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Arlington, Va, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Supported 8 cloud projects for Expression Networks in roles consisting of DevOps, Security, and Cloud Engineering, alongside the DOD and NGA, utilizing EC2, AWS OpenSearch, RedHat OpenShift, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kubernetes, and Redis for APIs, task management, task monitoring, notifications, schedulers, and email workers.• Converted an Elasticsearch cluster to AWS OpenSearch saving a DOD customer $7,000 per month on cloud infrastructure expenses.

Arlington, Va, Us

Accomplishments:• Created 4 human-in-the-loop aviation simulations for flight controls on the Boeing 737 MAX, 737 NG, 777X, 787 Dreamliner, and enabled the next generation of aerospace design and development through developing digital twins for Boeing commercial and defense products, specifically for activities related to the development and integration of game engines, virtual machines, models, and simulations in the creation of high-fidelity digital twins.• Developed, documented, and maintained architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces, and designs for software systems.• Overhauled the Boeing High Fidelity Digital Twins, frameworks, and platforms to Unreal Engine 5.

Mclean, Va, Us

Accomplishments:• Consulted alongside 2 systems engineers, 2 software engineers, 9 Department of Defense Centers of Excellence, and 8 companies to produce and deliver a virtual soldier trainer with AR capabilities by combining 3 virtual training systems to be used for training 1 million personnel.• Led a team of 3 engineers to convert a federal and state benefit calculation program written in R to Python and moved related data to a MongoDB database, resulting in an 82% reduction in processing times for 60 million people, cutting down on 9 billion hours of wasted time, and 400 billion dollars of wasted money.• Engineered an Autonomous Driving Assistance System using Unreal Engine 4, AWS EC2 and S3 services, and a custom NEAT algorithm for machine learning and model training.• Mentored 2 Associate Software Engineers through a job shadowing program resulting in promotions to Intermediate Software Engineer.

Columbus, Ga, Us

Note: This is the same position as with CGI Federal, the companies changed due to a contract rebid.Accomplishments:• Consulted, lead, and managed communications with clients, stakeholders, and leaders on product requirements, technical problems, software architecture, development challenges, and important technical changes.• Mapped human behaviors and vehicle interactions into realistic simulations in VBS 3, Unreal Engine 4, and Unity involving human, vehicle, and aircraft assets.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Accomplishments:• Engineered the design, development, documentation, and distribution of a new benchmarking tool architecture for computers to calculate performance limits quickly and accurately in VBS3 using the SQF code and architecture.• Engineered a new code review system for peer-to-peer reviews.• Engaged and communicated in client, stakeholder, and leadership meetings to evaluate, design, and implement goals, timelines, and milestones for projects.• Designed, engineered, debugged, and tested over 200 AI scenarios, simulations, and applications using VBS3, Unreal Engine, and Unity for clients including the Pentagon and NATO, utilizing programming languages such as Python, C++, and SQF.