Alan A. Hunt

 

762 Highland Drive / Madison, AL 35758

a.a.hunt@gmail.com

 

Objective

 

 

Seeking a lead or senior position with a highly motivated team developing customer-focused software

 

Work Experience

 

 

Software Consultant, Intergraph PP&M	September  2014 – Present
Smart Enterprise Portal	September 2014 – Present

Responsible for design, development, and unit testing of an enterprise web portal for searching data and viewing engineering drawings and 3D models. The portal is a single page application with the client side written in TypeScript utilizing the Angular framework. The server side utilizes ASP.NET Web API, written in C#.

•          Designed and implemented the portal to be data agnostic

•          Worked with multiple teams to push RESTful web service standards across the division as it moved to put business applications in the cloud

•          Designed and implemented a relational visualization UI for navigating data

•          Integrated 3D model viewing control

•          Implemented routing framework using Angular UI-router

•          Worked closely with the API team to design OData web services for retrieving data

•          Implemented mock OData services using ASP.NET Web API in order to develop the client side prior to the existence of actual services for the business application

•          Designed and implemented configuration and preferences persistence

•          Integrated NLog for server and client side logging

•          Wrote unit tests for both client and server side logic to maintain minimum 80% code coverage

•          Assisted junior developers with design, implementation, and UX decisions

•          Performed duties of Scrum Master

◦          Acted as the point of contact for the team

◦          Advised Product Owner

◦          Ran Sprint Reviews/Retros/Planning

 

Senior Software Engineer, SAIC	April  2012 – August 2014
Team Lead, Force Protection Architecture	April 2012 – August 2014

Responsible for design, development, and unit testing of the Force Protection Architecture Command and Control User Interface (FPA UI) application, which is part of the FPS Enhanced Architecture Software Suite.  The application utilizes .NET 4.0, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and the Model-View-Viewmodel (MVVM) design pattern.

•          Performed duties required of the Software Development Lead

◦          Participated in Change Control Boards

◦          Lead team status meetings

◦          Assigned work to developers

•          Integrated open source third party video control

•          Implemented EG104 and EG601 KLV metadata parsing from UAV video feeds to display UAV icons on a map

•          Integrated camera motion detection capability

•          Implemented capability to start external applications from within the UI using Win32 API to manage external process windows

•          Troubleshot and refactored multithreaded code to improve performance and fix deadlocks

•          Designed and implemented map tools for placing tactical objects, drawing and editing polygons, calculating distance and bearing, and zoom-to-box functionality

•          Implemented Field of View graphics and animation for the mapping component

•          Helped design and implemented custom event handling to allow mapping framework to work with third party map libraries

•          Designed and implemented capability for custom application views on multiple monitors

•          Designed and implemented configurability of access and command permissions for devices

•          Implemented joystick support for control Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras

•          Implemented serialization of application configuration

•          Used Redgate’s ANTS Performance Suite to track down and fix memory leaks and other performance issues

•          Wrote unit tests for software subcomponents

•          Assisted junior level developers with troubleshooting bug fixes and implementing new features

 

Software Engineer, L-3 Communications	August 2005 – April 2012
Software Engineer, Missile Defense Data Center	Feb 2007 – April 2012

The MDDC program handles data management across all of MDA for the BMDS Test Program.  The software solutions for the program include a website for registration and data management, a Windows application for distributing data to the user community, and suite of tools for internal purposes.  All software is developed in ASP.NET and C# with a Microsoft SQL Server database.

 

•          Implemented a solution to authenticate registered users with Active Directory over the web

•          Implemented Common Access Card authentication for the website

•          Implemented Windows services to handle various batch processes such as periodic email notifications to users and automated auditing of user accounts

•          Implemented fixes for multithreaded service that manages disc burning devices

•          Designed and implemented Windows Forms using the MVC paradigm

•          Worked with the IA team and the software lead to conduct a code review of the legacy Data Management System code base to identify vulnerabilities

•          Helped integrate the Data Management System with the MDDC Catalog System to provide a single website with a uniform look and feel

•          Developed and mapped SQL Server Schema using NHiberate

•          Installed software builds on the development and production networks

•          Filled in for the software lead on occasion to lead meetings with the customer to establish and prioritize new requirements

•          Troubleshot software issues in production and development environments

•          Worked with software lead to design new screens and database schema

•          Implemented various software tools for converting data and troubleshooting production issues

•          Worked with the software lead to write a Software Design Description and a Software Developer Manual for the MDDC software suite

•         Assisted other developers with questions about design and implementation decisions

 

Software Engineer, Information Assurance Group                                                          Aug 2005 - Feb 2007

 

The IA group partnered with a local small business to provide support to Missile Defense Agency (MDA) / Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) projects as part of the Small Business Innovative Research program.

 

•          Designed and implemented a multi-threaded core server and a command and control console for a network security application using Java and MySQL that provided a single consolidated user interface for monitoring security events from several network security tools

•          Helped define processes for first CMMI appraisal for a project at the L-3 Huntsville office

•          Implemented a user interface control for a Pan/Tilt/Zoom camera for Hawk, a component of the Praetorian Surveillance suite (http://www.l3praetorian.com/hawk/index.htm)

 

 

 

 

Graduate Research Assistant, Auburn University                                               June 2004 – May 2005

 

While completing my Master’s degree, I worked as a research assistant on computer security research projects funded by the Missile Defense Agency.

•          With a team of graduate students, researched techniques to mitigate and survive distributed denial of service attacks

•          Researched security architecture and ways to map such an architecture into the Department of Defense Architecture Framework

 

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Auburn University                                             August 2003 – May 2004

 

While completing my Master’s degree, I worked as a teaching assistant to Dr. Dean Hendrix for the Fundamentals of Computer Science II course.

•          Taught three lab sections for the course

•          Assisted Dr. Hendrix with designing, grading, and teaching java programming assignments that dealt  with fundamental data structures and algorithms

 

 

 

Education

 

 

Masters of Science, Software Engineering – 3.9 GPA               Auburn University, December 2005

 

 

Bachelors of Arts, Philosophy – 3.4 GPA                                       Auburn University, December 2000

 

 

Publications

 

 

Eoff, B.; Hunt, A.; Hamilton, J. A., Jr.; Evans, G.  The Theory and Practice of Vulnerability Analysis of Simulation Software, Huntsville Simulation Conference, October 20-21, 2004, Huntsville, Alabama.

 

 

Technologies

 

 

Programming Languages: TypeScript, Javascript, C#, ASP.NET, Java, PHP, C, C++

Frameworks: Angular, ASP.NET Web API, Entity Framework, WPF, ASP MVC

Libraries: d3, jQuery

Design Tools: Enterprise Architect

 

Operating Systems: Windows 7/10, Linux (CentOS, Red Hat)

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2012/2014, Oracle 11g/12c, MySQL

Version Control Systems: Team Foundation Server, Subversion

Development Environments: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2013/2015, Netbeans

Applications: Redgate .NET Performance Suite, Microsoft Blend

 

 

 

Interests

 

 

Mountain biking, PC gaming, classical guitar