XML Global Technologies, Inc., Director of Consulting
(2001-2002), Full-time

Lead XML Global's team on DoD Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) contract to provide XML support developing strategic XML implementation plan, assist with architecting Enterprise Information Services Layer (EISL) proposal, brought online prototype registry for managing business artifacts, prototyping (QuickBook's qbXML, Treasury feed), prepared marketing materials, and provided general tactical guidance and education on XML technology following Solution Envisioning methods

Datamatix, Inc. (now Digital Commerce), Systems Analyst/Project Manager
(1996-1998), Full-time

Team member developing a transaction-based system to be deployed on the Wide-World Web (WWW) via the Internet. Federal Request for Quote (RFQ), DLA Purchase Requests (PR), Commerce Business Daily (CBD), and Business to Business transactions are indexed via a full-text search engine and stored in a relational database. The transactions are received in various electronic formats and translated, prepared, searched, retrieved and processed. Mapped a purchase order (X12 850) for vendor notification. Designed and implemented subscriber registration and logging process. Aided with detail design and implementation of search engine, business directory, and SNA gateway interface between AS/400 and production NT system. Assisted with a user interface database and design for subscribers. On development team which implemented AT&T and IBM 'Master Contract' web-based offerings to State and Local governments.

TECHNOLOGY: Products used in our implementation are Active Server Pages accessing via ODBC SQL Server on Microsoft’s Information Server (3.0), System is written with VBscript, Visual Basic and Verity Search97 script. 'Master Contract' system implemented Cold Fusion. Protocols include, Developed MS-Windows NT prototype implementing SQL HTML, X12, and proprietary interfaces.

NATURE AND SIZE OF SYSTEM(S): System is a business network automating the search, retrieval and processing of purchasing transactions via the Internet. Bringing together private industry, Federal, State and Local governments trading opportunities for buyers and sellers.

PaperFree Systems, Inc. (now Sybase), Product Engineer
(1991-1996), Full-time and Contract

WWIX-Map and WinMap, Product Engineer (current) (1991-1993)

On design team for a mapping CASE tool for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). System provides a graphical user interface allowing for the defining of dynamic processing of customer database and standard protocol conversions. Provided OEM consulting to major EDI players; General Electric Information Systems (GEIS) and SupplyTech. Performed research and analysis for the initiative. Provided programming and end-user support to corporate customers. Designed tool to develop ANSI X12 Transaction Sets. Set-up Internet Wide-World Web server and authored Web page contents. (http://paperfree.com) Performed market research including competitor evaluations, technology reviews and transacted interviews with potential customers. Wrote system modeling interface, FTP and asynchronous communications for WinServer product.

TECHNOLOGY: Products were PC-based (DOS and Windows). Products are written with Visual Basic, Microsoft C, Borland C, Cscape, Crystal Reports, ObjectVision, Paradox for Windows, and dBcIII. Developed MS-Windows prototype implementing DDE, DLL, and SQL interfaces.

NATURE AND SIZE OF SYSTEM(S): Product was distributed to over 1,000 users..

Open Technology Group, Inc., Systems Analyst
(1995 - 1996), On contract to FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency, Consulting Senior Systems Analyst, (01/95 - Present)

The FEMA contract is designed to provide technical consulting services to support the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) Directorate’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Specifically the contract supports the preliminary efforts to implement an agency wide data warehouse to support intra-agency, inter-agency both state and federal government, and various insurance entities. The pilot system consists of reegineering of NFIP’s Actuarial Information System (AIS) currently residing on an Amdahl MVS system in FOCUS database; and transitioning to an open system environment (OSE) running on a Pyramid UNIX platform in Informix 7.10. In short, the AIS is primarily used as a Decision Support System (DSS).

Provided high level analysis and design support for the implementation of a pilot system which will demonstrate many of the target system’s capabilities. Functions include analysis of client's business functions, architect designs which best fit FEMA’s requirements, and implement the designs to FEMA’s satisfaction. Analysis includes identifying opportunities to improve business procedures using today's technologies; many of which focus on improving timeliness, accessibility and flexibility of the NFIP information. Process development includes data modeling, detailed planning, tool evaluation, selection, and implementation. Responsible for providing full-life-cycle support and perform all necessary duties required to increase the project's probability of success.

