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Palm Bay, Florida, United States

Software lead and architect for several proposals and programs for platforms such as E2-D, F-16 and F-35. Supporting and coordinating software efforts with project management, IPT leads, production operations, government officials, our customer, and other disciplines. Subject matter expert on software for module and chassis level development, deployment, and support for multiple programs. Supporting customer meetings, vendor interactions, and executive reporting via regularly scheduled telecons, VTCs, contractual communications, and TIMs.

Palm Bay, Florida

Software Lead for the F-35 TR3 ICP program. Leading and managing a team of roughly 30 software engineers using agile development for multiple CSCI's. Supporting and coordinating software efforts with project management, IPT leads, production operations, government officials, our customer, and other disciplines. Subject matter expert on software for module and chassis level development, deployment, and support for ICP and other programs. Supporting customer meetings, vendor interactions, and executive reporting via regularly scheduled telecons, VTC’s, contractual communications, and TIM’s. Supervising six additional engineers through their careers at L3Harris.• Led and presented at multiple successful CDR's which resulted in no critical action items. This included developing and reviewing SDRLs that were returned with no action items.• Led or assisted in closing multiple ERB, CCB, and PCRB items.• Led and supported DevOps deployments at implementing automated build pipelines and triggers. These pipelines build software, perform Static Code Analysis, ran unit tests, and ran Functional tests across platforms (including final target hardware).• Worked with SW Engineers to resolve, peer review, and merge feature and bug tickets into the development baseline.• Managed, supported, and delivered incremental software releases critical to the F-35 program on time and within budget. • Developed automated metrics to standardize data collection to support status reporting for executive leadership.

Palm Bay, Florida

Chief software engineer for the F-35 TR3 AMS program and associated IR&D. Responsible for leading a team of five software engineers using agile development and acting as supervisor for an additional nine engineers across the organization. Interdisciplinary coordination of software efforts. Subject matter expert on AMS DevOps and AMS software systems. Supporting customer interactions and reporting via EVMS reports, RFP responses, contractual communications, and regularly scheduled teleconferences. • Identified, developed, and implemented multiple process directives that are used for TR3 AMS and other programs within Harris.• Developed and presented F-35 TR3 AMS internal and customer Critical Design Reviews (CDRs) with no critical action items. • Setup and integrated all lab equipment into a cohesive DevOps environment for both IR&D and AMS program. • Presented at three internal conferences about F-35 TR3 AMS DevOps implementation. • Trained and advised four customer programs on their DevOps implementation.• Developed and presented F-35 TR3 AMS internal and customer PDR with no critical action items. • Supported software for several special projects related to F-35 TR3 AMS.• Coded, reviewed, tested, and released 67 software development branches which contributed 30,108 lines of code.• Reviewed, tested, and released 45 software development branches.• Managed, tested, and deployed three official software releases and three engineering releases to the F-35 TR3 AMS customer and government labs.• Supported five, and led two, day-long Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs) between L3Harris, government, customer, and supplier engineers and stakeholders across various locations.

Palm Bay, Florida

Individual Contributor on HNR. Collaborated with the chief software engineer, project manager, and the primary customer to resolve issues and implement enhancements to High-band Network Waveform (HNW) 2.0 implementation. Derived requirements, generated specifications, coded, reviewed, tested, and deployed software solutions.• Redesigned and implemented a restructuring of the memory architecture.• Reorganized and redesigned the build environment to ensure software branch independence.• Recognized with an award for designing and implementing an algorithm change to the waveform.• Recognized with an award for redesigning and implementing security changes surrounding the installation process and software distribution. • Led effort to obtain a FIPS certification for the program.

Tampa, Florida

Site-specific IT manager and representative for the Central IT Hub. Maintain and collaborate with multiple remote teams to maintain a nation-wide server and multinational computing environments. Work with department leads to create requirements, generate specifications, and develop processes, tools and environments for developing, producing, and testing mission critical products. Deliver support and guidance in consolidating multiple businesses into one cohesive unit. Provide technical assistance in developing, producing, and testing critical customer products. • Completed a site-wide technical review that generated roughly $2500 per month savings in external services, software licensing, and purchasing control. • Technical lead for developing an original RMA process, leveraging a previously unknown ERP module. Created reporting metrics and demonstrated its success and improvement over the previous set of procedures. • Performed and managed an IT security review and remediation for three IT environments in preparation to migrating to a secret clearance level environment. • Reduced an outstanding problem ticket load from a daily average of 275 to 15 by providing direct on-site IT support.• Provide coding and integration support to the engineering team in their efforts to develop, test, and implement embedded concealments.• Identified and resolved several business-critical risks, including implementing a complete data recovery solution with both on-site and off-site locations, developing documentation for production testing, and remediating insecure production and test systems for multiple locations.

Detroit, Michigan

Monitor and repair computer and server systems distributed over a large area; maintain all network resources; work with departments to create requirements, generate specifications, develop tools, and test new processes and systems; help troubleshoot and develop business intelligence reports in Access and COGNOS; select, train, and supervise student technical assistants. • Technical lead of four core functions for Development and Alumni Affairs’ ERP conversion from Banner to Advance: prospect management, constituent relations and gift management, document management, and system configuration. • Technical lead for an alumni engagement and event management product, Encompass, developed by iModules.• Technical lead for developing an employee training program and corresponding website management application.• Complete overhaul of the Development and Alumni Affairs’ server infrastructure to improve stability, functionality, security, and accessibility.

Tampa, Florida

Oversee a department grossing over $1 million in revenue and process approximately 750 units a month; supervise over 20 employees; address client concerns and complaints; and analyze departmental reports. • Defined, developed, and presented replacement for essential information infrastructure with a projected potential savings of $13 million.• Recognized for achieving 115% Net Operating Profit.

Tampa, Florida

Perform and monitor computer related repairs both in-store and at service centers; provide technical recommendations for customer purchases and management decisions; and manage in-store Geek Squad network.• Renovated service department internal computer network to improve throughput, reliability, and cable management.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Information Systems