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Career Highlights

Results-oriented senior software manager and engineer with 20 years of multi-disciplinary experience and expertise in the Defense, Aerospace, Telecommunications, Automotive, and Semiconductor industries.  Effective project and program manager, leader, and mentor.  Fiscally resourceful and effective cost management skills.  Proven strengths in Object Oriented, Real Time, Embedded Software Design, Development, Verification and Validation (V&V), and Software Integration on multiple platforms.  Experienced in all phases of the software development life cycle.

 Security Clearance:  Secret

SKILLS

 C/C++

* VX WORKS AE653 RTOS

 PVCS/CMVC/CM21/CVS

 SOAP

 JAVA

 GREEN HILL INTEGRITY

 2167A, 1750A

 TEAMWORK

 ADA 83/95

 LINUX/UNIX

 SEI CMM LEVEL 5

 SYSTEMBUILD

 VISUAL BASIC

 WINDOWS NT/2000

 A429,A629, RS422, RS485

 DOORS

 PERL

 VAX/VMS

 CORBA

 TESTMATE

 FORTRAN

 INTEL 80960A

 CLEARCASE, MKS

 IMAGIX

 DBASE

 MOTOROLA 68000A

 DO178B LEVEL A

 CODETEST

* JOVIAL J73

* MTPL

* TARTAN/ADASCOPE

* HP 64000 EMULATOR

* SOI AUDITS 1-4

* JTRS

* RATIONAL ROSE/APEX

* REQUISITE PRO

 

 

General Dynamics, Scottsdale, Arizona

2009-pres: Lead Software/Systems Engineer for the User Entry Segment (UES) in the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program.

 

Tandel Systems, Glendale, Arizona

2007-2009: Product / Program Manager and Lead Engineer for Honeywell B787 Flight Controls System Verification

 

Honeywell, Phoenix/Glendale/Tucson, Arizona               (6 positions)

2006: Developed C Real-Time, Embedded A429 Signal Processing Messages for Boeing 787 Flight Controls using Green Hills Integrity.

 

Boeing, Long Beach, California/Mesa, Arizona               (3 positions)

2007: Wrote System/Software Verification and Validation (V&V) test scripts in Java and C++ to DO-178B level A for AH-64D Apache Long Bowe Displays in an Eclipse based test environment.

Orbital Sciences, Chandler, Arizona

2006: Developed a software Functional Quality Test Plan, Procedure, and test scripts for the Next Generation Rocket’s Modular Avionics Control Hardware 3 (MACH3) verification and validation effort.

United Defense, Minneapolis, Minnesota       

2001 - 2002 : Lead Software Architect for the Crusader armory vehicle's Crew User Interface (CUI).

 

Goodrich Avionics, Grand Rapids, Michigan

2000 – 2001: Team Lead – Lead a team of five that performed flight critical, white box, module V&V to DO178B

Other positions prior to 2000:

Applied Materials, Santa Clara, California

Titan Linkabit, San Diego, California

Motorola Satellite Communications, Chandler, Arizona/Automotive Division, Northbrook, IL (2 positions)

Lockheed Martin Skunkworks, Palmdale, California

Ametek Aerospace, Wilmington, Massachusetts

Hamilton Sundstrand, Connecticut

Resume
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