Michael C. Ritchie
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Aug 2003 – Present Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Undersea Warfare Electromagnetic Systems
Division
The Undersea Warfare Electromagnetic Systems Division is the Department of
the Navy organization responsible for acquisition, installation, maintenance, and
research for communications, electronic warfare, and imaging.
• Software Engineer in charge of integration testing of the ES system leading a 6
man test team in integration efforts with other submarine systems
• Chairman of the trouble report adjudication board that reviewed, investigated,
and recommended fix priorities for the ES program
• Lead Software Engineer for the external interface between the ES system and
other submarine subsystems
• Lead effort to reduce the number of deployed software baseline versions from
16 on 24 deployed systems to 3 versions on 46 deployed systems gaining
reduced cost in testing, simplified field support, and improved the
development processes
Jun 1999 – Aug 2003 Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Sensors and SONAR Systems Division
The SONAR Systems Division is the navy’s principle Sonar research facility
developing the next generation of submarine sonar systems, trainers, simulators
and other related equipment.
• As the Senior Software Developer and onsite Information Technology
Specialist architected and lead IT development for a large prototype intrusion
detection system leading a team of 4 developers.
• Graphical User Interface designer for a Sonar Trainer that would allow the navy
to train operators on a laptop. The design required the development of twelve
displays that mimicked the real displays of the Sonar system.
• Developer working on Simulation and Stimulation Systems for the Virginia Class
Submarine. I developed graphical user interfaces, network interfaces, and
algorithms to either simulate equipment not present or to exercise equipment
under test.
Jan 1994 – Jun 1999 Various Non-Engineering positions in Greensboro and Jacksonville NC
I have been a resident assistant for two years while attending North Carolina
Agricultural and technical State University. There I mentored other students
while at school. I was an intern with the Veteran Administration’s Vocational
Rehab unit at Camp Lejeune helping service members with disabilities to get
counseling and other assistance in transitioning from the service for two years. I
also work for Lowes Home Improvement Store as a gardening specialist.
Jun 1981 - Jan 1994 United States Marine Corps World Wide Service
Marine Communications Specialist with the rank of sergeant and was deployed
to Japan, Philippines, and Korea and worked with local military personal. Lead
squad of 13 Marine communications specialists. Equipment used in the field and
garrison included HF, VHF, and UHF Radios, GPS and other Position Location
systems, field fax machines, and computers.
Education
Sept 2002 - Dec 2004 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg PA
Masters Science Information Technology Software Engineering
Aug 1996 – Jun 1999 North Carolina Agricultural and technical Start University, Greensboro NC
Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering
Aug 1994 – Jun 1996 Coastal Carolina Community College, Jacksonville NC
Skills and Certifications
Operating Systems Windows, Linux, Solaris, UNIX
Software Languages C, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, Shell Scripting
Interface Languages CORBA, AMQP