Edward J. Stoker

5406 Leeway Court

Fairfax VA 22032

 

Email: ejtstoker@gmail.com    Phone: (703) 608–5037 c

Clearance: TS (SCI being adjudicated)

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Advanced Technology Evaluation ♦ Supercomputer Architectures ♦ Network/System Design, Performance and Integration ♦ Enterprise Data Technologies ♦ Data Mining Technologies ♦ Computer Semantic and Cognitive Technologies ♦ Education Technologies

 

Dr. Stoker has over 30 years of data hardware, software and network technology experience focused on data collection, fusion and correlation within commercial and Federal military, civilian and intelligence communities. He has extensive data modeling and analysis experience and evaluation of new technologies within the Intelligence Community (IC). He has designed and implemented numerous data systems for commercial and government organizations. His skills include broad knowledge of advanced enterprise data management and mining technologies, project and team management, system design, integration and system reliability and evaluation methodologies. 

CERTIFICATIONS

NIEM Implementation Certificate (2009)

COMPETENCIES

§         Adult Learning, (7 yrs.)	§         Electrical Engineering, (30 yrs.)
§         Agile Development, (20 yrs.)	§         Emerging Technologies, (10 yrs.)
§         Application Development, (25 yrs.)	§         Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), (15 yrs.)
§         Assembly Language, (15 yrs.)	§         Information Systems, (30 yrs.)
§         Automated Testing, (25 yrs.)	§         Information Technology (IT), (20 yrs.)
§         Business Process Management (BPM), (5 yrs.)	§         Instructional Technology, (5 yrs.)
§         Business Process Reengineering (BPR), (15 yrs.)	§         Knowledge Management (KM), (3 yrs.)
§         C, (10 yrs.)	§         Learning & Development, (3 yrs.)
§         Captivate (1 yr.)	§         Modeling & Simulation, (15 yrs.)
§         Computer Networking, (20 yrs.)	§         Network Analysis, (25 yrs.)
§         Computer Science, (15 yrs.)	§         Network Architecture, (25 yrs.)
§         Continuous Process Improvement, (5 yrs.)	§         Network Design, (15 yrs.)
§         Data Analytics, (15 yrs.)	§         Network Engineering, (25 yrs.)
§         Data Architecture, (15 yrs.)	§         Network Management, (15 yrs.)
§         Data Integration, Data management, (15 yrs.)	§         Proposal Support, (4 yrs.)
§         Data Migration, (10 yrs.)	§         Project Management, (15 yrs.)
§         Data Mining, (5 yrs.)	§         Rapid Prototyping, (15 yrs.)
§         Database Design, (15 yrs.)	§         Educational Software (5 yrs.)

 

SUMMARY OF SKILLS, TOOLS, AND TECHNOLGIES:

Network Technologies: IPv6, (3 yrs.),  IPv4 (15 yrs.), X-25 (2 yrs.), SNA (4 yrs.), Ethernet (4 yrs.), FDDI (4 yrs.), Fiber Channel (4 yrs.), Infiniband (4 yrs.), TDMA (2 yrs.), VSAT (2 yrs.)

Software/COTS:  Matlab (3 yrs.), Dataplot (7 yrs.), HPCC (5 yrs.), MS Office (20 yrs.)              

Operating Systems: Unix/Linux (15 yrs.), Windows (20 yrs.) IOS (2 yrs.), Android (2 yrs.), VMS (2 yrs.)

Hardware: PCI-e (3 yrs.), Intel

Programming Languages: C/C++ (15 yrs.), Assembler (15 yrs.), ECL (7 yrs.)  Lua (1 yr.), Lisp (3 yrs.) Java (5 yrs.)

EXPERIENCE

BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON, INC., Associate                                                                                        11/2012 – 5/2013

McLean, VA

Currently enrolled in Indiana University Data Analytics certificate program. Attended Booz Allen Hamilton Big Data boot camp. – Program focused on programming and analyzing the following open source technologies, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware Player, Hadoop/HBase, Java coding of Map/Reduce programs, Accumulo. Preparing Data Science course materials. Techniques include: Statistical Analysis, Clustering, Semantic Analysis (tagging, ontologies), Bounding and Simulation Methods, and Machine Learning. Tools include: R/Rattle, Stanford CoreNLP, OpenNLP, NLTK, WEKA, and SCIKit. Technologies covered include: Flat tables, Hierarchical DB (HPCC),  RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL),  NoSQL systems – wide column stores (Hadoop/HBase, Accumulo), document stores (MongoDB), Key value stores (Voldemort, OpenLDAP) and others.

