Resume 3
Resume 3
Task-oriented, highly flexible engineer, project leader, and software developer with key strengths in hands-on problem-solving,
team formation and leadership, analysis, and written presentation. Experienced in several industries, including telecom, internet
services, electronic commerce, scientific computing, defense, pharmaceuticals, broadcasting.
NASA Consultant. Developed web services, web applications, and enterprise service bus (ESB)
Huntsville, Alabama components. Recipient of project team Employee of the Quarter award, Q4, fiscal 2005.
2004-2007 Recognized by NASA CIO for project contributions, April 2006. Perl, XSLT, PL/SQL on
Linux; Java, ServiceMix ESB, Tomcat, JSP, Struts, AXIS 2, Actuate IDAPI on Solaris.
Sprint PCS Software Engineer/Team Lead. Planned, designed, and led sustaining development and
Nashville, Tennessee enhancements to intranet tools, GIS applications, middleware projects, and enterprise
2001-2003 knowledge portals. Built and led a software development team whose repeatedly
demonstrated ability to go from requirements to release of major enhancements in five
working days won multiple awards for excellence. Perl on Solaris; Java in ServletExec on
NT Server and in IE applets; VBScript.
Qwest Digital Media Director, Systems Architecture. Developed architecture, budget, system design, and
Nashville, Tennessee deployment plan for a transcontinental streaming-video-on-demand network. Built and
1999-2001 demonstrated a unique pilot system for long-haul transport of studio-quality video over
public IP networks. Led engineering of streaming server infrastructure. Built end user
streaming interfaces on ASP, media editing and playlist management tools in Visual Basic.
GE Information Consultant. Specified, designed, coded, and tested new custom modules of Web- based EDI
Systems service. Specified and estimated enhancements to software configuration management tools.
Brentwood, Tennessee C++, Perl, Java on Solaris.
1998-99
Speer Communications Senior Systems Engineer. Developed, planned, budgeted, and prototyped concepts for
Nashville, Tennessee automated online/near-line data vaulting. Designed and configured disk server installations
1997-98 for broadcast television production and playout. Designed and executed demonstrations and
technology proofs-of-concept in biometric security and digital asset management in Visual
Basic and Visual J++.
Eli Lilly & Company, Consultant serving as Unix administrator and application programmer for Solaris and IRIX
Indianapolis, Indiana systems in pharmacokinetics laboratory. FORTRAN, csh scripting, S-PLUS.
1995-96
Other consulting Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati (C++ on NT); R. R. Donnelley & Co., Willowbrook, IL
clients, 1996-1999: (Perl CGI); CNA Life, Nashville (Java);
Education Networks of America, Nashville (Linux kernel hacking in C);
Edgenet Media, Nashville (C, Cold Fusion); Orbis Broadcast Group, Chicago (Perl,
FoxPro)
Entropic Research Domestic Sales Manager. Sold Unix desktop software for digital signal processing, speech
Laboratory science, and automatic speech recognition to industrial, government, and academic users,
Washington, DC direct and through distributors. Solaris, HP-UX, Ultrix.
1993-94
Cray Research, Inc., Senior Sales Analyst. Installed and maintained supercomputers for government customers.
Herndon, Virginia Benchmarked and ported signal and image processing applications. Consulted with new
1991-93 product business units on algorithms and requirements for new massively parallel systems.
FORTRAN, C on UNICOS and IRIX.
1990-91 Specialist Engineer. Design, construction, and programming of embedded parallel DSP
systems for radar processing and sensor evaluation. C, FORTRAN, Occam on PDOS RTOS,
Intel i860 VME boards. Occam, Motorola 56001 assembler on Inmos transputer modules.
1987-90 Senior Engineer. Member of Technical Staff, Low Observables. Managed acquisition and
deployment of hypercube supercomputer for electromagnetic analysis. Spearheaded
requirements analysis, wrote RFP and specifications, convened proposal evaluation team,
managed selected vendor through delivery, trained initial user community. Achieved 97.5%
reduction over the previous approach in time-to-solution on the critical benchmark, at a
price/performance ratio one-tenth that of the industry leader. Coded, tested, and analyzed radar
cross section models, mentored junior programmers, administered minicomputer systems, and
managed operations of a classified data processing facility. FORTRAN, C on VMS, UTek,
System V/386, Intel hypercubes.
1985-87 Senior Engineer. Designed radio, audio, telecom, and SATCOM systems for air defense,
antisubmarine warfare, spread-spectrum tactical communications, and strategic defense
systems for Air Force and Navy customers. Modeled low-probability-of-intercept
communication systems, antenna systems, transmission lines, satellite links, and ballistic
missile fire control systems. C, Matlab, FORTH, HP BASIC, DEC BASIC, Microsoft CP/M
BASIC.
1981-84 Lead Engineer. Started in summer 1981 as a test engineer for communications avionics on the
E-3A AWACS system. Promoted in late 1982 to lead electronic design engineer for custom
electronic components.
ITT Corporation Test Engineer. Designed, built, and programmed automatic test equipment in a tactical radio
Fort Wayne, Indiana factory. Administered VAX minicomputer system. Analyzed local area network architecture.
1984-85 HP BASIC and p-System Pascal on HP 9836; VMS FORTRAN.