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Armstead Phil Smith

Armstead Phil Smith

Lodi,CA

Summary

Versatile Lead Product Engineer with experience in both hands-on development and management roles for systems, applications, kernel and network products. Environments range from embedded devices to many operating systems (Android, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Windows Mobile, and others). Held many lead roles for major projects with Excellent references from peers, management and executive level for years of service in consulting and engineering staff roles and clients. Resume of Armstead Phil Smith Page 1 of 5 Resume of Armstead Phil Smith Page 1 of 6 Resume of 5

Overview

37
37
years of professional experience

Work History

Level 6 Staff Software Engineer

HP
09.2001 - 11.2004
  • Compaq, NASA, Lawrence Livermore Lab and aerospace industry firms as well as startups
  • Achievements include Android smartphone product platform bring up, architect of on-board diagnostics kernel for Cisco switches, lead developer for Lockheed Space Shuttle payload specialist telemetry control, and communications systems and developed advanced air-traffic control systems
  • Held many senior engineer positions in robotics, AI, as well as in test and QA
  • Specialist in network and computer security applications and messaging products developed and deployed
  • Career emphasis has been hands-on development of quality products and devotion to the spirit of innovation., Kernel Development Team
  • Member of the Core Kernel Team for 64-bit Non-Stop
  • Work involved internal redesign for a $200M SABRE funded migration to IA-64
  • NonStop Systems are continuously available, fully redundant, check-pointed and linearly scaleable systems – part of HP’s “indestructible” computing environment
  • So much that they are used by 80% of the worlds stockexchanges
  • Contributed to all aspects of the fault-tolerant Non-Stop Kernel (NSK) architectural change and port from MIPS to 64-bit Intel Processor Family (IPF)
  • Work involved internal analysis (memory manger, messaging system, scheduler, APIs, etc.), design changes and code inspection to migrate from the 32-bit to 64-bit data models
  • Conducted analysis and wrote White Paper for the architecture changes needed for the OSS (POSIX/UNIX personality) layer and participated in kernel change analysis for all GUARDIAN subsystems
  • Specific responsibility for DLLs, compilers (C/C++, pTAL, etc.), tools and runtime libraries, and POSIX.1-2001 conformance
  • Other projects included design and implementation of a port of (gdb + Tcl CLI) TNS/E kernel debugger from GUARDIAN and Solaris to Windows NT, and update to support 64-bit Itanium
  • Developed automated web (Perl, Tcl/Tk/expect) based code migration analysis tool and repository for over 250 Non-Stop products, middleware and tools
  • HP/Red Hat IA-64 Linux kernel analysis and interoperability assessments.

CTO/Co-Founder

NVIS, Inc
05.2019 - Current
  • Implemented an SDN provisioning and administration web interface with integration to WHMCS billing and payment processing for a startup company (http://nvis-inc.com) based around the Invisible Internet technology
  • Worked with the CEO for the business planning, architecture presentation and demonstrations
  • Worked with offshore partners such as social media startup http://howdoo.io to reach an MOU to use the technology for uncensorable access in any of the 37 countries that restrict social media
  • Responsibilities included strategic planning for market and competitive positioning, business plan creation and refinement, MVP and transfer of assets from TLC, and investor engagement

Network / Blockchain Engineer and Architect

TLC Secure, Inc
09.2016 - 05.2019
  • Of a revolutionary overlay network for unhackable blockchain security
  • Wrote white papers and directed ground-up implementation of a global private Ethereum blockchain operating in a layer-2 encrypted network with master nodes from Asia, North American to Europe
  • Patented the “Invisible Internet” Software Defined Network (SDN) for allowing operation of existing platforms in a peer-ro-peer model where every endpoint is a VPN
  • Developed apps for Linux, Windows, MacOSX and Android.

Embedded Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE
02.2016 - 08.2016
  • Development and support for OpenSwitch Linux distribution test and infrastructure on AS5712 switches
  • Activities include Python packet sniffing, injection and traffic routing, development for virtualization (docker) as well as hardware (using POD Manager) to configure and exercise complex features such as mirroring and QoS features and stress tests
  • Work was done on-site and coordinated with remote teams in Costa Rica.

