a.j . ewell
Sabbatical at A.J. Ewell
senior analyst henry m. jackson foundation advancement military medicine
macgyver infp / infj learn mistake , others ' . moved land surveying computistry weekend 1982 . seek renewed challenge toward productive goal . realize covid-19 often necessitates tele-work today .
A.J. Ewell
Project planning, execution, and revision as problems are surmounted. Computer repair, block mason, concrete foundation, carpenter, electrician, doors, hauling, firewood felling, crab potting, large farm implement repair, tractor driving. Attendance in classes for professional certification renewals. Broadening, strengthening, and reinvigoration of skills, and variety of accomplishments.
Sabbatical
USUHS (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/usuhs
Interface design and implementation, financial programming and design, sysadmin:

•  Provide software maintenance support in financial and grant management service for the military medical school at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences on Walter Reid National Military Medical Center base at Bethesda.

•  Designed and implemented a communications interface between financial system and DOD travel system (DTS).  Most, if not all, other agencies did this exchange overnight, but rapid turnaround allowed balance availability to be checked in real time before committing funds.

•  Speak with customers and other stakeholders to determine user requirements and implement them by enhancing existing software or designing and developing needed software.  Advise team members on technical matters

•  Support missions of finance and contracting departments maintaining software and web pages including AJAX and other Javascript techniques.  Install and configure software and maintain server computers in an Active Directory domain - which I migrated in 2006 from an NT domain.

• Maintained grants application and Oracle database.

•  DOD Secret clearance.
Bethesda MD
Senior Analyst
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hjf
Contractor for USUHS.  Congress established HJF in 1983 to assist research at USUHS (which had been had been chartered by congress in 1972).
Although HJF has since grown and diversified, it provides a conduit for charitable contributions to deliver labor and other resources to USUHS at reduced cost to the taxpayer.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Senior Analyst
American Management Systems
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cgi-federal
<American Management Systems was purchased by CGI in 2004.>

Interface design, financial programming, sysadmin, consulting travel:

•  Developed and maintained software systems for state, local and federal governments and for colleges and universities.  Administered VAX/VMS systems.  Traveled to client sites in U.S. and Canada to troubleshoot systems and to develop tailored systems that met site and user requirements, including making one Canadian government agency's implementation bilingual.

•  Maintained and enhanced infrastructure systems to support various products on VAX/VMS and unix platforms, vastly improving user interfaces and product performance and maintainability.  Provided third-tier hotline support.

•  Designed system services that extended security authorization profiles available to bestow users under VAX/VMS.

•  Maintained software applications on unix and mainframe VM and MVS

•  Maintained the VAX version of a cross-platform in-house 4G compiler system whose many moving parts consisted of COBOL, Pascal, PL-1, and assembler.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Software Engineer
Metrocall
https://www.linkedin.com/company/usa-mobility
<Metrocall merged with Arch Wireless in 2004 to become USA Mobility.>

Interface design, financial programming, sysadmin, sysop:

•  Improved cash flow by retrieving car phone call records and calculating the long-distance charges for customer re-billing - instead of waiting for manual entry from land-line bills at month end.

•  Administered PDP-11 and VAX-32 systems and ran billing and other applications.  Developed a configurable menu system to delegate, more appropriately and easily, roles to users.

•  Managed a Datapoint 8-bit system until time (because of application software expiration) to convert the data of the acquired company to the VAX system.  Wrote interface programs to transmit data over serial cable, because of incompatible media, then wrote the conversion programs.

•  Improved billing and handling by aggregating statements into current and aged categories, e.g.  for collections.  Reduced labor and postage costs by allowing avoidance of mailing credit and low-balance statements and sorting on zip code.

•  Designed a paging-computer interface which not only automated determination of surcharge billing for heavy usage, but also enabled a friendly dial-up interface to send pages - including text pages to more advanced (for that era) pagers: alphanumeric.  This required establishing transmission control - in the days before widely-established protocols - and the development of methods for error detection and for the sensing and control of attached modems, resulting in a polished product that was routinely installed in many geographic areas.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Programmer Analyst
Washington Computer Corporation
<Washington Computer Corporation disbanded in 1984.>

