Duane O. Bowker Curriculum Vitae

Duane O. Bowker
Email: dobowker@comcast.net

Qualifications:

• Seventeen years as an Engineer and Technical Manager at AT&T Bell Laboratories, contributing significantly to several successful product offerings. Six subsequent years with AT&T Government Markets as a Program Support Specialist contractor (through Vaxcom Services).

• Demonstrated proficiency in Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Technical Project Management, Systems Engineering, Performance Evaluation, System Test.

• Expertise in systems integration, asynchronous data communications and messaging protocols.

• Eight United States Patents (and numerous international patents) for inventions related to voice and data communications, others pending.

• Over 40 technical papers published in professional journals or presented at professional meetings.

• Over 200 internal technical documents published.

• Several merit-related awards, including the AT&T Bell Laboratories Distinguished Technical Staff Award for "...outstanding and sustained contributions to the technical mission of Bell Laboratories" and two AT&T Harvey Fletcher Patent Trophies for "...patents demonstrating significant commercial importance to AT&T".

• Ph.D. from the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester (1980), plus two years post-doctoral work in Physiological Optics at the University of Wisconsin (1981-1983).

• Active high-level security clearances (TS/SCI-TK/SCI-SI/CI-poly).

Employment History

Freelance Systems Engineer, Software Engineer available through MBO Partners (11/08 - present)

• Co-author white paper on IC/DoD Service Oriented Architecture initiatives (customer: Booz Allen Hamilton)
• Support Army Data Services and Net-Centricity initiatives (customer: Army Net-Centric Data Strategy Center of Excellence, through Booz Allen Hamilton)
• Authoring Developer's Guide for Army Data Services Layer application development. Development of software artifacts (schemas, WSDLs, java source files, Ant and Maven2 build scripts, Hibernate configuration files, deployment descriptor files, etc) to accompany Developer's Guide. (customer: Army Net-Centric Data Strategy Center of Excellence, through Booz Allen Hamilton)

Booz Allen Hamilton, Associate (10/07 - 9/08)

• Responsible for complete system design and software development of an integrated datacom test platform in support of an Army I2WD (Intelligence and Information Warfare Division) program at Fort Monmouth. System follows a distributed processing architecture with remote XML daemons, a centralized application server, a mysql relational database for storing performance results, and a Jetspeed-2 user portal. Design and development of custom portlet applications for conducting tests and for retrieving and graphing results of tests.
• SOA Architect on the Army Data Services Layer (ADSL) program, helping to define services and operations, developing service schemas and WSDLs, participating in design and development of ADSL Reference Implementation.

Vaxcom Services Inc., Program Support Specialist (6/01 - 9/07)

• Software design and development of JMS-based XML messaging interfaces for control of remote host processes managed by TIBCO BusinessWorks. Design and development of a library of BusinessWorks "convenience functions" for easily managing remote host processes and LDAP access. Design and development of a set of higher-level TIBCO BusinessWorks process definitions that orchestrate a large-scale multi-host, multi-platform operations environment.
• Software design and development of SOAP/XML messaging interfaces, both client-side and server-side
• Software design and development of utilities for LDAP Directory Service access and administration, of utilities for JDBC database access, of JMS messaging daemons with JMX-based control and monitoring interfaces
• Software design and development of portlet-based and JSP-based web-interfaces for OAM&P (Operations, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning) procedures
• Author of selected Systems Interface Control Documents, Systems Functional Requirements Specfications
• Development Integration and Test (DIT) Manager for multi-vendor, multi-platform government program (2001-2002)

ADIR Technologies, Inc., Engineering Manager (11/00 - 6/01)

• Project Management of joint Adir/Cisco VoIP development, some software and test support for same
• System design specifications for Adir VoIP Application Management offerings
• Engineering Manager in charge of growing and managing Systems Engineering, Systems Test, Project Management, Documentation and Customer Technical Support Teams

Vaxcom Services Inc., Site Supervisor & Communications Systems Engineer (1/99 - 10/00)

• Project Management of design, development and testing of DSP sub-system for U.S.Government applications (Primary Contractor: AT&T)
• Software architecture and algorithm design for same.
• Development Integration and Test (DIT) Manager for overall Project.

