Sr. Systems Engineer and Designer
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- Sr. Systems Engineer at BESC
- Past
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- Sr. Systems Engineer at WWCo
- Sr. Systems Engineer at TASC
- Consultant at Cigital, Inc.
- Performance Assessment Engineer at FastTide, Inc.
- Web Developer at SAIC
- Advisory R&D Specialist at SAGA Software
- Sr. Software Engineer / Sr. Creator at Downright Software
- QA Systems Analyst / Sr. Systems Architect at Concept Five Technologies, Inc.
- Software Engineer at CyberCash
- Lead Software Engineer at GMIS
- Sr. Programmer / Analyst at General Electric Information Services
- Education
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- Roanoke College
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Walt Stoneburner’s Summary
Commercial Software Engineer with expertise in software development, quality assurance, configuration management, documentation, and training. Concentration on system level applications, with a favor toward multi-user applications. Side activities include web design, photography, image retouching, and videography.
Walt Stoneburner’s Specialties:
Software development, parsing, communication, application design, code optimization
Walt Stoneburner’s Experience
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Sr. Systems Engineer
BESC
(Computer Software industry)
August 2005 — Present (4 years)
Responsible for software development, research and development, quality assurance, configuration management, and infrastructure. Using and developing cross platforms of Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD. C# / Java / J2EE / NetBeans / JBoss / Subversion.
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Sr. Systems Engineer
WWCo
(Computer Software industry)
1985 — 2008 (23 years)
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Sr. Systems Engineer
TASC
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
2003 — August 2005 (2 years)
Performed software evaluations for government offices. Provided consulting, QA, security testing, and requirements definitions on all-source applications. Developed web applications for Microsoft Sharepoint. Data analysis with OLAP Cubes. Designed secure data management web applications.
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Consultant
Cigital, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
Quality Assurance consultant.
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Performance Assessment Engineer
FastTide, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 2001 — 2002 (1 year)
FastTide developed optimal web-acceleration of content by performing data analysis from the requesting browser and re-routing traffic to the nearest local cache (if applicable); in a way, FastTide was the first end-to-end "traffic helicopter" of the information superhighway.
Responsible for configuration management (using StarTeam), tracking software and hardware deployments to remote QA and development environments, and conducting performance assessments of the product. Assisted QA with analysis and test case generation, worked with Java development staff, produced internal product documentation, performed product evaluations for strategic partnerships (with emphasis on streaming media), configured and managed internal QA lab and website. Installed, scripted, configured, and coded applications for Linux, BSD, and other operating systems. -
Web Developer
SAIC
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)
2002 — 2002 (less than a year)
Wrote registrar software for management of the .GOV top level domain.
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Advisory R&D Specialist
SAGA Software
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2000 — February 2001 (11 months)
Reported directly to the Director of R&D for the core Sagavista product, a B2B solution implemented in Java. In my original role as a developer and process consultant, I optimized the build process, deployment, version control procedures, and defect reporting. Wrote several utilities for Windows and Linux. Set up a R&D website for automated deployment. Produced internal product documentation. Performed inventory and audits for legal compliance. Managed three teams: SCM, build/integration, and scenario testers. Supervised and taught intra-project parallel development with PVCS. Division level tool selection. Started maintenance team efforts and performed analysis of system defects. Part of change control board. Scenario test generation, product smoke tests, and analysis. Responsible for our hardware lab, which provided NT, Linux, Solaris, and HP workstations and servers to developers for testing.
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Sr. Software Engineer / Sr. Creator
Downright Software
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1998 — April 2000 (2 years 2 months)
Performed coding optimizations on MATLAB generated code for positioning software. Assisted in the design and implementation of a multithreaded distributed news dissemination system written in C++ using MFC and STL. Coded numerous parsers and generators; enhanced pattern matchers and serial i/o modules.
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QA Systems Analyst / Sr. Systems Architect
Concept Five Technologies, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1996 — March 1998 (1 year 6 months)
Produced and implemented strategies for testing object oriented distributed systems written in C++, Java, and CORBA from requirement phase to deployment. Generated metrics and provided product assessments. Mentored QC lab staff. Responsible for security test suite generation, lab fire walling, and general infrastructure. Developed web publishing applications used by Amoco and BankBoston using MS SQL, C++, Perl, and Cold Fusion.
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Software Engineer
CyberCash
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Banking industry)
March 1996 — October 1996 (8 months)
Software requirements, design, and development of scaleable transaction processor gateway in GNU C/C++ for electronic credit/cash over the Internet involving cryptography; implemented on Unix.
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Lead Software Engineer
GMIS
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
October 1993 — March 1996 (2 years 6 months)
Software design and development of ICAS for Windows, a statistical decision support system written in C, Visual C++, and VisualBasic. Technical Presentations. Documentation. Debugging. Defect tracking. Quality assurance. Software life cycle.
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Sr. Programmer / Analyst
General Electric Information Services
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1986 — October 1993 (7 years 5 months)
Windows development of BT*2000 product in Visual C++. Special assignment to gather legal evidence on software infringement suit. Software development. Training and Special Presentations. LAN maintenance. PC technical support. Software development of EDI*RAMP.
Walt Stoneburner’s Education
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Roanoke College
CPSC/STAT , Computer Science; Statistics , 1986 — 1991
Spent majority of time developing software applications for the mainframe and smart terminals.
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Walt Stoneburner’s Interests:
Software Development, Quality Assurance, Configuration Management, Security, Documentation, Math, Photography, Video/Movie Making, Cartooning, Entertainment (Magic/Illusion/Hypnosis/Comedy), Writing, Programming (C, C++/STL/Boost, C#/.NET, VB, Perl, Python, Ruby/Rails, Pascal, Assembler [x86])
Walt Stoneburner’s Groups:
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Software Testing & Quality Assurance
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