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Jason Paul KazarianSenor Technical Marketing Engineer / SafeNet, Inc. |
Over twenty-five years industry experience. Five years supervisory and technical management. Five years enterprise software development. Seven years embedded and real-time software development. Eight years customer facing, marketing, sales, and training.
Senior director award from SafeNet for go-to-market cloud product launch.
Six awards, including two director's awards, for outstanding contributions from Alcatel.
Spotlight award for Excellence in Software Training from Raytheon.
Personal Letter from Admiral D. B. McKinney for outstanding efforts and selfless dedication.
Three awards from Department of the Navy for performing tasks beyond expectations.
Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2007.
Master’s Equivalent, Systems and Software Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics Minor, CSU Dominguez Hills.
Graduation with honors. Member Phi Kappa Phi.
Lead engineer developing cloud software for marketing purposes. Project evangelist and manager for AWS Marketplace integration. Manage off-site co-location laboratory for product demonstration and test.
Managed software development team. Validated requirements, generated designs, developed prototypes, tasked developers daily. Managed schedule using an agile process with interleaved development and QA.
Partial client list: Averna, Camstar, Pizza Hut, Verity. Managed development teams. Managed releases using an agile process. Designed subsystems, developed prototypes, tracked progress, championed QA.
Lead software engineer for an IP router. Developed software architecture and requirements for the switching ASIC. Spent 25% of time on location at business units in foreign markets.
Developed database and rule engine for a medical data warehouse.
Data acquisition and simulation development projects.
Software development process management: requirements, design, integration, test.
Development manager for multiple projects. Design product, manage teams, track progress, chair technical discussions, design integration test. Manage releases in phases with agile methods. Multiple technologies: C#/.NET, J2EE (Averna, LBG/Camstar, SafeNet).
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 software architecture and requirements for the hardware access library and design verification functions 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 architecture, feature matrix, and requirements phases. Cross training of engineering, marketing, sales, and other organizations at multiple sites (Alcatel).
Team lead, element management subsystem, telecommunications equipment shelf. Responsible for module requirements and design, technical oversight of critical path tasks performed by other developers in C++ under LynxOS as well as development contributions (Alcatel).
Team lead, geospatial information system cross-organizational analysis project. Developed tasking, coordinated team, documented findings. Identified GIS database having higher initial purchase cost yet requiring less integration labor, resulting in net savings (Raytheon).
Chair, issues working group. Responsible for problem reporting and tracking. Conducted meetings, promoted communication between project team and working group, assigned action items (Raytheon).
Mentor, simulation development. Provided team guidance in object techniques implemented in Ada, Computer Aided Software Engineering, documentation for object-oriented projects, coding standards for mission critical software (Navy).
Chair, computer systems growth board. Responsible for coordinating computer equipment acquisition. Chaired meetings, wrote reports, established communication between users and developers, generated recommendations (Navy).
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, including C/C++ coding exercises and solutions. Warm called leads from open source download web site. Coordinated customer interactions with other members of the sales team (LBG).
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. Delivered courses to engineering, marketing, and sales departments (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).
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).
Software engineering on embedded source and target systems. Multiple environments using C++, Java, and SQL. Defined architecture and feature 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 (Alcatel, LBG).
Reverse engineering of Install Shield installation scripts and software components to generate alternative installation engine. Custom DLL development using Windows SDK calls in Visual C++ to allow running configuration GUI prior to product installation (LBG/Camstar).
Augmentation of an XML Extract-Transfer-Load (ETL) parser generated by Altova MapForce with custom code allowing capture and logging of exceptions. This code allows the parser to continue processing after a record exception occurs, a feature not otherwise available. Implemented in both C# and Java (Averna).
Development of a data management subsystem in Oracle PL/SQL with a Java “POJO” class interface using JDBC. Subsystem performs automated, dynamic data purges based on date ranges and other ad-hoc selection criteria. Servlet interface allows issuing commands without knowledge of underlying database logic or structure. Documented subsystem architecture, requirements, and design. Wrote web-based GUI in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript with JSP. Developed and performed unit and integration test (LBG/Camstar).
Embedded development of device and process control software for semiconductor fabrication. source and target systems. Multiple environments using C and C++. Ported production software from Windows CE to embedded Linux using Boost and STL to substitute for proprietary MFC libraries. Unit tested software to verify timing requirements were met (LBG/Verity).
Development of a production retail restaurant management system using C++ on Linux and a GNU tool chain (cvs, gdb, make). Received trouble tickets. Loaded customer specific data to debug hard and soft failures. Isolated faults and corrected source code. Worked with QA department for acceptance of changes into release schedule (LBG/Pizza Hut).
Developed Java based multimedia database query pre-processor. Defined and documented architecture, requirements, and design. 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).
Developed tuition accounting database for charter school in Microsoft Access using VBA. Conducted formal architecture and requirements process with customer. Automating internal processes with custom control logic resulted in substantial time savings, minimal retraining compared to an off-the-shelf solution (LBG).
Digital signal processor programming in assembly, C, and C++. Optimization techniques including control, data, and structure hazard avoidance; loop unrolling; pipeline scheduling; and parallel instruction unit allocation (LBG).
Developed order entry system to customer specifications. Hands on 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 software subsystem for a SONET interface to a voice switch. Responsible for state models, event management, data plane switching, resource identification, system initialization. Produced requirements, analysis, code, documentation. Wrote embedded, real-time software in C++ under pSOS. Debugged across multiple processors (Alcatel).
Process and tool set development for porting PC file system databases to a relational server. Tool written in VBA converts Microsoft Access tables to DDL and DML files that can be processed by an SQL relational database management system (LBG).
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).
Object oriented analysis, design, and programming for medical record management software. Wrote C++ code to perform metadata and data extraction (data warehousing) from soft copy documents. Developed client and server modules for document repository engine in C with Embedded SQL. Wrote methods to synchronize documents stored externally with references stored in Sybase tables. (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. Also wrote object-oriented networking API in Ada used by all project developers (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 in C++ (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. Fortran simulation predicted performance before making a financial commitment to an engineering change proposal (Navy).
Cloud Environments: Amazon Web Services EC2, VMware ESXi and vSphere 5.x.
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: AWS EC2, AWS S3, Boost, C++/Views, Hibernate, J2EE, JAI, JMF, JSP, LAMP, MFC, .NET, Rabbit MQ, 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.