Barb Gantt

ganttbarb@gmail.com

520-220-2464

DOD Secret till 2026; Top Secret SSBI SCI 1987-2013

 

analyst; writer; instructor

Systems and Software; NET; new equipment trainer; Imagery; Mapping;

Hands on Field Service Analyst; Engineer; Instructor: FSE; FSR; FSA; FSI; EWO; EWS

 

Analyze; Research; Write; Test; and Instruct

Technical writing; ISD; course development; curriculum; podium and online instruction;

teach the teacher; train the trainer

 

SUMMARY

A senior analyst that looks for challenge

·   Have an ability to figure out a system and software; with little; or almost no resources

·   Document system and software environments; into easy user manuals of curriculum

·   Train user base as an instructor

·   Will relocate; 100% travel; and deploy anywhere; for any length of time

 

OVERVIEW

·   33 years analyzing the steep learning curves of emerging technology

·   Thorough understanding of how to breakdown and define a complex process

·   Solving the puzzle; explaining the puzzle as easily understandable

·   Conveying complexity into simple layman terms

·   Break-through analysis into elemental definition f(x); categorizing and systemizing the core concepts

·   Chaos organized into systemized communications for open source; interoperable knowledge

·   Organizing core functions for Plan of Attack (POA) or Plan of Instruction (POI)

·   Simplifying functions into step by step procedures; user guides; and manuals

·   Triaging documentation into a 360 degree understanding of software-hardware relationships

·   Prioritizing time and triage for the learner

·   Stand and deliver; steep learning curves; into simplified instruction

·   Conceptual writing; cognitive test; associative instructing; linear and non-linear; "outside the box"

·   Professional and respectful negotiations while under fire

·   Integrity equal to my word

 

build; test; deploy; roll out; Manual (Ad Hoc) User Test; on Equipment and Software:

Functional Test; Install-ability Test; Performance Test; Load Test; Stress Test; Recovery Test; Reliability Test; Usability Test; Regression Test; and Interoperability Test

 

RESEARCH and TEST TECHNOLOGIES

Windows; Unix; Main Frame; Stand-alone workstation; Micro-station; Autocad; GIS cartography; Satellite Imagery; SAR; ISAR; GMTI; EO; IR; EOIR; DAWS; FMV; Mstar; FLIR; Map Overlay; Arc GIS; Google Earth; TIGR; GPS; Topographic; Aerial; Ortho-Photo; Infrared; ELT technologies; JIOC-I; DCGS; GCCS tools; CIDNE; Arc-IMS; Arc-GIS; Arc-Editor; Arc-Map; Arc View; AIM; Analyst Notebook; ASAS Light; Win Grinder; Jabber; Query Tree; NG; Name Variant; Pathfinder; GCCS; NDCORE; Starlight; RGS; SGS; RDISS; Ground Segment ISS; using SAR; ISAR; GMTI; EOIR; EO; IR; DAWS; SAN; Enterprise Portals; Oracle SIM; IDS; Firewalls; Program Management; Crew Supervision; Construction Management; User requirements; User test; Arcsight; Adobe; Database Analysis; Logistical Navigation; Flight Management; Emergency Response; Wild land Fire; Search and Rescue; Resource Management; UAV; Global Hawk; blueprints; BETSS-C; RAID; JCREW; CREW; JIEDDO; CIED; RF Counter RCIED; EWO; Electronic Warfare Officer; Vehicular and Fixed site Duke; CVRJ; Thor III; Symphony; Spectrum Analysis radiation; Electromagnetic warfare; Catastrophic casualties

 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT 2002 to PRESENT

Design and Build; Passive Solar Greenhouse; Bluff, UT

April 2002 to Present (Seasonal)

Project Manager: Analyst; Instructor

·   Solo Business Owner and Operator

·   Design and Build structural concrete; structural steel welding; rough frame; finish carpentry; furniture

·   Managing all aspects of the construction; with all Navajo Dine’ tradesmen and crews

·   Overcoming difficult performance attitudes; and lack of work ethic

 

DOD CONTRACTS 2000 to 2013

U.S. Government and Department Of Defense; U.S.; Iraq; Afghanistan

April 2012 to Feb. 2013

Technical RF anti-explosion Jammers; CIED EWO; Analyst; Writer; Instructor; Imagery

·   Assessed the Perimeter for current safety problems; due to lack of maintenance; of all Perimeter Jammers; and their Spectral radiation coverages

·   Implemented changes; to protect against hundreds of thousands of vehicles; and humans; incoming daily; through each gate