 

BLUEMONT TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH INC, VP                                                                                 2010 – 11/2012

Bluemont, VA

Evaluated new data storage hardware (Violin, Texas Memory/IBM, Nexsan, EMC, Hitachi, OCZ and others) , network/bus architectures (Fiber Channel, PCI-e, Infiniband), software systems (HPCC, MapReduce/Hadoop, Talend, Greenplum etc.) and commercial cloud solution offerings (Amazon, Google etc.) in support of the USHMM study (discussed below) and business proposal and development efforts. Evaluated data processing and topology issues surrounding current data modeling strategies such as semantic tagging (double and triple stores), relational and hierarchical data models, XML tools such as NIEM, machine translation and open source data validity and reliability sources, uses and issues. Designed and documented a data architecture and migration plan for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) that provided scalability, availability and fault tolerance. This required building a design/cost trade-off model that permitted USHMM management to predict five-year funding costs to changing requirements and budgets while meeting strategic and tactical goals. It allowed management to prioritize data center organization and topology based on changing requirements and available funding.

 

BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC, Director                                                                                                                 2009 – 2010

Arlington, VA                                                                                   

Evaluated emerging network technologies and their possible impacts on Intelligence community operation. These reports focused on international network development noting national and regional technical and funding differences and allowed the Agency to prioritize near-term and long-term threats and exploits. Focused on IPv6 applications (sensor networks, open router platforms, dynamic ad-hoc networks) and national and regional educational network infrastructures.  Particular areas of potential concern for the Intelligence included the rapid expansion of sensor networks and their use as means of data exfiltration and infiltration when combined with ad-hoc networking strategies.

 

CAPITOL COLLEGE, Professor                                                                                                                           2005 – Present

Laurel, MD

Teach graduate Electrical Engineering courses in Design for Reliability and Design for Testability, Design for Reliability, focusing on the theory and practice of reliable system design and development. Methodologies include Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD), Design for Reliability (DfR), Design for Manufacturability (DfM), IEEE 1149.1 standards, Thermal and Stress Design, Markov Models, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), FMEA and FMECA, Physics of Failure, Duane's Method, AMSAA, Network/System Modeling, Reliability Bounding Methods, Simulation Techniques. In addition, students are introduced to process reliability strategies such as CMMI, Total Productive Maintenance, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma methods, TQM, Business Process Re-engineering, and ITIL. Design for Testability introduces students to Exploratory (and other forms of) Data Analysis, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) methods, Inductive and Deductive Fault Analysis, Test Benches, Design for Testability, and Accelerated Test methods and standards. Wrote and developed mobile e-book applications for these courses, which has led to improved understanding of course material.

 

IGLOBAL UNIVERSITY, Professor                                                                                                              2010 – Present

Annandale, VA

Teach Information Technology for Management, Research and Statistics, Organizational Behavior for Management and Special Research Topics to M.B.A. students. These teaching methods have led to 100% retention rate and recent national certification (ACICS) for the institution. Taught Information Technology for Management, which focuses on managerial impacts of electronic exchanges and markets, SaaS, cloud and mobile computing, CRM, Supply Value Chains, CMMI, software project management concepts and frameworks that include Software Development Life Cycle, ITIL and PMP. Teach Research and Statistics, which introduces students to modern research methods and resources, scientific inquiry, critical thinking skills, statistical reasoning, exploratory data analysis, market survey and sentiment analysis and other data gathering and analytical methods. Taught Organizational Behavior for Management, which examines modern behavioral research tools as they apply to modern business corporate and managerial practices. Topics include motivational theories, Human Resource (HR) practices, corporate security and privacy, legal and cultural issues, impact of corporate structures on individual performance and sentiment analysis.

 

BLUEMONT TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH INC, VP                                                                                                        2007 – 2009

Bluemont, VA

Managed the Applied eXtreme Engineering Lab (AXEL) for a Federal Government Agency that focused on the application of new computer hardware and software technologies for ‘big data’ sources. This lab evaluated new technologies and allowed the Agency to focus on those with immediate cost/benefit ratios. Technologies evaluated included advanced computer architectures, machine translation technologies, data storage/exploitation and advanced analytic and data clustering tools on very large scale, heterogeneous data stores within the Intelligence Community. Acted as technical liaison between the Agency and other members of the Intelligence Community and In-Q-Tel to share information and learn what other technologies might be applicable. Prototyped a UNIX computer cluster that improved standard throughput between eight and two hundred and fifty times.

 

MANTECH INC, Senior Engineering Scientist                                                                                                     2003 – 2007

Chantilly, VA                                                                                                                         

Led a team that integrated very large heterogeneous datasets into a common analytic data model for an agency in the Intelligence Community. This produced the first two successful models of the ADM for Quantum Leap.  Developed advanced data mining technologies for this agency using ECL, Roxie and other LexisNexis (now HPCC) products, documented the design, implemented coding standards and trained personnel in the ADM and helped with its transition to later versions. Evaluated several new commercial technologies for use in the Intelligence Community while acting as technical liaison for the program.  Co-presented a paper on the obstacles to information sharing within the Intelligence Community along with implementable solutions. This presentation proposed a strategy to increase information sharing without affecting legitimate security concerns.

