Sales Engineer

o Work with the Vice President of Sales to provide technical assistance, planning, and development to the sales team, end customers, and partner corporations throughout the sales lifecycle

o Develop and present training material, demonstrations, videos, and proof of concepts

·   Program Development

o   Liaise with Program Management and Software Architects in the architectural development of the software products by providing customer and market data and driving the customer focus as well as reviewing code and providing input into new software code being developed

o   Develop and implement corporate strategies and in the performance of market research

·   Involved directly with the following: Linux and Windows OS, Perl, Python, and Bash scripting, networks, HPC programming/ administration, data center administration and automation, web software, C programming language, Linux development tools, virtualization technology (VMWare and KVM), xCAT, HP SA/OO, Moab and Torque, various API interfaces, XML, and network transmissions.

·   Adaptive Computing was an IBM and HP partner

·   Adaptive Computing uses Agile software development and Scrum

 

Royal Bank of Scotland – Taylorsville, UT                                   09/10 – 04/12

High Performance Computing (HPC) Analyst

SKILLS: HPC, Big Data, Disaster Recovery, IT Monitoring, Business Continuity, Team Lead, Technology Strategist

·   Managed oversight, administering, and maintenance of a high performance / distributed grid computing environment consisting of nearly a million compute nodes to provide a highly reliable IT architecture for the purpose of financial computing tasks

·   Responsible for aiding the setup and maintenance of SaaS and PaaS environments that are dependent on large compute potentials

·   Act as team lead and liaise with application development teams, users, and management to provide support and to explain HPC concepts and techniques

·   Co-ordinated most actions with the larger IT department and worked with the department to tune and manage Linux, Windows, and Solaris servers

·   Be an HPC evangelist and aid in pinpointing new groups or services that could benefit from HPC

o   Educate users in ways to improve the efficacy of software and infrastructure usage thus maintaining a reliable environment for all

·   Implement and maintain the reliability of the inherent infrastructure with minimal downtime

o   Develop and/or employ monitoring tools and techniques that include hardware, software, and policies

o   Deploy and update HPC based applications

·   Design, implement and test event management (Disaster Recovery Tests, Power-downs) and business continuity planning

·   Perform Quality Assurance testing on new HPC dependent applications

·   Maintain documentation on software, policies and procedures

·   Maintain SLA’s

·   Involved with continuing research and evaluation of Hadoop and “Big Data” projects

·   RBS employs Tibco/DataSynapse’s Gridserver HPC product and Splunk for log analysis, debugging, alerts, and monitoring, as well as various open source tools (i.e. Nagios) as needed

·   Part of a global team with offices in London, Connecticut, Utah, and Singapore with 24/7 availability and rotating on-call responsibility

 

ARINC - Annapolis, MD                                     08/08-09/10

Principal Engineer

SKILLS: Unix and Linux, Python, High Availability, Reliability Engineering, Perl, Cloud, Mentoring, Team Lead, Strategist

·   Principal Engineer for Systems Integration and Acceptance Testing in a division which provides communication products and services for commercial and business airline customers and operates a contractually obligated 99.9999% uptime High Availability cloud system (includes computers, hardware, networking, radios, and software that is to be operational 24/7 with redundancy designed throughout with as little as 30 minutes of downtime per year)

·   Systems Engineering / Business Analysis and Technology Strategy

o   Requirements gathering and create Statements of Work

o   Create operational scenarios and Develop test plans and descriptions with clear objectives and traceability

o   Perform integration and acceptance testing and prepare well-organized test reports for stakeholder review

o   Integrate hardware and software components into the system test environment

§    Generate shell scripts and Perl language scripts for all functions

o   Validate user documentation and deployment plans

o   Demonstrate functionality to the customer for requirements validation

o   Lead investigation efforts into problems reported in the field and determining cause and appropriate resolutions

o   Maintain the high availability of the infrastructure and consistent, reliable operation to the customer

·   Be a technical consultant when required by the client

·   Lead small teams (2-6 persons) in integration and acceptance tests and mentor and train junior engineers

·   Maintain the test lab and test tools

o   System components in the test environment include routers, network management servers, Oracle database servers, real-time applications, and a variety of simulation tools, with a mix of Red Hat Linux, Unix, and Windows machines, along with a variety of open source tools and applications

·   ARINC is SEI CMMI Level 3 certified

Department of Defense Contractor – Maryland and Virginia                                     12/05-08/08

Program and Product Manager / Systems Engineer

SKILLS: Program Manager, Systems Engineering, Technology Strategist, QA, Presentation, Training, R&D, Leader, BI

