Michael Lindstamer

1780 Winnebago Road, Colorado Springs, Colorado  80915

Cell: (719) 649-7760, michael.lindstamer@lindstamer.net

I am seeking a SYSTEMS ENGINEER position.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

I am dedicated to designs that are streamlined, efficient, maintainable, service oriented, and most of all accurate. In addition, I focus on fulfilling requirements, enforcing security, and preserving integrity. I am an effective and proven communicator with the ability to translate highly technical issues into easily understood presentations for sub-ordinates, superiors, and customers. In addition, I am a creative problem solver through innovative use of software tools, automation, and raw data manipulation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CIBER, Inc, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Maintain Solaris operating system on nearly 50 servers for the GPS AEP sustainment lab.
• Coordinate the scheduling of the operational configuration and several repeatability scenarios.
• Assist developers and testers resolve issues that may reduce their effectiveness.
• Automate many procedures that are used on a routine basis.

LOCKHEED MARTIN MISSION SERVICES, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Implemented complete system upgrade and 2 maintenance upgrades with no operational impacts, and minimum downtime – less than 20 minutes each.
• Redesigned GPS test environments in response to Air Force security issue - new design solved security issue; introduced easy user interface validated by user input, reduced human error, improved productivity, automated many processes eliminating manual action, enforcing configuration management control over test environments.
• Responded to request to assist in resolving major issues with Accuracy Improvement Initiative (AII) - quickly discovered undocumented modification that prevented developers from validating tests.
• Discovered and resolved design flaw causing 8 hour initialization of test environment, upon resolution test environment initialization was less than 1 hour.

NATIONAL SYSTEMS AND RESEARCH, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Reviewed and participated in extensive Y2K testing of entire GPS system – including initializing 1 mainframe, a remote site, and 3 satellites with future dates and allowing them to process through the Y2K anomaly, with only 1 known user impact that was quickly resolved.
• Redesigned the automated system initialization routine, reducing it from more than 1800 lines of complex, nested IF logic, code to simple loop of less than 100 lines of code.
• Designed, developed, and maintained software tools such as Job Card Generator greatly reducing human errors, and the Operational Release Interface making it possible to reconfigure, dynamically, the user’s environment based on operational selection.
• Driving force behind incorporating GPS mission application into System Security Application eliminating accreditation waver that had existed since the beginning of GPS.

US AIR FORCE (Retired), Schriever AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Redesigned single shared test environment into multiple independent test environments isolated from operational environment and each other, allowing maintainers, developers, integrators, and validation testers to perform duties simultaneously while protecting integrity of operational data.
• Evaluated 3 system security applications and recommended 1 that was implemented and still in use when the legacy GPS mainframe system was shutdown.
• Assisted with replacement of 4 IBM mainframes at primary GPS site with a single mainframe logically partitioned into 5 IBM systems; evaluated 7 possible configurations for new system, recommending one that was most efficient.
• Tasks as member of Advanced Support Team included operating system support, security administration, database administration, computer operations, and crew support.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Secret – August 16 2001 - Active