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• Currently performing role of Technical Lead for the Catalog Team of the Platform project. Duties include: providing daily tasking of up to 7 full-time software developers; monitoring and guiding development of dataflows; interfacing with customer to provide status and schedule milestones for dataflows; working with the Maintenance and Sustainment group to help get dataflows installed into production. Responsible for managing the upgrade of those dataflow components to a Kubernetes environment.• Providing software development for the Catalog Team of the Platform project whose duties include: Design and Development of services that are implemented as a docker container in a Kubernetes platform running in the Amazon Govcloud; design and development of dataflows which are implemented as docker containers, Argo Event Sources, Argo Sensors, Argo Workflow templates, and OpenSearch as the document repository.• Provided software development on Air Force contract whose duties include: Design and Development of messaging and scheduling solutions for a multi-clustered system, using DCOS, Apache Mesos, Kafka, Marathon, and Docker.• Performed role of Lead Software engineer for the Weapon System Reference Model (WSRM) project. Duties included: develop software architecture of the WSRM system, a microservice-based system communicating over a message queue (ActiveMQ) and an Angular-based GUI for system setup and status; perform engineering analysts of integrating with external software programs (SIMBA, IRM); implementing functionality of the WSRM system in multiple components.

Worked with customer to design, develop, and test multiple LIMS-EV projects for AFMC/GCSS. Technologies inlcude: HTML4/HTML5; CSS/CSS3; AJAX; Java; Flex; BlazeDS; Teradata DB; Oracle DB; various products of SAP Business Intelligence, including Business Objects Content Management System (CMS), Universe Designer, Query as a web service (QaaWS) Designer, and Dashboard Designer.

Project Lead Engineer and developer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) National MASINT Office (NMO) MASINT Portal. The MASINT Portal is a web-based search-and-retrieval application built to aggregate and disseminate MASINT, GEOINT, SIGINT, and OSINT products created by numerous producers. Responsible for overall technical direction of the MASINT Portal. Developed capabilities utilizing HTML, JavaScript, Java Server Pages (JSP), JSR-168/286 compliant portlet containers (Liferay and JBoss), and object-oriented (OO) classes in java to perform business logic and data access to Oracle 11g database. Responsible for integrating ESRI GIS and Mapping Software with the MASINT Portal to provide dynamic and interactive maps. Performed duties of Test Engineer which included: developing and maintaining the Verification Test Cases; performing system installation; performing verification testing of releases of the MASINT Portal. Also served one year as project manager, in which I was responsible for daily activities of development team; communicating with customer on all issues relating to MASINT Portal; developing release schedules for iterative development of the MASINT Portal.Team member of the FITS project. FITS is a rapid prototype project to rapidly enable the dissemination of images via a web service. Technologies used included Tomcat, OMAR (Ossim Mapping Archive), groovy, grails, postgres, perl, IDL, and Matlab.

Responsible for maintaining regular contact with a team of 2 GRACAR consultants at the same site. Monitors weekly status reports, discusses issues with consultants, facilitates consultants finding creative solutions to problems, and provides career counseling to consultants. Also responsible for approving time sheets on a bi-weekly basis; conducting annual performance reviews; tracking the funding on contracts; working with immediate supervisor to prevent funding gaps; generating monthly status reports for delivery to the customer; and briefing senior MacAulay Brown management on contract status every other month.

Technical Lead on the National Air & Space Intelligence Center Spectral Exploitation Cell (NSEC) Spectral library. Responsible for communication and coordination of the technical status with the customer, project manager, and team members, and for management of the technical team members to ensure quality products and services. Also responsible for increasing the contents of the spectral library by adding pre-existing libraries and new measurements to the spectral library database. Developed and implemented the Ingest Toolkit, an in-house software application written in Perl that simplifies the process of converting new spectra from their native format to the Spectral Library format. Also developed, implemented, and tested the spectral search capability of the Spectral Library Common Dissemination System (CDS), a web-based search and retrieval tool written in java to provide users remote access to the spectral library. The spectral search allows users to upload a spectrum and find the library spectra that best match its spectral shape. Implemented multiple algorithms for the Spectral Editing Tool (SET), another in-house tool written in java and based on the Eclipse framework. The SET enables viewing, editing, and manipulation of spectra in the NSEC format, and also provides the capability to load the finalized spectra into the Oracle database that contains the library.Software Engineer on the SBIRS Data Storage Subsystem (DSS). Responsible for the maintenance of the software (written in C++), which included both bug fixes and enhancements. Ported the source code so that it compiled on Windows 2000, SGI, and SUN; automated the unit test suite for the four modules of the DSS; developed, implemented, and tested the NES Query Tool (NQT), a web crawler written in Perl that queries an NGA web site, extracts the results, and inserts the results into the SBIRS database.

Software Engineer on the modernization of the Stock Control System (SCS) while subcontracted to Computer Science Corporation (CSC). Worked as a member of the Extreme Programming Team on the Readiness Based Leveling (RBL) increment of the SCS and designed, implemented, and tested software applications written in C++ and PL/SQL. Participated in pair programming methodology to implement code business logic for RBL.

Software engineer for C++ application that performed hyperspectral analysis. Responsible for migration/modernization of prototype analysis algorithms.