Ryan Fosnaugh
Saint Petersburg, FL 33710
727-***-**** (primary)
*********@*****.***
Security Clearance: Active TS / SCI
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Over 14 years experience in the software industry, directing and managing
teams in the architecture and development of complex parallel / distributed
systems, leveraging a broad array of technologies with varying team sizes
and project management approaches.
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Novetta Inc. (White Oak Technologies), St Petersburg, FL
Engineering Site Manager (6/2010-Current)
- Managed remote customer located software engineering site, supporting a
DoD RDT&E think tank, exploring new approaches to data exploitation.
- Rebuilt strained customer relationships upon arrival, shifting team focus
towards technical strengths leading to renewal of at risk contract and
replacement of other on site contractors as the exclusive provider of
engineering services doubling team size to ten employees
- Planned and established research and development lab leveraging KVM /
ESXi virtualization and cloud computing technologies across Linux
(CentOS) platforms
- Directed the development of multiple Java / Python based "big data"
processing solutions for both structured and unstructured data, utilizing
various parallel / distribution technologies across multiple large
compute clusters
- Designed, procured and oversaw the implementation of multiple petabyte
data warehouse and web application catalog services for storage,
processing and quick retrieval of critical data assets in a cloud
architecture, accessible across various customer sites
Raytheon Corp
Battle Command Technical Director - Aberdeen, MD (3/2009-6/2010)
- Relocated to establish new Raytheon Army Battle Command Integration and
Development center designing and managing the creation of development lab
and demonstration facility.
- Owned and built consensus for technical strategy on capture efforts for
$777.4 million Battle Command Development IDIQ vehicle, aligning 30
business partners (large and small) to shape new opportunities
- Managed funding and directed development of division IR&D efforts
creating next generation Command and Control architecture based in Java
with multiple projects ranging from $400k - $1.8M, creating cost
schedules, development plans, while leading requirements analysis and
providing architecture leadership to geographically dispersed team of 28
engineers working across the nation
- Led technical writing of numerous capture efforts and successfully
engaged with Battle Command and subordinate Program Directors winning
support for integration of initial next generation architecture
components with existing systems of record providing strategic technical
advantage to international sales
Group Technical Director - St Petersburg, FL (3/2007-3/2009)
- Provided strategic guidance and business development support for all
technical related aspects across the Joint Warfighting Solutions Group
comprised of multiple Command and Control (C2) product applications
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
redefining the Net-Centric migration strategy for the JADOCS global
command and control system to be a provider and consumer of services
within the Global Information Grid (GIG) on a JEE distributed platform
- Led the definition of a corporate reference C2 architecture, leveraging
open source components to include service orchestration / composition,
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Information Assurance (IA) and service
registration within a distributed JEE platform deployments
- Managed remote team of 11 engineers for the development of key DoD urgent
needs capabilities while providing presentations and demonstrations
directly to senior military leadership serving as liaison to US Central
Command.
Skyway Software, Tampa, FL
Customer Enablement Manager (5/2006-3/2007)
- Served as technical advisor to clients, analyzing IT problems and mapping
value of Skyway based solutions leading to four customer proof of concept
projects
- Project manager for customer proof of concept projects educating and
training customer staff on Skyway products, then developing
implementation plan and monitoring through completion
- Strongly influenced customer sales strategy, having direct input on
product pricing and placement along with driving need for company mission
and values statement
Virtual Technology Corp., Alexandria, VA
Program Manager / Lead Engineer (10/2004-5/2006)
- Program Manager for a Phase 1 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
project connecting legacy DoD applications to NCES SOA standards.
Primary tasks included development of project plan, budgeting and
managing personnel tasking
- Manager and Lead Engineer for the modernization of a globally deployed C2
application (JADOCS) recruiting and managing a team of eight employees
- Created technical strategy for migration of legacy Visual C++ client and
server architecture to a JEE based infrastructure aligning with the DoD
movement towards Net-Centricity through the use of SOA
Northrop Grumman, Baltimore, MD
Senior Software Engineer (5/2003-10/2004)
- Lead Engineer on the development of initial architecture for an
enterprise SOA grid-processing infrastructure.
- Led the development of a Struts like MVC application framework for
standardizing web applications within the manufacturing IT support group
Smartpipes Inc., Columbus, OH
Software Engineer (8/2000 - 8/2002)
- Valuable start-up experience observing growth from 21st employee to over
200 through three rounds of financing, quickly bringing a product to
market before major reductions in force due to market conditions
- Lead developer for the tools support group building networking
applications for the configuration and reset of Cisco router test
equipment used for provisioning firewalls, IPSec GRE Tunnels (ACL,
Transforms) and DHCP settings through automated socket based terminal
sessions
- Sole engineer for the design and development of a three-tier customer
support web application written in Visual C++ utilizing ASP technology to
manage customer issues and resolution
Sterling Commerce, Columbus, OH
Software Developer (6/1999 - 5/2000)
- Assisted in the development of Visual C++ business level COM components
for a multi-tiered e-commerce engine and web application
- Designed POP/SMTP utilities for reliability testing of e-commerce servers
and databases
Education
University Of Maryland, College Park, MD
Masters Business Administration (MBA)
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering,
- Founder / President of OSU GPC (Game Programmers Club)
Technical Experience
Architecture Cloud / SOA, Client / Server, n-tier Web Server, Desktop
s Applications
Languages Java, C/C++, Python, Flash/Flex, JSP, XML, HTML, SQL, VB,
ASP, CSS
Technologies Hadoop, Django, JEE, Hibernate, Struts, SOAP, COM/DCOM, MFC
Software Vsphere / ESXi, MS Project, MS Office, Eclipse, Netbeans,
BEA WebLogic 8.1, Sun Studio Creator, Oracle JDeveloper, MS
Visual Studio 6.0 & .Net, Subversion, Source Safe,
Clearcase, Starteam, MS IIS, Oracle, PostGRE, MS SQL,
Sybase SQL, Visual Paradigm, Visio, Adobe Creative Suite 2,
FrontPage, 3D-Studio Max, MilkShape 3D
Systems Windows, Linux