Sherry Free

adxfoq@r.postjobfree.com

Manassas, VA 20112-3443

703-***-****

Clearance

Secret clearance

Education

Master’s Degree in Software Engineer - George Mason University - 04

Bachelor’s Degree in Electric Engineering - George Mason University - 97

Experience

Project Engineer - QinetiQ – Lorton, VA 2023-present

Manage a team of software engineers to meet customer needs for software payloads for the unmanned VTOL aircraft. Create project plans with current milestone for the HEx and P-RHEx projects. Attend meetings with the custom and subcontractors.

Chef System Engineer - QinetiQ – Lorton, VA 2021-present

Design phase of the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle OMFV system. Created logical block diagrams of the system that showed how the system will interface to sensors and other parts of the systems. Created activity diagrams to show the flow of control and data through the system. The design of the OMFV system was created in MagicDraw. Wrote several trade studies on real-time operating systems, hypervisors and publish/subscribe services.

Lead Software Engineer IV – QinetiQ – Lorton, VA 2017-2021

Full cycle development of the Integrated Ground Security and Surveillance Response Capability IGSSR-C system. The IGSSR-C system is a security system that contains multiple systems that need to interact. The different systems and sensors that are connected to the system communicate using the Integrated Sensor Architecture, ISA interface. The systems are installed on virtual machines, VM using VMware vCenter Server to manage the vSphere infrastructure.

Designed and implemented code to send messages to different systems. Implementation language: Java

Designed and implemented code to show the status of the system. Used Salt stack to get the status of the systems. Implementation language: JavaScript, and Python

Designed and implemented code on the Ageon system to use ISA. Implementation language: C#

Teacher – Middlesex High School - Saluda, VA 2016 -2017

Created lesson plans for Algebra I, Trigonometry and Statistics classes. Created tests, quizzes and presented material to teach the concepts to the students.

Senior Software Engineer (Remote) – QuadraMed - Reston, VA 2014 -2016

Designed and implemented client and server side software written in JavaScript in the node environment. Used chrome and Mozilla to run the client and debug the software.

We used Test Track to enter tickets for what we were currently working on. We would meet on bi-weekly basis to show our progress and close the tickets that were completed.

Created an installation procedure for installing our client and server on a new development pc. Created a package.json and gruntfile to help with the installation.

Wrote test cases in chai, mocha and ran them using karma. Used knockout to fill in the values displayed on the User Interface, UI. Implementation language: JavaScript, html, css.

Stay at Home Mother - Charlottesville, VA & Nashua, NH 2010-2014

Senior Software Engineer – ITT Nexgen - Dulles, VA 2007 – 2010

Designed and implemented software to run on smart phones. The application was a graphical user interface, GUI for the end user to send pre-canned messages. Implementation language: C#

Designed and implemented GUI configuration tools to change and review settings for serial or blue tooth devices. Implementation language: C#

Modified existing code for an android. The application used the GPS location to show the end users current location on a Google map. Implementation language: Java

Senior Software Engineer – Rockwell Collins – Sterling, VA 2001 – 2006

Designed and coded software for the B52 Defense Trainer and the B1 Defense Trainer; this software ran with a VxWorks operating system on a single board. Implementation language: C

The B1 Defense Trainer used Linux and B52 Defense Trainer used Windows on the development system.

Implemented a routine that would handle interrupts from a serial card. Implementation language: C

Designed and implemented an IOS page that would allow instructors to record or play wave files. DirectX had to be used in order to allow the instructor to select the left or right speaker to play back the messages. Implementation language: Visual C++, .NET, and DirectX plug-ins

Software Engineer – ITT – Reston, VA 2000 – 2001

Designed and coded software for the NASA Demand Access System (DAS); which calculates projected satellite state vectors in relation to customer location. Implementation language: C.

Implemented and designed procedures that read and write information to an Oracle database. Implementation language: C, SQL and ANSI embedded SQL.

Software Engineer – Orbcomm - Dulles, VA 1998 - 2000

Implemented additional functionality for the Network Test Set (NTS) software which simulates the Orbcomm space and ground base segments. The NTS is a web based front end which allows the end user to remotely change the configuration files and provision subscriber communicators. Implementation languages: C, SQL and JavaScript.

Maintained and redesigned software components that are part of the Gateway Earth Station (GES) software. The GES software commands the antenna system, tracks low earth orbit satellites (LEO) and passes data packets between Orbcomm satellites and the ground network. This software was written in C and Geode, a 4th generation language designed for rapid development for real-time message passing systems.

In charge of managing software releases which entailed writing test procedures, unit testing software, scheduling GES releases, participating in design/code reviews and producing documentation for new software.

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