Software Program/Project Manager with experience with US Army soldier-based and air vehicle-based programs Experienced in integrating software and hardware into a System for needs of the war-fighter within the constraints of schedule, budget, requirements and unwritten customer expectations.In my career I have participated in writing numerous proposals as well as providing costs bid under fixed price contracts. Through these efforts I have become an effective writer and technical solution's architect who understands strategy in a competitive bidding process.I am also an experienced Project Engineer on systems deployed in countries foreign and domestic. With extensive systems knowledge, I was frequently the POC driving multidisciplinary engineering teams to solve tricky issues. These issues include manufacturing defects, GFE communications link defects, software defects, users who don't do what everyone though they would and requirement defects among others.My extensive experience as a Lead Software Developer with expertise in Java and C on various embedded and non-embedded platforms with and without Operating Systems has led me to write, debug and field systems with over a thousand simultaneous networked clients in harsh communication environments, implement multi-threaded real-time systems on embedded and multi-processor servers as well as optimize graphical display systems from 100 to 20,000 2D drawing updates per second. I have implemented and assisted in deploying redundant servers.