James G. Downie

13125 Frog Hollow Court

Herndon, VA 20171

Home: 703-478-3434   Work: 703-460-3322 

E-Mail: james.g.downie@lmco.com

             

OBJECTIVE:

Senior Staff Systems Engineer / Integrator / Manager

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

I am currently employed as a Senior Staff Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin. I have 27 years experience in the high tech industry and a broad spectrum of expertise in systems engineering, systems integration (SI), configuration management, process control, schedules, team leadership, and management.  I am self –motivated, goal oriented, and always receive praise and awards for my organizational skills, commitment to team leadership, and motivating co-workers to produce high quality results.  I strive to set a professional example in appearance, integrity, attention to detail, communication, quality of work, depth of knowledge, and conduct.  I always try to create customer intimacy with a positive, win-win consensus building environment that leads to superior results. I have extensive national and occasional international business travel.

 

CLEARANCES:

Cleared for Top Secret information and granted access to Sensitive Compartmented Information by the U.S. government, based on a Single Scope Background Investigation completed on (BI date is 07/15/2005).

 

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

2000 - Present: Senior Staff Systems Engineer - Lockheed Martin

 

Processes Lead: 

I am currently a senior staff systems engineer/integrator on a highly visible compartmented program. I am team lead for all program processes and artifacts, and assist in streamlining many systems engineering and management processes. I developed a web portal to access compartmented program information.  I am responsible for creating the templates, organizing, instituting, updating, and enforcing the Program Management Plans for 15 separate programs.  This is a major ongoing effort that deals with all Program Managers and I assist and guide them through the whole process.  This became the ground work for organizing the programs that were lacking the organizational framework.  I brief the status at many working groups and engineering review boards.  I am also an active member of a compartmented classified network migration team that affects all our mail systems, file systems, server hardware, WAN connectivity, security, compartmentation, protection levels, monitoring, etc.  I am also responsible for a requirements repository development project that touches all directorates of a major classified government organization.  The first phase is complete, I have received approval to proceed with phase II of the development, which will greatly expand the utility of the repository. 

 

Project Team Lead:

As lead systems integrator, I successfully brought the classified program through TRR, ORR, OAR, schedule milestones, and lead the migration from prototype to IOC. I managed the addition of several enhancements to the system through various effectivities, and ensured all the associated RFCs and configuration management documentation was written and approved on time. The position required a significant amount of coordination between senior government officials and users. Several complex problems were addressed and resolved.  I presided over an anomaly resolution board, and presented many high level briefings. My efforts were recognized by the program management with an award.

 

Project Systems Integrator:

I have been involved in sophisticated world-wide construction projects.  This assignment is very rewarding and gave me the opportunity to work with a group of engineers, conduct meetings, guide, and direct the engineering efforts. I was the project SI for a major installation in a new program with significant support to the global war on terrorism (GWOT).  My capacity for this task was to create the installation schedule, and ensure that every component came together on time and within the budget.  This required many areas of expertise to ensure all aspects of the installation were successful, including construction, WAN installation, setting up monitoring sites, laying network and power conduits and cabling, setting of antennas, setting a shelter, electronics, security, processing, radome construction and setting, network connectivity, and schedule. All aspects were performed correctly, under budget, and on time.

 

Project Team Lead:

I was the Washington Metropolitan Area Lead for a group of six systems engineers. The projects involved large-scale systems engineering, integration, and development skill sets. By providing structure and management skills to unstructured work for junior systems engineers, I created a learning atmosphere and helped facilitate advancement in their positions and responsibilities. I briefed government managers and contractor personnel on the various aspects of critical large scale national defense systems. I wrote RFCs for various systems and helped implement the changes, and resolved issues between engineers regarding policies, processes, and procedures. Familiarity with configuration management, schedule management, planning, and systems integration processes allowed me to progress to areas of greater responsibility and gain customer intimacy.

