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United States

United States

Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, United States

Portfolio level technical lead architecting the sustainment and modernization of four large-scale distributed systems for Air Operations Center training. Leadership level technical advocate, integration lead between external stakeholders and products. Provides the tactical and strategic level vision and roadmap to enable 150+ developers, product managers, and system engineers to execute agile software design delivering user value as rapidly and efficiently as possible. Leads the design, implementation, and support of a M&S DevSecOps Software Factory.

Leads a team of 45 devs, PMs, and designers in the development and architecture of a high-fidelity simulation platform, establishing a standardized foundation for future M&S applications and enabling agile deployment of interoperable software via CI/CD pipeline to AWS Cloud.Leadership-level technical advocate, guides EN best practices, owns the tactical and strategic vision,outcome-driven roadmap, and product backlog for 4 agile product teams.Implemented a robust architectural decision-making process by introducing RFCs and ADRs as key artifacts, ensuring transparent collaboration, knowledge sharing, and informed decision-making in an Agile software program.Developed a comprehensive Capability Needs Statement, tracking development stories to AF-level requirements.

Air Force Academy, Colorado, United States

Lead 3 direct in UAS, robotics, autonomy, teaming, and navigation research, training, and curriculum development.Provided ROS expertise to enable the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to move to the forefront of UAS and robotics research.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

* Leads 22 direct research assistants providing rapid and secure software and hardware solutions for autonomous search and rescue robotics.* Developed, directed, and taught 300- and 400-level undergraduate embedded systems and robotics-related courses, mentored senior-design capstone projects, and advised computer engineering students.* Served as the Director of a robotics research group exploring solutions for air/ground teaming, assistive technologies, and counter-unmanned aerial systems.* Notable achievements while in the position have included:** Designed a novel indoor localization lab to experiment with ground/air robotics teaming and navigation.** Recognized for performance with the prestigious peer-nominated "Outstanding Academy Educator" and institution level "Innovative Educator" awards.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, United States

* Designed and developed first-ever smart home data harvest system to identify and demonstrate personal information leakage in unsecured homes.* Notable achievements while in the position have included:** Focused a thesis on utilizing a red teaming approach to execute a cyber assessment of 20 smart home devices, identified four vulnerabilities, and designed and built smart home cyber defense tools to conceal users and devices from exploits.** Awarded top thesis out of 240 students and Distinguished Graduate.

Qatar

* Leads 6 direct and 24 indirect developing strategic plans, policies, and objectives for the US Air Force's digital communications infrastructure in the Middle East.* Provided the President of the United States, Secretary of Defense, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a worldwide, sustainable strategic perspective for exercising national security responsibilities.* Notable achievements while in the position included:** Provided $1M equipment upgrade and training, tripling communication coverage for 19 partner nations.** Designed the expansion of ground and air communication systems that supported remote operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.** Excelled in high-pressure situations through open lines of communication of critical information on a global scale.

Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, United States

* Leads 8 direct and 500+ indirect across 9 operating locations developing and executing premier testing strategies for the Air Force's command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems.* Reviewed, edited, and provided configuration control for 303 test programs worth $313M/year.* Notable achievements while in the position included:** Lead a distributed team of 270, executing a $2.2M test program which upgraded Army aviationcommunications systems and saved $400,000 in annual maintenance costs.

Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, United States

* Leads 4 direct and 100+ indirect planning, executing, and reporting on $39M test portfolio delivering combat-essential communications and defensive systems to Air Force aircraft and weapon systems.* Notable achievements while in the position included:** Awarded Test Engineer of the Year (#1/129).

Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, United States

* Leads 5 direct and 10 indirect to provide rapid planning, scoping, and execution of 8 defensive system test programs to safeguard the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and partner nation aircraft from enemy missile systems.

Portland, Oregon, United States

* Leads 12 direct across the United States and Germany utilizing lean software solutions to provide automated network based post-processing tools to visualize real-time engine data for reliability testing.

Master'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering