Chandra Y. Sekharudu, Ph.D., PMP
Springfield, OH, 45504
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SECURITY CLEARANCE
Top Secret/SCI
EXPERIENCE RELEVANT
Project Management
Highly dedicated versatile, results-oriented Project Management Professional (PMP), responsible in planning, and managing software development projects from initiation to closure; including schedules, budgets, deliverables, resources and project risks. Experienced in proposal responses and CDRL development.
Responsible for managing research and development projects, big data/cloud projects (private and public clouds), traditional enterprise projects and systems operations and sustainment projects
Technical expertise
Fifteen years of experience in enterprise architecture, software design and development using a vast array of technologies (database systems, programming languages, operating systems, scripting and industry standards); design and implementation cloud/big data systems, n-tier architectures for enterprise systems; distributed computing; web architectures and semantic web technologies
Domain Expertise
Intelligence Production: Experienced in applying clustering, topic modelling, graph, data mining and pattern recognition algorithms to intelligence production. Experienced in Machine learning technologies including deep learning and convolution networks for recognition and classification of target systems.
Content transformation and discovery: Utilization and orchestration of Information extraction methodologies, Machine Translation technologies, Automated Speech Recognition, Optical Character Recognition, Image/Video Feature extraction content transformation, soft-fusion and discovery.
OSINT and All Source CPED Systems: Manager and architect for processing exploitation and analysis system for WPAFB/NASIC’s OSINT mission utilizing audio, video, image and text content as sources. Responsible for developing IDEAS (Interoperable Discovery, Exploitation and Analysis Services) IC ITE compliant big data/cloud platform. He is also part of Northrop Grumman Corporation’s team in contributing to the modernization of AF-DCGS.
Digital Production and Dissemination; Development and customization of search engines and report writers/generators
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Northrop Grumman, August 2010 – Present
Manager, Software Engineering
Responsible for managing R&D projects as the principal investigator and technical manager for IC-ITE compliant Big Data/Cloud systems, Enterprise Systems and Operational and Maintenance projects. Began providing consulting on C2S big data and cloud technologies to NGC and partners on ATEP-II task orders.
Managed AFRL projects, e.g., Real Time Intelligence & Situational Awareness (RTISA), automated metadata extraction using various machine learning algorithms, Foreign Audio and Video Processing (FAVOR).
Managed NASIC/AFRL’s Interoperable Discovery, Exploitation and Analysis Services(IDEAS) project.
Managed major information extraction for the ITL component of Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE) project of Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
Provided research, technical as well as management leadership to the R&D efforts in addition to the end to end planning, executing, controlling and the closure of the projects.
Northrop Grumman, Jan 2007 – Aug 2010
Software Engineer 5
Responsible (Lead Engineer) for providing a roadmap for the Application of semantic web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SPARQL to NASIC’s IT space in building smart-web and integrating it into the DoD/IC community semantic-web infrastructure.
Responsible for building SOA infrastructure using BEA’s WebLogc and AcquaLogic servers and demonstrating service mediation, orchestration and governance within the trusted networks. Developed the foundation and initial set of web-services services for NASIC’s SAVANT program.
Northrop Grumman, Nov 2001 – Dec 2006
Software Engineer 4
Responsible (Lead Engineer) for the architectures of the Assessed Body of Knowledge (ABOK) Manager and the Virtual Intelligence Production Retrieval (VIPRE) systems. VIPRE utilizes SOA architecture and implements an MLS solution using TSOL, Oracle OLS and TNE technologies. Also responsible for the design and development of security, ICXML, and performance management infrastructure components for the Virtual Production System (VPS), which was deployed at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC).
Implemented the security, authentication and encryption components using JNDI, LDAP and Sun’s Java Cryptographic Environment. Also developed performance monitoring and enhancement components such as connection pools (using SQLJ and JDBC standards), thread pools, concurrent programming infrastructure for J2EE components that are used by all the VPS/Knowledge Prepositioning System (KPS) components. Integrated the ICXML standards into the J2EE components using the XML, DTD, SAX, DOM, JAXP, and JAXB technologies. Designed and built Oracle Internet File System (IFS) Agents for adding intelligence to the IFS and to enable a workflow for IFS managed documents that are made accessible to clients through a variety of protocol servers, e.g., WebDAV, SMB, NIS+, HTTP, and SMTP, running on an Oracle Application server.
LexisNexis, Oct 2000 – Nov 2001
Senior Software Engineer
Designed and successfully refactored a high traffic web application through the use of a persistent layer and object cache. Also demonstrated the use of the persistent layer as a web service using SOAP/XML standards. The optimization allowed ScienceDirect division of LexisNexis to double the client-subscriptions and associated revenue. Utilized C++ and Oracle Parallel Server (with failover) technologies for the effort.
