Michael J. Hudson

Contact Information

7916 Donegal Lane, Springfield, VA 22153 mike@slac.com

home: (571)322-0288, cell: (571)334-1189 http://www.slac.com/mike

Objective

To combine my software architecture experience, interpersonal skills, object-oriented knowledge, and programming abilities to provide pragmatic solutions to real world problems.

Education

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Virginia Tech

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (1992-1996)

Security

TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph (inactive since 3/05)

Skills

Project Skills

· OOA&D (including Design Pattern experience)

· Architectural modeling with UML (Unified Modeling Language)

· Programming & Design Mentoring

· Rational Unified Process

· Full Software Lifecycle Development

Programming Languages

· Java, C++, C, Visual Basic

Web Services and XML skills

· SOAP (Apache, Weblogic and SOAP:Lite), WSDL (Apache Axis tools), UDDI

· XML, DTD, XML-Schema, DOM and SAX interfaces

· XSLT (including XPath and XPointer )

Specific Java Skills and Tools

· J2EE experience that includes:

o EJBs 2.0 (including Message Beans), JMS (Java Messaging Service),JDBC,JSP and servlets

· Swing ( Java’s GUI API)

· Ant (Java make-file tool from Apache)

· JUnit (Java unit testing tool)

· Eclipse, Netbeans (Java open-source IDEs)

· Weblogic Server ( J2EE compliant app server)

· BEA’s Workshop and Portal products

· Rational Certified – RUP, iRUP, OOA&D, Rose

Operating Systems

· Windows platforms; some Linux & SPARC Workstation

Training, Discussion Groups and Presentations

· Edward Tufte “Presenting Data” training (5/2005)

· BEA Portal training (6/2004)

· BEA eWorld – 2003 & 2004

· Taught week long course on Java (10/2002)

· Taught 2 day course on OO Modeling (6/2002)

· Presentation on XML Schema (6/2001)

· Presentation on SOAP (4/2001)

· Weblogic Training (5/2000)

· RUP and Rational Rose Training (1/2000)

· Presentation on OO Design and UML (6/1999)

· Advanced Java Training (5/1999)

· Oracle Developer Training (9/1998)

Other Skills

· Toplink, Oracle, SQL, CVS, SourceSafe, Microsoft’s Foundation Library, Visual C++

Professional Experience

· Senior Software Architect 3/05-present

Noblestar Systems Corporation – Reston, VA

Participated in a number of technical proposal efforts, training initiatives as well as contributions to internal proprietary frameworks. Worked on initiatives involving SOA, IT Governance, and agent-oriented frameworks.

United States Navy – Naval Sea Logistics Center – SHIPMAIN Entitled Process

Realized use cases and other requirements into analysis and design models. Co-designed and implemented a metadata framework and persistence layer in Java for defining the dynamic fields and sections that made up the documents used in the system. Developed, and delivered unit test artifacts including aiding in the automation of running these tests. Estimated and managed software resources based on changing user requirements. Worked with a geographically separated team.

· Senior Software Architect 9/02-3/05

Praxis Engineering Technologies, Inc. – Annapolis Junction, MD

Developed and taught classes on Java. Developed classes on Object Oriented Analysis and Design and Rational Unified Process.

Co-designed and implemented a secure non-repudiation communication model for an in-house ordering system for energy corporations which used J2EE, and web services over SSL.

National Security Agency- Fort Meade, MD

Architected, designed and helped implement a protocol testing framework written in Java and extensively based around the parsing of BNF expressions using the Java parsing tool, ANTLR. The framework not only consisted of a variety of BNF expression evaluation techniques, but also included custom tree traversals algorithms, and a massive amount of combinatorial computations tweaked for maximum efficiency.

· Framework Engineer/Software Architect 10/99-9/02

Blueprint Technologies, Inc. - Falls Church, VA

Global Science & Technologies – NASA

Co-designer, and co-developer of a web services based repository and ordering system for earth science meta-data that is currently being used by NASA and a number of earth science providers and scientists. It was built on the J2EE-compliant Weblogic Server using a combination of EJBs and JMS. The system used container managed persistence using Toplink as its object-to-relational mapping tool and Oracle as the database. Completely architected and implemented the initial SOAP web services framework using Apache’s Java SOAP implementation. Participated in the XML-to-Java framework, the system internally uses for translating the XML API to Java. Also, participated in a synchronicity framework that guaranteed that all the service interface code including EJB stubs and external system documentation were kept in sync, by keeping a single meta description of the whole system in a single XML file, where XSLT files automatically generated the appropriate artifacts. Co-created and enforced a configuration management scheme (using RUP) for planning out a developer workflow for handling bug and feature requests in a timely and documented manner. Also, aided requirements and QA management with the addition of use cases, strict unit testing (using Junit), and test case traceability. Also, initiated numerous mentoring sessions with junior developers helping them to develop and implement their own sub-systems within the project.

Raytheon – NASA

Participated in an XML Study group exploring the technologies and current practices surrounding XML for use in NASA’s earth science meta-data repository system. This included researching the plausibility of sending executables and images using XML, comparing speed and efficiency of sending and processing XML messages as opposed to simple Java RMI calls, potential XML frameworks that exist, and XML transformation technologies. The prototype tools developed from this researched was completely done in Java using Java’s Swing API to implement the GUI front-end. Solely designed, developed, and showcased a tool (also in Java) that aided a user in automating the translation of an XML document described in one DTD to another XML document described in another. Currently using this tool and all the researched frameworks in NASA’s science meta-data repository system.

· Senior Consultant 6/98-10/99

Perspective Technology Corporation - Vienna, VA

Qwest Communications Corporation, Inc.

Co-developer on a web-based customer network management system. Aided in developing and implementing parts of the system using Java servlets, RMI services, and Enterprise Java Beans on a Weblogic server. Involved in requirements gathering and analysis. Was responsible for a major portion of organizing the project’s QA efforts and involved in most of the testing. Original requirement specs did not include any employment of use cases and good OO analysis and design. Aided in incorporating use cases into the requirements and transforming those use cases into test scripts for QA purposes.

United States Enrichment Corporation, Inc.

Lead developer/co-designer of sales and revenue forecasting system using Oracle Developer 6.0, and an Oracle 7 database. Extensive use of PL/SQL and stored procedures as well as database design and integration. Developed and used a number of mathematical models for the revenue portion of the program. Involved in requirement analysis, and most of the user interface design. Created and used a rapid form of iterative development to solve rapidly changing requirements.

Telecorp, Inc.

Implemented parts of a client/server site management system in Visual Basic including a security piece and GUI interfaces. Involved in Oracle database design and the database’s integration into the product.

· Senior Software Developer 6/96-6/98

Data Systems Consulting, Inc. - Roanoke, VA

Co-designed and developed FastForms® Version 3.0, a logic-driven forms management system for insurance companies. It was developed using Visual C++ using Microsoft’s Foundation Classes. Incorporated some design patterns and introduced some object oriented design concepts into the product. Eventually co-managed a development department of eight programmers. Was heavily involved in client feedback, and requirement analysis. Acted as the liaison between marketing and development.