·   Contracted with various companies on military contracts performing systems engineering, program management, systems integration, and project lead roles

o   Managed teams of up to 8 or 10 subject matter experts

·   Oversaw medium to large projects with multi-million dollar budgets

·   Program Manager

o   Provide technology expertise (including broad hardware and software knowledge) to program management

o   Research, evaluate, and report on new and developing technologies and capabilities

o   Assist with mission requirements and solution recommendations

o   Assist with developing and managing program plans, statements of work, activities, personnel and budgets

o   Evangelize for prudent use of resources in creation of new infrastructure, keeping costs low and making systems highly reliable for all types of DoD users

o   Create briefings for meetings and conferences

o   Provide weekly activity reports on all new requirements

o   Prepare correspondence, and fulfill other administrative and logistic support

o   Act as bridge between hardware and software branches of program

o   Liaise with analysts and other field experts

o   Provide tracking and management of all logistics

o   Participate in customer technical interchange meetings (TIM), working groups, as well as internal team meetings.

·   Systems Engineer / Technology Strategist

o   Requirements development

o   Assist in test and evaluation

o   Provide recommendations on hardware and software specific purchases versus in-house development

o   Perform test planning and test execution on all phases of system design for total systems including hardware and software

o   Write Techniques, Tactics and Procedures (TTP) for specific systems and hardware

o   Aid in developing Concept of Operations (CONOPS)

o   Perform functional analysis and detailed trade studies and translating these to match customer requirements in hardware and software specifications

·   Acted as lead on several projects overseeing the full life-cycle, from development of requirements, to the architecting of a solution based on the requirements (both hardware and software), development, testing, writing of technical documentation, delivery to end user, and post-delivery support

·   Several projects involved complete IT infrastructure including developing SaaS/PaaS/IaaS solutions

·   Participated with international vendors and other partners

·   Involvement with the Intelligence Community (IC) and broader Department of Defense (DoD) occurred

·   Linux, Windows, VMWare and Oracle involvement in addition to various programming and scripting languages

·   Overnight travel up to 25% of the time was expected

 

US Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division                  04/03 – 12/05

(NAVEODTECHDIV) – Indian Head, MD

Electronics Engineer (GS-12)

SKILLS: Program Manager, Training, Presentations, R&D, Leader, Systems Engineering, Technology Strategist, Analyst

·   Acted as a Project manager and Subject Matter Expert for various programs, most relating to the development of explosive defeat products and managed a team of four

·   Subject Matter Expert and lead engineer for a program exploiting the electrical and mechanical designs of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) for analysis, sourcing, intelligence, and information for Research and Development in conjunction with the detection and neutralization of these devices

·   Program Manager

o   Oversight of testing of various products being developed for use in explosive defeat

§    This testing focused on total systems and included hardware and software as well as system engineering and integration

o   Perform research in determining appropriate technologies for use by the military for explosive defeat

o   Schedule resources

o   Generate Statements of Work

o   Maintain and track budgets (which were valued at several million dollars)

o   Organizing meetings

o   Oversee and task primary contractors

o   Brief superiors on the progress of projects

o   Performed Concept of Operations (CONOPS) and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) evaluations and design

·   Designed, scoped, architected, built, tested, and documented solely on my own a $2 million project involving the creation of a portable forensic lab that was eventually deployed to war-zones for analysis of explosives and weapons of mass destruction

·   Worked with diverse and remote teams on multi-million dollar projects

·   Worked with several international vendors and partners both foreign private corporations and foreign government entities

·   Received "Special Act Award" for work done on improvised explosive devices (IED) and received a "Joint Meritorious Unit Award"

Lockheed Martin – NE&SS – Syracuse, New York                                  08/01 – 09/02

Systems Engineer - Senior

SKILLS: Systems Engineering, OOP, C/C++, QA

·   Worked in Integration and Test department on the (A)V-15/SQQ89 sonar system for Navy destroyers and air-traffic control radars for military uses

·   Overall duties included the operational assessment of control systems and seek operational user inputs and improvements

·   Systems Engineer

o   Technical planning including cost and risk and supportability

o   System integration

o   Verification and validation

o   Perform analyses at all levels of total system product including: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.

o   Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

o   Perform functional and timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

o   Test, evaluation and performance planning.

·   Real-time system analysis was performed with the Linux OS with Object-oriented programming (C/C++ was primarily used)

 

Citrix Systems – Draper, Utah                                  05/00 – 08/01

Test Engineer

SKILLS: QA, Programming, C/C++

·   Responsible for developing, applying and maintaining quality standards.

·   Test Engineer

o   Develop and execute software test plans

o   Analyze and create test standards and procedures and maintain documentation of test results

o   Research and analyze products (hardware or software) that will fit the needs for testing

§    All research and product information provided to management with a detailed report of the product, reasons for buying, reasons against, and my recommendation for purchase or further evaluation.

o   Oversee the introduction of the test products to our site through training to other employees

o   Develop and maintain a list of application compatibility for Citrix’s products

§      List was developed by interfacing with the sales engineer and determining the most used applications as well as the applications providing the most support calls