Experience

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  GE Hitachi

  • Software Qualification Engineer

    • Nov 2010 - Nov 2011

    Co-invented patentable nulcear reactor safety enhancementPerform audits of vendors of commercially available software driven nuclear dedication candidate products* Establish commercal dedication process based on ISG-06: * Analyze vendor hardware and software during the commerial dedication proc...

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  Make A Wish and Big Buddies

  • Volunteer

    • Nov 2009 - Nov 2010

    Mentoring pre-teenagers and facilitating wish granting for gravely ill children and young adults

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  Alcatel-Lucent

  • Finland
  • Telecommunications
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Software Architect

    • Dec 2003 - Oct 2009

    Specify software and hardware product requirements and perform feasibility assessments on proposed features for subscriber-facing GPON equipment. Collaborate with software developers, system testers, peers, customer documentation developers, and project managers to achieve project goals. Review external customer documentation for technical correctness and usability. Answer questions and provide needed technical background information to customer documentation developers. • Defined more than 12 releases of User Interface software structure, and behavior specification for offshore development based on international data standards and proprietary data definitions using XML and a proprietary tool set. These deliverables were also used as input to automated testing tools, resulting in user interface functionality that matched interface data definitions and that were automatically testable• Achieved 100% on time delivery of 184 of software technical requirement, user interface specification, hardware/software and software/software interface specification documents – approximately 40% of a 5-person team's production – using UML methodology, Rational Rose®, and MS Word and PowerPoint tools.• Provided development process improvement leadership — identified, proposed, and implemented development process improvements focused on increased requirement quality and timeliness of requirements delivery into the software development process.• Developed a sequence of document templates that resulted in the software development activities being given a CMM Level 3 assessment. • Provided a UML model of the user interface command structure that was used by a set of software coders during a platform transformation project that enabled the coding phase of the project to proceed in the presence of unrelated project delays• Awarded a “High Five Award” by customer documentation developers for outstanding support.

  • Software Development Department Manager

    • Dec 2000 - Dec 2003

    • Team leader• Team builder• Salary administrator• Technical leader• Schedule Manager• Development Team Liaison• Technical Presenter to External customers and development teams.• Resolution of customer trouble reports• Design and implementation of software development process

  • Software Development Team Lead

    • Feb 1998 - Dec 2000

    Led a 5-member team in the object oriented redesign of facility management software in a digital cross-connect product.• Developed a UML model of existing subsystem functionality in collaboration with other team members, validating assigned software module roles against expected product functionality and coding parts of the design in C++, resulting in an operational, highly extensible, and maintainable software package• Provided process improvement mentoring to a team of factory workers focused on quality improvement projects in a component insertion department. • Developed and taught a 10-lesson course for software developers and system testers to enhance understanding of all aspects of the telecommunications industry — rated best instructor of internal classes by course participants. • Provided backup for the customer facing technical assistance group, including software bug report analysis and repair, DCUT in C, and procedurally oriented top level design of feature implementation, resulting in improved external customer perceptions of the targeted product.

  • Software Engineer

    • Nov 1988 - Feb 1998

    • User Interface Software Development.• C++ Software Development• Q.2931 Simulator for Software LIT• SONET ADM Fault Isolation Software Development• Analyzed existing real time process management system• Supported field trial trouble resolution• Analyzed performance in a real time system• Remote Switch Unit Design• Assembly Code Software Maintenance

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  Bell Northern Research

  • Member Technical Staff

    • Nov 1987 - Oct 1988

    • Identified and documented product requirements• Documented implementation strategies• Identified and presented implementation options on specific• Identified development issues

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  Various

  • Early Experience

    • Jun 1974 - Nov 1987

    Progressed through roles at Rockwell International (currently Rockwell Collins), and Alcatel as a programmer of a missile system simulator, written in FORTRAN, to a digital hardware development individual contributor and assembler language software and C++ coder.