EXPERIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Systems Design Consultant - Oasis Hospital, Al Ain, UAE, 2003 -- 2006.
Project Engineer - Computer Information Resource Planning Subdivision, The Aerospace Corporation, California (A Federally Funded Research and Development Center), 1995--2002
Long-range planning: Assess technologies to be integrated into the computing infrastructure for current budgeting cycle and five-year plan.
Project management: Team leader for acquisition of integrated document management system and enterprise search system with the tasks of planning, user assessment, stakeholder analysis, articulation and prioritization of requirements, identify and evaluate software products, design supporting infrastructure, and competitive procurement of both hardware and software.
Information management: Responsible for developing requirements for knowledge management architecture that included integrated document management, knowledge services layer, imaging, storage, records retention management and information security. Establish end user requirements for knowledge management applications.
Lotus Notes development: Application developer using Lotus Notes Release 4.x for establishing Notes development and human-computer interface standards, prototyping and testing new Notes applications, and evaluating Notes developer tools.
Relationship management: Interact with user groups and internal customers interested in IT initiatives to develop consensus on requirements such as the consolidated service desk project.
EXPERIENCE IN SYSTEMS AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Engineering Specialist - Engineering & Technology Group, The Aerospace Corporation, California, USA, 1990-1995.
Member of Technical Staff & Project Engineer - Programs Group, The Aerospace Corporation, California, USA, 1985-1987, 1988-1989.
Systems engineering: oversee planning and analysis tasks for various United States Air Force programs as liaison to the Pentagon office of the Strategic Defense Initiative Office Phase One Engineering Team for a space defense system utilizing active and passive image acquisition components.
Satellite servicing: Responsible for development of system concepts, space vehicle interface definition, simulation of on-orbit refueling, and assessment of technology readiness for USAF Space Systems Division (SSD) and the Strategic Defense Initiative Office (SDIO). Supervised a team of 3 FTE engineers.
Affordability: Economic and effectiveness analysis of advanced space surveillance and intercept architectures.
Project engineer/Mining Engineer - Anaconda Minerals, Atlantic Richfield Company, Arizona, 1981-1984, New Mexico, 1979-1981.
Feasibility studies: Mineral and petroleum projects. Responsible for the conceptual design, project schedule and cost estimate of a multi-billion dollar oil mining project.
Project planning: Development and implementation of a Project/2 (Project Software and Development, Inc) mainframe project management application for use in project analysis (decision support) and management of research projects.
Supervision: Ventilation Department; Research Center projects (4 technicians) including development of monitoring software for hydraulic mining device