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Data Engineer

Location:
Arlington, VA
Salary:
113000
Posted:
April 16, 2015

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Francisco Duncan Velasquez

571-***-****

aco7zs@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary

Strategically focused, experienced geospatial professional with more than ten years in the field. Energetic,

with a proven track record of execution. Effective at leading high-performance teams by creating a culture

of collaboration and teamwork within and across internal and external teams. Excellent communication

skills. Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively interface at senior levels in customer

and partner organizations. 10 years experience maintaining and administrating large data bases.

Expertise:

• Business and technical depth in geospatial, big data and cloud industries

• Strategic thinking, strategic planning, and product planning expertise

• Linux / UNIX system administrator

• Problem solver with exceptional ability to interpret and integrate cross-functional platforms

• Exceptional client management skills with exceptional ability to manage military clients

• Clear, candid, persuasive written & oral communication

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Close attention to detail and commitment to flawless execution

• Managing all aspects of large data manufacturing, including sensor-operation, on-board

processing, post-mission processing, exploitation (the production data and intelligence-derived

products), quality assurance/ quality control, and data dissemination and the application of

advanced data science methods

• Leading forward deployed teams in high operational tempo environments

• Leading talented teams based on a track record of achieving and exceeding aggressive project

goals

• Managing data quality control and quality assurance

Data Scientist (Geospatial)

Data Science Team – National Geospatial Intelligence Agency - Sciences and Methodologies Division

Clear Resolution Consulting LLC - November 2014 – Current

Customers Supported: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

• Supports the creation and fusion of GEOINT and multi-disciplined intelligence data and its

dissemination into Intelligence Community database repositories

• Reviews standard and non-standard GEOINT data products to determine and implement the

appropriate metadata and keyword tagging

• Performs structural and substantive edits of data for organization, completeness, logic, accuracy,

and compliance with applicable standards and formats

• Works with customers to determine appropriate NGA products for disseminating GEOINT data

information

• Works with compiled data sets to look for new exploitation methodologies that support NGA

Structured Observation Management and data analytics

Senior Geospatial Analyst / Data Manager

Project A for NGA

Geospatial Intelligence Division – Leidos / SAIC - January 2014 – October 2014

Customers Supported: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

• Provided technical support to overseas operations for the processing, exploitation, and

dissemination (PED) of Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensor airborne laser

imaging research test bed (“Project-A”)

• Provided quality assurance, control, and information technology services, including sensor

operation and verification, collection objective designation and verification, ensuring that LIDAR

data is sufficient to meet Digital Elevation Model (DEM) production standards, quality assurance

of all point cloud extracted products, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of cluster-

based LAN and Direct Access Network (DAN) / Storage Area Network (SAN) storage and high

bandwidth Ethernet environments

• Maintained general purpose PC-based workstations and LINUX servers and ensured that security

requirements were met and industry software and hardware best practices were followed

• Manufactured, organized, tracked, and assisted in quality control of data

• Disseminated time-sensitive tactical intelligence products to deployed sites and users, and

disseminated raw or partially processed LIDAR product data to and from customer libraries and

to and from the stateside production facilities

• Collected performance statistics, disseminated, processed and tracked collection of requirements

• Provided data QA/QC for both raw data and processed intelligence products

• Disseminated daily products, briefs, and datasets as required by collection managers and PED cell

leaders

• Ensured all sortie related data and metadata are stored and available to analysts

• Managed the large data archive and pre-staged data sets for recurring time-dominant product

requests

• Coordinated and delivered finished OPED products to requestors and collection managers

• Provided daily collection statistics to mission commander in relation to satisfaction of

requirements

Geospatial Software Systems Engineer III

Distributed Common Ground System - Deployed Processing Exploitation and Dissemination Initiative

(DCGS-A DPI) - Geospatial Intelligence Cloud Integration Team

Advanced Intelligence Division - Leidos / SAIC - January 2013 – December 2013

Customers Supported: US Army

• Contributed to the efforts to build more effective intelligence tooling for the distributed common

ground systems of the US Army and the transition to cloud computing

• Deployed geospatial databases, integrating them into the cloud-computing environment.

