Robert Sills
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Worked as a consultant/developer at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), as a developer for Riverside Research off-base, and at Air Force Research Labs (AFRL). Developed and maintained VDL, a LAMP-stack web application for AFRL research efforts - 6000+ users. Developed and enhanced modeling and simulation software - to plan aircraft ISR missions, to forecast Air Force Material Command personnel losses, and to visualize air-to-air refueling data. Authored and presented conference research paper. Led detailed research efforts. Consulted with research staff on software issues.
2010 : Present
WPAFB
Cybersecurity Computer Scientist, Developer, Researcher
Taught class PHP Web Development with MySQL as part of the Computer Information Systems dept at Sinclair College.
2010 : 2011
Sinclair Community College
Adjunct Professor
Led the integration of Marketmax, a big data retail supply chain system, with a new state-of-the-art SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. This was a linchpin of the $100 million dollar SAP implementation at Luxottica. Nominated for Envision award in first 8 months at the company .
Marketmax is a statistical analysis application for supply-chain planning. This planning involves massive cubes of information to select which of thousands of products go into each of 6000 retail stores over a six month time horizon.
2009 : 2010
Luxottica Retail
Sr. Systems Integrator
Developer and Tech Lead for Science Direct, a web application with $1 billion in annual revenue. Developed in C++, Java, WSAD, RAD, Struts, Perl, Oracle SQL, Unix, HTML, XML, JSP, Javascript.
2004 : 2008
Reed-Elsevier (Science Direct)
Sr. Software Engineer
Developer to Tech Lead of LexisNexis Europe, a $50 million/yr web application targeting the European market in three languages. Developed in C++, HTML, Javascript, Perl, Unix, SQL, Sablime. Wrote a Javascript API widget into an internal indexing service, that retrieved, displayed and allowed a user to manipulate an ontology of internal search indexes. For example, a search on the index 'steal' would retrieve articles with synonyms such as theft, robbery or embezzlement. This was later adopted as the API widget for the flagship Nexis web application.
1995 : 2004
Reed-Elsevier (LexisNexis)
Sr. Software Engineer
About
Over twenty-five years of diverse DoD and commercial experience in Acquisition, cyber security, software development, analysis, research, and technical team leadership. This involved consulting on cyber security, modeling and simulation, data mining, software development using Java, C++, VB.Net, object oriented programming, Git, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Unix, Linux, Python, Informatica, MATLAB, Oracle, MySQL, PL/SQL, Sharepoint, HTML, XML, CSS, Jquery, Codeception, Yii2.
Air Force Acquisition Cybersecurity Computer Scientist, developing solutions and working to improve cybersecurity practices in a variety of platforms.
Led development and maintenance of VDL, a LAMP-stack web application for AFRL research efforts - 6000+ users.
Developer on an Aircraft Intelligence mission planning application. This automatically optimizes mission planning from platforms, sensors and targets available, then visualizes the resulting plan.
Developed a python parser to convert ADA code into MATLAB code.
Improved the Command Human Resources Intelligence System (CHRIS) at Air Force Material Command, which projects personnel losses. Designed a new statistical model to forecast loss. Reduced MAPE error from 30 to 5. Presented a paper on the CHRIS work to the Western Decision Science Institute's 2014 conference in Napa Valley CA. This paper is in the conference proceedings.
Delivered a data visualization application written in MATLAB. This app combines data then displays the result in a 3D surface to used to optimize flight simulators.
Developed parts of a quantum key encryption simulation using Omnetpp, a C++ based discrete event network simulator.
Developed a Sharepoint website for the Center for Operations Analysis (COA) Lab at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) to enable new ways of collaboration.
Integrated MarketMax, a data science application to analyze retail sales and forecast demand, into a major SAP project at Luxottica, maker and retailer of over half the eyewear sold in the United States.
Web developer on two major web projects at Lexis-Nexis; the revenue $50 million/year multi-language Lexis-Nexis Europe site, and the revenue $1+ billion/year Science Direct site.
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