Barry P. Sheward

42726 Summerhouse Place • Ashburn, VA 20148

Tel.: (703) 755-0229 • Email: barrysheward@gmail.com

Executive Summary

Barry Sheward, a Lockheed Martin Fellow, is a highly skilled IT industry professional with over 25 years’ of experience that includes 15 years in leadership roles and 20 years in software development. He is often selected to direct, lead, and mentor engineers. In 2012, Barry was recognized by Lockheed Martin for Individual Excellence in Cloud Computing.

PROFESSIONAL Certifications and Awards

Core TECHNICAL Competencies

·            Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google, Hyper-V (SCVMM), OpenStack, Terremark, VMware vCloud & vSphere

·            Database Technologies: MySQL, Neo4J, Oracle, OrientDB, Postgres, SQL, SQL Server, TinkerPop/Gremlin

·            Development: Apache Ant, BugZilla, Continuum, CruiseControl, CVS, Eclipse, Jenkins, JIRA, Make, Maven, Mercurial, Subversion, Xdoclet

·            Java Platforms: Apache Camel, Apache TomCat, Java SE 1.3-8.0, Java EE (EJB 2.1 & EJB 3.0, JSP, JSF, Servlets), JAAS, JavaMail, JAXB, JBoss AS, JBoss Rules, JBoss Seam, JDBC, JNDI, JSSE, Scala, Spring, Groovy, WildFly

·            OS Environments:  Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX), and Linux

·            Web Technologies:  AJAX, Bootstrap, CSS 2-3, DocBook, DOM, HTML 3-5, JavaScript, jQuery, RDF, SAX, SOAP, XHTML, XML, XML-FO, XSLT

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Professional Experiences

Lockheed Martin IS&GS                                                                                                                May 2007 to Present

LM Fellow, Cloud Computing Subject Matter Expert (SME) (2012-present)

Cloud Computing SME (2008-2012)

·   Serving as a technical lead for a number of projects and proposal efforts.

·   Leading the design and development of the SolaS® Hybrid Cloud Manager, a cloud computing and datacenter automation technology used in programs across the corporation to reduce costs and act as a differentiator to win new business.

·   Architecting and developing the LM MicroServer Foundation, a distributed, modular, easily-configurable platform designed for rapid integration leveraging Enterprise Integration Patterns and utilizing the WildFly Application Server, Spring, Apache Camel, the ActiveMQ message broker and the OrientDB NoSQL Graph Database to simultaneously support multiple heterogeneous cloud/virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, OpenStack, AWS, etc.) and storage platforms (NetApp, EMC, etc.).

·   Coordinating Software Engineering and Systems Engineering across the project teams and deployed and operating an integrated build solution that supports agile development and code sharing.

·   Constantly researching methods to extend datacenter security into the cloud and an expert presenter for topics in security in Cloud Computing.

Advanced Solutions Group Lead (2007-2008)

·   Served as a technical lead for a number of projects and proposal efforts.

·   Developed innovative business processes and integration solutions using Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) architectures based on Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) frameworks, such as JBoss ESB.

·   Evaluated and researched a number of third-party commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products to determine their capabilities and eligibility for use in our programs.

·   Selected to attend the Foundation for Leadership training course, which is offered to only 5% of Lockheed Martin employees and is held at the LM Center for Leadership Excellence.

CyberTrust, Inc. (Formerly TruSecure, Inc., now part of Verizon)                 September 2004 to May 2007

Software Development Manager

·   Developed the build system and a functionally narrow vertical application as a proof of concept for the CyberTrust Platform, which used JBoss EJB 3.0 for persistence, session and transactional management and web services endpoints and JBoss Seam and JavaServer Faces (JSF) to provide a Web interface. 

 

·   Managed and directed a development team of 14 responsible for the Security Management Program (SMP), a $30M per annum income product supporting Cybertrust’s services offering which provided a measure of a client’s compliance with various regulatory and non-regulatory standards, and vulnerabilities found in their environment.  Using an ASP model, it supported over 600 companies and 1500 users.

·   Translated high-level requirements from product management into functional software designs and specifications to be built.

