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• Design and development of custom scientific and engineering software systems for a Windows NT/95 based client/server platform using Microsoft Developer Studio and Visual C++.
• System requirements analysis, development of system specifications, project schedules, time/labor estimates, customer liaison, and task leadership.
• Presentation of system design prototypes and milestones to customers, supervisors, and team members.
• Participating member of the Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG), tasked with bringing the Scientific Systems Department to a Software Engineering Institute Level 3 certification.
• Serve on interview and recruitment team tasked with assessing technical and interpersonal skills of candidates for employment.

• Led the design and development of the highly successful and greatly utilized Ocean Data Server library that provides oceanographic data to multiple key ocean acoustic programs used by the Navy fleet.
• Led the design and development of the Tropical Cyclone Warnings and Sound Speed Profile systems, two key applications used for risk detection, analysis, and planning by the Navy fleet.
• Designed and developed the highly regarded Briefing Support Library, an automated process to capture and build a graphical data presentation from any Windows NT based application.

10/94 - 7/95

• System design and development in the migration of the Naval Aviation Logistics Data Analysis system from a COBOL based IBM mainframe platform to an Oracle, C, and PowerBuilder based Windows NT/95 PC client and UNIX server distributed system platform.
• Development of software requirements, design specifications, documentation, and full life-cycle support.
• Preparation and presentation of status/system progress at customer design reviews and status meetings.
• Day-to-day office management duties reporting directly to main office manager in Montgomery, AL.

• Was instrumental in designing and developing key processes to automate the conversion and rehosting of physical databases from an IBM 3090 mainframe to a cluster of IBM RS6000 AIX servers.
• Served as Contractor Representative on various government process-improvement groups tasked with documenting, updating, and refining software quality assurance programs.

10/92 - 10/94

• Design and development of state-of-the-art scientific and engineering software, including real-time oceanographic data acquisition systems, using both structured and object-oriented methodologies.
• Design, development, integration, and testing of custom Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and other microprocessor based hardware/firmware systems and subsystems.
• Design, development, integration, and testing of custom hardware to software interfaces including analog to digital (A/D), digital to analog (D/A), and programmable gate array (PGA) logic.
• Customer relations in both marketing and systems support.

• Acted as Senior Engineer on various field trials of custom designed hardware/software systems including installation, test, integration, demonstration, maintenance, and operation at-sea and in the Arctic Circle.
• Designed, directed the installation of, and managed the entire in-house network system, thereby providing connectivity among departments and significantly reducing user demands for individual storage and peripheral upgrades and greatly reducing the necessary equipment overhead budget.

5/87 - 10/92

• Design and development of custom scientific/engineering applications software.
• Development, integration, and testing of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and other microprocessor based hardware/firmware/software systems and subsystems.
• Printed Circuit Board design using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software systems.

• Developed a PC based analysis program for electronic component selection by automating test equipment to select best-match component values, thereby reducing human error and labor requirements.

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