AT&T DSP Architecture Group, Technical Manager (5/94 - 12/98)

• Lead DSP system design, software development and systems test teams for multiple network signal processing projects, including AT&T SoundScan and projects for the Federal Government.
• Negotiate budgets, project requirements and milestones for high-powered ten person group. Responsible for hiring/firing and performance feedback.

AT&T Voice Quality Assessment, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (7/85 - 4/94)

• Responsible for voice Quality-of-Service engineering of AT&T network, performance evaluations of AT&T products and services.
• Identify opportunities for positive competitive differentiation of AT&T products and services, as with invention of AT&T TrueVoice. Lead algorithm design, performance engineering teams for TrueVoice.
• Establish Voice Quality Assessment Lab as World-Class evaluation facility. Develop and maintain all lab software, configure and calibrate essentially all lab apparatus during tenure.

AT&T Small Business Systems, Member of Technical Staff (7/83 - 6/85)

• Lead Systems Engineer for MERLIN Communications System, Model 1030/3070, Feature Module 4 (Teleconnect, August 1986, "overall rating 9.5 out of 10").
• Training and support of users in MERLIN 206/410 Controlled Market Introductions, feeding customer data back to engineering and development process.
• Manage development, production and distribution process for all MERLIN documentation; significantly improve quality of documentation while simultaneously slashing costs.

Department of Ophthalmology, Univ. Wisconsin, Post-Doctoral Fellow (7/81 - 6/83)

• Design and conduct state-of-the-art experiments in spatio-temporal visual psychophysics. Develop all software, configure and calibrate all lab apparatus involved.

AT&T Consumer Products, Member of Technical Staff (6/80 - 6/81)

• System Engineering and User Interface Design for Fire Emergency Call System.

Computer and Data Communications Skills:

• Languages: Java, C/C++/C#, SAS, Perl, Tcl/Tk, UNIX Shell, SQL, awk, HTML/CGI/JSP, JavaScript
• Development and Build Environments: Eclipse Ganymede, Oracle/BEA WebLogic Workshop, TIBCO BusinessWorks, maven2, ant, make, Visual Studio C++ 2008
• Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, Windows, Mac OS
• Working knowledge of datacom protocols including TCP/IP, SOAP, XML, Frame Relay, HDLC, Ethernet, MIDI
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux Systems Administration, LAN Administration
• Experienced installing, administering and developing applications for TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Automation Platform, JBoss Application Server (4.2.3/4.3), Oracle/BEA WebLogic Server (9.2.3/10.3), Jakarta Jetspeed Portal, Tomcat Application Server, Sun ONE Directory Server (LDAP), OpenLDAP, MySQL, Sun ONE Application Server 7, Sun ONE Integration Server (EAI Edition)

Education

• Doctorate of Philosophy, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester NY (1980)
• Masters of Science, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester NY (1980)
• Bachelor of Science, Major: Experimental Psychology, State University College of New York at Brockport (1976)
• Technical and Professional Development Courses (selected): Essentials of TIBCO General Interface 3.x (2007); Predictive Data Modeling using SAS Enterprise Miner (2006); SAS Color Graphics (2006); SAS Programming Language I & II (2005); TIBCO Business Works 5.x Enterprise Solutions Boot Camp (2004); Java Application Development with JClass ServerViews (2004); IBM WebSphere Portal (2003); Sun ONE Integration Server EAI 3.0 Process Integration (2003); Java Programming Language (2002); Advanced Tcl/Tk (1999); TCP/IP (1998); Frame Relay (1997); ATM (1997); Managing Projects and Project Teams (1993); Five-hour MBA (1993); R&D in a Competitive Environment (1991); Leadership for the Future (1991); Communications Skills Workshop (1988)