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• Incorporating Personal Identifiable Information datasets with high compliance and legal oversite onto an existing large scale Hadoop / Elastic Search architecture. Translated legal requirements to system requirements, assessed impact and changes required. Performed data characterization and mapped to existing scheme. Storyboard interface changes. Determined roadmap to incorporating new enterprise identity access and authorization system. Performed alternative analysis / solutions and built consensus across government and project technical leads.• Proactively address, built consensus and briefed a technical solution for meeting data scientist compliance requirement which stopped a “non-compliance” letter being issued against the project.

Herndon, Virginia

• Performed systematic test of new product, wrote test plans, identified deficiencies that allowed the developers to focus and achieve the product release date• Made recommendations for improving the user interface which were incorporated into the product. • Performed a detailed business process review for a complex system being developed. Analysis included reviewing initial requirements, documenting the process, interfacing with the customer, identifying areas of concern that helped to clarify and resolved issues not being address. • Researched commercial cloud hosting providers against customer requirements.• Proactively implemented a customer support tracking system using JOOMLA and MySQL. • Requested to brief solution at JOOMLA users group

Northern Virginia

• Technical lead, requirements definition, system engineering, database design, user interface design, agile scrum development and for Collection Requirements Work Environment (CCWE) IR&D shaping operation that resulted in $34 million in contracts.• Technical lead, requirements definition, system engineering, database design, user interface design, agile scrum development and for Cyber Intelligence Environment (CIE) IR&D shaping operation that resulted in a $2 million contract.• Conceptualizing and building consensus for an open architecture framework based on international standards for augmenting the DoD and Intelligence Community with commercial satellites and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. • Technical lead, requirements definition, system engineering, database design, user interface design, agile development for IR&D Natural Language Processing initiative that was transitioned to other research efforts. Capabilities included geo-location of open source information and identifying unknown/unknown linkages.• Assessed the impact of Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE), cloud computing and Activity Based Intelligence – recommended internal research and development initiatives, secured funding, and provided oversight.• Conceptualized, defined requirements, user interface design and team lead for a Multi-INT, cross agency collection strategy development tool that was adopted into shaping operations.• Researched the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) commercial use cases. Briefed business areas on key challenges, participating government agencies and candidate use cases.

Northern Virginia

• Systems of systems analysis, re-engineered business process, implemented and fielded an operational capability in ten months for Counter Intelligence group• Software and database support in the evaluation of MASINT collection capabilities against the National Intelligence Priority Framework (NIPF)

Northern Virgina

• Four generations of Multi-INT Collection Requirements Management Systems, three were fielded other was a prototype• Veridian’s Secure Pipeline High-speed Information Network eXchange (VeriSPHINX) - Multi-Level Security (MLS) gateway resulted in my US Patent• Designed, implemented, and performed data reduction for two surveys of the Intelligence Community collection capabilities• Sensor Orchestration investigation of National Technical Means (NTM) and DoD Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance Platform / Sensors for DARPA resulting in a follow-on contract