Software Engineer Resume Profile
Experience Summary
Confidential has been a senior software integrator on the Information Technology Support Services contract for the F - 35 Joint Strike Fighter F-35 JSF Program Office PO since May 2013. Chris was a system software integration engineer on the Defense Medical Information System/Systems Integration, Design, Development, Operations, and Maintenance Services D/SIDDOMS III D3 Task Order TO effort with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Health Affairs OASD HA, the Defense Health System Services DHSS Military Health System MHS, and the Special Needs Program Management Information System SNPMIS from April 2011 until March 2013. Chris was a technical lead on the Principal Resource for Information Management Enterprise-wide PRIME 2.2 contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development USAID from July 2001 until February 2010. He has led a team in the support and development of the Clearance Records and Investigation System CRIS which is designed to support the USAID Office of Security SEC with processing of security clearances. Chris' experience in IT spans over 20 years in various industries including life and Workmen's Compensation insurance, association management, asphalt research, manpower planning, and manpower justification information. His business background and excellent analytical and problem solving skills facilitate effective information gathering and enable the effective translation of client requirements into clear and concise development strategies. His experience has spanned a wide range of commercial business industries with an emphasis on the full life cycle development aspects of projects. His responsibilities include gathering Business Requirements preparing Systems Requirements, Process Flow Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams, and Program Specifications and writing applications in SilverStream, Powerbuilder, and Visual FoxPro. He also is experienced in Oracle and Sybase RDBMS, and has experience with the following operating systems: DOS, Windows 95/98, and Windows NT/2000. He has played a key role in the success of projects for SRA clients as well as in his prior engagements. His in-depth technical background, functional expertise, interpersonal skills, and oral communications skills broaden his capabilities as a technical lead and full team player who continually meets or exceeds customer expectations in challenging environments.
Employment History
Confidential
- Senior Software Integrator, Information Technology Support Services, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter JSF Program Office PO
- Support the F-35 JSF program office with mission critical IT support services. Team leader of six 6 team members responsible for delivering all of the data storage service for the JSFPO financial data, aircraft test data, development data, international agreements, human resource information, critical correspondence, contract data, and licensing agreements, etc. providing the network connectivity to all the field sites maintenance of the network and help desk 24/7/365 providing, maintaining, and reporting for all of the IT hardware both at the unclassified and classified level maintaining all encrypted networks throughout the country developing unique software critical to the design and development of the 5th generation aircraft key technical architectures supported, which include the Joint Virtual Environment JVE and associated SECRET coalition, and collateral networks, providing telephone, teleconferencing, and video teleconferencing to enable the program to deliver IT services to over 2,000 personnel in more than seven geographically separated government and contractor sites. Power supply management replacement on Tape Arrays.
- Foundational knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle WebCenter formerly Aqualogic Interaction, and other Web collaboration applications. Currently responsible for configuring, developing and maintaining the F-35 Aircraft Certification Tool FACT servers which include the following software:
- Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise Server 32bit
- Oracle Database Server v 11.1.0.7.0
- Oracle Application Server v 11.1.1.2.0
- Oracle Weblogic v 10.3.2.0
- Oracle Forms and Reports v 11.1.1.2
- Sun JAVA SE Development Kit 6 Update 22
- Also currently providing the following technical support for the JSF Microsoft Exchange severs:
- Administering and maintaining user mailboxes
- Performing health check of the JSF exchange environment
- Monitoring the health of Messaging technologies with event management tools
- Identifying and troubleshooting server performance issues using native Windows Server tools and utilities
- Maintaining a forward looking posture and working with management to plan for future upgrades, including Exchange migration to the newer versions
- Assessing the need for all messaging system reconfigurations minor or significant
- Building, tuning and maintaining Windows servers 2003/2008 in an enterprise environment
- Configuring Firewalls and Demilitarized Zones DMZ
- Deploying user and server certificates
- Managing the Global Address List GAL .
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Software Engineer
- Support the Special Needs Program Management Information System SNPMIS written in Sybase's PowerBuilder language with an Oracle RDMBS backend. The SNPMIS application supports the DoD's Military Health System MHS in providing access to a comprehensive program of therapy, medial support, and social services for young beneficiaries with special needs.
- Responsible for coding, maintaining, and installing the SNPMIS application on Egenera Blades, integrated with EMC Storage Area Network SAN, using Windows servers virtualized with VMware and publishing the application to users' desktop using Citrix.
Tasks include:
- Serving as the project's Oracle RDBMS v 11.2.0.2 administrator.
