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Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Kirtland Afb, Albuquerque, Nm

Assembled a team of software engineers for the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy branch. Mentored the team through the software development life cycle. Introduced and cultivated the use of the AGILE process to execute and manage the continuous change in software projects and tasking. Fostered the seamless integration with other AFRL branches responsible for developing modeling and simulation software. Developed and promoted the process between the directed energy branch and the AFRL software management group for the delivery and acceptance of developed software. Responsible for the supervision and management of each member of the software team.

Rio Rancho, Nm

Automation Engineer responsible for sustaining automation software which controls and collects critical data for material processed through the various Intel manufacturing flow. Supporting Lithography, Planar, Metrology, and Sort areas. Responsibilities include problem management which supports elimination of repeat issues. Support software upgrades, configuration management, data collection, and trouble shooting. Script development to support trouble shooting. Communicating with peers at all of Intel's manufacturing sites to improve efficiency and eliminate repeat issues.

Kirtland Afb, Albququerque, Nm

Designed and developed satellite mission planning software. Developed reporting tools for mission review.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Member of a software design and development team for the U.S. Army’s Crusader ground assault vehicle. Developed Use Cases and Scenario diagrams from customer requirements for the Mapping and Munitions modules of the project. Utilized Rational Rose tool suite to model, document, and design for rapid prototyping and development. Used code generation capabilities to generate the software framework and compiled code for multiple platforms using Rational’s integrated compiler. This project followed the SEI CMMI Level 3 process design process.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Member of a design team to develop an Environment Generator for the creation of a war environment for the Theatre Air Command and Control Simulation Facility (TACCSF) on Kirtland Airforce base. The environment generator provides a battlefield with constructive aircraft, ground units, battle space terrain and simulated data links. This environment generator is used to test Command and Control of Air Force and Joint Force aircraft, ground based sensors used to allocate weapons, and other aircraft during a conflict. Used Rational Rose Object-Oriented Design tools for the design and documentation. Developed real-time data collection software used during simulated war games for the purposes of evaluating and training Command and Control personnel. Participated in annual exercises. Provided data from the exercises to the U.S. Air force to train command and control protocol to personnel.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical And Computer Engineering