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Arlington, Va, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

- Responsible for managing a team in the design, development, and implementation of the Item Development Tracking System (IDTS) – a web-based application for searching and viewing vast amounts of data related to the Department of Education’s NAEP program.- Responsible for conducting customer and team meetings and creating and maintaining all project documentation based on CMMI Level 3.- Responsible for working directly with stakeholders (i.e. customers and partners) to gather requirements and discuss status updates and change requests.- Responsible for working with the IDTS business analyst and lead developer and the UX team to design and implement features based on the customer requirements. This process included creating wireframes initially and then high-fidelity mockups and eventually working prototypes all presented to the customer for review.- Wrote unit tests for the AngularJS layer of IDTS, using Jasmine, to help improve the quality of the application. Also, introduced the use of Moq for the C# unit tests and instituted some code refactoring to make it easier to mock the data layer.- Researched options for providing fast and efficient searching and data faceting to IDTS based on customer requirements. Selected, learned, and integrated Apache SOLR into the product.- Created a tool, using DotNetBrowser, capable of programmatically accessing a website and capturing a screenshot that is used to capture screenshots of rendered items.- Created new development/testing process utilizing Confluence, BitBucket, and JIRA to improve team efficiency, improve code quality through enforce peer reviews, and improve recording and tracking of requirements.- Designed and developed a series of microservices (in C#) to collect information on various AWS resources (using the .Net AWS SDK) and store it in a NoSQL database (using DynamoDB) where it could later be accessed by an API (to later become an AWS Lambda Function).

Herndon, Va, Us

- Conducted in-depth research of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) and gathered requirements for building AXE, a robust API based on the standards identified in RFC 6120 and RFC 6121.- Managed the design and development of AXE using C#.- Wrote over 2000 unit tests to ensure the stability and effectiveness of AXE.- Managed a team in the design and development of the back-end server architecture for Skylight, an enterprise smart glasses platform that used AXE as its underlying communications layer.- Designed and developed a plug-in architecture based API for creating applications that extend Skylight and act as the bridge between a customer's environment and the Skylight platform.- Worked directly with partners and customers to train them on installing and using Skylight, and assisted them with designing and creating add-ins to integrate Skylight into their architecture.- Provided customer support to partners and customers related to the implementation and use of Skylight.- Created demo add-ins to serve as examples for customers and demonstrate the product at shows and sales meetings.- Wrote detailed developer training materials and documentation.- Researched and designed new functionality and improvements based on customer feedback.- Managed and prioritized the product backlog and worked with the Engineering team to create and schedule tasks.- Designed and created a management framework to assist partners, customers, and co-workers in the creation of add-ins.- Researched and created a detailed real-world scenario and created a complete demo based on it that used the management framework.

- Conducted research on graph theory, layout algorithms, and clustering in an effort to fully understand the existing SnagL application.- Led the design and development of an updated version of SnagL using Silverlight, C#, and HTML.- Designed the new version of SnagL around the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) so that portions of the application, such as layouts and data similarity algorithms, could be easily added as needed.- Assisted with the installation of SnagL and its integration into various analytical data source tools used by the government.- Tested and documented the updated version of SnagL and released it as an open source project on CodePlex.- Created applications that loaded data used by Counter-IED Organization Integration Center (COIC) intelligence analysts that lead to the identification and capture of terrorists.- Designed and developed a C# framework for creating data loaders that would ingest data from various sources and formats into an Oracle database.- Designed and developed a C# library capable of parsing, based on an XML instructional file, partially structured data from Microsoft Office documents (Power Point, Word, and Excel).- Converted and enhanced the C# loader framework into Java, which teams used to rapidly develop data loaders, greatly increasing the amount of useful data available to analysts.- Selected by the customer to receive training on how to use and configure NetOwl, their on-site entity extraction tool.- Managed the NetOwl server and conducted a detailed analysis of its extraction results in order to resolve false positives and negatives.- Worked closely with analysts to identify and understand their needs, to ensure the data loaders performed as required.- Designed and developed a Java architecture and application that was capable of performing NetOwl extraction on the entire data store and storing the raw results and individual facets into an Oracle data structure.

Falls Church, Va, Us

- Designed and developed a web-based application using ASP and VB .NET that provided a centralized interface for global Department of State embassies to interface with the enterprise SMS architecture for deploying software.- Designed and developed internal administrative tools and applications using VB script and VB.NET to support the SMS administrative team.- Designed and developed a sophisticated framework, running as a windows service, that allowed remote administrators across the globe to perform administrative tasks on their local system.- Designed and created all necessary databases and tables in SQL server.- Conducted in-depth testing of all custom applications and wrote detailed documentation to ensure the usability and the stability of the product.

Us

- Assisted in protecting the Missile Defense Agency from a lawsuit by writing a Visual Basic .Net program that scanned emails on an Exchange server for specific phrases and collated the data into a detailed report.- Designed, developed, tested, and deployed administrative tools using VB Script, VB6, and VB.NET) based on the customer’s needs.- Assisted the help desk team by provided ad-hoc tools and applications to help them better support the users.- Wrote a custom application that scanned a user's hard drive and migrated all important data and settings to a new hard drive during the relocation of the Missile Defense Agency from the Pentagon to the Navy Annex.- Quickly wrote and deployed a Visual Basic script to stop the spread of and removed a zero-day virus that had infected a set of machines on the network.- Setup, managed, and maintained the McAfee network security and virus protection application (ePolicy Orchestrator) for the Missile Defense Agency.- Monitored, analyzed, and reported on suspicious and malicious activity discovered on computers across the network.- Assisted in detecting, defending, and recovering from a computer-based attack on the network by a foreign nation.

- Designed and developed a Visual Basic application for the Masons that collected demographic information and fingerprints to produce an identification card for children.- Designed and developed various additional fingerprint based applications all using Visual Basic and NEC's biometric SDK.- Tested and conducted an analysis of various biometric (fingerprint) devices.- Attended various industry conferences and shows and performed equipment installation and demonstrations.

- Assisted the company with converting their payroll system from an archaic mainframe to a more modern system.- Designed and developed the tax management portion of Pay America's payroll system using Visual Basic.- Conducted requirements analysis and designed and created the user interface and SQL Server database tables as well as the underlying logic for the tax portion of the application.

- Designed and developed Computer Based Training (CBT) applications, for government customers, using ToolBook and FoxPro.- Gathered requirements from the customer and conducted research in order to create.- Designed and developed various database applications, based on customer needs, using FoxPro.

Bs, Computer Information Systems

Associate'S Degree