Embedded Developer

STARA Technologies
11.2010 - 01.2016
  • Android and Embedded Development, WAN/LAN and Security Solutions Architect
  • Developed C/C++ embedded Linux solutions using Gateworks Laguna and Ventana ARM boards (Cortex and Freescale microprocessors), JTAG programming for kernel bringup, boot loader
  • Built Yocto and OpenWRT based Access Point / Repeater with integrated FIPS crypto, and MESH airborne video surveillance network for STARA technologies
  • Implemented a Hardware Security Module interface for FIPS Level 2 (and Level 1) security for wireless nodes.

Consulting Architect and Lead Engineer

Austindo Communications
12.2013 - 01.2015
  • Designed and developed the 360 Field Assistant system using Agile for Android and IOS apps to allow telecommunications field teams to take hundreds of evidence photos for 4G tower construction and work at heights
  • Photos contained GPS location and Google Maps verified address
  • Photos were provisioned via a scheduling system and database managed by the home office
  • All communications were over the cloud with an integrated Google Drive document management system and Parse.com backend to allow offline retention of data to the devices via SDCard.

Group QA Test Engineer

Thales Systems, Flight Entertainment, IFE
03.2011 - 11.2013
  • Numerous projects for multiple airlines (American Airlines, British Airways, Air China, Qatar, etc)
  • Acted as QA and Performance Engineer to test, analyze and improve Linux kernel in the embedded Linux seat devices that were responsible for movie playing, Qt based menus / carousels, gaming, etc
  • Test scripts done in Tcl and Python
  • Airline requirements for pre-emptive passenger announcements (audio and/or video) and video streaming quality were among the tasks
  • Coded C kernel enhancements and a compressed cache driver to use RAM as swap due to out-of-memory conditions and inability to use flash for swap because of wear leveling
  • Effectively doubled the system memory and allowed apps like 3D maps and high memory use audio playlists to run with improved user experience
  • Architectural transition from Qt to Android
  • Resolved major SCSI / SATA driver performance problem not resolved by Thales, LSI, Lintronix or LKML.org
  • Responsible for migration to SELinux and other PCI security requirements
  • All work followed Agile methodology
  • Daily Scrum participation and JIRA tracking.

Enterprise Solutions Network Security Consultant

WirelessWall, LLC
12.2010 - 03.2011
  • Provided on-site and ongoing remote support to Savannah River Nuclear Laboratory (Aiken, South Carolina) for security of wireless sensor networks
  • Services include inspection, planning and installation of servers and Canberra-Albuquerque CodeTalker/RADNET integration with WirelessWall layer 2 encrypting firewall, policy servers and AAA
  • Both Windows Server and Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu) backends were deployed at multiple facilities across the 300 square mile SRNL site
  • Also implemented backup/restore solutions for servers and configuration data to meet DOE audit requirements.

Sr. Systems Engineer (staff)

AccelWork, Inc, DGB Mobile
12.2008 - 11.2010
  • Principal developer with management responsibilities
  • Headed a project to manufacture a custom Smartphone, including specifying systems design and testing
  • The phone design used a Marvel PXA310 SoC, and other chipsets for GSM, GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth
  • Performed ID/MD oversight, wrote Environmental and Ingress Specs
  • Worked directly with customer and CTO to identify customer preferences for chassis, features, performance and power consumption, as well as ensuring factory quality and reliability with the PCB manufacturing, environmental tests, HPRT and software BSP validation
  • Initial implementation was Windows Mobile 6.1
  • Setup and ran CETK and LTK suites for verification of the first Engineering Samples
  • Wrote special RIL drivers and hardware codec drivers
  • Headed a project to bring up Android from the ground up on the same custom Smartphone and develop video/camera streamer/players
  • Led a US team and offshore (China and India) developers to architect and bring-up Android 1.5 and 1.6 Ported Android and Linux for ARM and numerous driver ports
  • Used Marvell eXtreme Debugger JTAG on Zylonite and Littleton reference boards to test
  • Made GPIO changes and NAND flash drivers to the blob bootloader to flash the
  • Smartphone
  • Made kernel changes and integrated drivers for flash, LCD, touchscreen, (ALSA) audio, WiFi, RIL and many Android interface layer changes
  • Custom udev rules for usb subsystem pluggable devices
  • For Android, used SDK, NDK and J2ME
  • Implemented build, integration and QA process and Agile Sprints for critical development schedules
  • Android migration and UI re-implementation from Windows apps to Java for Cupcake, Donut and Éclair, as well as coded JNI hooks for video play and network controls
  • MPEG4 and H264 implementation for video play/streaming
  • Other projects included Motorola Mesh gateway design and implementation, and port of a key surveillance network video player/streamer from EVC4/CE4.2 to VS2005/2008 toolchain and support for the latest Windows Mobile SDKs and DirectShow, as well as enhancements on both WM6 and Win32 releases
  • I also ported a USB camera device driver to WM6 and did experimental development with Android SDK on the T-Mobile G1 and Android reference phone at the Linux layer with Code Sorcery
  • Additional roles includes establishing the best practices in the local office, implementing Bugzilla, SVN and other process infrastructure tools
  • Roles included project planning/management, staffing/interviewing and supervision of other engineers and visiting offshore team members.

