Software Design
Resume:
Samuel Tewolde
Email: *********@********.***
Address: **** **** ****** *****
City: Houston
State: TX
Zip: 77057
Country: USA
Phone: 214-***-****
Skill Level: Experienced
Salary Range: $89,000
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Samuel Tewolde
1300 Wood Hollow #22203
Houston, TX 77057
E-Mail : **********@*****.***
OBJECTIVES:
Obtain a management or a technical prime role within the Information Technology area, playing a key role in software design and infrastructure support. Experience and background includes over 20 years in software design, testing, and establishing core architecture of real-time applications and client-server solutions.
QUALIFICATION SUMMARY:
- Extensive experience leading and advising the development of complex systems solutions
- Polished leadership skills, with ability to motivate teams to increase productivity
- Expertise in full project life cycle development for implementation and integration
- Deep understanding of technology with focus on delivering system solutions
- Implementation detail negotiation with Product Line Management (PLM)
- Establishment of performance measurement guidelines
- Product evaluation and producing requirements, sizing, and detailed design strategy
- Write and implement design processes and work instructions
- High level design, prototyping, and sizing of complex software solutions
- Multi-focused prime-ship roles as a senior software engineer
- Served as subject Matter expert in maintenance and OAMP software
- Software architect on the convergence of IT and software system solutions
WORK EXPERIENCE:
3/2012 present Alert Logic. Houston, TX
Senior Software Developer of Security Software Solutions
Intrusion Detection System (IDS) component design Research component requirements, write and document their high level design, implement and provide support after deployment. Write design document, training and troubleshooting guides. Interface with customer support group and security analysts to refine requirements and negotiate interface layout. (used C, VBox/CentOS/Debian VMs, Linux).
10/2007 03/2012 Ericsson Inc. Richardson, TX
Senior Software Designer ATCA/VSE (CDMA RD)
Dynamic Data Sync (DDS) Framework Design Research DDS requirements, architect the framework and provide high level design. Lead implementation effort to support real-time multithreaded client-server data synchronization system. Design for redundancy and high availability using co-located systems (used C++, SQL, SCTP, Linux).
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Migration Research - Lead research effort to migrate IMS form a custom platform into a COTS platform. Perform analysis of the HW and protocol layers to evaluate viability and to size porting effort (SAF, Linux, IPC).
System Health and Fault Management (FM) Design- Fault reporting system design and integration into ATCA/VSE FM framework. Propose and design system health check tool to check system components and their sanity, verify logs and alarms for critical errors, evaluate system health and generate pre-migration reports (C++, Linux, ATCA/VSE, SQL, Perl, Shell scripts).
05/2003 09/2007 Nortel Networks Richardson, TX
Senior Software Designer OAMP (CDMA RD)
Media Gateway Migration Lead integration design, implementation, testing, and end-to-end integration of product OAMP.
Operational Measurement (OM) feature Lead Architect responsible for high level design, documentation of feature functionality, coordinating design timelines, and serving as a subject matter expert on OAMP issues.
Mobile paging enhancements Researched functionality and developed software solutions to extend OAMP design and associated tools. Performed traffic analysis and established capacity measurement formulas.
08/2001 - 04/2003 Nortel Networks Richardson, TX
Software Designer (SONET OAM software development)
Optical product design research Researched DWDM and SONET/SDH specifications. Prepared interface requirements for design and implementation.
Optical Gateway team lead Team lead implementing Java/C++ GUI based client (front-end) interface components to an optical connection management server. Performed alarm, fault, OM reporting analysis and designed event reporting system components (using CORBA, RMI, EJB, and XDR messaging).
Samuel Tewolde
09/1995 09/2001 Nortel Networks Richardson, TX
Telecom protocols Software Design (DMS-GSP software development)
SS7 produced research and development Designed features for several telecom protocols. Lead requirements analysis, sizing, prototyping, and programming SS7 features.
Product merger - Expat team lead managing the merger of large complex legacy system software. Managed assignments as a technical adviser for a real-time call and feature processing environment. Developed training materials and facilitated training sessions. Provided expert advice on resolving software merge issues, planned testing and infrastructure setup for complex feature and scenario testing.
08/1993 08/1995 Telos Federal Systems Lawton, OK
Software Engineer (Communications software development)
Army tactical system software design Lead team members in the design of Army tactical communication software. Implemented requirements following DOD-STD-2167 using Ada and Assembly languages. Designed prototypes and configured communication platforms to test hand held Army communication systems.
08/1991 07/1993 Telos Federal Systems Lawton, OK
Software Test Specialist
Army tactical system software testing - Designed test plans, test cases and modified test simulation programs to revised requirements and analyzed requirements for testability. Designed test scenarios for MLRS and other Army tactical systems.
EDUCATION:
2006 Collin County Community College
Project Management Certification classes
1989 University of Texas at Arlington, TX
B.S Electrical Engineering
1992-1995 Midwestern State University Wichita Falls, TX
Computer Science (All Masters/Graduate level courses completed)
Security Clearance Inactive
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