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Springfield, Virginia, United States

Certified Biometric Security Professional (CBSP) and Certified Biometric Security Engineer (CBSE) with 30 years of experience ranging from biometric applications, studies, and evaluations to developing websites that assist employers and the unemployed with their unemployment insurance needs. Skilled at leading groups to consensus needed to make meaningful contributions to the advancement of a task/project/program. Recognized member of the biometric and forensic standards development community with more than a decade of experience in standards development and adoption.

Washington, Dc

Provides trusted advice on budget, performance, execution, transition, and commercialization of biometric programs, current and future.Collaborates on key initiatives to design, lead, and implement client special projects.Assesses the vulnerability, risk, and mitigation for biometric project justification and defense in the client budget.

Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

Providing strategic advisory business consulting and technology services to growth[period] clients. growth[period] is a leading strategic business development and transaction advisory services firm, specializing in business development in the commercial, federal, and transaction advisory market. As a strategic client advisor, I work with growth[period]'s clients, along with their company’s staff (which is comprised of former senior executives from both government and industry), to bring them deep knowledge about the biometrics market.

Fort Belvoir

Drafted the Biometric Standards Requirements for PM DoD Biometrics Version 1.0, which dictate requirements for biometric data formats implemented in the DoD Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification (EBTS), transmission specifications employed for interoperability with external biometric systems, biometric sample quality standards and best practices, and conformance testing.Drafted the Biometric Standards Primer Version 1.0, which informs the reader of what is essential for an organization to participate in and influence the development of standards that meet organizational, stakeholder, and system requirements.

Fredericksburg, Va

Provided engineering support to assess and oversee the technical design, development, implementation, testing, and sustainment of U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Prisoner Operations Division (POD) biometric systems.Provided SME support to POD on all matters related to biometrics and their application by/within POD systems.Prepared papers, briefings, market research, and reports on biometric product capabilities.Provided SME support to USMS teams including, but not limited to, the USMS Biometrics Working Group.Provided SME on identity management and biometric standards.Attended functions of interest to POD, as well as meet with biometric product/service vendors, reporting salient information.

Reston, Va

Analyzing technical and operational data to provide feedback and recommendations.Preparing papers, briefings, and reports on biometric product capabilities as requested.Providing expert engineering support. Developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting various information technologies' security. Ensuring consistency and sufficient integration with existing infrastructure.Analyzing logs files and reporting defects and potential solutions.Evaluating proposed systems and applications to determine information security or data integrity implications.Conducting assessments and tests.

