Lead and manage a large team of Software Engineers to establish and maintain software processes and quality standards. Develop and plan software development projects to ensure accurate estimations and timely completion of projects.Manage product development life cycle and coordinate activities with Quality Assurance, Performance/Scalability, Documentation, and Project Management.Establish technical objectives, assign tasks, and direct all members of the software development team.Work with senior management and executive staff to develop cohesive proposals, schedules, plans, and execution of multiple projects.Conducted bi-monthly planning meetings between program management and engineering teams, building consensus on the prioritization of bug fixes and feature requestsEnsure that development meets or exceeds customer requirements.Identify, evaluate, and recruit exceptional engineers, building teams, energizing / motivating the organization, and training and performance management of team members.Identify, evaluate and select technical software development tools for engineering team.Develop and provide budgetary needs in support of current project and future needs.

Requirements creation, software design, development, code, test and documentation for the Boeing CH-47 Defense Electronic Warfare System (DEWS) Tactical Data Unit integrating with the ALQ-213 CMSP, AN/APR-39B (V2) Radar Warning Receiver, AN/AVR-2B Laser Warning System, and the AN/AAR-24 Directional Infrared Countermeasures System over MIL-STD-1553 as a remote terminal and as the backup bus controller on a VxWorks platformLead developer of a team of application engineers, overseeing their work, and ensuring that they build high quality applications and features for the Mission Support Tool. Responsible for design, development, code, test and documentationCreated software requirements, matrices, and test plansTechnologies: C++, C# XML, UML, VxWorks, Doxygen, Eclipse, DOORS, JIRA, ScrumWorks Pro, Visual Studio, SVN, Beyond Compare

Sole software engineer for the USAF Reserve Command HQ A7 branch responsible for designing new database solution for Civil Engineering project tracking. Implemented OOA/OOD to create best practice architecture across all the components of infrastructure (Windows server), Database (SQL Server 2005), and software user interfaces. Designed new database schema, installed, configured, and maintained the new projects database to manage multi-million dollar military construction contracts.Defined functional requirements based upon customer interviews then performed software analysis/design (OOA/OOD).Documented software design using UML to display the three-tier architecture design.Created web application to provide user interface to display, update, delete project data and create Crystal Reports based upon selected data.Created test harness to verify program requirements and validate software behavior.Performed Quality Assurance by creating/maintaining requirements database and tracking software metrics.Technologies: C#, XML, Visio, Visual Studio, Access, SQL Server, Doxygen, Enterprise Architect

Participated on a CMMI Level 5 development team for creating Department of Defense software applications for the United States Marine Corp. Supported code modification to existing Joint Tactical COP Workstation (JTCW) formerly Command and Control Personal Control (C2PC) Injectors (Overlays, Track Plot, and Routes), Application Program Interfaces (API), Libraries, and legacy COM interfaces.Created native encoders and decoders for MIL-STD-6017 and MIL-STD-6017A Variable Message Format (VMF) to translate from VMF binary data to either JTCW injector data or XML based upon XML schemas at a rate of 50 per second.Created Unit Test Strategies (UTS), test plans, and develop test harnesses to verify program requirements and validate software behavior and coordinate unit/integration testing with Software Quality Assurance team.Created functional design documents, software design documents, interface design documents, programmer’s manuals, user’s manuals, data dictionaries and other customer documentation.Created most UML diagrams (component, sequence, deployment and more) for Communication Subsystem Rearchitecture project.Experience with COTS integration: Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (C/JMTK) and Common Message Processor (CMP) Messaging and CMP Developer Tool Kit.Technologies: C++, C#, XML, Visual Studio, Enterprise Architect