Duane O. Bowker Curriculum Vitae

Duane O. Bowker
Email: [email protected]

Qualifications:

• Seventeen years as an Engineer and Technical Manager at AT&T Bell Laboratories, contributing significantly to several successful product offerings. Nine subsequent years as a technical contractor on programs for the Federal Government.

• Demonstrated proficiency in Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Systems Engineering, System Test, Project Management.

• Expertise in systems integration, web services design and implementation, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), asynchronous data communications and messaging protocols.

• Eight United States Patents (and numerous international patents) for inventions related to voice and data communications, others pending.

• Over 40 technical papers published in professional journals or presented at professional meetings.

• Over 250 customer/internal technical documents published.

• Several merit-related awards, including the AT&T Bell Laboratories Distinguished Technical Staff Award for "...outstanding and sustained contributions to the technical mission of Bell Laboratories" and two AT&T Harvey Fletcher Patent Trophies for "...patents demonstrating significant commercial importance to AT&T".

• Ph.D. from the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester (1980), plus two years post-doctoral work in Physiological Optics at the University of Wisconsin (1981-1983).

Employment History

Retired (8/12 - present)

Freelance Systems Engineer, Software Engineer contracting through MBO Partners (11/08 - 7/12)

• Support Army Data Center Consolidation Program by designing and implementing software Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tools for working with Microsoft SQL Server, Intuit QuickBase, and Microsoft Access databases. (customer: Army Software Engineering Center through Booz Allen Hamilton)
• Design and develop data-oriented web services and client applications for Army C2 Data Sharing Pilot and for Army Battle Management Language (BML) initiative. Develop data access and data publication clients for JC3IEDM data store, for Tactical Edge Data Service (TEDS) and for Tactical Ground Reporting system (TiGR). Develop C2Core-native data access and data publication applications for the Android. (customer: Army PM Battle Command and Army Chief Information Office (CIO-G6), through Booz Allen Hamilton)
• Design, implement and document a Software Development Kit (SDK) to support Army Data Services initiatives. The SDK facilitates the production of web services that are compliant with Army and UCore message interface standards, is currently in use by multiple Army programs-of-record. (customer: Army CIO/G-6, through Booz Allen Hamilton)
• Author Developers' Guides for Army Data Services application design and development. Develop software and build artifacts to accompany Developers' Guides (WSDLs, schemas, java source files, Ant and Maven2 build scripts, Hibernate configuration files, deployment descriptor files, etc). (customer: Army CIO/G-6, through Booz Allen Hamilton)
• Support Army Data Services and Net-Centricity initiatives by authoring service specifications, WSDLs, schemas, architecture documents, white papers. (customer: Army CIO/G-6, through Booz Allen Hamilton)

Booz Allen Hamilton, Associate (10/07 - 9/08)

• SOA Architect on the Data Services Layer - Army (DSL-A) program, helping to define services and operations, developing service schemas and WSDLs, participating in design and development of DSL-A Reference Implementation. (customer: Army CIO/G-6)
• Solely responsible for system design and software development of an integrated wireless datacom test platform in support of an Army Communications Electronics Command program at Fort Monmouth. System follows a distributed processing architecture with remote XML daemons, a centralized application server, a MySQL relational database for storing performance results, and a Jetspeed-2 user portal. Design and development of custom portlet applications for conducting tests and for retrieving and graphing results of tests.

Vaxcom Services Inc., Program Support Specialist (6/01 - 9/07)

• Author selected Systems Interface Control Documents, Systems Functional Requirements Specfications
• Design and implement SOAP/XML messaging interfaces, client-side and server-side
• Design and implement JMS-based XML messaging interfaces for control of remote host processes managed by TIBCO BusinessWorks. Design and implement a library of BusinessWorks "convenience functions" for easily managing remote host processes and LDAP access. Design and implement a set of higher-level TIBCO BusinessWorks process definitions that orchestrate a large-scale multi-host, multi-platform operations environment.
• Design and implement utilities for LDAP Directory Service access and administration, and of utilities for database access, of JMS messaging daemons with JMX-based control and monitoring interfaces
• Design and implement portlet-based and JSP-based web-interfaces for OAM&P (Operations, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning) procedures
• Development Integration and Test (DIT) Manager for multi-vendor, multi-platform government program (2001-2002)