Consultant / CTO

TLC, , LLC
04.2008 - 12.2008
  • Numerous startup duties were performed to complete the acquisition of WirelessWall from Cranite, from Forensic Engineering of the client/server products, to creating the wirelesswall.com website
  • Other achievements include creating the build infrastructure and rebranding as well as effecting transfer with NIST of FIPS certifications
  • Implemented the customer support portal, setup partnerships with Cisco, Motorola, and VAR channels, hired and managed offshore engineering teams and support personnel
  • Direct customer relations with DOE, Joint Forces and various DoD agencies and defense contractors, and sales engineering support in several major accounts
  • Proposed, designed and developed a large scale “RO.B.IN” Mesh network for the Pittsburg Steelers (Heinz Field) that will grow to several hundred access points/nodes and tiers of load balanced web and mySQL servers
  • Stadium entertainment venue was Songwhale.com to provide music, video downloads and services
  • Performed planning and R&D and of various PCI and SmartGrid (Zigbee) security solutions.

Project Lead Porting Engineer (consultant), Consultant and Lead Engineer

Arxan Technologies, Manhattan
01.2008 - 04.2008
  • Porting large (approximately 1 million lines of code) “EnforcIT” and “GuardIT” program obfuscation and security products from 32-bit x86 to 64-bit x64
  • The porting involved planning and implementing all aspects of the port, from build infrastructure changes to data model code and APIs, as well as extensive changes to upgrade from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2008 and ISO compliant C/C++ and STL
  • The products perform pre and post-compiler binary file protection on PE-COFF and ELF objects
  • Additional responsibilities were to validate with 1200 case test suites for RHEL and Windows on x64 Windows and Vista.

Sr. Software Engineer

Cranite Systems
08.2005 - 12.2007
  • Staff)
  • Lead product developer for secure layer 2 wireless client authentication agents and NDIS device drivers for Windows and
  • WinCE
  • Wrote Linux wireless whitelist/blacklist filter (LKM) drivers
  • Architected 802.11i and 802.1X product extensions AP/AC (Linux FC5, ARM Busybox)
  • Designed Split MAC driver changes to Atheros MadWiFi for wireless tunneling
  • Wrote a Windows Graphical Identity and Authentication (GINA) component to support wireless firewall connection for SSO authentication via CAC (certificate) Smartcard PIN or login credentials using RADIUS and Active Directory
  • Designer/developer of FIPS Crypto Library products
  • Development of PocketPC supplicant and NDIS (VPN) intermediate driver for encrypted handheld operation (PPC 2002, PPC 2003, WinMobile 5) directly resulted in a $660K sale and total over $1M business
  • Managed staff, contractors and outside testing laboratory
  • Directly reported to the VP
  • Products included WirelessWall and SafeConnect, which garnered $40M in venture funding as “disruptived” technology.

LDAP Engineer (consultant) Developer

Infoblox
12.2004 - 04.2005
  • For Linux-based LDAPOne directory appliance
  • Wrote RADIUS PAP+LDAP backend for auto synchronization of multi-hashed-encrypted passwords, wrote PAP modifications for LDAP password retrieval and authentication code (MD5, SHA, and salted variants)
  • Designed and coded LDAP server back-end and overlays for password policy and hash methods and XML for UI and API tests
  • Wrote SNMP start/stop management agents, serial console CLI and other fixes and enhancements, performance testing, test plan, procedure, automated test development and bug tracking/fixing
  • Configured ASLInux, RedHat, JDK install and updates for various Java directory tools (e.g., SLAMD, Jxplorer)
  • Advised for Sarbanes-Oxley/HIPPA ACL issues.

