Quality Assurance Management

Bassam S. Abdul-Baki

**** ******** *** **********, ** 22192

H: 703-***-**** C: 703-***-**** **********@*******.***

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

Senior systems analyst, with over 12 years of experience with military, government, and civilian customers, seeking a similar position that will help me further develop strong leadership and IT management skills.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONSDiverse technical experience and worked in all phases of the software development lifecycle (quality assurance, analysis, programming, and database and configuration management).Logical and analytical; great at problem-solving and debugging large complex systems’ code.Demonstrate excellent initiative, creativity, and teamwork; have strong desire to excel.Extremely well organized and detail-oriented.

EDUCATION

M.S. in Technology Management with CIO certification, George Mason University, August 2008.

M.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, August 1995.

B.S. in Mathematics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, August 1993.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Systems Engineer January 2006 – Present

GENCO Systems, Inc. Fairfax, VAProviding IV&V programming and analytical support to the FAA for the En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system.Recording and analyzing requirements from various ERAM groups.Developing, managing, and maintaining the IV&V problem reports (PR) database.Designing scripts that parsed, converted, and analyzed ERAM output for use in other reports.Generating monthly PR reports; providing routine weekly and monthly program reports and analyses; conducting complex program metrics analysis (i.e., static analysis, trend analysis); and submitting results and proposals to technical managers.Researching, evaluating, and integrating third-party software to facilitate the operation by the FAA end-user.Assisting with development of cost proposals and other financial tracking reports.

Senior Programmer Analyst June 2000 – January 2006

American Systems Corporation Chantilly, VAManaged and maintained a number of web-based applications for the USDA’s FNS division. Upgraded and maintained their LAN website for online collaboration and the distribution of information throughout their network using RSS feeds and web services; evaluating, purchasing, installing, troubleshooting, and upgrading software for 1,500+ client and server machines.Designed and documented functional and requirement specifications; trained and managed junior programmers; interfaced with the customer to advise on new changes and modifications to the specifications; coordinated those changes with the rest of the team members.Developed, designed, and debugged a number of Windows applications, using Visual C++, for various government-related projects.

System Configuration Manager / Software Analyst November 1995 – June 2000

Rannoch Corporation Alexandria, VAEstablished policies and procedures, and defined and supervised the development and testing of tools necessary for automating the CM process. Established and chaired Configuration Change Boards, provided version control, established and released baselines, and established the CM presence in a formerly non-CM environment. Oversaw the company's logistics management, including sparing policies, inventory management, and life cycle management.Developed a set of ground collision avoidance algorithms for airport surface operations (independent of the Air Traffic Control system) for their implementation into aircraft. Developing computer model of conflict scenarios needed to test the Runway Incursion Advisory and Alerting System logic and a cockpit moving map display to show the information, the algorithms needed to determine the aircraft's phase of flight (i.e., arrival, departure, taxi or stopped), and the ability to predict which runway is the aircraft's active domain.Performed a reliability, maintainability, and availability analysis of the FAA ASR-11 radar system to determine if it passed the minimum operational requirements.Performed an analysis of the proposed taxi velocity and acceleration limits to improve and minimize the aircraft runway occupancy time and calculate the probability that a given aircraft type takes a given exit.Developed software to do data fusion between the primary and secondary radar. Conducted analysis of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast ground elements for the surface surveillance application. Developed software to test the communications protocol of the STDMA Capacity Simulation Model and assess the capability of STDMA capacity for surface operations.Supported, and eventually took charge of, the independent validation and verification of the new Collision Avoidance Subsystem logic for Version 7.0 of the CAS Requirements Specification (CRS) -based TCAS Simulation (TSIM), which served as an important part of verification in the airborne software certification process described in DO-178B. This task included a step-by-step comparison mapping with the MITRE-developed pseudocode for TCAS Airborne Equipment.Verifying the reverse-engineered CRS document that contains the formal requirements.Developing and managing the requirements-based tests, the test matrices, and the traceability matrices to verify and validate TSIM functionality.Designing logic-challenging encounter scenarios for the TSIM program, and analyzing the output generated from those encounters.Maintaining baseline change and configuration control of the CRS document by implementing all discrepancy changes, revisions, problem trouble reports, and change request forms into the baseline.Developed a real-time program to generate secondary surveillance interrogation and replies for a Naval Research Laboratory project that was used to test drive simulators and communication systems and automate some of the testing on a series of Rannoch-built radar decoder equipment. Developed several software programs to evaluate the efficiency and capacity of communication protocols for aviation air-air and air-ground data links.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C/C++, Visual C++/C#/Basic (.NET), VBA, SQL, ASP, HTML, XML/XSL.

Software: Visual Studio, Visual Studio .NET, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), SQL Server, Sybase, Bugzilla, PC-Lint, Adobe Acrobat, MathCAD, SmartDraw, TeamTrack, UltraEdit.

PUBLICATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AFFILIATIONSIndependent Validation and Verification of the TCAS II Collision Avoidance Subsystem, October 28, 1999.NASA Low Visibility Landing and Surface Operations (LVLASO) Runway Occupancy Time (ROT) Analysis, NASA Langley Research Center, November 12, 1998, Best Paper of Session presented at the 18th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC).Configuration Management Plan for CAS Requirements Specification (CRS) – Addendum A, TIM-9212-5, August 31, 1998.

Member of the SC-147 TCAS group that completed the DO-185A document entitled Minimum Operational Performance Standards for Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System II (TCAS II) Airborne Equipment.

Member of Pi Mu Epsilon National Honorary Mathematics Society.

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