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Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Leadership Context: Hired to take over responsibilities for a retiring incumbent. Oversee the Emergency Data Distribution Network (EDDN) at the EROS Facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. EDDN is used by the US Geological Survey, other government entities, and foreign governments to receive satellite messages containing real-time water, seismic, & weather information.Span of Control: 3 Team Members & Multiple Engineering CompaniesKey Achievements:1. Manage a mission-critical, 24x7x365 system, delivering +99.9% uptime over the last 10 years.2. Developed an extraction, translate, & load system using Perl that moved legacy data into a new Oracle aggregation database. (System is used daily by over 45 Water Science Centers around the country).3. Member, and former Lead, of the Satellite Telemetry Interagency Working Group—a user group for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Data Collection System (DCS). 4. Designed an information website to provide data & system status to users within the Western Hemisphere **(https://eddn.usgs.gov)

Uscg Yard, Curtis Bay, Maryland

Leadership Context: Provided IT support of the Coast Guard Yard and its personnel. Responsible for maintenance, backups, and administration of five separate SQL Server 2000 servers with over 45 separate business systems databases.Financial Accountability: $787,000 | Span of Control: +650 PersonnelKey Achievements: 1. Updated and improved the warehouse transaction data collection system that uploaded information to the US Coast Guard's primary business system.2. Oversaw the specification, procurement, implementation, and maintenance of telecommunication and computing systems for organization.2. Served as the Assistant Information System Security Officer (ISSO) for the organization.

Documented requirements, created designs, implemented and tested commercial software in a fast-paced, fluid environment. Utilized UML to document requirements and create design documents. Designed and developed user controls, web pages and web services in Microsoft .NET using ASP.NET, VB.NET and ADO.NET. This software was designed for numerous truck and driver applications in the Transportation industry. Specified, designed, and developed software in Java and SQL that ran in onboard logistics platforms, Windows 2000/XP hosts, and SQL Server 2000/XP. Created the .NET and SQL software development standard for the company. Created an automated database migration process that remotely converted customer databases to an entirely new schema without any human oversight. This allowed the company to upgrade their customers' databases without using on-site field technicians.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Leadership Context: Consulted with various companies in the Twin Cities area. Primary duties and functions centered on moving company IT systems into newer technologies.Financial Accountability: Up to $125M | Span of Control: Up to 25 Team MembersKey Achievements: Successfully delivered HIV testing project and reporting laboratory system for the US Navy & the US Bureau of Prisons. Implemented an Application Management, Fixed-fee, Service Level Agreement with an offshore development company for GE Capital Fleet Services. Managed the corporate information technology budget for the Imation Corporation. Reduced the budget to $85 million via consolidation and technology upgrades.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Leadership Context: Originally hired to provide Center IT support and later moved to a laboratory position. Served as a technical specialist on advanced electronic projects. Directed technicians on individual projects and on space simulation test articles Financial Accountability: N/A | Span of Control: +5 ContractorsKey Achievements: Served as Test Director and Remote Manipulator System Operator in numerous test programs including: Space Station Habitat, Japanese Space Agency training, Hubble Servicing Mission II, Space Station Power System, Space Station Remote Manipulator System, and Russian Micro Gravity Welding System. Designed, built, and maintained a Linux server that ran Apache Web Server to implement the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator’s web server (before RedHat, Ubuntu and CentOS existed).

Master'S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa PhiDistinguished Cadet Plebe Company: H-4 Upperclass Company: G-3

High School Diploma, Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education And Teaching