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Improved "Quality of Life" through relocation from Washington Metropolitan Area to South Carolina's Appalachian Foothills on Lake Keowee.Completed MSCS at University of Illinois (Springfield) December 2015.

Employed within the QinetiQ N/A Mission Solutions Group's, Mission Integrated Solutions business unit providing classical SE support including: requirements development, end-to-end system reliability modeling using the FITs methodology. Authored technical white papers as per customer requests.

Various program management and engineering activities during this period. (Company lost contract to Booz Allen Hamilton.)

• Infrastructure Architecture Team Lead- Led a cross domain (and multiple vendor) team consisting of: InfoSec Engineer, Software Architects, Infrastructure Engineers and Systems Engineers in support of the NCTC. The team’s goal is the physical realization of a tactical (1-2 year) implementation of the program’s strategic (5-year) SOA based architecture. Role includes responsibility for technical direction, customer interaction, deliverables and staffing. Released refresh of underlying architecture document which included a cornucopia of supporting activities including: Infrastructure Architecture vision, SOA Design methodology, program engineering standards, logical architecture updates and Model Driven Architecture investigation. (Licensed ZapThink Architect (SOA) 2009) • Exposed to SCRUM development philosophy.• Supporting SRA Business Dev. in a technical professional role in domains including Cyber Security, IA and telemetry.

IC customer has Information Retrieval (IR) challenges. Led a team that consolidated requirements and interviewed personnel (Exec, users, O&M) to create a Conceptual Design that embodied a holistic system design approach to improving IR availability, scalability and extensibility. Authored Conceptual Design; responsible for customer interactions, presentations, personnel issues. Netezza and other solution approaches were explored.

• Chief Engineer (Global Argus) - MITRE and Georgetown University (GU) were migrating this MITRE “proof of concept” system into a production environment. Responsible for the early MITRE and GU IT team’s efforts relative to the installation of a nationally critical IT system supporting Avian Flu research. Activities included: requirements definition, refining/documenting systems approach and creating project’s InfoSec policy.• Multi-Discipline Systems Engineer, Lead – Primary role at customer site (NCTC) was addressing Disaster Recovery/COOP issues within the CIO organization. These varied activities (implementation of COOP site, identification of critical system and network vulnerabilities and dependencies, interfacing to other Agencies, networking and data center design, CONOPS, …) were enterprise-wide.

- Subsequent to receiving TS/SCI FSP security clearance, employed within CIA's CIO organization performing SE activities focused upon Disaster Recovery. - While awaiting completion of security clearance process, authored 30+ page white paper regarding directory integration w/emphasis on Web Services for government customer.

A new corporate position; drove dramatic malware reduction, authored and implemented ISO-9000 SOPs & AOPs that addressed numerous facets of the Enterprise's IT security. Obtained CISSP.

Responsible for successfully leading a number of Enterprise IT critical projects including: - Disaster Recovery Project Lead: Disregarded IBM Consulting's proposal to develop an improved cost/benefit approach that addressed significant challenges to this 24x7 operational environment. Developed technical approach, drove implementation (including a small auxiliary Data Center) and authored Business Recovery plan. Cost: ~$ 1M (not adjusted for inflation) - Citrix Thin Client Project Lead: Identified concept, secured funding (thru excellent ROI), selected vendor and led the implementation of a Citrix implementation into a 24x7 manufacturing environment. Disaster tolerant Citrix server farm supported: MS Office, SAP & Lotus Notes Clients and additional applications. Eventually supported 400 user work stations. - Tivoli Systems Monitoring Project Lead: Implemented proactive systems monitoring of Enterprise (heterogeneous) systems including: Lotus Notes, SAP, CITRIX Server Farm and other unique applications. Integrated with existing Level 1 support cadre. Resulted in dramatic (>5%) enterprise system availability improvements. - Led roll-out of IBM's semiconductor manufacturing floor control system (MES): SiView.- Six Sigma Greenbelt

• Member of IBM Corporate group tasked with improving IBM’s internal manufacturing efficiency specifically in the domain of process control. Group later provided consulting services to IBM customers.• Joined IBM's automated manufacturing equipment business unit’s technical marketing team. Other activities included systems consulting and IBM US technical marketing activities in support of the IBM Yasu Japan developed semiconductor manufacturing floor control system (MES) known as SiView (was Poseidon).

• Led IBM’s only implementation of ISO/OSI network (MAP 802.4) & application software (MMS (ISO-9506)) to integrate a manufacturing sector's systems & tooling. This was IBM's sole internal implementation of Manufacturing Messaging Specification (MMS); MMS is now the basis for the Utility Communications Architecture (UCA). Responsible for full SDLC (concepts/design/architecture/implementation), vendor selection, budgeting and implementation. Included the implementation of a 450Mhz broadband cable plant (CATV) which provided the following services: dynamically configured video surveillance of factory operations, audio (telephone & PA) and data (PC-Net + 802.4). Project presented at conferences in the US & Germany. (Cost: >>$1.2M (not adjusted for inflation))• Project Lead of an IBM corporate critical robotic centric manufacturing system supporting Multi-Layer Ceramic (MLC) module sintering; achieved dramatic availability improvements.• Developed application software using a variety of programming languages (machine language, assembler, APL, EDL) on a variety of micro and mini computer platforms (8-bit & 16-bit micros and the IBM Series/1 minicomputer) to automate R&D electrical characterization of semiconductor devices ranging from basic MOS structures to functional testing of memory and logic designs. Included integrating various tools (semiconductor wafer probers, temperature controllers, test pattern generators, electronics (A/D, D/A, TTL, analog) and instrumentation .