Terrence J. Mayes ***** Sandy Hook Dr.

713-***-**** Houston, TX

ad2bzb@r.postjobfree.com 77089

SUMMARY

Small business CTO with over a decade of experience making decisions related to the design, development, deployment, administration, and maintenance of technologies ranging from individual mobile devices to entire computing facilities. Technologist with a 26 year track record of successfully completing high-profile projects - many of which had national importance, involved billions of dollars of equipment and the safety of human lives. Expert at leading small "skunk works" teams to solve problems and satisfy customer requirements more rapidly and cost effectively than larger (better funded) agencies and organizations. More than two decades of experience in science, mathematics, algorithms, analytics, simulation, visualization, VR/augmented reality, software engineering, and IT acquisition/administration. A 16 year history of taking entire software and hardware projects from proposal to deliverable on time and on budget, all while working remotely – many times single-handedly. More than 15 years of experience working alongside policy makers, chambers of commerce, federal and state agencies, police departments, fire departments, academia, and the Department of Defense - under the pressure of short deadlines and tight budgets, where failure was not an option.

AFFILIATIONS

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

American MENSA

Research Associate - Hobby Center for Public Policy

EMPLOYMENT

2/2008-Present: Chief Technology Officer, Prototype Fusion and Modeling, LLC

*Awarded prestigious NASA Innovation Research and Development (IRAD) grant for full lunar surface simulator, 10/2022

*Awarded NASA Innovation Charge Account (ICA) grant for commercial crew aggregate risk tool, 6/2022

*Awarded prestigious NASA Innovation Research and Development (IRAD) grant for human lunar exploration, 10/2021

*Recognized by the NASA Center for Innovation Funding (CIF) as an agency wide success story for IRAD work, 6/2021

*Awarded prestigious NASA Innovation Research and Development (IRAD) grant for human lunar exploration, 10/2020

*Awarded prestigious NASA Innovation Research and Development (IRAD) grant for human lunar exploration, 10/2019

*Awarded NASA Elite Team Award for rapid C.E. lab reconfiguration to support training efforts, 5/2019

*Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) Economic Leadership Forum - First day speaker, 6/2014

*Texas Economic & Demographic Association (TEDA) workshop - First day speaker, 5/2013

*North Houston Association Economics/Demographics Conference - First day speaker, 1/2012

*NW Houston Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Forum - Keynote speaker, 8/2011

*University of Houston executive retreat - Guest presenter, 9/2010

SSPEED conference, Rice University - Guest speaker, 10/2008

*Houston City Council, City Hall - Demonstrated CEDView in the presence of local TV media, 9/2008

*Sample of noteworthy projects:

Moonscape – A full lunar surface simulation platform built using LRO/LOLA data sets for mission planning, evaluation, training, and the safety assessment of lunar orbiters, landers, rovers, and habitats for the NASA Artemis program.

Topple study – A 3D simulation and test environment used to visualize the risk of topple/fall-over at the Amundsen crater rim landing site, chosen by the commercial crew program as the most likely candidate for the SpaceX starship lander.

Variance View – A tool that graphs and analyzes flight system and flight phase variance data supporting both Boeing and SpaceX vehicles for commercial crew program management and the NASA Safety and Mission Assurance directorate.

SoundSearch – A suite of tools created to visualize and acoustically locate the point of origin of anomalous audio observed and recorded by astronauts aboard the International Space Station in 2019, and also in the future.

SafetyView – An interactive visual data-analytics and information fusion tool used to enhance the safety of crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) by correlating disparate data sets stored on a secure, cloud-based portable PC platform.

NWFail – A tool used to do predictive failure analysis on International Space Station (ISS) components by performing statistics on multiple unstructured data sets that include telemetry, electronic messaging, and archived documents.

Archive Server – Portable, big-data server with RAID capability that supports a self-managed secure cloud, collaborative office suite, web site, mail server, and encrypted wireless hot-spot subnet. Built for the NASA Artemis program.

NASA/JSC Orbital Debris Study – Nationally relevant study to develop a process of detecting RF interference in data captured by a high-powered radar system that tracks orbital debris, needed to avoid catastrophic launch vehicle impacts.

