GERALD NELSON SCHAFER

5 Mojave Court
Rockville, MD 20850-2851
(301) 217-9187
Cell: 240-432-1875
gs513b52@westpost.net
Citizenship: United States of America
Career Objective: To have a variety of challenging problems, delight the custome
r, please the company, keep technically current, work with good people, teach ot
hers, and continue learning all aspects of the computer business.
Overview: A highly skilled professional with extensive software development and
technical management experience gained over 30 years. In-depth experience in al
l phases of the project life cycle from proposal, requirements management and de
finition, systems analysis, implementation, testing, to maintenance, including d
ocument organization and preparation. Strong proponent of using processes and st
andards. Administered several Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOOR
S) projects. Requirement experience includes software and hardware, use cases a
nd operator interaction, and operating systems. Also skilled at motivating and
leading technical teams, managing proposal efforts, and systems integration. Ma
jor development projects have included directing proposals for, analyzing, or im
plementing the following:
* Bureau of the Census (BOC) Data Capture System (DCS) 2000
* Defense Enterprise Integration Services (DEIS) II
* Department of Education (DOED) Direct Loan Servicing Subsystem (DLSS)
* DoD Data System Modernization (DSM) and Global Positioning System (GPS)
* FAA Advanced Automation System (AAS)
* FAA National Air Space (NAS) Enroute Central Computer Complex (CCC)
* FAA National Air Space (NAS) Enroute Display Channel Complex (DCC)
* FAA National Satellite Test Bed (NSTB) Test Master Station Software Upgrade
* IBM Ledger Source Maintenance (LSM)
* IBM Management Decision Support System (MDSS)
* IBM MVS operating system (Multiple Virtual Systems)
* IBM Voice Management Facility/2 (VMF/2)
* National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Web Central Registration De
pository (CRD)
* NYC Board of Education Systems Engineering Consultant services
* Satellite Business Systems (SBS) System Maintenance Facility (SMF)
* Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS) Travel Reservation System (TERESE)
Special Skills:
* Administering DOORS, the requirements management system
* Communicating with a client
* Writing specifications
* Mentoring co-workers
* Leading teams and participating as a team member
Background Investigations: MBI completed for the Bureau of the Census in early 1
999. MBI completed for the IRS in the summer of 1998 and in the latter part of
1995. Secret clearance obtained for the FAA.
General Software: Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS), Rational
ClearCase, Sharepoint, System Architect, Windows, Unix, OS/2, DOS; Microsoft Wor
d, WordPerfect, DisplayWrite; Visio, PowerPoint, Designer; Excel, LOTUS 1-2-3; M
icrosoft Project, Project Scheduler (PS6); Microsoft Access, CASE Tools (Oracle
Designer 2000, StP, Excelerator, IEW), Oracle Discoverer (User Edition), Informi
x, Sybase, PowerBuilder (CBT only), JAVA (class only), PVCS Version Manager and
Tracker, Virtual SourceSafe
Languages: DOORS eXtension Language (DXL), C, SQL, JAVA (class only), COBOL, PL/
I, PLS, ALC, Ada, Unix, JOVIAL, BASIC, HP PCL
Mainframe: MVS, JCL, MVS Supervisor Services, MVS Utilities, RACF, TSO, TSO TEST
, VM/CMS, ISPF, XEDIT, HIPODRAW, IBM's Proposal Factory, Bookmaster, CLEAR, TPNS
, IMS, DL/I
Other Classes: SEI/CMM, Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving & Decision Making, Systems
Engineering, Moderator of Formal Reviews/Inspections, many standards and proces
s orientation courses.
University: University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan
College of Engineering, with a major in physics and a concentration in computers
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Physics)
Post Graduate Study: IBM Systems Research Institute; New York City: 3/1975 - 6/1
975
Three-month post-graduate level curriculum in computer science
Johns Hopkins University, Rockville, Maryland: 1/2004 - 5/2004
Began courses for a Masters degree in Special Education.
Highlights In Professional Career:
* Provided a sophisticated parser of user inputs for all major components of a
message processing system, reducing development cost
* Created a methodology that generated PL/I code directly from low level design
statements, eliminating over 80% of coding for the operational command parsing
of the message processing system
* Introduced an interactive testing tool - in place of batch testing - in integ
ration testing of the same message processing system
* Created DOORS databases for three independent projects and maintained five.
Created several requirements management processes; created and presented tutoria
ls to learn DOORS and for publishing specifications in MS Word. Many specialize
d functions written in the DOORS eXtension language (DXL).
