Freelance Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, SOA Architect at MBO Partners
Greater New York City Area
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- Freelance Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, SOA Architect at MBO Partners
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- Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton
- Program Support Specialist at Vaxcom Services
- Engineering Manager at Adir Technologies
- Technical Manager/Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T
- Post-doctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin
- graduate student at University of Rochester
- Education
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- University of Rochester
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Duane Bowker’s Summary
I have over 27 years experience in communications systems design, development, integration and testing. I hold eight U.S. patents and numerous international patents for inventions related to voice and data communications. I enjoy challenging assignments that provide opportunities for working with highly talented people, for learning new technologies and for advancing my skill set.
Duane Bowker’s Specialties:
Software systems design and development, web services design and implementation, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), systems integration, data communications protocols, inferential statistics, data mining and predictive data modeling, communications systems engineering, systems test, visual and auditory psychophysics, active high-level U.S. security clearances.
Duane Bowker’s Experience
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Freelance Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, SOA Architect
MBO Partners
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Co-author of white paper on IC/DoD Service Oriented Architecture initiatives (customer: Booz Allen);
Supporting Army Net-Centric Data Strategy, authoring Developer's Guide for Army Data Services Layer applications (customer: Booz Allen);
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Booz Allen Hamilton
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; BAH; Management Consulting industry)
October 2007 — September 2008 (1 year )
System design and software development of an integrated datacom test platform in support of an Army CECOM (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.
SOA Architect on the Army Data Services Layer (ADSL) program, helping to define services and operations, developing service schemas and WSDLs. -
Program Support Specialist
Vaxcom Services
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1999 — July 2007 (8 years 7 months)
Software design and development of JMS-based XML messaging interfaces for control of remote host processes managed by TIBCO BusinessWorks. Design and development of a library of BusinessWorks "convenience functions" for easily managing remote host processes and LDAP access. Design and development of a set of higher-level TIBCO BusinessWorks process definitions that orchestrate a large-scale multi-host, multi-platform operations environment. Software design and development of SOAP/XML messaging interfaces, both client and server-side. Software design and development of utilities for LDAP Directory Service access and administration, of utilities for JDBC database access, of JMS messaging daemons with JMX-based control and monitoring interfaces. Software design and development of portlet-based and JSP-based web-interfaces for OA&M procedures. Author of selected Systems Interface Control Documents, Systems Functional Requirements Specfications. Data mining and predictive data modeling.
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Engineering Manager
Adir Technologies
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
November 2000 — June 2001 (8 months)
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 of Systems Engineering and Systems Test teams.
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Technical Manager/Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
AT&T
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)
July 1980 — December 1998 (18 years 6 months)
1994-1998: 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. Managed a 10-person software design and development team.
1985-1994: 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.
1983-1985: Lead Systems Engineer for MERLIN Communications System, Model 1030/3070, Feature Module 4 (Teleconnect, August 1986, "overall rating 9.5 out of 10"). -
Post-doctoral Fellow
University of Wisconsin
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
July 1981 — June 1983 (2 years )
On a research grant from the National Eye Institute to the Department of Ophthalmology. 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.
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graduate student
University of Rochester
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
1976 — 1980 (4 years )
Duane Bowker’s Education
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University of Rochester
Ph.D. , Center for Visual Science (cross-disciplinary) , 1976 — 1980
- Activities and Societies:
- Optical Society of America, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
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Duane Bowker’s Interests:
Software design and development, statistics and experimental design, writing and recording my own music, backpacking, kayaking
Duane Bowker’s Groups:
Booz Allen Hamilton
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Duane Bowker’s Honors:
Eight United States patents, two AT&T Harvey Fletcher Awards for "...patents demonstrating significant commercial importance to AT&T", AT&T Bell Laboratories Distinguished Technical Staff Award for "...outstanding and sustained contributions to the technical mission of Bell Laboratories"
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