Engineer Software

Thomas Heath

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City: Syracuse

State: NY

Zip: 13206

Country: USA

Phone: 315-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $100,000

Willing to Relocate

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Thomas S. Heath

Hegelstr 48

Stuttgart, Germany 70174

German Cell: 017*-***-****

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WORK SUMMARY: Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience in formal software development R&D environment and Computer Network Operations (CNO). Additional experience in development and management of Business Continuity plans to include Disaster Recovery (DR) field interfacing with immediate customers and DR site personnel with a variety of commercial vendors. Areas of expertise include Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), Continuity Of Operations (COOP) and DR in support of DoD initiatives and, Business Resilience and Business Continuity for commercial vendors.

EDUCATION: B.S Computer Science, State University of New York at Oswego

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Top Secret, SCI, Nov-2008, CI Poly Aug-2012

QUALIFYING EXPERIENCE:

Northrop Grumman Corporation 10/10 - date

Computer Network Defense Analyst

On-site support for United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM) Intelligence Knowledge Development-Operations and Intelligence (IKD-OPI). Responsibilities include, gathering and mining of computer network data from a variety of network sensors to include Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Community Data Center (CDC) and local sensors and using intelligence community (NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center (NTOC), Regional Computer Emergency Response Team - Europe (RCERT-E), DoD M3 messaging, and technical products) resources to analyze, identify, and report cyber activities. Events of concern include type of attack, source, and potential attribution. Conduct retrospective and pattern analysis of activity for the purpose of Indications and Warning (I&W) support for USAFRICOM Operations (J3) and C4S (J6) Directorates. Products developed include daily Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) reports, twice weekly Cyber Threat Analysis Developed (CTAD) products, various cyber threat reports and other reports as necessary. Extensive experience using a wide assortment of analysis tools to include the DISA CDC/CENTAUR tool suite, FORTINET, ARCSIGHT Logger, and a myriad of other network defense tools. Additional experience includes strong knowledge in PERL development.

Northrop Grumman Corporation 04/10 - 09/10

Individual Contributor: AFC2ISRC

On-site support for the enhanced Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) designed to integrate previously stove-piped ISR and C2 system providing a single Tactical view of the battlefield. Responsibilities included coordination with various contractor agencies to ensure timely delivery of compatible products in preparation for Joint Expeditionary Forces - Experimental (JEFX) 11.

Northrop Grumman Corporation 01/10 - 03/10

Computer Network Defense Analyst

On-site support for USAFRICOM IKD/OPI with responsibilities of gathering of data from a variety of sources (NTOC, RCERT, M3 message) to be used in identifying, analysis and reporting potentially hostile cyber events. Events of concern include type of attack, physical/virtual origin of attack, actors perpetrating the attack and the intended victims of these attacks. Current cyber activity is compared with retrospective analysis in the identification of patterns in the attacks, actors and victims. Reporting includes Daily OSINT, twice weekly Cyber Threat Analysis, Tippers, Extensive use of FORTINET, ARCSIGHT, and CDC/CENTAUR Data Flow.

Northrop Grumman Corporation 04/08 - 12/09

Business Development

Responsible for identifying and enhancing existing business opportunities and creating new business opportunities. Potential customer base includes AFRL, other Northrop Grumman entities, and other related businesses. Efforts included customer negotiations, securing internal capture funds, and proposal management/writing.

Northrop Grumman Corporation 04/03 - 12/09

Principal Engineer/Project Lead

Team Lead on the Disaster Recovery Program (DRP), responsible for designing and implementing disaster recovery services to US Air Force hosted Combatant Commands. These efforts included significant interfacing with Site personnel, Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) customers, and several data storage vendors. More recently I assumed Project Management responsibilities and provides schedules, direction for the program staff`s day to day activities. In addition, I was responsible for working closely with the AFRL customer to assist in requirements definition, ensuring schedules are met, and to identify future work.

Northrop Grumman Corporation 01/02 - 04/03

Principal Engineer

Efforts involved software updates to the Joint Mapping Tool Kit (JMTK) program with responsibility of developing code to add National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF-2) images decoding and display capabilities to the JMTK utility. During this time I also developed expertise of other still image formats including JPEG, GIF, and TIFF.

Northrop Grumman Corporation 05/97 - 12/02

Principal Engineer

During this time my tasks included research, design, development and test of aerial surveillance video exploitation applications, including still/motion image processing, geo-spatial applications, database interface and limited display (GUI) applications. Also, tasks include significant interfacing with customer/government personnel for the purpose of designing new applications intended for use by military image analyst and exploiters. Other motion imagery applications include automatic MPEG stream segmentation, stereoscopic image generation, Moving Target Identification and Tracking, and super-resolution image generation. Additional activities consisted of proof-of-concept studies pertaining to Law Enforcement video exploitation to include automatic scene change detection, motion detection, and motion tracking.

General Electric/Lockheed Martin 01/81 - 05/97

Senior Software Engineer

My duties included advanced research and development of real-time sonar applications for U.S. Navy and formal S/W development of sonar applications. Emphasis was on digital signal processing design, development and test of applications for use on USN standard signal processing hardware.

PATENTS: 7019773, Video Mosaic, Issued: 28-Mar-2006

6982764, Image Enhancement, Issued 3-Jan-2006

5481503, Apparatus for and method of adaptively processing sonar data,

Issued 2-Jan-1996

AWARD: Lockheed Martin, Inventor of the Year, Jan 1997

COURSES: Joint Information Operations Planning Course

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