About Me

Principal Solutions Architect

October 2024 - Present · Current

• ▹Works directly with customer leadership to steer technical direction
• ▹Operates as the Lead Architect of an Air Force mission system
• ▹Makes team leadership decisions including team structure, staffing, and tasking
• ▹Develops patterns and architectural components leveraged by apps and services within the mission system suite
• ▹Derived mission system architectural patterns using Domain Driven Design

Staff Engineer II (Director Equivalent)

April 2021 - October 2024 · 3 years 6 months

• ▹Led organizations through complicated consulting relationships
• ▹Architect of complex mission software systems including Air Force mission system and Army Software Factory applications
• ▹Supported Army as Engineering Practice Lead for 60+ soldier engineers
• ▹Developed evaluation rubrics and criteria to drive consistent evaluation of skills across numerous cohorts
• ▹Supported numerous DoD agencies in production and modernization of software solutions
• ▹Taught service members of various skill levels software engineering techniques and practices
• ▹Instituted best engineering practices across large organizations including lean and extreme programming
• ▹Achieved Staff 2 level promotion in extremely competitive, volatile corporate environment

Chief Engineer

January 2019 - April 2021 · 2 years 4 months

📍 Rockwall, Texas

• ▹Lead engineer over complex Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) system of record
• ▹Managed a team of 40+ software, systems, and test engineers
• ▹Grew and trained a leadership team to effectively lead the large team
• ▹Successfully transitioned the large program to agile software methodologies
• ▹Developed an architecture enabling deployment of complex mission system to the cloud
• ▹Changed engineering tracking and task management to better inform future bids
• ▹Actively involved in all phases of proposal and bidding lifecycle for multi-million dollar contracts
• ▹Primary Engineering point of contact for customer, fostering healthy relationship that lasted years after leaving
• ▹Engineered complex testing and software solutions around airborne Radar Warning Receivers (RWRs)
• ▹Developed curriculum and taught highly technical course to multiple DoD services and countries

Tech Lead

March 2017 - January 2019 · 1 year 10 months

📍 Greenville, Texas

• ▹Led an R&D project team from idea to successful demonstration in 1 year
• ▹Worked with distributed systems, reactive architectures, microservices, containerization, and asynchronous programming
• ▹Designed a scalable, resilient software architecture from the ground up
• ▹Applications included mission systems, ground systems, big-data analytics, and more
• ▹Successfully advocated for newer technologies resulting in more capable products with less time and money spent
• ▹Developed and delivered briefs to multiple potential customers and collaborators

Software Team Lead

January 2013 - March 2017 · 4 years 3 months

📍 Point Mugu, CA

• ▹Defined, documented, designed, and developed software applications for engineers and analysts to aggregate, analyze and visualize flight and lab test data
• ▹Managed up to seven simultaneous engineers and interns, including tasking, training, teaching, and technical guidance
• ▹Interviewed and hired eight interns
• ▹Designed and implemented a plug-in architecture for quick addition of new features
• ▹Created custom Java Swing elements for enhanced user experience
• ▹Increased user base from one customer to four through technical meetings and demonstrations
• ▹Project funding increased to nearly $400,000
• ▹Set-up and managed closed development network including enterprise tools

Mission Data Generator Software Engineer

August 2012 - March 2013 · 8 months

📍 Point Mugu, CA

• ▹Participated in entire life-cycle of software tool-set for Naval Air Radar Warning Receiver (RWR)
• ▹Gathered requirements and wrote software requirement documentation
• ▹Worked with government contractors on implementation of new features
• ▹Tested software and documented anomalies with suggested solutions
• ▹Implemented features using C#
• ▹Created and utilized training curriculum for foreign and domestic customers
• ▹Designed database schema upgrades

Engineering Aid/Mission Data Engineer/System Engineer

March 2008 - August 2012 · 4 years 6 months

📍 Point Mugu, CA

• ▹Developed mission data libraries for Naval Air RWR to protect aircrew
• ▹Tested hardware and software, documented and analyzed issues
• ▹Trained mission data and system engineers on RWR and intelligence analysis
• ▹Started and maintained closed network wiki for technical knowledge
• ▹Assisted in teaching technical courses overseas
• ▹Chaired technical reviews