BORIS FREYDIN

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Northrop Grumman Information Systems (NGIS) McLean, VA, Chantilly,

VA (on-site and remote)

Combat Terrain Information System (CTIS)

2011-2013

Systems Engineer - Consultant (Path Technologies, Westminster, MD)

. Performed requirements analysis, systems analysis, technical business

analysis, geospatial business intelligence, systems design and quality

assurance (QA) activities for the Distributed Common Ground System - Army

(DCGS-A) Geospatial (DG), Acquisition Category (ACAT) 1AM, Command,

Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and

Reconnaissance (C4ISR) program, Army Geospatial Center (AGC), US Army

Corps of Engineers (ACE)

. Performed a variety of analytical and hands-on tasks in support of

specific software builds, scheduled project events and customer's

requests

. Requirements Analysis (business rules and process modeling) and

Geospatial Business Intelligence (online analytics)

. Improved and created formal functional requirements/detailed

specifications for geospatial workstation- and web services (SOA)-

based capabilities (thick and thin clients)

. Developed Use Cases and created Unified Modeling Language (UML)

diagrams

. Performed requirements maintenance activities:

. Reconciled differences between requirements stored in SharePoint

and RequisitePro

. Cleaned up legacy requirements concurrent with requirements updates

. Updated requirements attributes and requirements traceability

matrix (RTM)

. Participated in requirements peer reviews

. Systems Analysis, Technical Business Analysis (architecture, feasibility

studies, new opportunities, business cases, risk assessment) and

Geospatial Business Intelligence (online analytics and data mining)

. Performed gap analysis of commercial-off-the-shelf/government-off-the-

shelf (COTS/GOTS) capabilities against the customer-required

functionality; identified unique DG capabilities that fill the

COTS/GOTS capability gaps

. Researched and recommended:

. To fill the capability gap with an advanced COTS product (GeoRover

- Locus Track)

. To fill the capability gap with an advanced GOTS product (Ground

Guidance)

. To improve data discovery and data sharing within the Federated

Enterprise Architecture by providing an evolutionary path toward

updating the XML-based metadata flows in support of the DCGS

Integrated Backbone (DIB) as per the DoD Discovery Metadata

Specification (DDMS)

. Performed analytical and hands-on evaluations:

. Geospatial web viewers

. Geospatial portal capabilities

. Web-based Open Source Software (OSS) - OpenGeo Suite

. Identified and/or specified new features to improve existing

geospatial capabilities

. Searched for information, standards, integration opportunities with

the Command Post of the Future (CPoF) and software sources (Smart

Bridge software for ENFIRE project)

. Managed interactions with COTS/GOTS/OSS vendors

. Systems Design

. Researched and recommended new GeoPrint wireframe

. Researched and provided detailed instructions for software

developers on locating specific metadata items in a variety of

raster and vector data formats

. Quality Assurance (QA)

. Reviewed, validated and provided detailed feedback with relation to

the existing defect backlog.

. Reviewed and edited/commented on Functional Qualification Test (FQT)

Software Test Procedures (STP), performance testing STP and a

troubleshooting guide

. Provided quick-check STP for testing the GeoRover-based feature import

capabilities and created test data files to cover all supported

feature, coordinate and data file types

. Process: Supported Agile process, reported progress via stand-up meetings

and/or Rally, product reviews

. Tools: IBM Rational tools (RequisitePro and ClearQuest), SharePoint,

Rally, VMware Lab Manager, ArcGIS, MS Office Suite and MS Visio

General Dynamics Amphibious Systems (GDAMS)

Woodbridge, VA

Senior Engineering Specialist - Employee

2005 - 2011

Consultant (TAC Worldwide, Reston, VA)

1998 - 2005

. Performed requirements analysis, systems analysis, technical business

analysis and quality assurance (QA) activities for the Advanced

Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV) - later renamed to the Expeditionary

Fighting Vehicle (EFV), Acquisition Category (ACAT) 1D program, US

Department of the Navy (DoN), US Marine Corps (USMC)

. Common activities (all phases) - Requirements Analysis (business rules

and process modeling), Systems Analysis, Technical Business Analysis and

QA

. Served as a mediator between (1) clients - technical/business owners

of a specific vehicle functionality - represented by key stakeholders

of the co-located customer/contractor cross-functional Integrated

Product Teams (IPTs) and (2) software development team

. Worked closely with clients by gathering requirements and assessing

flows, problems and objectives; refined the understanding of these

needs through meetings, consultations, interviews, and other

interactions as needed

. Analyzed and translated client requirements by creating formal

functional requirements/detailed specifications to be used by the

software development team; worked closely with clients to validate and

baseline requirements artifacts

. Worked closely with technical teams to clarify the intent and

operational context of functional requirements/detailed specifications

and to influence their design for performance, reliability and

usability

. Participated in walkthroughs and formal peer reviews (requirements,

design, software and test artifacts)

. Prepared requirements traceability matrices (RTMs) and supported

configuration management (CM) process

. Provided mentoring/training for newcomers and volunteered to support

requirements of absent team members

. Unique activities - AAAV Program Definition and Risk Reduction (PDRR)

phase:

