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United States

Teach Design for Reliability course to Graduate students in Electrical Engineering. This course focuses on the theory and practice of reliable system design and development. Topics include: Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD), Design for Reliability (DfR), Design for Manufacturability (DfM), IEEE 1149.1 standards, Thermal and Stress Design, Markov Models, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), FMEA and FMECA, Physics of Failure, Duane's Method, AMSAA, Network/System Modeling, Reliability Bounding Methods and Simulation Techniques.Teach Design for Testability course to Graduate students in Electrical Engineering. This course examines the methods and techniques used for system validation and verification ( V&V). Topics include: High Level Verification Languages (HVL ) and Test benches, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Inductive Analytic Techniques (FMEA, FMECA, etc.), Requirements and Specification Analysis, Fault Path Analysis and Accelerated Thermal and Stress Methods.

United States

Mclean Va

Perform research and technical support in Quantum Computing and Software Defined Networks.

Annandale Va

Teach Information Technology for Management, Research and Statistics, Organizational Behavior for Management and Special Research Topics to M.B.A. students. These teaching methods have led to 100% retention rate and recent national certification (ACICS) for the institution. Taught Information Technology for Management, which focuses on managerial impacts of electronic exchanges and markets, SaaS, cloud and mobile computing, CRM, Supply Value Chains, CMMI, software project management concepts and frameworks that include Software Development Life Cycle, ITIL and PMP. Teach Research and Statistics, which introduces students to modern research methods and resources, scientific inquiry, critical thinking skills, statistical reasoning, exploratory data analysis, market survey and sentiment analysis and other data gathering and analytical methods. Taught Organizational Behavior for Management, which examines modern behavioral research tools as they apply to modern business corporate and managerial practices. Topics include motivational theories, Human Resource (HR) practices, corporate security and privacy, legal and cultural issues, impact of corporate structures on individual performance and sentiment analysis.

Northern Virginia

Attended Booz Allen Hamilton Big Data boot camp. – Program focused on programming and analyzing the following open source technologies, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware Player, Hadoop/HBase, Java coding of Map/Reduce programs, Accumulo. Preparing Data Science course materials. Techniques include: Statistical Analysis, Clustering, Semantic Analysis (tagging, ontologies), Bounding and Simulation Methods, and Machine Learning. Tools include: R/Rattle, Stanford CoreNLP, OpenNLP, NLTK, WEKA, and SCIKit. Technologies covered include: Flat tables, Hierarchical DB (HPCC), RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL), NoSQL systems – wide column stores (Hadoop/HBase, Accumulo), document stores (MongoDB), Key value stores (Voldemort, OpenLDAP) and others.

Evaluated new data storage hardware (Violin, Texas Memory/IBM, Nexsan, EMC, Hitachi, OCZ and others) , network/bus architectures (Fiber Channel, PCI-e, Infiniband), software systems (HPCC, MapReduce/Hadoop, Talend, Greenplum etc.) and commercial cloud solution offerings (Amazon, Google etc.) in support of the USHMM study (discussed below) and business proposal and development efforts. Evaluated data processing and topology issues surrounding current data modeling strategies such as semantic tagging (double and triple stores), relational and hierarchical data models, XML tools such as NIEM, machine translation and open source data validity and reliability sources, uses and issues. Designed and documented a data architecture and migration plan for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) that provided scalability, availability and fault tolerance.

Evaluated emerging network technologies and their possible impacts on Intelligence community operation. These reports focused on international network development noting national and regional technical and funding differences and allowed the Agency to prioritize near-term and long-term threats and exploits. Focused on IPv6 applications (sensor networks, open router platforms, dynamic ad-hoc networks) and national and regional educational network infrastructures. Particular areas of potential concern for the Intelligence included the rapid expansion of sensor networks and their use as means of data exfiltration and infiltration when combined with ad-hoc networking strategies.

Manage a research and development lab that evaluates new computer hardware and software technologies that provide answers to critical problems within the U.S. Federal government.

Integrated very large heterogeneous datasets into a common analytic data model. This model has fueled the development of a new class of analysis within my customer. I developed a text-based address standardization capability. I evaluated several new commercial technologies for use with my customer. I co-presented a paper on the obstacles to information sharing within the Intelligence Community along with solutions. I have documented and trained other personnel in the maintenance and further development of this common analytic data model.

Built traffic forecasting models for international data networking organization. I helped to eliminate unnecessary investments in circuits. I correlated network performance and reliability metrics with costing models. This analysis was used to control international engineering and equipment budgets. I determined technical and economic metrics for budgetary, and network capacity planning functions. Improved network performance data collection/validation processes by a factor of three. This increased accuracy and timeliness of circuit and equipment purchases. I produced in-depth network traffic analyses for international engineering management.

Managed the Systems Performance and Optimization Team of seven scientists/engineers for three years. This team produced revenues over $1.8 million/year. Designed, built and operated network performance and capacity systems for DISA, JPO and TCS. TCS involved over 5,000 sites. DISA had a few hundred sites. JPO involved an experimental network using advanced, prototype devices and protocols. Designed, built and operated a Reliability Modeling System for GTE Data Services used to predict system availability, risk and cost impacts. System contained approximately 15,000 components and affected over 10,000 users. Overall reliability improved by 32% in one year and lowered maintenance, and personnel expenses. Designed, built and operated an internal network performance and capacity system for AOL that measured approximately 1,000 devices and affected over 150,000 users (at that time). This service aided the company in procuring an AOL dial-up contract worth over $50 million/year.

Wrote five business proposals to operate government data networks. Built a corporate skills database for use on government proposals and RFIs. Re-wrote six X.25 drivers for Dow Jones Information Services to provide ultra-high reliable information services for their clients.

Coordinated development and ported the MSE network management system that consisted of 500,000+ lines of C and assembler code. I also managed testing services for this system. Managed the development and deployment of ViewNet (a distributed network management system) for DISA that consisted of 130,000+ lines of C and assembler code. Managed the development and deployment of TTS (a configurable network trouble ticket system). Managed the support of Terminal Access Control devices Provided network analysis and communication services for NSA, DISA, and the U.S. Navy. Supported Packet Assembler - Disassembler (PAD) devices for a government system (CDN). Increased the overall reliability of these network access devices from 93% to 99.8% in the course of two years.

Migrated a VSAT system from UNIX to VMS. VSAT system contained 200,000+ lines of C and assembler code. Migration included correcting Ethernet drivers. Designed, built, operated and documented a Configuration Management system across a VMS network. Designed, built and tested CCITT #7 signaling test drivers for a German Bundespost satellite telephone system. Migrated and ‘reversed-engineered’ all TDMA firmware code. Generated TDMA system software documentation, and O&M manuals.

Supported retail networks for Tiffanys, Gee-Bees, Toys-Я-Us, and David Weis. Developed an interface between NCR networks and IBM mainframes for Tiffanys.

Ph.D, Electrical Engineering

Mba, Accounting/ Finance

M.A., Musicology

B.A., Music / Physics

Engineering / Music