Arlington, Virginia

Analyzing technical and operational data to provide feedback and recommendations.Preparing papers, briefings, and reports on biometric product capabilities as requested.Providing expert engineering support. Developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting various information technologies' security. Ensuring consistency and sufficient integration with existing infrastructure.Analyzing logs files and reporting defects and potential solutions.Evaluating proposed systems and applications to determine information security or data integrity implications.Conducting assessments and tests.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Analyzing technical and operational data to provide feedback and recommendations.Preparing papers, briefings, and reports on biometric product capabilities as requested.Providing expert engineering support. Developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting various information technologies' security. Ensuring consistency and sufficient integration with existing infrastructure.Analyzing logs files and reporting defects and potential solutions.Evaluating proposed systems and applications to determine information security or data integrity implications.Conducting assessments and tests.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Ensured agency needs and requirements were met by representing DoS in the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) M1 – Biometrics Technical Committee.Served as the Chair for M1.6 – Cross Jurisdictional Issues and Societal Aspects.Promoted interagency communication and cooperation on biometric and standards development activities by liaising between DoS and the Department of Defense Biometric Standards Working Group (BSWG).Developed consensus standards, guidelines, and best practices for facial identification and advanced the state of the science by participating in the Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG).Provided technical and engineering support and attended functions of interest to DoS, as well as meeting with vendors of biometric products and services, reporting salient information to the sponsor.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Served as the principal editor of the Latent Interoperability Transmission Specification (LITS), which is a system-level specification, parallel to and compatible with the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification (EBTS), that focuses on the definition of vendor-neutral latent transactions to be exchanged among disparate cross-jurisdictional AFIS.Provided technical writing and editing for the Extended Feature Set Profile Specification, which defines the sets of features to be used in latent friction ridge (fingerprint/palmprint or plantar) AFIS searches.Provided technical writing and editing for Markup Instructions for Extended Friction Ridge Features, which specifies a common set of instructions and data annotation guidelines for the markup of EFS features by latent print examiners.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Ensured agency needs and requirements were met by representing DHS in the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) M1–Biometrics Technical Committee.Promoted interagency communication and cooperation on biometric and standards development activities by liaising between DHS and the Department of Defense Biometric Standards Working Group (BSWG).Served as the Secretary for M1.3 – Biometric Data Interchange Formats, and the Vice Chair and Secretary for M1.6 – Cross Jurisdictional Issues and Societal Aspects.Coordinated logistics for, and participated in, the DHS Biometric Coordination Group (BCG), which facilitates DHS intra-departmental planning and coordination on biometrics research; development, testing and evaluation; and deployment to DHS operational end-users.Supported the BCG's subject-specific Working Groups, e.g. Fingerprint, Iris, and Face.Served as the Executive Secretary for the DHS Biometric Standards Working Group, which acts as the DHS Standards Council's Standards Subject Area Working Group for biometrics.Provided technical and engineering support and attends functions of interest to DHS, as well as meeting with vendors of biometric products and services, reporting salient information to the sponsor.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Served as Deputy Editor of ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 (NIST SP 500-290). Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information.Chaired ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 canvass working groups for Source representation/associated context data records, Face best practices, Resolution, and Traditional encoding documentation.Drafted the Concept of Operations and Initial Assessment report for the harmonization of FBI EBTS and TWPDES.Provided support for defining new types of transactions and field codes for Next Generation Identification (NGI), as well as testing and documentation of the proof of concept prototypes that were developed.Provided technical and engineering support and attended functions of interest to FBI, as well as meeting with vendors of biometric products and services, reporting salient information to the sponsor.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Oversaw the development, testing, and fielding of pilots for the Rhode Island multilingual internet initial claims system, the Connecticut internet employer registration system, the Connecticut direct payment system, and the Delaware internet initial claims system.Co-authored and edited the ITSC Internet Group Accessibility Guidelines, a programmer’s handbook for building Section 508/ADA-compliant internet applications.Fielded the initial version of the Rhode Island Internet Initial Claims System (RI-ICS) pilot, a UI claims collection application implemented using the MS Component Object Model, Active Server Pages (ASP), and SQL Server 7.0. The application was extended to store and display all text, i.e., questions, help text, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.Created a single, generic mechanism for extracting initial claims and employer wage and contribution information from a MS SQL Server 7.0 database, formatting the extracted information according to the appropriate eXtensible Markup Language (XML) schema to create an XML file to be used for transferring the information to another data store.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided technical writing and editing expertise for the completion of the Image Quality Study Final Report, which determined how well flat, two-print image data would perform when searched against rolled, ten-print image data.Developed, tested, and fielded early versions of ULW, an editor used by latent fingerprint examiners to encode latent fingerprints lifted from crime scenes.Provided support and training to ULW users.Provided meteorological and algorithm developers with a consistent, object-oriented Application Programming Interface (API) for generating weather products.Wrote an application planning guide and a developer’s handbook to guide software development efforts using Visual Basic, Java, MS Visual C++, and Oracle 7.3.Prototyped a relational data model for capturing all pertinent information about Polar satellite processing systems and to develop an intuitive user interface that provided ready access to the data and presented key relationships among the data.Developed a Situation Report and Strategic Plan for dealing with year 2000 issues.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Developed a proof of concept prototype implemented as a 3-tier system.Developed a client/server graphical user interface for then current data management functionality of a mainframe-based Ada application using PowerBuilder 5.0, Oracle 7.3 and NobleNet EZRPC.Analyzed, modified, tested and released changes to a large-scale Ada mainframe system.Mentored peers in all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Documented the Flight Planning and Processing (FPAP) Software Design Document (SDD) in preparation for the Area Control Computer Complex (ACCC) Critical Design Review (CDR).Acted as the interim Section Manager (at the end of 1993 and the beginning of 1994) for the Flight Plan Source Management (FPSM) section of the FPAP department while a replacement was sought.Planned the design and code activities for a staff of six to eight programmers for the fiscal year 1994.Designed, coded and tested Ada in IBM’s Distributed Development Environment on a RISC6000 platform.Identified requirements issues, proposed solutions, and reviewed resolutions proposed by the Systems Engineering team.Provided expertise to simplify the Software Requirements Specification for FPAP/FPSM.Automated the software implementation costing analysis process in Foxbase+ and developed a database for storing software impact assessments and associated data.Designed the System Engineering Database (SEDB) System Test Plan, as well as supported SEDB design and analysis.Developed data flow diagrams that characterized the Software Problem Resolution Process for the NCC.Participated in an effort to improve the traceability of NCCDS requirements to NCC transactions and was responsible for maintaining the database containing the traceability information.Led the development of the System Engineering Metrics Plan and the relevant data collection forms and maintained the database that housed the Metrics information.

Ms, Systems Engineering

Activities and Societies: Master's dissertation titled "A User Interface for Discrete Optimization-Based Tradeoff Analysis", M.S. 98-2..

Bs, Physics With Scientific Instrumentation

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa ThetaMechanic for PKT Racing buggy program from 1986-1990. Active member of Phi Kappa Theta.