* Presented a tutorial on a new statistics measurement component of a major ope
rating system via a videotape presentation distributed to IBM sales regions thro
ughout the country and via written and oral presentations to two GUIDE user conv
entions
* Identified the need for and created the missing high level physical design fr
om the logical design of a federal government student loan processing system in
ten days via a network diagram
* Created a billion dollar pricing model used in a winning proposal to the fede
ral government
* Identified the need for and convinced managers from both sides of a US Postal
contract to exchange system development functional responsibility
* Identified the need for and implemented an MS Access data base containing req
uirements, design, and data dictionary to coordinate the information used by the
team that created a set of life cycle documents for the federal government
* Created and reviewed requirements for an airline reservation system, residing
in Denmark for 2 years.
* Implemented the creation of customized proposals for a system that automated
the preparation of written text from voice recordings. Created in the IBM Propo
sal Factory system.
* Presented to the client my architecture of a major subsystem in the FAA air t
raffic control system
* Served as a team lead eight times from before 1976 to 1999.
Experience:
Computer Technology Associates
5201 Leesburg Pike, Suite 503
Falls Church, VA 22041
* 12/2008 - 1/2010: Senior Architect for Military Health Systems
Defined a comprehensive set of rules for using DOORS on a well controlled projec
t, as part of a DOORS restructuring effort: Designed the DOORS implementation p
ortion to create a document from views in baselines of multiple DOORS modules an
d data from two other programs. Wrote many DXL scripts to support this activity
. Included in this was traceability among data objects from all three productio
n data bases.
Created many business process diagrams for the EHR WayAhead in Systems Architect
(SA) using inputs from IM Analysts, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and other ar
chitects.
[NOTE: All the following positions between 2004 and 2008 have been of short dur
ation because they have been temporary, consultant positions generally limited t
o one year or less.]
TAC Worldwide (Advantage Technical Resourcing, Inc)
1205 Coleman Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95050
* 1/2008 - 11/2008: Requirements Management: Consultant at BAE Systems, Santa Cl
ara, CA
Provided DOORS Administration services which include all aspects of requirement
management, including writing DXL scripts, tutoring and advising authors of requ
irements, and mentoring another employee on DOORS administrator information and
activities. Created a suite of instructions on writing specifications in text,
spreadsheet, and DOORS and exporting them from DOORS to spreadsheet or text with
cover sheets to meet business needs.
ProLink Services
8521 Leesburg Pike, Suite 250
Vienna, VA 22182
* 9/2006 - 8/2007: Requirements Management: Consultant at Freddie Mac, McLean, V
A
Provided multiple DOORS Administration services for over 50 projects: reviewed r
equirement management plans; established new project structures; authorized new
users to groups; provided linksets for new modules; answered questions from user
s; taught DOORS. Software requirement types included use cases, business requir
ements, and functional specifications. Wrote/modified scripts that modify/repor
t data on all modules in folders. Developed fully formatted exports from DOORS t
o Word templates. Provided pre-baseline reports and baselining by sets. Took m
easurements and reported daily, weekly, and monthly metrics.
NewTown Solutions
8608 Eagle Creek Circle
Savage, MN 55378
* 2/2006 - 9/2006: Requirements Management: Consultant at BAE Systems, Fridley,
MN
Created metrics and statistics gathering scripts in the DOORS eXtention Language
(DXL). Provided consultation for DOORS questions. Presented best practices re
lating to exporting DOORS specifications to MS Word. Modified the DOORS Word ex
porter to provide several customized changes in the output to Word: requirement
identification, local and remote section reference identification, header level
detection and generation, formatting for multiple enumerated list values.
HI-TEK Professionals
1034 Lincoln Avenue
Prospect Park, PA 19076
* 8/2005 - 2/2006: Requirements Management: Consultant at Middle River Aircraft
Systems (MRAS), Middle River, MD
Established the second of two DOORS projects at MRAS, the second one enabling a
single module to contain all hardware requirement specifications, from client re
quirements down to subcomponent specifications, to control multiple specificatio
n uses for each object. To implement that, created several trigger functions (1
) to control the data integrity of all specifications including those that are t
o be modified only via the DOORS Change Proposal System (CPS), (2) to detect cha
nges of parent requirements in child requirements, and (3) to allow subsequent r
esetting of the change detection at the object level. Used the CPS for the firs
t MRAS project. Evaluated and recommended DOORSnet for client and supplier subm
ittal of changes via CPS or Synergy. Created a set of workflow diagrams to dire
ct requirement changes from all internal and external sources.
