Remembering Jim Dana

About Us

Experience

Retired

None

May 2013 - Present (13 years)

Hoquiam WA

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems

Sr Software Engineer

October 2012 - May 2013 (8 months)

Wobern MA

General Dynamics C4 Systems

Senior Software Engineer

January 2009 - June 2011 (2 years 6 months)

ADA on VAX's; Top Secret clearance + Crypto/COMSEC

Station Casinos

QA Software Engineer

April 2007 - August 2008 (1 year 5 months)

Responsible for testing and documentation on a variety of gaming systems.

• Responsibilities included Title31 Compliance systems, LMS (Lodging

Maintenance System) Kiosks, Genesis Poker integration, SPIN (centralized

control of customer data and promotions), Mainframes and Web applications

written in .net framework using C# and Visual Basic, as well as a variety

of generations of IBM RPG languages and Microsoft SQL databases and

scripts. Performed reverse engineering efforts to create process and data flow

diagrams, user guides, and requirements/design specifications. Prepared and

submitted requests for GCB (Gaming Control Board) approval of changes to

gaming systems.

Arcata Associates

Senior Software Engineer

March 1998 - February 2007 (9 years)

Responsibilities for a variety of Range Support Systems.

Page 1 of 2• Lead Engineer on range safety/mission control projects at Nellis AFB and

Fort Irwin Army Base in ADA, FORTRAN, C++, LABView and Oracle on PCs,

Encore, Silicon Graphics and HP Equipment.

Lockheed Martin

8 years 10 months

Project Leader and Systems Engineer

September 1995 - March 1998 (2 years 7 months)

At Luke AFB: Software Conversion from FORTRAN to C and subsequent

upgrades of F15/F16 combat flight emulator.

• Lead for multi-person upgrade to add two additional threat aircraft and

graphics display channels

• Missile flight and casualty assessment, record and instantaneous playback of

mission displays

• Console control, operator interactions, and visual and audio controls.

Project Leader & Senior Systems Analyst

June 1989 - September 1995 (6 years 4 months)

Instrumentation Subsystem (CIS) at NTC Fort Irwin CA: Provided lead

direction, system and detailed design, implementation, integration and testing

for major software upgrades at NTC

Education

Florida Institute of Technology

MBA, Concentration Data Processing · (1984 - 1987)

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Physics · (1981 - 1984)

The Johns Hopkins University

Physics · (1973 - 1976)

UC Irvine

BS, Physics · (1969 - 1973)

UCLA

Physics · (1968 - 1969)

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Jim Dana