts Implemented and executed warehousing, inventory management and distribution operations for fashion retailers Oversaw development of clients and operations that constituted new capabilities for the organization within the Defense & Government logistics vertical, including movement of weapons and munitions by chartered aircraft and ocean vessels in support of global Foreign Military Sales, United Nations operations in Afghanistan and logistics requirements under the "Foreign Threat Systems" program Credited with sales and operations of more than $1.3 million ($120,000 GP) in new business within a 1 year time period Responsible for proposal development that resulted in awards from two foreign military commissions for freight forwarding services Consulted with customers on DDTC, Department of Commerce, and OFAC export compliance regulations

Helped develop Virginia Kinetix office from the ground-up Developed business, finance and compliance procedures in accordance with federal regulations (e.g. DDTC, IATA, FMC, TSA, FMCSA) Coordinated with external legal counsel in order to ensure our compliance with all relevant Federal agencies and their regulations Provided guidance and instruction to other coordinators on all matters related to compliance with Federal export regulations Directly managed the day-to-day operations of the Project Cargo department Helped lead the development of new office and warehouse space for Kinetix Managed a $3.5 million logistics project transporting small arms and non-standard ammunition into and within Iraq in support of U.S. Forces - Iraq (USF-I) Foreign Military Sales Maintained direct engagement with clients in order to identify and pursue new business opportunities Established and maintained significant relationships with key vendors

Managed the overall operations of the Project Cargo department with 7 Coordinators, earning $21 million in annual sales Developed procedures to comply with regulations enforced by the Transportation Security Administration, Customs & Border Protection and Directorate of Defense Trade Controls Directed the shipping logistics for non-standard ammunition from eastern European locations to Kabul, Afghanistan via chartered aircraft in support of U.S. Government funded Foreign Military Sales Negotiated purchase orders, contracts and order agreements with suppliers and clients successfully supporting high-value business transactions Participated in the proposal development of a $10 million award for transportation of non-standard ammunition to Afghanistan in support of US Foreign Military Sales Traveled for multiple deployments to provide on-the-ground project coordination in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Mexico Managed financial and legal liability concerns for the Project Cargo department Maintained compliance with federal export regulations (EAR, ITAR, TSA, OFAC, Treasury) Communicated directly with foreign ministries and deployed U.S.State Department and military personnel

Wrote sections of an open source based manual detailing historical Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TT&P) employed by terrorist organizations; financing (via money laundering, charitable donations, hawala networks, coupon scams and smuggling), personal and operational security (using web based email and simple encryption capable of defeating basic surveillance), recruitment from mosques, prisons and gangs and pre-attack surveillance Wrote briefings on the above tactics using open source information from previous attacks, court documents and newspaper reports from around the world Maintained a daily terrorism update for distribution to a DHS/ODP email list Provided open source presentations on the above tactics to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (including SES level personnel), the Fairfax County Criminal Intelligence Unit and internal audiences at various levels