EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Integrated Product Team leader and systems engineering manager skilled at delivering solutions in competitive, customer-centric environments. Comfortable and confident in developing & presenting strategies, plans, and complex technical information to clients, management, and staff. Broad range of experience that includes providing products based on combinations of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and custom design components during all parts of the product life-cycle from concept to replacement.
SKILLS SUMMARY
Product, Project, and Program Management – focus on feature analysis, cost, schedule, technical performance
Security Clearances: Current Top Secret/SSBI; previous clearances include TS/SCI and DOE-Q/Munitions
Computing Infrastructure, high availability network, wireless adhoc networks, systems integration, software & systems test, software design & development, manufacturing engineering
Master’s degree in computer engineering with emphasis in data mining.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NORTHROP GRUMMAN; Florida (Defense Contractor); 2004 – 2008
Integrated Product Team Leader (IPT Lead) – Computing Infrastructure
Integrated product team lead focused on Computing Infrastructure associated with Airborne Battle Management Command and Control system (E-10A/MC2A/BMC2/INF). Managed geographically distributed team of 30 engineers. Contributed to creating integrated master schedule (IMS), requirements documents.
Control Account Manager for $50M/contract (Earned Value Management System, EVMS/CAM). Interface for government, customer, teammates, and vendors.
Reviewed and approved system level documents, decomposed and derived requirements; authored systems architecture guides, Software Requirements Specifications; Integration, Verification, and Validation plans, technical and financial schedules, customer presentations, and after action reports.
Systems Engineering Manager – Network Centric Operation
Engineering manager for Distributed Mission Operations network centric warfighter training systems (CAFDMO). Focused on network engineering, security operations, deployment & integration, and network operations center management (NOC).
Senior Systems Engineer (Lead Systems Integrator/LSI) – Wireless ad-hoc network systems
Managed full lifecycle ad-hoc wireless sensor network Track Management solution in a Lead Systems Integrator role (SETA/LSI for DARPA NEST/Network Embedded Systems Technology. Proximal and stand-off sensors included acoustic, seismic, magnetic, infrared, and image. Program goals included providing an off-the-shelf end-to-end track management solution that can be brought to market by a transition agent.
Decision maker for systems architecture. Primary Point of Contact for vendor and customer interfacing. Negotiated contracts with manufacturers, subcontractors, and customers.
Technical responsibility included requirements specifications, project team tasking and prioritization, integrating subsystems including hardware (packaging), electrical (circuits), software (ad-hoc networks), RF/antenna, field testing & assessments, and after action reports. Program responsibility included product & project cost, schedule, and technical performance.
Skills: Program & Project management; EVMS/CAM; project scheduling; cost factoring against requirements; cost control; requirements management; risk planning & mitigation; team management and team building, Network Operations Center; Operations & Maintenance; Ad-hoc wireless sensor networks; policy establishment and review; customer/vendor liaison; systems definition; contract negotiation; sensor testing and selection; Interface Control Document
JOSHUA SYSTEMS; Clearwater, Florida (Value Added Reseller; Systems consultant); 2001 – 2004
Project Manager, Systems and Network Engineering and Integration; Software Engineering; Sales Engineering
Developed partnerships and coordinated comprehensive end-to-end solutions that included business model analysis, training, marketing, and call center development to reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction by offering “one-stop shop” support. Efforts concentrated on network operations, software development, and systems integration.
Authored white papers and created training courses in software engineering, network design, and competitive trade studies to standardize client presentations, processes, and development environments.
Developed requirements specifications, test plans, installation verification plans, and Operations and Maintenance procedures for deployed software and network systems.
Tested commercial grade Wi-Fi equipment for security, interoperability, distance, and interference limitations for deployment within high-traffic environments including hotels and other business establishments. The testing was especially focused on interference limitations because of the non controlled nature of the environments.
Designed Local Exchange Carrier and Customer Premise integration test beds for commercial network deployments. These test beds required OSHA compliance and employed test equipment including FIREBERD communications analyzers, protocol analyzers, oscilloscopes, cable testers, and standardized endpoint devices.
Created embedded assembly line software system for heavy equipment final acceptance testing that included an electrical interface test bed with frequency, pressure, and temperature transducers.
