Dr. Raymond Arthur Paul

**** **** **., ** **********, DC 20018 202-***-**** acz5cn@r.postjobfree.com

Highest Federal Grade: Senior Executive Service (SES)-03, Series 0301

Sr. Systems Engineer and Program/Project Management

Program Management Telecommunications Quality Assurance Software Development Life Cycle

Test and Evaluation Strategies Requirements and Risk Management User Experience

Budget & Cost Control Process Improvement Communications, Computing, Command and Decision

Analytical, highly technical engineer with extensive government and industrial experience planning and directing projects against time, cost and quality metrics. Innate acumen in installing and troubleshooting telecommunications systems, hardware, software and enterprise architecture. Proven proficiency in gathering, analyzing and translating customer requirements into actionable project strategies. Industry-wide reputation for innovative approaches and excellent academic pedigree with Doctor of Science, MS in Engineering Management and System Engineering Certificate.

TEAM PLAYER, LEADERSHIP SKILLS, EXCELLENT INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS, EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION SKILLS, EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION SKILLS.

Education

Doctor of Science, 1998, University of Tokyo/Tsukuba, Japan

MS in System Engineering Management and Project Management, 2007, University of Maryland

Certificate in Project Management Professional (PMP) and Risk Management, 2006, University of Maryland

Program/Project Management (P/PM) Certification, 1993, Army Acquisition Training Program

MS, Telecommunications Network Systems, 1977, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH

BA, Physics, 1975, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH

AAS, Electronics Technology, 1972, Washington Technical Institute, Washington, D.C.

Professional Experience

Program Manager Consultant –UNT/ National Science Foundation University Industrial Research Consortium

Essential Functions:

• Developed, maintained, and continuously improved, an innovative project management process utilizing best practices and supported by Portfolio Project Management PPM tools and measures.

• Performed consortia project audits and quality assurance to ensure adherence to the PM process and balance project risks.

• Reviewed and refined project plans developed by consortia project manager.

Provided work technical direction and leadership to all consortia research programs, including scheduling, risk management, assignment of work and review of individual project efforts

CEO and Founder, Intelligent Automation Services (IAS) LLC. IAS is a startup company with a mission to provide advanced and reliable computer software systems support to health care patients, small and medium medical practice businesses. IAS provides computer software services for Front Office Call Management, Practice Management, Electronic Health Records, Revenue Cycle Management, Billing Services, eRx Electronic Prescribing, Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, and Practice Audit Management. These software services maximize revenue, speed up cash flow, improve care, and reduce costs by integrated clinical and business solutions. 03/2011 to Present

COMPUTER ENGINEER, NUCLEAR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND COMMAND AND CONTROL (C2)

Directorate of Spectrum, Space, Sensors/Command, Control, Communications (S3/C3) 03/2004 to 02/2011

Primary strategist over Nuclear Enterprise command and control software engineering policies for integration of human prerogatives and Commander’s intent. Define requirements and measurements for highly Dependable Real-Time Network-Enabled Command, Control and Decision Operations. Work across leadership levels to gather and translate complex data driven networks on-demand requirements, processes, and operational work flows.

Key Achievements

Developed robust end to end test and evaluation strategies for enabling end-to-end networks and systems that require real-time performance, including distributed embedded systems such as remote monitoring applications.

Critically involved in agile distributed service-oriented system engineering activities:

oEnd to End System-of-Systems Interoperability, Dependability and Trustworthiness

oService-Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing Strategies

oAutonomic and Semantic Grid Computing

oHigh Assurance Systems Standards for Secure Data and Provenance Across Organizations

oMobile Ad Hoc Multimedia Sensor Networks

oService-Oriented Systems Engineering and Mission Performance Measurement

oService-Oriented Architecture Systems Engineering and Life Cycle Management Policies

oEnterprise Human Centered Interoperability

oStrong knowledge of Computer Systems Development Life Cycle (SLDC) and software engineering principles

oAbility to define, articulate, and apply software architectural principles

oStrong understanding of industry best practices and methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Spiral, etc.)

oCapacity to prioritize engineering activities based on client, risks, and technological needs

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DEPUTY DIRECTOR, INVESTMENT AND ACQUISITION

Department of Defense, Chief Information Officer

The Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301, 03/2002 to 03/2004

Supported DoD CIO in directing, managing, and implementing IT programming. Authority over clearinghouse that coordinates DoD IT mission profiles, including system configuration, integration, and interoperability. Directed policy, planning, and development of Portfolio Management programs that apply capital investment planning, IT portfolio investment, value chain analyses, internal functional process improvement, and information engineering.

