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Denver, Co, Us

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

Broomfield, Co, Us

Lead the Ball Aerospace Engineering Software Engineering team. Responsible for overall software engineering planning and execution performance to meet cost, schedule and technical objectives and successful software engineering execution on all Strategic Business Unit objectives.

Broomfield, Co, Us

Sr. Manager for the Mission Control and Operations Engineering organization at Ball Aerospace.Set and lead the strategy for the Mission Control and Operations Engineering organization including organizational design and ground system and space vehicle operational capability development.Provide functional management of principal staff to include Integrated Product Team (IPT) Leads and Ground System Engineer (GSE) leads to support the breadth of managed responsibilities within the organization.• Develop and implement integrated ground system architecture solutions for satellite command and control, data transportation, and mission data processing.• Develop concept of operations and deployment schemes for long term operations and maintenance of aerospace systems.• Establish customer needs and develop Business/Technical Requirements, establishing scope budget and schedule parameters to execute projects.• Manage ground system development and subcontracts for software and hardware integration.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Provide overall cost, schedule and technical leadership for a large scale development and sustainment program. Lead a team of over 60 engineers and 4 subcontractors to provide state of the art production and dissemination systems for the US Government. Provide primary interface to the Government customer team as well as a 24x7 operational facility.Previous assignment was to provide overall leadership for the advanced geospatial studies programs for the intelligence community.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Provide software engineering management leadership for Harris Government Communication Systems Division (over 650 engineers); Ensure compliance with software engineering processes; Manage the image processing department (including budget) for up to 120 engineers.Leader for the Geospatial Imagery Center of Excellence(GICOE). Responsible for standing up the organization, defining it’s goals, vision, and direction. GICOE provides oversight to all image processing IR&Ds, studies and coordination / collaboration across all image processing programs.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

- SW Architect: Information Access Services program for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency- Advanced Programs Engineer for Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance programs.- Software Engineer 4: Member of the Data Processing Lab. Responsibilities include analysis and design of CORBA interfaces for the Multi-image Exploitation Tool (MET)..- Software Engineer 3: Member of development team for National Crime Information Center (NCIC) 2000 program.

Project Leader, Midrange Systems Development Group: Responsible for all aspects of UNIX and VAX/VMS development of LEVEL5 OBJECT, an object-oriented expert system development tool. Responsibilities include management of up to 15 developers and testers, design, coding, testing, and documentation review. Software was developed in C under UNIX, VAX/VMS, X-Windows, and Microsoft Windows environments.

Global, Us

Senior Member Technical Staff - Group Supervisor: Software consultant to AT&T Bell Laboratories in Lincroft, New Jersey. Responsibilities included development and maintenance of software for the Mail Exchange product, a UNIX based multi-vendor mail/data/document connectivity solution; development and maintenance of the software development tools associated with the project; and project coordination. All software was developed in C and UNIX shell script.

Programmer/Analyst: Member of development team which produced application programs for construction-oriented businesses. Responsibilities included detailed design, coding, interfacing and trouble-shooting of C, UNIX shell, and COBOL programs operating in UNIX and XENIX environments.