·   Solo EWO; Securing Perimeter Of Bagram Airfield Afghanistan; During Drawdown

·   Ensuring the operations of Crew Jammers: to include vehicular and fixed site Duke; CVRJ Thor III; Symphony; and Spectrum Analysis radiation

·   CIED Tracking; pertinent AO intel to enable electromagnetic warfare to prevent catastrophic casualties

·   Updating EWO software; threat loads; firmware; intel; and IEDs; Assessing and analyzing EW technologies

·   Planning; coordinating; and executing CTJF EW operations throughout the BAF AO. Developing CIED strategy through maps from Google Earth; TIGR; and Arc GIS. Developing and disseminating EW tactics; training; and procedures; Electronic Warfare Officer; OEF; Afghanistan; DOD Civil Service. Emergency Mission Essential Systems Analyst for Third Army; U.S. Army Central (ARCENT); and CEW DOD

 

JIEDDO; CIED; OEF; Southern Afghanistan

October 2010 to January 2011

Data Base Mapping QA/QC; Analyst; Writer; Imagery

·   Participated in CIED mapping and research; for Southern Afghanistan; Analyzed and created Google Earth; TIGR; and Arc GIS maps

 

Global Hawk; PAX NAS; Lexington Park, MD 

March to May 2009

Sensor Software FSR; Analyst; Writer; Imagery

·   Provided daily systems and software analysis; for UAV sensor operators

·   Edited gaps in the POI Technical Training Manuals; for drone sensor operators

·   Analyzed Ground Segment ISS; using SAR; ISAR; GMTI; EOIR; EO; IR; DAWS; and Google Earth

 

BETSS-C; Red Stone Arsenal; Huntsville, AL

September 2008 to November 2008

Sensor Instructor Training; Poi Development; Teach the Teacher; Train the Trainer;

Analyst; Writer; Instructor; Imagery

·   Participated in the training program; for mobile towers on trailers; with sensor payloads

·   These towers were being tested to be used for surveillance at remote combat outposts

·   Provided daily operations support; on systems and software; testing; and instruction for future instructors; on how to safely install and test these towers

·   Performed systems analysis with FMV; IR; Mstar; FLIR; Map Overlay; 107-Tower; RGS; SGS; 80-Tower; RDISS; and Google Earth

 

RF COUNTER RCIED; OIF; Iraq

July 2007 to January 2008

Electronic Warfare Officer; EWO; Imagery

·   Manually Installed Duke systems on hundreds of hummers; tanks; MRAPs; and heavy trucks

·   Updated EWO software; threat loads; id of IEDs; Insured convoys were ready to roll

·   Organized warehouse and installation shop to boost install production times

·   Performed systems analysis; test and training for JIEDDO CIED

·   Assessed and analyzed Duke; Symphony; CREW; and JCREW technologies

 

JIOC-I Military Intel Portal; OIF; Iraq

May 2006 to November 2006

System Analyst; Imagery

·   Performed system analysis and technical writing for JIOC-I; DCGS; GCCS tools; CIDNE; Arc-IMS; Arc-GIS; Arc-Editor; Arc-Map; Arc View; AIM; Analyst Notebook; ASAS Light; Win Grinder; Jabber; Query Tree; NG; Name Variant; Pathfinder; GCCS; NDCORE; Starlight; and Google Earth

 

Various Intermittent Contracts and Negotiations; Conus

April 2002 to May 2006

Analyst; Writer

·   Hands on Systems and Software Analysis; Instruction; and Test; Worked with Fusion Portals; SAN; Unix; Oracle SIM; and Arc Sight

 

US Army; Fort Huachuca; CSLA

December 2000 to April 2002

Firewall build; Test; Rollout; Analyst; Writer; Instructor

·   Built from ground zero; Out of the box; LAN instructional training lab. 13 Solaris Unix 2.6 nodes; 7 NT 4.0 client nodes; all outside of warranty support

·   Test; documentation; curriculum development; platform delivery; Solaris Unix; NT interoperability test; 3 Solaris firewalls; Gauntlet 5.5; Raptor 6.51 thru 6.53; Curriculum edits for Real Secure 5.0 on NT 4.0; OSI networking strategies; proxy rules; FTP; HTTP; telnet; ping; packet filtering; VPN; DMZ; DNS; NAT; NIC; Stealth strategies; redirects; recursion; service user groups; message log strategies; log analysis; IDS plugs; Authentications in ooba; Skey; gwpassword

 

Fort Monmouth; and Fort Huachuca

August 2000 to December 2000

Technical Research; Analyst; Writer

·   Internet research for technical white papers; and DOD executive summaries; Future network technologies; internet research; Speed reading; and research analysis; Terabit networking and authentications

 

