About

Work Experience

• Vice President, Solution Architecture, GovCIO

  Jul, 2020 - Present

  Within Growth Enablement Team, I deliver innovative and workable solutions to that win business for our company. I research ways to improve our Pwin and promote innovation as the means to engage new customers and bring ideas to existing customers.

  • Over the past year, I was the principal SA on bids totaling $1.3 billion TCV in single-award prime contracts for the U.S. Government

• Director, Technology and Innovation, Huntington Ingalls Industries

  Sep, 2018 - Jun, 20201 year 9 months

  Responsible for setting the technology direction and managing innovation. Managed a team of solution architects that won business and furthered the company's technical footprint. Mentorship role to identify and promulgate technology trends and products to improve current business execution and offer competitive proposal responses.

  • Developed and deployed a Bid and Proposal estimation tool for B&P funding allocation.

  • Developed and deployed an Annual Operating Plan prediction tool based on Markov modeling.

• Director of Engineering, Buchanan & Edwards

  May, 2012 - Sep, 20186 years 4 months

  Corporate leadership role as a technology evangelist designing, developing, and delivering enabling cloud and on-premises platforms for the Department of Defense, Department of State, and the Department of Justice. Responsible for business development, program execution, internal research and development, corporate engineering initiatives, and technology accelerators.

  • Leading technologist winning a $100M contract for the U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Information Support System (MCRISS). Executed on the project using an Electron-based implementation.

  • Designed, developed, and deployed (including ATO) the first public cloud application for the U.S. Department of State

  • Developed and delivered the original version of the State Department’s Smart Traveler iOS and Android application giving international travelers quick access to State Department information feeds

  • Designed and developed a prototype emergency management system using PhoneGap for single- source deployment to both Apple and Android devices

  • Lead a team that developed and delivered the Public Diplomacy Implementation Plan application to all U.S. Embassies around the globe via Microsoft Azure - including advanced technology from Expert AI providing Natural Language Analysis in summarizing implementation plans

• Managing Principal, LynxBridge

  Oct, 2008 - Apr, 20123 years 6 months

  Founded a small fifteen-person consulting company focused on providing skilled consultants in both the public and private sectors. As the CEO, managed technical delivery, payroll, business development, corporate and financial compliance, and secured our GSA Schedule 70 contract.

  • Enterprise software architect on the Blue Devil Block 2 program. This Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance platform was a 350-foot airship with 2,000 pounds of intelligence equipment

  • Chief software architect for the Vigilant program, a Northrop Grumman effort providing a collaborative intelligence system for first responders and border security for North Africa

  • Principal engineer for various Northrop Grumman programs providing intelligence to the war fighter using mobile devices including iPhones and iPads. Provides geospatial intelligence with connectivity to back-end intelligence systems

  • Corporate leadership role as a technology evangelist designing, developing, and delivering enabling cloud and on-premises platforms for the Department of Defense, Department of State, and the Department of Justice

• Technology Fellow, Wells Landers

  Mar, 2005 - Sep, 20083 years 6 months

  Project lead supporting the Defense Common Ground Station for the Army (DCGS-A). Extensive and detailed programming experience integrating the DCGS metadata catalog in an enterprise-wide architecture. Created a Google Earth interface in Java to DCGS-A that displayed intelligence data on the Google Earth globe. This gave the war fighter an easy-to-navigate interface for searching and viewing signals intelligence, imagery, and IEDs.

• Chief Scientist, RABA Technologies

  Nov, 1997 - Mar, 20057 years 4 months

  A consulting company that originally focused on the intelligence sector and then expanded into a variety of additional government and commercial areas. As a senior member of the staff, I had experience in both winning and executing on a number of projects for our Maryland customer.

• Senior Software Engineer, Boeing Defense and Space Group

  Jan, 1993 - Nov, 19974 years 10 months

  The Hanover office of the Boeing Defense and Space Group supported the Enhanced Tactical RAdar Correlator (ETRAC) ground station for the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. The ETRAC system provided commanders with imagery-based battlefield intelligence derived from the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System-2 (ASARS-2) radar sensor carried on board the U-2 aircraft.