ADIR Technologies, Inc., Engineering Manager (11/00 - 6/01)

• Project Management of joint Adir/Cisco VoIP development, some software and test support for same
• System design specifications for Adir VoIP Application Management offerings
• Engineering Manager in charge of growing and managing Systems Engineering, Systems Test, Project Management, Documentation and Customer Technical Support Teams

Vaxcom Services Inc., Site Supervisor & Communications Systems Engineer (1/99 - 10/00)

• Project Management of design, development and testing of DSP sub-system for U.S. Government applications (through AT&T)
• Software architecture and algorithm design for same.
• Development Integration and Test (DIT) Manager for overall Project.

AT&T DSP Architecture Group, Technical Manager (5/94 - 12/98)

• Lead DSP system design, software development and systems test teams for multiple network signal processing projects, including AT&T SoundScan and projects for the Federal Government.
• Negotiate budgets, project requirements and milestones for high-powered ten person group. Responsible for hiring/firing and performance feedback.

AT&T Voice Quality Assessment, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (7/85 - 4/94)

• Responsible for voice Quality-of-Service engineering of AT&T network, performance evaluations of AT&T products and services.
• Identify opportunities for positive competitive differentiation of AT&T products and services, as with invention of AT&T TrueVoice. Lead algorithm design, performance engineering teams for TrueVoice.
• Establish Voice Quality Assessment Lab as World-Class evaluation facility. Develop and maintain all lab software, configure and calibrate essentially all lab apparatus during tenure.

AT&T Small Business Systems, Member of Technical Staff (7/83 - 6/85)

• Lead Systems Engineer for MERLIN Communications System, Model 1030/3070, Feature Module 4 (Teleconnect, August 1986, "overall rating 9.5 out of 10").
• Training and support of users in MERLIN 206/410 Controlled Market Introductions, feeding customer data back to engineering and development process.
• Manage development, production and distribution process for all MERLIN documentation; significantly improve quality of documentation while simultaneously slashing costs.

Department of Ophthalmology, Univ. Wisconsin, Post-Doctoral Fellow (7/81 - 6/83)

• Design and conduct state-of-the-art experiments in spatio-temporal visual psychophysics. Develop all software, configure and calibrate all lab apparatus involved. Perform analyses of data, present results at professional meetings, publish papers in refereed scientific journals.

AT&T Consumer Products, Member of Technical Staff (6/80 - 6/81)

• System Engineering and User Interface Design for Fire Emergency Call System.

Computer and Data Communications Skills:

• Languages: Java (primary), C#/C/C++, SAS, Perl, Tcl/Tk, UNIX Shell, SQL, awk, HTML/CGI/JSP, JavaScript
• Development and Build Environments: Eclipse Galileo, Visual Studio 2010 Professional, SQL Server Integration Services, Oracle WebLogic Workshop, TIBCO BusinessWorks, Maven2, Ant
• Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, Windows, Mac OS
• Working knowledge of datacom protocols including TCP/IP, SOAP, XML, Frame Relay, HDLC, Ethernet, MIDI
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux Systems Administration, LAN Administration
• Experienced installing, administering and developing applications for TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Automation Platform, JBoss Application Server (4.2.3/4.3), Oracle/BEA WebLogic Server (9.2.3/10.3.3), Apache Tomcat 6, Microsoft IIS 7, IBM WebSphere Application Server (V7), Jakarta Jetspeed Portal, Sun ONE Directory Server (LDAP), OpenLDAP, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL

Education

• Doctorate of Philosophy, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester NY (1980)
• Masters of Science, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester NY (1980)
• Bachelor of Science, Major: Experimental Psychology, State University College of New York at Brockport (1976)
• Technical and Professional Development Courses (selected): Predictive Data Modeling using SAS Enterprise Miner (2006); TIBCO Business Works 5.x Enterprise Solutions Boot Camp (2004); Java Application Development with JClass ServerViews (2004); IBM WebSphere Portal (2003); Java Programming Language (2002); TCP/IP (1998); Frame Relay (1997); ATM (1997); Managing Projects and Project Teams (1993); Five-hour MBA (1993); R&D in a Competitive Environment (1991); Leadership for the Future (1991)