Overview

●Hands on senior management professional capable of managing any software technology with the ability to learn new technologies quickly.

●Adept in Agile. Waterfall methodologies and Project Management. Earned PMP Certification in March 2016 (PMP #1912719).

●Over a decade of project management experience managing project risk, cost, schedule, quality, testing, and communications.

●Energetic, results and objectives oriented engineer with a great sense of humor and excellent oral and written skills.

●Presentations given to executive management on a monthly basis; to senior management on a weekly basis.

●Proficient with Tableau for data analytics.

●Accomplished at driving technical and business solutions for small scale and enterprise systems for multiple clients.

●Ability to think strategically and execute tactically.

●Over 15 years of experience in building successful and diverse teams locally as well as remote.

●Proven track record of delivering software projects within budget, scope and schedule using Microsoft Project.

●Proficient with all Microsoft Office suite of tools as well as Google docs, sheets for collaborations.

●Procurement of third party software when required for meeting software project objectives.

Management Summary

Functional Management and Organizational Development; Project Management; Agile Squad Lead, Subcontract Management; Budget Management; Management of Offshore and Geographically Diverse Development teams.

Professional Experience

CEO

Diversity Code, LLC – Durham, NC

Jan 2017 to present

My independent software consulting company leveraging my expertise in technical software project management.

Senior Project Manager Mar 2017 to present

NC Rate Bureau, Raleigh, NC

●Currently employed as a senior project management contractor at the NC Rate Bureau for web application which processes millions of transactions as one quarter of all automobiles policies in the state of NC are reinsured through this not for profit business.

●The application is a web-based ASP.net with C# as code behind and runs on .NET Framework 2 and IIS in a Windows environment (virtual machine).

●Quickly learned about this new technology and provided status to project sponsor on software enhancements and performance studies.

●Using Tableau to be able to provide visualizations to COO for insurance data.

●Using Microsoft project to track progress. Bi weekly meeting held with project sponsor to report status.

●Daily standups held including developer on the West Coast to discuss team issues and status.

●Overall duties include project management, business analysis, team formation and management, software evaluations, data conversions, test plans, training programs, documentation, schedule and budget management.

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Senior Technical Director/ April 2014 to December 2016

Senior Project Manager,

Software Engineering

Hughes Network Systems – Germantown, MD

Manufacturer of satellite-based IP communications systems, modems, hubs and satellite network management systems

●Successfully led team for the embedded real-time software development of the world's most advanced Jupiter VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) (modems) over both high-throughput and conventional satellites for the Eutelsat and Facebook Africa broadband initiative (July, 2016). This IP over Satellite product can be used both in stationary and mobile environments

●Actively participated in system requirements identification and review processes for various layer 3 networking applications.

●Contributed to system design including the terminal interface definition.

●Defined terminal development schedule and tracked progress of the development.

●Coordinated, inspected and managed the code and unit testing for the terminal.

●Coordinated and reviewed the corresponding integration test plans and ensure that the appropriate resources are in place for the test execution.

●Successfully managed teams for both the VSAT and gateway network subsystems for the HN/HX system, the most widely deployed Hughes system.

●Managed onshore and offshore (two from India) embedded software development teams in the feature development of the HN/HX family of satellite modems and gateways as well as test tools for performance testing. The modems include both satellite as well as terrestrial transport capabilities.

●Actively involved with requirements analysis, design and code reviews for feature development.

Technologies Managed: Embedded OS (Windows server, Linux (CENTOS, Ubuntu), vxWorks), C++, C, Git, Clearcase, Perl, Python.

Technical Director/Senior Project Manager,

Software Engineering

Hughes Network Systems - Germantown, MD

April 2008 to April 2014

●Managed feature development of Spaceway terminal to optimize its performance through re-architecture of tasks with a very eclectic team. Implemented several recovery strategies to maintain the schedule objectives.

●Led terminal design team to support IPv6 for all of the routing applications.

●Became the point of contact for Hughes for the government certification of both FIPS level1 and level2 for the HX280 satellite modem. Coordinated activities with a third party contractor to assist in getting the documents prepared for this NIST certification and worked closely with the certification laboratories to achieve the first level2 certification for a Hughes terminal.

●Worked with design team on the ActiveQoS technology for the terrestrial modem to be able to effectively prioritize voice traffic over this transport in the presence of other data traffic thereby reducing latency and jitter.

●Worked on design to replace the Hughes developed serial gateway with an COTS Cisco router for XoT.

●Responsible for the introduction of the G.723 VoIP protocol into the satellite modem.

●Continued to develop VoIP features for both the appliance as well as the satellite modem. Wrote several proposals for implementation of caller ID, voicemail, and payphone metering support for international customers.

Technologies Managed: VoIP protocols (SIP, H.323) Voice codecs (G,723), Textronix VoIP Quality Measurement Equipment, ActiveQoS, vxWorks (IPNET dual IPv4/IPv6 stack), XoT, Cisco ATA, Cisco Voice gateways, FIPS Level1 and Level2, C++, C, Clearcase.

Senior Technical Manager/Senior Project Manager,

Software Engineering

Hughes Network Systems - Germantown, MD

April 2006 to April 2008

●Responsible for the development of the VoIP satellite modem and appliance for Hughes. Led development teams both in the US and in India. Helped to set direction for the Hughes telephony business.

●Contributed to the requirements, design and implemented the software for the configuration management of the modem. This included the configuration of the telco hardware as well as the DSP firmware for the DTMF and codec support.

●Supported the largest VoIP over satellite system in the world for Telmex.

●Researched and procured test equipment which could be used to insure that we could achieve toll quality voice for G.729.

●Worked with many international telephony devices and managed firmware team when required to support DTMF detection requirements.

●Worked on design to support third party voice devices.

Technologies Managed: VoIP protocols (H.323) Voice codecs (G.729), Textronix VoIP Quality Measurement Equipment, vxWorks, Cisco Voice gateways, C++, C, Rational Rose, Clearcase,

Education

● Masters of Science Electrical Engineering

Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA (1988)

● Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering

Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1987)

Previous Work Experience

●Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA: Software developer responsible for development of Feedback Concatenated Decoder, a multi-threaded application C program using an advanced error-correction coding scheme on a multi-processor Sun UNIX workstation to support the Galileo S-Band mission to decode data from the Galileo spacecraft.

●IBM, East Fishkill NY: Wrote application programs for three video and laser based coordinate measurement machines used for dimensional characterization of products for IBM's electronic packages. Also responsible for writing data analysis programs in C and APL to determine such parameters as positional error, camber, and distortion of measurement features. Conducted numerous experiments to determine accuracy and repeatability of measurements by statistical methods. Results have been used to write specifications for state-of-the-art coordinate measurement machines.

References

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