52 Chester Turnpike

              Auburn, NH  03032

              Cell:  (603) 396-8878

              alcilcius@gmail.com

Skills Briefing

Senior Software Architect specializing in the architecture, design and implementation of distributed systems and complex applications, with a focus on Cloud Computing and Virtualization.  Passionate about applying current and emerging technologies, tools and processes to challenging projects that will help clients succeed within their company  and with their customer base.  Excellent communication skills, mentoring capabilities and extensive customer contact.

Development Environments, Platforms and Tools

Virtualization              VMware vSphere, ESXi Hypervisor, VMWorkstation, vCenter; KVM

Cloud              VMware – vCloud Director, vFabric Application Director

              Open Source – UEC (Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud), Eucalyptus

DevOps              Puppet, Puppet Enterprise

Java              JDK 7, JEE 6, JNA, JMS, Spring, Grails, Groovy, Hibernate

App Servers              JBoss, Glassfish, Tomcat with Spring, Weblogic, IIS with WAS

Linux              Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora Core, RHEL

Windows              Windows (Server 2008, 7 and 8), Windows services

Protocols              AMQP, HTTP, XML/XSD, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, OFX

Databases              Oracle 11g, PostgreSQL, SQL Server 2008, JDBC, ObjectStore

Software              Eclipse, SOAPScope, XMLSpy, Maven, Ant, Subversion, CVS, UML modeling (Rhapsody, Enterprise Architect, TAU G2), Telelogic DOORS

Projects/Applications

Private Cloud leveraging VMware product line to demonstrate Cloud practices, prototypes, and “Clouds within Clouds” (e.g. hosting Appistry, Oracle JRockit VM, etc., on VMware layer)

Distributed, scalable, fault tolerant mission planning system (AMC TASM) and route optimization

Architectural review/critique for distributed BMC2[1] system.

Web-based control of radio frequency monitoring and detection (Agilent spec-an and Cubic DF)

Prototyping of asynchronous messaging over web services and potential impact for military systems.

Architectural review/critique of and development on an N-tiered enterprise incentive management system

Architectural review/critique of N-tiered voice recognition and outbound calling system

Architectural review/critique of an existing distributed bond-trading system

Architectural review/critique of existing distributed OCR and document processing system

Internet-based OFX servers for investment statement download/processing (e.g., Quicken, Money)

Internet-based OFX servers for securities trading

Distributed architecture for internet-based system managing retirement and securities portfolios

Distributed architecture for next generation of OFX-based (over internet) securities trading system

Architecture for personal portfolio manager (rich client over the internet and architecture for back end)

Architecture for distributed consolidated statement subsystem for a “financial mall” on the Internet

Video surveillance software (distributed video transfer, accumulation and redistribution)

Asset and Liability management and modeling/simulation system

Rules-based inference engine and SDK

Experience

01/02/13              MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA  02421

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Present              Task Lead

Contractor through DAG Consulting, Inc.  Supporting USTRANSCOM AT-21 program.  Researching and prototyping a secure, multi-tenant cloud-based development, test and production cloud-based environment.  Technologies involved include VMware vSphere, vCloud Director, vFabric Application Director, Puppet, Puppet Enterprise, Nagios, and others.  Focus on providing semi-self-service secure SDDC (Software-Defined Data Center) capabilities.  Prototypes and demonstrations include fully automatic provisioning of multi-tier USTRANSCOM distributed application.  Working towards a more general model for an AT-21 oriented SDDC.  Researching relevant monitoring and management tools and product suites.

Active Security Clearance:  Top Secret SCI with full scope polygraph

 

02/15/10              AgilePath Corporation, 38 Merrimac Street, Suite 201, Newburyport, MA  01950

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12/31/12              Chief Scientist

Strategic Consulting in the Cloud Computing and SOA spaces.  Prototype and proof-of-concept development demonstrating cloud and SOA technologies.  Technical evangelist for Cloud Computing and application of AgilePath’s Cloud Computing Reference Model (CC-RM, see http://www.agile-path.com/solutions-cloud-computing-practice.html).

