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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Full life cycle competence in object-oriented software engineering based on a unique combination of information technology, financial management, academic, and leadership experience. An experienced analyst, designer, and developer with a clear understanding of business process as well as software architecture. Experienced in CMMI compliant process definition and SCAMPI assessment. A capable instructor, mentor, and catalyst for innovative solutions in a variety of IT environments. Comfortable working in wide variety of CASE tools, programming languages, and modeling notations. Current emphasis on Business Process Reengineering and software requirements development using a scenario-driven model based approach that provides complete traceability from Subject Matter Expert defined requirements through code implementation in a well defined Service Oriented Architecture. Also interested in Java, XML Schema, and WSDL to provide OASIS standard interoperability interfaces usable by diverse service and client applications in the emergency management information domain.

CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY
July 2007 – Present, Independent IT Consultant

July 2007 – Present. On contract through ICONIX Software Engineeering to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles in support of a major cross-agency Business Process Reengineering effort. Helping a variety of different analysis teams put together coherent scenario driven requirements within a model that will drive a future-state SOA and will provide full life cycle traceability from initial requirements through code and test.

February 2001 – Sept 2007, Battelle Memorial Institute

January 2004 – 2007. External Systems Integration Coordinator, Disaster Management Interoperability Services (DMIS). DMIS offers a Government sponsored interoperability services backbone designed to facilitate the exchange of emergency information between emergency management organizations across a wide spectrum of government and private industry to include the automated input of Non-Weather Emergency messages (NWEM) for broadcast on National Weather Service Radio. Responsible for:

So far, more than 100 different organizations have signed up to use the interoperability interface. Prototypes of DMIS based interoperability has been successfully demonstrated on Capitol Hill, at multiple trade shows, and in distributed multi-location venues. Commercial production use of the interoperability interface is in place as well, involving information sharing between first responder organizations using otherwise competing commercial products. Use of the CAP interface is now formally integrated into commercial products representing the majority of the market share for Consequence Management Information Systems (CMIS).

August 2003 – March 2005. Software Process Coordinator. Member of three person engineering process group responsible for shepherding Battelle Information Technology Services (ITS) through process improvement activities leading to positive CMMI assessment. Formally trained in both the CMMI Model and in SCAMPI assessment. Duties included process mentoring, progress monitoring, and participation in formal assessment activities. The DMIS project (and Battelle ITS) earned it formal CMMI level 2 rating in February 2005.

February 2001 – January 2004. DMIS Design Lead. DMIS is a collaborative effort among government and responder agencies to provide cross-organization sharing of disaster and/or disaster planning information connected to natural disasters, accidents, civil or political incidents, terrorist or criminal incidents, and other significant designated events. DMIS became operational in August 2002 and is now installed in more than 1000 locations covering all 50 states. Duties with DMIS have included:

April 2000 – February 2001, Edifecs, Inc.

April 2000 – February 2001. Business Collaboration Architect. Major contributor to the development of a consistently applied object-oriented methodology for the design and maintenance of business-to-business transactions in an architectural framework independent from restrictive implementation protocols. Functional designs built using this framework can be implemented using multiple protocols (e.g., EDI, XML, CORBA, RMI using Java Message Beans) without significant redesign. Proved the methodology in the development of Partner Interface Protocols (PIPs) for RosettaNet, a trading partner consortium representing the IT and electronic components industry. Also defined use cases that incorporate RosettaNet PIPs within implementations of the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model. These use cases are the basis for a SCOR related pilot project to enhance automated purchasing interactions between Intel and Siemens.

May 1994 – April 2000, Battelle Memorial Institute

October 1999 – April 2000. Consulting support for the Army Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (DISC4). Supervised development of the Army Standard Reference Model for object-oriented systems analysis and design. This model provides a logical "business object" architecture as the basis for requirements analysis and systems design in the development of Army command and control systems.

September 1998 – April 2000. Consulting support for the Army Systems Engineering Office (ASEO), Fort Monmouth, NJ. Provided “honest broker” evaluation of information engineering issues related to the Joint Technical Architecture – Army (JTA-A), particularly in the area of data standardization, IDEF0 modeling, IDEF1X modeling, and how they relate to object-oriented systems analysis and design issues. Developed a paper, titled “It all Starts with a Mission: A Practical Process for Accomplishing Seamless Interoperability,” that provides a clear methodology for defining project scope and value-added metrics within a distributed component environment.

August 1997 – June 1999. Support of DoD Health Affairs Requirements. Lead design team developing middleware component designs for a CORBA-based distributed architecture. Built designs for interoperability connections between disparate software applications included in the Military Health System (MHS). Employed Rational Rose for object modeling and RequisitePro for requirements traceability.

Aug 1997 - Built the Uniform Modeling Language expression of the data registry metamodel included in the DRAFT ANSI X3.285:1997 Data Engineering - Metamodel for the Management of Shareable Data. The model is an object-oriented translation, using Rational Rose, of the standard’s Chen notation E-R diagrams and business rules that was included as an appendix in the finalized standard.

August 1995 - Aug 1997. Support of DoD Health Affairs Requirements. Technical lead in developing the Functional Area Model - Object for MHS systems based on concurrently developing information and process models. Using that object model for the development of the Computer-Based Patient Record and other object-oriented MHS initiatives. Translated IDEF1X and IDEF0 models developed in IE:Advantage, ER-Win, and BP-Win case tools into object models using the Paradigm+ case tool.

May 1994 - August 1995. Information engineering support to the Defense Information Systems Agency. Developed Migration Strategy and Integration Planning for Information Management Functional Area systems for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Enterprise Integration. Reviewed current DoD systems for overlapping functionality. Modeled a formal strategy to integrate that functionality into a single set of interoperable standard systems.