·   Architected and developed the SMP software that included a rich client graphical user interface (GUI) using Laszlo that communicated with a JBoss 4 application server using over 70 SOAP endpoints (over HTTPS) implemented using the Web Services for J2EE functionality in J2EE 1.4.  Due to the agile development process and ease of adding new SOAP endpoints, SMP became the flagship for SOA development within CyberTrust. I also developed a report generation framework for creating complex textual reports by using the OpenDocument file format and Jakarta Commons Jelly that allowed editing and PDF file creation and cut processing report generation time from 30 minutes to 10 seconds.

·   Created an agile, automated build process that built, deployed, started and then automatically tested the product, using tests developed using J2EEUnit.

·   Designed a high-availability architecture using Linux on AMD64 systems running clustered JBoss application servers and a clustered Oracle 10g RAC database, Planned and executed the migrating of hardware, software, database and physical location over a single weekend.

·   Led the team of four (4) who developed Cybertrust’s Supplier Assessment Tool (SAT), a $6M income product.

Sequation, Inc. (also known as hyperNOC, Inc., ClearPoint Metrics, Inc.)         May 2001 to September 2004

Software Development Manager, Principle Software Engineer

·   Managed a Development team of six (6) to design and develop the company’s flagship Enterprise Management Integration platform and vertical applications using the Java programming language and the Jakarta Tomcat Web Application Server.

·   As Software Development Manager, I used Microsoft Project to track progress of software development activities to ensure workload was balanced across team members and deadlines were met.  I also presented schedule summaries to executive management on a weekly basis.  I was the primary point of contact for important clients while also responsible for mentoring and coaching junior developers by providing technical guidance and direction to prepare them for client support tasks.  Additionally, I managed the technical writers to ensure accuracy and consistency for all product documentation.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA)                                                           October 1994 to May 2001

Senior Software Engineer (1998-2001)

·   As the Senior Software Engineer in the Unicenter TNG Agent Technology Development Group, I led the team and was instrumental in simplifying the configuration of the core component of Unicenter TNG Agent Technology (SNMP based agents) and developing a scriptable network oriented GUI.

Development Task Force (1996-1998)

·   As a member of a development task force, I traveled to client sites throughout Europe and the U.S. to install the Unicenter TNG beta product and produced detailed feedback on client concerns and environmental issues for the benefit of product management. In October 1997, I relocated to CA’s corporate headquarters in Islandia, New York.

Software Engineer (1995-1996)

·   As a Software Engineer, I worked on the Unicenter TNG Performance Management tools, including development of the remote Agent Technology-based Agents and a Visual BASIC management and configuration tool.

 

Junior Software Engineer (1994-1995)

·   I worked on the Software Delivery product, porting key components of the C++ application running on OS/2 to UNIX. I also developed robust installation shell scripts.

International Computers, Ltd. (ICL)                                                                       February 1994 to October 1994

Graduate Trainee/Junior Developer

·   As a Graduate Trainee, I worked as a part of the Systems Management Product Center, a division of ICL that was sold to CA for its software delivery, performance management and systems management software.

·   I was a member of the team that developed a UNIX-based software delivery product, which was written in ANSI C and ran on ICL’s version of UNIX.

Digital Equipment Company, Ltd. (Digital)                                                            April 1991 to September 1992

Technical Intern/Junior Developer

·   I attended 2 six-month Industrial Training Placements (Internships) in Bracknell, England.

·   (1992) As the OSF/1 Support Specialist in the Third Party Applications Group, I assessed the portability of applications to the OSF/1 Alpha AXP platform, ported a number of open source applications to the Alpha AXP architecture to learn portability issues, and developed programs to demonstrate the features of OSF/1 and OSF/DCE, the OSF Distributed Computing Environment.

·   (1991) As a Junior Developer, I developed the Showcase interoperability and portability suite that demonstrated Digital’s cross platform application support on VAX/VMS and DEC Ultrix platforms, using the curses, DECforms, and OSF/Motif user interfaces.

IBM United Kingdom Development Laboratories, Ltd.                                        April 1990 to September 1990

Technical Intern/Junior Developer

·   I attended a six-month Industrial Training Placement (Internship) in Hursley Park, England.

·   As part of the internship, I used the REXX command language on the IBM VM/CMS operating environment to enhance, maintain, and support the CICS Library Control System (LCS).

Professional Affiliations

Education

·               Master of Science in Software Engineering from George Washington University (in progress)

·               Bachelor of Science in Computing in Business (Honor Graduate) – 1993

(Winner of the Addison-Wesley Prize for the Best Computer Science Project of 1993)

Brunel University, a prominent engineering university in London, England