Professional Life	Academic Life
General  (this may never get finished...)

 
 

What is all this??  This is my life, actually just a relative subset, but the stuff that someone might actually be interested in.

Most of the information below is also in my Resume ( HTML ), though in condensed form.

• How do you find me?
• Graduation for my Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science was Fall 2000!!
• Guess what?! I was President of the CSGSA
  Here is a listing of events that took place during my presidency.

Professional Life

Work Experience
• I have been a manager at McDonalds!! (~3 yrs)
  • This may sound silly, but hey, many people have lots of difficulty trying to organize a shift of workers, ranging from 10-20 people, such that people don't conflict with one another, and still get things done in time!
  • In addition other interesting aspects of this job were meeting requirements of the FDA, OSHA, the DOL, and corporate requirements of quality.
• I have been a security guard for AKAL Security (~1 yr.)
  • General Security duties (in which I have experienced many things, including being shot at, and training in subduing individuals.)
  • Training Security Officers
  • Site-supervision for Menaul School, Albuquerque.
• I have been a System Administrator for the Office of Graduate Studies (~2 mo.)
  • administering a Novell 3.12 Network, and a Windows95 peer-to-peer network
  • database administration/design (DBA) for a Access/Paradox database
  • minor work assisting with filing related to the DBA work.
• I have been a Student Intern with the City of Albuquerque, Traffic Engineering Division. (~1 yr)
  • This was also mostly due to the Career Services Center
  • Here I performed the duties of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Analyst on the ARC/INFO type of database.
    • I regularly performed
      • data entry
      • database maintenance
      • development of new uses for the database utilities, and the database itself.
      • developed tools using the ARC/INFO Macro Language (AML)
  • I also Performed System Administration Tasks on a Sun Solaris (2.5, 2.6) network, a HP/UX (9.x) network (which through NFS was connected to the Solaris Network), a Novell Netware combined 3.12, and 4.11 network, and a simple Windows9x peer-to-peer network.
  • Beyond that I primarily supported users on PC Applications (which ranged from MSOffice, Wordperfect, network administration utilities for local administrators, to GIS utilities).
    • Included in this was developing a tracking utility using Microsoft Excel (part of the MSOffice suite), and the Visual Basic programming environment included with it.
• I have been an Associate Software Engineer at Honeywell , Defense Avionics Systems in Albuquerque. (~ 3 yrs)
      Thanks, in large part to the Career Services Center
  • While there, I had a one year task in Information Technologies, on thier Applications Development team
    • This was mostly programming for databases, in PLSQL, and C.  These Databases were of the Oracle variety and Atabase (Real-Time Database) design, though there was also some work done in MS Access 2.0 (including Database Design).
      • Financial and Time-Keeping systems
    • Program Management and Planning Tasks occupied a fair amount of my time, as we prepared for the Y2K tasks of updating our systems.
    • Though I also had to do a significant amount of system administration for a HP/UX 10.02 system and an HP/UX 9.x network.
    • Beyond this, I continued what I was best at, at that time, PC Software support for the team (MSOffice, WordPerfect, General Windows applications)
  • Later I worked on the F-18 AMC&D Software Team (2 yrs.)
    • Programming for an embedded real-time aircraft graphics display (the actual application and work on the operating system itself).
    • Designing and implementing, and later simplification, of a process for application builds and delivery of software.
    • Development of internal tools for programming the device, building the application, Configuration Management control
    • Documentation for the software, including a Software Programmer's Manual (for our software API), a Software Version Description and documentation for the internally developed tools.
    • Along with the above, I also continued to perform tasks for System Administration and Software support (though this was more software support on the Sun Solaris Systems that my team worked on.)
• I was a Graduate Student Intern at Sandia National Laboratories from August 2002 to June 2003.
  • This is in an Information Systems Department
    • This job has involved:
      • review of software packages
      • coding in Java,
      • and shell scripting
    • This has been specifically regarding document and image conversion software.
    • Further a clearance has been required for this position, and therefore I had a DOE "L" clearance, basically a Secret level clearance.
• I was a Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin Management and Data Systems in Colorado Springs.
    This is a software maintenance and development position for the GPS ground systems project.
    This job entails:
  • a Secret Level DOD Clearence.
  • Software Engineering in C, CCL (OS/COMET), and Perl.
  • Work with ground systems for satellite communication.
  • Directly interfacing with Airforce personell.
• I was a Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions in Colorado Springs.
    This is a software development position for the NAVY MUOS satellite simulation project.
    This job entails:
  • a Secret Level DOD Clearence.
  • Software Engineering in UML, Ada and Perl.
  • simulating ground systems for satellite communication and satellite on-board systems.