I began my professional computing career at this small contracting shop by upgrading online
accounting modules for Metrocall.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Programmer
Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson
https://www.linkedin.com/company/johnson-mirmiran-&-thompson
Land surveying in support of commercial and residential construction, including utilities and roads, in Northern Virginia, Suburban Maryland and Washington D.C.  One project supported conversion of farmland near Boyds, Maryland into Little Seneca Lake.  Duties and skills involved
• Rod and chain including metal detection and trailblazing
• Recording
• Operation of transit and theodolite
• Laser surveying
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Land Surveyor
Ben Dyer Associates, Inc.
Land surveying for subdivisions in Suburban Maryland
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Land Surveyor
Air Survey Corporation
From source aerial photography, revised maps of Indiana and the Disneyworld regions of Florida for U.S. Geological Survey.  Surveyed reflective reference points, supporting aerial mapping with ground truth.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Draftsman
ManTech
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mantech
Temporary positions in warehousing, furniture moving, drafting, and construction affording perspective into many industries.
Norfolk, Virginia Area
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Day Laborer
City of Charlottesville
https://www.linkedin.com/company/city-of-charlottesville
Two summer internships with Engineering Department surveying road updates, certifying new developments, ensuring accurate utility upgrades.  Customer-service surveys for residents questioning lot boundaries, utilities and similar issues.
• Field operation of surveying tools and instruments
• Plat research
• Coordination with utility and construction personnel
Charlottesville, Virginia Area
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Land Surveyor
U.S. Civil Service, Norfolk Naval Supply Center, United States Department of Defense
https://www.linkedin.com/company/globalsecurity.org
Maintained buffer and berm for large fuel tanks, secured docking tankers, and facilitated development of environmentally friendlier oil recovery procedures.
Recovered from a very brief attempt at door-to-door sales.
Norfolk, Virginia Area
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Craney Island Fuel Terminal Maintenance
Bayshore Concrete Products
<Bayshore was bought two thirds by Skanska in 1987, wholly in 2004. In 2019 it was bought by Coastal Construction Products.>

