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 venture, 1st Edge successfully pivoted to a Government contracting firm in 2015. Currently, Tim is promoting and growing 1st Edge across an expanding set of customers.

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, design and implement configuration management and automated software testing policies and procedures for MDA/EET ground test scenario design. Challenges include very large controlled data sets, concurrent analysis efforts and provenance tracking. (March 2012 - February 2015)• 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 development and communications staff and institutionalized business development processes and tracking. Division Manager for Strategic Applications: ran business unit consisting of program managers in Aviation Systems and GMD.Proposal EffortsLead various proposal bids as both a prime and subcontractor.• 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 proposal material generation and formal reviews.• 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 Intervisibility Program ManagerBlue Force Tracker Satellite Intervisibility. Overall program responsibility for producing satellite coverage shadow maps for display on FBCB2 systems. The approach used an extension of the ADT TacticalOffice® product to produce satellite to terrain vectorization in the form of shape files, which are then overlaid on CADRG terrain maps.MEADS Senior Staff Engineer / Software SMEMedium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) Design and Development Phase, Battle Management, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (BMC4I) External Interface Software Domain. The external interfaces included Link-16, Link-11 A/B, Link 22, and others. The software development utilized the Rational Rose RT Suite and the ClearCase Configuration Management tools.SLAMRAAM Program ManagerSurface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile (SLAMRAAM). Project Manager for the software development of a FAAD Data Link and tactical message handling for the Integrated Fire Control System. Management responsibilities included contract negotiation, customer reporting, budget estimation & tracking, program scheduling, and technical supervision.• Developed under Boeing CMMI level 5 processes• C++/VxWorks development for embedded application

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 formatting, transmission method, bandwidth, etc. JEMS approached message translation with an inventive approach driven primarily through input specifications, saving thousands of SLOC.• 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 training and experimentation exercises.• 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 in support of the Virtual View Sports (VVS) program that supplies virtual reality entertainment products, television graphics, 3D data visualization software for auto racing teams, and Internet distribution of sporting information and entertainment.• C++ components and Direct 3D based Graphics Engine targeted for Windows 95/98• Real time interfaces to Indy race car telemetry systems and video production units• Rapid prototyping of products using Java and Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)• Research and prototyping of image correlation, object recognition, sensor fusion, and other issues concerning passive state measurement• Designed Passive Acquisition Units to capture video, audio, pointing angles, etc.

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 for the existing ground support software and upgrade effort for GBI.Performed analysis and simulation of foreign radar systems as well as disassembly, decompilation, and rehosting of the system software.• Lead on software extraction and analysis task for radar processing system• Lead on radar system simulation task in C++ for the JMASS architecture

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 enhancements.• 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 SystemProvided relative angle and thrust termination data on boosting vehicles to sensor fusion station using a gimbaled infrared tracking system.• Implemented image processing system for image formation and noise rejection.• Designed gimbal pointing algorithm with low-pass filter and error proportional control loop.• Mixed software architecture of pipelined image processing and paralleled Kalman filters.TRIMS - Target Real-time Intensity Measurement SystemProvided real-time display of measured target energy for High Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor (HEDI) field test program to support launch decisions.• Designed image processing system for target identification and calibrated measurements.• Supervised over 20 operation and data gathering deployments at White Sands Missile Range.Airborne Sensor Operations – designed and deployed data gathering systems (IRIS, HALO, HALO II) to Kwajalein; White Sands; Tulsa, OK; Huntsville, Al; and El Paso, TX. Certified with FAA for High Altitude Survivability.