Founder, Architect

APS Engineering Inc
01.1995 - 08.1995
  • Founded an Internet product development and contract engineering firm, which grew to a 15 person technical staff at one time.

Solutions Architect / Business, Author of AE

Intergraph
01.2004
  • Analyst for many Identity Management and Contact Management directory and email customers Responsible for the installation and deployment of LDAP directories (AE SLAPD, Sun Java One, eDirectory and MSAD, metadirectory) into major named accounts
  • Author of AE GINA LDAP enabled sign-on library
  • Cofounder of theLDAPCompany.com (, TransFax, a distributed, high-volume broadcast fax for Solaris and HPUX
  • Major customers include Verizon, JC Penney
  • Managed and/or designed over 100 web commerce sites, numerous Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP programs and CGIs
  • AE web hosted 3,000 sites
  • Setup the network, routers, servers, and firewalls (Solaris/Linux)
  • Built and installed Apache servers and tools
  • Trained the webmasters., : Key analyst for POSIX standards conformance verification (SVVS) of Intergraph CLIPPER UNIX
  • Participated in OSF (Unix) kernel porting on new RISC-processors
  • Performed RISC architecture comparisons to determine strategic market standing.

Creator

ESQ Business Services
12.1995 - 05.1996
  • Of AE SLAPD, a multithreaded LDAP v3 compliant Directory Server for Windows, using native Win32 and
  • CygWin API
  • Ported and enhanced all C based tools and utilities from U
  • Mich C distribution to Win32, and developed Visual C/C++ MFC-based Directory Manager using LDAP SDK, SSL/TLS, OpenSSL integration
  • Developed InstallShield scripts, DCL defect tracking online, etc
  • Product is in international distribution and has been endorsed by ON
  • Technologies in Cambridge MA as its Meeting Maker 5.5 integral LDAP capability
  • Other OEMs include Spotfire (Decision Analytics) and SRC (Bandshare embedded LDAP QoS router)
  • The product installed base worldwide is over 25,000 since mid 1998 with national and international distributors
  • Ported AE SLAPD to Linux (Debian, RedHat), Solaris, and to HPUX and developed Java/JavaScript interfaces with JNDI support, OpenSSL, PKCS#12 implementation
  • LDAP enabled MSGINA extension (AE GINA)
  • Bid and won numerous outsource development contracts, such as Windows port of Global Chat (IRC server/client) for Quarterdeck., Developed an SNMP trap manager product consisting of a Remedy API compliant GUI that uses TCP/IP to dynamically display trap data and ARS forms
  • The product enables user-customized, automated trouble ticket generation for SNMP traps generated from Tandem SNMP sub-agents
  • Full usage of the Remedy Action Request System was made to provide reproduction and population of Motif ARS form-templates to format SNMP trap variable values into schema fields.

Consultant, Kernel Diagnostics Engineer

Hewlett-Packard
03.1999 - 03.2001
  • Kernel Triage / RCA for all HP Platforms for IA64 and 32/64-bit PA-RISC releases of HPUX (11.10, 11.11, 11i, 11.20 and 11.21)
  • Responsibilities include kernel / driver debugging, crash dump analysis, test suite development and root-cause fault isolation from source code for all platform system and integration test panics, hangs, etc
  • For the core operating system, virtual memory, I/O subsystem, logical volumes, Veritas, LVM, network layer (FDDI, Ethernet), mass storage and applications profiling
  • Identified and resolved hundreds of "shipstopper" defects impeding the kernel release across the entire line of HP computers, from uniprocessor Aclass workstations to distributed, 64 and 128-way V-class parallel network servers (Prelude, Superdome and SCA)
  • Coordinated with hardware and subsystem test and development labs in 5 states and India, with product version releases and XPG4 (VSX4) verification suites
  • Some customer priority defect support for Amazon.com, PeopleSoft (Merant compiler and 64-bit clean problems in libc) and other high-profile bug fixes.

