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Jason Paul KazarianStaff Engineer / Left Brained Geeks |
Twenty-five years professional experience in development and management. Sales, software, and systems domains. Object-oriented analysis, design, and programming. Requirements, design, network, and test engineering. Academic and industrial education. Multiple site, international project management.
Project areas include accounting, defense, education, embedded systems, enterprise integration, extraction-transfer-load (ETL) file conversion, fund raising, field engineering, geographic information, medical records, message processing, navigation, overseas development management, porting, real time, satellite control, simulation, telecommunications, user interfaces, and web marketing.
Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2007. Thesis topic: Automating Non-Functional Design for Net-Centric Real-Time Systems.
Master’s Equivalent Program, Systems and Software Engineering, College of Engineering, Continuing Engineering Studies, The University of Texas at Austin.
Successful completion of over 750 hours continuing education in AIN development, Ada, C++, control systems, CORBA, OOA/OOD, IP networks, object oriented databases, POSIX real time programming, broad and narrow band switching, SS7, TCP/IP, telemetry systems, voice over IP, wireless voice networks.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics Minor. California State University, Dominguez Hills. School of Management courses in accounting, law, information systems, and marketing.
Graduation with honors. Member Phi Kappa Phi.
11-02 to Present: Left Brained Geeks, Principal Engineer. Periodic consulting to multiple clients over multiple time periods.
08-08 to 10-09: Gyumri Information Technologies Center, Executive Director.
08-96 to 11-02: Alcatel USA, Senior Software Development Engineer.
11-94 to 08-96: Raytheon E-Systems, Systems Engineer.
08-89 to 11-94: Department of the Navy, Computer Scientist.
03-85 to 08-89: The Aerospace Corporation, Member of the Technical Staff.
03-84 to 03-85: California State University, Electronic Equipment Repair Technician I.
Six awards, including two director's awards, for outstanding contributions from Alcatel.
Spotlight award for Excellence in Software Training from Raytheon.
Personal Letter of Appreciation from Admiral D. B. McKinney, Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, for outstanding efforts in support of and selfless dedication to IRIS.
Three awards from Department of the Navy for performing tasks beyond expectations.
Manager, off-shore development, multiple customers. Manage teams, track progress, chair technical discussions, integration test between US and overseas development teams. Manage feature releases between phases using an agile process (LBG).
Executive Director of an information technology training academy in a developing country. Responsible for permanent staff of five and part-time staff of fifteen. Successfully introduced western style policies, procedures, and process into a foreign environment. Cut annual budget by 20%. Increased enrollment by 33%. Developed extension unit hiring graduates to work on third party projects (GITC).
Lead embedded software engineer for a gigabit IP router produced by an international, multiple site team. Developed requirements for the hardware access library and design verification software of the switching ASIC. Produced top-level firmware requirements specification (Alcatel).
Engineering lead, multiple projects, multiple international locations. Spent 25% of time at business units in foreign markets. Work through initial concept, product feature, and requirements analysis phases. Cross training of engineering, marketing, sales, and other organizations at multiple sites (Alcatel).
Real-time operating systems pre- and post-sales engineering. Converted open source customers to paid product line. Landed reference account. Taught customers “jump start” training course. Made major revisions to course material. Warm called leads from open source download web site. Coordinated customer interactions with other members of the sales team (LBG).
Lead, element management subsystem, telecommunications equipment shelf. Responsible for technical oversight of critical path tasks performed by other developers in addition to own contributions (Alcatel).
Lead, geospatial information system cross-organizational analysis team. Developed tasking, coordinated team, documented findings. Identified GIS database having higher initial purchase cost yet requiring less integration labor, resulting in net savings (Raytheon).
Mentor, simulation development. Provided team guidance in object techniques, Computer Aided Software Engineering, documentation for object-oriented projects, coding standards for mission critical software (Navy).
Chair, issues working group. Responsible for problem reporting and tracking. Conducted meetings, promoted communication between project team and working group, assigned action items (Raytheon).
Chair, computer systems growth board. Responsible for coordinating computer equipment acquisition. Chaired meetings, wrote reports, established communication between users and developers, generated recommendations (Navy).
Software development and engineering on embedded source and target systems. Multiple environments using C++, Java, and SQL. Defined requirements, designed modules, wrote code, defined and executed unit and system test plans and procedures. Web development experience with HTML forms, Javascript, Java Data Base Connection, Java Server Pages, Perl (LBG).
Reverse engineering of Install Shield installation scripts and software components to alternative installation engine at customer request (LBG).
Custom DLL development using Windows SDK calls in Visual C++ to meet specific customer feature and performance requirements (LBG).
Augmentation of an XML Extract-Transfer-Load (ETL) data parser generated by Altova MapForce with custom Java code allowing capture and logging of exceptions. Custom code allows parser to continue processing after an exception occurs, a feature not supported by Altova directly.
Development of a data management subsystem in Oracle PL/SQL with a Java class interface. Subsystem allows dynamic conditional data purges based on date ranges and other ad-hoc criteria. Interface allows direct servlet interaction without knowledge of underlying database logic or structure. Also wrote web-based GUI in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript with JSP as the application tier.
