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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington Dc

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington Dc

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Defines the technology vision and strategy for Parry Labs and evangelizes for it both within the company and in the community. Works with technical staff and business development staff as “player-coach” on proposals, whitepapers, RFI responses, presentations, etc. Works with marketing and communications to develop materials on technology including slick sheets, website format & content, and other branding items. Collaborates with other members of the C-suite in leadership activities including strategy, all-hands presentations, Board of Director meetings, company culture, partnerships, etc. Collaborates with engineering leadership to identify, support and mentor technical talent.Key Achievements:★ Instantiated and led initial engineering organization including personnel, organizational structure, and processes★ Developed technical strategy for corporation including application to R&D and capture efforts★ Incepted and initiated strategy to position company as a leader in digital systems integration

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Lead all NRO business including business development, strategy, capture, and execution. Developed business model approach for strategic partnerships including space primes and commercial space vendors. Developed multi-thrust approach to NRO capture in collaboration with DoD space efforts and commercial space ventures.Key Achievement:★ Went from no outlook or strategy for capture to first win of NRO contract within 7 months of start

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Initialize and lead a 270+ member team in the development and support of corporate web and mobile application for Digital Channels including Humana.com, MyHumana, go365, and more. Key Achievement:★ Spearheaded and led collaborative development of multi-thrust strategic approach to digital transformation

Direct the NGC Mission Systems (NGMS) digital transformation and enterprise Agile/DevSecOps initiative with goal of securely providing warfighters with the right capability at the speed of relevance. Advanced the corporate plan to increase efficiency through automation and modernize processes that attracts and retains top talent. Developed the project plan, established and led a highly skilled multi-disciplinary project execution team. Communicate talking points for corporate CEO and NGMS president on Agile/DevSecOps initiative at executive-level customer meetings. Deliver regular briefings to NGMS President and Executive Leadership Team. Key Achievement:★ Appointed by NGMS President to develop and lead the Digital Transformation Operating Objective plan and execute a $20M per year investment in Agile/DevSecOps architecture, infrastructure, workforce and culture.

On CTO staff as architectural lead for software and firmware initiatives. Evaluated software architecture across major software development campuses to determine technology needs. Key stakeholder in engineering initiatives for product-line engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile transformations. Software representation in Technology Council. Key Achievement:★ Developed software product line architecture for $30M per year investment plan in core tech bases for digital RF sensing, digital EO/IR sensing, and digital sensor processing

Directed development of discriminating technology for next generation Space ISR efforts using IR&D, CR&D, and demonstration programs. Conceptualized and led technological innovations driving next generation space platforms and constellations for U.S. Government. Mentored and coached future architects and engineering teams ensuring knowledge, skills and confidence to be top performers. Led whitepapers, RFI responses, proposals, presentations to corporate leaders and customers. Set technical direction and led $11M per year IR&D budget. Key Achievements:★ Developed 15-year technology roadmap aligning investments with current and future captures ★ Led $13M 3-year Space Edge™ on-board mission processing investment delivering $1B+ into strategic plan★ Incepted and led SharkSat initiative to develop and launch smallsat space demonstration of Space Edge ★ Spearheaded yearly vision, budget and development of an open software fabric targeting embedded System-on-a-Chip (SoC) deployments enabling application abstraction from specific hardware components

Directed development and integration of ISR systems for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) customers. Defined vision and strategy for a Software Factory with DevOps processes, the eCORE™ product line, governance processes, community source development, and the OpenLab™ computing environment. Led program/project architects and provided technical direction to software and systems engineering teams. Worked with executive leadership, program management, business management, and business development to identify technical vision and organizational needs. Led whitepapers, RFI responses, proposals and presentations. Technical advisor for key customers. Developed eCORE product line collection of autonomous software components designed and packaged for reuse – downloadable from multiple U.S. Government software repositories. Designed, evangelized and initiated repurpose of eCORE components integrating mission applications and legacy systems. Principal member of the Under Secretary of Defense Intelligence USD(I) DCGS Industry Advisory Group (IAG). Key Achievements:★ Architected urgent U.S. Government Agency’s Red Dot initiative for less than $5M which had a direct impact on saving U.S. and coalition lives from IED attacks in Iraq and Afghan theaters★ Introduced $32M of reusable eCORE software into on-going $2B program evolving closed, stove-piped ground architecture into enterprise-grade, standards-based SOA for under $5M – eCORE components reused and repurposed by 3rd party developers in multiple NG/non-NG programs for reuse value of over $132M★ Received formal commendations in public memo by Under Secretary of Defense Intelligence USD(I) directing major acquisition policy change – Termed a ‘National Asset’★ Recipient of 2009, 2010 NGC Presidential Leadership Awards, 2008 NRO Team of the Quarter Award

Chief Software Architect for NGC C4ISR Networked Systems (CNS). Led development of SOA, data and enterprise architecture used across programs including web server, portal, service bus, service registry, service repository, and architecture modeling. Architectural lead for software staff responsible for project execution. Use case / thread analysis and development. Led proposals, whitepaper and technical requirements documentation. Model driven engineering, DoDAF architecture views and software to hardware mappings. Facilitated executive management with business growth and developed asset repository. Co-led a cross-program Architecture Working Group. Key Achievement:★ Spearheaded change to software development paradigm for $250M+/year business from a traditional Waterfall/Spiral to Agile methods and from a nodal client-server to an enterprise-class service architecutre

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science