Embedded Software Engineer; Veteran of Aerospace R&D
Greater Denver Area
- Current
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- Senior Software Engineer (R&D) at CaridianBCT
- Past
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- Senior Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
- Space Intelligence Officer at US Army Strategic Command
- Senior Consultant at CGE&Y
- Staff Technician at Alternative Resources Corporation
- Network Analyst at University of Cincinnati
- Education
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- Kansas State University
- University of Cincinnati
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Shawn Price’s Summary
Shawn is a talented, intuitive thinker with nearly ten years of experience in the industry and an affinity for solving complex problems. He has demonstrated himself to be versatile across multiple lifecycle workflows – requirements management, design and development, test, and configuration/build management – and adept at learning new concepts and practices rapidly. Furthermore, Shawn has acquired specialized, in-depth, graduate-level education and training in embedded real-time systems, formal software specification methods and Six Sigma process improvement strategies.
Shawn Price’s Specialties:
Six Sigma Green Belt; embedded/real-time system development (C/C++ and RTOS); distributed computing; journeyman in reconfigurable computing (FPGA design); Unix systems programming; Java software development; OOAD; formal specification of reactive and concurrent systems; military space and intelligence operations; aerospace technologies.
Shawn Price’s Experience
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Senior Software Engineer (R&D)
CaridianBCT
(Medical Devices industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Performing embedded real-time software engineering activities for the Trima Accel Collection System – an FDA-approved medical device providing automated blood collection and apheresis processing. As part of the Trima R&D team, responsibilities included interpretation of market requirements and regulatory constraints into requirements specifications; design specification, review and implementation; functional testing; and defect report resolution for both safety-critical and non-critical software.
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Senior Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
January 2004 — February 2007 (3 years 2 months)
* Performed software programming and test for the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS), including development and qualification testing for TT&C subsystem.
* R&D, technical design and implementation of management services components for a next-generation, deep-packet filtering networked appliance. Special emphasis on: remote software update, unified logging, embedded processor state management, encryption/IP protection.
* Conducted technical design, implementation and documentation in support of a multi-intelligence collections management software system. Activities include design, development and test of applications and build tools; development of end-to-end build process; trade analysis and integration of several COTS and open source products, including an object-relational mapping technology that successfully replaced 70% of custom code with minimal reoccurring engineering cost.
* Founder, DSO Reconfigurable Computing (RC) Working Group. -
Space Intelligence Officer
US Army Strategic Command
(Government Agency; Military industry)
March 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 11 months)
Provided subject matter expertise to operational military commanders on threat space doctrine and use of space-based assets; Advised on operational exploitation of US and commercial space-based assets for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), communications, and weather and environmental monitoring.
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Senior Consultant
CGE&Y
(Public Company; CAP; Management Consulting industry)
March 1999 — March 2002 (3 years 1 month)
-LDAP metadirectory-based service provisioning and security applications development
-Java/J2EE enterprise application analysis, design and development
-RDBMS (Oracle, MS SQL Server, and MS Access) data-driven applications
-Member of CGE&Y National Security Solutions Consulting Team (Directory Specialist), providing expertise in building security strategies from the perspective of LDAP directory integration (account management, PKI infrastructure, single sign-on authentication, etc.) -
Staff Technician
Alternative Resources Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ALRC; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1997 — March 1999 (1 year 8 months)
-Provided network support (Novell Netware 4.11, Windows 95) to the entire Procter & Gamble Cincinnati user population
-Analysis, design and development of distributed Java and VB applications supporting e-Procurement and infrastructure management strategies in conjunction with Procter & Gamble and IBM/ISSC. -
Network Analyst
University of Cincinnati
(Educational Institution; Computer Networking industry)
March 1994 — April 1996 (2 years 2 months)
-Network and workstation management for 480+ node Novell Netware 4.11 LAN
-University College tutor in C++ and x86 Assembly
-UI development for Intranet web applications used by system management in maintaining network services and user accounts
Shawn Price’s Education
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Kansas State University
Master of Software Engineering , Embedded and Real-Time Systems , 2003 — 2007
3.87/4.0 GPA
Program of Study included: Advanced software engineering, specification and management; specification of reactive and concurrent systems (PhD-level); advanced computer networks and protocol engineering; artificial intelligence; embedded software development, and real-time operating system porting and component/driver development; FPGA design using Verilog and Altera tools; quantitative problem solving for operational research.- Activities and Societies:
- IEEE Student
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University of Cincinnati
B.S , Criminal Justice, Computer Science , 1992 — 1997
3.2/4.0 GPA; Double major.
- Activities and Societies:
- ROTC Alumni, Military Science Minor, Golden Key National Honors Society Nominee.
Additional Information
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Shawn Price’s Interests:
skateboarding/longboarding/freebording, snowboarding, weigthlifting, running, reading, indoor soccer
Shawn Price’s Groups:
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Real-Time Embedded Engineering
Shawn Price’s Honors:
Military
* Army Commendation Medal
* Natiional Defense Service Medal
* Joint Forces Commendation Medal
Civilian
2004 Finalist, Mars Society Kepler Design Contest, Commercial Division:
Contributing member to Team Enterprise - an independent research team for future Mars Earth Return Vehicle (ERV) design. Primary responsibilities were in design of Navigation and Attitude Control and Commanding and Data Handling Subsystems, including power and weight estimates, system specification and architectural design, and analysis of COTS products. Supported design contributor for Infrastructure and Environmental Control Subsystem by designing the electronics platform supporting I&EC. Team Enterprise advanced as far as international finals in professional division, with special note given to my Navigation and Attitude Control Subsystem design, which used a genetic algorithm-based AI function to compute optimal Hohmann transfers over co-planer orbits for unmanned navigation.
Shawn Price’s Contact Settings
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