Stephen Jernigan
Fairview Heights, IL 62208
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Interdisciplinary Engineer familiar with all aspects of engineering: computer, electrical, mechanical, etc. and am a results-driven Leader, Solution Architect, and Systems Engineer with proven success in: creating and working to accomplish the big picture and future state of complex systems or programs; working with Clients, Government, or Development contractors; technical innovation; research and development; technical project management; Business Development and proposal writing; and an all- around complex problem solver. Active DoD Top Secret Clearance. Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Chief Solution Architect
UNCOMN - Scott AFB, IL
November 2016 to April 2023
Chief Solution Architect
• Produce 10+ Business Development products per month, Proposals, Whitepapers, RFI responses through requirements analysis, decomposition, and providing unique technical solutions
• Selected which contracts were pursued, Tech Volume Lead, Writer of much of the Tech Volumes, determined LCATS and FTE counts
• Provided technical leadership, guidance, and solution at the corporate level Scrum Master and Solution Architect
• Scrum Master and Lead Engineer for the Enterprise Engineer group in charge of integrating Fortify into the Cloud based DevSecOps pipeline
• Scrum Master and Lead Engineer for the Enterprise Engineer group in charge of implement CrowdStrike Falcon on USTRANSCOM systems
EADE Enterprise Engineering
• Led the TCJ6-C Engineering Subgroup, Principle Action Officer
• Guided USTRANSCOM out of their Unlimited License Agreement with Oracle and the existing oracle licenses to the cloud, saving an estimated $40M
• Facilitated the USTRANSCOM Enterprise Licensing for Fortify so that it met Programs and Developers security needs
• Guided USTRANSCOM/AMC/SDDC from 29 on-premise hosting environments to 6 while simultaneously migrating programs to the cloud
• Created the complete RMF package through to ATO for the on-premise common development environment CDE 3.0
Lead Systems Engineer
Paragon Technologies - Scott AFB, IL
January 2014 to November 2016
Defense Personal Property System (DPS)
Systems Engineering
• Implemented Systems Engineering principles within the DPS program, which changed the Government and Developers processes and improved overall contract performance
• Rewrote the DPS Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) with new DPS architecture and approach for Developer to meet the desire end state
• Conducted Design Document reviews and provide counsel to Government
• Provided labor hour estimates on for all System Change Requires to DPS DPS Software/Database Engineering
• Worked with Government team to design DPS architecture end state
• Developed the plan and path to meet new DPS architecture end state
• Provided software and database design counsel to the Government
• Performed reviews of all software and database design documents
• Provided the PMO Engineering support for all Joint Application Design (JAD) meetings with the Developer
DPS Requirements Management
• Rewrote DPS Requirements Management Plan (RMP) with new requirements process based on Systems Engineering
• Change Manager for modifying requirements management processes, including Government roles and responsibilities
• Provided the PMO Engineering support for all requirements analysis Principal Systems Engineer
Raytheon - Garland, TX
November 2008 to April 2013
Responsibilities:
• Requirements analysis and allocation, system analysis, interfaces, and documentation
• Systems and software design, agile development, integration, test, training, and Six Sigma
• Evaluate Statements of Work (SOW), Request for Proposals (RFP), and Generate proposals
• Air Force and Army Distributed Common Ground Station (DCGS) SME
• SAR/EO/Hyper-spectral sensor, image and video data standards Technology:
• Microsoft Project, DOORS, networks, servers, Solaris, Linux, Oracle, J2EE, Java, and PERL Innovation/R&D:
• Word proximity and statistical co-occurrence algorithm for cross database knowledge discovery, taxonomy replacement
Leadership:
• Inspired commitment and enthusiasm in employees achieving goals and success
• Responsible for the technical aspects of work performed by software developers, system administrators’, testers, trainers, and security engineers Director of Engineering
PureDiscovery - Dallas, TX
December 2004 to November 2008
Responsibilities:
• Chief innovator, Research and Development of new algorithms, Project Management
• Software design, integration, test, systems and network management
• Manage outsourcing and off site software development Technology:
• Knowledge discovery and advanced search engine technologies
• Servers, networks, Linux, Windows, Tomcat, Lucene, MySQL, J2EE, Java, JSP, C++, PERL Innovation/R&D:
• Invented new technologies and algorithms similar to LSA semantic search, using knowledge discovery, phrase extraction, and new text analysis methods. Patents and Patents Pending Leadership:
• Technical leadership and inspired innovation that resulted in a successful start-up company Senior Systems Engineer
Raytheon - Garland, TX
January 2000 to December 2004
Responsibilities:
• Customer requirements, analysis, derivation, system interfaces, and documentation
• Systems and software design, development, integration, and test
• Research and Development of knowledge discovery algorithms,
• Manager and system administrator for multi-screen collaboration lab (KM, KD, audio, video) Technology:
• Intelligence analyst software and systems
• UNIX and Windows servers, NLP, Java, JDBC, RMI, IIS Innovation/R&D:
• Using NLP and LSA, created new knowledge discovery and entity analysis software Leadership:
• Mentored employees while also providing the technical leadership on R&D software
• Recognized customer need and obtain funding for R&D projects Senior Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman Corporation - NV, UT, and CO
March 1992 to January 2000
Responsibilities:
• Customer requirements, analysis, derivation, interfaces, traceability, and documentation
• Systems and software design, development, integration, and test
• Government, Military, and DOE Standards
Technology:
• Theater and National Missile Defense modeling and simulation
• ICBM Trainer systems and software
• High level nuclear waste disposal
• Optics and laser computer modeling and simulation
• UNIX, Windows, ASP, HTML, C, PERL, Photoshop & Premier, Access, Visual Basic Innovation/R&D:
• Created a fully integrated requirements document development and traceability
• Design and developed a customer task request and response tracking system
• Innovated the process for reusing physical optics computer models for high energy lasers Leadership:
• Organized and lead the team responsible for multimedia and conference demonstrations Technical Consultant
H & H Enterprises - Las Vegas, NV
1993 to 1995
• Design, development, and maintenance of electronic/pneumatic/mechanical manufacturing equipment.
• Installation and programming of PLC and sensor-based control systems for electronic automation of mechanical equipment.
Electrical Engineer
Southwestern Public Service Company - Muleshoe, TX 1991 to 1992
• Designed and supervised power plant modifications.
• Drawing changes, document and control.
• Control system software and review. (FORTRAN)
• Schedule maintenance and upgrade work during power plant overhaul. (Microsoft Project) Software Developer
Atmospheric Science Laboratory - White Sands Missile Range, NM 1990 to 1991
• Modeling, simulation, and analysis of high-energy laser weapon systems. (FORTRAN) Software Developer
Northrop Grumman Corporation - White Sands Missile Range, NM 1989 to 1990
• Developed and implemented the process for reusing physical optics computer models for high energy laser weapon system modeling. (FORTRAN)
Research Assistant
New Mexico State University - Las Cruces, NM
1987 to 1989
• Research Assistant with tasks including data acquisition, processing, and analysis.
• Modification and operation of agricultural models and simulations. (FORTRAN) Education
MS in Engineering
Texas Tech - Lubbock, TX
2000 to 2001
BS in Electrical Engineering
NMSU - Las Cruces, NM
1986 to 1991
Skills
• Agile