PRC, Inc., Jan 1999 – Sep 2000
Senior Computer Analyst
Designed and developed a web-based workflow management system for the analysts and managers of Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) across the geographically distributed collection agencies and mission partners. This adaptive workflow used for managing the life cycle of an intelligence-collection-requirement and was developed using Oracle Designer and Developer and deployed on a J2EE compliant Oracle Application Server. The Oracle 8i RDBMS was used as a data-store for the workflow, as well as the MASINT requirements.
PRC, Inc., Aug 1996 – Dec 1998
Senior Computer Analyst
Solely responsible for the solution architecture and integration of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), machine translation and content tagging and content summarization technologies into a unified system called Digital Library Input Processing System (DLIPS) that produces Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) tagged English documents from foreign language hardcopy documents. The DLIPS system accepts Russian, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, and other foreign language documents, in either hardcopy or electronic input, and produces SGML tagged, electronic documents in English. These documents are bulk loaded into NASIC/DX Portal that are indexed and retrieved through the Web Interface on Intelink.
University of Wisconsin and The Ohio State University, Jan 1986 – Aug 1996
Research Scientist
As a researcher on National Institute of Health (NIH)/National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research projects focused on computer modeling and simulation of molecular structure and function, was responsible for the design, planning and execution of research projects related to computer modeling and simulation in conjunction with x-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance and other spectroscopic methodologies. Some of the research has been published in the most prestigious professional journal in USA, “Science”.
The results of this work were published in peer reviewed professional scientific journals as more than two dozen research articles.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Bio Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India,1985
M.S., Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA, 1997
M.Sc., Physics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India, 1980
B.Sc., Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics Sri Venkateswara University, 1978
RELEVANT TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS
Project Management Professional (PMP), 2011 #1444149 (Valid till 2020)
Pursuing Certified Scrum Master (CSM), 2016
Pursuing Amazon Web Services Solution Architect –Associate certification, 2016
Big Data Technologies by EMC/Pivotal Inc. Training, 2014
Cloud technologies and Cloud foundry training by EMC/Pivotal Inc. Training, 2014
MS Project 2010 Training 2013
Trained on Oracle Products (DB, App Servers) from 1998 to 2010 regularly.
TECHNOLOGIES USED
Cloud / Big Data
Hadoop, HBase, AVRO, GraphDB, Semantic RDFstore, SolrCloud,, Cloud Foundry, Mesos, Docker, AWS
Web Tools:
J2EE, JSP, Java, servlets, SAX, DOM, JAXP, JAXB, JAXR, WDSL, XMLSpy, Xerces; Javascript, familiarity with Angular and React, Node.js, D3
Markup Languages:
JSON, SGML, XML, XML Schema, DTD, XSLT
Document Generation Automation Tools:
Saxon, nsgmls, Adobe Acrobat (API), Word (VBA)
OOA/OOD/OOP:
UML, Rational Rose, Enterprise Java Beans, Sun C/C++, Visual C++, STL, RogueWave
Script Languages/Shells:
Bourne (sh), Csh, Tcl/Tk, Perl, DOS
Documentation Tools
Javadoc, Doc++
Compiler/Code Gen Tools
Bison, Flex, yacc, lex
Other Languages:
C, Common Lisp, Scheme, FORTRAN
Distribution Packages:
InstallShield
Configuration Management:
GitHub, CVS, RCS, Sublime (AT&T)
Operating Systems:
Solaris, SunOS, Linux/Unix, Windows, IRIX, SGI, HP-UX, AIX, Ultrix, VAX/VMS
Database Tools:
JDBC, SQLJ, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, Oracle Designer, Oracle Developer, Jdeveloper, DBTools.h++, PL/SQL, SQL Navigator, TOAD, MS InterDev, Oracle Portal, OCI, MS SQL SERVER
Internet File Systems
WebDAV, iFS
Networking:
Sockets (TCP/IP, UDP), RPC, DCE, JNDI (LDAP, RMI JINI, IIOP
Security/Encryption:
LDAP Namespace design, PKI, Java Cryptographic Env.
App Servers
9iAS, OC4J, Oracle Forms server, reports server, Netscape Enterprise server, IIS, Apache Open Source servers
Threading:
Java, Solaris, NT
Hardware:
Dell, Sun Ultra/Sparc, Silicon Graphics Indigo, HP, CRAY, DEC, EVANS&SUTHERLAND Graphics and INTEL
Best Practices
DoD Architecture Framework, CMMI Processes, Agile (Scrum) Methods, Coding Standards, Design Patterns