  • Lead the team designing and developing the ETRAC Mission Planning System. This was a sophisticated graphical route and collection planning system using C and native X Window drawing primitives.

  • Developed the communications software for the ETRAC system. The communication system (in C) sent and received messages via a Communication System Processor (CSP) and images via a NITF Communications Interface Unit (NCIU).

  • Researched various approaches to mission planning for the TIER programs. Authored a trade study examining the applicability of the Air Force Mission Support System (AFMSS) for UAV missions.

• Software Engineer, GTE Government Systems

  Nov, 1989 - Jan, 19933 years 2 months

  GTE Government Systems supplied the intelligence community with complete systems and consulting. Developed several systems and applications for our Maryland and Virginia customers.

  • Developed applications to support Virginia intelligence agency operations. Applications were written in C and C++ for a large network of Microsoft Windows based PC's and included network communications.

  • Developed an X/Motif applications for Fax and telephony (SS7) analysis systems.

  • Minstrel/Alterstone software engineer designing real-time software for voice processing systems hosted on a 68020 VME system using the OS-9 operating system.

• System Engineer, BiiN Federal Systems

  Jul, 1989 - Oct, 19893 months

  BiiN was a short-lived joint venture between Intel and Siemens to develop fault-tolerant computers. As a pre-sales engineer, my job was to evaluate and respond to proposals and determine how the company’s products could best serve the customer’s needs. They closed in October 1989.

  • Responsible for federal applications of BiiN mission critical computer systems. Extensive customer interchange including briefings and demonstrations. Additional responsibilities were the operation of internal computer systems and Ada software development for multiprocessing performance analysis.

• Signal Corps Officer, U.S. Army

  Jun, 1985 - Jun, 19894 years

  Commissioned as a U.S. Army officer after completing the ROTC program at Northeastern University. My tour of duty was spent at Fort Meade and related National Security installations. Much of my work was supporting the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a national program for detecting and destroying incoming ballistic missiles.

  • Managed the Secure Battle Management Processor program in support of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Evaluated secure and fault tolerant computers for battle management applications. Responsible for all technical aspects of the contractual effort: writing the Statement of Work, creating a data requirements list, and briefing the program to the SDI Organization program office.

  • Member of the National Test Bed Source Selection Advisory Board evaluating proposals for the National Test Bed Integration Contract. The National Test Bed was a $500M program for proving SDI hardware and software.

  • Developed a triple DES file encryption program for the IBM PC written entirely in assembly language.

• Digital Design Engineer, M/A-COM

  Jan, 1983 - Dec, 19852 years 11 months

  Self-employed consultant supporting automated testing and defense products at M/A-COM.

  • Designed and provided engineering support on a variety of automated component test equipment. Major accomplishment was the implementation of an embedded microprocessor system for microcomputers to control custom automatic test equipment via the IEEE-488 bus.

  • Designed the seeker transmitter logic of the Rapidly Deployable Anti-aircraft Missile System (RADAMS) transmitter. Components included switching power supply logic, microwave magnetron control logic, and built-in test equipment to provide an integrated system for both evaluation and operational phases. Designed programmable array logic.

• Co-Op Student, Frequency and Time Systems

  Jun, 1981 - Dec, 19821 year 6 months

  As part of Northeastern University's Co-Op program, I worked for a company that produced, among other products, Cesium beam frequency standards including GPS space-based clocks.

  • Developed two products: a phase comparator for measuring drift between atomic frequency standards and a phase noise measurement system. The phase comparator included printed circuit board design.

Projects Experience

• IO Careers

  - Present

  A site for U.S. Department of State jobs

  • This was the first cloud project for the Department of State

• Smart Traveler

  - Present

  Mobile app to help U.S. travelers to foreign countries

  • I developed the original version for the Apple App Store and Google Play

• EM1

  - Present

  A prototype Emergency Management System

  • We developed a mobile app and the backend system

• VIGILANT

  - Present

  A first responder system by Northrop Grumman

  • We developed this in Java using an XML database

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