Palo Alto, California, United States
> 38 years successful technical experience - 28 Defense, 10 commercial consulting, professional services > Information Management, Knowledge Management, and Process-Related Roles: Chief Software Engineer, 10PB data archive (proposal), LM IS&GS, 2005-2007. Chief Systems Engineer, 900TB relational DBMS, LM IS&GS, 2003-2005. Chief Knowledge Architect, Atomica, 2001-2003 (aka Answers.com, originally GuruNet.com). Deputy Program Manager for Knowledge Management, CSC Consulting, 1999-2000. Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Program Manager, ESL, 1986-1990. Specialties: Project and Functional Management, for departments as large as 75 and up to 50 direct reports Systems Engineering: requirements analysis, functional decomposition, solution synthesis Knowledge Management, Information Management, and Database Management Proposal Author, Systems and Software Engineering Estimation Engineering Process Improvement Software Architecture, Design, and Engineering
Available for temporary or part-time consulting pro-bono roles in: Project and Functional Management Systems Engineering Knowledge Management Information Management
Systems Engineering / Integration & Test Senior Manager, 2007-present First- and second-level manager for up to 74 Systems Engineers, for networking and communications. Hiring, staffing, office planning, and other functional activities for myself other managers. Hiring (during growth) or placing (during slowdown) dozens of engineers. Staffing, author, estimator, and basis-of-estimate reviewer for proposals. Developed two extensive metrics reporting and charting Excel applications. Software Engineering Manager / Information Management, 2003-2007 Second-level manager up to 35 Software Engineering, for information and data management, large-scale database applications, data architecture, knowledge management, and related disciplines. Chief Software Engineer, IM&S (Information Management & Storage), 2005-2007 (proposal) Led the software engineering team for a 10PB data archive proposal, including: requirements analysis; software estimation; proposal author; software development plan; and program planning and staffing. Chief Systems Engineer, Yukon, 2003-2005 (R&D, proposal, program) Led the systems engineering team for a 900TB archive relational database program, including: requirements management; interface control document (ICD) development, system architecture, performance engineering, and initial software architecture. Awards: 3 Special Recognition Excellence Awards (major achievements), 3 SPOT Awards (minor).
Chief Knowledge Architect (in Professional Services) Analyzed customer knowledge bases for integration into the Atomica topic-based toolset. Designed and implemented information integration and user interfaces for customer projects.
Project Management Office (PMO) Manager Reviewed proposals and projects for quality and risk. Advised proposal and project teams, providing materials and guidance to assure success. Prepared reusable proposal and project templates and other support materials. Developed review criteria and standards with Finance and Legal teams.
Principal Consultant, including the following roles: Deputy Program Manager of the CSC Knowledge Management Program. Project manager for Y2K implementation of Oracle Manufacturing for Sun Microsystems, including: architecture and systems planning for 90 servers; and managing 15 SAs, DBAs, and CM specialists. Project manager for an IT assessment for AutoDesk. Organization change architect for a major IT effort at Siemens.