Donald Edward Swing

10503 Graeloch Road
Laurel, Maryland 20723
(301) 725-7674
edswing@aol.com

SUMMARY

Lead Software Engineer, software architect, and applications developer with over 20 years experience, specializing in visualization, knowledge representation, semantics, 3D graphics, and Web development. Innovative software designer, experienced in developing and applying cutting-edge technologies. Strengths include technical leadership, innovative development, problem-solving, and applying cutting-edge technology. Extensive experience in software architecture and design, quality assurance, CMM, systems engineering and integration, operational planning, graphical user interface (GUI) design and technical writing.

Work History

Vision Systems and Technology, Ellicott City, MD
NCI Inc., Annapolis Junction, MD 2003-2006
Triton Services, Bowie MD, 2002-2003
National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, Maryland 1986-2002

Principal Technology Consultant - VSTI (2006-current)

Served as Technical Consultant for several data correlation projects involving COTS integration, faceted search, data streaming, and agent technologies. Developer and designer of various knowledge-representation strategies, semantic constructs, and visualizations.

• Developed Prajna Open-Source toolkit for visualization, knowledge representation, semantic reasoning, data fusion, and geographic services
• Developed multiplevisualization prototypes, including geographic, network and hierarchy visualizations.
• Authored, or served as technical representative for, several proposals for government services
• Integrated visualization prototypes with data streaming and filtering architectures for technology demonstration and validation.
• Authored several proposals, and provided technical contributions to other proposals.
• Represented VSTI at University of MD Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory functions.

Principal Software Engineer - NCI Inc. 2003-2006

Served as Technical Lead, Software Architect, and Senior Developer for a processing engine designed to automatically perform services on collected files. This engine provided content analysis on collected data, producing additional metadata to enable NSA analysts to identify which collected files may contain the most useful or interesting information.

• Architected, designed and implemented software agents to automate the algorithm training process. Created a framework for new algorithms to interact with the system, and integrated multiple existing algorithms into the new agents.
• Rearchitected the existing system, reducing complexity of software significantly.
• Designed and implemented a wizard utility with a GUI to automate complex tasks within the system, and to allow operations monitors to easily reconfigure multiple installations at various sites.
• Designed and implemented database persistence software for project-specific schema.
• Started a company-wide Java Special Interest Group, providing talks on various software topics. Also designed and taught a Java Certification Training course.

Senior Software Engineer - Triton Services 2002-2003

Served as Technical Lead, Software Architect, and Senior Developer in the development of a prototype Visualization system for NSA supporting the improvement of their Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Architectures.

• Designed and guided implementation of Multi-Tier J2EE System for the C4ISR application.
• Implemented techniques to integrate with existing methodologies and tools
• Evaluated tools and technologies, including SilverStream Portal software, ArcInfo GIS Systems, NetViz, and other Web and Visualization utilities, for integration into C4ISR Visualization System.
• Mentored other members of the C4ISR team in Object-Oriented Design, Java and J2EE technologies, and Software Development

Visualization/Web Development Specialist - NSA 1995-2002

Developed numerous visualization prototypes using web-based techniques, finding innovative solutions to analytical problems. Evaluated numerous commercial and government visualization packages. Educated other employees on graphics, web and visualization techniques.

• Developed immersive environment for collaboration tool suite used by NSA, and provided code enhancements to the open-source development team responsible for the tools.
• Designed innovative visualization tools for network traffic monitoring and analysis, using novel visualization paradigms.
• Developed several web-based information visualization prototypes for visualizing data from a suite of automated analytic tools.
• Created utilities to access databased information and convert it for display within commercial visualization packages.

Software Project Manager - NSA 1986-1994

Served as project manager within Open Systems Mapping Applications Group. Primary designer, customer support, and development team leader for a 3D interactive cartographic system designed for the display and analysis of satellites and other vehicles.

• Created Interprocess Communication protocols for communicating with NSA databases within application.
• Converted extensive astrodynamics library from Fortran to C, and optimized algorithms to yield a significant performance increase.
• Modularized mapping routines and vectorized mapping library, reducing map-drawing time by 80%.

Publications

"Web-based Information Visualization", Randall M. Rohrer and Edward Swing, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 17, No. 4, July/August 1997, pp. 52-59.

"Visualization of a Network Traffic Monitoring System", Edward Swing, Late Breaking Hot Topics Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization '97 Conference, pp. 65-68.

"Flodar: Flow Visualization of Network Traffic", Edward Swing, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 18, No. 5, Sept/Oct 1998.

"Adding Immersion to Collaborative Tools", Edward Swing, Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language, pp. 63-68, ACM, 2000.

Education

Java, J2EE Training, Sun Microsystems
VRML and OpenInventor Training, Silicon Graphics
M.S., Computer Science; Johns-Hopkins University
B.A., Computer Science, Mathematics; Rice University

Supplemental Data

• Java Certified Programmer
• Highly proficient in Java, J2EE, Swing, JSP, JDBC, RMI, and other Java Technologies
• Highly Proficient in XML, HTML, C, VRML, Motif, CGI, PHIGS, HTML, XML, Fortran, Geographic Information Systems, Semantic Technologiees
• Presented talks at IEEE Information Visualization Conference, ACM Web3D conference
• Participated in Web3D/VRML Conference Planning Committee
• Represented NSA on ANSI X3H3 Committee for Graphics Standards, 1990-1996
• Author or technical advisor of several proposals for government contracts
• UNIX System Administration experience
• Currently holds a Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.