Experience

Canonical

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• EMEA/AMER/APAC Engineering Manager SREs Openstack/K8s (Interim)

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  100% Remote Managed Cloud Services for a variety of customers. Working with teams in Europe, America and Asia to provide bespoke private clouds. We serve our customers using automated tooling that provides a uniquely efficient, consistent and transparent deployment.

• Senior Dedicated Support Engineer (Openstack/K8s/Ceph)

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  Support for undercloud infrastructures supporting k8s and openstack as well as highly scaleable storage solutions such as ceph. Openstack operations training for end users and infrastructure teams.



BabbleQuest International/Retirement Exploration Government

• Head Babbler/Applied Research/NLP

  • Jun 2008 - Mar 2015

  Okemos, MI BabbleQuest International is focused on applied research and development of cutting edge language technologies. We provide quality natural language technology solutions and consulting to a variety of customers. The bulk of our development is internal R&D with special projects that encompass data mining, OCR enhancement, encoding discovery/recovery/normalization, content protection and exploitation mitigation, databases and knowledgebases implemented as RESTful services, white papers.



Competitive Matrix/Retirement Exploration Commercial

• Co-Founder/CTO

  • Apr 2008 - Jun 2013

  Okemos, MI Development of business to business application for product presentation. Integration of product databases and simplified interface for creation of sales plans for customers using excel and powerpoint plugins developed in C#. Product features included automated image layout and generation of formatted sales data using easily customizable templates. Development for several startups including a user customizable closed web portal for underage web surfers. Several advanced prototypes to mitigate… Show more Development of business to business application for product presentation. Integration of product databases and simplified interface for creation of sales plans for customers using excel and powerpoint plugins developed in C#. Product features included automated image layout and generation of formatted sales data using easily customizable templates. Development for several startups including a user customizable closed web portal for underage web surfers. Several advanced prototypes to mitigate risk for laptop and mobile compatable web services. Show less



Henggeler Computer Consultants -> Sold to Raytheon

• Technical Lead/Contract Lead/Business Development/Minority Share Holder

  • Jan 1999 - Jun 2008

  Columbia, MD Deep web mining software development and data fusion. Team lead in equipment control and resource management implementing custom java event bus and user interfaces with Swing and Java2D. Massive scale data processing and special forensics projects for time-critical deployments. Security accredited production deployments for a variety of government agencies and quick response software development. Contractual obligations of 99.9% up-time and security including sheep dipping, code analysis… Show more Deep web mining software development and data fusion. Team lead in equipment control and resource management implementing custom java event bus and user interfaces with Swing and Java2D. Massive scale data processing and special forensics projects for time-critical deployments. Security accredited production deployments for a variety of government agencies and quick response software development. Contractual obligations of 99.9% up-time and security including sheep dipping, code analysis, fuzzing, CVEs, STIGs, and disaster recovery. Consultant for various commercial and government entities on the use of commercial. open source and purpose built language technologies and their integration into a variety of applications. Technical leader for government wide machine translation software as a service. Dynamic stand alone Swing, HTML and Saas interfaces were deployed. Systems included user metric collection, error reporting and mitigation and monitoring services all developed using the Spring framework. Show less



H A P I

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Co-Owner/Complete Stack Dev

  • Feb 2000 - Mar 2002

  Columbia, MD Developed internet infrastructure for web hosting and e-commerce including secure credit card processing services. Implementation of Bell LaPadula Architecture for CC processing. Handling over 600,000 hits per month. Consulting and hosting for a number of startups during the .com boom. These were bare metal to web server deployments. I was personally responsible for custom server builds, network, firewall configuration, and fault tolerance. I also developed the database, e-commerce sub-system… Show more Developed internet infrastructure for web hosting and e-commerce including secure credit card processing services. Implementation of Bell LaPadula Architecture for CC processing. Handling over 600,000 hits per month. Consulting and hosting for a number of startups during the .com boom. These were bare metal to web server deployments. I was personally responsible for custom server builds, network, firewall configuration, and fault tolerance. I also developed the database, e-commerce sub-system and the majority of the end user's web pages. Show less



ProObject

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Lead/Project Lead (First Employee)

  • Feb 1995 - Mar 1999

  Hanover, MD First "boots on the ground" for new contracts. Responsible for successful contract capture and future growth. Lead developer for multimedia analysis and prioritization implementing what is now known as a lambda architecture Lead developer on very high throughput data streaming, implementing archival, metadata and filtering services Research Lead working on Machine Translation Systems for Japanese, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Arabic



BTG -> Sold to L3

• Developer

  • May 1993 - Feb 1995

  Developer of reusable software for fully asynchronous TCP/IP protocol and advanced data structures. Ported system to most known OS's Including Unicos, Solaris, Venix, AIX, Windows, VMS, SCO, VxWorks



United States Department of Defense

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Developer/Project Lead

  • Mar 1989 - Feb 1993

  Baltimore & DC Message delivery system using content analysis. Research on highly parallel computer architectures Advanced Algorithm Design Low latency and high reliability message delivery