Shannon R. Yoder

*** ***** **., ****** *******, TX 76548

Cell: 254-***-****

adzsei@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-yoder-1a880232?trk=public_post_follow-view-profile

Objective: To secure a position in the Defense Electronics/Digitization Industry where my vast experience in Management and Electronics can benefit my Employer. To be a supportive team member on multiple programs in the field of Electronic Simulated Warfare and continually progress into positions of more responsibility as deemed appropriate based on my abilities, product knowledge, skills, continued education, and work ethic.

•HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

•ACTIVE TOP SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE (TS/SCI)

•Over 21 years as a Systems Test Analyst, develop, review, modify, and perform test threads, test cases and technical documentation during baseline testing, assessments, events and various other field unit exercises. Primary Simulator/Stimulator Analyst.

•Able to assess Problems; and then develop and execute a logical course of action.

•Proficient on Department of the Army’s - Network Centric Warfare Systems, commonly known as Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) and Command & Control (C2) Mission Command Information Systems (MCIS).

•PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

•Zapata Technology, Inc. – US Army Coalition Interoperability Assurance and Validation, Central Technical Support Facility – Technical Division (CTSF-TD), Ft. Cavazos, formerly Ft. Hood, TX, Jan. 2017 – Sept. 15, 2023

•FCI – US Army CIAV, CTSF-TD, Ft. Hood, TX, May 2015 – Jan 2017

•CSC – US Army CIAV, CTSF-TD, Ft. Hood, TX, April 2012 – May 2014

•CIAV System Analyst: System and Data Analyst for Assessments, Validation, Interoperability of the Army Battlefield Command Systems (ABCS) / Mission Command Information Systems (MCIS) to Coalition Partners War Fighting Systems.

•Principal Simulations Analyst & SME, develop and create all US Platforms / Units and Joint and Coalition Partners Platforms to be used in Coalition Events in the Low Overhead Training Simulator (LOTS) Stimulator/Simulator (Stim/Sim) and ensuring the Platforms meet all operational requirements before implementation. Evaluate and identify anomalies while conducting events to provide resolve. Create Platform / Unit Roles for Coalition Partners by adding specific roles for NATO Events within the US Army CIAV for Platform / Unit based Events which ensured the data was read and parsed to our Coalition Partners and ingested by Coalition Partners systems. Install software, patches, and hardware, configure C5ISR and provide detailed anomaly data to software developer.

•Provide detailed research, development, and writing of the CIAV portion of briefs, reports, system analysis, event data product analysis and collection, and event architecture planning and analysis in support of lab events and multinational exercises. Verified and validated software to either improve system interoperability within the CIAV environment or decreased interoperability. Ensured complete understanding and application of concepts, processes and procedures of various assessment supporting technical documentation to include but not limited to NATO STANAGs, Federated Mission Networking (FMN), Spiral Specification (Procedural & Technical Instructions), and MIL STDs.

•Ensure the systems meet proposed system interoperability according to DoD, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) standardization agreements (STANAGs); and American, British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Armies’ Program (ABCANZ) standards.

•Provide Technical expertise to high level leadership in recommending items for Army Staff Talks with Coalition Partners in planning future Events.

•Developing assessment plans designed to assess Army C2 systems amongst coalition partners. Displayed ability to identify issues and address technical gaps understand Doctrine, standards, operating concepts, and processes, as well as strategic planning documents affecting coalition and other Unified Action Partner (UAP) operations. Provided support to the overall CIAV mission through understanding and operating ABCS systems which directly supports the Army Unified Network Plan LOE 1.5.3 Assess Coalition Interoperability by identifying and mitigating data exchange capabilities and gaps allowing the U.S. Army to successfully disseminate and share critical information with Mission Partners.

•Maintain and update all CIAV Standard Operating Procedures, and ensure complete understanding and application of concepts, processes and procedures of assessment supporting documentation to include but not limited to 2525/APP6 Standards, Mission Profiles, and Mission Threads.

•Develop and maintain technical documentation.

•Integrate training environments, planning network lab connections and simulation architectures, and stimulation of Army MCIS in support of unit training events and distributed Joint and Coalition exercises. Provide technical support and training requirements at BDE or higher level.