TECHNOLOGY: UNIX-based Pyramid Nile 150 and PC clients (Intel 486, Pentium) in Windows for Workgroups communicating on FEMA’s Novell LAN. ERwin and BPwin modeling tools, Informix 7.10 database, and rapid application development tools, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Access), and Netscape’s Navigator.

NATURE AND SIZE OF SYSTEM(S): The Actuarial Information System (AIS) dataset is the largest base of information among the NFIP Statistical Systems, with data for the AIS going back to 1968. The pilot system resides on a Pyramid Nile 150, quad 150Mhz processors with 1Gbyte of RAM with an equivalent performance of 4,000 MIPS. The system runs a unique flavor of UNIX optimized to take advantage of the parallel architecture of the platform. The system also has 100Gbytes of hard disk storage space to house FEMA’s data warehouse requirements. The open computer architecture allows access via FEMA’s wide-area network (WAN), which at full implementation will have up to 1,000 users.

Advantage Systems Corporation (now Alexus), Product Manager
(1993-1994), Full-time

Maryland Department of Employment and Economic Development, Product Manager (1993-1994)

In charge of development and production of an automated HR resume fax-back system for Maryland DEED. System incorporates intelligent rules-based matching algorithms for grouping candidates via profile descriptions.

Responsible for formulating detailed concepts, designs, system development and deployment. Brought production on-line and authored automated workflow procedures incorporating E-forms for the system. The system was created under Maryland DEED contract, but then taken commercially to company HR departments nationally via the Internet. Worked with CEO in developing marketing strategy and provided material and training support to sales department. Created processes to enable system to provide demographic information to various IP clients; Newspaper Association, Washington Post and L.A. Times.

Developed business and contingency plans for strategic business direction. Tasks included assessing a service or project’s chances of success, developing worksheet models to test the feasibility of a business idea, performing feasibility studies, including cost/risk-benefit analysis. Determined avenues and criteria modifications which reduced levels of complexity of proposed designs. Set objectives and established measures to determine goal success factors. Wrote programs to monitor mass mailing responses. Supervised 4 employees.

TECHNOLOGY: PC and PC-based (Intel 486, 386) computers and controllers, voice/call processing (Dialogic), T1 demux (Newbridge) and a optical jukebox (HP) attached to OS/2 server on a Novell LAN with clients running Windows for Workgroups. Implemented technologies include DBMS (Paradox for Windows), document management and workflow (KeyFile), optical character recognition (Calera), full-text search engine (ZyIndex), telephony (IBEX) servers, Microsoft’s Office Suite, and Windows/ Windows for Workgroups.

NATURE AND SIZE OF SYSTEM(S): System is a human resources network automating the search and retrieval of tens of thousands of resume images via Internet and telephony. The system integrates advanced concepts of search, database, workflow and document management technology.

Research and Management Technicians, Inc., Analyst
(1990-1991), Full-time

Department of Energy, Program Technical Lead (1990-1991)

Technical lead responsible for task management and planning relative to the development of Department of Energy's New Production Reactor Programs's "Decision Support System." The system allows for the integration of various contractors' data and electronic transfer to headquarters. The headquarters’ subsystem contains various analytical tools for cost/schedule and change control. This position involved daily monitoring of programmer status, subcontractors, and client interfaces. Wrote contracts for consulting vendors. Also responsible for writing the Systems Requirements and System Specification documents to support the development and design of the system. Supervised two technical staff members and three contracts.

TECHNOLOGY: PC-based. Microsoft C, WordPerfect, Time Machine project, MS-Project, PMAS (Performance Manager and Analytical System)

NATURE AND SIZE OF SYSTEM(S): New Production Reactor (NPR) programs contained three remote sites feeding contractor’s cost/schedule program data to headquarters.

