Moved to Colorado Springs for work but because of COVID, I never started my first day. Currently seeking an opportunity where I can bring my breadth of experience and languages as a software developer. I may be interested in a position in software/hardware or system test engineer.

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Les McKee

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Summary:

About 9 years USAF avionics communication and navigation technician.

2 years Emerson Electric avionic systems integration, multi-mode radar.

16 years at Hewlett Packard disk mechanism testing software, disk array controller manufacturing firmware development, config to order software solutions, storage area network management software development, and storage life cycle management testing.

8 years at Northrop Grumman, test development, systems integration, and software development. Experience

Radiant Solutions

Software Engineer IV

May 2019 - Nov 2019, Melbourne Florida.

Develop Command software for satellite ground stations.

L3 Harris Technologies

Software Engineer Contractor

Nov 2017 - Apr 2019, Melbourne, Florida Area

Develop server side Java EE using agile methodologies for classified systems in the space industry. Use of Jira for defect tracking and project management.

Lockheed Martin Contractor TAD PGS, Inc.

Software Engineer

2016 – 2017, Colorado Springs

UI development for GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) ground station software in MOTIF on Solaris environment.

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Software Engineer IV

Jul 2012 - Nov 2016, Sacramento, California Area

Design and develop software using agile methodologies and Rally tool for SCRUM management.

Develop client-side user interfaces that integrate with REST web services running on JBoss server.

Dashboard visualizations that visually represent complex scoring results published from server side Complex Event Processor (CEP) in JavaScript, JQuery, and D3.js.

Develop user interfaces using SmartGWT framework to manage server side PostgreSQL database integrated with CEP.

Develop networked embedded solutions in C language using MicroBlaze soft core processor and Xilinx FPGAs platform.

Asset Management Team Lead - Develop Missile Defense Agency (MDA) asset scheduling tool (AST) in ASP.NET MVC and C#

Software Test Engineer 3

Jan 2009 - Jul 2012

Write acceptance test procedures for CCA, LRU, and system level airborne components.

Work with COTS vendors to solve hardware and software problems. Develop, update, and configure systems software for lab and pre-flight testing.

Support, configure, install UNIX and Windows based test systems. Integrate system components hardware and software before aircraft integration.

Hands on system level troubleshooting during aircraft integration. Update airborne systems software.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Software Engineer

Sep 2001 - Dec 2008, Roseville, CA

Responsible for system level testing of HP Open View Storage Area Manager and Reference Information Storage Solution.

Develop software tools in Java, Quick Test Professional, and Silk Test, solutions to support manual and automated testing. As member of test automation team work with India peers to define, develop, accept, deploy, regression and BAT tests for HP products.

Review and analyze test failures, submit bug reports, take ownership and work with development team to assure bugs are understood, bug fixes are completed, and verified.

Manufacturing Engineer

Aug 1997 - Aug 2001

Boise, ID

Develop manufacturing configure to order software for HP storage arrays using HP's CMSTAR manufacturing test platform.

Develop embedded diagnostic firmware in C and assembly for early hardware bring up and production manufacturing functional test. Support HP's proprietary manufacturing test systems used by our contract manufacturers.

Work with HP R&D lab to identify manufacturing needs for new products and develop solutions to meet those needs.

UNIX System Admin, Aug 1996 - Jul 1997, 1 year, Roseville, CA Responsible for all aspects of system administration for an external customer with 72 HPUX business critical servers.

Recommend patch updates to address instability and performance issues. Implement OS migrations, Oracle upgrades, and perform

Oracle database recoveries as needed. Monitor and recommend changes to file system structure, capacity adds, capacity and system load balancing.

Create and manage team website. Create online Knowledge Data Base submittal system.

Software Development Technician

Oct 1993 - Jul 1996, Boise, ID

Developed SCSI disk drive automated 12 slot test systems software for initial failure analysis of customer return units. Implemented auto-evaluation algorithms for failing disk drives that generated repair orders for failures in returns re-manufacturing line which reduced bench technician workload.

Primarily responsible for design and development of the test system user interfaces using curses and X-Motif and SCSI diagnostic plug-ins in C and C++.

Develop software algorithms to convert SCSI sense data into human readable reports. • Electronic Technician, Aug 1992 - Oct 1993, 1 year 3 months, Boise, Idaho Disk Mechanism division customer returns technician. Deep root cause analysis of drive failures.

Electronic Technician

Emerson Electric

Mar 1990 - Aug 1992, St. Louis, MO

Combat Talon Radar (terrain following, weather, ground mapping, and passive beacon) and Advanced Quick Look (AQL ELINT) Aircraft Systems Integration

Avionics Technician

United States Air Force

Sep 1980 - Mar 1990, 9 years 7 months

Component level repair of aircraft avionics equipment, HF, UHF, TACAN, IFF, ILS, Glide Slope, CADC, ACL, ECM, ECCM.

Education

UOP Bachelor of Science (BS)Computer Software Engineering

2009 - 2011Grade: 3.96

Sierra

College Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science

2001 - 2008

Boise State University Computer Science

1994 - 2001

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