Additional Technical Support Incorporated (ATSI) : 6/2004 - 8/2005
150 Bear Hill Road
Waltham, MA 02451-1036
* 2/2005 - 8/2005: Requirements Management: Consultant at Middle River Aircraft
Systems (MRAS), Middle River, MD
Designed and implemented the first DOORS database at MRAS. Incorporated large e
xisting requirements specifications, linking them and standardizing the output t
emplates and paragraph styles for MS Word. Allocated link mappings and modified
DXL scripts to allow multiple attributes to display unique text and redlined te
xt from multiple incoming and outgoing links. Wrote many guidelines for the use
r and for a backup administrator, documenting all the unique features created in
the MRAS database. Installed the DOORS Change Proposal System.
* 6/2004 - 2/2005: Requirements Management: Consultant at General Dynamics Land
Systems, Sterling Heights, MI.
Created and implemented the document generation process for requirements in a DO
ORS database. Created the standards for MS Word documents with cover pages, tab
les of contents, and appendix numbering; directed others in creating script supp
ort in the DOORS eXtension Language (DXL) for exporting requirements: requiremen
t identifiers appended to requirement paragraphs and standard template support.
Maintained the database for two projects: created a new database; created a hie
rarchy of modules, adapting an extensive set of existing attributes, views, and
link mappings to the new database. Prepared and presented the GDLS tutorial on
proper usage in DOORS of tables, OLE links to tables, figures, and spreadsheet f
iles; introduced the building of DOORS native table usage to the projects. Main
tained all aspects of requirements management support in DOORS, including the mo
dification of DXL scripts, rigid access and linkage controls, and other module c
haracteristics. Defined the interfacing data flow procedure from authors to adm
inistrators to Configuration Management.
ENSCO, Incorporated
5400 Port Royal Road
Springfield, VA 22151
* 7/2003 - 6/2004: Requirements Documentation and Maintenance: System Analyst;
Requirements Management, at Idea Corporation, Fairfax, VA
Created requirements documentation for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Enterprise Human Resources Initiative (EHRI). Obtained a temporary copy DOORS a
nd subsequently installed it and the permanent copy; installed DOORS clients and
server. Created a requirements management process; created a DOORS users manua
l to direct others, who added requirements to DOORS, how to enter requirements a
nd set Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) attributes, including linkage. Es
tablished elaborate DOORS access controls for users. Reviewed requirements writ
ten by others; reworded requirements to meet the form "the system shall;" create
d functional requirements from release planning documentation; monitored and cre
ated traceability linkage to higher and lower level documents; created an RTM us
ing DOORS attributes. Modified the DOORS eXtension Language (DXL) to provide cu
stomized trace/impact attribute text. Created deliverable requirements document
s at two levels along with the RTM. Also performed system integration testing.
Documented changes in requirements and requirement priorities in a joint session
with multiple vendors and OPM personnel. Proposed and defined the purpose of a
Configuration Control Board to approve the requirements and the RTM for each re
lease of the system.
Montgomery County Public Schools
850 Hungerford Drive
Rockville, MD 20850
* 4/2002 - 6/2003: Substitute Teacher, Special Education Instructional Assistant
:
Substituted mostly as a special education teacher of mildly and severely disable
d students, from ages 4 to 20; assisted three months with moderately disabled mi
ddle school children.
Magruder's Grocery
P.O. Box 1432
Rockville, Maryland
* 1/2002 - 4/2002: Computer Support Staff:
Created formal documentation of many manual and automated tasks used in support
of the grocery stores. Learned, performed, and documented invoice sorting, adjus
tments, and entry to the accounting system; and several different shelf tag prep
aration and printing functions. Supported the CIO in preparing organized, clear
notices and forms; analyzed survey results, creating complex Excel charts.
Electronic Data Systems Corporation: 3/1995 - 7/2001
13600 EDS Drive
Herndon, VA 20171
* 1/2001 - 7/2001: Business Analyst:
Created system requirements after implementation of a system release for the Nat
ional Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Web Central Registration Deposito
ry (CRD) system. Created current system requirements - use cases and business r
equirements - using earlier release requirements and existing system external an
d internal information; solicited detailed information from the client, develope
rs, and testers. Created and revised several processes and documented conventio
ns needed by the requirements team. Used the DOORS requirements management appl
ication, Virtual SourceSafe, PVCS Version Manager and Tracker to control and sav
e documentation. Performed extensive importing and exporting of Word documents
in/out of DOORS, creating and modifying associated processes and related Word st
yles. Also, updated and controlled documentation within the DOORS application.
