Bill Wacek
Technical Lead at The DarkStar Group, LLC- Claim this Profile
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Wayne Wheeles
Bill is a very interesting individual who like me does not view technology as a hobby. Bill is a dedicated professional and a great team player. In working with him, I was amazed at his experience and interest in a broad range of technology. Bill is well versed in a variety of SQL and NOSQL solutions; as well as the key data types in Cyber Security. Bill is a real student of the game, who will be a critical resource to any organization that he works for. ~Wayne
Bryan George
Bill has an excellent grasp of the software and systems engineering aspects of advanced digital signal processing in defense and government applications, and would be on anyone's A-team list on such a project.
Wayne Wheeles
Bill is a very interesting individual who like me does not view technology as a hobby. Bill is a dedicated professional and a great team player. In working with him, I was amazed at his experience and interest in a broad range of technology. Bill is well versed in a variety of SQL and NOSQL solutions; as well as the key data types in Cyber Security. Bill is a real student of the game, who will be a critical resource to any organization that he works for. ~Wayne
Bryan George
Bill has an excellent grasp of the software and systems engineering aspects of advanced digital signal processing in defense and government applications, and would be on anyone's A-team list on such a project.
Wayne Wheeles
Bill is a very interesting individual who like me does not view technology as a hobby. Bill is a dedicated professional and a great team player. In working with him, I was amazed at his experience and interest in a broad range of technology. Bill is well versed in a variety of SQL and NOSQL solutions; as well as the key data types in Cyber Security. Bill is a real student of the game, who will be a critical resource to any organization that he works for. ~Wayne
Bryan George
Bill has an excellent grasp of the software and systems engineering aspects of advanced digital signal processing in defense and government applications, and would be on anyone's A-team list on such a project.
Wayne Wheeles
Bill is a very interesting individual who like me does not view technology as a hobby. Bill is a dedicated professional and a great team player. In working with him, I was amazed at his experience and interest in a broad range of technology. Bill is well versed in a variety of SQL and NOSQL solutions; as well as the key data types in Cyber Security. Bill is a real student of the game, who will be a critical resource to any organization that he works for. ~Wayne
Bryan George
Bill has an excellent grasp of the software and systems engineering aspects of advanced digital signal processing in defense and government applications, and would be on anyone's A-team list on such a project.
Credentials
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Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop
ClouderaOct, 2011- Nov, 2024 -
Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop
ClouderaAug, 2011- Nov, 2024 -
CPR/AED
American Red CrossSep, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Wilderness First Aid
American Red CrossMay, 2018- Nov, 2024
Experience
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The DarkStar Group, LLC
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Lead
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Dec 2014 - Present
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Northrop Grumman
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United States
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Cyber Software Engineer
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Aug 2012 - Dec 2014
• Designed and implemented a web UI for a large streaming graph database system using Vaadin • Supported customers at customer site on a proprietary networking-based software package • Designed and implemented a big data repository on a commercial Cloud provider using Hadoop, HBase, Lily, and Solr • Diagnosed and corrected configuration problems for Hadoop, HBase, and ZooKeeper in the Cloud • Constructed virtual clusters for testing of new versions of Hadoop/HBase/Lily software • Designed and implemented a cluster monitoring system using JMX, Ganglia, and Nagios. Wrote many custom scripts to report on a variety of metrics using Python, JRuby, and Bash scripts. • Implemented portions of a geospatial imagery/video system using Java, GDAL, NITRO • Generated system documentation for repository Show less
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Data Tactics
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Solutions Architect
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Nov 2010 - Aug 2012
• Designed and implemented a big data system for gathering, transformation, ingestion, and storage of multiple data types utilizing Java, MongoDB, and Android • Designed and implemented security enhancements to an existing Android application • Implemented enhancements to proprietary software products to support MongoDB and Pig/Hadoop • Performed system engineering duties on a cyber defense big data project • Mentored Interns • Researched and prototyped newer technologies for potential use in solutions, including Hadoop, HBase, Cloudbase/Accumulo, Ruby on Rails, Ozone Widget Framework, Pentaho Data Integration, ActiveMQ, Camel, and ServiceMix Show less
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SAIC
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal Software Systems Engineer
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Mar 2003 - Nov 2010
Chief Architect of the Advanced Technologies Division • Designed and implemented leading edge signal and image processing software systems in support of DOD and Intelligence Community using Java, Python, and C++ • Led development teams as the chief engineer on multiple projects, some using Agile Scrum methodologies • Planned and developed infrastructure to improve divisions performance such as procuring a high-performance NAS and compute cluster system • Managed software projects • Developed user interfaces for software using Java/Swing and C++/Qt • Mentored junior staff members • Administered Windows and Linux Development PCs Show less
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DIGITAL HARBOR, Inc.
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United States
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2000 - Feb 2003
• Developed software solutions in support of Intel Community using Java • Developed commercial server software using Java, Enterprise Java Beans, and CORBA • Performed system analysis and developed requirements for software systems • Led development team efforts, including mentoring junior developers • Developed software solutions in support of Intel Community using Java • Developed commercial server software using Java, Enterprise Java Beans, and CORBA • Performed system analysis and developed requirements for software systems • Led development team efforts, including mentoring junior developers
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Senior Customer Applications Engineer
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Jun 1996 - Oct 2000
• Resolved customer technical issues regarding I-DEAS CAD software API • Designed and developed new commercial software product and internal knowledge base • Developed intranet web site that portrayed technical information on supported products • Instructed customers on I-DEAS CAD software • Administered Windows and UNIX network • Resolved customer technical issues regarding I-DEAS CAD software API • Designed and developed new commercial software product and internal knowledge base • Developed intranet web site that portrayed technical information on supported products • Instructed customers on I-DEAS CAD software • Administered Windows and UNIX network
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Penn State University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Instructor / Lab Administrator
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1993 - 1996
• Taught Engineering Graphics course on using SDRC I-DEAS CAD software • Co-taught Engineering Graphics course on using SilverScreen CAD software, Powerpoint, C++ • Managed a computer lab for the Engineering Graphics Department running Windows NT, Linux, and IBM AIX • Taught Engineering Graphics course on using SDRC I-DEAS CAD software • Co-taught Engineering Graphics course on using SilverScreen CAD software, Powerpoint, C++ • Managed a computer lab for the Engineering Graphics Department running Windows NT, Linux, and IBM AIX
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Education
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2005 - 2009
The George Washington University
MS, Systems Engineering -
1992 - 1996
Penn State University
BS, Mechanical Engineering
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