Key Achievements

Developed End-to-End (E2E) testing of IT systems for oversight and tracking of DoD acquisitions and investments, and an enterprise DoD portfolio of IT assets

Key implementation advisor on Portfolio Management and compliance of Clinger-Cohen Act at DoD at DoD CIO

DOD DIRECTOR, YEAR 2000 TEST & EVALUATION

Department of Defense, Chief Information Office and Year 2000 Program Office

The Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301. 10/1998 to 03/2002

Senior executive manager of Y2K, end to end (E2E) test and evaluation for all DoD-wide combat and software-intensive systems to ensure effective operation before, during, and after January 1, 2000. Defined and implemented DoD Y2K test management strategies and established policy and guidance for verifying Y2K compliance. Collaborated closely with Assistant Secretary of Defense C3I and Director of Y2K Operations, key policy officials, federal agencies, Congress, GAO, international governments, industries and academics to ensure comprehensive cohesion of Y2K E2E strategies.

Key Achievements

Achieved testing of 100% DoD critical systems prior to deadline

Supported development of guide book to address the windowing techniques commonly used in Y2K patching to address latent Y2K bugs that may appear 30 years later

Developed DoD process for managing information technology (IT) systems acquisition risks and as asset investments, in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act

DIRECTOR OF SOFTWARE ASSESSMENT AND OPERATIONAL EVALUATION

US Army Operational Evaluation Command (OEC), Alexandria, VA, 01/1986 to 10/1994

Served as the software methodology technical director and the technical expert on Army Combat Systems software T&E. Formulated and disseminated methodology for operational T&E of systems software, including development of policy and procedures for the Unified Software T&E Process (DA Pam 73-1, Part 7) under the Army’s Software Test and Evaluation Panel, software tools, and software measurement instrumentation

Key Achievements

Implemented an overhaul of the Army’s acquisition and test processes through development and execution of the Army wide Software Test and Evaluation Panel initiatives

DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ASSESSMENT DIVISION

US Army Operational Test and Evaluation Agency (OTEA), Alexandria, VA, 01/86 to 01/26/92

Point of contact for software operational T&E. Planned, organized, directed, and implemented all aspects of software operational T&E for Army Information Management Area systems and Combat Mission Critical Computer Resource systems. Supervised 9 government employees and 35 contractors. Applied computer systems analysis principles to operational test planning, test conduct, data collection, and evaluation of system effectiveness and suitability for fielding. Supported T&E projects by leading several software engineering groups.

Key Achievements

Developed and implemented a new process for the continuous evaluation and operational T&E of software-intensive combat and communications network systems.

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COMBAT SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Crystal City, VA, 07/84 to 01/86

Executed software engineering research, developmental testing, production, and fleet maintenance support for current and advanced torpedoes and fire control systems. The subject systems were embedded in various systems, including advanced heavy-weight torpedoes, the ASW fire control systems, and submarine torpedo launching systems. Supervised 13 government employees and 26 contractors.

Key Achievements

Implemented a software reliability engineering program for advanced Navy torpedoes

COMBAT COMPUTER SYSTEMS RELIABILITY ENGINEER

Naval Surface Weapons Center; Dahlgren VA. Department of the Navy, 02/81 to 07/84

Developed the Aegis Combat System CG 47 and Air Defense Weapon system (hardware, software and operator) top level requirements, operational dependability/fault tolerance, testing and evaluation.

Early Career Achievements

SENIOR ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

Martin Marietta Corporation, Denver, CO. 10/79 to 02/81

Participated in systems integration reliability, availability, and logistical engineering development of the ICBM Missile X Program as part of the systems engineering requirements definition and system specification.

ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

General Dynamics / Convair, San Diego, CA

Developed and measured the achieved system requirements for Air Launched and Ground Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM and GLCM) guidance system (hardware and software) reliability, availability from engineering development.

