NOAA’s Satellite Operations Facility operates the nation’s environmental satellites. I am the supervisor of 16 software developers and system administrators as well as providing technical and mission expertise to aid in planning sustainment projects and troubleshooting anomalies with the satellite ground systems.Accomplishments include rebuilding the team from 8 back to full-strength 16, organizing and reducing the number of open work requests from 120 to currently 51, and designing 13… Show more NOAA’s Satellite Operations Facility operates the nation’s environmental satellites. I am the supervisor of 16 software developers and system administrators as well as providing technical and mission expertise to aid in planning sustainment projects and troubleshooting anomalies with the satellite ground systems.Accomplishments include rebuilding the team from 8 back to full-strength 16, organizing and reducing the number of open work requests from 120 to currently 51, and designing 13 new reporting deliverables and associated processes to demonstrate success against customer requirements. Show less

Environmental Satellite Product Generation and Distribution System (ESPDS) is critical for real-time forecasting services at NOAA and DoD, and facilitates research for other U.S. and international users. Supported continuing software development (C++) of the product; requirements and design analysis with customers; and automating build, deployment, and test using ant, shell, and maven.

Software programmer providing technical and mission expertise to aid in troubleshooting anomalies with the NOAA's satellite ground systems and delivering improvements and bug fixes to a wide variety of software components.

After leaving Rockwell, I threw myself into the democratic process by joining a US Senate campaign in what would become one of the largest ever coordinated canvasses. After a few weeks at the doors, I was promoted to launch, build, and manage my own team whose region included the second-largest city in the state, mastering all the skills and technologies on the fly.∞ I was the statewide leader in persuading 1000 normally-sporadic voters to request absentee ballots and commit to vote for… Show more After leaving Rockwell, I threw myself into the democratic process by joining a US Senate campaign in what would become one of the largest ever coordinated canvasses. After a few weeks at the doors, I was promoted to launch, build, and manage my own team whose region included the second-largest city in the state, mastering all the skills and technologies on the fly.∞ I was the statewide leader in persuading 1000 normally-sporadic voters to request absentee ballots and commit to vote for my candidate.∞ At launch of the Cedar Rapids office, I inherited just one employee; then over the course of ten weeks, I personally recruited, trained, and managed a 50-person cadre of door knockers, deputizing and delegating as needed--a natural at management and HR. Show less

Rockwell Collins is one of DoD’s premier providers of military GPS solutions. After graduation, I was hired there to implement multilingual capabilities and develop mobile apps for their handheld receiver, front end and back.∞ Without prior experience in the specific tools used, I became a trusted subject matter expert in the Qt toolkit, SQLite databasing, CSS design, and BASH build scripts by continually seeking alternative solutions and absorbing documentation.∞ Under a contract… Show more Rockwell Collins is one of DoD’s premier providers of military GPS solutions. After graduation, I was hired there to implement multilingual capabilities and develop mobile apps for their handheld receiver, front end and back.∞ Without prior experience in the specific tools used, I became a trusted subject matter expert in the Qt toolkit, SQLite databasing, CSS design, and BASH build scripts by continually seeking alternative solutions and absorbing documentation.∞ Under a contract with the Saudi National Guard to transform all 200 UI screens into Arabic displayed right-to-left, I rearchitected the software to accommodate dynamic displays and alphabets.∞ During the rearchitecture of the GUI, I modernized our custom Qt widget toolkit, designed CSS stylesheets, and updated and refined our C++/Qt coding standards, documentation, and BASH compiler scripts to significantly reduce the cost of software maintenance.Technologies/tools used were SVN version control, SQLite databasing, Ubuntu installations on Virtual Machine, remote desktop protocols, PREP peer reviews, Eclipse and Qt Creator IDEs, Lotus Notes scheduling; coding in Qt, QML, C++, CSS, bash, C, Java, MATLAB. Show less

Engineering Problem Solving, Intro to C Programming, Electrical Circuits, Principles of Electronic Instrumentation; prepared and executed lectures, discussions, labs, homeworks, and exams