C. Brian Wood

Experience

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  University of Colorado Boulder

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  System Administrator

  • Managed the University of Colorado’s memory quota system• Designed and implemented Perl and shell scripts on a daily basis• Setup and maintained Unix servers/workstations running Solaris

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  Lockheed Martin

  Oct 2002 - Apr 2013

  Senior Software Engineer

  • Technical Lead for new development cycle on the SBIRS program• Managed software requirements in DOORS• Led efforts in designing an entirely new ground software system, using design patterns and documenting via UML• Developed new database schemas• Successfully implemented and developed the new ground software system design, integrating modern technologies• Trained new personnel• Received corporate level Celebration of Excellence Award• Implemented design enhancements and integrated COTS software to reduce costs by several hundred thousand dollars• Developed proxy agents/device drivers for satellite ground station front end hardware• Developed system workflows using Java/jBPM/XML to configure satellite ground stations at runtime allowing for automatic satellite signal acquisition• Expert system development in C/C++ and CLIPS• Participated in every phase of the software development life cycle from requirement decomposition to high level and detailed design to code and unit test to integration• Received corporate level Celebration of Excellence Award presented in Washington DC• Designed and developed user interfaces allowing satellite ground station operators to configure hardware, transmit and receive satellite data• Software design and development in C/C++, Visual C++, Java, and Perl/Tk• Performed trade studies for a COTS Messaging Middleware/IPC solution and a COTS Network Management solution Show less

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  Zephyr Brewing Company

  Sept 2012 - Jul 2018

  Founder/Head Brewer

  Founded Zephyr Brewing Company in the heart of Denver's River North (RiNo) district. Ran the brewhouse, where we manufactured a variety of styles, the trademarks of which were the Blood Orange Pale Ale, Belgian Wit, and the Belgian Quadrupel.

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  Maxar Technologies

  Apr 2013 - now

  Developed a new service oriented architecture for the Remote Ground Terminal Program - a transportable ground receiving and processing tool built to collect remote sensing data from commercial satellites that send and receive optical and synthetic aperture radar signals. In addition, I provided support and maintenance of the MDA image processing sub-system for DigitalGlobe.The majority of this work involved the Agile development of RESTful services in Java using Camel, BPMS, and Spring frameworks. Unit testing done via JUnit and Mockito. Functional testing written in Java and driven by Cucumber from Gherkin feature files. Tools: CentOS Linux, Java, Cucumber, Gherkin, Eclipse, Cloud Foundry, JUnit, Mockito, Camel, Spring, AWS, S3, BPMS, Jenkins, Kibana, Eureka. Show less

  • Principal Flight Software Engineer

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Principal Software Engineer

    Jan 2022 - Jul 2023

  • Senior Staff Software Engineer

    Nov 2018 - Jan 2022

  • Staff Software Engineer

    Apr 2013 - Nov 2018