May 1993 - May 1994, SETA Corporation

May 1993 - May 1994, Senior Information Engineer. Information engineering support to the Defense Information Systems Agency. Designed and re‑engineered data models using IDEF1X Notation with Design/IDEF and IE:Advantage on contract with The Defense Information Systems Agency, Chief Information Officer (DISA CIO). Helped develop data standardization submission process methods for DISA. Built a Microsoft Windows based C++ application to interface with output from the IE:Advantage CASE tool, allowing DoD Data model standardization submission packages to be built automatically from data stored in the IE:Advantage model repository.

May 1973 - May 1993, U.S. Marine Corps

July 1991-May 1993, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Systems Testing Officer. Managed functional system testing and problem resolution team during installation and first year operation of a large scale networked mainframe accounting system requiring world wide access encompassing six different IBM mainframe locations and approximately 2000 terminals world wide. Designed problem tracking methodology to enable a coordinated response and rapid solution to all customer support requirements during implementation. Developed a database which interconnected with electronic mail to ensure timely response and to gather appropriate statistical history on problem trends, solution response rate, user training needs, etc. Presented methodologies and instructions for resolving problem issues in separate meetings in North Carolina, California, and Missouri.

June 1988 - July 1991, Comptroller , Marine Corps Air Station, Iwakuni, Japan. Chief Financial Officer for a major Marine Corps installation in mainland Japan. Responsible for disbursing, accounting, budgeting, internal auditing, and overall resource allocation. Supervised a cross-cultural staff of 30 Japanese civilians, 25 U.S. Military and 15 U.S. Civilians. Developed several internal information and decision support systems in areas relating to travel, bill processing, and labor cost management. Developed, supervised and presented, in part, an instructional program designed to improve management and control costs at the user level through the implementation of a standardized methodology for reconciling computer generated supply requisition and financial status information.

April 1985 - May 1988, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, U. S. Naval Academy. Taught a variety of courses, from entry level structured programming to senior level courses in Information Systems and Database Organization, in an Computer Science Accreditation Board (CSAB) accredited Computer Science curriculum. Evaluated as part of the faculty during initial professional accreditation review by the CSAB. Acted as course coordinator, responsible for content and overall control, of the senior level course in Database Organization.

August 1983 - March 1985, Student, Naval Postgraduate School. Masters Thesis Title: "An Evaluation of Industrial Funding for Non-deployable Marine Corps ADP Assets"; a paper which explored the economic tradeoffs and command and control effects of converting mission funded (i.e. directly funded by Congress) ADP activities to a commercial style charge-back system where a variety of Marine Corps and other "customers" would be charged based on resource usage.

April 1980- July 1983, Data Systems Budget Officer, Headquarters , U. S. Marine Corps. Prepared budget documentation for all Marine Corps data processing related funding. Coordinated and acted as primary speaker in defense of budget requests at Department of Defense and Navy Comptroller budget hearings. Provided backup documentation for Congressional hearings.

October 1977 - March 1980, Base Operations Budget Officer, Fourth Marine Division. Aggregated budget documentation, allocated funds, and audited expenditures for the daily operation of 155 separately located Marine Corps Reserve Centers located throughout the United States. Traveled extensively to provide on-site training in local accounting and fiscal control when and wherever needed.

November 1975 - October 1977, Division Budget Officer, First Marine Division. Prepared budget documents, allocated funds, and monitored the expenditures of an operational Marine combat division. Developed and implemented standard procedures for cost center financial management.

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EDUCATION

George Mason University, 1993-1998 (33 graduate credits in Information Technology)

Naval Postgraduate School, 1985, MS (with Distinction) in Information Systems

Whitman College, 1973, BA in Economics

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

Object-oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD): Rational Unified Process (RUP), UML, ICONIX Unified Process, Use Cases in a variety of formats and styles, Just-in-time Analysis

Process Improvement: CMMI, SCAMPI

Architectures: FEA, C4ISR, Rational 4+1 View, RMODP, Zachmann Framework

CASE Tools: Enterprise Architect, Eclipse, Rational Rose, JBuilder, ER-Win, BP-Win, IE:Advantage

Languages: Java, XML Schema, SQL, C ++, C, Ada, Pascal, Visual Basic

Information Engineering: IDEF0, IDEF1X, IDEF1X97, Finkelstein's IE

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Emergency Management Technical Committee, Organization for The Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) - Since establishment in August 2003.

Association for Computing Machinery - Since January 1986.

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PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

"Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution, A Crawl, Walk, Run Approach to Implementation" invited presentation to Net Ready Sensors Workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2006.

"Current Initiatives, Technical and Organizational Obstacles, and Opportunities in ICT Interoperability," panel member for the Workshop on Using Technology to Enhance Crises Management, National Academy Of Sciences, Washington, DC, June 2005.

"Business Collaboration Modeling with Rational Rose, UML, and XML," presentation to Rational User’s Conference 2000, Philadelphia, PA, July 2000.

"Four Roads to Use Case Discovery: There is a Use (and a Case) for Each One," CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, Volume 11, Number 12, December 1998.

"The CPR Interoperability using Object Oriented Technology (CIOOT) Initiative," Pre-addendum OOPSLA’98, Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, October 1998.

"An Integration Architecture for Implementation of the DoD Computer-based Patient Record," The Second Annual: Role of Distributed Objects In Healthcare, October 1998.

"If Nobody Uses It, It Ain’t a Standard: Thoughts on Re-tooling DoD Data Standardization Efforts," CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, Volume 11, Number 6, June 1998 (with Co-author Doug Mann).

"Integration of Divergent Requirements Views, An Object-Oriented Approach," Proceedings of the Ninth Annual DAMA Symposium, Data Administration Management Association-National Capital Region (DAMA-NCR), June 1996.

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