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Software Architect / Director

Location:
Saint Petersburg, FL, 33710
Posted:
March 03, 2015

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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



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