Technical Expertise

Systems: IPv6 and GIG (Global Information Grid), GCCS, GCSS

Communications: Active Directory, LDAP, group policies, DNS, WINS, TCP/IP

Networking Concepts: Routers, firewalls, gateways, network appliances, switching systems

Software: RDBMS IIS, SMS, SQL, SharePoint, RICHOH GRAPH DBMS, GraphLab, Pregel, HP OpenView. HTML, ITIL, Advanced technology stack, including the NEO4J graph database, MongoDB, Python, and Ruby.

Affiliations

FELLOW, IEEE Computer Society

Founder, IEEE Computer Society High-Assurance System Engineering Conference

Advisor, National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center

Advisor, Various National and International Universities

Senior Member, ACM

Addendum of Selected Publications

Author

Raymond A. Paul

Publications (120)

Semantic Computing, Cloud Computing, and Semantic Search Engine

Phillip C. y. Sheu, Shu Wang, Qi Wang, Ke Hao, Raymond A. Paul

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing - ICSC, pp. 654-657, 2009

Empirical Assessment of Machine Learning Based Software Defect Prediction Techniques (Citations: 1)

Venkata U. B. Challagulla, Farokh B. Bastani, I-ling Yen, Raymond A. Paul

Journal: International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools - IJAIT, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 389-400, 2008

An Ontology-Based Integrated Assessment Framework for High-Assurance Systems

Raymond A. Paul, I-ling Yen, Farokh B. Bastani, Jing Dong, Wei-tek Tsai, Krishna Kavi, Arif Ghafoor, Jaideep Srivastava

Conference: IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing - ICSC, pp. 386-393, 2008

High-Assurance Service-Oriented Architectures

Jing Dong, Raymond A. Paul, Liang-jie Zhang

Journal: IEEE Computer - COMPUTER, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 27-28, 2008

Service-oriented system engineering (SOSE) and its applications to embedded system development (Citations: 4)

Wei-tek Tsai, Xiao Wei, Raymond A. Paul, Jen-yao Chung, Qian Huang, Yinong Chen

Journal: Service Oriented Computing and Applications, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-17, 2007

Modeling and Simulation in Service-Oriented Software Development (Citations: 2)

Wei-tek Tsai, Zhibin Cao, Xiao Wei, Raymond A. Paul, Qian Huang, Xin Sun

Journal: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International - SIMULATION, vol. 83, no. 1, pp. 7-32, 2007

Parsimonious Classifiers for Software Quality Assessment

Miyoung Shin, Sunida Ratanothayanon, Amrit L. Goel, Raymond A. Paul

Conference: High-Assurance Systems - HASE, pp. 411-412, 2007

A Machine Learning-Based Reliability Assessment Model for Critical Software Systems

Venkata U. B. Challagulla, Farokh B. Bastani, Raymond A. Paul, Wei-tek Tsai, Yinong Chen

Conference: International Computer Software and Applications Conference - COMPSAC, pp. 79-86, 2007

A Coverage Relationship Model for Test Case Selection and Ranking for Multi-version Software

Wei-tek Tsai, Xinyu Zhou, Raymond A. Paul, Yinong Chen, Xiaoying Bai

Conference: High-Assurance Systems - HASE, pp. 105-112, 2007

Roadmap to a Full Service Broker in Service-Oriented Architecture

Wei-tek Tsai, Xinyu Zhou, Yinong Chen, Bingnan Xiao, Raymond A. Paul, William Chu

Conference: IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering - ICEBE, pp. 657-660, 2007

Ontology-based Dynamic Process Collaboration in Service-Oriented Architecture

Wei-tek Tsai, Qian Huang, Jingjing Xu, Yinong Chen, Raymond A. Paul

Service collaboration is important in Service- Oriented Architecture (SOA). While service collaboration protocols for data exchange are well explored, the Dynamic Process Collaboration (DPC) is still a challenge. DPC requires not only exchanging meaningful information between collaboration parties, but also performing collaboration workflow matching based on collaboration ontology. To do this, DPC needs service collaboration ontology modeling, service collaboration discovery ...

