System Engineer

Jonathan Carl Stowers

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Professional Summary

Managed projects from $250K to $9.6M with 2 to 26 full time employees,

Doubled the size and scope (9 – 18 FTEs and $3.2 to $6.3M) of a project by listening to my customers to identify their wants and needs. This resulted in the highest award fees for the program for 5 consecutive periods.

Established a risk mitigation program that was used on 78 TTOs.

Managed the downsizing of several projects due to sequestration. Worked with corporate

resources and business units to plan for the placement of all affected personnel. Obtained customer concurrence on the scope of work to be performed when sequestration affected their project.

Received the L-3 Corporation President’s Award for 7 consecutive 100% award

fee periods.

Earned the Meritorious Intelligence Service award from an IC Agency for four successful deployments under ambitious deployment deadlines.

Awarded a sole source contract to prepare and conduct training by authoring and presenting a white paper to a customer detailing how my project would perform a training task. This training task had been deemed a failure by the customer when performed by another company.

Reduced 24x7 operations Center costs by one-fourth with the use of innovative scheduling and part-time personnel.

Created a standard set of requirements for use across multiple IDIQs and project SOWs. This resulted in reduced questions from vendors and shortened the time to create an RFP.

EDUCATION

M.S. Cyber Security (2012), University of Maryland, University College

B.S., Computer Science (1997), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore

CERTIFICATION

CISSP, certificate number 464771 (expired)

CLEARANCE

Type: Top Secret, SCI with Full Scope polygraph

Granted: Feb 1989

Granting Organization: DoD

Last Update: Mar 2019

CI Poly: Feb 2016

Chronological details

Perspecta, Oct 2019 to Present, Senior System Engineer (Acquisition)

Work with Y321 to achieve Milestone-B for TMOD

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Worked with customer Mission and Engineering Triad members to elucidate system level requirements

Assisted with creating ESEP Addendum and the Analysis of Alternatives from BAA Initiatives

Work with Y153 and CSD organizations to come to a consensus of the way forward for CSSM tool consolidation and T&D

Assisted customer by analyzing applications for function/feature overlap

Draft presentations for Seniors based upon previous analysis

Northrup Grumman, April 2019 to Oct 2019, System Test Lead Manager

Managed Agile tasking for 24 member team

POC for managing workflow among 5 NG internal teams and numerous external customers

Supervisor for 12 matrixed NG personnel

Serco-NA, May 2016 to April 2019, Senior Principal System Engineer

Power, Space, Cooling and Facility team lead for multiple acquisitions

Created a standard set of requirements used in all subsequent SOW and RFPs saving time and effort

Created and maintained a master schedule of all activities for several globally dispersed high power computing data centers

Encouraged the use of systems engineering process to bring standardization and accountability to the HPC acquisition process

Created SOPs and templates for System Engineering reviews and processes

ManTech Intl, 2011 to May 2016, Technical Task Order Technical Lead

Increased contract size in 2013 by 42% ($3.1M)

Improved system efficiencies from 470% - 2000% by managing the replacement of licensed middleware with Java applications

Reduced weekly average number of trouble tickets from 350 to 250 by continuously improving metrics and monitoring across multiple networks and thousands of servers

Successfully changed the staffing model from “on-call” to “around the clock” to manage a 24x7 operations center providing Tier 1, 2, and 3 support

Obtained 95%+ award fees across all award fee periods

Successfully migrated a legacy system into an IaaS cloud architecture

Produced a Decommission Plan that has been used numerous times and cited by the Customer as an innovation across cost, schedule, and performance

Worked across the IT Security Team to manage SSP completion, Nessus scanning, McAfee installations, and security audits

Produced a security scanning SOP

L-3 Communications–East, 2009 – 2011 and 2000 - 2006, Senior Principal Systems Engineer

Improved Power, Space, Cooling (PSC) footprint by determining which applications could be virtualized; 4:1 reduction in space (physical servers to virtual servers), 3:1 reduction in power, and 2:1 reduction in cooling capacity

Decreased downtime with an aggressive schedule for applying patches and software upgrades

Awarded unsolicited sole source contract (value $250K) to prepare and conduct training

Decreased deployment timeline from 3+ months to 6 weeks

Increased network throughput several hundred percent by moving small files via socket connection vice file transfer protocols

Reduced risk by identifying all single points of failure and implementing a risk mitigation plan for each risk

SAIC, 2008 – 2009, Deployment Program Manager

Reduced deployment timeline from 9 months to 3 months by creating and enforcing a deployment workflow

Managed a white paper effort that showed how to reduce costs by $2.1M per rack by removing MicroSoft licensed products and replacing them with FOSS products

Pro-Sync, 2006 – 2008, Senior Principal System Engineer

CSC, 06/1996 – 04/2000, Lead System Engineer

TRW, 1994 – 1996, System Engineer

Ford Aerospace/Loral Corporation, 1983 – 1994, Test Engineer and Training Developer

U.S. Army, 1975 – 1983, MOS O5K30M1L2 Electronic Warfare Signals Analyst and Master Trainer

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