Jason Trout Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Plano, Texas, United States

Technical Subcontract Management

Plano, Texas, United States

• Formed and led a team of 20 software engineers that were responsible for the development of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)-based projects, including Nodal Access Units (NAUs) and a Mission Management System (MMS).• Represented the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Plano sector as a member of the Software Architecture Review Board (ARB), Agile Working Group, Software Testing Working Group, Software Process Working Group, and DevOps Working Group.• Set goals for employees that aligned with organizational objectives.• Facilitated agile ceremonies and meetings for project teams.• Managed multiple projects using Jira and Confluence. Jira was used for sprint planning and task tracking. Confluence was used for providing documentation and reporting to keep stakeholders aligned and informed on their projects.• Continued MOSA NAU SW IPT role from prior position.• Contributed to software implementation efforts, created/maintained site DevOps automation, software processes, and technical infrastructure.

Plano, Texas, United States

• Served as MOSA NAU SW IPT Lead. Team consisted of 15 software and systems engineers. Team developed the avionics digital backbone used for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) proposal and MOSA IRAD efforts.• Used Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for creating model artifacts during the analysis and design phases of the program.• Wrote documentation for proposal efforts.• Created prototypes used for milestone completion for internal, customers, and external demonstrations.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Led a team of engineers in the development of a web portal for use by a government customer for Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) operations. The web portal provided a framework called Frontier that allowed various vendors and customers to create custom web front-end applications and services that were able to collaborate with each other. Development was primarily in Java, JavaScript, C, and C++.• Served as Product Owner (PO) for software engineering, Capability Owner (CO) for systems engineering, and software architect for the portal and was responsible for customer briefings, traveling with the customer, and collaborating with vendors and other customers.• Received individual company Top Star award.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Responsible for architecture and full-stack development of an enterprise-level signal recording service for a government customer.• Created front-end components using JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone.js, and Atmosphere.js.• Created back-end components using J2EE 7 (JBOSS EAP), C++, QPID, Solr, and Accumulo

Dallas, Tx

• Led a team of 4 software engineers to complete and deploy a software application called Nationwide Auto Titling (NAT) that allowed car dealerships to process title transactions between different states. • Designed the security subsystem for authentication/authorization for the company’s suite of applications. Development was primarily in C# and ASP.NET MVC.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Responsible for front-end development for small-scale ISR platforms.• Participated in the bidding process for new projects.• Participated in formal software requirement and quality reviews: PRETs and Formal Test Verifications (FTVs)• Served as a member of an Internal Research and Development (IRAD) team for small-scale ISR platforms.• Continued design and implementation of a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) front-end and middle tier for interfacing with small-scale ISR platforms.• Served as a mentor for newly hired engineers and interns.• Received company Top Star award as a member of the SPYDR AFRICOM Deployment Team.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Contractor responsible for the development and support of CR1 (Airtran merger) for Southwest Airlines.• Participated in daily Scrum and used agile-based tools for reporting project status and controlling project scope.• Maintained in-house test framework (MONA) for critical business services.• Created high-level and detailed design documentation for new feature requests.• Responded to CR1 production issues.• Managed technical debt logs for the CR1 group.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Responsible for the development of SIGINT embedded systems.• Participated in formal software requirement and quality reviews (PRETs and FTVs).• Designed and implemented Digital Signal Processing (DSP) systems on the Mercury OS, VxWorks, and Linux operating systems.• Designed systems for background spectral search, signal copy, signal classification, and geolocation.• Created wideband and narrowband signal recorders in C and C++.• Created mapping solutions for SIGINT applications using NASA WorldWind and Google Earth• Received company Top Star award as a member of the RIO team.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Developed solutions to facilitate work performed by the mechanical and aerospace engineering organizations.• Created web-based tools that allowed easier access to data compared to using legacy, often mainframe-based, applications.• Provided weekly status reports to manager concerning work and school progress.• Automated CAD software (NX) using C# and customized the Teamcenter Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software in C using proprietary APIs (ITK API).

Sulphur Springs, Tx

• Developed medical forms automation products that collected patient information and signatures and sent data to wherever it was needed (fax, email, imaging archives, etc.), internal helpdesk/customer support software, and software and support for marketing initiatives (emails campaigns, competitive games, etc.). Development was primarily in C# and ASP.NET.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Systems Engineering

Research Focus: Machine Learning-based Software Regression Test Case Selection Advisor: Dr. Sudipto Ghosh, Ph.D.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical And Computer Engineering

Emphasis in Software Engineering Report: Testing Safety-Critical Systems using Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Advisor: Dr. Sarfraz.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering

Second Bachelor’s. Emphasis in Telecommunications

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Second Major in Mathematics General Business Minor Highest Honors Thesis: On the Analysis and Implementation of Discrete KA Neural.