Technical Management Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.1883

Education

1998 University of Maryland, Masters (M.S.) in Technology Management -- "Technology MBA"

1990 Penn State Bachelors (B.S.) in Computer Science

Experience

Executive Management Expertise (over five years)
Strong leadership, entrepreneurial and managerial skills started several Internet and consulting businesses. Self-starter with business development skills ranging from idea generation to product development, product support, marketing, sales, and lifecycle management with full ability to manage an entire company, separate division, or particular departments. Proven success in identifying and securing new business opportunities and converting potential customers into long-term business clients. Ensured customer focus within project teams to assure products could be shipped and sold to customers. Considerable knowledge of active strategic/business issues facing senior executives.
Attracted, motivated, and retained teams of first-class technical and executive staff this included managing outsourcing contractors and overseas/remote development teams. Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills with a proven ability to lead teams and work with others

Project and Product Management Expertise (over eight years)
Proposed policy, wrote strategic plans, and created business plans. Analyzed requirements, proposed software projects, presented solutions, created software development plans, and wrote technical and end-user documentation. Helped create and implement formal software development methodologies.
Led software development teams of up to fifteen analysts, software engineers, testers, and documentation specialists. Participated in teams of up to 25 software engineers. Managed software teams in regulated (FDA, DOD) and non-regulated environments with formal methodologies and QA/QC and Configuration Management processes.

Software Development Expertise (over thirteen years)

C/C++, JavaMicrosoft/Visual C++, Borland C++ Builder, Borland C++, UNIX C & C++, Symantec
C++, Borland JBuilder, Visual J++, Symantec Cafe
Internet/Web Java, J2EE, WebLogic, WebSphere, Perl 4/5, CGI, WWW, HTML, Resin, Tomcat, Cold Fusion, IIS, Apache, CGI, FastCGI, mod_perl, application servers, e-commerce components, routing and IP technologies
Mobile/Hand Held -Palm, Pocket PC, Win CE, WAP
FrameworksJ2EE, Struts, , RMI, ActiveX, OLE, MFC, OWL, Zinc, ZApp, StarView, VCL,
RADVisual C++, Delphi, JBuilder, Symantec Cafe, Borland Pascal, Visual Basic, Visual
J++, and PowerBuilder.
GroupwareMS Exchange, Lotus Notes, HTML Help, WinHelp, and MediaView.
Databases Oracle 8/9, Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, Microsoft Access, dBase, and FoxPro in both client/server and Web/CGI environments.
ApplicationsMultimedia, Business-critical, GUI, CAD, engineering, graphics, networking, and database applications

Multi-platform Software Development Expertise
ClientsWindows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT Workstation, Macintosh, Linux, X Windows, MS-DOS, Windows 3.x
Servers Windows NT Server (3.5, 4.0, 2000), UNIX (IBM AIX 3/4, Sun Solaris 2/7/8), Novell Netware, Linux, BSDI, FreeBSD

Co-Founder, CEO of communications company (2001 to present) Lanham, Maryland
Co-founded this information technology professional services and software development tools firm. Serve as Systems Architect for American Red Cross National Biomedical Computer System
(NBCS) medical device platform through Northrop Grumman Responsible for architecture and technology strategy impacting American Red Cross’s mission- and safety-critical software.
Serve as a technology consulting to a variety of small- and medium-sized clients helping with strategy and implementation of technology plans.
Developed and selling the patent-pending Sparx Application Platform™ (see http://www.netspective.com for more information).
Responsible for all aspects of business development, sales, marketing, product development, and customer service

1999 to 2001 Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer  Tysons Corner, Virginia
Co-founded this healthcare-focused pure Internet ASP company -- reported to Chief Executive Officer; created, grew, and led the team that built and deployed a high-volume healthcare transaction processing site.
Developed and managed large-scale complex software applications with integrated hand-held
(mobile, Palm, PocketPC) and e-mail functionality. Managed the Intellectual Property associated with all software applications.
Developed a unique, highly-personalized, dbms-agnostic integrated OLTP and data warehouse
(patent-pending) for the healthcare community that could manage millions of patient records for any healthcare participant (clinics, hospitals, insurance companies).
Translated business needs into technical specifications and technical needs into business specifications, managed project plans, and created realistic project schedules on "Internet- time". Managed the full life cycle project delivery from customer negotiations and budget control to identifying staff, client management and P & L responsibility.
Managed the privacy and security environments of healthcare data that was governed by
HIPAA and other government mandates.
In addition to all the management responsibilities, was personally responsible for all coding in
Perl, Java, and JavaScript roughly 1/3 of all of the applications.

