Lonnie VanZandt

I architect, implement, and optimize aerospace, industrial, and communications systems that require predictable response behavior. I do systems engineering, platform selection, software design, software implementation, quality assurance, maintenance, and product marketing. The services I offer relate to designing and implementing software systems correctly, in optimal time, on the first attempt. These skills and services also relate to implementing high integrity systems and therefore minimize maintenance and litigation expenses. Surely, you would agree that services such as mine can directly benefit your business. I would like to assist you; I am available for most forms of work arrangements: I will work with you as your consultant or as your employee, part or full time, and either on or off site. Should your business require frequent travel, I can arrange to travel on short notice.
Because you can best determine a person’s character from the judgment of their peers I strongly encourage you to contact my references: I am well respected and liked by all my clients, employers, and peers. I welcome your call to discuss your needs.

Lonnie VanZandt’s Specialties:

Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, SysML and MARTE System Modeling, UML to C/C++/Java, Technical Sales Support, Technical Training, Object-oriented Software, Real-time Operating Systems, XML/XSLT, Network Protocols, Schedulability Analysis, Unit Testing, Public Presentations, Technical Writer, Writing, IT, Recent Security Clearance

Lonnie VanZandt’s Experience

Systems Engineer

LGS Innovations

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)

Engineering of wireless, radio, and software systems.
Technical Program Director, Colorado Chapter

INCOSE

(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

Identify, recruit, and coordinate speakers of interest to practicing Systems Engineers for monthly chapter presentations and biannual tutorials.
Owner
Predictable Response Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)

Visit http://www.predictableresponse.com for details.
Peer Engineer

Deadline Specialists

(Computer Software industry)

February 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 11 months)

Contracted consulting and programming on embedded systems such as disk drive firmware. I provide UML modeling and C and C++ programming. Technologies used include Borland Together, Microsoft Visual Studio C++ and C#, CruiseControl, Ant, and the unit testing frameworks of unit++, CppUnit, and mbUnit.
Consulting Applications Engineer

Artisan Software Tools Limited

(Defense & Space industry)

March 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Consulting Applications Engineer with North America. Technical Sales Support and Professional Services for Aerospace and Defense Systems Engineers seeking tools services for UML, SysML,MARTE, and DoDAF modeling and for Model-driven Design and MDA for C, C++, Java, and Ada software systems. Representative to OMG.
Development Engineer

Vidiom

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

September 2006 — February 2007 (6 months)

Senior systems modeler and software engineer responsible for designing (in UML 2.0) and implementing (in C) a messaging broker for OpenCable Downloadable Conditional Access System which couples Java-resident OCAP applications to 7816-resident SecureMicro Conditional Access clients.
Internet Services Engineer

Annunciation Radio Online

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

December 2002 — November 2006 (4 years)

Webmaster for Internet radio site utilizing PHP, MySQL, and Dreamweaver for www.annunciationradio.org implementation. Streaming media "DJ" for production and broadcasting of audio content via Live365.com servers.
Software Engineer V

Northrop Grumman

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

September 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Key software engineer for a Northrop Grumman Silver-award IR&D. Network protocol stack programming, network security implementation and test. Kernel programming. FreeBSD system administration. Specializing in packet content filtering, redirection, and spoofing. XSLT, XPath, Java, JNI, C, C++, Cloudshield RAVE, and FreeBSD.
Software Cognizant Engineer

Design_Net Engineering

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)

December 2003 — August 2004 (9 months)

UML Modeling, UML to C Generation, VxWorks AE on PowerPC, Data acquisition and telemetry management, SQUID control
Software Engineer

Aztek Engineering

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2003 — November 2003 (5 months)

UML Modeling, C++ Coding for GR-303 Local Digital Terminal.
Applications Engineer

Esterel Technologoes

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)

May 2003 — July 2003 (3 months)

Applications Engineering, Technical Sales Support, Esterel SCADE synchronous design tool for dynamic and reactive control systems
Systems Engineer (aka Applications Engineer)

Artisan Software

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2002 — December 2002 (5 months)

Applications Engineering, Technical Sales Support, UML Modeling for Real-time Systems Engineering
Kernel Engineer, Applications Engineer

QNX Software Systems, Limited

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2001 — February 2002 (11 months)

QNX Neutrino Applications Engineering, Technical Sales Support, IPv4 network stack programming
Senior Systems Engineer

TimeSys

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2000 — April 2001 (11 months)

Linux kernel programming, Technical Sales Support, Technical Marketing, Rate Monotonic Analysis consulting
Member of Technical Staff

Lucent Bell Laboratories

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

April 1988 — April 1999 (11 years 1 month)

High Availability software controller for Digital Access Crossconnect Switch, LynxOS kernel development and support, UML Modeling, Unix SVR4 kernel development, ISO 9001 Process, Device Drivers, Call-Processing, DSPs, etc.

Lonnie VanZandt’s Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MS , Computer Engineering , 1985 — 1987

Computer Engineering (Chemistry, Physics, EE, Probability, Hardware, Computer Science, Compiler Design)

Activities and Societies:

Psi Upsilon
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS , Computer Engineering , 1983 — 1985

Computer Engineering (Chemistry, Physics, EE, Hardware, Computer Science) with Finance minor. Graduated with Honors.

Activities and Societies:

Psi Upsilon
Purdue University

Mathematics 1982 — 1982

Calculus Summer Course

Additional Information

Lonnie VanZandt’s Websites:

My Company

Lonnie VanZandt’s Interests:

Parenting, Swimming, Camping, Hiking, RVing, Catholicism, History, Politics, Oenophelia, Hunting

Lonnie VanZandt’s Groups:

IEEE Computer, IEEE Control, IEEE Reliability, INCOSE, Constitution Party, Knights of Columbus, John Birch Society, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Psi Upsilon Fraternity