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Professional Summary Kevin Thompson has over 26 years of experience in Systems and Software Engineering and Architecture. He has worked on a variety of platforms in a variety of industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, service industries, banking, healthcare, consumer electronics, utilities and energy, transportation, and government. Experience 2005–2010 CSC Lanham, MD
UNIX System Administrator and Tivoli System Engineer
Installed, integrated, and maintained Tivoli Management Framework 4.1.1, Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance (TMTP) 5.3, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Tivoli Monitoring 6.2, Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 for MQSeries, Tivoli NetView, Tivoli Enterprise Console 4.9, and Tivoli Configuration Management 5.2 onto a clustered Solaris 10 platform running Oracle10g.
Integrated, monitored, and created management metric reports for approximately 800 UNIX (Solaris10) endpoints and 400 Wintel (W2K, W2K3) server endpoints.
Maintained patching for all Oracle10g databases and all Solaris10 servers.
Created scripts that monitored the License Enforcement Manager and Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer (MBSA) and collected data to meet Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC) requirements. Also created scripts for maintaining user accounts according to the IRS Law Enforcement Manual (LEM) on Wintel, UNIX, and Oracle accounts.
Managed user access to UNIX server through restricted x-term tasks. Also managed file systems and performed system admin functions on the UNIX (Solaris) servers. Utilized Perl, XML, VB, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, and UNIX Shell scripting.
Created Log File Collector scripts (LFC) which collected logs (syslog, BSM, audit, Oracle) from UNIX servers and alert, security logs and user access logs on Wintel servers, tar’ed them and distributed them to a collection server on a daily basis. The logs were then moved into a SAS database and used for user forensics for the specific servers. The LFC was moved to the Production environment.
Create a Shadow Operations Website in Perl and HTML for collecting daily health statistics of the Wintel and UNIX servers in the DITE Shadow environment. This site also monitored promotion and demotion to servers in the DITE environment and collected user, security, and access reports.
Worked extensively with NIS, DNS, and sudo in the UNIX environment. 2005 Electronics Manufacturing Company Woodcliff, NJ
Integrated Tivoli Monitoring, mySAP.com monitors, WebSphere, Tivoli Web Health Console, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Data Warehouse and mDist.
Utilized Perl, XML, UNIX, and JavaScript. 2004–2005 US Government Eagan, MN
Tivoli/AIX Administrator
Wrote scripts in XML, Perl, and UNIX shells.
Provided system administration for the Oracle database, Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW), WebSphere, Integrated Tivoli Monitoring (ITM), and Veritas NetBackup.
Worked with z/OS platform servers and servers running LINUX. 2003-2004 Bank Card Services St. Louis, MO
Senior Systems Engineer
Implemented system monitors for the company’s B-to-B network..
Utilized WebSphere, WebLogic, JavaScript, Perl, XML, Visual Basic, Tivoli Resource Monitoring (TRM) software, and ITM. 2001-2003 Aerospace Company Burbank, CA
On-site Support Engineer
Provided engineering support for the Crane Brake Systems Control Unit on Boeing 747, 767, and 777 models.
Coded software in Ada, C, and Assembler.
Wrote high-level Autobrake code in C for the 87c196kc processor.
Designed code to the DO-178B standard and completed documentation regarding this design, including Software Description Documentation, Software Requirements Documentation, Software Verification Plan, and Software Traceability Requirements. 2001 Private Contractor Seattle, WA
Contractor
Completed a proposal for a 10 TB Storage Area Network (SAN) using EMC hardware and software for the US Air Force. 2000-2001 Consulting Services Company Durham, NC
Tivoli Enterprise Certified Consultant
Installed Tivoli enterprise related software at a large package transportation company at the Louisville AirHub in conjunction with the HUB 2000 upgrades to the large package transportation company enterprise network.
Led the team that installed Tivoli User Administration with single sign-on.
Worked on a proposal to install Tivoli Security Module to meet best practice security requirements.
Developed application monitors using SNMP traps.
Developed LAN Web interface using ColdFusion.