• Migrate AgilePath internal IT and Software development/prototyping to a Private Cloud

• VMware vSphere 4 with ESXi Hypervisor, vCenter Server, vSphere Client, vCloud

• Technical lead on Profile-based Cloud Management research project for ESC at Hanscom AFB

• Analyze ESC infrastructure needs and how they apply and/or how IT can provide better service through cloud-based IaaS and PaaS
• Evaluate various cloud vendors and cloud management product suites

• Technical lead on white paper proposal to major retailer on leveraging Cloud Analytics for improved business utility
• Technical contributor to client engagements for SOA adoption – SOA strategy, reference architectures, evaluations of various vendor product suites, rapid prototyping, ESB selection
• Technical lead on developing Cloud Reference Architecture and Cloud Analytics Reference Architecture for clients in DoD and industry.  Also recommend pathway to implementation.
• Co-deliver webinars with Eric Marks, CEO of AgilePath

• Cloud Architecture and Interoperability Roadmap
• Exploring the Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Cloud Management Profiles

• Technical contributor to ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) white paper on cloud computing reference architecture and cloud analytics in the intelligence community; analysis of cloud computing architecture and reference implementation; legacy application migration to the (private) cloud
• Technical contributor to USTRANSCOM (http://www.transcom.mil/index.cfm) JDDE (Joint Distribution and Deployment Enterprise) Cloud Computing Reference Architecture; key artifacts include Technical Reference Architecture, Prescriptive Architecture, and Transition Roadmap

• Compare and contrast cloud platforms and their relevance to JDDE goals, present and future – research Appistry CloudIQ, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, VMware vSphere 4, Oracle VM, Microsoft Windows Azure
• Recommend strategies for migration of legacy applications to the cloud
• Recommend strategies for SOA in the cloud

• Technical contributor to Randolph AFB Total Force Requirements and Resource Analysis Tool – tool under development for Air Force Manpower Agency (AFMA/MAS); architecture review, best practices guide, database design review, system design review
• Technical contributor to development of a “DP Dashboard” (Development Planning Dashboard) for development planning office at ESC/XR on Hanscom AFB – hardware architecture, cloud development practices, system architecture, workflow, software design, implementation

• Technology profile:  JEE 6, JBoss AS, Seam, GateIn Portal, PostgreSQL database, Hibernate JPA, JBoss jBPM workflow engine, Ubuntu Linux and Windows 7

 

07/23/07              TYBRIN Corporation, 10 Tara Blvd, Suite 210, Nashua, NH  03062

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02/05/10              Principal Software Engineer/Software Architect

Senior member of the software team for TASM (Tanker, Airlift Special Mission) Spiral 1A.  Lead architect responsible for IPT (Integrated Product Team) groups comprising TASM Spiral 1A subsystems of flight route optimizer, distributed data store, server-side infrastructure, database design, custom data definition and storage, external data import. Implement route of flight geospatial index based on AMC (Air Mobility Command) business rules.

• Research Cloud computing and its applicability to AMC's business goals and TASM SP1A in particular
• SOA infrastructure based on SOAP-style web services and asynchronous messaging (JMS, ActiveMQ)
• Server-side infrastructure incorporates the Spring Framework (both Spring.NET and Spring Java) and leverages technologies from Microsoft .NET Best Practices; Mixture of Microsoft, JEE, and C++
• Leverage geospatial capabilities of Oracle 11g.  Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) for high availability.  Supply route of flight navigational data to Optimizer Engine via Java stored procedures and Java-implemented geospatial index layer.
• Development languages Java, C++, C#.  Tools include Visual Studio 2008; VMWare Workstation 6.5; nHibernate, Hibernate, Spring.Net, Spring Java 2.5.6, Eclipse; Ant
• JNI used for bridging legacy C++ code to Java code which integrates with Atlas (internal geospatial index) created on Oracle 11g via Java stored procedures
• Integrate OpenMap geospatial functions (e.g. vector representation, great circle arc computation, polygon intersection and containment) into the mixed C++/Java core route optimization engine
• Incorporate IKVM technology (www.ikvm.net) to host Java in-process for select C# components.

Security Clearance:  Secret, COMSEC, and NATO

03/02/93              3rd Sigma Software, Inc.  497 Hooksett Road, PMB 374, Manchester, NH  03104

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04/10/12              Chief Software Architect

Woman-owned, small independent software engineering consulting firm, specializing in the development of distributed systems and complex applications.  Provide various levels of service to clients throughout the U.S. from Independent Software Vendors to startups to well-established market and industry leaders.

Sampling of present and past clients:

Company not listed due to NDA  (8/2005 – 5/2007; 5/2010 – 4/2012)

Java 7; Groovy, Grails, for control of radio interference and monitoring devices

Open source development of web-based distributed radio frequency interference monitoring and detection. 

SOA implementation using web services and JMS messaging.  Responsible for remote sites (control of spectrum analyzer and direction finding equipment via remote web-based browser interaction over VPN) and higher-level nodal servers.  Implementation in Grails and Groovy with RabbitMQ messaging.  Leveraged JNA for direct access to instrument device driver libraries and APIs.  Periodic and asynchronous job scheduling using Quartz.  Research into Cassandra and MongoDB for persistent storage of time series data.  PostgreSQL for persistent store of relational information.

