Government Sr. Specialist Software Design at AT&T Government Solutions
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Government Sr. Specialist Software Design at AT&T Government Solutions
- Owner at Sol Biotech Inc.
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- Senior C++ Programmer at Fannie Mae
- Business Analyst / Data Architect at FINRA
- Senior Systems Analyst at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Project Manager at KoSa
- Senior Scientist at Vector Research Inc
- Education
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Pamplin College of Business
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Keith Oxenrider’s Summary
I have been in the IT industry since 1996 working at many levels and in different responsibilities. I have been a project manager, technical lead, testing lead and day-to-day coder. I have worked in government contracting, manufacturing and in bioinformatics. I have been involved in the full life cycle from eliciting requirements and initial prototyping to legacy maintenance. I work equally well in Windows or Unix environments, designing and implementing graphical interfaces or bulk processing back-ends, multi-tier web based applications, client-server or stand alone processing (including multi-processing/threading). I have extensive experience working with databases (primarily MSSQL Server and Sybase) including design, optimization and some administration. I have a very strong interest in information security (I was a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from Dec 2003 - Dec 2006). I also have a passion for optimization and have been able to get more than order of magnitude increases in throughput in various batch applications. My favored programming languages are ANSI C and C++, though I have extensive experience working with Visual Basic 6.0, Perl and various *nix scripts. I work well alone, as a member of a team, as a technical lead, as a project manager or as a consultant. I am very comfortable working with upper management discussing cost/benefit of various technical implementations in terms they find important. I am also very comfortable working with potentially naïve users to learn about requirements and how to alter the interface to suit their needs. I like working with other developers and enjoy being able to mentor (at one point I was a regular on a developer’s bulletin board with over 4,500 posts). For two years I was 'elected' a Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP, 2003-2005).
Keith Oxenrider’s Specialties:
I have over 7 year’s laboratory research experience including 4 publications. My skills included protein purification, PCR, DNA sequencing, gene construction, protein design and expression. I designed a synthetic pyrophospatase and later designed and successfully expressed a synthetic anti-freeze protein. With an improved version of an anti-freeze protein I applied for an NIH SBIR grant. My interests are in designing molecular scale computing devices including a direct DNA sequencing chip.
Keith Oxenrider’s Experience
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Government Sr. Specialist Software Design
AT&T Government Solutions
(Public Company; T; Telecommunications industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
I joined AT&T Government Solutions as a C++ developer to work on the Intrepid project, a packet capture package part of an intrusion detection system designed to handle multiple 10 Gbps streams where I have acted as Systems Engineer. I have a TS/SCI with full scope poly clearance. I am also a certified Scrum product owner.
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Owner
Sol Biotech Inc.
(Biotechnology industry)
1997 — Present (12 years )
This is a company I started many years ago to forward my interests in biotechnology. My current focus for the company is to do research into integrating conventional silicon microcircuits with biological systems. At present I am working on building a DNA sequencing chip that can directly process strands up to a million base pairs long. Many years ago I worked on promoting a business plan to build molecular scale computing devices, but chose the peak of the dotcom hysteria to market it. I have also done research into designing synthetic anti-freeze proteins and was able to successfully build a gene and express the product. The company has all the basic equipment of a biotechnology laboratory.
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Senior C++ Programmer
Fannie Mae
(Financial Services industry)
August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)
I was involved in maintaining the code base that is used to build and evaluate portfolios of mortgage backed securities.
The thing I am most proud of in the brief time I worked there (I started just before they got 'nationalized' and was low man on the totem pole when it came time to shrink budgets) was that I was able to debug Release Linux executables (using gdb) to find and fix the chronic errors they had been experiencing. -
Business Analyst / Data Architect
FINRA
(Financial Services industry)
May 2008 — June 2008 (2 months)
I thought this would be a perfect job as it meshed with my business background and the company deals with massive (billions of records per day) amounts of data, but I found that the non-profit SRO essentially has no motivation and the massive number of layers of red tape strangled the life out of me (it took 3 weeks to get an account on a development database and after more than two weeks when I left I was STILL waiting to have a group added to one of my Unix accounts!). In many ways it is my fault; during the interview I was told how bad the situation was but selectively filtered the input to match my pre-conceived expectations. I gave notice without having another job (to my wife's dismay) because my family is to be on vacation most of July and I wanted to leave on good terms.
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Senior Systems Analyst
National Center for Biotechnology Information
(Biotechnology industry)
May 2001 — April 2008 (7 years )
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) aggregates information on biological systems (such as primary scientific publications, DNA and protein information) and makes the data easily searchable by the research community. My job was to take data from external sources and prepare it for loading into internal databases where it is then extracted to be made available for public databases. Some stats:
Wrote more than 55,000 lines of C++ code in more than 270 files comprising over 240 classes.
Working primarily on MS SQLServer and Sybase, wrote more than 14,000 lines of SQL in more than 250 files including over 100 stored procedures.
Wrote well over a dozen CGIs (mostly in C++) to extract, process and report/display database information.
Optimized processes (modified one process that took 16 hours to take less than 15 minutes).
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Project Manager
KoSa
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Textiles industry)
May 1998 — April 2001 (3 years )
I managed the conversion of MOMS (Machine Operation Management System, an HP based program written in Transact) to a Windows based interface written in Visual Basic 6 accessing a SQLServer 7 database called Production Data Interface (PDI) utilizing a touch-screen interface and barcode scanning data entry. The system was deployed mid November 1999. Success with the initial portion of the shop floor data collection system lead to a call from senior plant management to extend PDI throughout the entire plant's manufacturing process. The extension of PDI reached the stage where almost 80% of the manufacturing was under tracking control of PDI and the remaining 20% was expected to be included by Summer 2001. This system includes the use of hand-held scanners accessing the network via a remote frequency (RF) radio interface. The PDI system was documented to reduce headcount by 8 and save over $300,000 per year in labor costs.
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Senior Scientist
Vector Research Inc
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1996 — April 1998 (1 year 6 months)
Team Leader for a group (9 people of diverse backgrounds) tasked to develop marketing material lauding the past works of Vector Research and projecting their Solution Capability into the future.
Deputy Director of Testing and Technical Lead. Provided mentoring and motivation for testing personnel (6 people). Reviewed team’s test cases and test plans to verify documents met the test requirements.
Chair of Code-reuse committee: prepared a proposal to present to senior division management detailing the implementation of the hardware, software, and policy needed to create an atmosphere where good programming code can be maintained in a useable format to be easily assimilated into new or ongoing programming projects.
Initiated and developed an in-house marketing proposal to build a Materials Requirements Planning software package that included a built-in optimizer based on the Evolutionary Production Sequencer (Please see www.sol-system.com/eps).
Keith Oxenrider’s Education
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Pamplin College of Business
MBA , Entrepreneurship , 1992 — 1995
As part of a research project, I wrote an evolutionary algorithm-based assembly line optimization program. That work led to several publications including one in Decision Sciences.
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
BS , Biochemistry , 1985 — 1991
Was in Master of Biochemistry program for 1 year. My thesis was to design a de novo pyrophospatase.
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Keith Oxenrider’s Interests:
Biotechnology, de novo protein design, computer simulations, genetic algorithms, machine learning, space exploration, computer and network security
Keith Oxenrider’s Honors:
Elected as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for two years (2003-2005).
Was a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) December 2003 - December 2006
I have published works in the areas of biochemistry and management science (operations research). See my resume (linked under 'websites') for details.
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