Katoen Natie Mini Audit Suite – Created an enterprise level set of tools for interactive collection, storage, processing, and analytics of key safety, environment, quality, and performance data utilizing mobile devices for Katoen Natie.

Concept Exploration Lab (CEL) Refit And Upgrade – An effort to modernize and enhance the hardware/software capability of the lab to support data fusion, simulation, and AR/VR in preparation for the Artemis program and future Martian missions.

HUDView - A HUD/Hobby Center funded analytics tool to simultaneously visualize 80,000 foreclosure records interactively on a 1' resolution GIS map of Harris County from 2000 to 2008 with a goal of understanding the impact of the housing crisis.

EnergyView - A study funded by the Greater Houston Partnership at the direction of Mayor Bill White as part of the Green Houston Initiative to analyze 7 household energy consumption variables with an emphasis on incentivizing conservation.

DFPSView – A Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) study to analyze their current database of over 1.8 million records and forecast the future child care capacity requirements of the state of Texas for a period of 8 years.

CEDView - Analyze the effectiveness of TASER use by the Houston Police Department across the greater Houston area and determine if demographic bias (volatile issue) is present. Study funded by Houston City Controller Annise Parker.

Concept Visualization Lab (CVL) - Data mining and visual computing facility designed and built for the Hobby Center of Public Policy at the University of Houston. Modeled after NASA's host/test/integrate facility Concept Exploration Lab (CEL).

2/2004 - 2/2008: Barrios Technology Inc., Sr. Engineer

*Assigned to the Concept Exploration Lab (CEL) as software project lead at NASA's Johnson Space Center

*Group Achievement Award/Spacecraft Crew Survival Investigation Team (SCSIT), 12/2008

*Group Achievement Award for SCSIT report findings, 11/2008

*Promoted to Sr. Engineer 6/2008 (highest classification on the contract)

*Awarded Special Space Flight Achievement Award for work on Data Fusion Tool (DFT), 8/2005

*Awarded Special Space Flight Achievement Award for work on ISS Habitability Study, 8/2005

*Sample of noteworthy projects:

Cross-agency Collaboration - Assisted/co-authored a $3 million proposal to fund collaborative efforts between NASA and the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC/NAVAIR). Worked directly with lobbyists from the state of Maryland and Texas.

Cross-industry Collaboration - Helped create links between NASA and the submersible community in support of the Anthro- plus project. Met directly with CEOs from industry-leading submersible manufacturers and teams from the U.S. Navy.

Columbia accident investigation - Reconstructed the path of the crew module during breakup from ground-based camera video. Analyzed vehicle failure and impacts on the crew. The work was published in a high-profile NASA report in 2008.

Data Fusion Tool - developed tools to synchronize: ground based/onboard video, ground radar, wing leading edge data, and real-time 3D simulation to detect debris impacts and prevent harm to the crew. Deployed and in use since flight STS-114.

External Tank Investigation - Developed a software suite to integrate disparate data into an external tank simulation. The effort determined the root cause of foam releases from the Columbia external tank and led to new pre-launch protocols.

1/1996 - 2/2004: Lockheed Martin Engineering & Science Services, Software Engineer

*Given NASA Letter of Appreciation for adding non-ideal lighting to ISS EBIT studies, 12/2003

*Awarded SEAT contract "Employee of the Month" (highest award on contract), 2/2002

*Awarded NASA Superior Assistance Award for innovative work on ascent/entry simulator, 1/2002

*Given NASA Letter of Appreciation for improving realism of SES ascent/entry simulator, 1/2002

*Awarded Lockheed Special Recognition Award for improving shuttle forward crew station, 12/2001

*Awarded NASA Elite Team Award for enhancing Ames landing scenes in forward cockpit, 4/2001

*Awarded NASA Elite Team Award for work on MEDS flight-deck displays, 4/2000

*Assigned to the Systems Engineering Simulator Lab (SES) at NASA's Johnson Space Center, 1/2000

*Advanced to level of software engineer in 10/1998

*Promoted from programmer to computer analyst 10/1997

*Assigned to the Graphics Research & Analysis Facility (GRAF) at NASA/JSC, 1/1996

*Sample of noteworthy projects:

MEDS displays - modified and extended the Multifunction Electronic Display System (MEDS) capability of the SES forward cockpit flight-deck software.