Conference: Service-Oriented Computing and Applications - SOCA, pp. 39-46, 2007

Proposition for E-DoD: An Overall Plan for Network-Centric Operation

Raymond A. Paul

Conference: International Conference on Quality Software - QSIC, 2007

An Infrastructure for Web Services Migration for Real-Time Applications (Citations: 8)

Wei Hao, Tong Gao, I-ling Yen, Yinong Chen, Raymond A. Paul

Conference: Service Oriented Software Engineering - SOSE, pp. 41-48, 2006

DDSOS: A Dynamic Distributed Service-Oriented Simulation Framework1 (Citations: 7)

Wei-tek Tsai, Chun Fan, Yinong Chen, Raymond A. Paul

This paper presents the DDSOS framework developed at Arizona State University, which supports the simulation, development, and evaluation of large scale distributed systems such as network-centric and system-of-systems applications. The distinct features of the framework include automated simulation code generation from the specification, code deployment, simulation of different architectures with a template- based platform builder, service-oriented ...Conference: Annual Simulation Symposium - ANSS, pp. 160-167, 2006

Architecture Classification for SOA-Based Applications (Citations: 3)

Wei-tek Tsai, Chun Fan, Yinong Chen, Raymond A. Paul, Jen-yao Chung

Conference: Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing - ISORC, pp. 295-302, 2006

A service-oriented modeling and simulation framework for rapid development of distributed applications (Citations: 3)

Wei-tek Tsai, Chun Fan, Yinong Chen, Raymond A. Paul

Journal: Simulation Practice and Theory - SIMPRA, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 725-739, 2006

SOA Collaboration Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation in PSML-C (Citations: 1)

Bingnan Xiao, Wei-tek Tsai, Qian Huang, Yinong Chen, Raymond A. Paul

Conference: IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering - ICEBE, pp. 639-646, 2006

Simulation Verification and Validation by Dynamic Policy Specification and Enforcement (Citations: 1)

Wei-tek Tsai, Yinong Chen, Raymond A. Paul, Xinyu Zhou, Chun Fan

Journal: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International - SIMULATION, vol. 82, no. 5, pp. 295-310, 2006

A Software Enhancement System for Embedded Software Development

Jia Zhou, Kendra Cooper, I-ling Yen, John Linn, Raymond A. Paul

Conference: Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing - ISORC, pp. 93-100, 2006

Global Software Enterprise: A New Software Constructing Architecture

Wei-tek Tsai, Bingnan Xiao, Raymond A. Paul, Qian Huang, Yinong Chen

Conference: Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web/based Information Systems/Conference on Electronic Commerce - CEC(WECWIS), 2006

Adaptive Service-Oriented Application Architecture and System Engineering

Raymond A. Paul

Conference: International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence - ICTAI, 2006

E2E Testing and Evaluation of High Assurance Systems

Ray Paul, W. T. Tsai, Y. Chen, C. Fan, Z. Cao, H. Huang

Summary DoD E2E Testing and Evaluation (T&E) technology for high assurance system has evolved from specification and analysis of thin threads, through system scenarios, and to the scenario-driven system engineering including reliability, security, and safety assurance, as well as dynamic verification and validation. Currently, E2E T&E technology is entering the fourth generation and being applied ...

Published in 2006.

Automated Model Checking and Testing for Composite Web Services (Citations: 26)

Hai Huang, Wei-tek Tsai, Raymond A. Paul, Yinong Chen

Web Services form a new distributed computing paradigm. Collaborative verification and validation are important when Web Services from different vendors are integrated together to carry out a coherent task. This paper presents a new approach to verify Web Services by model checking the process model of OWL-S (Web Ontology Language for Web Services) and to validate them by the ...

Conference: Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing - ISORC, pp. 300-307, 2005

Adaptive Testing, Oracle Generation, and Test Case Ranking for Web Services (Citations: 13)

Wei-Tek Tsai, Yinong Chen, Raymond Paul, Hai Huang, Xinyu Zhou, Xiao Wei

Web services and service-oriented architecture are emerging technologies that are changing the way we develop and use computer software. Due to the standardization of web services related description languages and protocols, as well as the open platforms, for the same web service specification, many different implementations can be offered from different service providers. This paper presents an adaptive group ...

Conference: International Computer Software and Applications Conference - COMPSAC, pp. 101-106, 2005

Specification-Based Verification and Validation of Web Services and Service-Oriented Operating Systems (Citations: 11)

Wei-tek Tsai, Yinong Chen, Raymond A. Paul

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) have received significant attention recently. Even though WS are based on open standards and support software interoperability, but the trustworthy issues of WS has actually limited the growth of WS applications as organizations do not trust those WS developed by other vendors and at the same time they do not have access ...

