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Steven L

System Engineer

Occupation:

System Engineer

Education Level:

Doctorate

Will Relocate:

YES

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Qualifications Summary: Skills Work Examples Results * Systems Integration Led team of 4 engineers integrating multiple legacy imagery databases into one consolidated, digital database without losing 24/7-access to the data. This included coordinating the efforts of 4-6 contractor teams representing 3 government agencies Accomplished on time, within budget. Our team received an NGA Unit Citation for our support * Project Leadership Led teams of 7-17 engineers in support of standing up the NGA Software Asset Management Office, providing Analyses of Alternatives, oversight of tools selections, development of custom tools, and providing general inventory discovery and license compliance support for the agency. Cost avoidance and savings of $10-15 Million annually over 6 years. * Agile Application Development Provided requirements definition, oversaw agile development, and provided testing and implementation of a relational database tool to track software acquisition from request, through approvals to installation. Successfully controlled scope creep, focused the effort, and delivered two releases with developer staff cut from 5 to 1. * Business Process Engineering Supported instantiation of requirements-based tracking for DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Safeguards and Security directorate, and DOE's Directorate of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Supported down scoping of budgets, reduction of projects to meet budget, while preserving mission accomplishment. * Requirements Documentation Led efforts in defining worldwide communications requirements, software application requirements and functional test requirements for an agency of the Intelligence Community. I conducted customer/user interviews, and used the CORE Case Tool as well as DOORS for requirements documentation validation and analysis Detailed requirements documentation delivered on time and on budget. Received letter of commendation form Program Manager for efforts. - for Software Asset Engineering * Promoted from team member to project leader within first year * Oversaw the contractual reduction of staff from 17 to 7 contractors, keeping the team focused on mission, receiving 3 certificates of appreciation from the Government, and 2 from the contractor PMO, and receiving increasing performance bonuses each year of the contract. * Developed all operational processes for the NGA Software Asset Management (SAM) Office, Certified all or my engineers in all IT Asset Management disciplines, qualified all as International Association of IT Asset Managers (IAITAM) approved trainers, and provided certification training to all NGA SAM Government Staff, certifying over 90% of the staff as CSAM, and receiving accolades from the SAM director for this effort. The NGA SAM office is considered the exemplar for the Intelligence Community and has been recognized by Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Federal Computer Weekly as such. * Co-author of two professional papers on Software Asset Management and Software Asset Engineering published in the International Association of IT Asset Mangers ITEK magazine (2014, 2017). * Given corporate manager position for all IT Asset Management work. 6 contractor teams from 3 Government Agencies * LCP team received the NGA Unit Citation for phases 1-3 of the effort. I joined as an integration engineer at the beginning of phase 2 and was promoted to team lead for phase 3 on the merit of my phase 2 performance. * Received annual pay raises and performance bonuses for my efforts. Moved to SAM as staffing downsized after completion of phase 3 * Logistician Transportation and Military Police operations. Transferred * Began as a test engineer for one application of the intelligence database * After 6 months, promoted to team lead of a 6-engineer team developing functional test plans * Authored Paper for the International Council of Systems Engineering 1996 conference as a 1LT (Promotable) to the US Navy

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