Profile

Education

Skills and Areas of Focus

Professional Experience

• Senior Systems and Software Engineer of eCarList
  April 2009 – Present, Dallas, Texas: Developing statistics and analysis software for dealership inventory management.
• Director of Possibilities, Senior Software Developer of Binary Spring
  May 2008 – April 2009, Hurst, Texas and Remote: Coordinated global network of developers and designers to produce full-stack Ruby on Rails applications. Designed, developed, and deployed user interface models, software architectures, automated configuration management and distributed deployment systems.
• Senior Software Engineer, Advanced Systems Division at Elbit Systems of America
  Oct 2005 – May 2008, Fort Worth, Texas: Due to the sensitive nature of defense sector work, some information on this time span is necessarily restricted. Performed information assurance and security certification testing for RF and network systems. Designed and prototyped software, firmware, and hardware for embedded network devices. Wrote and adapted Linux kernel cryptographic modules. Designed user experience and mathematical models for ground and aircraft navigation systems. Led international engineering effort to design, develop, and deploy a nation's grid network architecture and testing infrastructure. Trained software interns in agile methodologies and secure development practices. Performed statistical analysis and mathematical airflow modeling for rotorcraft systems. Debugged network protocol stack implementations. Authored, designed, reviewed, and edited specifications, manuals, software documentation, and marketing materials.
• Director of Operations, Site Administrator of Everything2
  Aug 2005 – Nov 2008, Remote: Coordinated a volunteer staff to grow one of the world's largest online writing communities. Developed and maintained site's open source codebase. Previously served as a content editor and contributed articles specializing in computing, networking, language, and theology.
• Senior Systems Engineer, Vice President / Infrastructure Division of KNSR
  May 2005 – Sep 2005, Dallas, Texas: Architected, deployed, and maintained fault-tolerant DNS, web, authentication, mail, database, and provisioning systems for an internet service provider. Developed and deployed wide area wireless network and support systems. Maintained VOIP infrastructure on Cisco hardware.
• Senior Software Engineer, Senior Systems Administrator of Superhero Networks
  Aug 2003 – May 2005, Mansfield, Texas and Remote: Architected, developed, deployed, and administered turnkey software and systems for internet service provisioning, support ticket management, billing automation, and customer relationship management. Maintained fault-tolerant networks for mail, DNS, authentication, directory services, database support, and support ticket management. Provided third-tier tech support to customers as needed.
• Senior Software and Systems Engineer at Comprehensive Consulting
  Mar 2003 – Aug 2003 North Richland Hills, Texas and Remote: Developed applications to manage human resources and web content management in Research and Development division. Setup and maintained routing equipment, coordinated multiple offices to maintain wide area networks across three states.
• Software Developer, Network Administrator for American Health Underwriters
  Aug 1999 – Mar 2003, Hurst, Texas: Developed telecommunications interface and control systems. Managed medium-scale network platform migration. Designed, deployed and administered email, web, backup, data warehousing, billing, and quality assurance systems. Maintained hybrid TCP/IP and IPX/SPX network.
• Systems and Network Technician at Expert Computer Systems
  Jul 1996 – Aug 1999, Bedford, Texas: Diagnosed and repaired desktops, servers, laptops, displays, and printers. Secured certifications in IBM hardware repair, Microsoft and Novell operating systems, and Samsung PBX phone system architecture. Recognized subject matter expert for all Apple hardware and software. Designed and integrated 250 node hybrid TCP/IP and IPX/SPX metropolitan-area network for a local school district.

Academic Research Labs and Groups

Speech Rhythm and Prosody Lab, Linguistics Department, University of Texas at Arlington

June 2008 – Present, under Dr. Jerold Edmondson: Writing speech-to-text parsers to process spoken Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, and Choctaw. Writing custom linguistic framework to process lexicon, phonology, and morphophonology of 260 spoken languages. Writing speech recognition routines to syllabify speech stream and extract prosodic suprasegmental features of pitch, duration, and stress. Designing and implementing software to aid in the study of pitch-accent languages through automatic transcription and vowel-duration measurements. Designing mathematical models of the human vocal apparatus.

Dispositional Risk Influence Study, Psychology Department, University of Texas at Arlington

Sep. 2007 – Present, under Dr. Daniel Levine: Earned Human Subjects Research Compliance certification. Administering weekly study under IRB guidelines.

Rational Decision Making Lab, Psychology Department, University of Texas at Arlington

Mar 2005 – May 2005, under Dr. Timothy Odegard: Developed game software to evaluate performance on the Iowa Gambling Task.

Volunteer and Independent Contract Work

• May 2009 – May 2009, Fort Worth, Texas:
  Designed cryptographic infrastructure for real-time embedded data storage and retrieval device for a local defense electronics company.
• Sep 2005 – Oct 2005, Fort Worth, Texas:
  Adapted and maintained web-based, data-driven failure analysis and corrective action system for a local defense electronics company.
• Sep 2004 – Apr 2005, Arlington, Texas:
  Designed, developed, and deployed neural network and genetic algorithm-driven weather, status, demographics, and hotel, car, and airfare tracking, categorization, and prediction model based on a Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl stack with custom object relational database mapper for a local travel agency.
• Mar 2004 – Jun 2004, Dallas, Texas:
  Designed and implemented convergent VOIP network for international phone switching company.
• Jan 2003 – Mar 2005, Anahuac, Chihuahua, Mexico:
  Coordinated and collected donations of computer and network hardware for a children's home in Mexico. Designed and integrated donated parts into educational network. Led transportation and deployment effort in main facility in Mexico. Documented network architecture and provided training to the home's staff.
• Oct 2001 – Mar 2002, Boston, Massachusetts:
  Developed eigenspatial biometric facial recognition authentication and access control system for a security company.
• Jun 2001 – Aug 2001, Arlington, Texas:
  Developed inventory and accounting system for a group of car dealerships.

Interviews

Publications

Honors and Awards