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Ormond Beach, Florida, United States

Designed and installed open road toll collection systems in Florida, Virginia, New York, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. Projects include FTE Polk Parkway, VDOT Hampton Roads Express Lanes, the EZPass bridge crossings for the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Authority (DRJTBA), the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA), and the Port Authority of NY and NJ (PANYNJ). • Worked closely with and provided hardware engineering support to the Conduent software development team during all product integration, testing, and deployment phases.• Crafted the system hardware architecture for the system design documentation.• Provided detailed drawings to the client and contractors, which included site layout, block level diagrams, network diagrams, cable specifications, equipment drawings, and roadway loop installation.• Conducted site surveys to determine the positioning of all equipment, cables, and conduits, and to assess environmental concerns, such as obstructions, electrical interference, and lightning protection.• Calculated equipment power and UPS requirements. • Specified environmental enclosures according to site and equipment requirements.• Developed construction plans and installation schedules.• Oversaw the installation, testing, and commissioning of express lane systems.• Provided level 3 support and training on the installation, termination, and tuning of all roadway equipment, including Idris / Neology intelligent loops, RedFox ID classification systems, NorthStar and Nortech loop detectors, SICK laser scanners, Cepton Lidar, JAI and Inex Cameras, Phoenix digital IO controllers, Cisco layer 2 network switches, Transcore and Kapsch multiprotocol RFID readers.

Rutherford, Nj

Engineered, installed, and managed enterprise backup systems consisting of Windows NT and Sun Solaris servers, STK robotic tape libraries, Quantum DLT tape drives, Clarion RAID, and the Veritas Netbackup software. Wrote scripts in K-shell and Perl/CGI. Served as project leader for evaluations of new backup products and technology. Deployed backup solutions utilizing Gigabit Ethernet.

Yonkers, Ny

Oversaw all facets of installation and maintenance on Sun Solaris and Windows NT platforms. Worked extensively with systems tuning, network design, capacity planning, system integration, and backup/recovery. Deployed large multi-processor systems. Configured ORACLE databases.

Morristown, Nj

Maintained support and expertise for Unix system clients. Executed the software port of a flight simulator application at Hughes Training Inc. Converted over 160,000 lines of FORTRAN and 45,000 lines of Assembler application code.

Salem, Nj

Consultant at PSE&G’s Salem and Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Stations. Contracted to make improvements to and to correct software deficiencies with the Safety Parameter Display System. Wrote detailed design documents and developed FORTRAN applications to support the addition of new radiation monitoring equipment inside the reactor. Corrected logic problems with application code responsible for monitoring the reactor’s pressure, temperature, and neutron startup rate. Made improvements to the real-time task scheduling.

Hong Kong

Provided computer equipment and consulting services to companies in applications including flight simulation, power plant simulation, and seismic data processing. Clients included Cathay Pacific Airways, The Hong Kong Electric Company, China Light & Power Company, Quantas Airlines, the Indonesian Air Force, and the Royal Thai Army.

Provided customer service support at both national and international Encore field locations. Established regional service centers in Hong Kong and Australia and administered staff recruitment, training, logistics, budget planning, and business development. As technical troubleshooter, provided support in MPX, FORTRAN, and client applications development. Updated embedded MPX 1.x systems to more sophisticated MPX.3x environments.

Taught detailed maintenance concepts on the US Navy’s ocean surveillance system which included a network of Gould 32/77 supermini computers and an array of spacecraft tracking and data acquisition equipment. Prepared texts, instructor guides, training aids, and laboratory exercises. Held Top Secret/SCI clearance.