             

1997 - 2000: Telecommunications Engineer - Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

As a WAN engineer, I provided technical support to the Tennessee Network Information Infrastructure, the American College Testing Service, and the Army National Guard Distance Learning Collaborative Technologies nationwide ATM classroom deployment. Prior to that assignment, I managed and provided daily guidance to the network administrators and WAN engineers at the National Guard Headquarters. I gained invaluable experience by designing the server farm for the National Guard Headquarters LAN, and being the technical POC for the relocation of a 1,300 user LAN at the Pentagon. Lastly I was the Configuration Management Support Supervisor for the National Guard Bureau Washington MAN.

             

1994 - 1997:  EDI Engineer - United Communications Group (UCG)

I developed an electronic commerce in-house Value Added Network (VAN) for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between virtually all US mortgage lenders and HUD. I was responsible for designing, installing, and administering a Citrix server solution for 100 simultaneous Internet connections for our proprietary subscriber suite of application packages.

             

1993 - 1994: Network Administrator - D. P. Associates

My primary responsibility was to design, install, configure, administer, and maintain high speed computer based training LANs and classrooms for NAVAIR helicopter pilots. I was also responsible for the corporate LAN including all associated hardware and software, graphics workstations, film recorders, etc. I also served as a computer based training courseware developer.

             

1981 - 1993:  Vice President - Downie, Incorporated

I was a 50% owner of a commercial real estate brokerage firm serving the Washington, DC central business district and the Northern Virginia commercial corridors.  I gained invaluable experience in finance, tax law, real property, negotiations, business development, corporate operations, negotiating commercial business deals, writing contracts between principals, and relating to principals, corporations, and attorneys. As database administrator, I extracted real estate tax record information and created databases for commercial users and in-house analysis.

 

1976 - 1981:  Manager/Programmer - Hylton Enterprises

I managed two water treatment facilities and wrote the billing, accounting, inventory database programs, purchased and installed the hardware and network for a 30,000 subscriber cable television company.

             

1975 - 1976: Project Engineer - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

My assignment was to deal directly with the highest levels of major corporations and government agencies. I was responsible for keeping abreast of the latest technological developments and determine where they may be applied within the CIA. Extensive travel exposed me to all types of technologies, business environments, and professionals in the corporate world.

             

1971 - 1973: Chemist - U. S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency

I served in the U. S. Army as a chemist I received specialized training on Technicon continuous flow AutoAnalyzers and computerized test results analysis.  I participated in in-depth water and air pollution surveys of various military sites, installations, and reservations across the U.S.  I also participated in various studies for the EPA and the Surgeon General.  I was responsible for a mobile wet chemistry laboratory.

 

 

EDUCATION:

1973 – 1975: Masters of Science, University of Texas at El Paso

I received Masters of Science in organic chemistry and a minor in business administration. My research and thesis was the investigation of the Diels-Alder mechanism.  I was a very active graduate student senator.

 

1966 - 1970: Bachelors of Science, Chemistry, Houghton College

I attended Houghton College as a pre-medical student with a major in chemistry and a minor in biology. I played on the college soccer team and was head of the ski patrol and president of the ski club.

 

TRAINING:

Certified Information Systems Security Engineer (CISSP) preparation course.  Three weeks of Cohort 18 evening tutorials covering MATLAB, engineering math, and probability at George Washington University, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Novell Certified Network Administrator (CNA), Lockheed Martin INFOSEC Professional Training & Certification (IPT&C) Core Body of Knowledge (CBK) - Phase I, Lockheed Martin System Integration Methodology Course (SIMC), Lockheed Martin Leadership Development Essentials Course (LDE), Microsoft Project Training, Microsoft Windows 2003 Advanced Server, FORE ATM Switch Class, Cisco Router Class, First Virtual Video Teleconference Training, MITEL PBX Training, DeVry Institute of Technology Color Television Repair Course.  U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command Computer Repair and Training Course.  Technicon Auto-Analyzer advanced training school. Fairfax Cable Access Channel (FCAC) six training courses in technical editing, production, directing in videography.

             

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: 

I have donated LAN and WAN network administration technical support assistance to a non-profit corporation over the past 20 years. I have tutored students in math and science at a local middle school, and have been active for 25 years as a sound engineer and five years as a member of a video production group.