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Keith A. Pray
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Summary
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Leader, Computer Scientist, and Software Engineer with 25+ years of experience solving problems by designing and building quality software in companies and teams of all sizes and academic research roles
- History of improving team productivity and efficiency by orders of magnitude
- Strives to develop keen insight to find true, simple solutions to complicated, real world problems
- 22+ years providing technical team leadership
- 21 years Java development experience as primary language
- 17+ years providing university computer science education
- 9+ years managing engineering employees
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Experience
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Software Engineering Manager III,
BAE Systems,
ES
- NH, MA
: 09/2004 - present
Software Development Environment Lead - Digital Transformation, DevSecOps, Agile, Metrics
- Led creation and delivery of 26 live and 2 asynchronous training modules by 24 authors across several sites and time zones
A leader of ES Sector Engineering Excellence, Governance, and Process of 5500+ engineer organization
- Supported AS9100D audits achieving PEAR scores of 4-5 through 50+ activities
- Coordinated Corrective Action Review Board. Increased available analysis time 233%. Reduced manually generated materials 63%. Reduced quarterly meeting time 50%. Led 250+ improvement tasks to completion.
Software Manager / Architect - Reported to Software Director of 160 engineer organization
- Direct technical leadership and functional management of 25 SW engineers across multiple sites
Principal Software Investigator: IRAD - Defining EW SW architecture of the future
- Illustrated paradigm for flexible deployment and concurrency while eliminating typical multi-threading issues
Software Lead: DARPA Cognitive EW - Hands on lead for multi-discipline engineering team
- Developed integrated Earned Value Management and Jira process reducing metric reporting to 10 minutes/week
Technical Lead: Map Display - hands on lead and architect in program of 65 SW Engineers
- Upon joining saved $2 million estimated development costs and recovered an existing 2 month schedule slip
- Recaptured 50% of primary mission equipment screen real estate from competitor
- Reduced defect resolution and regression testing overhead of feature rich product from 1 week to 4 hours
- Led addition of 30 features, requirements through integration and test, on schedule and within budget
Productizing Lead: Tracking and Fusion reporting to Business Area Director of 30 engineer organization
- Aligned source control and build to support maturation of research capabilities and releases to multiple customers
- Inserted automated testing, coverage, static analysis, run time performance, and dependency metrics
- Reduced average defect identification time from 4 weeks to 1 day
Capability Lead: UAV Auto Routing High-Speed Emergency Replanner in program of 25 engineers
- Increased average code review effectiveness from 1 to 10 major defects found across all program projects
Chief SW Architect: System of Services Preparation and Planning Fires and Effects Planner
- Customer appointed role leading 25 engineers from 2 companies on East and West coasts
- Implemented deployment reversal of 300K line code base in 6 month spiral with no cost or schedule impact
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Adjunct Instructor,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(WPI),
CS Department - Worcester, MA
: 05/2004 - present
Courses:
CS 525W Web Ware,
CS 3043 Social Implications Of Information Processing.
Research Scientist/Engineer,
Bioengineering Institute (BEI), WPI
: 09/2002 - 08/2004
- Cultivated business opportunities for novel data model and user interface technologies, Provisional Patent awarded.
Research Assistant,
Center For Research In Exploratory Data And Information Analysis, WPI
: 09/2002 - 12/2002
Geo. I. Alden Fellow,
BEI, WPI : 02/2002 - 09/2002
- Authored Sheriff's Office technology plan, date model, GUIs |
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Design Engineer,
EMC Corporation - Hopkinton, MA : 06/1998 - 10/2001
- Performance Analyst: Characterized and optimized Backup Restore Solution
- Realized 20 fold team productivity increase initiating and leading continuous improvement effort
- Provided performance white papers, inference engine expert system, and support to sales and field engineers
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Software Engineer,
Scope Communications - Marlborough, MA : 1997 - 1998
- Created intelligent GUI widgets.
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Software Consultant,
3Com - Marlborough, MA : Summer 1996
- Implemented a manufacturing quality database.
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Skills
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Technical:
Architecture, Design, Implementation, Testing, Integration, Product Size Estimation, Schedule Planning, Requirement Derivation, Algorithm
Tools:
Java, Akka, JSF, JSP, JavaScript, XML, X/HTML, *NIX, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows, Jenkins, Eclipse, Git, ClearCase,
Weka,
Emacs,
Apache [Web Server |
Tomcat,
| TomEE | Shiro | Log4j],
Primefaces, CesiumJS, Google Earth Plugin, Coverity, Fortify, Jira, Collaborator, MS Office, Doxygen;
Previous Experience In:
C/C++,
Prolog,
Scheme/LISP,
Rational Rose,
Subversion,
Test Track Pro,
LaTeX
People:
Recruiting, Behavioral/Technical Interviews, Performance Leadership/Management, Mentorship, Career Development, Delegation
Process:
Continuous Improvement, CMMI V2.0, AS9100D, AS9145, Technical Product Review, Meeting Facilitation
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Education
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PhD in Computer Science,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Worcester, MA - In Progress
Master of Science in Computer Science,
WPI - 2004
Thesis: Time Sequence Association Rules
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science,
WPI - 1998 with
High Distinction
Thesis: Machine Vision Billiards
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Publication
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Mining Expressive Temporal Associations from Complex Data,
Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition: 4th International Conference, MLDM 2005, Leipzig, Germany, July 9-11, 2005. Proceedings.
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Awards sample
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-BAE Impact: Interviews
-BAE Impact: Ingenuity, flawless execution in face
of pandemic challenges
-BAE Impact: Tireless execution through unanticipated issues
-BAE Chairman's: Bronze, Silver nomination
-BAE Impact: Alternative
Display Solution
-BAE Impact: 20% Functionality Delivered Ahead
of Schedule
-BAE Impact: Great
Place to Work Diversity & Inclusion
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