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Huntsville, Al, Us

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Team Lead responsible for the avionics software on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).● Lead teams of engineers responsible for system testing, analysis, and qualification of the avionics for the launch and air worthiness of the SLS. This includes designing, executing, analyzing, and maintaining a library of system tests and software test cases that verify a collection of requirements.● Responsible for designing, integrating, and debugging system test software with oncoming releases of avionics software. The software test cases are written in XML, Python, and C.● Responsible for analyzing all data from the executed system tests to determine a pass/fail status.● Present test case data to engineering and work to resolve problems found.● Implemented agile techniques to improve productivity and collaboration.● Wrote and delivered performance reviews and mentored other engineers.● Responsible for all hiring and bringing team members up to speed.● Managed deliverables with the NASA customer including financials and task order management.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Product Owner and Systems Engineer for multiple solution teams to qualify Adtran's networking products before they are released to the field. ● Product Owner and Systems Engineer of a team to test and verify our G.FAST product line in an SDN/NFV environment. Virtual Machines are spun up in a KVM/OpenStack environment managing G.FAST white boxes. Utilized large scale simulators for the scale testing of Adtran's cloud based management platform. Wrote RFPs, requirements, and designed the test plan and test beds. The test automation was performed in Python and REST. GUI automation was performed in Selenium.● Obtained SAFe 4 Certified Practitioner.● Product Owner and Systems Engineer of a team to test and verify Adtran's older DSLAM product line. Designed the test plan and test beds. Designed the automation test architecture which was implemented using iTest and TCL. The automation code provisions all devices under test, provisions the data generators, tests the features, computes a pass/fail analysis, and pushes the results to a test report database.● Trained and led an offshore team on our automated DSLAM test strategy. The team automated our manual suite of tests and executes test cycles for our DSLAM products.● Product Owner of a team to test our older EMS product across multiple solutions. Additionally administer the department's EMS servers.

Austin, Texas Area

Consultant for multiple companies designing, executing, and debugging system tests for networking products. Clients included Dell Computer Corporation, Crossroads, and Bandspeed.

Austin, Texas Area

Responsible for the design, implementation, test and documentation of the data plane and system plane of a DSL switch.● Utilized and ported Wind River's Tornado for Home Gateway package for the Layer 2 and 3 protocol stack. This included porting Wind River's ADSL driver, ATM drivers, and PPP stack for use on the product. ● Designed, implemented, and administered the software development lab network and Wind River environment. ● Conducted demonstrations for potential customers. All development was done in C.

Austin, Texas Area

Responsible for leading a team for xDSL consulting services for Cisco's Professional Services Organization. ● Designed and deployed networks for Cisco customers. This involved being a subject matter expert on Cisco CPE equipment, Cisco DSLAMS, Cisco xDSL aggregators, Cisco Routers and switches. ● Team Leader for a voice and data over xDSL solution. This solution allowed customers to have 1 network for their telephone and data services by utilizing a GR-303 interface and separating voice and data traffic. Led a group of 4 people for successful Lab trial deployments at 2 customer sites.● Obtained CCNA Certification.

Austin, Texas Area

Responsible for adding software features and writing design specs for Cisco's next generation DSLAM that ran on Cisco's IOS. This switch offered customers high-speed data service over an xDSL medium. All development was done in a UNIX environment and coded in C.● Designed, implemented, and tested a 8-port T1/E1 driver.● Designed, implemented, and tested a DS3/E3 driver. ● Wrote multiple software design specifications for Cisco's IOS during the “Concept Commit” process stage.

Austin, Texas Area

Responsible for designing, implementing, and testing an embedded object-orientedconfiguration manager for a DSLAM switch. This switch offered customers high-speed data service over an xDSL medium with an SNMP management interface. All development was done in a UNIX environment and coded in C. The company was later acquired by Cisco Systems.● Defined the information model and configuration rules.● Defined the messaging format and communication protocols between the Configuration Manager and the other applications and line cards.● Designed, implemented, and tested a auto provisioning feature where various line cards could be exchanged and the previous configuration would be pushed down to the card automatically.● Designed and implemented a Watch Dog timer application that would restart applications when they became dormant.● Ported a vendor supplied DS3 driver to drive the trunk port of the switch. ● Designed and set up the system test lab.● Led the integration and system test effort for the successful release of the product.● Provided onsite customer support.

Munich, Germany

Responsible for the design, implementation, and testing of a Frame Relay over SMDS Metropolitan Area Network.● Spent 4 years in Munich, Germany as the project leader responsible for delivering multiple releases to our customers and transitioning the software project from Siemens, Boca Raton to Siemens, Munich.● Designed, Implemented, and tested the frame processing functionality of the embedded frame relay network card. All software was developed in a UNIX environment and coded in C and i960 assembly.● Designed, Implemented, and tested T1/E1 drivers that interfaced to the customer side of the network.● Performed the initial integration of the software on the new hardware. This included board bring up and the initial debugging of the packet processing software.● Led a team to perform the system test effort that included designing tests, executing tests, and resolving problems.

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Responsible for the design, implementation, test, and documentation of the I/O system and file system for the MicroMPX kernel, a dual O/S kernel utilizing UNIX as a development environment with a streamlined real-time run-time kernel. Our customers used our product for flight simulation and missile guidance. The software development environment was a Unix development environment with everything coded in C and assembly.● Designed the POSIX compliant I/O user APIs. ● Wrote various VME based drivers. ● Obtained Department of Defense Security clearance.● Gave onsite customer support where problems were debugged with an F-18 flight simulator that executed on our product.● Supported an older proprietary OS where features were added and bugs were resolved primarily within the Scheduling area.

Gainesville, Florida Area

● Managed a SAS database for research projects and animal patients for the Veterinary School. The database existed on an IBM 370 mainframe.● Managed and maintained all PCs for the Veterinary School. Tasks included PC setup, software installation, and problem resolution.● Managed and maintained the office computer network.