Acted as a DOORS administrator for CRD, controlling user access and performing
archives of current documentation.
Documented another project's requirement changes in joint session with client an
d contractor personnel.
* 6/1999 - 12/2000: Systems Analyst, Software Developer:
Analyzed census form fields, including acceptance and rejection rates of the Opt
ical Character Reader (OCR). Provided the Data Administration Capability (DAC)
of the Bureau of the Census' Data Capture System 2000 with a (Microsoft Project)
schedule to determine resources needed and to support costing. Provided writte
n guidance for and co-developed the high level design (System Design Description
) for the DAC subsystem. Created several DAC displays/reports using Oracle Disco
verer. Refined and updated the Data Assurance concept of operations (using Oracl
e's Designer 2000). Advised the producer of the On-Site Support user guides. Re
vised and issued Site Support Concept of Operations. Revised the Systems Dispos
ition Plan. Created the systems disposition process, including the support of th
ree audits, to guide the disposition of over 3000 computers at the conclusion of
data capture for the year 2000 census. Moderated many inspections. Provided Dat
a Assurance Basis of Estimates for a cost proposal.
* 11/1998 - 6/1999: Systems Analyst:
Led a team of three people for the Central Technical Support (CTS) second level
help desk development during phase 2, period 2 of the development of the Data Ca
pture System 2000 for the Bureau of the Census. Responsible for producing a con
cept of operations and an installation & administrative guide. Created a project
technical orientation guide and the initial project specification tree. Coordi
nated the creation of the project level acronym list.
* 6/1998 - 11/1998: Life Cycle Document Designer:
Modified all major life cycle documents (including requirements, architecture, c
onceptual database design, high level design, and requirements traceability matr
ix) from one IRS project to define another project for investigating taxpayer co
mpliance. Presented the project final technical review to the IRS. Created an
Access database to relate data descriptions within and across several of the lif
e cycle documents.
* 3/1997 - 6/1998: Developer and Tester of DOED Loan Consolidation Subsystem:
Defined and performed System Integration Tests of major changes to the Loan Cons
olidation Subsystem. Led the requirements definition, with the Department of Edu
cation (DOED) director of Loan Consolidation, of a new set of reports; designed
and coded the reports in C and Informix. Reviewed programs and coded in COBOL.
Created and modified shell scripts for image transmissions; designed program mo
difications to replace the scripts; and created new reports (running on a Unix p
latform and printed using HP Printer Control Language).
* 12/1996 - 3/1997: High Level Designer for DLSS:
Identified the need for a high level physical design and directed its creation f
rom the high level logical design - a data flow diagram of the processes and the
data flows needed to implement the functional view of the Direct Loan Servicing
System (DLSS). Designed the Interfaces process.
* 3/1996 - 11/1996: Test Engineer on the FAA's NSTB (National Satellite Test Be
d, Test Master Station Software Upgrade):
Led a team of three people who created the Tools Test Specification for the tool
s qualification as required for the FAA's safety development standard RTCA 178-B
. Defined the NSTB operational requirements for all tools. Developed the C Comp
iler test cases, scripts, and data; executed and documented the traceability and
correctness of DEC Alpha machine code created by the C Compiler. Also, develop
ed the integration test sequence of code and integration sets of software high l
evel requirements; designed test cases for integration. This project refined th
e initial effort to track aircraft using Global Positioning System (GPS) signals
instead of ground based radar.
* 12/1995 - 2/1996: Proposal Manager on DEIS II:
Integrated the proposal master schedule on Microsoft Project for the Defense Ent
erprise Integration Services (DEIS) II contract; planned proposal production; im
plemented additional requirements for proposal support in facilities, document s
tandards, teaming partner orientation, and overall proposal communication.
* 3/1995 - 12/1995: Systems Integration Specialist on the Integration Support C
ontract (ISC):
Created system-to-system Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for the IRS Tax Syst
ems Modernization (TSM) Submission Processing Systems (SPS); developed a telecom
munications plan schedule for SPS using Project Scheduler 6; organized ISC and I
RS meetings, leading a few meetings. Also, created technical orientation guidel
ines for new project members and a labor-recording tool.
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Grumman Technical Services, Incorporated: 1/1995 -
2/1995
2411 Dulles Corner Park
Herndon, VA 20171
* 1/1995 - 2/1995: FAA Proposal Engineer:
Created proposal materials for the Automated Air Traffic Control (AUA) Technical
Assistance Contract (TAC), which was to provide task support to assist the FAA.