VENDOR and GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS 1980 to 2000

IBM Storage Division; Tucson, AZ

April 1999 to May 2000

SOLO; Business Systems Analyst; SAN Inter-operability Test Engineer

·   Manual Testing of the software and hardware interactions; to bring Shark to market

·   Ad Hoc; Agile; Stress; User stress; and Interoperability SAN test

·   Formulated efficiency methods for Shark SAN mainframe test; DASD RAID 5; test production on SCSI fixed block

·   I/O stress test cases for Shark peer to peer; Remote flash copy between AIX; Unix; and NT; Test regressions for web interface open systems interoperability

 

Packard Bell; NEC; SLC, UT 

November 1996 to June 1998

Escalation Engineer; Analyst; Writer

·   Hardware and software premier technical escalation phone support

·   Training and troubleshooting for highest level of escalated technical difficulty

·   Support for all manufacturers of hardware and software interoperability

·   Break-fix problem solving in high stress rapid pace environment

 

U.S. Government and Inter-Agency Fire Service Alaska and Western US 

May 1980 to September 1996

Helipad Incident Commander; GIS Cartographic Engineer; Analyst; Imagery

·   Initial Attack Incident Commander via helicopter and fixed wing

·   GIS UNIX Micro-station cartographic design

·   Helipad Initial Attack Incident Commander via helicopter and fixed wing

·   Unix mainframe to stand-alone workstation to desktop Micro-station GIS cartography; Satellite imagery editing in UNIX mass production environment

·   Use of GPS; Topographic; Aerial; Ortho-Photo; Infrared; and ELT technologies; Logistical navigation; database analysis; and flight management; Emergency response to wild land fires plus search and rescue; Solo helicopter to ground research with 12-gage shotgun in grizzly habitats

 

ENGINEERING EDUCATION 1973 to 2017

·   BS Liberal Arts; Resource Management; Excelsior; thru: University of Arizona; Sierra Vista, AZ 2003
BS Senior GIS; Satellite Imagery; University of Utah; SLC, UT 1983
BFA Senior Ballet; Choreography and Instructing; University of Utah; SLC, UT 1983

ENDURANCE ATHLETE 1973 to PRESENT

lap swimming; and swimming instructing infants to seniors; ballet; and ballet instructing; marathon running; wilderness backpacking; whitewater kayaking; rock climbing; telemark downhill skiing and telemark instructing

Experience and Certifications 2007 to 2017

·   Security + Certification; 10-2016

·   Electronic Warfare Officer and Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare CREW Specialist Certification; CJTF Paladin CREW OEF; BAF; Bagram, Afghanistan; 6-29-2012

·   UAV; Sensor Software training; Ground Segment ISS; Global Hawk; El Segundo, CA; PAX NAS 03-2009 to 05-2009: Ground Segment ISS using SAR; ISAR; GMTI; EOIR; EO; IR; DAWS; and Google Earth

·   Instructor training RAID BETSS-C; Red Stone Arsenal; Huntsville, AL 09-2008 to 11-2008: FMV; IR; Mstar; FLIR; Map Overlay; 107-Tower; RGS; SGS; 80-Tower; RDISS; Google Earth

·   Counter RCIED Electronic Warfare Course Certification; JCCS-I; Camp Victory; Baghdad, Iraq 9-23-2007

·   Field Service Representative Cert; FSR for Warlock Crew 1& 2 Family; DA, Fort Monmouth 8-30-2007

PLATFORM INSTRUCTING and CERTIFICATIONS 2000 to 2002 

·   SUN Solaris 2.6 & Microsoft NT 4.0 Firewall Instructing

·   Raptor Firewall; 6.5.3; 6.5.2; 6.5.1 Instructing

·   Real Secure IDS; 5.0 Instructing

·   Gauntlet Firewall; 5.5; 6.5.3; 6.0 Instructing

·   Cisco PIX Firewall Training

·   OSI TCP/IP Instructing

·   Microsoft MCSE NT 4.0 Instructing

·   US Army BITC; Instructor Certification; Fort Huachuca, AZ

EXPERIENCE and CERTIFICATIONS 1996 to 2000 

·   Lucent Ascend Routing Support Engineer Certification 

·   Microsoft Windows 95 Support Engineer Certification 

·   Windows NT 4.0 Support Engineer Certification 

·   IBM Aix Unix Interoperability Test 

·   Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Interoperability Test 

·   Cisco CCNA Routing Support Engineer Certification 

·   Novell CNE 3.5.0 Certification 

·   Novell CNA 3.5.0 Certification 

·   Microsoft MCSE 3.51 Training 

·   Microsoft MCP Training Certifications 

·   A + Certification

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