Feb 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos · Columbia, MD

• Managed all product research and development across commercial and federal business units, while also managing IT operations and budgeting for ADG Creative’s 28,000-square-foot headquarters.
• Performed capabilities presentations to commercial and Department of Defense executives in support of business development activities.
• Established and enforced technology/development standards across the organization to include the use of JIRA, Confluence, Subversion and build automation via Jenkins. Technical innovation was directly attributed to a 40% increase in corporate revenue.
• Developed an advanced visualization and reporting workflow platform for counter terrorism intelligence analysts and executive decision makers.

Jul 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Ellicott City, MD

• Led a team of engineers focused on the development of advanced analytic solutions leveraging SAS technology and innovative systems engineering that addressed information overload within the intelligence community.
• Served as a Big Data/Big Analytics expert at SAS and VSTI, and performed many internal and public facing presentations to include the SAS Government Leadership Summit, Premier Business Leadership Series (PBLS), and Conquering Big Data with Big Analytics.
• Developed key software components in analytic solutions to include generalized service layers, query federation, Spring security integration, JavaScript UI components, and link analysis services.
• Pioneered the requirements and development of a Data Generator that enables SAS/VSTI to test the scalability of Big Data architectures.
• Performed extensive research and development into unique integrations of HTML5, JavaScript, and server-side algorithms that can support large-scale data visualization.

May 2004 – Jul 2010 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Ellicott City, MD

• Responsible for driving and aligning VSTI’s technical vision and technologies with engineering best practices to deliver innovative and cost effective solutions to VSTI customers.
• Performed ongoing research into intelligence community problem domains such as real-time analysis, federated query architectures, information discovery, indexing technologies, collaboration, etc.
• Identified emerging open source/COTS technologies relevant to the problem space, and established deep integration partnerships with commercial technology vendors to deliver scalable, extensible, and cost effective solutions to customers.
• Established an internal VSTI collaboration effort called Mindshare that enabled employees to share problem solutions, software development artifacts and overall lessons learned as related to various technology integration and problem domains.

Nov 2003 – May 2004 · 6 mos · Ellicott City, MD

• Served as Senior Software Engineer and Consultant for the transfer and integration of a GOTS (Government Off-The-Shelf) federated query architecture between two intelligence agencies.
• Performed impact analysis of existing systems, identified critical risks, and provided risk mitigation strategies.
• Defined the standard development environment and processes (JBuilder, BEA WebLogic, and CVS) to support concurrent development for the entire development team.
• Trained development staff on BEA WebLogic, Struts and JBuilder.
• Developed a security plug-in that enabled the transferred software architecture to support the destination agency’s existing security infrastructure.
• Encapsulated the federated query architecture as a set of finite services accessible as a stateless session bean in WebLogic.

Jul 2001 – Nov 2003 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Ellicott City, MD

• Designed and implemented a custom federated query framework that enables analysts to invoke target-based federated queries across disparate databases including Oracle 8i-9i, TeraText (SGML-based Text Retrieval System), Lotus/Domino, and existing systems in which results are fused into intelligent HTML reports.
• In support of this effort, designed and implemented a robust Java API and XML configuration model which enables other developers to quickly assemble complex data fusion services derived from fifty or more simultaneous queries across structured and unstructured data sources.