•Manages the simulation training environment utilizing government provided hardware and software configured to fulfill the needs of a simulation control plan.

•Train team members in the installation, configuration, and operation of the operating system(s), security, and simulation software necessary to the training environment.

•Ability to analyze, research and write scripts as needed.

•Track and report of system/software anomalies that are reported to system developers for correction. (Operational requirements and Integration).

•Manage stimulation to C4I systems from a simulation training environment to fulfill the event / exercise requirements of the simulation control plan

•Ensure data is properly collected, labeled, and archived during all lab-based assessments. Create briefs and detailed reports that identify minimum operational requirements and capabilities and limitations of Army and coalition partner systems under assessment.

•Provide subject matter expertise (SME) and recommendations to solve complex coalition interoperability challenges. Interpret and fully understand interoperability schematics and diagrams of complex data flows and various compatibility formats.

•Ensure lab C5ISR systems and peripheral devices are properly configured, IAVA compliant and available for lab events.

•Ensure C5ISR user system knowledge and documentation (e.g. smart books, configuration sheets, etc.) is up to date and available in support of event execution.

•Provide system SME operation and data capture during lab-based assessment events.

•Research, collect, analyze and report quantitative and qualitative data, document information found.

•Provide CIAV leadership daily updates during execution of events and exercises.

•Perform all aspects of Configuration Management and conducted Audits; to include Physical Configuration Audits (PCA), Functional Configuration Audits (FCA), Transition Configuration Audits (TCA), and Information Assurance Compliancy Audits (ICA) on all Configuration Items (CI) to ensure compliance of the US Army CIAV labs, including but not limited to quality control of software baselines, identifying and documenting configuration baselines. Control modifications and releases of software.

•Maintain the Federated Mission Networking (FMN) baseline for US Army, conduct change management events to validate new software and update site test location in Configuration Management Tracking System III (CMTSIII). Conducted configuration management audits in labs. Edited Coalition Interoperability Assurance & Validation (CIAV) Architecture’s in CMTSIII to ensure the CIAV environments are up to date. To include all Software Version Documents and Version Description Documents. Designed and implemented material required to ensure efficiency and success for assessments.

•MANTECH – MTISC, EPG, CTSF, Ft. Hood, TX, Sept. 20, 2010 – April 2012

•Engineering Tech II: Provide Engineering & Support Services during C4ISR

Testing.

•Operated a variety of Testing Equipment by using established Test Threads

and methods specified by Test Officials.

• Research, Troubleshoot and Identify information necessary to document systemic anomalies to be translated into Test Incident Reports (TIR’s), which are largely employed as supporting Documents for reliability data.

•Draft TIR’s into a prescribed format/program to be submitted for review by

Test Officers.

•Operated Operation’s Cell at FOB West during the ANG-117G Test.

•LESCO-LOGISTICS, Ft. Wainwright, AK, June 30, 2005 – Feb. 1, 2008

•Help Desk/Action Officer: Provide support to the 1/25th Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT).

•Interface directly with customers to identify requirements for Digital Software, Hardware and Radio’s for troubleshooting.

•Responsible for taking calls for Trouble Tickets and dispersing them to the accurate Tech/Personnel to fix/maintain the equipment for not only the SBCT, but also all other Units Deployed to Iraq.

•Duties include and are not limited to Accurate Daily Personnel Reports to the 172nd Stryker Brigade S-1 Shop and to the AMC-FSB S-1 Headquarters’ in Balad Iraq.

•Prepared the 1-25 SBCT RESET Production Log on all Brigade Equipment shipped from Kuwait and received at the Anchorage Port to be sent Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

•TEK SYSTEMS, CTSF – TD, Fort Hood, TX, March 2004 – March 16, 2005

•Digital Systems Engineer (DSE): Provide support to the Central Technical Support Facility-Technical Division (CTSF-TD).

•Interface directly with customers to identify requirements.

•Develops customer specific, information system risk-management alternatives, and implementation plans.

•Evaluates government and commercial policies, manuals, regulations, and other documents for relevance to informational system management issues and ongoing efforts.

