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Keith A. Pray
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Summary
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Leader, Computer Scientist, and Software Engineer with 19 years 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
- 18 years Java development experience as primary language
- 16 years providing technical team leadership
- 11 years providing university computer science education
- 4 years managing engineering employees
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Experience
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Sr. Software Engineering Manager/Architect,
BAE Systems,
ES
- Burlington, MA/Hudson, NH
: 09/2004 - present
- Direct technical leadership or functional management of 25 software engineers across multiple sites
- Currently responsible to Software Director of 160 engineer organization - Technical Lead: Map Display
- Hands on lead and architect in program of 65 software engineers
- Saved $2 million during initial development of Map Display coordinating program management, system engineering, co-contractor, users, and customer
- Captured portion of primary mission equipment from competitor comprising 50% of the product screen real estate
- Recovered 2 month schedule slip upon joining Map team delivering features 20% ahead of first increment schedule
- Reduced defect resolution and regression testing overhead of feature rich Map Display from 1 week to 4 hours
- Led addition of 30 Map features, requirements through integration and test, on schedule and within budget
- Initiated and advised 2 sponsored university projects coordinating legal, business area, and academic departments
- Responsible to Business Area Director of 60 engineer organization - Productizing Lead: Tracking and Fusion
- Leveraged disparate tracking and fusion capabilities over 14 different code bases
- Instituted mechanisms for maturation of research developed capabilities in a production code base
- Aligned source control and build infrastructure to support major, minor, and fix releases to multiple programs
- Inserted automated testing, coverage, static analysis, run time performance, and dependency metrics
- Reduced time to regression defect identification from 4 weeks to 1 day
- Capability Lead: UAV Auto Routing High-Speed Emergency Re-Planner in program of 25 engineers
- Increased code review effectiveness from 1 to 10 major defects found across all program projects
- Chief Software Architect: Future Combat Systems Preparation and Planning Services Fires And Effects Planner
- Customer appointed role leading 25 engineers from 2 companies on East and West coasts
- Achieved reversal of deployment approach of 300K line code base in single 6 month spiral with no cost or schedule impact to previously planned tasks supporting customer direction change
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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.
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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
- Conducted research for project funding proposals and preparation
for conferences. Created and maintained web site.
Geo. I. Alden Fellow,
BEI, WPI : 02/2002 - 09/2002
- Authored MA Norfolk County Sheriff's Office technology plan, new data model and user interface technologies. |
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Design Engineer,
EMC Corporation - Hopkinton, MA : 06/1998 - 10/2001
- Performance Analyst: Characterize and optimize EMC Data Manager (EDM) Backup Restore Solution
- Realized twentyfold team productivity increase through 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:
Product Size Estimation, Schedule Planning, Requirement Derivation, Algorithm, Architecture, Design, Implementation, Testing, Integration
Tools:
Java,
JSF,
JSP,
JavaScript,
XML,
HTML,
XHTML,
UNIX,
Linux,
BSD,
Mac OS X,
Windows NT/95 through 7,
Jenkins,
Eclipse,
Subversion,
ClearCase,
Rational Rose,
Test Track Pro,
Weka,
Emacs,
Java SDK,
Apache [Web Server |
Tomcat,
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Primefaces,
CesiumJS,
Google Earth Plugin,
Coverity,
Fortify,
MS Office
Previous Experience In:
C++,
C,
Prolog,
Scheme/LISP,
LaTeX
People:
Recruiting, Behavioral and Technical Interviewing, Performance Leadership and Management, Mentorship, Career Development, Salary Planning, Tasking
Process:
Continuous Improvement, CMMI Level 3, Effective 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
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-BAE Chairman's Award Bronze, Silver nomination
-BAE Impact Award Alternative Display Solution
-BAE Impact Award 20% Functionality Delivered Ahead of Schedule
-BAE Impact Award Great Place To Work Diversity & Inclusion
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