Consultant, Network Architect

Diablo Research
08.1998 - 02.1999
  • VPN architect/testing for joint projects with 3COM (Santa Clara) for IPsec and PPP implementation with QoS benchmark testing using Ascend Pipeline 220 and L2F/PPTP on an NT to measure throughput penalties for various encryption methods
  • Architect for joint Diablo and Ascend (Alameda) project TAOS operating system rewrite for TNT2 Shelf Controller rewrite from Intel i960 to MIPS R5000
  • This was effectively a kernel rewrite to provide a hardware abstraction layer, power-on self-test, bringup, offline diagnostics, a command interface for online board and chip-set testing for both manufacturing and field diagnostics.

Consultant, Architect

Cisco Systems
01.1998 - 08.1998
  • Architected and wrote the embedded Offline Diagnostic Kernel for Constellation (next generation Catalyst) Ethernet Switching System
  • Replaced the old serial line controller with network control processor to permit intercard testing and parallel card bring-up and offline diagnostics CLI
  • Rewrote Intel i860 drivers for MIPS R4700 assembly
  • Developed simulator on SPARC and retargetting to MIPS for actual factory and field engineering test software
  • Wrote FDDI and 100BaseT drivers in addition to basic self-tests
  • Restructured tests for ASICs and online network sink/soak tests
  • Merged diagnostic with runtime kernel for multiprocessing
  • R4700 kernel and ASIC driver images were written to PCMCIA cards and loaded to flash memory
  • Key benefit to Cisco was an order of magnitude improvement in manufacturing card QA burn-in times and DOA prevention/field engineering cost savings.

Consultant, Chief Product Developer Key

Vicor Inc, Siren Software
01.1994 - 01.2000
  • Product Developer Siren
  • Fax
  • Wrote and enhanced bulk of a UNIX based broadcast fax / Internet fax server and Class 2 fax serial driver enhancements
  • Wrote scheduler, rastering engine, GUI, TIFF image handling utilities, fax queue status and phonebook manager
  • Ported the product to HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, SunOS, Linux, Motorola PowerPC, AIX and Data General platforms
  • Performed 8-bit clean all code for internationalization
  • Fax ports to NT, and ported U
  • Mich LDAP server and clients was for Motorola Global Directory and PKI toolkit
  • Designed and developed HP OpenMail/cc:Mail/Lotus SmartSuite fax gateway product for Hewlett-Packard, and the InterOffice integrated fax gateway for Oracle Corp, and Remedy-based customer support systems
  • Took over maintenance contracts for key customers (JCP, Verizon/GTE/Bell Atlantic, Ameritech, etc.) as the fax product was retired in 1999 when Avistar systems absorbed Siren
  • Managed several other developers in this effort.

Developer of X

NASA Ames Research, NASA/Ames Research Laboratory
03.1996 - 11.1996
  • 400/SMTP and MIME based secure (DES) mail transaction software for Internal Revenue Service projects
  • This process will be fielded for reliable, secure Trading Partner submissions of 1040 returns and EDI ANSI X12 transactions to and from IRS centers
  • Symmetric key algorithms and FORTEZZA card drivers were part of this development
  • ISODE Consortium '92 and '95 releases were used as well as OSI Security libraries.

Senior Systems Engineer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
01.1987 - 01.1996
  • And Technical Lead;
  • Lead investigator/developer for dozens of pilot e-commerce projects
  • Applied RSA and DES algorithms to a variety of PEM gateway tools for several projects in 1994-95 including, Bank of America - web-based ANSI X.12 transaction handler, Citibank NetAccount project for automated wire-transfer using HTTPS, S/MIME
  • Introduced the Internet to major U.S
  • Corporations to EDI over the Internet; Built X.500 ISODE quipu and LDAP gateways for parsed transaction set storage
  • Partner firms included Burlington Industries, Ciba-Geigy, Cone-Mills, DuPont and Wal-Mart
  • Maintained and evaluated Oracle Secure Network Services for on-the-fly Ethernet encryption and decryption
  • Designed and developed gateways between U.S
  • Air Force and computer networks in Europe and Asia
  • Frequent over-seas travel for NATO meetings and site surveys for Command and Control Systems development and fielding
  • Developed biometric security applications for FBI and others
  • Conducted applied R&D into intelligent translator systems, e.g.: C and Java compiler implementations and visual programming languages (Generic Data Translator), MOTHRA mutation compiler to generate defects for code validation
  • Wrote modified cross-compilers based on gcc
  • Wrote early PPP and SLIP drivers (SunOS and MSDOS), RIP implementations and WAN bridge services
  • Supported the Software Technology Center (STC) evaluating and benchmarking, and security/threat via tools such as SATAN, SAINT, CRACKER, etc
  • Lead multi-level security working groups, participated in NIST Role-Base Access Control (RBAC) policy implementation
  • Helped specify requirements for, and evaluate B1 secure systems Sun Compartmented Mode Workstation, SCO, HPUX BSM.

