J. Emmett Black, Jr.

344 Maple Avenue West #153 Vienna, VA 22180

N2ZOI@virtualVE.com 703-597-5836

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Summary:

Innovative, creative, versatile engineering and computer professional with broad experience in systems architectures, systems engineering, requirements engineering, systems programming, software engineering, product development, fundamental research and development, and computational linguistics with excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Experience:

1997 -

Lockheed Martin Corporation Sr. Staff Engineer;

Systems Engineer / Data Architect for a team creating a centralized directory system providing authentication and similar data integrity services using X.509 certificates and LDAP interfaces. Member of industry team to organize conferences in Battlefield Digitization, and to respond to the Presidential Decision Directive (PDD-63) for National Infrastructure Protection. Formed a team, developed an approach and delivered an oral proposal for a government agency. Acting Manager of Systems Engineering, Training and Testing on several classified programs. Provided Engineering Coordinator function for initial ramp-up for major proposal effort. Served as a Volume Manager to produce a Proposal for a large C4IS valued at about $250M. Created the Systems Engineering Model and led the effort to acquire, analyze, adjudicate and manage approximately 15,000 originating and verification requirements for KC4IS proposal. Generated the mechanisms for distributing and communicating requirements to team members, and for consolidating and disambiguating a plurality of independent responses in order to generate consistent compliance and traceability matrices. Working with the KC4IS team, provided mechanisms to permit our proposal to be scored for compliance and supported generation of summary tables for compliance overview. Provided Systems Engineering and requirements acquisition / management support using my own unique technologies to several other proposal efforts.

1985-1997

GE  Corporate Research and Development Center Computer Scientist

Performed experimental work which produced unique enabling technologies leading to the development of commercializable systems. Used Java and Web-based technologies in developing systems to present large quantities of information manageably. Conceived the approach, and assembled a team of engineers and economists for development of a market driven traffic model in order to direct deployment of phased-array satellite resources such that revenues are maximized. Led a team of highly skilled professionals in the research and development of an innovative system which combined AI (Natural Language) and hypermedia technologies to process natural language specifications and extract system requirements and issues for Systems Engineering. The system produced dramatic productivity improvements. Filed six patent disclosures in natural language processing and hypermedia technologies. Granted two U.S. patents (to date) for novel innovations in natural language processing. Served as acting manager, Software Engineering Program at GE Research. Key contributor on the InterActive Ada Workstation project team; some of the technology thus developed became a part of the Cadre TeamWork/Ada product. Received a GE/CRD Publications Award for having numerous publications in the areas of Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, and Database Publishing.

1980 - 1985	GE Aerospace Senior Systems Engineer
	Conceived a mechanism which permitted dissimilar computer communications protocols to be meaningfully compared with each other, and translated economically. Project manager for a ''Blue Ribbon'' IR&D project to create a prototype universal computer communications protocol convertor using the Ada programming language.

1977 - 1980	Sperry Univac Data Processing Consultant Senior Systems Analyst
	Created a high speed communications program product which permitted Sperry Univac 1100 series systems to interact with ''foreign mainframes.'' Co-architect of a system permitting commercial airlines to reserve rental cars for their customers. Member of the National Accounts NBC Telcon team.

1975 - 1977	Lockheed Electronics Company Systems Programmer
	Responsible for stabilization of several Sperry Univac 1100 Systems. Rewrote a large internal real-time telecommunications handler in the Univac Exec-8 Operating System. Member of the ground support team for the last manned Apollo Mission (Johnson Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston 1975).

Education:

• BS, Electrical Engineering ( University of Alabama; 1974)
  (with equivalent of minors in Math, Chemistry and Physics).
• Postgraduate work towards MSEE and MSCS ( U of Alabama, U of Houston).
• Numerous continuing education courses (O/S internals (Exec-8, MVS, VMS, unix), State and Process Modeling, Requirements Engineering, Behavior Modeling, Project Management, Military Standards (2167A, etc.), C++, HTML, Java, OO-Technologies, etc.)
• Additional INCOSE seminars (Systems Engineering, Requirements Analysis, etc.)
• Currently investigating completion of a PhD program in Systems Engineering.

Clearances:

TS/SSBI and current polygraph.