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30+ years of professional experience, including design & development, CNO development, systems analysis & research, independent verification and validation (IV&V), data base systems development and testing.Provided Java & SQL expertise, design, testing, quick tool and maintenance support for a system that stores information files in a NOSQL database and their associated metadata in an SQL database. Created Java tools to generate custom reports requested by the customer.Worked with a small team porting a remote manage system written in Python2 to Python3. Added new security features and the ability to manage newer versions of software. The system used the Flask framework, Maria DB, PyQt and Jinja2 templates.Developed software in Go and JavaScript running in Docker containers to support research on mobile telecommunication devices. Developed a program using Go to identify mobile devices in a mass device cabinet via USB hubs utilizing the Linux UDEV daemon and ADB. Developed a REST API using Go that provides endpoints to query device information. The “web serve” communicates with the device monitor via gRPC (Google Proto Bufs). Added functionality to an existing client browser interface and backend to retrieve and process information from a MySQL database.Performed CNO software development and design in C on Linux. Designs and develops modules of a network communication application. Implemented OpenSSL algorithms to protect the communications between the communicators. Designed and developed a security strategy for the network application. Developed a methodology for a control tool to connect to and communicate with the application. Developed an interface with python between a system emulator on a server and a program on the network. The interface connected to both with sockets. It converted the human readable communications with the system emulator to a low level binary protocol for the program and vice versa. C, C++, Java, and Python have been used on this effort.Performed CNO analysis, research and development on a supervisory control system that operates on Microsoft Windows. Developed capabilities with C and C++. Developed software test cases using TextTest, python and Windows BAT scripts to test these capabilities.Performed CNO analysis, research and development on a system written in Pascal running on Unix. Performed analysis of the data storage methodology and developed tools in C++ to retrieve system data and present it in a readable format.

Listed skills include Creative Strategy, Algorithms, Sql, Java, and 8 others.