Experience

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  NOAA

  • Suitland <MD

  • Deputy Program Manager

    • 2002 - 2011
    • Suitland <MD

    Appointed the Government Task Monitor (GTM) for the Diversified Global Partners JV LLC (DGP), a $200 million ID/IQ (Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity) IT services contract for Task 0008 Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) System Evolution, Development & Security. I provided technical oversight of all CLASS contractor employees designated as involved in systems operations and maintenance. Assist the Program Manager in leading all technical development activities for CLASS. Served as a member of the CLASS Technical Management Team,as such, participated in the overall technical management of CLASS, including the establishment of direction, internal policies, implementation and evaluation of all aspects of CLASS. Government manager for CLASS, including the allocation of resources, establishment of priorities and maintenance of operating schedules. Primary technical interface with the NOAA/NESDIS Data Centers including establishment and maintenance of all CLASS technical linkages, on-line guides, coordinated CLASS inventory database and data distribution functions.

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  Science Systems Applications, Inc.

  • Lanham, MD

  • Staff Scientist

    • Dec 2000 - Jul 2002
    • Lanham, MD

    Responsible for directing and developing plans for operations project teams, analyzing and evaluating on a quantitative basis the effectiveness of line program operations in meeting established goals and objectives; evaluating and advising on organization, methods, and procedures; analyzing operational information requirements; developing, analyzing, and evaluating new or modified management policies, regulations, goals, or objectives; developing procedures and systems for assessing the effectiveness of operational processes. Lead the collaboration of V0/V1 and V2 operations staff to efficiently develop, integrate, and implement NPP SDS into GES DAAC operations concepts. Work in conjunction with the science team and government in an effort to seek new data for ingest and distribution for the user community.Compose and submit to the government proposals for funding.

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  Raytheon Systems Corporation

  • 4400 Forbes Boulevard, Lanham , MD

  • Principal Technical Specialist

    • Jan 1999 - Nov 2000
    • 4400 Forbes Boulevard, Lanham , MD

    Task Lead for the Pathfinder AVHRR Land DST and the NASA GDAAC Shipping/Inventory Group. Tiger Team Task Lead for the processing of the historical NOAA-14 GAC1b data, nine (9) months ahead of schedule, wrote UNIX shell scripts to develop and implement an automated NOAA-14 near-real time processing system. Lead the task to develop UNIX and IDL automated quality control process, processes for logs and reduce the time and the delivery of data products to the GDAAC archive, too meet ATR requirements. Developed and maintain the GDAAC AVHRR internal web site for the management of monthly reports, personnel, procedures and statistics. Consulted NOAA Satellite Active Archive in the development of the SAA on-line ftp services to support NOAA satellite data archives. Lead the development of spreadsheets and GUI tools to track the media, shipping materials, store stock, cabinet inventory and vendors with current inventory, orders, cost accounting and history functions. This has reduced the amount of paper file tracking, to meet ATR requirements.Completed new floor plans, the acquisition of hardware, furniture and training for the shipping group improving working and environment concerns and to support future EOS tasks.Administrative support for performance based contracting, task plans, metrics, bi-annual, monthly and weekly reports, job requisitions, interview/hiring processes and operational schedules.

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  Hughes STX Corporation

  • Greenbelt, MD

  • Principal Technical Specialist NASA Space and Earth Sciences Division

    • Aug 1994 - Dec 1998
    • Greenbelt, MD

    Task Lead for the Pathfinder AVHRR Land DST, transition to the NASA GSFC/DAAC. Responsible for the production of high quality data sets for the AVHRR sensor and the delivery of all products to the GSFC/DAAC archive. Task includes the scheduling, monitoring and performing quality control for all HDF files, setup and executing all data transfers to the DAAC archive.Provided training classes for various members of the processing team during this period on UNIX systems, commands, shell script programming and operations needed to accelerate the processing schedule. Administrative support for performance based contracting, metrics, bi-annual and monthly reports and operational schedules. ISO 9000 requirements were established for control documents, job and system requirements.Supported GLOBE projects quality control and delivered operational procedures and lessons learned to ATR, Dr. Richard White

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  Science Systems & Applications Inc.

  • Lanham, MD

  • Technical Staff IV (Senior Systems and Management)

    • Apr 1990 - Aug 1994
    • Lanham, MD

    Operations Group Leader for the AVHRR Land Pathfinder team started May 1993. Responsible for the end-to-end production for geophysical data sets and ensuring timely production of high quality data, scheduling, quality controls, monitoring processes and the transfer of HDF data products to the GSFC/DAAC. Member of the Land Science Working Group for development of the Pathfinder processes and algorithms and co-authored the lessons learned for EOSDIS. Operations Group Leader for the GIMMS project, coordinate all optical platter duplication and transfers among GSFC, NOAA/NESDIS, JPL/Oceans and GIMMS/923 groups.Operations Group Leader for data transcription of all archived Global AVHRR GAC data tapes to optical platters, in preparation for processing the AVHRR Land Pathfinder using a VAX 11/780, Sony jukebox and RDB on a MicroVAX. Coordinated the transfer of 30,000 data tapes from NCDC, Asheville, NC to GSFC, Englewood, where I managed the group responsible for the sorting and cataloging of the AVHRR GAC data tapes, for the optical transcription task.

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  RMS Technologies, Inc.

  • Landover, MD

  • Senior Operations Analyst

    • Nov 1985 - Apr 1990
    • Landover, MD

    Supported the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics Global Inventory Monitoring and Modeling Study (GIMMS) computer facility. Supported image generation, quality control and analysis for NOAA-7/8/9/11 AVHRR data for the GIMMS project. Interacted with various scientists for custom image generation and training for new users and science staff on various software packages. Support for control of multispectral linear array performance testing and calibration. Support for earth resources analyses and remote sensor evaluation, using quicklook color image and graphics capabilities. Typical applications included Global Inventory Monitoring and Modeling, monitoring of volcanoes and other natural and unnatural phenomena, locust and vegetation indexing. Previous responsibilities included the near-real time aviation flight routing system for a commercial airline, federal Aviation Agency and foreign countries. Nimbus-7 TOMS data was used to determine atmospheric ozone content for Trans-continental flights Assisted the engineering staff in the generation and quality control of engineering logic wire lists and drawings for the fabrication of computer interfaces for the near-real time data acquisition systems.