Documented UPS TMR and created a documentation archive that could be accessed from the LAN Web. 1999-2000 Consulting Services Company Pittsburg, PA
Senior Network Engineer
Installed Tivoli enterprise related software, including Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) monitoring, User Administration, and Service Desk, at various sites. Completed enterprise-level documentation at these sites.
Utilized Perl, Unix, and ColdFusion languages
Installed Cisco Routers/Switches and Xyplex terminal servers at various sites for a large wireless backbone that brought together all the voice data onto one network.
Configured routers, completed site surveys, documented the installation, supervised the installation, and completed the as-built documentation. 1997-1999 Consulting Services Company Seattle, WA
Tivoli Enterprise Certified Consultant
Installed and configured Tivoli enterprise products, including Framework, GEM, User Administration, Software Distribution, Distributed Monitoring, and Compact Insight Manager, at various customer sites.
Specialized in fast roll-out and customization of environment to meet customer’s needs. 1996-1997 Aerospace Company Seattle, WA
Senior Systems Engineer
Developed monitoring for Primary Flight Control Computer for interface to the Actuator Control Electronics (ACE) for the Boeing 777-stretch fly-by-wire system.
Developed system simulation for the Boeing 777 Flap Slat Electronics Unit (FSEU) for system software specification validation and verification. 1996 Automotive Supplier Stuttgart, Germany
Senior Systems/Software Engineer
Developed Vehicle Dynamic Control Systems.
Wrote C code for use in an automotive application for different vehicles with different control configurations; also wrote C code for fault monitoring and safety systems. 1995-1996 Aerospace Company Tucson, AZ
Senior Systems Engineer
Developed hardware specifications for the Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) and the Seeker Exo-atmospheric Vehicle.
Wrote the Built-in-Test Software specification for the EKV and BIT Fault coverage analysis.
Specified hardware engineering change requests for both vehicles. 1995 Automotive Supplier South Bend, IN
Senior Systems Engineer
Developed an anti-lock brake system that utilized Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) proportional valve technology.
Used MatrixX simulation to design, integrate, and develop software, valve, and system models. 1984-1995 Aerospace Company Seattl e, WA
Senior Systems Engineer
Developed a multi-tasking multi-process simulation hosted on three Harris Night Hawk 5800s, used to perform validation and verification of the Boeing 777 Primary Flight Control Computer (PFC), flight critical software. Used Ada as the main high level language, but included C and FORTRAN interfaces. This simulation models the PFC which has nine lanes running concurrent calculations to determine surface position and also requires interfaces to other systems including inertial data, hydraulics, autopilot, and aerodynamic modules for a full airplane simulation.
Developed a worst-case circuit analysis for the F18 E/F fighter Signal Data Computer using a Pspice modeling tool.
Developed a system-level simulation for the Boeing 777 Hydraulic Interface Card (HYDIM) using a structured methods approach. The simulation includes a bus interface, external built-in-test, normal processing, initiated test, and fault monitoring Education 1987 National Technological University Online
Graduate Courses in Electrical Engineering
1986 Penn State University Collage Station, PA
Graduate Courses in Computer Engineering
1984 University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
B.S. Mechanical Engineering Certifications and Memberships
RDBMS: SYBASE 4.5-11.9.2, MS SQL Server 4.5-7.0, ORACLE 8.0-10.1.0g, DBII UDB 5.0-8.0
Development Tools: TRM WorkBench, SQL Navigator, Visual Studio, Jbuilder.
Applications: Microsoft Office 97,98,XP, Microsoft Office 2000, Tivoli Products Published Works “Fault Tolerant Architecture for a Fly-by-Light Flight Control Computer,” IEEE/AIAA/NASA Ninth Digital Avionics System Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, August 16,1990
“Fault Tolerant Architecture for a Fly-by-Light Control System,” American Helicopter Society (AHS) Vertical Lift Aircraft Design Conference, San Francisco, California, January 17, 1990
“Fault Tolerant Architecture for Optical Flight System,” SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, Fiber Optical Systems for Mobile Platforms, SPIE
“Three Phases of Testability,” AIAA Aircraft Design an Operations Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, September 8, 1988 Languages Beginning French
