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Software engineer and architect with over nineteen years of experience, including over fifteen years developing information systems.
Current Roles
Staff Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin (November 2019)
Serving as the lead DevSecOps Architect for an organization charged with developing a modern DevSecOps platform for a large logistics system. Developing associated tooling including a web-based self-service console to automate common tasks.
Technologies: AWS, Rancher/RKE2, ArgoCD, Backstage, GitLab CI/CD, Go, Python, PostgreSQL
Adjunct Faculty at Full Sail University (September 2019)
Teaching Computer Science courses in Software Engineering and Operating Systems.
Past Experience
Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin (January 2019 – November 2019)
Designed and implemented major components of a DevOps system for a large IRAD program with a goal of modernizing development, build, release, and delivery processes for a large logistics system.
Technologies: RedHat OpenShift, Jenkins, RHEL, Python, Java, Git, Maven
Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin (April 2018 – January 2019)
Responsible for technical and schedule performance of a cross-functional team in the research and development of a new logistics technology leveraging data analytics to reduce sustainment cost of an active program. Additional responsibility for staffing and software architecture.
Technologies: JavaEE, Spring, C#, JBoss, Oracle
Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin (June 2018 – March 2019)
Lead a major cost-reduction initiative to move a team of roughly 200 software engineers to more modern development tools and further leveraging those tools to implement modern DevOps practices.
Technologies: Git, Bitbucket, JIRA, Jenkins
Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin (July 2017 – April 2018)
Ensured delivery of critical training components on schedule as a deputy product owner, leading several teams comprising roughly 20 software engineers.
Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin (August 2016 – July 2017)
Ensured a continuing positive relationship with our customer by delivering a detailed release plan for a complex, sustainment-phase software program that enhances and adds to customer-requested capability. Ensured performance toward this plan as the software lead with ownership over cost, technical, schedule, and staffing.
Technologies: C#, C++, VB, Visual Studio, MS SQL Server
Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin (January – June 2017)
Positioned Lockheed Martin RMS for success in capturing new business by developing a high-level design for a reconfigurable cockpit trainer capable of serving multiple variants of Sikorsky’s Blackhawk helicopter.
Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin (April 2015 – August 2016)
Successfully led the design and development of major capabilities as Agile Team Lead (Scrum Master) for the TMS v2 effort. Ensured schedule and cost performance as CAM for parts of the same program.
Technologies: JavaEE, Oracle, Eclipse, JBoss
Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin (July 2012 – April 2015)
Improved the quality of our Learning Management System as Lead for Software Integration and Test Activities, including automated test and continuous integration. Automated deployment of the application through the development of application deployment scripts using an in-house deployment automation tool.
Technologies: Java EE, C#, Python, Jenkins, JUnit, Arquillian, Selenium, Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V, ESXi, SOAP, REST
Other Projects at Lockheed Martin (May 2005 – July 2012)
Lead a small program back to green as the software lead of a program utilizing C code on an embedded Linux platform.
Improved the quality of Engine Control System code by developing Built-In Test (BIT) code in C within a vxWorks environment.
Cut cost by designing and developing a product-line approach to Factory Test Software to support a single FTS solution in C++ across multiple target architectures and real-time operating systems.
College Student Technical Intern at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration (June – August 2004)
Made manned space flight safer through the development BIT code in a vxWorks environment for the Space Shuttle program.
Achievements
In 2023, I was admitted into Lockheed Martin’s Recognized Technical Talent (RTT) program, the entry point of their Fellows pipeline.
In 2017, I graduated from Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technical Leadership Program (ATLP).
Patents
Secure Data Storage and Retrieval
- United States Patent US8539601 B2 Issued September 17, 2013
- Inventors: Walter Richter, Daniel Moch, Ricky R. Martin, Michael Hochdoerfer, Max Smirnoff, Thomas Hanley
Additional Skills & Expertise
Technical Leadership, C, C++, Embedded Software, Test Driven Development, Linux, macOS, Regular Expressions, MySQL, .NET, Team Building, Software Architecture, ClearCase, Object Oriented Design, Visual C, Windows, Subversion, RTOS, WordPress, Technical Writing, NetBeans, Software Documentation, ClearQuest, Selenium
Relevant Education
Reformed Theological Seminary (2014): M.Div., Classes in organizational and cross-cultural leadership
Grove City College (2005): BSEE, Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Computer Engineering
Owego Free Academy (2001): High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates
