Systems Architect / GUI Resume

Title
Systems Architect / GUI

Primary Skills
architecture; GUI / HMI

Location
US-IA-Marion (will consider relocating)

Posted
Apr-14-09

OBJECTIVE: Helping a team achieve their next big success, working with great people on problems that are new, complex, or poorly defined.

SUMMARY: A critical thinker, multi-talented, with exceptional background, skilled in user interface, user needs, working with customers, writing, research, development, and software. Strong record of service to customers, industry, and community. An MIT Ph.D. who can communicate with people at all levels.

PROVEN ABILITIES:

Systems
• Generated two new alerts for B-787 after researching accidents and incidents to establish need and re-viewing and extending cockpit alerting philosophy to provide coherent framework for implementation
• Proposed de-clutter strategy for MFD at RockwellCollins based on phase of flight user needs analysis
• Proposed task-prioritized CDU design based on in-flight observations
• DOORS user

Customer Focus
• Sole point of contact for technical issues for two $100M projects at Apple Computer
• Doubled customer productivity by learning mainframe system and designing new front end
“We didn't always like what you told us, but we always knew you were telling the truth.”

User Interface Design
• Numerous desktop application user interfaces, including SQL generator, and HyperCard wireframes
• Home page is http://www.greatusermanuals.com
• Prototyped first user interface concepts for SkyTyper two-way pager in less than two weeks
• Visual skills polished with classes in Photoshop, digital photography, and drawing

Software
• Software architect on complex decision support system, including batch processing front end, terabyte SQL database, and event-driven, object-oriented multi-user front end with high ease of use
• Software architect on high-fidelity simulation of multi-node, message passing communication system
• Doubled customer productivity with novel front end to established mainframe system
• Developed new user interface paradigm (unpublished) at higher level than current models
• Prototyped multi-platform, multi-language development environment
• Fast coder, specializing in code as readable as pseudo-code

Research
• Disproved commonly accepted guidelines on unstable approaches (airline operations) with painstaking tilling of all the raw data sources, creating next-generation analysis standards
• Uncovered systemic flaws in airport surface operations using systems engineering techniques to analyze huge quantities of raw data
“I could have put three people on that project, and they wouldn't have come up with what you did.”

Innovation
• Three patents issued -- data mining, aircraft navigation technique, collision avoidance lighting
• Smashed expectations by porting / translating two software projects far ahead of aggressive schedules
• Numerous project innovations and innovation disclosures throughout career

Aviation
• Airline Transport Pilot / Certificated Flight Instructor, 35 years as a pilot, 150 makes and models flown
• Safety researcher, FOQA guru, training consultant, EAA and AOPA national-level volunteer

Writing
• Clips on line at http://www.greatusermanuals.com/clips
• Broad writing experience, including research papers, project reports, 300+ nationally-published maga-zine articles and columns, journalism class articles, and unpublished creative writing pieces and chapters
• Wrote 25,000 word manual in three weeks
“You were fast, you were cheerful, and you were fun. And you were a good team member.”

Teaching and Presentations
• Two years teaching grad school classes, including seminar-style classes
• Gave all the project technical presentations at most jobs, including international conventions
• Twenty-plus years public speaking in Toastmasters; also conference speaker for them
• Numerous short appearances on TV news, plus hosted 3 episodes of cable TV series
“Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.” -- Thoreau

Employment History
• Apple Computer, Stanford Research Institute, Boeing, Honeywell, NASA, 3 startups, and more
Details at http://www.greatusermanuals.com/other_files/engineering_resume.html

Preferences (but not requirements)
• Engineering / aviation applications
• Southwestern / western US
• Can hold security clearances

Certifications
Airline Transport Pilot / Certificated Flight Instructor


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