Developed tuition accounting database for charter school. Formal requirements process. Automating internal processes with custom control logic resulted in substantial time savings, minimal retraining compared to an off-the-shelf solution (LBG).
Developed Java based multi-media database query pre-processor. Wrote application using JDBC, JAI, JMF, and Swing to sample still images from video clips at programmable intervals. MySql back end to store clip and still metadata. Access front end client interface (LBG).
Digital signal processor programming. Optimization techniques including control, data, and structure hazard avoidance; loop unrolling; pipeline scheduling; and parallel instruction unit allocation (LBG).
Order entry system developed to customer specifications. Lead throughout system life cycle. End result saves staff ten minutes per order at entry and eliminates transcription error between office and factory. Customer reported three other firms had started and later declared the project “impossible” (LBG).
Element management subsystem development for a SONET interface to a voice switch. Responsible for state models, event management, data plane switching, resource identification, system initialization. Produced analysis, code, documentation. Wrote embedded, real-time software. Debugged across multiple processors (Alcatel).
Object oriented analysis, design, and programming for medical record management software. Wrote code to perform metadata and data extraction (data warehousing) from soft copy documents (Raytheon).
Process and tool set development for porting PC file system databases to a relational server. Tool converts Microsoft Access tables to DDL and DML files that can be processed by an SQL relational database management system (LBG).
Client-server document repository engine. Wrote storage and retrieval software for managing compressed, encrypted data in synchronization with (but external from) database tables. Wrote core interface for client retrieval. Developed multi-user problem tracking and reporting system (Raytheon).
Object-oriented networking library for a simulation linking constructive, live, and virtual nodes using the Distributed Interactive Simulation protocol on TCP/IP. Developed an interface to link geographically disparate systems (Navy).
Integration test packages and graphical user interface (GUI) for a workstation imaging subsystem. Developed telemetry data plotting program which calculated data set maximum and minimum, performed automatic scaling, converted engineering units to screen pixels, and displayed results. Designed and coded GUI (Navy).
Multi-model, six degree of freedom, Operational Flight Program simulation. Modified guidance models and analyzed change to system performance based on proposed product changes. Ported simulation from proprietary to open platform. Simulation predicted performance before making a financial commitment to an engineering change proposal (Navy).
Migration of C and assembly software from HP-UX/Apollo to Sun environments. Responsibilities included debugging source and validating object code via analysis of dumps and cross references. Validation included accounting for all differences between source and target executable images (Alcatel).
Developed and taught C++, Java, and real-time Linux development courses for engineering audiences. Topics include language fundamentals, object implementation, building robust software components, advanced memory management, real time scheduling theory (Alcatel, LBG, Raytheon).
Wrote training curriculum on Internet Protocol telephony products and delivered sessions to customers and employees. Topics included AIN, call handling, data and voice convergence, H.323, MEGACO, PSTN, SIP, SDP, SNMP, SS7. Courses developed for and delivered in six countries (Alcatel).
C++, Java, and *nix subject matter expert (SME). Developed curriculum and taught multiple courses for engineering, marketing, and sales departments (Alcatel and Raytheon).
Six guest lectures for beginning and intermediate information systems classes, School of Management, California State University. Topics included Government System Acquisition Methods and Business Case Systems Engineering (Aerospace).
Wrote and presented one technical briefing every two months. Topics included communication interfaces, bus architecture, automated software distribution, and system architecture design proposals. Audiences included customer's VP level executives (Aerospace).
Developed, wrote, and presented to the general public a Personal Safety and Self Defense seminar sponsored by the Ridgecrest Police Department (Navy).
Digital Signal Processors: ARM, DLX, TMS320, TigerSHARC.
Programming Languages: Ada, ANSI SQL, Assembly, C, C++, C#, CORBA IDL, CSS, HTML, Java, Javascript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, shell scripts, Visual Basic.
Hardware Platforms: Mac, PA-RISC, PowerPC, SGI, SPARC, x64, x86.
Operating Systems: Fedora, HP-UX, Irix, Lynx, OS/2, OS X, Posix, pSOS, Red Hat, RTLinux, Solaris, Ubuntu, Unix, Windows, WindRiver.
Frameworks: Boost, C++/Views, JAI, JMF, JSP, LAMP, MFC, Rouge Wave, STL, Swing, Qt, UIM/X Motif, Zinc.
Databases: Access, Caché, Clarion, JDBC, MySQL, OOBase, Oracle, Sybase, XML.
Tools: Altova MapForce, Ant, Apache, ClearCase, Green Hills, gdb, GNU, Install Shield, Kylix, Lucene, ObjectMaker, Orbix, OS/2 SDK, Purify, RCS, RTM, Source Integrity, Software Through Pictures, Sniff, Stylus Studio, Team Foundation Server, TI Code Composer Studio, Tomcat, Tornado, VisiBroker, Visual Studio, Windows SDK.
Methodologies: Booch, Colbert, Fusion, PMI, Rumbaugh, Structured, UML.
Protocols: Ethernet, H.323, MEGACO, MPLS, PSTN, SIP, SDP, SNMP, SS7, TCP/IP, UDP/IP.