. Prepared test documentation; performed manual and automated testing;

recorded, analyzed and reported test results

. Provided remote technical support to General Dynamics Land Systems

(GDLS) software development team

. My services were consistently requested by 3 software requirements

leads

. Tools: Silicon Graphics, Statemate and SoDA; Test Application

(TestApp), network monitoring tools - CANAnalyzer (with scripting),

MBDS and Carnivore

. Unique activities - EFV System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase:

. At the beginning of the SDD phase - Reviewed all software-related

requirements artifacts on behalf of software developers

. Created Use Cases, Supplementary Specifications and Interface Control

Documents (ICDs)

. Provided local technical support to GDAMS software development and

testing teams

. Process: Rational Unified Process (RUP)

. Tools: IBM Rational Tools (ClearCase, ClearQuest and RequisitePro) and

Remedy

. Unique activities - EFV SDD2 phase:

. Developed and maintained Use Cases in support of additional functional

areas

. Provided local technical support to GDAMS software development and

testing teams; provided remote technical support to a software

development team from the Hill Air Force Base (HAFB)

. Provided analysis of alternatives to build consensus in support of

suggested solutions

. Supported the EFV Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews (PDR and

CDR) by updating the appropriate ICDs and RTMs

. Process: Rational Unified Process (RUP), ISO 9001 and CMMI Level 5, QA

audits, process and product reviews

. Tools: IBM Rational Tools (DOORS, ClearCase and ClearQuest), Remedy

and GDLS Online Peer Review Tool (OPRT)

Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

Fairfax, VA

Consultant (DanSources Technical Services, Rockville, MD)

1996 - 1998

. Performed software design, software development, project documentation

and quality assurance (QA) activities for the Personnel Pay (PerPay)

subsystem of the Standard Installation/Division Personnel System-3

(SIDPERS-3), Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) in support of

the US Army, SDC-W

. Reduced software complexity by improving the SIDPERS-3 application

template and associated programming techniques; consistently delivered

zero-defect software with a minimum debugging effort and accelerated

software delivery via code reuse

. Coordinated and participated in merging of concurrent software baselines

. Introduced Data Flow, Control Flow and State Transition Diagrams during

Preliminary Design and Programming Design Language (PDL) during Detailed

Design

. Prepared comprehensive project documentation including concepts,

requirements, design, development and lessons learned; identified issues

and provided detailed recommendations on operational requirements,

business process, interface agreement, application requirements, dual

baselines, software development process, system design, application

software and documentation

. Development environment: Sun Solaris, APEX, Rational Ada, Informix, SQL

and ADA/SAME interface

Independent Consultant

Houston, TX

Technical Translator

1992 -1996

. Provided translation services with emphasis on complex technical subjects

in space and petroleum exploration

Lockheed-ESC

Houston, TX

Computer Systems Analyst - Employee

1987 - 1992

. Responsibilities included software design and development, requirements

analysis, independent verification and validation (IV&V), project

documentation and quality assurance (QA) for the Crew and Thermal Systems

(CTS) and Automation and Robotics (A&R) Divisions at the Johnson Space

Center (JSC)

. CTS @JSC

. Completed the CTSL TIES post-processing software

. Developed 7,000 lines of structured, documented and tested Ada code

within 3 weeks

. A&R @JSC

. Led the AANMS project to create an autonomous, able to learn expert

system monitoring 100 Mbps FDDI network Expanded project's concepts,

possible uses and evolutionary path. Created "the most formal Software

Development Plan in the ISB's history". Advocated advanced, off-the-

shelf architectures and methodology of exploratory risk reduction in

developing advanced automation applications

. Evaluated FDDI network monitoring tools (hardware and software)

. Performed IV&V/QA activities of four US Space Station Mode Teams.

Proposed evolutionary concepts of the Integrated System Executive

(ISE), new directions of the ISE Software Quality Assurance (SQA) and

an outline of the ISE scenarios

. Development environment: Apollo, Aegis and Pascal; DEC VAX, VMS and Ada;

PC, MS-DOS and FORTRAN

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

Houston, TX

Computer Scientist - Employee

1986 - 1987

. CTS @JSC - Completed the data extractor software for the CTSL TIES

package

. Development environment: Apollo, Aegis and Pascal

Dresser Atlas

Houston, TX

Systems Analyst - Employee

1981 - 1986

. Responsible for software development and support of the first production

logging package, system administration and quality assurance (QA)

. Demonstrated commitment to quality by delivering zero-defect software

during accelerated software development

. Created programming guidelines for application developers

. Proposed and administered a new software development environment

. Development environment: Perkin-Elmer, OS/32, OS/16 and FORTRAN; DEC VAX

and Unix

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

Training: DIACAP, DOORS, Rational Tools (Rose RT,

ClearCase, ClearQuest, RequisitePro), VAPS, Statemate,

Software Inspections, SoDA, ADA/SAME, Introduction to

Robotics, CLIPS, Real-time Ada, EPOS CASE.

Certification: Information Assurance (IA) - Security

Plus (Active)

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