SYSTEM DESIGN ENGINEER/PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Innovative leader with over 15 years of documented success in communication system designs, information assurance, and system architecture.  Guides teams through complex projects from inception to customer delivery.  

• Creates and develops groundbreaking systems and applications while forging critical partnerships.  Expert in security enhancements and configurations along with Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology.  Achieved various Director of Central Intelligence Agency Protection Level 4 accreditations for successful and progressive products. 

Currently holds TS SCI Security Clearance with recent PR completed.

Core Strengths: Communications/Networking • Research/Development • Security • Government Cryptographic Systems

Systems Integration • Government Messaging • Program/Project Management • IS Management

Technical Due Diligence • Sales/Marketing • Technical Writing/Publishing • High-Speed Networking

NOTABLE PROJECTS

• Served as the chief architect of the Metis Matrix Communicator (Metis Switch), designing a high-speed and scaleable data/knowledge management communications system with numerous protection level accreditations.  Led the project from inception to completion, successfully delivering the system to various key entities, including the US Air Force, the Pentagon, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center’s Tactical Engineering Analysis Lab; created an 80-hour training program.

• Functioned as the Global Hawk network administrator for SPAWAR Systems Center in San Diego. Directed exercise and real-time operational networking support for the Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) program office, supplying networking and security designs.

• Created and designed the Naval Special Warfare Information Exchange Subsystem (NSWIXS), a network-based communications system that incorporated tactical and strategic special warfare communications; received a Naval Achievement Medal for efforts during Tandem Thrust 95.

• Established and maintained key alliances with customers, redesigning the lab architecture for the Precision Engagement Center of the Future (PECOF) to meet continuous research/development efforts with advanced high-speed communication and Precession Engagement, Tasking, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TPED), and Time Critical Targeting (TCT).  These efforts secured over three years of project funding, two contracting positions, and three government positions within the lab. 

• Designed and developed a secure controlled interface (CI) one-way transfer system to migrate data from lower-classified networks to higher-classified networks for DoD and agency customers, which received numerous Director of Central Intelligence Agency Directive 6/3 Protection Level 4 certification.

PROFESSIONAL PROGRESSION

University of San Diego (USD)  2008 - Present

System Administrator

• Responsible for maintaining numerous server and network systems as part of the USD Network and System Operations Department.

Telos/Xacta       2006-2007

Engineer/Project Manager

• Supported DMS AMHS implementation for various government agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), US Air Force, Air National Guard, and US Army.

• Maintained high customer satisfaction rates by overseeing key engineering and project management initiatives after a personnel shortage, directly correlating with clients and staff to realign efforts and timelines. 

• Provided engineering and training support to multiple DoD and government clients, ensuring Defense Messaging System (DMS) efficiency and administration maintenance as well as operational readiness. 

SYS Technologies  2002-2006

Director, Systems Integration Programs   

• Facilitated horizontal institution of all company technologies and strategic partner products and solutions.  Researched new technological advances to identify development opportunities.  Provided appraisals including corporate due diligence.

• Managed a classified, high-speed Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) engineering network over the Defense Research Engineering Network (DREN), providing developmental and exercise networking support for Global Hawk.

• Initiated and developed a new network distribution system to accommodate high-volume data for a US Air Force client, enhancing network capacity and sensor data distribution.  The application was integrated into the US Air Force baseline for imagery distribution systems with 2,000,000+ images.  Supplied real-world networking support for Global Hawk during operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

• Introduced a hybrid CI one-way transfer and wide-band distribution system within 60 days, enabling enhanced data transfer rates and innovative high-availability, multi-domain systems to deliver millions of critical wartime imagery to exploitation and operational intelligence entities.  

Jaycor, Inc.      1999-2002

Systems Engineer/Branch Manager

• Led two engineers through customer support and development projects.  Major clients included SPAWAR Systems Center PECOF laboratory, Global Hawk Program Office, the Naval Special Warfare Group One’s (NSWG-1) Mission Support Center (MSC), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Crisis Consequence Management Initiative (CCMI) and laboratory.    

Lab Manager

• Supervised the daily operations and ongoing experiments of the SPAWAR System Center Precision Engagement Center of the Future (PECOF), testing Precession Engagement, Tasking, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TPED), and Time Critical Targeting (TCT). 

• Designed and integrated a groundbreaking Mission Support Center (MSC) for Naval Special Warfare (NSW) to command and control global Navy SEAL operations, creating initial computer, network, and communication infrastructures.  

California Microwave, Inc. (CMI)    1996-1998

Communication Systems Engineer/Educator/Technical Marketer

• Supported several company contracts, including the US Air Force’s Stand Alone Message Processing System (STAMPS), the US Army’s Consolidated ASAS Message Processing System (CAMPS), Flyaway Message Switch Systems (FMSS), the Special Forces Base Station (SFBS), and the Communication Gateways System (CGS).  Functioned as a network administrator for a heterogeneous environment, including Windows, UNIX, NetWare, TCP/IP.

• Served an integral role in the initial design of the CGS-2000 messaging system, replacing the Pentagon’s communications systems to encompass Gate Guard, Sara, Dina, and TTY messaging applications. 

Previous Experience: US Navy ¦ US Submarine Force and Naval Special Forces • RDT&E Director/ADP Security Officer/Leading Petty Officer • Submarine Cryptographic Technician/Operator/Communication Supervisor, USS Silversides SSN-679 • Joint Forces Communications Officer (J6)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Dell/EMC CX-600 SAN • ADIC StorNext Clustered File System, Level 3 US Navy SAST Certification (NT/UNIX) •

Marconi Enterprise Network Engineering • ATM Networking • Information Assurance, Level 3 •

Communications Gateway System (STAMPS/CAMPS/SFBS/FMSS) • Mini Volume Automated Test System (MVATS) •

Naval Special Warfare Tactical Communications/Electronics •  Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE) • Submarine Radioman Crypto Technician

 Affiliations: AFCEA, Member