Project Manager Software Engineer
Resume:
Name/Contact Info.
Michael Deal
Falls Church, VA 22043
Position Desired
IT Project Manager /Technical Project Manager/Business Analyst
Education and Certifications
B.S., Information Systems, University of Maryland, 1986
Formerly Certified PMP, PMI; PMI ID Number: 1168072
Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance
ITIL Foundation v3 Certification
Years of Experience
30+
Overview of Service
Holds Public Trust Clearance
Previously held Secret Clearance & DHS Suitability
Technical Project Management
IT Project Management
Software development
Requirements Analysis
Reverse Engineering legacy AIS’
Summary of Experience
Mr. Deal has extensive professional IT experience and comprehensive technical skills using state-of-the-art technologies and tools. He has over 14 years of experience with USPTO as an expert with the Pre-EXAM system of PALM. He has extensive positive client interaction and a track record of success for implementing complex business requirements and solutions within the USPTO environment. His expertise includes IT technical project management, systems analysis, data and process modeling, design, development, implementation, maintenance, database administration and management of software application systems in a variety of platforms including J2EE. He has a solid working knowledge of data modeling of business processes and functions using information engineering techniques. Extensive expertise in all aspects of the SDLC including Information Engineering Modeling, and agile methodologies.
Work History—Related Experience
November 2018-August 2021, SAIC
Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Principal Architect for the re-engineering of the USPTO’s PALM Pre-Exam AIS. PALM Pre-Exam is an application that provides many capabilities including decision support, Pre-Grant Publication, generation correspondence for communicating with applicant(s). The application also supports the maintenance of information about the application, the retrieval of foreign documents that relate to an application. The ultimate goal of the application is to ensure that the application is in a state that allows it to be examined by an examiner to determine patentability.
December 2011-May 2017, 2020 Company, LLC/Acentia/Maximus, Subject Matter Specialist/Technical Project Manager
Technical Project Manager for software development activities under Task Orders for Pre-EXAM system for USPTO’s PALM application. Task orders included Hague Enhancement, introducing the prosecution of international patent design applications both direct and indirect, interfacing with PALM Pre-EXAM, PALM EXPO and WIPO; the PLUC task order, where we successfully implemented the PLUC requirements for PALM on time and on budget.
Led the Technical Project Management, requirements analysis and design for the PALM America Invents Act (AIA) task orders. Changes/mew code included, Jave, SQL queries, Style sheets, software and interface design, Java. Met ambitious and aggressive federally mandated deadlines for implementation. All requirements were successfully implemented resulting in a final product exceeding customer expectations.
Worked with Stakeholders in determining the best resolution to production issues and implementing those recommendations. One issue was the Patent Scope process., This process involves the retrieval of documents for National Stage (371) applications from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The activities were to monitor the system and devise a method to improve/reengineer the process. A significant amount of effort was saved for the USPTO staff and their contractors by monitoring the process on a daily basis, creating white papers for enhancement of capabilities and implementing these enhancements.
Performed enhancements the Pre-EXAM weekly Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub) export process. Modified the export XML file to include new attributes that allowed for the implementation of new business rules from the AIA legislation.
Performed software enhancements for PCT-OPT’s CoolGen Server Modules when new receiving offices were added and new fee codes were introduced. Receiving Offices are countries who have joined the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)and are therefore able to process PCT applications
June 2010–November 2011, Production Data Solutions, Inc., Team Lead and Software Developer
Supported the USPTO PALM, Pre-EXAM and EXPO systems.
As the Team Lead was responsible for software enhancements, requirements gathering, planning, and tracking of software development activities.
July 2008–June 2010, ManTech International, IT Project Manager
Served as the IT Project Manager for the re-engineering of the SAFETY Act Management System, a $6-million time and materials contract for the DHS.
Had overall management responsibility for the development of the system. Specific duties include staffing, planning, subcontracts, scheduling, deliverables, client meetings, and procurement of the hardware and software utilized to develop the system, as well as the hardware and software that the production system ran on.
Served as Deputy Project Manager for the SAFETY Act system team and provided contract support to the Program Manager.
September 1998–May 2005, Various Subcontractors to Lockheed Martin, Software Engineer, IT team lead
Supported USPTO PALM Pre-Exam system including planning, scheduling, requirements gathering, design, assigning development/maintenance tasks, and troubleshooting of the system. As part of the original team for the design, development and implementation of PALM Pre-Exam worked with architects and stakeholders to develop and implement the initial requirements utilizing the CoolGen framework.
Maintenance activities as required utilizing the CoolGen case tool, Component Based Development, PL/SQL, and Unix scripts.
August 1994–May 1996, COMSYS, Software Engineer
June 1992-August 1994, PSI International, Software Engineer
September 1990-June 1992, National Computer Systems (NCS), Software Engineer/Team Lead
September 1987-September 1990, Viar and Company, Software Engineer/Database Administrator
May 1986-September 1987, Automation Management Consultants, Inc., Software Engineer
Specific Technologies
Operating Systems and Application Servers
Windows Server
HP-UX
Programming Technologies
J2EE Framework
JDK1.8, Open JDK8 or OpenJDK 11
Service Oriented Architecture principles, guidelines and technologies such as Simple Object
Access Protocol (SOAP)
XML
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Transformations (XSLT)
SQL
MySQL
Oracle 10g/11g/18c
Java
PL/SQL
XML
WSDL
Testing
Postman
Unit testing
Functional testing
Verification testing
Performance testing
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