Skills: Riverstone Networks; Local Exchange Carriers/LEC/CLEC; transducer protocols; device control; Grayhill; Iconics/Genesis32/VBA; Pascal; Electronic Data Interchange/EDI; Artificial Intelligence/AI; NeuralWare Predict
PARADYNE CORPORATION; Largo, Florida (Telecom/Electronics manufacturing); 1998 – 2001
Systems and Network Engineering; Manufacturing Software Test Engineering; Client Liaison
Escalation support engineer responsible for network field integration and troubleshooting for telecom customers. This required the ability to recreate customer facilities for troubleshooting and diagnosing root cause without impacting operational facilities, and the ability to quickly defuse customer anxiety.
Developed electrical/circuit card test stations for prototype, manufacturing, and final assembly of commercial and military grade datacom equipment (including T1/T3 and POTS). These stations included: Interface testing to standards and boundary conditions (FIREBERD, protocol analyzers, JTAG); Low voltage microelectronic component testing (Oscilloscopes, voltmeters); and HiPot compliance testing.
Skills: Networking; Local Exchange Carriers/CLEC/CO/CP; Object Oriented Design; Automated Test Equipment; Vacuum Fixture (GenRad, Teradyne); JD Edwards; FoxPro; Microsoft Access; SQL; Configuration/Build Management; C, Visual Studio/Visual Basic/ActiveX, ISO certifications
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
RAYTHEON COMPANY, systems engineering, high-availability redundant media deployable networks; 1993-1998
SAINT PETERSBURG COLLEGE (part time adjunct instructor); Computer Science and Engineering; 1993-1998
GENERAL ELECTRIC (DOE facility); Network & Systems Management; Software Engineering; 1991-1992
SEMINOLE ELECTRIC (Student); Electric utility; generation and transmission planning; 1989-1990
SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTING; software, networks, minicomputers, PC, Unix, DOS, BASIC, C; 1980-1988
Skills: Network Operations Center/NOC Call Center Supervisor; High availability systems & network design, operations & maintenance (Unix, OSF, AIX, Alpha, Solaris, SunOS, VAX/VMS, HP-UX, JCL; Fault Tolerant Systems, TCP/IP, DECNet); Software design (2167A, C, Ada, Pascal, FORTRAN, Analysis of Algorithms, Quality Assurance, Design for Testability, Unit Test); Electronic Data Interchange; Sherpa DMS; Routers/Firewalls/Cryptographic devices/KG; MILSTAR; Oracle DBA; SQL
EDUCATION
Master
of Science in Computer Engineering (MSCpE); University of South
Florida
Emphasis in neural networks, data mining, and mathematical
modeling of business and natural systems
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (BSCpE); University of South Florida
KEY WORD SUMMARY & TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
Program and Project Management: Distributed team management; cost/schedule/technical performance management and tradeoff analysis; Concept of Operation; Statement of Work; business modeling; strategic planning; program execution, Earned Value Management/EVMS
Testing: Systems Test & Integration, validation, and root cause analysis for development and fielded solutions; Design for Testability; White box/Black box testing; Software Test
Design and Analysis: Risk analysis; ISO/MIL/2167A; Waterfall/SDLC; Dynamic Systems Development Method/DSDM/RAD/JAD; Capability Maturity Model/SEI/CMM; Requirements and Feature Analysis; Total Cost of Ownership/TCO; Commercial Off-The-Shelf/COTS
Networks: Designing and deploying high-availability data communication networks; Ad-hoc wireless networks; TCP/IP; LAN/WAN (Layer 2 & 3); DECNet; Frame Relay; T1; POTS; Redundant path networks; Paradyne WAN ACE; Riverstone Router Architecture and Configuration; Security Analysis; Network Operations Center/NOC
Software: Requirements specifications; interface definition/ICD; algorithm development; Analysis of Algorithms; Component Object Model/COM; Code Reuse; Human-Machine Interfacing/HMI; Device Control Protocol Design; Quality Assurance; Configuration Management; Visual Basic; Iconics/Genesis32; C; Unix Scripting; FORTRAN; SAS; LISP; Pascal; Neuralware Predict
Operating Systems: Client/Server, Distributed, and High Availability Systems Analysis; Unix/TinyOS/HP-UX/Solaris/OSF; Windows 98/2000/XP; VAX/VMS; Fault tolerant systems
Manufacturing Engineering: Process Improvement; Quality Assurance; Manufacturing Resource Planning