Engineer Electrical

David Brasher, Ph.D., P.E.

**** ********* *****, *******, ** 77094

281-***-**** (H) ● 205-***-**** (M) ● ********@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbrasher/en

Career Summary

• 33 years of experience in the Engineering and Construction industry.

• 28 years of experience leading teams through the design, development and deployment of technologies to solve

complex problems with high performance solutions.

• Possesses broad and deep technical knowledge across a wide variety of computer software, network and

hardware systems.

• Led all technology teams on a large-scale ERP, project spanning 3 years, over 400 total team members with a

total project budget over $300 million.

• Drove the enterprise architecture initiative, guiding application, information and infrastructure initiatives,

reporting to the CIO of a 40,000+ person global corporation.

• Effective communicator with many years of public speaking experience to general audiences, corporate

leadership, employees and students.

• Thrives in an environment driven by deadlines.

• A Professional Engineer driven by ethics and integrity.

IT Director KBR, Inc., Houston, TX December 2014 – February 2015

• Architected the future roadmap for digital signatures applicable to the corporation

• Researched competing companies to discover differences. Formulating data discovered into presentations for

internal strategy workshops.

IT Director, CoreERP Project KBR, Inc., Houston, TX May 2012 – December 2014

• Managed the hosting provider relationship, architecture, platform, performance testing, and change control and

release management in Phase 1 of system rollout.

• Managed all development activities, including reports, interfaces, conversions, extensions, workflows and all

boundary systems, in Phase 2 of system rollout.

IT Director, Architecture and Planning KBR, Inc., Houston, TX August 2008 – May 2012

• Led the Architecture and Planning for more than 45,000 employees worldwide.

• Led team responsible for business intelligence – including reporting, integration and data warehousing,

infrastructure architecture, information architecture, and security architecture.

• Championed the Oracle Identity Management implementation.

• Drove the archiving of the mainframe project saving the company $750K+ per year.

Chief Technologist BE&K, Inc., Birmingham, AL June 2000 - August 2008

• Managed as many as 22 software engineers and developers. Developed and integrated off-the-shelf and in-house

developed software products.

• Delivered products including electronic time sheets, Pocket PC applications, engineering 3D plant design, and

document management systems.

• Utilized CMM Level 2 practices managing projects.

• Utilized Microsoft Project and Primavera to manage projects, tracking actual costs to budgets, computing earned

values (EV) and forecasting on a weekly basis – including EV based on deliverables, hours and cost; estimates to

complete and at completion.

• Led the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) implementation and rollout to 2400 employees.

• Worked extensively to integrate Active Directory and other enterprise wide systems to allow better management

of employee network accounts, including ERP system and incident management systems.

• Taught courses at local University. Training majority of corporation on many software tools.

• Provided guidance for technology direction for corporation.

Engineering Automation Manager, BE&K Engineering Company, Birmingham, AL May 1988 - May 2000

• Led the development of a vertical suite of 12 applications (Windows) in Industrial Engineering Design, handheld

and pen computer development and hardware devices to interface with surveying instruments.

• Led the creation of the Close Range Terrestrial Photogrammetry system which was completed on time, in six

months on 1) Operating system (Silicon Graphics IRIX), 2) Windowing system (X-Windows), 3) Programming

Language (C 4) Database system (RAIMA db-Vista), and 5) Silicon Graphics hardware – none of which had

ever been used previously by any team member.

Electrical Engineer, Cater & Parks, Inc., Birmingham, AL June 1981 - May 1988

Simultaneous Contractor Positions

Contractor – Software Engineer, IEEE, Schenectady, NJ Sept 2006 – August 2007

• Worked with Ruby on Rails to create extension to IEEE website: Rails forms management along with RSS, XML

and HTML feeds and using REST paradigm for API development, search functionality, PDF creation

functionality and component development for screen components.

Contractor – Software & Hardware Engineer, TASC, Birmingham, AL Mar 1993 - June 1999

• Developed the Microsoft Windows application interface to process simulation code.

• Developed simulation driver, interfaces to hardware training devices and interfaces to graphics engines.

• Developed a PC compatible flat membrane keyboard with 240-keys and Windows software program to program

microcontroller (Intel 87C51) for key encoding - keyboard used to drive simulation software.

Contractor - Electrical Engineer, Alabama Power Company, Birmingham, AL Aug 1985 - May 1987

Affiliations

• IEEE Computer Society 1993-current

o Computer Society Chairman - Alabama Section 94-95

• Boy Scouts of America 2000- 2009

o Assistant Scout Master, Troop Webmaster, Troop 96, Greater Alabama Council

o Eagle Scout Board of Review Member, Vulcan District, Greater Alabama Council

Certifications

• Registered Professional Engineer State of Alabama 1990

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering - University of Alabama at Birmingham 2010

• Dissertation: Improving Dietary Assessments by the use of Photogrammetry

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering - University of Alabama at Birmingham 1995

• Inducted into Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society

• Master’s Research Project: Distributed application development using RPC

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering - University of Alabama at Birmingham

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1985

• Concentration in digital electronic systems

Selected Honors and Awards

• IEEE Computer Graphic Society Award – 1994

• Outstanding Graduate Student – UAB 1996 & 2006

• Construction Innovation Forum NOVA Award – 2003

• UAB "40 for 40" honoree - "40 Engineers that have made a Difference" – 2012

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