• Ensures proper installation of ABCS computer systems and Ethernet medium consistent with approved architecture configuration. Perform other duties as may be assigned.

•NEWTEC, INC, Fort Hood, TX, Oct 2002 – Mar 2004

•Systems Test Operator IV: Responsible for daily operations of test execution.

•Maintained and operated multiple Battlefield Functional Area Systems (BFA) simultaneously while coordinating digitization plans with other BFA Systems.

•Implemented test scenarios for role-play execution in a lab environment. Reviewed and modified test plans, test cases, test threads, and other test documentation used during baseline testing. Responsible for detecting discrepancies in the software and producing detailed Discrepancy Reports (DR’s).

•Trained on other ABCS Systems including AMDWS, FAAD, IMETS, TAIS, TIMS, ISYSCON, and DTSS.

•Telesis Corporation, Fort Hood, TX, May 2002- Oct 2002

•Maneuver Control Systems Operator: Responsible for daily operations on the Maneuver Control System (MCS) and MCS Light (MCS-L).

•Maintained and operated multiple Maneuver Control Systems simultaneously. Coordinated digitization plans with other Battlefield Functional Area (BFA) Systems.

•Implemented test scenarios for role-play execution in lab environment. Reviewed and modified test plans, test cases, and other test documentation used during baseline testing. Responsible for detecting discrepancies in the software and producing detailed Discrepancy Reports (DR’s), enabling the software developers to make corrections.

•Familiarized with ATCCS Systems such as FBCB2, ASAS, AFATDS, CSSCS and GCCS-A.

•Participated in the “FT5” at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona to Field the MCS-L for the US Army.

•EDUCATION / Certifications

Currently studying for the Scrum Master and SEC+ Certification

AMDWS / FAAD Operators Course 2021 CPCE v 6.1.1.0 – Command Post Computing Environment 2019

SITAWARE 2018

File Share Server 2012, Windows Server Update Services Server 2012 and the Data Dissemination Server 2012 Installations 2018

Domain Controller Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, Exchange Server 2013 2018

Exchange Server 2103 and working on the SharePoint Server 2013 Installations 2018

ACIS v2.1.6 – Army Coalition Interoperability Solution – Operators Course 2018

TAIS v12 – Tactical Airspace Integration System – Systems Operators Course 2018

CPOF v – Command Post of the Future – Systems Operators Course 2017

AFATDS and EMT v6.8.1.1 – Systems Operators Course 2017

JCR - Joint Capabilities Release v1.3.2.0 (80 Hours) 2017

Defense Acquisition University, Fundamentals of System Acquisition

Management Course - (ACQ-101). 2016

COMP TIA A PLUS Certified Training (80 Hours) 2016

CPOF - Command Post of the Future (40 Hours) 2016

FBCB2-JCR – v1.3.1.5 – Joint Capabilities Release 2015

FBCB2-JCR - v1.3/1.4 – Joint Capabilities Release 2014

FBCB2-JBC-P, Joint Battle Command-Platform, Handheld/Rifleman Radio, 2012

FBCB2-JCR- MTS-ES - v1.1/1.3 – Joint Capabilities Release –

Movement Tracking System 2010

FBCB2/BFT v6.4/v6.5 – Force Battle Command Brigade & Below /

Blue Force Tracker 2010

AIS Server – ABCS Information Server 6.4 (40 Hours) 2005

ATNT – Advanced Tactical Network Training (240 Hours) 2004

CPOF – Command Post of the Future 2004

BCS3 – Battle Command Sustainment Support System (40 Hours) 2004

MCS -Light Operator Course (40 Hours) 2004

ASAS-Light v6.3.2.4 – Operator Course (80 Hours) 2004

Introduction to UNIX – Teksystems Network 5 Courses (40 Hours) 2004

Cisco Certified Network Associate – Teksystems Network 5 Courses (40 Hours) 2004

MS SQL Server 2000 – Teksystems Network 5 Courses (40 Hours) 2004

MS Windows Server 2000 Admin – Teksystems Network 5 Courses (40 Hours) 2004

Network+ – Teksystems Network 5 Courses (40 Hours) 2004

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