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Providing network and security services for large financial customer.

Estate Executor for two different estates.

Columbia, Maryland

Recruited to establish the engineering department for a network-security start-up.• Hired, built, and led the engineering and customer support/service teams. • Provided the teams the proper focus, tools, and processes to build and support a quality product.• Guided the product transition from contracted/off-shore to in-house.• Took a system based on re-skinned open source code to a solid production ready network security system• Directed and oversaw creation of continuous-integration and automated testing infrastructure.• Wrote and implemented the information security policy for company, providing a robust set of security directives covering all domains.

Annapolis, Md

Hired to instill customer confidence in an existing product.• Introduced agile practices, continuous integration, and quality mindset among four distinct teams.• Created KPIs and dashboards to highlight continual improvement, based on ticket, build, and automated test data.• Hired and managed: local teams, geographically diverse teams, contractors, and off-shore.• Launched the company’s first mobile application, which became a showpiece for demonstration of core products value.• Managed full software life-cycle, from creating initial levels of effort, managing the effort to meet deadlines, tuning through testing and integration, and helping the customer during deployment.

Annapolis, Md

Promoted to take a product that was close to ‘harvest mode’ and generate new revenue. Product was a Short Message Service Center, a Cellular Wireless Carrier-grade system requiring the highest availability and capacity.• Tripled product revenue in 5 years, through increases in capacity, features, and reliability.• Developed the architecture for more efficient message delivery, allowing system to keep up with peak demands (the basis for the billing model).• Developed the architecture and led the development of a web-based Operations, Administration and Maintenance interface, with greatly enhanced range of features and customer usability.• Established requirements and led the design to support the new “Long Term Evolution (LTE)” standard, ensuring product remained relevant/valuable into the future.

Annapolis, Md

• Created infrastructure for Mobile Location, before it became “the next big thing.”• Architected build and test systems using Open Source tools to replace or integrate with existing infrastructure.• Created automation frameworks to greatly reduce manual processes.• Developed variety of tools and features using supporting: data measurement, mining, and analysis; SNMP translation; security; systems auditing/fingerprinting; and network processing.

Annapolis, Md

• Led team of engineers, providing 24 hour on-call support for Carrier customers with 99.999% uptime SLAs.• Planned and implemented the design, acquisition and integration of company’s development environment / test lab consisting of 100+ servers and network and physical infrastructure.• Architected, and led the development of a Customer Support and Engineering feature and issue tracking system (before such systems became available as turn-key implementations).• Wrote and negotiated SLAs – ensuring they were sufficient, practical, and measurable.