Tim Mccarter Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, AL, US

Huntsville, Alabama, US

1st Edge is a small business with an employee-centric environment based in Huntsville, Alabama. Our team works closely with Government customers to create artificial intelligence based solutions. Our software systems mature rapidly using an agile approach to focus the effort of our talented software engineers.Created in 2011 as a part-time commercial.

• Contracting as a Subject Matter Expert for Software Engineering. Clients include
• Torch Technologies - Continued support of MDA/EET through AMRDEC in the areas of visualization software development and configuration management for scenario design. (February 2015 - April 2015)
• AEgis Technologies - GIS software development, data visualization & animation, mapping using Google Earth and World Wind engines under an agile software development effort for MDA Engineering Evaluation & Test. Also.
• AEgis Technologies - Software Lead for MDA Data Center proposal (September 2011 - February 2012)
• Southern Aerospace Corporation - Software SME for Interoperability Task Order proposal (September 2011)
• EpiQ Inc - Software SME for Army C4ISR task bids to IBCS program (August - October 2011)

• Division Manager, Vice PresidentVice President of Strategic Development: strategic business planning for marketing, communications and sales as well as industry, market and business analysis. Managed business.
• Proposal manager for a prime bid on AMCOM EXPRESS BPA 2008 solicitation with a core team of 12 people and 64 teammates and subcontractors.
• Managed the ADT subcontractor effort to support Northrop Grumman’s bid for Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS). Investigated Systems-of-Systems issues pre-acquisition and IR&D efforts. Assisted the prime in.
• Team member for a proposal to Lockheed Martin United Kingdom for a Tactical Data Link Interface for the Land environment Air Picture Provision (LEAPP) system.
• Task Order proposal manager for simulation support to SSDD.
• Supported task order bids as subcontractor, SBIR proposals, and unsolicited proposals.

• Terrain Analysis Services Senior Software DeveloperImplementation of GIS algorithms and visualization of terrain analysis for Brigade Combat Team Modernization in with Luciad and Java on Red Hat Linux.BFT.
• Developed under Boeing CMMI level 5 processes
• C++/VxWorks development for embedded application

New York, NY, US

• SYColeman – Information Operations Division. Lead Software Architect and Programmer for the Joint Embedded Messaging System (JEMS) which bridged tactical C4I workstations unable to interoperate due to message.
• C++/MFC implementation of multi-threaded, distributed system targeted for MS Windows
• Messages and the Mappings between them are specified via specification files (XML), each with a custom Graphical Editor
• Developed and fielded specifications for TADIL-J and USMTF translations

• Tactical Systems Division. Lead Software Engineer for Enhanced Tactical Simulation Interface Unit (ETSIU) that routed and translated messages between real C4I tactical workstations and simulated systems at numerous.
• UML design and C++ implementation of a multi-process system targeted for Sun Solaris
• Design features include layered objects and templates to ease maintenance and expansion
• Implemented DIS/HLA interfaces for simulation interaction and numerous tactical interfaces
• TADIL-A/B/J, TIBS, TRAP, USMTF, FDL, TAB-33/37, OTH, etc. tactical messaging supportedThermo Information Systems Division – Visual Interactive Systems. Program Management, Systems Engineering and Software Engineering.
• C++ components and Direct 3D based Graphics Engine targeted for Windows 95/98

Colorado Springs, CO, US

• Ground Based Interceptor (GBI) Payload Launch Vehicle (PLV) Software Support. Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance support to government customer in the areas of software analysis, and systems testing support.
• Lead on software extraction and analysis task for radar processing system
• Lead on radar system simulation task in C++ for the JMASS architecture

Arlington, VA, US

• Enhanced Fiber Optic Guided Missile (EFOGM). The EFOGM weapons system is a redesign of the original FOG-M concept beginning with a Captive Flight Test (CFT) and Virtual Prototype efforts to prove out the proposed.
• Wrote Software Requirements Specification for the Missile Electronics Unit Software
• Responsible for Missile Flight and Seeker Control software for the Fire Unit Vehicle
• Software member of the CFT Integration and Test teams

• SHaRRP - Sensor Handover Risk Reduction ProgramThis program evaluated THAAD sensor performance and target designation algorithms for both artificial scene projection and actual target engagement from an aircraft.
• Designed pointing and tracking algorithms to gather metric and IR data for target designation
• Implemented data interfaces and conditioning for aircraft position and attitude, radar state vector uplink, image processing data, and stabilized line of sight gimbal.
• Designed and coded an extensive input simulation capability and a data exchange object for real-time communication between multiple tasks to augment the real-time OS kernel.GBATS - Ground-Based Acquisition and Tracking.
• Implemented image processing system for image formation and noise rejection.
• Designed gimbal pointing algorithm with low-pass filter and error proportional control loop.