Experience

Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT)

• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Flight Software Function Test/ Ground System develope

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  Client: NASA/GSFC - Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office Project: Restore-L Robotic Servicing missionTasks: Develop procedures to test the telemetry for the Restore-L mission. Client: NASA/GSFC - Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office Project: Restore-L Robotic Servicing missionTasks: Develop procedures to test the telemetry for the Restore-L mission.



Atos

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Dec 2014 - Jun 2016

  Client: Alstom - Metro control divisionProject: TABServer - a tool to store in the database all the important data of the Metro monitoring and control system. Tasks : Starting from specifications and an old version of the tool, improve the maintainability of the code source, improve performance by parallelizing the algorithm and accessing the database directly. Technologies: C#, .Net, C++, Visual Studio, MSTest, SQL, XML (4 months)Project: AT2DManager - a tool to export the Metro control data to an external tool. Architecture and interface design. Transformation and traduction of the data format. Usage of ZeroMQ for the communication between the control software, the tool, and the client. Technologies: C#, .Net, ZeroMQ, XML, Visual Studio, MSTest, SQL, XML (6 months)



Atos

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Jan 2013 - Aug 2014

  Project : satellite control center - system database management toolTasks : Understand the current system database management application and the requested evolutions. Write the software design specification, Evaluate and plan the work. Write the XML and JSON schema of the data model. Technologies: Java, SQL (PostgreSQL), Eclipse RCP, Hibernate, UML, XML, XSD, NOSQL (Redis), git

• Project Manager

  • Jan 2013 - Oct 2013

  Project : ISIS satellite control center - System Database Management toolTasks : Take over the maintenance of the system data base management application. Manage a team of developper. Write the management plans. Follow and report on the progress. Communicate with the client.Technologies: Java, SQL (PostgreSQL), Eclipse RCP, Hibernate, UML, XML, XSD, NOSQL (Redis), git

• Consultant Métier & Technologie Senior en qualité d’Ingénieur projet

  • Jun 2010 - Oct 2013

  Client: Airbus Defense and Space, Ground Segment, Operational Products & Engineering department, FR Project: GUI GEM - a control/monitoring GUI for the TC/TM cipher tool GEM. Starting from specifications and the data models, build the GUI using Model View Publisher Pattern.Technologies : Java, Swing, Eclipse IDE, Windows Builder. (5.5 weeks)Project: OpsExecuter - a tool used to command the satellites by running operational procedures. Maintenance, libraries upgrades, debugging. Evolution, adds new breakpoint functionalities, new l look and feel for the GUI. Creation of automatic system tests using the tool Squish.Technologies: C++, Java Swing, CORBA, SQL Lite, ClearCase, Eclipse IDE, Squish. (1.5 years)Project: DATE - electronic components management tool used at Astrium. Development of new functionality ( interface and core logic), validation. Interface with the client. Cost estimation of a sub-project. Technologies : C++, FLTK, SQL, ClearCase. (8 months)



Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK

• Senior system developer

  • Nov 2005 - Oct 2009

  • Designed and wrote the data management pipeline for the Astra-Gemini experiment from the requirements to the maintenance phase.• Designed database schema to hold various scientific data and metadata. Maintain the database containing the CLF Data. Wrote PL/SQL procedures to access the database. • Participated in the building of the Information CATalogue (ICAT) system. Helped designed the schema, wrote the tool to extract the metadata from the RAW data and the XML schema used to verify the metadata ingested. • Worked as project support and supervised the work of other developers. • Participated in large international collaboration defining data format standard and data management practices.



Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik

• Software developer

  • Oct 2003 - Oct 2005

  • Installation, maintenance and development of the analysis software. • Built and maintained the INTEGRAL archive at MPE. Trained an operator to take over. • Installation, maintenance and development of the analysis software. • Built and maintained the INTEGRAL archive at MPE. Trained an operator to take over.



INTEGRAL Science Data Center, Versoix, CH

• Software developer - Instrument specialist

  • Aug 1997 - Oct 2003

  • Worked on design and implementation of the data analysis for the IBIS instrument and ISDC system, code written mostly in C with some C++ and Fortran 90. Designed and built the configuration analysis subsystem and some generic tools and libraries. • Collaborated with large international team of scientists and developers at several institutes outside ISDC to explain analysis pipeline requirements. • Tested and integrated their software. Verified the data products. Set up and supervised operations procedures for instrument monitoring and trained operators to use them. • Prepared and presented seminars on the different aspect of the INTEGRAL missions to astronomers at home institute in Liege.