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Oldsmar, Fl

Worked as a contractor to Raytheon Corporation in St. Petersburg, FL. Worked on the classified systems CEC, NIFC-CA, CET, CTT, and AHE. Work was in C++, Rhapsody, ClearCase, ClearQuest, and RTC, following an agile process.

Worked on the SULE program, an inline link encryptor for a UAV. Also provided support for an intranet web site to allow mining of data from machines used to produce printed circuits and for the Sypris Data Systems M900 baseband data recorder. Was previously the Software architect and lead on the NSA supported QUANTUM program, a type 1 crypto device based on the Xilinx Artix FPGA and its dual lockstep MicroBlaze microprocessor. The QUANTUM project resulted in what is believed to be the only successful interface to KMI functionality from inside the INFOSEC boundary of a type 1 crypto device in the industry. Was also a high contributing team member on 2 assignments involving encryption on ARM-based ASICs (Sierra II and MYK-185). Full life cycle development in the c language based on OO designs. Was a principal participant in SV testing of CEC, one of the 3 projects. Was also a major contributor to the transformation of CEC from a status of behind schedule and underperforming to one of on time, within budget, and enthusiastically received by the customer and the NSA. Was a primary architect of the unit testing approach to be used on SECM, the second of the projects. This approach used industry best practices, Unity for basic test management and execution and CMock for stub creation and control. Was also an assessment team member during a CMMI assessment, the primary architect of a formal and successful “Lunch’n’Learn” cross training program, and a highly successful one-on-one mentor of other software engineers.

Goin' Postal Palm Bay is a franchisee of Goin' Postal, a chain of over 300 retail shipping and receiving stores that has its corporate headquarters in Zephyrhills, FL. As well as offering consumers and businesses access to all the main carriers such as FedEx, UPS, and the United States Postal Service, Goin' Postal also offers other business related services such as copying, faxing, mailbox rentals, cards, unique gift items, and office supplies.; Designed, implemented, and maintained all store-unique web- and Windows-based software. Instituted and executed database backup procedures. Managed access control to all applications and kept all hardware and software running smoothly and efficiently.Created major product discriminators by developing: (1) a unique dynamic Web site with an associated Database; and (2) a Point of Sale program to access and maintain that database remotely. The database includes customers, shipment recipients, and individual shipments. Customers can access their own data from the web site. The main underlying technologies used were PHP, MySQL, ODBC, Visual Studio, Visual C++, and .NET.

An international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets worldwide, with sales and service facilities in more than 90 countries. Developed software for more than five products, one of which was a multi-year project involving more than 30 software engineers and implementing a highly secure communications terminal for the US Navy. Ensured that all requirements were met, that state-of-the-art OOD / OOA tools and methodologies were used, and that institutionalized (CMM / CMMI / ISO) processes were followed, leading to robust, well-documented, maintainable software. Mentored junior team members and acted as technical lead for teams of two to three people as needed.Received numerous awards and commendations for excellence and work ethic while at Harris.Satisfied a demanding customer by significantly improving the Unified OOD documentation for a Sierra II based Cryptographic Subsystem.Designed, developed, maintained, and acted as an internal consultant for an XML-based code generation tool that dramatically increased productivity for software that involved numerous parallel cases.Joined the Sierra II based JTRS GMR CS/S program specifically to help it meet many schedule challenges, resulting in on time completion of the project.Designed, implemented and maintained the SQL Server Database supporting the AEHF NMT Project and received recognition for a pattern of high productivity and consistent rapid problem resolution.Provided traffic verification and routing software for the Sierra II based JTT Senior CS/S program.Performed Systems Engineering duties for the SecNet UMOD project, a UNIX based project sending Type I Encrypted data via USB cellular modems, resulting in the solution of a number of challenging design and implementation problems.

Founded by J. Robert Beyster, Ph.D., and a small group of scientists in 1969, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a FORTUNE 500® company, and its subsidiaries now have approximately 45,000 employees with offices in more than 150 cities worldwide.Designed, developed, integrated, and tested software in a very demanding, fast-paced, collocated, small team (about four members) within a large team (about 25 members) environment. Conducted successful system level integration testing using communication terminals and satellites developed by other companies.One of only two team members who were involved in the crucial and successful on-site direct interface testing of the Control SMART-T portion of ACMS with actual SMART-T's and the Milstar constellation.Significantly enhanced the design, development, unit and system testing of the Control SMART-T portion of ACMS (a portion of the LDR / MDR Milstar project) for the Solaris 2.5.1 environment as a major team member. Control SMART-T was the most highly interactive portion of the ACMS program and the only portion that directly exercised the Milstar satellite constellation.Improved project documentation significantly by acting as a consultant on the use of Doc Express and FrameMaker to generate CDRL documents from a teamwork model.

Did software design, coding, unit testing, and integration testing in Ada for the Hardware I/O (HWIO) portion of the Global Manager (GM) for the Integrated Vehicle Subsystem Controller (IVSC) of the F-22 aircraft. Uncovered a design flaw in a complex hardware-software subsystem, leading directly to its cost-effective correction.Led team of 15 in producing Realtime embedded Ada Subsystem firmware for the MMC upgrade to the F-16 fighter.Was an assessment team member for an SEI Capability Maturity Model Self-Assessment.Designed, implemented, and documented keyboard mapping in C for the Rational R1000, resulting in identical keymaps for 3 highly dissimilar workstation types. Technically managed the R1000 Ada platform, which entailed integration of vendor-supplied and internally-produced software applications and minimization of negative impact from software changes.

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Postgraduate coursework; 24 credits earned. Degree not completed

Bachelor Of Arts, Chemistry