Technical manager of the Simulation Software unit within the software engineering department General Dynamics Mission Systems.

Integrated Product Development Team Lead -Strategic Weapons Interface Simulator (SWIS)Integrity-driven leader offering repeated success meeting technical and cost objectives on high-value programs. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to ongoing and emerging product development teams. Responsible for test schedule and budget planning, developing estimates and BOEs for assigned projects and coordination of test plan generation and test performance. Coordinate and perform customer level and internal product reviews. Maintain and present project metrics with assessments. Provides strategic, technical direction and counsel to Program Management including technical vision, technology investment and technical (IR&D) analysis of business opportunities. Serve as primary technical liaison with customer(s) and teammates.

Provide technical leadership, budget oversight and on-time successful delivery of embedded training product to the United Kingdom Training Facility, Fastlane Scotland. Responsible for test schedule, performance, budget planning and successful acceptance of delivered product by Royal Navy. Team was cited by Admiral Johnson Royal Navy and Admiral Benedict Strategic Programs director for meeting aggressive delivery in support of mission critical training needs.

Performed duties to include Software development product evaluations and process monitoring. Generated test plans and procedures, preparation of ready for test review materials, generation of complex software test cases, creation of test software and drivers, performance of verification testing, performance of validation testing, preparation of final test reports, planning and implementation of process improvement tasks. Performed software product evaluations and software development process monitoring, interacted with internal and external personnel at the program and functional level on quality matters often requiring coordination between organizations. Performed leadership duties to include, project planning, management, tracking and reporting for all assigned projects as well as developing quotes and defining staffing levels for proposed projects.

Conducted and participated in the research, design and development of software applications and/or tools for Mod 4/5, Mod 6/7 and SSGN Application Software programs and subprograms. Responsibilities also included enhancements, modifications and corrections to existing software as well as coding, testing, integrating and documenting software solutions. As a member of the application software group, I was Instrumental in delivering innovative, flexible integrated solutions to meet customer needs. Object oriented solutions were developed utilizing experience in C, C++, HTML and Visual Basic coding standards.