Michael Ketchum Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Arlington, Va, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

I have taken on a physically active role as a licensed Security Guard at the large Raytheon facility in McKinney. I work with a great group of professional officers who have shared their experience and knowledge with me. I have had the opportunity to work at each post of this site, including the North Texas Security Console (control center).

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Engineering Process Team for both RMS and AVS Greenville site.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Reconnaissance Mission Systems - Software Process, CMMI Level 3 organization metric artifacts, training and process documentation.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Server applications, FD/FI, application events, and testing, Control and Message Processing, HMI, Simulation and Messaging for three programs. These projects utilized Java Open Source Gateway Initiative (OSGi) process handling for functional components. I was able to utilize my past experience in Java and other embedded project work to make significant contributions to Rockwell Collins.o Message handling and event logging in Microsoft Windows Server environment.o Designed Fault Detection / Fault Monitoring integration on SLC3S program.o Created Message Injection tool that helped many engineers save countless hours trouble shooting various systems interactions. o Developed new band implementation for HMI Engine and PIU Simulation as part of a team effort to implement a new software defined radio system. My individual contribution was completed far ahead of expectations and given schedule, which resulted in faster team integration and ability to accept other assignments.o Developed and executed various types of performance tests that helped the architects to identify bottlenecks in message processing and performance.o Participated in middle and top layer development of a solution to integrate AEHF XLR/LDR solution.o Project work required a DoD Security Clearance.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

WiMAX Element Management System - Requested to return to Motorola to continue work started in 2006. Contributions made to three key sub-systems using Agile Methodology development process. Utilized my overall system knowledge to troubleshoot and provide timely tier-4 support that resulted in higher availability and better customer satisfaction. All projects utilize Java 5 and XML.o Reduced IPSec Policy download time by 70% after taking ownership of IPSec Policy sub-system.o Enhanced functionality of configuration downloader as the subsystem owner.o Designed and developed a statistics graphing utility to help support teams quickly identify field performance issues and allow adjustment results to be visualized using AWT and third party graphing Frame tool.Technologies and tools: Java 5, Eclipse, Hibernate, Dom4J, Ant, JUnit, Derby, Apache-Tomcat.

Herndon, Va, Us

ViryaNet Work Force Management system - Achieved saving over $500,000 per year through high-level architecture and innovative ideas, improving the performance and functionality of a critical system to the company's core service. Substantial contributions made to improve the company's workforce management and scheduling system.o Championed and coordinated an Oracle upgrade, which resulted in increased performance, dependability and a better platform for future enhancements.o Solved a critical issue with customers by integrating preventative maintenance system and scheduling system, enabling automation of PM work at nearly 1000 sites.o Designed and developed notification system to customers and technicians about their service call appointments, reports to sales and support staff, and system reports to team members. Improved customer satisfaction and enabled management to make better decisions for technician scheduling.Technologies and tools: PL/SQL, Perl, Java, SOAP, WSDL, XML, Oracle, Toad, IBM WebSphere.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

WiMAX Element Management System - Tasked to co-develop IPSec management solution utilizing Agile methodology in Java 5. Documented and made further improvements to the IPSec sub-system and worked in other areas of Topology Management sub-system. Significant contributor to two major versions of the product, which gradually expanded the capability to handle larger quantities of network elements with each release.o Championed effort to reduce memory overhead through re-factoring exception handling between two services.o Added dozens of rule enforcement features which contributed to served network element stability.o Designed and developed flexible solution for IP Security that resulted in little or no needed changes to code as policy changes were made.Technologies and tools: Java 5, Eclipse, Hibernate, Dom4J, Ant, JUnit, Derby, Apache-Tomcat, ClearCase and ClearQuest.

WavPort Unified messaging solution - PNX Switching solutions - Serenity Intelligent Routing System - Sole engineering source for $2.5 million / year company, creating innovative solutions for pre-paid telephony and toll carrier industry. Increased revenue by employing out-sourced management and contract engineering labor.o Created product idea for new intelligent routing system and managed its development, which produced $1.2 million in sales at a critical time for company.o Widened our customer base by expanding existing switch product for VoIP (H.323 and SIP) utilizing LynxOs and state-machine language.o Represented interests of Pulsar Communications by performing product demonstrations at trade shows, which resulted in over $10 million in incremental sales.o Delivered and integrated solid proof-of-concept Unified Messaging solution for Win32 using Visual Studio C++. System was used for final product without any changes.Technologies and tools: Oracle, Visual Studio C++, Win32, MFC, ADO, Multi-thread, Java 2, JSP, LynxOs, SunOS, Windows NT / XP / 2000 / 2003, Linux, Some ASP, Some .NET, Some Cisco, Radius, IPlanet, J2EE, MVC, IP Network.

Plano, Texas, Us

Design and develop dynamic web pages for configuration of a home ADSL Router device in an embedded html server. Contract lasted three months. Work performed at Telogy in Germantown, Maryland and at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas.

Ca

DSC 600c Cellular Switch Platform - Trunk sub-system specialist for the Configuration Group, providing many fixes and enhancements with excellent quality.o Increased knowledge base for group by becoming the only expert in Trunk sub-system and pushing innovative solutions to meet market demand.o Saved 30% of test time by developing standard test configurations utilizing INet load generator applications.o Improved quality of organization through ISO9000 compliant process improvements.o Reputation among colleagues for making contributions three months before most new hires.Technologies and tools: Solaris, Tektronics I-Net, DSC 600c Cellular Switch, Motorola EMX series Cellular Switch, Real-Time Embedded, Z8000 assembly language, C/C++, Rational Clear Case.

P600, P700, P800, DigiTalk 2000, TalkTime800 cellular phones - Achieved ground-breaking development results with new R&D efforts for first TDMA cell phone. Utilized hardware and call processing background to contribute innovative ideas in embedded design, which resulted in several successful products.o Spawned innovation and success with a new user interface design by bringing R&D, Marketing and Sales groups together for the first time.o Realized record time-to-market by bridging relationships with production groups to transfer new design efforts to the manufacturing floor.o Designed new embedded phone book storage method that improved search performance by 400% from previous methods.Technologies and tools: NEC ?PD75&78 series microprocessors, Assembly Language, In-Circuit Emulators, Hardware level firmware design, Functional and Unit level testing, Logic Analyzer and similar test equipment.