Pacific Scientific - HIAC/ROYCO Division, Senior Electronics Engineer
(1989-1990), Full-time

2250 Laser-based Particle Detector, Senior Electronics Engineer (1989-1990)

Senior Electronics Engineer responsible for developing a series of laser-based particle counters for point-of-use. Software was developed to control unit and interface via SECS protocol to the facility monitoring system. Software design included serial interface to microprocessing kernel, and company/proprietary windowing software using C. Also as project leader, set-up a production and test for the above units with a team of seven (7) technical staff members and technicians.

TECHNOLOGY: Hardware design included 64180 microprocessor, a coincidence filter, laser control, and photodiode front-end circuitry. IBM-PC was used as test tool for communicating and graphing instrument output. Borland C compiler, Lantastic LAN, PC-Write

NATURE AND SIZE OF SYSTEM(S): 50 Systems were sent to Fishkill, NY. to be incorporated in IBM’s Very-Large Scale Wafer Fabrication (VLSWF) program.

Cincinnati Milacron - Chesapeake Laser Systems
(1984-1989), Full-time

Non-Contact Laser Vision Profiler Gauge, Product Manager (1985-1989)

Manager responsible for designing real-time S/W and H/W functions for laser-based non-contact measurement systems for industrial/military use. Application specific projects include high-speed seam track/welding, profiling, soft-fixture measurement, and robotics guidance. Product development duties also include fab, test and on-site customer support. Software development consisted of system control and data collection for runtime and graphical interface. Hardware designs provided signal processing and robotics controller interface. Majority of development funding was supported by the Navy under the ManTech program.

Instrumental in extracting a commercial product from research program to be sold to corporate customers. Promoted to Product Manager of product, with the responsibility of marketing, bidding, customer interface and development. Consulted to Medar, Inc. as OEM to deploy in-line assembly QA check products at various automotive plants. Success of product resulted into Medar’s purchase of 20% of Chesapeake Laser Systems and allowed for the direct consulting to General Motors as to how best utilize laser technology on their production assembly line. Consulted to Cincinnati Milacron on laser technology which ultimately led to the out-right purchase of Chesapeake Laser Systems. (Note: CLS at the time was a small company with 8 employees)

Fixed well-defined objectives for pilot programs and product prototypes. Authored functional and system requirements documents. Applied rapid prototyping techniques at strategic and tactical levels of implementation. Systems were designed in an iterative process which entailed constant interaction among customers. Devised systemic procedures to reduce training and labor costs. Authored test criteria to check consistency and completeness of the product. Supervised three technicians.

Laser-based Interferometer 3-D Measurement System, Programmer (1984-1985)

Provided signal processing electronic, software design and program support for system.

TECHNOLOGY: Implemented technology includes laser diodes, acousto-optic modulators, and optical receivers interfaced to 8086 MS-DOS computers. Lab Instrumentation; logic analyzers, oscilloscopes. VOM.

Implemented user interfaces in both proprietary and MS-Windows 1.0 using Microsoft C, Turbo-Pascal, Matrix Layout, and BASIC. ORCAD was used for hardware design of digital circuits.

NATURE AND SIZE OF SYSTEM(S): System was Navy’s first expenditure for laser-based vision. Commercial product was developed from $1 million ManTech Program. Interferometer-based measurement system was used to monitor testing in the Stars satellite defense program; enabling the tracking of devices up to 150’ away in 3-D mapping space to the resolution of a human hair. Test was tele-viewed at the White House.

Litton-Amecom Division
(1980-1984), Full-time

EA-6B, IDFS, and E2-C programs, Associate Test Engineer (1982-1984)

On design team for passive direction finding systems. Responsible for design reviews, production support, product selection and systems programming. Devised automated flexible manufacturing and test systems for several initiatives. Tasked with programming ATE (GenRad CAPS) to functionally test memory card for E2-C signal processor. Completed task ahead of schedule by one-third the allotted time, with the board being tested to 99% of function; due to utilization of latest industry testing concepts. Assigned to develop ATE 24-hour multiplexed monitoring system using call notification, BASIC on Zenith CPM platform and I/O cards to simulate signals to/from processor. Promoted to quality assurance proposal writing team; designed semi-automated proposal generator. Selected database to meet requirements for the quality assurance department.