Atmosphere model - enhanced the realism of the SES ascent/entry trainer by independently designing and implementing a fractal cloud model and Rayleigh/Mie scatter based skylight.

NASA/JSC Outreach fly-through - created a simulation allowing real-time exploration of the ISS and exhibited it for the NASA Outreach public relations team at high-profile events.

Inverse kinematics engine - created an inverse kinematics engine that models articulated structures with up to 150 degrees of freedom and used it to simulate the shuttle arm and ISS tether system.

3-D model to 2-D image registration - devised an algorithm for automatically aligning a 3-D object to a 2-D image and used it to locate possible shuttle problems from launch photos.

SKILLS

Technology Management - 18+ years of combined leadership experience: CTO, project owner, project management, lead engineer, lead developer, grant/contract proposal author. DOD 5000.x, "Skunk Works" projects.

Software Life-cycle - requirements gathering, feasibility study, specification, design, implementation, verification/validation, deployment and maintenance. Waterfall model, Rapid-prototyping, Evolutionary models.

Software Engineering - State of the art, real-time, and mission critical software designed for high reusability. OOD, OOP, multi- threading, distributed processing.

Asset Acquisition/Management - simulation based acquisition, "fly before you buy", build-to-spec, upgrade roadmaps, alternative source vendors, vendor negotiation. E-bay, Amazon.

Mobile Device Development - Android SDK, Android NDK, OpenGL ES, Java, Win32 porting. Eclipse, AIDE, C4Droid.

Cloud and Portable Data Center Development – Self-maintained cloud infrastructure, web storage, office document collaboration, secure chat/web calling/video conferencing, and secure e-mail services. NextCloud/OneCloud, OnlyOffice.

Embedded System Development - cross-compilation, microcontrollers, stepper motors. MC68332.

Facility Design & Construction - computing center, operations center, conference room, classroom, portable data center.

Algorithm Design - sequential and parallel algorithm design and analysis. Polynomial complexity, Big-O notation, deadlock avoidance, atomic instructions, message passing.

Data Structure Design - advanced in-core and disk based data structures for searching, sorting, load-balancing, consistency, and reliability. Kd-trees, Hashing, FIFO/LIFO queuing, parity.

Analytics - data mining, link analysis, forensics. Social & physical sciences, economics, policy, demographics. Forecasting - polynomial curve fitting, spectral analysis, statistical analysis, fractional dimension estimation.

Simulation - man-in-the-loop, virtual environments, immersive displays, and motion tracking. Polhemus, CyberGlove, Google cardboard, Wiimote, anaglyph 3D.

Visualization - information fusion of data from any source with real-time imagery. Microsoft Access, DBase, SQL.

Computer Graphics - rendering, ray-tracing, radiosity, fractals, animation. OpenGL, IrisGL, Mesa, Performer, Inventor, DirectX, Direct3D, OpenSceneGraph.

Image Processing - feature detection, registration, motion tracking, compression, noise removal, filtering. Wavelets, DCTs, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP.

Modeling - Boundary models, CSG, geometric modeling, parametric modeling, multi-resolution modeling, CAD/CAM. Pro Engineer, MultiGen Creator, Lightwave, Blender, Wavefront, OpenFlight, STL, 3DS, VRML.

GIS - Terrain elevation models, terrain feature data, satellite imagery, and bathymetry. USGS, Census, SDTS, Tiger, BIL, ArcGIS, Garmin. Satellite data, Clementine, LRO/LOLA.

Software Development - C/C++, FORTRAN 77/90, Pascal, Ada, PROLOG, Lisp, and various assembly languages. Win32, X11, Motif, Visual Studio, GCC.

Network Technology - IIS, Apache server, FTP server, Samba server, Exchange server, Dovecot, Postfix, MiniDLNA, OpenSSL, RoundCube, fail2ban, PPTP/IPSEC server, dynamic DNS, and firewall. Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, DD-WRT, Tomato WRT.

Telephony - SIP server, VOIP, Asterisk, Yate, MizuPhone. Cellular network providers, GSM, WCDMA, LTE.