Test Manager

TRW Financial Services
01.1994
  • Responsible for validation of CORBA development for heterogeneous client-server development
  • Multithreaded DCE RPC with Sybase object brokering was the basis for Solaris / Windows NT client-server management and authentication for Bank of Chicago and Bank of Denmark
  • Ran TPC benchmarks
  • Ported ETET test tools to NT, accepted as the reference port by X/Open.

Sr. QA Engineer

Abbott Diagnostics
01.1993
  • Abbott Diagnostics consultant for ISO 9000 process definition and IV&V development engineering to strict FDA requirements for advanced medical instruments
  • POSIX real-time extensions
  • Other responsibilities included IV&V Engineer for X.25 HDLC interface and design/development of an Automated Unit Test Code Generator which produced C++ or C harnesses (with documentation) to drive 100% code coverage White-Box and Black-Box tests using reverse engineering principles (Cyclomatic Complexity, source parsing)
  • Results were a suite of 400 harnesses covering more than 14,000 individual test cases
  • Prior Experience:
  • CDC/Ceridian: Part of Core Development Team for MailServer product applications and kernel software from a Motorola VME platform to multiple RISC (MIPS) workstations
  • MailServer is an X.400 backbone MTA with gateways to DEC, IBM and SMTP mail domains Developed STREAMS/Sockets IPC libraries used for all gateways.

UNISYS
  • Developed automated stress test software suites for Unisys/Convergent Technologies to validate their System V Release 3.2 operating system for a $200M contract award
  • Lockheed: Project Leader for the design, code and test of the Space Shuttle payload specialist Experiment Support Subsystem (ESS) control computers firmware/software for real-time telemetry input and analysis and key-state-automata for DAC/actuator control interlocks.

General Dynamics
  • Headed General Dynamics CAM Robotics manufacturing planning and prototyping
  • Division-level 5 year plan was generated for 75 projects and a budget of over 1 billion dollars
  • Robot programming was performed on Standard Missile 2, Trident, and automated hybrid microelectronics factory
  • Programmed missile simulations at China Lake, CA
  • Proposed, designed, built $13M intelligent air-traffic control and display system for 80-mile auto-surveillance for U.S
  • Army Yuma, Arizona at age 23.

Computer Specialist

Como Industries Inc
  • In industrial Advanced Automation and Artificial Intelligence
  • Designer/developer of numerous embedded systems, computer visual pattern recognition system for automated inspection and other non-destructive tests
  • Developer of lexical and semantic analyzers for frame-based natural language translators
  • White Oak Laboratories, Senior Analyst to establish criteria for advanced robot planning languages and interactive graphics applications for Computer Aided Ship Design and Construction (CASDAC) project
  • Created comprehensive study of the State of the Art of Robotics through on-site studies and conferences with industry and key researchers at NBS,NRL the MIT Charles Stark Draper Labs, and SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center.

Education

BS - Computer Science, Intelligence and Compiler Design, Bio-Medical Engineering

University of Maryland, Hopkins University, Ohio University
Poly Pomona, Athens, Ohio
1979