• Provided software testing and evaluation

• Developed, updated and deployed Red Hat Packet Management (RPM) packages across the

distributed network

• Participated in project development and distributed programming using commercial and open

source tools and libraries such as GDAL and OGR

• Assisted in the integration of GIS software like Open Streetmaps, QGIS, GeoServer,

Geowebcache, Google Earth, Google Maps and Arc Server, OZONE widget tool production

Geospatial Information Systems Specialist III

Geospatial Systems Technologies Division – SAIC - May 2007 – December 2012

Customers Supported: US Army Geospatial Center (Corps of Engineers), NGA

• Collected, processed, exploited and disseminated Buckeye program mapping and intelligence

data to the US Army Corps of Engineers Geospatial Center’s customers in Afghanistan and Iraq

• Processed LIDAR and electro-optical information (digital photography) and deliver to Army

Geospatial Center and forward deployed, combat zone located elements

• Provided time-sensitive, high-resolution maps for intelligence and topographic teams within

hours of collection

• Provided analysis, creation and dissemination of mission-tailored tactical products for NGA

Buckeye, ALIRT and HALOE programs

• Provided geospatial products for a Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel recovery effort

• Processed, and stored large database LIDAR and EO data to customer specifications

• Maintained Buckeye GIS web-based database for ACG

• Processed AGC to NGA LIDAR data for the intra-agency large data translation / transfer effort

Systems Engineer II

Advanced Systems Group – SAIC - May 2006 to August 2007

Customer Supported: US Army Future Combat Systems

• Composed UML data models for System Engineering and Integration as a data analyst for FCS

(Narrative, planning, UML modeling composition and implementation)

• Provided post build processing of complete architectural analysis models

• Converted data models into classified formats (timing data, decomposition etc.)

• Provided use case scenarios the FCS leadership for vetting of system engineering process

System Engineer I

Advanced Systems Group – SAIC - May 2003 to May 2006

Customer Supported: Missile Defense Agency

• Produced expedited analysis for the department of defense to support the MDA Mission.

• Leveraged AGI Satellite toolkit suite of software, ARCGIS and other mapping products to supply

analytical data and accurate 3D depictions to support the system engineering chief scientist

system engineering goals

• Provided maps and estimation for nuclear payloads spread and yields

• Provided all mapping media for MDA summer studies (2003 - 2006)

• Prepared classified presentations to brief Secretary of Defense Deputy and staff

• Maintained historical database of the groups data and products

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Software

BAE SOCET GXP and SOCETSET

Optech DASHMAP Data Processing (LIDAR)

ERDAS Imagine Suite (ENVI)

ESRI (Arc Map, Arc Server and Arc Modeler, Python Module)

QGIS

OZONE widget tool creation (cloud based software)

GeoServer (with Geowebcache)

Linux / CentOS administration

Remote View

Applied Imagery Quick Terrain Modeling 3D Processing

John Hopkins University Image Geocoding Software

OrthoVista GPS Processing Suite

AGI Satellite Toolkit (With STAMP Ballistic Missile Flight Tool)

VM Ware Client (create virtual GIS machines)

Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop C3

Windows OS administration

LINUX / UNIX administration

MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Access etc.)

Hardware

Windows PC and Server Technician (SAN / WAN)

EO and LIDAR sensor diagnosis, installation, repair and maintenance

USACE Buckeye EO and LIDAR senor operation repair and maintenance

NGA Project A server, sensor and workstation maintenance

GPS base station (TRIMBLE, etc.) data collection, survey and maintenance

Training

Applied Imagery Tactical Operators LIDAR Course - Quick Terrain Modeler

TEXTRON Systems LIDAR Analyst Software Course

SAIC Rational Rose Software Training Course

CORE Data Modeling (UML) Training Course

Certifications

CompTIA Security + (October 3, 2013 - Certification number COMP001020622684)

Customers Supported

Distributed Common Ground Systems (DCGS-A) Cloud Geospatial Integration – US Army

Missile Defense Agency

US Army Future Combat Systems

US Army Corps of Engineers – Army Geospatial Center

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Military in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom

Education

Degree: B.A. Communications - University of Colorado at Boulder - 1994

Clearance: Top Secret (NOV 2014)

Honorable Discharge - US Army (Infantry) 1998



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