Kris Hardy

Experience

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  Air Force Research Laboratory

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Project Manager and Research Chemist

  Hand-picked as the Project Manager to save a troubled explosive waste disposal facility, including all concerns of the facility's technical development and personnel training and safety.Simultaneously, as a Research Chemist, I conducted energetic material synthesis experiments as member of 3-man energetic materials and additives research team.I initially identified several critical technical risks that would keep the explosive waste disposal facility from meeting our essential business requirements. Following that discovery, I led an explosive material degradation research and discussion panel of Air Force, Navy and commercial experts, and used their input to develop a new project plan and address our technical risks.With the help of my technical staff and advisers, we were able to avoid $500,000 in wasted funding and penalties, and conduct a through re-planning and begin proactive negotiations with our senior leadership and the EPA. Show less

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  Battle Staff, Air Force Flight Test Center

  Sept 2001 - Jun 2002

  Deputy Director

  Led 5 direct reports and 15-person Senior Leadership team responsible for base contingency planning and implementation after September 11th, 2001 attacks.Orchestrated emergency response and communications for base emergency responders, FBI & DOT during explosive-borne vehicle threat. Safe resolution led to military medals and promotions for direct reports.

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  Air Force Research Laboratory

  May 2004 - Sept 2007

  Project Manager and Research Scientist

  Initiated, planned and managed cost, schedule, scope, risk, evaluation and product delivery for a portfolio of $8 million to improve the state-of-the-art of coatings research, surface cleaning and coating performance testing. Efforts led to several new products, reducing the Air Force’s $2 billion-per-year corrosion repair cost. Directed environmentally-friendly, chrome-free aircraft paint program, and partnered university research inventions with the coatings industry. Product adopted across entire Air Force F-15 jet fighter fleet.Led planning and execution of $5M fast-cure paint program to reduce the time that is required to repaint aircraft in war-zones. These new coatings & application methods reduced aircraft downtime from 72 hours to under 24 hours. Show less

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  Submerged Solutions, LLC

  Sept 2006 - May 2010

  President & Application Integration Evangelist

  Application Integration and Agile Software Development.Former President and Application Integration Evangelist at Submerged Solutions, LLC. Submerged Solutions is an Agile Software Development and Enterprise Application Integration firm, focusing on the insurance, health care, manufacturing, and e-retail industries.We understand the dynamic nature of business, and that software requires constant change to keep up-to-date with your business. We are experienced at managing change, dealing with unclear requirements, and working closely with our clients and customers to deliver software and solutions that fit their businesses.We believe that today's businesses must be agile in order to succeed, and ours is no different. We use Agile development processes (including XP, Test-Driven Development, Iterative and Incremental Development, and Scrum where appropriate) to deliver solutions on time and on budget and provide the greatest value as quickly as possible. Show less

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  Sypherlink

  May 2010 - Aug 2011

  Services Technical Lead

  At Sypherlink, I provided custom data integration software and support to Public Safety and Justice organizations. This enabled them to quickly and easily share their business-critical and intelligence information with one another. My clients became more streamlined and efficient, and improved their intelligence gathering and data analysis capabilities, even while their budgets are shrinking.Sypherlink's patented software allows their clients to seamlessly share data that was previously difficult, if not impossible, to share. I worked to knock down barriers in the data sharing process, and lead the integration of data from numerous vendor-supplied and custom-built applications, build interfaces based on leading US National standards (NIEM, NDEx, LEXS, etc.) and manage the entire data-sharing process from cradle to grave.My role was as Sypherlink's Client-facing Project Manager and Technical Lead. I managed multiple large-scale integration projects and lead a team of 5 dedicated and outstanding software developers who built our customized Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) applications and Data Integration Middleware.If you would like to know more about Data Integration, the challenges that most organizations face with managing integration projects, or what your company can do to more effectively build, implement or purchase ETL or Data Integration solutions, feel free to contact me! Show less

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  RH Systems

  Sept 2011 - Oct 2015

  Director of Operations and Chief Software/Firmware Architect

  Director of Operations (Engineering, R&D, Marketing, Sales and IT) for RH Systems, a leading manufacturer of high-precision field and laboratory chilled mirror hygrometers and SF6 gas purity analyzers for the metrology and electrical power transmission/distribution industries.I work with our current and future customers to understand their needs, and ensure that our current and future product line are the developed to be the ultimate solution for our customers. We serve the Metrology, Power, and Electrical Distribution industries with our innovative line of laboratory-precision, field-ready SF6 Gas Analyzers and Chilled Mirror Hygrometers. I have also served as the Calibration Laboratory Manager for the past 3 years, as well as leading the software and firmware development efforts for our new and legacy instruments. I am a highly experienced software developer with hands-on experience with microcontroller programming (ATmega, ATxmega, ARM-CortexM0), embedded Linux (ARM7 and x86), control algorithms, web development (PHP, Python, Javascript), and desktop application development (C, C++, Python).I also keep my hands and mind busy developing embedded software in C and Python for our instruments utilizing the x86, ARM and 8-bit AVR platforms (native, DOS w/ uC/OS-II and Linux OS's), business-critical infractructure software (primarily Python), and our internal GUI-heavy calibration laboratory automation software (primarily Python using Qt/PySide). Show less