Skills

  • Skills Summary:
  • Programming:
  • C, C (over 20 years), Debugging (5 years): adb, kdb, gdb, Test and Diagnostics: SPARCWorks
  • MFC VCC, gcc, Java/Eclipse IDE, Unity, dbx, q4, O/S profiling, c-scope, Dr VxWorks (RTOS), Purify, MS Test
  • Perl, Tcl/TKl, shell programming, Watson; GARTH (Tcl), NOFT, Scotty Xrunner, WinRunner, TestTool, JTest
  • Oracle, mySQL dtrace,strace, JTAG
  • Internet: XML, JavaScript, Java JDK Software QA (5years) CMM, ISO 9000 Systems: Android, Windows, WinCE
  • 11x/12, JIT/JVM, Linux Kaffe (3 years), Object-Oriented Design methodologies Linux kernel (Red Hat/CentOS, Fedora, HTML/SGML Apache/Netscape and CM Tools: SVN, BZR, P4, Debian/Ubuntu, SuSE), various Unix
  • Directory, Exchange LDAP, E- tracker, JIRA and Bugzilla commerce: EDI, ANSI X12, CORBA, XML, DML
  • OSS, Windows (Win32,MFC) WM5/6, and WinCE; Test Suites: VSX4, VSTH
  • SVVS, Tools: TET, LTP, CETK, LTK
  • Assembly: x86, IA64,ARM Xscale, Encryption & Protocols: AES, DES
  • MIPS R3000/R4000/R5000, CLIPPER, RSA, IPSec, PGP, SSL/TLS, PKCS
  • Intel family i960, x86, AmZ8000, SCC PAP/CHAP, TCP/IP, UDP, PPPTP
  • Client-Server: LDAP, SNMP, SMTP
  • MIME, DNS, HTTP, WAP, SAP-UME
  • OSI protocols: X400, X500
  • (iPlanet) Web Servers Sun One ClearCase, SourceSafe, PVCS, CVS, system/kernel (HPUX, Solaris, Mac OS Directory, Novell eDirectory, MS Active RCCS, RCCS, SCCS, CM Synergy; Bug X, BSD; NonStop Kernel Guardian/ and Motorola microprocessors IEEE 8023, IEEE 1394, SS7, X25
  • Other: White box and Black box testing, Project Management (15 years): Cost Business: Business Plan and Pro Software Maturity Model / ISO 9000 Modeling, planning, scheduling and job Forma construction and business methods (several years) tracking (Agile Sprint/Scrum) development, accounting
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Mission Critical Applications
  • API Design
  • Web Security
  • Team Member Development
  • Research and Development
  • Linux Environments
  • Written and Oral Communications
  • Performance and Scalability Optimization
  • Technical Analysis
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Linux
  • Programming

Timeline

CTO/Co-Founder

NVIS, Inc
05.2019 - Current

Network / Blockchain Engineer and Architect

TLC Secure, Inc
09.2016 - 05.2019

Embedded Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE
02.2016 - 08.2016

Consulting Architect and Lead Engineer

Austindo Communications
12.2013 - 01.2015

Group QA Test Engineer

Thales Systems, Flight Entertainment, IFE
03.2011 - 11.2013

Enterprise Solutions Network Security Consultant

WirelessWall, LLC
12.2010 - 03.2011

Embedded Developer

STARA Technologies
11.2010 - 01.2016

Sr. Systems Engineer (staff)

AccelWork, Inc, DGB Mobile
12.2008 - 11.2010

Consultant / CTO

TLC, , LLC
04.2008 - 12.2008

Project Lead Porting Engineer (consultant), Consultant and Lead Engineer

Arxan Technologies, Manhattan
01.2008 - 04.2008

Sr. Software Engineer

Cranite Systems
08.2005 - 12.2007

LDAP Engineer (consultant) Developer

Infoblox
12.2004 - 04.2005

Solutions Architect / Business, Author of AE

Intergraph
01.2004

Level 6 Staff Software Engineer

HP
09.2001 - 11.2004

Consultant, Kernel Diagnostics Engineer

Hewlett-Packard
03.1999 - 03.2001

Consultant, Network Architect

Diablo Research
08.1998 - 02.1999

Consultant, Architect

Cisco Systems
01.1998 - 08.1998

Developer of X

NASA Ames Research, NASA/Ames Research Laboratory
03.1996 - 11.1996

Creator

ESQ Business Services
12.1995 - 05.1996

Founder, Architect

APS Engineering Inc
01.1995 - 08.1995

Consultant, Chief Product Developer Key

Vicor Inc, Siren Software
01.1994 - 01.2000

Test Manager

TRW Financial Services
01.1994

Sr. QA Engineer

Abbott Diagnostics
01.1993

Senior Systems Engineer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
01.1987 - 01.1996

UNISYS

General Dynamics

Computer Specialist

Como Industries Inc

BS - Computer Science, Intelligence and Compiler Design, Bio-Medical Engineering

University of Maryland, Hopkins University, Ohio University

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