From: dickie@woody.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave W Dickie)
Subject: RELOC PERM MSCS +11, MBA in progress
Keywords: X MOTIF Unix C Management CRDBMS ORACLE 
Organization: Command Control Automations Project, JPL
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:33:02 GMT

						David W. Dickie
						1795 E. Sonoma Drive
						Altadena, CA 91001

						dickie@woody.jpl.nasa.gov

To whom it may concern,

	I am a software engineer/task manager interested in leaving 
the Southern California area due to the birth of my daughter.  Los 
Angeles is a poor environment for raising children, and it is 
getting worse.  As a result, I am interested in job opportunities 
in the New England or the Oregon/Washinton State area.
		  
	When you look over the attached resume, you will find a 
remarkable variety of experiences and an enviable record of 
successes.  Contract Manager for a twenty two million dollar 
contract is a job that is rarely held by someone twenty seven 
years old.  Directly controlling six million dollars on an in-
house software development effort is just as unusual for someone 
twenty nine.

	These opportunities do not occur by luck.  They occur when 
you get the reputation of doing things right the first time.  It 
is a reputation that can only be earned by application of 
intelligence, perseverance, strong analytical skills and a solid 
work ethic.  I have those characteristics.  And regardless of 
whether they were applied to nuclear submarining, contractual 
managment, technical management, or writing software, they have 
resulted in consistantly excellent work.

	While the majority of my current experience has been in a 
management role, I have stayed close enough to the software 
implementation for my programming skills to remained honed.  If 
anything, leading code reviews for my last project has left me 
with a better appreciation for good - and bad - programming 
practices.  

	Regardless of whether you have task management or programming 
positions available, I would be a valuable asset in your efforts.

	If you have any challenging positions open that match my 
qualifications, please contact me.



						Sincerely,
						David W. Dickie


David W. Dickie
1795 East Sonoma Drive
Altadena, CA  91001
(818) 791 2542 (Home)
(818) 397 9697 (Work)

Dickie@woody.jpl.nasa.gov


Career Objectives:	

Software management or development position on a challenging 
Unix/C project.  Prefer non-DoD work in order to broaden my 
experience base.

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science  
Minor in Mathematics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 1981
		
Naval Nuclear Engineering Program
(Equivalent to post-graduate degree in Nuclear Physics)
Naval Nuclear Power School, 1983

Masters of Science in Computer Science
University of Southern California (USC), 1989

Executive Masters in Business Administration
The Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management Center
The Claremont Graduate School (in progress) 

Summary:	

Capable manager able to coordinate resources and people 
effectively.  Dynamic leader with a reputation for careful 
planning, execution, and tracking of tasks resulting in a solid 
product delivered on time and within budget.  Experienced 
software manager with broad background in leading requirements 
definition, design, implementation, and test activities on a 
variety of software products in many languages.  

Experience:	

10/85 - present:  Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA 

  10/89 - present:  Software Task Manager.  
  Responsible for all aspects of software development, software 
  integration, and System Integration and Test (SI&T) for the 
  Command and Control Automation Project (CCAP).  CCAP is a 
  sixteen million dollar project with the objective of building a 
  state of the art Command and Control (C2) center for the the 
  United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM).  CCAP is 
  based on a heterogeneous hardware environment (Sun Sparc, 
  Macintosh IIfx, IBM 80386) in a Unix / C / Xwindows / Motif 
  software environment.   Directly control one third of the CCAP 
  budget and eighteen engineers (two software development teams, 
  one SI&T team).  On board since project inception.  Established 
  baseline software development and SI&T budgets, detailed Work 
  Breakdown Structures (WBS), schedules, methodologies, and 
  standards.  Lead high level and detailed design activities, 
  then  established subtask managers when staffing up for 
  implementation.  Delivered product on time and under budget.  
  Productivity on this project exceeded the standard by one 
  hundred and fifty percent.

  1/88 - 10/89: Software Subtask Manager.  
  Responsible for scheduling and technical leadership for the 
  130,000 ESLOC Workstation Subsystem Development task on the 
  Joint Exercise Support System (JESS).  JESS was a fifty million 
  dollar project with the objective of producing a air / land 
  warfare simulation used to train Corps level offices in proper 
  battlefield management techniques.  Workstation subsystem 
  provided a workstation based user interface to the simulation 
  including a graphical display of the battlefield, printed 
  reports, and a menu driven, alphanumeric display for entering 
  orders and reviewing information.  Directed ten software 
  engineers.  Successfully delivered two versions of JESS 
  workstation software on budget and on time.  By directly 
  leading a team of six programmers, delivered 12,000 ESLOC 
  generic interface to the workstation database in two months, 
  with a detailed interface control document.  Also responsible 
  during this period for leading conceptual work on advanced 
  workstation architectures.   Work resulted in demonstration 
  software presented to the sponsor in order to solicit funding 
  for implementation of advanced workstation concepts.

  3/87 - 1/88:  Contract Technical Manager.
  Responsible for contract management of Intelligence Collection 
  Management (ICM) subsystem on the All Source Analysis / Enemy 
  Situation Correlation Element (ASAS/ENSCE) project.  ICM was a 
  150,000 ESLOC subsystem on the 1,000,000+ ESLOC ASAS/ENSCE 
  project.  ASAS/ENSCE was developed in FORTRAN 77 with VAX/VMS 
  extensions on Digital Electronics Corporation (DEC) VAX and 
  MicroVAX II hardware.  ICM was subcontracted out to TRW in 
  MaClean, Virginia on a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) contract 
  valued at twenty two million dollars.  Directly controlled nine 
  engineers, a part time Senior Contract Negotiator and a part 
  time Contract Administrator.  Negotiated over two million 
  dollars worth of contract modifications.  Also during this 
  period performed as one of a five member Source Evaluation 
  Board (SEB) for selection of a company on a thirty million 
  dollar task.

  6/86 - 3/87:  Cognizant Design Engineer.
  Responsible for producing a Software Requirement Specification 
  (SRS) for next revision of ICM software (R2/3).  Directly lead 
  five engineers in performing requirements analysis, assessing 
  possible cost and schedule for implementation, and writing the 
  SRS.  ICM was the only subsystem of six to complete the SRS on 
  schedule.   

  10/85 - 6/86:  Member of the Technical Staff.
  Responsible for providing a technical interface between 
  ASAS/ENSCE and the ELINT subsystem being implemented by 
  McDonald Douglas.

6/81 - 10/85:  Lieutenant, United States Navy

  10/82 - 10/85:  Officer on board the USS City of Corpus Christi 
  (SSN 705), a nuclear powered Los Angeles class fast attack 
  submarine.  Department rated in top 1% of Navy.

  6/81 - 10/82:  Officer in training for Nuclear Power Program.  
  Attended Submarine Officer's Basic Course, Nuclear Prototype 
  Training Unit, and Naval Nuclear Power school.

Summers 79 and 80:  Sander's Associates, Nashua NH.

  Summers 79 and 80:  Junior Software Technician.
  Wrote diagnostic support packages for high level programs.  
  Wrote an assembler communications program to implement an 
  asynchronous serial interface between a Data General NOVA and a 
  special purpose digital computer.

Awards and Honors

  Select for NASA Manned Flight Awareness Program

  JPL Group Achievement Award for exceptional achievement during 
  JESS implementation.

  Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Letter of Commendation.

  Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarship to Rensselaer 
  Polytechnic Institute.

Relevant Experience

  C, FORTRAN, LISP, Pascal, COBOL, Assembler, ORACLE, INGRES, 
  SQL, Xwindows, MOTIF, VAX/VMS, Unix.

References Available on request.