Loral Federal Systems: 3/1994 - 6/1994
* Continued the IBM work described below after Loral acquired the IBM Federal Sy
stems Division.
IBM Corporation: Before 1976 - 2/1994
800 N Frederick Avenue
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
* 6/1992 - 2/1994: AAS Architect:
Architected part of the FAA's Advanced Automation System (AAS) project for U.S.
Air Traffic Control systems. Maintained the architecture for the software deplo
yment functions for all segments of AAS on both mainframe and RS/6000 platforms,
and defined the host architecture for the Tower Control Computer Complex, prese
nting it at the Critical Design Review.
* 9/1990 - 6/1992: IBM Voice Management Facility/2 (VMF/2) Proposal Manager:
Managed and authored several successful, customized VMF/2 systems integration pr
oposals. VMF/2 was a voice transcription system on a platform of PS/2 and OS/2,
in a LAN client-server environment with a standardized host-connection capabili
ty. The major use was for creating health related documents from physician tran
scripts. Automated the proposal creation for use of the IBM sales force through
out the country via IBM's Proposal Factory.
* 9/1988 - 9/1990: TERESE Requirements Analyst, Standards Specialist (in Denmar
k):
Analyzed customer services requirements for the Scandinavian Airlines Systems (S
AS) Travel Reservation System (TERESE), working with many client authors of requ
irements. The major purpose was to identify to the authors any need for additio
nal details. Co-authored the training section and authored other requirements s
pecifications; performed data modeling. Also created standards for the document
ation of the system, based upon an adaptation of IBM's stringent development met
hodologies.
* 9/1986 - 8/1988: IBM Information Systems Integration (ISI) Systems Integrator
, Technical Proposal Manager, Deputy Program Manager:
Sized telephone billing system software in a proposal to CONTEL. Served as tech
nical proposal manager, leading a team of three people, for a winning proposal t
o NYC Board of Education for systems engineering consultant services. Built a o
ne billion dollar cost model for an option of another major proposal effort. M
anaged a team responsible for implementing the Postal Standard Field Computer (S
FC) project. Identified the need for and convinced managers from both sides of
the US Postal contract to exchange system development functional responsibility.
* 6/1983 - 9/1986: MDSS Architect for Financial Subsystems:
Finished the requirements and led a team of two people who created the high leve
l design for the IBM Federal Systems Division (FSD) Management Decision Support
Systems (MDSS) Ledger Source Maintenance (LSM) accounting subsystem as an IMS ap
plication using DL/1. Compiled the requirements for the RACS and Journals subsy
stem working with the representative accounting user. Led a team of three peopl
e who created and presented a simulated system for review by FSD accountants. R
educed LSM high-level design sizing from 70K to 50K source lines of code.
Represented the architect department in the MDSS weekly review of existing proce
sses.
* 7/1982 - 6/1983: IBM Software Development Labs Performance Specialist:
Led the performance measurements team of three people on a proposal to replace t
he FAA's existing National Air Space Enroute host 9020 computers with IBM 3083's
. Also documented the classification of measurement data.
* 2/1981 - 6/1982: Software Designer for subsystems common to the DoD Data Syst
em Modernization and the Global Positioning System:
Led a team of three people for the development of command processing for the Con
trol and Display (C&D) computer subsystems (designing with Ada, coding in JOVIAL
J73). Created an interactive test capability using the real-time executive (RT
X).
* 1/1980 - 2/1981: IBM Advanced Administration System (AAS) Systems Analyst:
Created external design requirements and data models for some purchase/rental bu
siness processes of Administrative System II (ASII), a DL/I - based, enhanced ve
rsion of AAS.
* 3/1976 - 1/1980: Satellite Business Systems (SBS) System Maintenance Facility
(SMF) Systems Analyst, Team Leader:
Developed major portions of the central host system that controlled the satellit
e communications network: Led the development of the final program specification
s for System Support Programs 1 (SSP1), the configuration data, by participating
in work sessions with client personnel.
Led a team of two people in the high-level design for SSP2, call record processi
ng.
Designed and coded (in PL/I) the operator command translation of the On-Line Sys
tem Control (OLSC). Solved testing problems for OLSC, one of the first real-tim
e PL/I message switching systems running under MVS.
Suggested and implemented use of an existing syntax analyzer for all three subsy
stems. Suggested the use of a real time debugging aid to eliminate batch test r
uns.
Implemented OLSC command translation, creating a methodology that directly compi
led 80% of low-level design statements.