Experience

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  Bell laboratories

  Apr 1973 - Dec 1984

  • Managed 10 direct reports providing data base administration, client training/support, development tools, performance, and data communications software for a large application. • Developed Operations Support Systems for telephone companies using “C”, UNIX and shell scripts.• Developed real-time data communications and operating system software for a store-and-forward message switching system used by all AT&T-owned telephone companies.

  • Technical Supervisor

    Dec 1981 - Dec 1984

  • MTS (Member of Technical Staff)

    Apr 1973 - Dec 1981
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  Bellcore (bell communications research), formerly bell labs

  Dec 1984 - Nov 1997

  District manager, director

  • Managed 30 direct reports for a UNIX-based system that provides self-service to Centrex customers for service rearrangements. Earned kudos from BellSouth for turning around poor software quality, proposed and sold new work, and tripled my organization, which I organized into teams for requirements, development, testing, and help desk. Began migration from C to C++ and was first to deploy a Bellcore product using C++.• Managed group of 12 direct reports that developed systems for reconfiguring private line circuits automatically from service orders or customer control. Won Bellcore Award of Excellence for this work.• Managed a start-up test group for testing two new broadband Element Management Systems for ATM and HFC (Hybrid Fiber-Coax) based on Telecommunications Management Network (TMN).• Managed 10-person group that developed a system used by Bellcore and its clients for telephony protocol testing. Modernized the system as a Solaris-based client/server application with a graphical user interface (GUI) communicating with real-time test heads. Won funding for new work packages.• Designed a state machine-based real-time stress test driver that demonstrated to a dubious telecommunications customer the ability of a Bellcore-developed network system to sustain required transaction rate.• Improved quality by introducing formal processes such as requirements reviews, design reviews and software inspections and tools for defect tracking, configuration management, and automated builds. Show less

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  Telcordia technologies (formerly bellcore), an saic subsidiary

  Nov 1997 - Jan 2002

  Director

  • Operations Systems Consulting: Consulted to enterprise and telecommunications service providers in the US and Europe (Great Britain, Czech Republic, Switzerland) to design architectures for operations support systems integration. • Proposal Development: Participated on proposal for Network Enabled Capability to UK Ministry of Defence (UK MoD) that involved the MoD’s version of the DODAF. Co-authored proposal for command centers, command & control systems, and security systems for Olympic-style games. • PMO Establishment: Helped establish a Program Management Office (PMO) for e-commerce start-up. • Security Architecture: Developed Distributed Architecture Security model and authored paper on Independent Verification & Validation of Internet security architectures for a California agency whose architecture board approved the recommendations.• Leadership: Managed 11-person group for systems engineering, software design and development, testing, technical documentation, system administration, and data base administration. • Award: Selected for Pipeline Development Program, a Telcordia program for grooming managers. Show less

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  Saic

  Jan 2002 - Sept 2013

  Chief architect/chief engineer

  • MOUs: Negotiated MOUs with JENM stakeholders and tactical radio vendors.• Training: Trained Soldiers from 173rd BCT in Vicenza, Italy, 75th Ranger Regiment, and Nett Warrior professionals on use of JENM. • NIE Integration Support: Supported JENM at Army Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) test events at Fort Bliss, TX.• Trade Studies: Co-authored white paper on integration of Castle Rock Computing’s SNMPc Network Manager into the Joint Network Management System (JNMS). Authored white paper on integration of FrontRange Solutions’ HEAT trouble ticketing into JNMS. • Test Automation: Planned and successfully performed a stress test of JNMS using a commercial SNMP simulator (MIMIC) to generate a 250-node network load. • World Trade Center Master Security Plan: For new World Trade Center, wrote Command & Control requirements for Access Control, Information Assurance, Collaboration, Network Management, and Surveillance. Developed Interface Control Document (ICD), including DoD Architecture Framework (DODAF) views, and introduced UML for use cases. • Electronic Security System requirements: Consulted with a metropolitan transportation agency for an Integrated Electronic Security System.• Maneuver Control System (MCS): As Program Manager for a subcontract from Lockheed Martin for the Army’s Maneuver Control System (MCS), a Command & Control (C2) system for tactical operations, earned the highest award fee (93%) in the entire period of performance with customer satisfaction rated 90%. Show less

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  Leidos (formerly saic)

  Oct 2013 - Feb 2022

  Chief engineer

  • Product Management Support: For 11 years, provided Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) and product management support for DoD’s Joint Enterprise Network Manager (JENM) in an Agile development environment. • Established relationships with a broad range of tactical radio vendors, including Rockwell Collins, Harris, and General Dynamics, to facilitate integration with JENM of their radios supporting SRW, SINCGARS, SATCOM, and MUOS.• Integration: Successfully led a nine-month development of interface between JENM and Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center’s (CERDEC) SRW Real-Time Frequency Management (SRFM) system, culminating in a successful lab demo.• Over-the-Air Management: Served as JENM POC for all reviews for Enterprise Over-the-Air Management (eOTAM) from the initial kickoff in 2013 to the present. • Requirements: Reviewed JENM Software Requirements Specification (SRS) and rewrote numerous requirements for clarity and testability. • Processes: Created JENM Local CCB (LCCB) process and led all LCCBs 2015-2016. • Proposal Development: With second five-year JENM sub-contract ending, authored winning proposal that placed three Leidos employees on contract for continuing JENM support. •Business Development: Wrote numerous RFI and RFP responses, white papers, and served on multiple proposal teams. Show less

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  Retired

  Feb 2022 - now

  Retired