TRW Information Systems
1995 to 1999 Chief Software Architect, NBCSTysonsCorner, Virginia
Led the technical team responsible for the development of the American Red Cross National Biomedical Computer Systems (NBCS) Releases 1.0 and 1.1. The Red Cross NBCS system is the largest automated blood collection and distribution system in the world, responsible for delivery of over 50% of the blood supply in the United States. NBCS is deployed over a heterogeneous, distributed client/server environment with IBM AIX and Microsoft NT servers,
and host-based and Microsoft Windows clients. Responsible for team leadership, software specifications, software development (ANSI C/C++ and UNIX Shell scripts), design reviews, code reviews, code management, scheduling, interviewing, and hiring
Led the technical team responsible for the development and deployment of several client/server components of NBCS Release 1.1. These include medium-size applications that perform centralized reporting services (using Web/CGI applications, Crystal Reports and Delphi) and telerecruiting (using the Web and SQL Windows).
Led the team responsible for the development and deployment of the American Red Cross Document Distribution System (DDS), a Perl and CGI-based distributed document tracking and revisioning system that runs within an Intranet.
Assisted in the development and implementation of formal software development and maintenance methodologies. Helped train staff members in project planning and software methodology.
Developed an interactive intranet/web site to support all software engineering and development projects within the NBCS project using a combination of Netscape web servers, Netscape clients, HTML code, CGI scripts written in Perl and UNIX Shell scripts. Developed a reference library that includes search and retrieval capabilities and cross-referencing of engineering, system design, and various technical documents. Automated the entry, searching, and reporting of software defects and enhancements. Supported the website as Webmaster for three years.
Responsible for daily management of software development environment including but not limited to software code repository, configuration management tools, parallel development environment, and system administration.
Participated in the software development of NBCS 1.0 by developing and specifying common components, libraries, and application-specific code in ANSI C, Perl, and UNIX Shell scripts. Designed and developed application installation and patching software.

BDM Federal, Inc.
1994-1995 Senior Software Engineer/Consultant Germantown, Maryland
Assisted in development of Visual C++ and MFC applications for Department of Energy's project management tasks. The applications allow sophisticated planning and tracking of milestones, resources, time, cost, and constraints. Also included full charting, variance analysis, budgeting, and word-processing support internally. Applications are used by dozens of branch offices across the United States over heterogeneous client/server networks and the output from the application is presented to Congress for annual funding requirements.
Acted as leader of common components group to analyze requirements, create designs, and perform actual coding. Conducted team development, acted as design lead, and performed general management duties.
Designed and coded a multimedia text retrieval program for corporate communications using
Microsoft Help, MediaView, and Lotus Notes
Interfaced with clients during client reviews.

Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWCDD)
1990-1994 Software Engineer (Civilian) with Secret ClearanceWhite Oak, Maryland
Developed C++ software on a team project. C++ application was for ground-based UNIX workstations to perform simulation and testing of ship-based computer software and hardware. Tasks included overall design of system, programming the X-Windows user interface, parsers and simulation tools, and writing documentation.
Developed MS-Windows and OSF Motif software tools in C++ and Borland Pascal to perform reverse engineering and analysis of over fifty megabytes of code and data used on AEGIS-class cruisers and destroyers Required complete database analysis and design specifications, communication with end-users, downsizing to client/server paradigm, programming the software, and documentation.
Created software tools in C++ and Borland Pascal to track flow of changes between different software revisions of ship-based computer software for AEGIS-class cruisers.
Enhanced programs in FORTRAN and C to support underwater (submarine) vessel simulation projects.
Worked on MARS project, using C, for support of low-level networking of Sun and IRIS workstations. Networking support was needed to enhance war games and hi-res 3D graphics for fleet combat simulation programs.
Wrote and have had published technical reports and highlights. Served as chairman of the
OOP subcommittee of the Navy Next Generation Computer Resources group

1986-1990 Structural of Texas, Inc. Software Engineer Dallas, Texas
Designed, developed, and coded custom software solutions in C, C++, and Turbo Pascal to automate tasks such as drawings (using hi-res graphics), engineering calculations, and design sheets for this structural and civil engineering firm. Transformed a department of 25 engineers and draftsman working manually to 7 working with computers. Increased efficiency and output many times over.
Designed and coded programs in Turbo Pascal for estimating contract costs and producing estimating reports; installed and taught usage of accounting and database software for the accounting department.
System integration tasks included set up of complete software and hardware operations for automating both the engineering and drafting departments.

Affiliations

Chairman, IEEE Computer Society Northern Virginia Chapter
Director/Board Member, ISL Software Corporation (Multimedia Software Producer)

References

Available upon request