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Reston, Va, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Falls Church, Va, Us

Developed on and later led a team of engineers in developing and successfully fielding a Coast Guard Vessel Traffic System (CGVTS) in several major Coast Guard ports. For the final few years of the project, was responsible for leading a team to complete the development and fielding of our product. Responsibilities included leading technical design and development, performing employee reviews and evaluations, ensuring build deadlines were met, and frequent customer interaction for build progress and requirements analysis, Traveled and worked on-site with customers as needed for site-specific troubleshooting and eventual fielding. Championed new development efforts by gaining approval from management and customers, then working with a team of developers to design and implement the changes. Even though funding diminished and the team was cut in half the final year of the contract, CGVTS was still completed and fielded on schedule, with high customer satisfaction.CGVTS is a Coast Guard software application for monitoring and managing vessel traffic in a port, and was developed to replace an outdated system in use at Coast Guard facilities in San Francisco and Seattle. CGVTS utilizes near-real time sensor data (AIS and live radar) to display live tracks on the screen, and allows Coast Guard operators to monitor tracks, manage transit and vessel information, and perform various task in support of this. This software is built on a client/server architecture utilizing Java and C/C++ code on a Solaris 10 platform, and is supported by the DOD standard “Common Operating Environment” (COE). CGVTS interfaces with an Oracle 11g database server on a Windows XP platform for persistent data. Software unit testing is done using JUnit, with Java Swing interfaces tested using “FEST” and JFCUnit. Tools utilized in development environment include: Eclipse IDE, Ant, Subversion (SVN) and Trac for bug-tracking and project management.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Involved in two separate research and development efforts in support of possible business opportunities. Using webMethods (an enterprise-wide business process management tool), developed a proof of concept system to accept e-business message traffic, “map” it to an appropriate format, and deliver the message to its recipient. Also worked on a proof of concept system using BEA’s WebLogic application server to receive e-business messages, map them to another format using third party mapping software, and deliver them to the appropriate recipient via J2EE web services. Written in Java on a Windows NT platform.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Participated in the development of the “Program Budget Information System” (PBIS), a budgeting system designed for US Marine Corps offices at the Pentagon. Worked with a distributed team to design and develop web application software on Windows clients using Java, Java Server Pages (JSP) and JavaScript, utilizing an Apache Tomcat server and a Model-View-Controller (MVC) infrastructure.

Responsible for design and development of complex software components on the Defense Electronic Business Exchange system (later renamed Global Exchange Service – GEX). The DEBX system acted as a “message processor” and delivery system, interfacing on a system level with a wide variety of protocols for data delivery (FTP/SSH/SMTP/..), and performing extensive “mapping” of various data types using third-party software libraries. Development environment involved UNIX system-level C programming as well as Motif windows programming on an HP-UX 10.x environment. Later work also involved XML/XSLT processing and development.

Reston, Va, Us

Programmer/analyst and system administrator for system to collect and analyze under-water acoustic data used for anti-submarine warfare.