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Perry Hall, MD, US

Calverton, MD, US

Reston, VA, US

• Project Management and Operations
• Manage the deployment, development, monitoring, maintenance, upgrading, and support of legacy products and company hardware and software platforms
• Conduct HR tasks, including identification of manning and hiring needs, planning staff development, interviewing candidates, presentation of onboarding training, assigning new staff job tasking and duties, and annual.
• Research, analyze, identify solutions, and resolve IT-related issues encountered by direct reports
• Report project status, issues, resolutions, and accomplishments (contract milestones) to the CTO (weekly) and system owners for contracts with hardware valued at ~$15M, a support budget of ~$3.5M annually, and.
• Develop and implement strategic plan(s) to establish dedicated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process aligned with the Agile development process

Reston, VA, US

• Project Management and Operations
• Managed, designed, and administered LookingGlass CS-2000, CS-4000E devices (inline network traffic mitigation and manipulation)
• Reported project status, issues, resolutions, and accomplishments (contract milestones) to project manager and client (weekly)
• Managed, monitored, maintained, and administered requirements tracking and software release management utilizing Atlassian tools
• Conducted Scrum meetings (Agile methodologies) during standups with the client to identify and resolve issues within software architecture and development contract milestones (daily)Systems Engineering and Software.
• Designed and developed automated testing frameworks using Python and Scapy for the client, using a self-designed software testing framework that scanned the network, created a map of the environment, copied itself to.

Columbia, Maryland, US

• Engineered software to new and improved versions to develop business for more licensed buyers or renewals for maintenance and support contracts, including adding value, fixing bugs, and enhancing user experience(s)
• Conducted Scrum meetings (Agile methodologies) during standups with software/database engineers to discuss code reviews, code, architecture reviews, and Tier 3 customer support
• Reported project status, issues, resolutions, and accomplishments (contract milestones) to CTO (weekly)
• Designed, developed, and implemented new software builds via a web-based management console for PowerMTA (Java, JSF, Facelets)
• Created a real-time monitoring dashboard facility using PostgreSQL and JDBC
• Provided advanced statistical analysis using data science techniques (e.g., linear regression, decision tree, and/or segmentation) identified vital data, captured over time, enabling precomputed statistics and roll-up.

Columbia, Maryland, US

Linthicum, Maryland, US

• Wrote code and conducted code reviews; converted requirements into tasks for contracts valued at ~$2M each
• Met with the customer to gather requirements, provide status updates, and regular communications
• Managed Enterprise Abstraction Layer using Java, HSQL, Swing, and JDBC, as Lead Developer
• Designed and developed Case Management System (using C#, BEA ALUI, Bizflow, SOAP, NUnit, and IIS)
• Implemented source control software and standards (using Subversion, Ubuntu, Apache HTTPD)
• Researched, analyzed, identified, and defined coding standards

• Redesigned website emphasizing automotive branding for a commercial client (car dealership)
• Refined Scope Of Work (SOW), identified specific tasks and activities, and developed a schedule for contract deliverables on a designated schedule
• Monitored changes, made corrections, and adjusted schedules to respond to issues
• Designed and implemented procedures to better facilitate the use of systems and processing of sales, including merging comment sections; transitioned legacy customer feedback system into newly designed reporting.

US

• Creation of web based interfaces for database applications (Java, PERL, PHP, JavaScript, CSS)
• Administration of 25 UNIX systems (Solaris, BSD, RedHat, Fedora Core)
• Administration and production of MySQL databases
• Account Manager 700+ users