Learned to work a real job summers, between football practice and homework, and Saturdays.  Observed many work styles and management styles while building steel reinforcement and pouring concrete for enormous concrete structures, especially the James River Bridge.  Learned to analyze situations and how to deliver suggestions.  Additional duties performed and skills learned at Bayshore:
• Rebuilt truck engines and did other shop work
• Warehousing and physical inventory
• Acetylene cutting torch and some arc welding
• Low-pressure boiler operation for concrete curing
• Lift this barge; tote that bale
Cape Charles, Virginia
Laborer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Starting to major in Physics, I discovered a glut in the field and switched to Environmental Sciences, which also turned out to be a crowded field.
Fortunately my education was broad and included computer modelling and languages that allowed me later to jump from cartography and land surveying over to computer programming, from which I have well advanced.
Environmental Sciences
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University of Virginia
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-virginia/
H.S. Graduation
Academic
Cape Charles High School
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Northern Virginia Community College
https://www.linkedin.com/school/northern-virginia-community-college/
Learning Tree International
Member of:  Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board, Space Settlement Board, Transparency and Privacy Board
Lifeboat Foundation
Advisory Board Member
Cape Charles High School
Valedictorian
Congressional Representative Thomas N. Downing
Appointment to USMA, West Point
U.S. Army
Army ROTC Scholarship
First-place winner in statewide competition on Latin language, Roman history and culture.
Classical Association of Virginia
Statewide Latin Champion
Agile Project Management with Scrum
918
Agile Software Development and Modeling
933
Application Development and Tuning for Oracle® Databases
492
Applying Advanced XML Technologies
544
Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
284
Deploying and Managing a Windows Server 2003 Environment
597
Designing and Building Great Web Pages
487
Developing Ajax Web 2.0 Applications
986
Developing a Web Site
470
JavaScript for Web Development
489
Negotiation Skills
341
Oracle PL/SQL Programming
493
Oracle® Database 10g Administration
594
Oracle® Database 10g: A Comprehensive Introduction
593
Oracle® Database 10g: Backup, Recovery and Server Tuning
518
Patch Management for Microsoft Environments
524
Perl 5 Programming
431
Project Management for Software Development
340
Python Programming
1905
Scripting Windows® Administrative Tasks
558
Securing Windows Server 2003
599
Software Testing and Quality Assurance
316
User And System Requirements for Software Development
218
Windows® Active Directory Troubleshooting
559
Windows® Server 2003
595
Windows® Server 2003 Active Directory
596
Windows® Server 2003 Operating System Optimization and Troubleshooting
598
XSL: Transforming and Styling XML
549
Biology
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Calculus (2 semesters & Linear Algebra)
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Chemistry
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Classical Physics & Electricity & Magnetism (each 1 semester)
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Digital and Analog Modeling
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Earth as a Planet & Astrophysics
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Ecology
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Economics (1 micro & 1 macro)
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Fortran, COBOL, Basic
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Geology
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Hydrology
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Meteorology
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North American Indians (anthropology)
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Ontology and Epistemology
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Psychology (1 natural & 1 social)
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C Language Programming
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SQL with RDB, DB2
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CompTIA Security+ ce prep
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Graphical Information Systems (ESRI) & Advanced: Adding Data and Making Maps
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Integration of the ESC and VSM Program for Erosion and Sediment Control Professionals
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Review of Stormwater Management Plans Using IIC
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XML and Related Technologies
IBM 141
Helped adapt system to use Oracle database and to include features to further the county's mission.
Fairfax County Department of Taxation
Implemented financial system for FinEx with many new features and bilingual user experiences.
Finance Exchange, Dept. of External Affairs, Canada
Developed first-to-market alphanumeric paging interface from general-purpose computers (Digital Equipment) and both friendly and automated dial-up interfaces to elicit paging messages.
Alphanumeric Paging
Learning Tree International
Software Engineering Process
Learning Tree International
Software Engineering Project Management
CompTIA
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CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician
https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=84N9LTJKQCF45G5M
Learning Tree International
Web Development
Learning Tree International
Oracle® 10g Application Development
Learning Tree International
Oracle® 10g DBA
Learning Tree International
XML Development
Learning Tree International
Windows® Server 2003 Security
Learning Tree International
Windows® OS Advanced Administration
Learning Tree International
Windows® Server 2003
IBM
XML and Related Technologies (141)
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
portal.deq.virginia.gov
380
Erosion and Sediment Control Combined Administrator
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CompTIA
www.certmetrics.com
COMP001020355862
CompTIA Security+ ce
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Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
380
Erosion and Sediment Control Combined Administrator
Federal Communications Commission
0023927635
Radio Station Authorization
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
380
Erosion and Sediment Control Combined Administrator
Virginia Soil & Water Conservation Board, Department of Conservation & Recreation
380
Erosion and Sedimentation Control Combined Administrator
Virginia Soil & Water Conservation Board, Department of Conservation & Recreation
380
Erosion and Sedimentation Control Combined Administrator
Virginia Soil & Water Conservation Board, Department of Conservation & Recreation
380
Erosion and Sedimentation Control Combined Administrator
Virginia Soil & Water Conservation Board, Department of Conservation & Recreation
380
Erosion and Sedimentation Control Combined Administrator
https://nl.linkedin.com/in/claire-ryberg
Amsterdam
Claire Ryberg
Front End Team Lead at Accenture
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marti6jm
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Jamie Martin
UI Platform Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prabhakarthopa
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Prabhakar Thopa
Experienced Microservices and Devops Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susancyee
Bethlehem, PA
Susan Yee
CEO, Board Member, Angel Investor, Mom
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-lewis-b46b702
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Robert Lewis
IT Specialist (Info Sec) at U.S. Customs and Border Protection
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-jendrasiak-9731556
Charlotte Metro
Chris Jendrasiak
Business System Analyst at Brighthouse Financial
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-carter-cfp%C2%AE-70ba9a17
Richmond, VA
Shannon Carter, CFP®
Wealth Manager at Equity Concepts LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bclarkeva
Falls Church, VA
Bob Clarke
Principal at Clarke Sales Consulting - contract Sales / Business Development Support for companies seeking IT and Human Capital solutions sales to Federal Government
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robperry123
Warren, VT
Rob Perry
Product marketing executive with global experience in software companies large and small.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxycarter
Greater Orlando
Roxanna Carter
Director Program Delivery at Amadeus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinruhf
Greater Chicago Area
Erin Franklin
Senior Brand Manager, Nutrition Plan at fairlife, LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattrochester
Greensboro, NC
Matt Rochester
SVP, Mortgage Operations Support at Truist
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicajutley
Greater Philadelphia
Jessica Jean Jutley, Ph.D.
Computational Scientist ▪ Applied Mathematician ▪  Software Developer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duanemlandry
Wilmington, NC
Duane Landry
sabbatical  at Sabbatical Break
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daleabel
Denver Metropolitan Area
Dale Abel
Information Technology Consultant at Abel Integration
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deeksha-rao-gorige-077001184
Greater Seattle Area
Deeksha Rao Gorige
Senior Software Engineer at Visa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-keppler-7497788
St Louis, MO
Chris Keppler
Senior Clinical Quality Outcomes Analyst at Mercy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachh
Boulder, CO
Zach Hofer-Shall
Senior Director, Twitter Ecosystem
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpankiewicz
San Francisco Bay Area
David Pankiewicz
Data Scientist @ Plaid
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        AJ is a skilled and insightful software engineer.  He crafted intuitive and clever solutions to thorny technical problems in the common services layer of a financial systems application we both supported.  His efforts enabled the application to run faster, with reduced errors, and provide additional capabilities that the hosted application components leveraged for substantial increases in business functionality. Gordon Sheppard
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        A.J. is a detail oriented software engineer and analyst who can be counted upon to design and develop successful solutions for the most complex business systems.
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Conway, AR
AJ Ewell
Student at University of Central Arkansas
UVA Urban and Environmental Planning Alumni
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ReverbNation
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The Planetary Society
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Leeward Space Foundation
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CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician
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" HORIZON EUROPE " Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
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Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Boards
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Mars Initiative
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AMS_Alumni
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Space Elevator Architects
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Digital Equipment Corporation Enthusiasts
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Space Based Solar Power
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CompTIA Security+ Certified Professionals
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Fiddle Folks
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