Centive  (8/2001 – 5/2003)

Began as contractor and converted to full-time employee (Principal Engineer) 1/2002

J2EE N-tiered architecture; WebLogic and WebSphere app servers; Oracle and SQL Server

Company’s core business is Enterprise Incentive Management.

• Architectural and design review of next-generation distributed server-side implementation of a multi-user enterprise incentive management system.  SOA architecture based on web services and JMS messaging.
• Team lead responsible for coordinating efforts of three other senior developers.  Responsibilities include requirements analysis, design review, consultations, implementation review, planning, project task estimations, configuration management.

TransactionWorks, Inc.  (7/1998 – 8/2001)

Began as consultant and converted to full-time employee (Principal Engineer, R&D) 8/1999

• Lead architect and designer for distributed N-tier server-side account manager project.  Proposed and prototyped a MOM (Message-Oriented Middleware) architecture.  Environment was J2EE, with development on Windows 200 and deployment to Sun servers.
• Key contributor to development of an OFX/XML-based order processing system.  System was web-based and implemented on top of the MIFST (Microsoft Internet Financial Server Toolkit) OFX server and communicated asynchronously with ADP’s back ends for order management and accounting (FESNet and BPS/A).

Multiple Clients  (03/1993 – 7/1998)

Various contract assignments running the full gamut from high-level architecture and design to hands-on implementation including team lead and mentoring.  Clients include IRI Software, AIG, Inc. and Oracle as well as numerous small start-ups.  Industries as varied as business process management, insurance, financial trading, portfolio management and surveillance.

 

08/18/03              The MITRE Corporation, 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 03106-1842

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07/23/07              Software Systems Engineer, Lead

Senior member of the BMC2 software team for the E-10A program (Multi-Sensor Command and Control Aircraft).  Support the SPO (System Program Office) in areas of information services, web services, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), applications of ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) technology, interoperability, software architecture and (UML) modeling.

• Member of the E-10A BMC2 source selection team.
• Actively support E-10A BMC2 system modeling efforts (UML 2.0 using Rhapsody with executable UML models); Event-based real-time messaging bus (Real-Time Innovations DDS)
• Rapid prototyping which included

• Filtered publish/subscribe of STANAG 4607 XML GMTI

·         Filtered publish/subscribe of CoT (Cursor on Target) GMTI

• Modeling and simulation of message traffic

01/10/90              BancWare, Inc.  35 Braintree Hill Office Park, Braintree, MA  02184

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02/28/93              Principal Software Architect

Technical visionary, architect, designer and team leader for BancWare's next generation products involving data collection, Asset and Liability Management (Budgeting/Forecasting) Tools, Organizational Profitability Reporting, Product and Customer Profitability Reporting.  Lead architect and engineer for Convergence, an asset and liability management modeling and simulation system.

01/14/85              Drane Associates, Nashua, New Hampshire

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01/10/90              Director, AI Systems Architecture

Provide guidance to clients on applications of AI technology to their unique business challenges.  Designed and implemented a hybrid expert system development shell and run-time system to support clients having complex products with lengthy sales structure and lifecycle.

03/26/84              BPI/Softrend Inc., Salem, New Hampshire

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12/21/84              Project Manager, Database/Graphics

Lead engineer for redesign to produce the next generation of AURA integrated software.  Product integrates database management, word processing, business graphics, spreadsheet and communications.

01/02/82              Wang Laboratories Inc., Lowell, Massachusetts

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03/23/84              Software Engineer II

Member of Wang Professional Computer systems software research and development team.  Key contributor to the software design affecting many phases of the Wang PC software development.  Collaborative work with personnel at Microsoft to design features of MSDOS, Windows and application features that compliment the Wang PC hardware architecture.

08/01/80              Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Binghamton, New York

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01/01/82              Analyst Programmer/Coordinator of Computer Services

Coordinated programming efforts for 40 surrounding school districts.  Designed and implemented an interactive hierarchical database system with forms, reports, command file capabilities. Instructor for specialized computer educational programs.

09/01/79              Bates College, Lewiston, Maine

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06/30/80              Administrative Applications Analyst

Automate admissions procedures such as processing of inquiries, interviews, admissions applications, and interest letters.  Requirements gathering, analysis and system design.  Responsible for entire development cycle and training of admissions personnel.

Education

Spring 1985, Northeastern University, Expert Systems Design

Spring 1984, Northeastern University, Knowledge Engineering

1982 MS Systems Science, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York

1979 BS Physics, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine