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Fairfax, Va

Key leader and a trusted member of the staff, routinely interacting with C-level client executives to present strategic visions and propose solutions meeting technically difficult, emerging, and ever-changing requirements. Providing leadership for technical teams delivering products globally. Responsible for overall leadership of software engineering, system management, field engineering, client management and help desk resources. • Leading an innovative $50M High Performance Computing (HPC) effort delivering a fully clustered AI enterprise. • Established strategic vision for HPC environment.• Provided strategic, technical and executive leadership for the largest global border management system.• Managed a staff of 95 with an annual budget of more than $60M. • Seamlessly transitioned a workforce of over 130 resources to remote work while maintaining a monthly release cadence, continuing partner engagements and staffing new initiatives while achieving three 98% award fee scores. • Served as a key senior leader working with international government officials to deliver worldwide software product deployments. • Developed a vision to expanded the product strategy enable advancements such as AI/ML based decision support. • Worked daily with senior management, foreign government officials, international development partners, technical partners and product vendors to advance product. • Start up team member for a $49M multidisciplinary, multi-cloud effort which became a sustaining program. • Streamlined and automated processes acquisition processes saving millions of dollars annually. • Coaching client staff in sound technical management approaches to deliver multi-million dollar projects. • Led investigations into advancing technical capabilities with emerging technologies including technologies such as digital assistants, augmented reality and multi-modal biometrics. • Mentoring team member to develop technical and leadership skills and grow their careers.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Built a solutions architect team serving MorphoTrust’s federal business unit. That team supports a growing market focusing on the civilian, DOD, and Intelligence communities. This team works horizontally across the entire business translating customer requirements into actionable engineering tasks for technical programs leveraging the company’s core capabilities. Tasked with reinventing legacy biometric and identity intelligence capabilities as a catalysts for the delivery of next generation identity intelligence software solutions. Operated as the chief engineer for the federal group.• Provided systems, and software engineering subject matter expertise to identify opportunities, drive implementations, and advance the multimodal Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS). • Engaged customers, and partners to identify, develop, and deliver new software system implementations.• Developed strategies to expand the company’s offering within the customer base and into new markets building upon identity intelligence capabilities delivered as new solutions, products, and service offerings, including the first cloud centric identity intelligence product offering.• Coaching business segments roles as it transitions into agile development and delivery.• Built 'airports of the future' architectures fusing data analytics, biometrics, document authentication, risk-based vetting, decision support, and identity intelligence. The first proposed solution in this strategic segment secured an $80M contract.• Implemented enterprise lean agile development operations framework serving fluid client requirements needs of meeting clients and markets with new software deliveries. The first implementation of this framework is for the largest ABIS production client.• Participated in the expansion of capabilities into customer desired interoperable data analytic platforms, cyber security, cloud strategies, and emerging mobile applications as defined in product road maps.

Sterling, Va

Working in support of companies which can benefit from my unique blend of expertise in software and systems engineering, agile and full life cycle development, program and project management, strategic software planning, process and framework engineering, software architecture and design, proposal development, and other subject matter expertise.

Responsible for the management and delivery of over 17 federal and select strategic software development programs, collaborating with national intelligence, defense, state and civilian agencies. Developed applications in areas such as information assurance, full-motion video, still imagery, covert communications and other sensor data.• Developed the conceptual architecture for an information assurance project, resulting in a 4-year award totaling up to $220M.• Architect of several groundbreaking geospaitial machine to machine (M2M) implementations enabling the identification and correlation of imagery, full motion video and spatial features for near real time delivery of fusion data.• Led a team of 9 to design, develop and deliver the first of its kind, real time, full motion video authentication system, resulting in 3 contracts across 3.5 years totaling $2.25M. • Led the adoption and integration of a new identity document authentication and security system, radically reducing identification fraud and counterfeit activity involving state benefits, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) access, and law enforcement application. System has been integrated into over 260M United States identity documents deployed in 40 state infrastructures.• Delivered a $1M innovative identity verification program with the National Highway Safety Administration and the State of Nebraska by fielding authentication systems to law enforcement, state agency and commercial retailers.• Rapidly delivered the Massachusetts facial recognition system within 2 months of project involvement, salvaging contract while delivering valuable, working system to the users.• Successfully led 3 satellite imagery proof of concept projects with 3 key agencies to validate the usability of Digimarc's software within these enterprises, resulting in the full development of custom-specific software.

Vienna, Va

Provided strategic, technical and managerial leadership to a start-up venture. Responsible for software development of a multi-platform, mobile device instant messaging system which intelligently pushed data to devices in context of privacy, presence, device and location.• Led requirements development for the delivered messaging platforms.• Responsible for roadmap development and maintenance based on customer input and market trends.• Developed product strategy for location-based services to be applied to mobile computing platforms.• Responsible for product testing of messaging platform, privacy engine, presence engine, communication engine and mobile client interfaces.

Principle leader of a 33-person business unit delivering 2 core telecommunications optimization software products. Matrixed to the Government group as a technical architect consulting to a digital watermarking startup project.• Successfully turned around the failing business unit by stabilizing the software platform, creating an innovative delivery methodology and retaining top talent. Resulted in $5M of recovered revenue. • Initiated changes to the systems' architectures, database engines and communications models to conform to industry standards, increasing sales of both products to the customer base. • Eliminated chronic staff attrition by developing in-house training in transferable software technologies, retaining 18 endangered staff members.

Implemented process and procedures to grow client business for the software development group by $9M, absent of business development support. Developed and managed schedules and cross-functional teams using what is now embodied in agile principles.• Developed software frameworks, reducing risk in delivering firm fixed price contracts to the federal government. Frameworks enabled early project delivery, exceeding typical federal government profit caps by 10-15%. • Implemented best practices and processes that enabled the growth the custom software engineering business based on capability expanding the department from 12 to 46 full time employees delivering custom software.• Organized, developed and delivered a 2-day conference on software development best practices, attended by 22 employees from 5 geographic locations.

Developer of custom software and software products. • Selected by EDS to join a large software development project which was behind schedule, resulting in the on-time delivery of the custom software.• Participated in the development of software engineering best practices as the Configuration Manager resulting in a software build environment, reducing risk of broken code across the UNIX installation base.

Bscs, Computer Science

Business

Partial completion of Masters of Science in Business at Marymount University (4.0/4.0) in classes taken.