Project Quality Assurance

David May

Email: *********@********.***

Address: *** **** *****

City: Newport News

State: VA

Zip: 23606

Country: USA

Phone: 757-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $95,000

Willing to Relocate

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Job History / Details:

David Christian May

224 Lisa Drive

Newport News, VA 23606

Mobile: 757-***-**** Work: 757-***-**** Email: ***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

2011 to present AMSEC LLC, Newport News, Virginia - Information Systems Specialist 5

* Supporting the Mooring Training Ship Technical Manual Conversion. Creating programs to convert 688 Class Steam & Electric Plant Manuals and Ship Systems Manuals to a NAVY Document Type Definition (DTD).

* Assisted in the fielding of the CVN 79 SEACAP Cost Engineering program. Specifically, meeting the requirements to provide external access of the application to the Navy and support personnel using web-based technologies. Worked directly with Cost Engineers and Navy personnel to make external access a reality.

* Previously worked on the NNS/Gamesa Wind Turbine Generator project. Specifically worked on the software design and implementation of a Health Monitoring System project providing predictive diagnostic failures for Wind Turbine Generators using C++, Prolog, PLC code, and Neural Networks.

* Responsible for a United States Marine Corps (USMC) rendering solution project formerly staffed by 12 contractors. Initial work resulted in an extension of the project and budget to include rendering of 160+ technical manuals to both PDF and Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (HTML) formats.

* Delivered a working editing and rendering solution and several updates to the USMC in Albany, Georgia.

* Provided routine project status, highlight updates and refined/updated project scope and schedule as needed for customer and Company purposes.

* Lead personnel in supporting Formatting Output Specification Instance (FOSI) and vector graphic conversion.

* Developed methods to assist MS Word users in tagging non-conforming manuals to conform to Military DTDs.

2006 to 2011 AMSEC LLC, Newport News, Virginia Senior Consulting Systems Analyst

* Responsible for establishment, refinement, and update of project scope and schedule on the USMC legacy technical manual conversion project. Also responsible for conversion of XML to PDF and HTML Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs) using XSLT and XSL:FO. Previously responsible for quality assurance of: CGM graphics; SGML/XML; and integrated product deliverables. Responsible for post-processing of SGML data to prepare it for loading into a Content Management System.

* Established processes to provide a repeatable, sustainable, maintainable, and upgradeable platform for the life cycle maintenance of USMC technical manuals and delivery methods. Provided post-processing support for the delivered SGML/XML and graphics to ensure the fielded content is render-able in multiple formats.

1999 to 2006 AMSEC LLC, Newport News, Virginia Consulting Systems Analyst

* Assigned the responsibility for IETM production programs and processes.

* Responsibilities/roles/accomplishments included: technical project and systems integration lead on an IETM and Interactive Courseware (ICW) integration effort, converted production processes from proprietary delivery solutions to XHTML, DHTML, HTML, and XML. Initiatives included analysis, programming (Java, JavaScript, C/C development and use of: SGML; XML; OmniMark; XSLT; DTDs; XML Schema languages.

* Deliverables provided the capability to interlink tech manuals and ICW in an onboard environment using the U.S. Navy's Advanced Technical Information Support (ATIS) system. Production processes established by these efforts provided a repeatable, sustainable, maintainable, and upgradeable platform for the life cycle maintenance of ETM and ICW products in a linked environment

1987 to 1999 Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia - Information Systems Specialist 2 - 4

* Worked on various projects in the Logistics Engineering Department in support of various Navy and commercial vessels over the 12 years employed directly by NNS.

* Lead multi-disciplined project teams in the development of training, information, and simulation systems.

* Created formal design specifications and lead teams of programmers to create and deliver products.

* Developed virtual environment trainers and expanded this approach to create development and runtime software for the cost-effective development of these trainers.

* Co-authored, published and presented articles at the Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT) and Industry & Interservice Training Systems Conferences (ITSC).

2/1987 to 10/1987 UNISYS, Hampton, Virginia Junior Programmer Analyst

* Created an X.25 communications interface in Digital Electronics Corp.'s (DEC) VAX FORTRAN and ASSEMBLER in a real-time radar simulation system (SMARTS). Enhancements track motions models.

10/1985 to 2/1987 ORI Calculon, NASA Langley, Hampton, VA Programmer Analyst

* Maintained NASA applications software for the Business Development Services Division. Software included Job Control Language (JCL), COBOL, and Adabas/NATURAL programs residing on an IBM 4381 running the MVS operating system. Analyzed programs and developed schedules for implementation of software and documentation changes. Maintenance was performed to improve response time and increase user productivity.

8/1984 to 1/1985 ORI Calculon, Pentagon, Arlington, VA Programmer Analyst

* Assigned to the Army Reserve Management Information System (ARMIS) project in the Pentagon, provided systems and applications support on a Data General M/600 and IBM PCs. Analyzed system operations, performance optimization review, and system software configuration. Designed, implemented, and documented an aviation training system and force modernization information system.

EDUCATION

1990 to 1994 Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

Master of Science in Engineering Management

1980 to 1984 James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (concentration in Physics and Mathematics)

SKILLS, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, TOOLS, AND TOOLSETS

Possess the ability to work with people and technology - creating solutions to both technical and non-technical problems. Software experience with: Ada, ASP, Pascal, Prolog, MS Visual Studio, Visual C/C++, Cobol, Basic, Perl, Visual Basic, VB Script, Java, JavaScript, SAS, Omnimark, PLC, Structured Query Language (SQL), Operating Systems - Unix, UML, DOS, Windows (version 3.1 - 7), MS Office, XML, XSL, XSL:FO, XSLT, HTML, XQuery, Saxon, Apache FOP, MS Access, multiple DBMS's including Oracle and Adabase application development.

INTERESTS COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

Robotics: 2013 - present - Assisting the Warwick High School Robotics Team in creating their robots

Youth

Ministry : 2011 - 2012 - All Souls Episcopal Church, Mechanicsville, VA

1999 - 2008 -St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Newport News, VA

Chess: 2003 - 2008 Chess Coach for Deer Park Elementary School, Newport News, VA - lead the team to place in the top 3 schools in the state of Virginia.

Other: Computer technology, bicycling, triathlons, camping, anything outdoors.

AWARDS RECEIVED: Newport News Shipbuilding and AMSEC LLC, Employee of the Month on several occasions.

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