Stephen Eckman Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida, US

• Senior Technical Advisor focusing on the future of technologies and new programs to keep the company relevant and ahead of technology evolution
• Principal Investigator for the USMC ITE (Immersive Training Environment)
• Software Development Functional Manager

Orlando, FL, US

Orlando, Florida, US

• Team Lead on Foundation GEOINT 3D (FG3D) for NGA
• Team Lead on Federated Co-Production of 3D Geospatial Data (FedCoPro) for USSOCOM
• Technical Lead on Geospatially Integrated Cyber Information for Situational Awareness (CyberCOP) for USSOCOM
• Principal Investigator for OCEAN-I (photomosaicking and feature detection through machine learning) for the US Navy
• Principal Investigator for Project Etna (procedural modeling from point cloud data) for NGA
• Principal Investigator for Dense Urban Environments Technology (DUET) for the US Army

Reston, Virginia, US

Technical Manager for the US Army's Enterprise Data Services (EDS), a cloud-based data discovery and distribution platform.

Orlando, Florida, US

• Principal Investigator for the Procedural Model Generation Service (PMGS) for the US Army Research Lab
• Principal Investigator for the Tactical Training and Rehearsal Environment (TTRE) for the US Air Force Research Laboratory
• Principal Investigator for the Virtual Team Training Engine (VTTE) for NASA
• Lead Engineer on Madden NFL 25 CoachGlass, a SmartGlass application for XBox One

Reston, VA, US

• SAIC acquired the OLIVE product from Forterra in January 2010. I integrated the OLIVE team and technology into SAIC and had multiple responsibilities including:
• Chief Engineer: Defined the technical direction of the product, including the roadmap. Secured over $1M in IR&D funding to enhance the product. Authored white papers, RFI responses and technical volumes for proposals..
• Engineering Manager: Supervised a distributed team of 16, including software developers, artists, quality assurance, and system engineers. Managed multiple ongoing software development efforts using a CMMI Level 3.
• Interim Program Manager: Twice served as the interim program manager during management reorganizations.

• As the Solution Architect at a Silicon Valley startup I had multiple responsibilities including:
• System Design: Analyzed customer requirements and designed a solution to rapidly meet those requirements. Broke the solution down into detailed tasks including manpower requirements, potential risks, and cost estimation.
• Project Management: Responsible for project schedule, budget and performance on smaller projects. Delivered projects include a complex virtual world scenario for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's.
• Technical Writing / Presentations: Authored technical volumes for proposals including the initial proposal selected for the Air Force’s MyBase next-generation training initiative. Represented Forterra at various.
• Technical Training: Delivered training to customers including SAIC, CAE, AETC, RDECOM and Lockheed Martin.
• Technical Interviews: Conducted technical interviews for all engineering candidates.

Orlando, FL, US

• Senior software engineer at a small simulation company that sells a code generation tool (GL Studio) and has a services division that leverages the same tool. Worked with both sides of the company in multiple roles:
• Project Lead: Project lead for the Navy’s LCAC Maintenance Trainer, the Finnish Air Force’s F-18 Maintenance Trainer, the dashboard component of the CCTT (Close Combat Tactical Trainer) for Lockheed Martin, and an Air.
• Engineering: Provided engineering for Boeing’s Korean F-15 instrument trainer, Nissan’s radio software integration with Statemate, and an AH-64 Apache maintenance trainer.
• Technical Training: Conducted on-site training for NASA (Houston), Northrop Grumman (San Diego), Lockheed Martin (Ft. Worth), and the Danish Royal Navy (Odense, Denmark).
• Business Development and Sales: Developed a business relationship with Sun surrounding the GL Studio Java Code Generator. Supported international distributors in Europe, Korea, and Japan. Closed sales with various.
• Marketing: Made technical presentations at various conferences including I/ITSEC.

• Lead programmer in development of emergency call systems.
• Responsible for embedded development as well as development of PC applications that allow flexible configuration of the systems.
• Designed, developed and integrated a C++ DLL for serial communication with embedded hardware devices.
• Identified the need for and developed an inventory control process.

Redwood City, CA, US

• General programming on the PS2, XBox, and GameCube versions of Madden NFL 2003 (Metacritic: 95) and Madden NFL 2004 (Metacritic: 94) with additional programming support for the PC versions.
• Responsible for online console gameplay. Madden 2003 was the first product to integrate Sony’s network library and consequently the first product to ship with support for Sony’s PS2 network adapter.
• Created "bots" for automated testing.
• Created technical design documents and conducted code reviews.
• Customized server code to support the PS2 “lobby” and statistics server.
• Debugged issues from every area of the game to ensure a deterministic simulation.

• Lead Developer at a small game company focusing on persistent, massively multiplayer games that are playable through a web browser.
• Lead Developer and Lead Designer on Star Exodus, the company’s most successful title.
• Lead Designer on Kings and Castles.
• Maintained production database and web servers.

Memphis, TN, US

Birmingham, AL, US