Engineer Sales

Jason Paul Kazarian

Summary

Professional experience in development and management. Education, sales, software, and systems domains. Object-oriented analysis, design, and programming. Requirements, design, network, and test engineering. Multiple site, international project management. Curriculum development and course delivery.

Project areas include accounting, defense, education, embedded systems, fund raising, field engineering, geographic information, medical records, message processing, navigation, porting, real time, satellite control, simulation, telecommunications, user interfaces, and web marketing.

Infrastructures

Digital Signal Processors: ARM, DLX, TMS320, TigerSHARC.

Programming Languages: Ada, ANSI SQL, Assembly, C, C++, CORBA IDL, CSS, HTML, Java, Javascript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Unix and Windows Shell, VBA.

Hardware Platforms: Mac, PA-RISC, PowerPC, SGI, SPARC, x86.

Operating Systems: Fedora, HP-UX, Irix, Lynx, OS/2, OS X, Posix, pSOS, Red Hat, RTLinux, Solaris, Ubuntu, Windows, WindRiver.

Class Libraries: Boost, C++/Views, JAI, JMF, MFC, Rouge Wave, STL, Swing, UIM/X Motif, Zinc.

Databases: Access, Caché, Clarion, JDBC, MySQL, OOBase, Oracle, Sybase, XML.

Tools: Ant, ClearCase, Green Hills, gdb, GNU, Kylix, ObjectMaker, Orbix, OS/2 SDK, Purify, RCS, RTM, Source Integrity, Software Through Pictures, Sniff, TI Code Composer Studio, Tomcat, Tornado, VisiBroker, Visual Studio, Windows SDK.

Methodologies: Booch, Colbert, Fusion, PMI, Rumbaugh, Structured, UML.

Protocols: Ethernet, H.323, MEGACO, PSTN, SIP, SDP, SNMP, SS7, TCP/IP, UDP/IP.

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2007. Thesis topic: Automating Non-Functional Design for Net-Centric Real-Time Systems.

Master’s Equivalent Program, Systems and Software Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin.

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics Minor. California State University, Dominguez Hills. School of Management courses in accounting, law, information systems, and marketing.

Graduation with honors. Member Phi Kappa Phi.

Employment

11-02 to Present: Left Brained Geeks, Principal Engineer. Periodic consulting to multiple clients over multiple time periods.

08-08 to 10-09: Gyumri Information Technologies Center, Executive Director.

08-96 to 11-02: Alcatel USA, Senior Software Development Engineer.

11-94 to 08-96: Raytheon E-Systems, Systems Engineer.

08-89 to 11-94: Department of the Navy, Computer Scientist.

03-85 to 08-89: The Aerospace Corporation, Member of the Technical Staff.

03-84 to 03-85: California State University, Electronic Equipment Repair Technician I.

Experience

International

Executive Director of an information technology training academy in the Republic of Armenia. Responsible for permanent staff of five and part-time staff of fifteen. Successfully introduced western style policies, procedures, and process into a foreign environment. Cut annual budget by 20%. Increased enrollment by 33%. Developed extension unit hiring graduates to work on third party projects (GITC).

Lead embedded software engineer for a gigabit IP router produced by an international, multiple site team. Developed requirements for the hardware access library and design verification software of the switching ASIC. Produced top-level firmware requirements specification (Alcatel).

Engineering lead, multiple projects, multiple international locations. Spent 25% of time at business units in foreign markets. Work through initial concept, product feature, and requirements analysis phases. Cross training of engineering, marketing, sales, and other organizations at multiple sites (Alcatel).

Engineering

Real-time operating systems pre- and post-sales engineering. Converted open source customers to paid product line. Landed reference account. Taught customers “jump start” training course. Made major revisions to course material. Warm called leads from open source download web site. Coordinated customer interactions with other members of the sales team (LBG).

Lead, element management subsystem, telecommunications equipment shelf. Responsible for technical oversight of critical path tasks performed by other developers in addition to own contributions (Alcatel).

Lead, geospatial information system cross-organizational analysis team. Developed tasking, coordinated team, documented findings. Identified GIS database having higher initial purchase cost yet requiring less integration labor, resulting in net savings (Raytheon).

Mentor, simulation development. Provided team guidance in object techniques, Computer Aided Software Engineering, documentation for object-oriented projects, coding standards for mission critical software (Navy).

Software

Software development and engineering on embedded source and target systems. Multiple environments using C++, Java, and SQL. Defined requirements, designed modules, wrote code, defined and executed unit and system test plans and procedures. Web development experience with HTML forms, Javascript, Java Data Base Connection, Java Server Pages, Perl (LBG).

Digital signal processor programming. Optimization techniques including control, data, and structure hazard avoidance; loop unrolling; pipeline scheduling; and parallel instruction unit allocation (LBG).

Java-based multi-media database query preprocessor. Wrote application using JDBC, JAI, JMF, and Swing to sample still images from video clips at programmable intervals. MySql back end to store clip and still metadata. Access front end client interface (LBG).

Element management subsystem development for a SONET interface to a voice switch. Responsible for state models, event management, data plane switching, resource identification, system initialization. Produced analysis, code, documentation. Wrote embedded, real-time software. Debugged across multiple processors (Alcatel).

Client-server document repository engine. Wrote storage and retrieval software for managing compressed, encrypted data in synchronization with (but external from) database tables. Wrote core interface for client retrieval. Developed multi-user problem tracking and reporting system (Raytheon).

Object-oriented networking library for a simulation linking constructive, live, and virtual nodes using the Distributed Interactive Simulation protocol on TCP/IP. Developed an interface to link geographically disparate systems (Navy).

Training

Developed and taught C++, Java, and real-time Linux development courses for engineering audiences. Topics include language fundamentals, object implementation, building robust software components, advanced memory management, real time scheduling theory (Alcatel, LBG, Raytheon).

Wrote training curriculum on Internet Protocol telephony products and delivered sessions to customers and employees. Topics included AIN, call handling, data and voice convergence, H.323, MEGACO, PSTN, SIP, SDP, SNMP, SS7. Courses developed for and delivered in six countries (Alcatel).

Six guest lectures for beginning and intermediate information systems classes, School of Management, California State University. Topics included Government System Acquisition Methods and Business Case Systems Engineering (Aerospace).

Awards

Six awards, including two director's awards, for outstanding contributions from Alcatel.

Spotlight award for Excellence in Software Training from Raytheon.

Personal Letter of Appreciation from Admiral D. B. McKinney, Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, for outstanding efforts in support of and selfless dedication to IRIS.

Three awards from Department of the Navy for performing tasks beyond expectations.

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