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  Albuquerque Software

  Nov 2015 - Dec 2019

  President & Principal Software/Firmware Developer

  I started Albuquerque Software in late 2015 because I wanted to help solve some of the biggest problems that I've seen in growing companies. I noticed that many businesses get bogged down in just keeping things running, they and their team feel stressed, they become inefficient and unhappy, and they start to lose the spark that makes them great.Albuquerque Software works with businesses to analyze their problems, find out what is getting in their way, and develop software and/or hardware that fixes their largest problems as quickly as possible. We then support and evolve the software to help them become even more productive.The result is that the companies that we work with begin to quickly recover and grow as we create software that helps them remove their inefficiencies and roadblocks. By leveraging emerging technologies and development methods, we build systems and products to grow along with your company.Business owners and managers can decrease wasted time, effort and money, decrease their own workload and stress, and focus on the larger reason for going into business: to make the world a better place and passionately serve their customers. Their teams, likewise, become more efficient, spend less time on mundane, unproductive tasks, and more time doing the meaningful work that they love, which directly benefits your customers.Ultimately, we help put the spark back into your business and team, and helps set you up for long-term success.We are humbled that we've been trusted to work with so many great companies, but we know that our work isn't done. If you have a problem that we might be able to help with, please contact me at kris@abqsoft.com or (505) 720-4939.http://www.abqsoft.com Show less

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  Caniv-tech

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2019

  Software Engineer

  Caniv-tech is researching and developing a computer network analysis system that is designed for Fortune 500 and Government applications to detect behaviors in Ethernet networks and predict the causes and potential solutions for performance, fault, configuration and security problems. We were awarded a NSF SBIR grant for this work.My involvement is as the principal systems architect and software developer. I develop the software which collects netflow data and packet captures, extracts and/or calculates the relevant data chosen in collaboration with our Data Analysis/Machine Learning team, generates the necessary datasets and consults with them to support their analysis and integrates their algorithms into the system. I also develop the backend services and customer-facing user interfaces to deliver the results and recommendations to the customer in near-real-time. Show less

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  CNM - Central New Mexico Community College

  Oct 2016 - Dec 2019

  Information Technology Instructor

  I am a part-time instructor in CNM's Cyber Academy, where I develop the curriculum for and teach IT certification classes. The classes that I have developed and taught include:CompTIA A+CompTIA Security+LPI Linux EssentialsI should soon be teaching CompTIA Linux+, EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker, and possibly others.

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  Heitner for Congress

  Feb 2018 - Apr 2018

  Campaign Manager (Volunteer)

  I volunteered as Dr. Jesse Heitner's campaign manager because we have serious healthcare and economic problems here in New Mexico. We don't need any more lawyers or politicians in office who don't know how to build and talk about real solutions. Jesse is a progressive Democrat, data scientist and healthcare economist who has solved healthcare problems from Equador to Rwanda to rural China. He's seen first-hand how defunding healthcare creates devastation in both rural and urban areas, and he has common-sense plans to help America's healthcare system get stronger and more efficient. He supports Medicare-for-All, but to make it work, we need to do the work to make it sustainable, and his ideas will work regardless of how the healthcare system evolves.Second, Jesse is a devout Christian, and is fed up with the religious-right claiming that their agenda is based upon the Bible. It isn't, and Jesse is leading the way for morally-centered Christians who believe that orphans, widows and refugees must be protected. He's also wants to help amplify the voice for those that feel disgusted with the moral failings of the Republicans, but don't feel free to speak freely among the Democrats. (I'm a Theravada Buddist myself, and I completely agree with Jesse that the empty morality of many Republican politicians is on flagrant display right now, and they've twisted Christianity so far away from its true essence of from love, compassion, mutual respect and equality.) Show less

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  Propellerhead

  Jan 2020 - May 2021

  Senior Software Developer & IS Security Lead

  I am a polyglot software engineer and information security lead on a small system/service reliability and optimization team. We are responsible for rapidly analyzing and improving a large number of PHL-built applications for our clients, in many different programming languages, using varying infrastructure and deployment stacks. Some of our systems include mission-critical applications that keep Auckland Transport (Auckland, New Zealand's public transportation system) running efficiently.About Propellerhead:We started Propellerhead in 2002 to change the way software services were delivered in New Zealand. Fast-forward a few years and we now work with some of our countries largest entities, building interesting and challenging technology, and helping to improve the lives of millions of New Zealanders every day.We are a developer led organisation that likes hard problems that require new thinking and technology responses. We are focussed on 'good outcomes quickly’ for our clients. We are a lean/agile development house and fully embrace these methodologies for our projects. We thrive on uncertainty and change. We hate waste and unnecessary lines of code.We believe in constantly questioning the status quo, finding a better way. We believe developers can be far more productive when given the freedom to lead in the process of crafting solutions. It is less about what they do and more about what they choose not to do when creating a great software solution. Show less

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  Plexure

  Jun 2021 - Aug 2024

  I was Plexure's go-to person for designing security controls and advising everyone from the C-Suite to Data Protection Officer to software engineers to marketers on security best practices. I grew Plexure's security team from just myself in 2021, to 2 members in 2021, then to 6 members in 2023 and 2024. I led incident response, threat hunting, Plexure's security champions program, and oversight of many of Plexure's technical controls. I was also Plexure's subject matter expert for application security, posture improvement, security training, threat modeling, and secure protocols. I developed in-depth, hands-on training programs on data protection, secure software development and threat modeling that became company-wide mandatory programs for all Plexure's software engineers. Show less

  • Security Architect

    Jun 2022 - Aug 2024

  • Security Engineer

    Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
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  Self-employed

  Sept 2024 - now

  Security Researcher