Currently Software Development Manager for platform team. Oversee the delivery of features to product releases and manage the technical side of new business. Interface with customers, PLM, and other design managers to set the product direction. Technical prime for partnerships with third parties such as public cloud and SDWAN vendors. Research the usage of our product in 5G. Facilitate STIG, FIPS, and Common Criteria.Team primarily transforms the NetScout probe to a Virtual Network Function (VNF) as a VM in VMware, kvm, OpenStack, and public cloud marketplaces (AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI) and as a container in Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. We also maintain the platform software for the NetScout and Tektronix Communication probes. NetScout probes are standard x86 hosts and platform software includes Linux system configuration, packet capture libraries, and probe virtualization. Tektronix Communication probes are multi-bladed custom hosts and platform software includes Linux system configuration, system management applications, and common libraries,

Developed platform software for network monitoring products in C, C++, python, and bash for NetScout and Tektronix Communication probes. Used advanced Linux techniques to optimize performance.

Developed software for Session Border Controller. Responsible for a Linux kernel module which integrates with the kernel networking subsystem to provide VOIP signaling and media security. Resposible for developing the next generation product with similar functionality on a Cavium networking card and researching implementation on Tilera zero-overhead Linux networking card.

Developed software for Linux and VxWorks embedded systems used by NAVAIR. This included: - Developing a custom device driver for embedded Linux.- Developing the communications subsystem of an application for embedded Linux.- Configuring a Linux Board Support Package (BSP) for OEM evaluation board.- Developing a VxWorks Board Support Package (BSP) for custom board.- Porting the custom device driver (above) to VxWorks.- Writing custom system calls to extend VxWorks kernel functionality to user applications.- Developing a flash memory driver for Telogy/VxWorks VOIP handset.

In addition to the development activities listed, served as a UNIX and C++ adviser, and responsibilities included preparing project plans, schedules, design estimates, and documents.February 2009 – March 2010Architect of the UNIX components of a custom project. Technical adviser to Software Director. Tasks included:- Defining requirements, writing documents (including user manuals), designing the software system, and overseeing other developers.- Designing and developing GUI and networking applications using java and shell scripts.- Planning project schedules, including a phased delivery schedule enabling product verification to test during development, allowing the product to be delivered to the customer on an accelerated schedule.July 2007 – February 2009Managed the OA&M software project (below) in its final stages of North American development, planned its transition to China, and then served as a consultant and adviser to the China organization. Tasks prior to the transition included:- Managing 10 persons.- Developing transition plans.- Preparing training materials and presenting them in China.Tasks after the transition included:- Analyzing requirements and developing derived requirements.- Advising and mentoring the China group.- Serving as a liaison between the remaining North American groups and the China group.February 1997 – July 2007Architect of the fault management system for Nortel's OA&M network management system The system consisted of complex, highly concurrent, multi-threaded services in C++ and java. Designed the architecture and developed many of the components. Major tasks included:- Optimizing the fault management system to handle hundreds of users on a small hardware footprint by using sophisticated threading techniques.- Writing a custom storage and retrieval library to replace a database and improve performance by nearly two orders of magnitude.

Held positions in software and systems engineering in a progressive career path. Primarily specialized in: - UNIX application programming. - Embedded programming. - UNIX device drivers.