Major Accomplishments:

Received Director Commendation for Agency efforts in 2005.

 

GENUITY INC, Senior Engineering Scientist                                                                                                  2000 – 2003

Columbia MD

Built resource-forecasting models for international data networking organization management that eliminated unnecessary circuit investments in circuits and correlated network performance and reliability metrics with costing models to control international engineering and equipment budgets. Determined technical and economic metrics for budgetary, and network capacity planning functions. This in-depth network traffic analysis improved network performance data collection and validation processes by a factor of three and reduced costs by 40%.

 

BBN/GTE FEDERAL NETWORK SYSTEMS INC Senior Engineering Manager                               1995 – 2000

Arlington VA

Managed the Systems Performance and Optimization Team of seven scientists/engineers for three years.  This team produced revenues over $1.8 million/year. Designed, built and operated network performance and capacity systems for DISA, JPO and TCS. TCS involved over 5,000 sites. DISA had a few hundred sites. JPO involved an experimental network using advanced, prototype devices and protocols. Designed, built and operated a Reliability Modeling System for GTE Data Services used to predict system availability, risk and cost impacts.  System contained approximately 15,000 components and affected over 10,000 users. Overall reliability improved by 32% in one year and lowered maintenance, and personnel expenses by 27%. Designed, built and operated an internal network performance and capacity system for AOL that measured approximately 1,000 devices and affected over 150,000 users (at that time). This service aided the company in procuring an AOL dial-up contract worth over $50 million/year.

Major Accomplishments:

Received a special commendation and award from the President of GTEDS for the development of the Reliability Modeling System in December 1998.

 

MRJ INC. Member of the Technical Staff                                                                                                                 1994 – 1995

Fairfax, VA

Re-wrote six X.25 drivers for Dow Jones Information Services (DJIS) to provide ultra-high reliable information services for their clients, and completed the work in one-fifth the scheduled time. This permitted DJIS to deliver improved services to their customers under budget and time.  Led five business proposals to operate and manage government data networks and a corporate skills database for use on government proposals and RFIs which improved RFP response times for the company.

 

BBN, Senior Systems Engineer                                                                                                                 1987 – 1994

Columbia, MD

Coordinated development and ported the MSE network management system that consisted of 500,000+ lines of C and assembler code. This effort was completed successfully in three weeks and led to the on time, on-budget completion of this project. Also managed the testing services for this system. Managed the development and deployment of ViewNet (a distributed network management system) for DISA that consisted of 130,000+ lines of C and assembler code. This successful project integrated a network monitoring system (ViewNet) with a network trouble ticket system TTS (mentioned later) and an expert PSN diagnostic system.  The TTS (a configurable network trouble ticket system) handled 500+ tickets a day for DISA (Milnet and DSNet). Integration with ViewNet insured the correct reporting of all network problems. Managed the support of Terminal Access Control devices for DISA, evaluated commercial network management systems, (Openview, Spectrum, ANM) for DISA, and Intel and provided network analysis and communication services for NSA, DISA, and the U.S. Navy.  Supported Packet Assembler – Dis-assembler (PAD) devices for a government system (CDN) that affected approximately 5,000 sites and an undisclosed number of users.  The completed system increased the overall reliability of these network access devices from 93% to 99.8% in the course of two years. In addition, built a specialized set of PAD analysis and audit tools for CDN.

 

COMSAT INC., Engineer                                                                                                                1985 – 1987

Merrifield, VA

Migrated a VSAT system from UNIX to VMS.  VSAT system contained 200,000+ lines of C and assembler code.  Migration included correcting Ethernet drivers and took 6 weeks to complete, putting the project back on schedule for a successful delivery. Designed, built, operated and documented a Configuration Management system across a VMS network for a TDMA system for the West German Bundespost.  These efforts included the migration and ‘reverse-engineering’ all TDMA firmware code, placing it under CM control and writing the TDMA system software documentation, and O&M manuals. Designed, built and tested CCITT #7 signaling test for this effort. All of these efforts contributed to the successful completion of this project.

 

NCR INC., Systems Engineer                                                                                                                  1981 – 1985

Designed, built and supported a data interface between NCR networks and IBM mainframes for Tiffanys. This effort led to NCR winning a new store terminal network from Tiffanys. Designed, installed and supported an ‘unsupportable’ version of NCR’s STORES system (Release 5) for Toys-Я-Us. The success of this deployment lead to NCR receiving a $24 million contract to install equipment in all Toys-Я-Us commercial stores. Designed, and documented a data protocol converter between NCR networks and Sperry mainframes for AT&T. This led to the eventual sale of NCR 2950 intelligent terminals in all AT&T retail stores.

EDUCATION

PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - 2004

MBA, Accounting/Finance, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - 1981

Master of Arts, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - 1980

Bachelor of Arts, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - 1975

 

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