Systems Administration - Windows/Server/SBS, OSX, Android/x86, iOS, Chrome, Ubuntu, System V, Net/FreeBSD. Data Backup & Security - RAID, remote storage and web storage. SnapRAID, FreeNAS, MonoWall, Tonido.

A/V Design & Installation - multimedia facility, theater facility, stage. Projection systems, P.A. systems, effects processors, video matrix, AMX.

Multimedia - Audio & video capture, synchronization, encoding, and streaming. C.O.T.S. consumer electronics. Video Production - Transcode, annotate, narrate, subtitle and burn to media. H.264, MP4, DivX, xvid, MPG, WMV, SMPTE, VirtualDub, AviDemux, TMPEGENC.

Music Production - Guitar, bass & drum programming for studio recording and live performance. CDDA, MP3, WMA, MIDI, Audacity, Hydrogen, LMMS.

Graphic Design - Image creation and rendering for print or web. Paint.net, Macromedia Flash, JPG, PNG, GIF, tiff. Web Design - HTML, VRML, Python & other scripting languages. Microsoft FrontPage, kompozer, Hotdog.

Advanced Mathematics - vector calculus, matrix algebra, parametric curves/surfaces, quaternions, wavelets, fractal geometry. MATLAB, Mathematica.

Physical Sciences - kinematics, mechanics, thermo/hydrodynamics, and optics. MADYMO, Open Dynamics Engine.

Medical Sciences - Medical imaging, kinesiology, human factors. CT, Ultrasound, MRI, DICOM file format.

Public Speaking - Excellent large and small audience presentation skills. TV media experience. Microsoft PowerPoint.

EDUCATION

1994 - Present: Certified Professional Training

Development: Advanced OpenGL, VAPS 6.2.

Modeling: MultiGen Creator Terrain Studio, ProEngineer Wildfire.

Web design: Photoshop 7, Macromedia Flash.

1990 - 1994: University of Houston - Clear Lake

*Inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 4/1994

*Cumulative graduate G.P.A. 4.0

*Awarded NASA Fellowship in Graphics Technology, 6/1993

*Awarded ITA Telecommunications Scholarship, 9/1992

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with minor in *Mathematics, 5/1992

*University of Houston - Clear Lake President's List Award 6/1991

*Cumulative undergraduate G.P.A. 3.65

*Noteworthy research projects:

Operating Systems research - Received course credit for independent research that led to a new method of controlling processes in small multi-processed operating systems.

Neural Net research - Earned graduate course credit implementing high-precision math routines for a neural network research project sponsored by NASA/JSC.

PUBLICATIONS

*Contributor, "Conducted Energy Device Program Performance Audit," City of Houston Report No. 2009-09, 2009

*Contributor, "Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report," NASA Technical Report NASA/SP-2008-565, 2008

*Mayes, T. J., Soltis, M. G., Thaxton, S., and Maida, J. C., "Ergonomics in Human Spaceflight," Proceedings of the 2007 Underwater Intervention Conference, January 2007

*Mayes, T. J., Foley, T. T., Hamilton, J. A., and Duncavage, T. C., "Real-time Visualization of Cross-Sectional Data in Three Dimensions," Stud Health Technol Inform. 2005

*Mayes, T. J., and Maida, J. C., "Human Modeling: Inverse Kinematics with Maximum Joint Availability," Proceedings of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Vol. 6, July-August 2000

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

*"Cubic Interpolation (gap filling) and Filtering (outlier removal) for Time Series Data Sets" - course taught as part of the EITM Weekly Workshop, Center for Public Policy, University of Houston, 2/2017

*"Fractional Dimension Estimation: Detecting Chaos In Data" - course taught as part of the EITM Weekly Workshop, Center for Public Policy, University of Houston, 4/2016

*"GIS - Practitioners Approach 2" - course taught for the second time during the 2012 Hobby Center for Public Policy Certified Public Manager (CPM) series, 6/2012

*"GIS - Practitioners Approach" - course taught to local govt. executives and civil servants as part of the HCPP CPM series, 3/2011

*Mentor for Science & Mathematics – McWhirter Elementary, Webster ISD, 1/2000 – 12/2002

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