E2-C Program, Test Technician; Group Leader (1980-1981)

Initially assigned to calibrating system’s voltage controlled oscillators (VCO). Made observation during this task which allowed for the redesigned of calibration procedure to be more accurate at the same time reducing by a magnitude the required tuning time. Selected as interdepartmental liaison for the signal processor efforts in engineering. The signal processor contained state-of-the-art bit slice CPUs incorporated in a true parallel architecture and true multitasking. The processor emulated a 11/70 and contained additional firmware for signal analysis and hardware switching. The Integral member of processor pre-production testing team. Provided testset evaluation, product testability improvements; both hardware and firmware, and modified procedures to be usable on the production floor. Promoted to Group Leader, in charge of bringing the processor into production; coordinating the technical activities, four technicians, and other resources. Trained technicians on the various tasks. Due to effort’s success, selected for promotion into associate engineering program.

TECHNOLOGY: DEC 11/70, GENRAD Functional Digital Tester, Zenith Microcomputer, 2900 bit-sliced multiprocessing architectures. Lab Instrumentation; logic analyzers, oscilloscopes. VOMS. BASIC, PC-Write, GENRAD CAPS test language

NATURE AND SIZE OF SYSTEM(S): Signal processing for electronic counter-measures; 100 subsystems deployed. Processors are war replaceable units which contain 4 computers (4 cards each) in parallel on a passive backplane with 12 other I/O cards. Each card incorporated between 50 to 75 integrated circuits.

Japanese Electron Optics Laboratories, USA. Field Service Engineer
(1979-1980), Full-time

Engineer for high resolution transmission electron microscopes in southeastern region of United States. Responsibilities included customer instruction, installation, and trouble-shooting to component level.

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Mission Systems, Manassa VA.
(1999- ), Consultant/Contractor

Consultant on IRAD project implementing third party XML parser with proprietary secure knowledge management system. Development of DTD for extending business tags for operation.   Edit whitepaper for electronic commerce applicability of system.

Support for Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) of the Virtual Prime Vendor (VPV)    C5-PDM (Program Depot Maintenance) to provide a single responsible system for managing procurement activities and provide full asset visability. Interfaced SQL Server/IIS-based NT platform with SAP via XML feed.  As Chief Engineer / Technologist developed and defined architecture and requirements for application engineering staff. Technologies included XML, EDI, forecasting, and other EC components

WebCritical Technologies, Reston, VA.
(1999- ), Consultant

Performed systems analysis on solution architecture and transaction processes for a collaborative effort of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (JHU-APL) and Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) a Web-based EDI system for Vehicle Registration.

Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, VA.
(1994-1995), Consultant

Support to corporate restructuring team. Focus on re-engineering of business processes targeted at several vendor related activities including refining vendor population via dollar and transaction thresholds. Provided database (Paradox for Windows) application design and implementation for above efforts.

Defense Personnel Support Center, Philadelphia, PA.
(1993), Contractor

Developed pilot software program to demonstrate potential saving in invoice processing through Evaluated Receipt Settlement. Program integrated EDI invoices from trading partners and automatically maintained accounting information and return receipts. Software was written in Microsoft Access.

Data Broadcasting Technologies, Corp., Fairfax, VA.
(1990), Consultant

Programmer/Analyst tasked with designing a file transfer protocol to be used by the customer, United Press International, to transmit data and executable files via FM SCA or television's VBI. Responsibilities included customer interface, writing the System Specification, and implementing prototype using Turbo C++ and DESQview. Prototype consisted of receiver simulation passing a file through DESQview's mailbox scheme to a file viewing utility.

T.E.S.S.T. School, Hyattsville, MD.
(1983), Part-time teacher

Instructor for "Microprocessing I" course. Set up course outline for evening class involving 8080 microprocessor trainer hands-on training.