- Integrated SNPMIS into a Citrix XenApp deployment architecture for the U.S. Air Force, PKI, DNS, and DHCP
- Migrated the current Business Object Version v. 6.5.1 reports to SAP Business Objects v. 3.5.1.
- Administering the Windows 2003 Active Directory Domains virtual machines VMs
- Patching the Windows Servers v2003 to comply with Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert IAVA directives.
- Installing the Critical Patch Updates CPU on the Oracle database every calendar quarter.
- Participated in the SDLC using Serena Business Mashup change requests.
- Maintaining the SNPMIS help desk assisting users with Remedy tickets.
- Currently consolidating the SNPMIS environment on one server farm and migrating the servers from Egenera hardware to HP C7000 Blades hardware with VMware Elastic Sky X ESX virtualization software.
- Technical Documentation of all major deliverables, statements of work SOW, and new system and software modifications.
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Technical Lead
- As Technical Lead at Systems Research and Applications SRA, led the Clearance Records and Investigation System CRIS project at the U.S. Agency for International Development USAID . This application is designed to support the USAID Office of Security SEC in the processing of security clearances. The Office of Security is responsible for supervising the performance of security activities relating to USAID programs and activities. These programs, which support USAID facilities and operations in approximately 86 countries, are derived from legislation, executive orders, national security directives, and other national-level policies. Program responsibilities include physical security of USAID employees and facilities, personal security investigations, information security, and inspection/assistance activities.
- Provided technical support for the USAID Microsoft Exchange servers.
- Provided technical support for the USAID Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 Active Directory
- Provided Active Directory Administration, Domain Management, and Policy Monitoring.
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Senior Systems Programmer
As a Senior Systems Programmer at Advanced Technology Systems, led the Son of Oscar SOO project at the USAID office. This application is designed to support the USAID Office of Security with the processing of security clearances.
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Senior Consultant
Responsible for initial client discussions and requirement-assessment activities, as well as coordinating and facilitating the various design, development, and management activities of the following project:
National Ranking Matching Program: This private, not-for-profit corporation sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges conducts a match that is designed to optimize the rank ordered choices of medical students and hospital program directors. MIC has been a leading contributor and partner in the re-design, development, and implementation of a new match web application for this corporation.
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Senior Consultant
- As senior consultant, functioned as technical lead in developing a major module of the Army Workload and Performance System AWPS for the Assistant Secretary of the Army. This system is a combination of Microsoft's MS FoxPro for DOS and DGE graphics for DOS. The AWPS project provides all levels of the Army management team with manpower planning and manpower justification information.
- Designed, developed, and implemented the Army's Scheduling and Programming Error Log SPEL system. This system is written in MS Visual FoxPro and identifies problems encountered from the conversion of the Army's mainframe data to the Performance Measurement and Control PMC software. SPEL is a form-based user interface with incremental search capabilities, and the ability to print and download reports as well as incorporate graphs with MS Graph.
- Provided technical and functional support for five of the Army's Maintenance depots with the installation of the AWPS system consisting of Performance Management and Control PMC, PMC Executive, Workforce Forecasting System WFFC, Router, Imager, SPEL, and SPEL Executive. The PMC software tracks current project cost and schedule performance against planned and revised scheduled. The other programs provide feedback on data accuracy.
- Developed a Sybase PowerBuilder application for the U.S. Marine Corps USMC called Non-Lethal Weapons NLW . This system contains information on non-lethal capabilities and technologies ongoing research development, testing, and evaluation RDT E programs related environmental, health, and safety EH S and legal issues concepts and requirements and the NLW program structure and points of contact.
- Functioned as technical lead of a three member team, in developing a major module of the AWPS.
- Designed, developed, implemented and tested the Army's Scheduling and Programming Error Log SPEL system which identifies problems encountered from the conversion of the Army's mainframe data to the Performance Measurement and Control PMC software.
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Visual FoxPro Applications Developer
- Designed and implemented various Visual FoxPro applications including a purchase order requisition system, an inventory and business management support system, an accounts receivable system, and a marketing database.
- Deployed Microsoft Exchange servers into Technical Architecture
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Software Developer
Designed, developed, and implemented an association software package for Windows. The event-driven application was written entirely in FoxPro 2.6 for Windows on a Novell LAN. Was also responsible for the conversion of this package from Clipper and FoxPro for DOS into a FoxPro 2.6 for Windows application utilizing two third-party products FoxExpress, an application generator and FoxFire, a query/report generator both written in FoxPro 2.6 for Windows.
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Programmer
Utilized the dBase language FoxPro to analyze, test, and implement various new additions to a multi-user Workmen's Compensation Insurance system. Worked to resolve system problems and assist users.