Conference: Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems - WORDS, pp. 139-147, 2005

PSML-S: A PROCESS SPECIFICATION AND MODELING LANGUAGE FOR SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING (Citations: 8)

W. T. Tsai, Raymond A. Paul, Bingnan Xiao, Zhibin Cao, Yinong Chen

This paper presents a process specification and modeling language for service-oriented system development. The language, PSML-S, is defined by a metamodel consisting of four model packages: core model, behavior model, structure model, and constraint model. The core model defines the data types and operations in other models; the structure model defines the constructs to specify the static structure ...

Conference: Software Engineering and Applications - IASTEDSEA, 2005

Rapid Embedded System Testing Using Verification Patterns (Citations: 6)

Wei-tek Tsai, Lian Yu, Feng Zhu, Raymond A. Paul

Journal: IEEE Software - SOFTWARE, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 68-75, 2005

Web Services-Based Collaborative and Cooperative Computing (Citations: 7)

W. T. Tsai, Z. Cao, Y. Chen, R. Paul

This paper presents an integrated development process for Web services. The key differences with the traditional software development are that this new process involves collaboration and cooperation among all parties involved: developers, brokers, and clients. The process defines c

Object Testing in ITEE

S. Ohara, F. Tsunoda, H. Maezawa, M. Hui, Taehyung Wang, Phillip C. y. Sheu, Raymond A. Paul

Conference: Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems - WORDS, pp. 245-252, 2002

Real-Time Resource Reservation for Synchronized Multimedia Object over Wireless LAN

Husni Fahmi, Mudassir Latif, Basit Shafiq, Raymond A. Paul, Arif Ghafoor

The increasing use of wireless networks has necessitated the development of a wireless networking infrastructure that supports quality of service (QoS) for multimedia communications. Proxy servers are gaining prominence in facilitating QoS assurance and intelligent resource allocation for multimedia services. In this paper, we propose a proxy-based framework that provides QoS support to mobile users. We describe the overall ...

Conference: Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing - ISORC, pp. 386-393, 2002

QoS-Based Synchronization of Multimedia Document Streams

M. Farrukh Khan, Halima Ghafoor, Raymond A. Paul

Conference: Microelectronics Systems Education - MSE, pp. 320-327, 2002

Software Measurement Data Analysis Using Memory-Based Reasoning

Raymond A. Paul, Farokh B. Bastani, Venkata U. B. Challagulla, I-ling Yen

Conference: International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence - ICTAI, pp. 261-267, 2002

Temporal Modeling of Software Test Coverage

Sahra Sedigh-ali, Arif Ghafoor, Raymond A. Paul

This paper presents a temporal model for the coverage achieved by software testing. The proposed model, which is applicable at any level of the testing hierarchy, can deter- mine the value of test coverage at any given time, as well as predicting future values. The model is comprised of two main components: coverage functions, and the coverage matrix. The coverage ...

Conference: International Computer Software and Applications Conference - COMPSAC, pp. 823-828, 2002

Metrics-Based Framework for Decision Making in COTS-Based Software Systems

Sahra Sedigh-ali, Arif Ghafoor, Raymond A. Paul

The growing reliance on Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components for developing large-scale projects introduces a new paradigm in software engineering, which re- quires the design of new software development and business processes. Large scale component reuse leads to savings in development resources, enabling these resources to be ap- plied to areas such as quality improvement. These savings come ...

Conference: High-Assurance Systems - HASE, pp. 243-244, 2002

Software Engineering Metrics for COTS-Based Systems (Citations: 28)

Sahra Sedigh-ali, Arif Ghafoor, Raymond Paul

Journal: IEEE Computer - COMPUTER, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 44-50, 2001

End-To-End Integration Testing Design (Citations: 24)

Wei-tek Tsai, Xiaoying Bai, Raymond A. Paul, Weiguang Shao, Vishal Agarwal

Integration testing has always been a challenge especially if the system under test is large with many subsystems and interfaces. This paper proposes an approach to design End-to- End (E2E) integration testing, including test scenario specification, test case generation and tool support. Test scenarios are specified as thin threads, each of which represents a single function from an end ...

Conference: International Computer Software and Applications Conference - COMPSAC, pp. 166-171, 2001

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