SUMMARY:

• Passionate dynamic leader with a track record of growing projects through a service approach to management combined with the technical skills to ensure the successful development and deployment of complex systems.
• Expert knowledge in Agile Scrum Methodologies and leadership of systems requiring hardware and software interfaces.
• Specialized knowledge in Product Development, Integrating Products in a project environment, Embedded Control systems and Enterprise Architectures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, ADA, VB, VBScript, Batch, Java, JavaScript, PHP.

Web Service and Interface Standards: HTTP, REST, SOAP, WSDL, SOA, XML, HL7 v2, HL7 v3, FHIR.

Source Control: TFS, SVN, CVS, Clearcase, PVSC, sccs

IDEs: Visual Studio 2013, Eclipse, NetBeans and Visual Studio .NET.

Web Applications: IIS, Tomcat, XML, Glassfish, Fuse, JBoss, Jetty, JQuery, MooTools, NetKernel, Sencha Touch, Spring Framework, XSLT.

Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Maven, Subversion, TFS.

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows Mobile, Embedded Windows, Unix and Windows.

Control/Hardware Systems: VMEbus, PCI, cPCI, RS - 232, FDDI, ATM, Firewire, USB, GPIB, Modbus (and most common Industrial Control busses).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Melbourne, FL

Director of Software Engineering

• Leading a team of software managers and engineers in the development of advanced in - flight entertainment systems, aircraft communication systems and supporting systems. Oversees a 180 person software engineering unit throughout lifecycle development of products into aircraft and ground-based equipment. Providing vision and guidance in building high quality products that meet the business needs of Thales.
• Provides leadership by seeing what needs to be done and taking action.
• Working to transform the organization under the guidance and vision of Thales; inwardly within software and outwardly to adapt the organization to fit the true needs.
• Building “One team, One Thales” by building trust bridges to create long lasting relationships that build and expand a deeper respective organization. Significantly improved relationships allows for open communication, strategic discussions regarding how to work with the end customer, and improved quality through collaboration with all teams.
• To improve the relationship, the issue was directly addressed individually and in a team environment by conducting a book club with “Crucial Conversations.” In a team setting with all the SW managers Ben was able to coach each manager using direct daily conversations as examples. Monday Moments were developed for communication to a broad audience within engineering. SW Managers provide feedback on a weekly basis which is rolled into the deck for distribution.
• Seeing the big picture is important to recognize the actions that need to be made. But seeing and taking action is the only way to improve the processes and products.
• Adapting to change providing innovative solutions to problems at hand. Transforming the entire organization from waterfall to Agile. Innovation Day and Agile Moments improve and re-enforce the core principles of the agile methodology.

Confidential, FL

Director of Software Engineering

• Leading the software engineering team in the development of Confidential research projects. As a transformational leader, the goal was to successfully transform a project based organization into a product based organization. Responsibilities include supporting the design and construction of technology platforms for R&D program and product development.
• Managing software engineering teams and associated budget allocations; oversight of the end to end software development life cycle and associated agile methodology; works directly with senior leadership to ensure alignment between tactical engineering efforts and strategic objectives; helps drive technology direction and decisions; interfaces with internal departments to ensure open and effective communication and smooth transition of work products between organizations; attracts, hires and retains top engineering talent; plays an active role in key architecture and implementation decisions; has an active role in team and company-wide architecture discussions; demonstrates leadership in helping team members overcome problems; and interacts regularly with management and stakeholders to communicate status, assists in innovation of new technologies and systems by performing research into new techniques and technologies necessary for developing software offerings in applications. Facilitates the agile team efforts to create detailed requirements, design, architecture, code, peer reviews, and test approaches.

Confidential, Melbourne, FL

Project Engineer/Chief Innovation Architect

• Product architect for Referral Management Product, Technical Lead for several strategic healthcare projects, and architect in charge of innovation projects. Current innovation projects include the development a migration strategy and technical architecture for generationally divergent portal products for upgrades; the evaluation of Big Data solutions in conjunction with partnerships and the acquisition of data rights; the generation of rapid development tools for improved efficiency in creating customer specific solutions.

Confidential

Software Factory Manager

• An Engineering Award for Outstanding Project Management and a promotion to Level 5 (Sr. Principle Engineer) were awarded for efforts in creating and successfully leading the agile/scrum development teams.
• As the technical lead for the development team and Certified Scrum Master acted as an Agile Scrum Coach.
• Created Agile Scrum course; taught course; and coached teams throughout Harris in Agile Scrum Methodology.
• Key contributor in the technical evaluation of CareFx Corporation for purposes of merger and acquisition. Following the acquisition, acted as member of the integration team.

Principle Investigator

Confidential

• All research budgetary milestones were met and exceeded the 2% annual variance threshold
• In FY’05 with a budget of $875K, 100% of development milestones were accomplished, 100% of demonstrations were successfully achieved and the budget was met to within 0.1%.

Software Lead

Confidential

• Won over $400 Million in new business
• The Family of Beyond-Line-Of-Site Terminal (FAB-T) proposal was a $300 Million air and ground satellite terminal system (MILSTR). As the Software Lead for proposal, led two software engineers in the design, architecture, and proposal writing effort. Also led the hardware selection (single board computer) for where the software executed. Harris won this $300 Million project.
• While leading the FAB-T proposal, also led two additional proposals, EBEM ($85M) and MP-CDL ($23M). Harris won the MP-CDL project.
• On the EBEM proposal, the US Army praised the prototype hardware, software, and mechanical design created as “innovative and well thought out.”
• Led technical engineering team (Tiger Team) for a program with systemic issues. After program issues were open for several months, the following issues were assigned and fixed in less than three months to the customer’s satisfaction.
• Antenna Control Unit Hard Drive Failure - analyzed customer usage and determine the rotating media failures required a more rugged solution. Resulted in an early use of flash drives in military applications.
• Front End Processor Boot Failure - Worked with the Motorola 162 single board computer (SBC) to identify and correct the boot loading problem using the pSOS operating system. As a result, the boot loader was rebuilt correcting several TFTP errors in the boot PROM.
• SBC replacement - The program was using a Motorola 162 SBC that is no longer available. Successfully identified and transitioned the usage of the new SBC in the system making the necessary pSOS software modifications.

Chief Software Engineer/Architect

Confidential

• Being instrumental in several additional scope extensions for the project led to the project’s 19% ROS.
• Production Contract - Through the successful architecture and design of the system, the customer executed the production phase of the contract ($12M value).
• Facilities Manager - The original proposal to the customer had no concept of a maintenance system. Created the architecture for the system and sold the customer on the concept. This has resulted in a $2 Million increase in development and several million dollars in production increases.
• Maintenance System Server - This work was a small network operations center. The original work was to be performed by another vendor and was taken over by Harris ($1.5M value).

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

Senior Software Engineer/Team Leader

• Created the initial concept and carried it through the initial product release of IOWorks which is a real-time controller with a graphical programming frontend.
• During the creation of IOWorks managed up to 27 software engineers and technical writers on 13 projects in developing Confidential ’s premier real-time control software product. Software products ranged from low-level NT device drivers to OLE/ActiveX Graphical User Interface (GUI) products. The user interface is based on MFC and is written in C++.
• Designed and developed a no single point of failure fault-tolerant real-time controller (VxWorks based controller). The controller was used in Nuclear Power Plant control system, Rolling mill applications, and amusement ride breaking systems.