Resume
Joseph Kroculick
22 White Oak Drive
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229
Home: 570-325-3526
Mobile: 215-429-5635
Email: kro...@acm.org
GOAL: Provide managerial and technical leadership expertise in the
areas of Project Management, Requirements Development, and Disaster
Recovery Modeling.
CAREER SUMMARY:
Systems engineer with over eleven years of multidisciplinary
experience and training in developing hardware, software, and
requirements. Areas of expertise and interest include
multidisciplinary systems engineering, requirements engineering and
management, network survivability, disaster recovery, and management
of multiprotocol and multiservice networks. Presented at conferences
provisioning techniques for multiservice networks to make all network
devices cooperate during the fault recovery process. Advanced
background in requirements engineering and process improvement. I am
interested in network convergence and how to integrate responses which
occur due to a catastrophic failure event, which triggers multiple and
concurrent
recovery processes at different layers. There are many possibilities
on how to repair affected connections during a fiber cut. I have
looked at most legacy technologies and integrated them with newer
recovery techniques so that service connectivity is restored. I have
made a number of presentations at various technical conferences and
wrote a number of articles in the area of network survivability in
addition to implementing existing recovery techniques in real products
that are in-service.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Progress, 1996 - present, full time, Aug 2001
- present, Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago, IL
Master of Science in Engineering Management, New Jersey Institute of
Technology, Newark, NJ, 2003
Master of Science in Computer Science, Stevens Institute of
Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 1994
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College,
Riverdale, NY, 1992
Bachelor in Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College,
Riverdale, NY, 1990
SPECIAL SKILLS Programming Languages: C++, C, Perl, Visual Basic,
Python, Ruby, VHDL, Verilog, XML, HTML
Development Environments: ActivePerl, ActivePython, Visual C++, Delphi
Typesetting: Word, MikTek, Visio, Acrobat, Ghostscript
Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Windows 95/98/2000, MS Office
Software Engineering Tools and Techniques: Opnet, Rose RealTime,
ObjecTime, Unified Modeling Language (UML), ROOM, Schlaer-Mellor, OMT,
ClearCase, ClearQuest, MATLAB, SQL Oracle, Sybase
Requirements Engineering Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Telelogic
Doors
Software Engineering Processes: Object-Oriented Modeling,
Configuration Management, Network Simulation, Cost Estimating, Web
Page Development
Hardware Engineering Tools: Schematic Capture Tools, Mentor Graphics
Design Architect
Telecommunications Products: Tellabs TITAN 532L, 5500, 6500
Cross-Connects, Tellium Aurora Optical Switch
Telecommunications Protocols: SONET, ATM, E1, T1, T3, DWDM, Ethernet
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, Full-Time Student, IIT
Computer Science Department
Aug. 2001- present
Tellium, Oceanport, NJ
Systems Engineer - Network Survivability, Disaster Recovery, Interface
Design, Requirements Development
1999 to 2001
Requirements Development
- Served as a team leader for instituting new requirements management
processes to convert from customer requirements to product
requirements.
- Enforced configuration management strategies to manage customer
requirements. Implemented traceability between different levels of
requirements.
- Modeled multiple traceability relationships between customer goals
and the services required and from the product to detailed product
requirements.
- Developed and administered a database of requirements and created
user interfaces that would allow multiple requirement engineers to
change requirements.
- Produced scripts that generated requirement documents from a
requirements database. Developed change management tools, scripts,
and databases for tracking changes to requirements to the software
development community.
- Developed an email system that upon a change of a requirement would
generate emails to system stakeholders and a web page with links to
current requirement documents.
Recovery Modeling and Requirements Specification
- Developed text-based product requirements and methods for recovering
a network from a catastrophic failure on linear protection networks.
- Identified key requirements to implement survivable network systems
resilient to a fiber cut.
- Developed object oriented models of protection switching software
components.
- Developed the interface to the Tellium network element and
associated provisioning commands for SONET linear automatic protection
switching.
- Developed rapid prototypes and object-oriented models that
implemented the signaling of the automatic protection switching
protocols.
Tellabs, Lisle, IL and Bolingbrook, IL
Systems Engineer - Requirements Development, Recovery Modeling,
Disaster Recovery
1996 to 1999
Requirements Development
- Designed and developed new processes in engineering generic and
product-independent requirements.
- Developed libraries of common requirements to facilitate reuse of
generic requirements to reduce costs.
- Developed libraries of common requirements in Doors to facilitate
reuse. These requirements were allocated to three products developed
at international sites.
Recovery Modeling
- Developed an object-oriented model of SONET bidirectional
line-switched rings in ObjecTime. This was done to identify key
functions of survivable networks and interoperability requirements in
a multivendor and multiservice network. The model included code for
the signaling protocol that established new connections during a fiber
cut. Generated message sequence charts from ObjecTime to verify
compliance with standards.
- Created interactive graphics to show network protocol behavior. As a
result of analysis, ambiguities in standards on bidirectional
line-switched rings were determined. Input from simulations was sent
to standards committees.
- Developed text-based functional requirements for SONET bidirectional
line switched rings.
- Simulated traffic on the SONET DCC (overhead) channel to verify
processor overhead on a circuit pack that processed network management
traffic. Computer results indicated microprocessor on circuit pack
would not support incoming traffic load. As a result, the product was
redesigned with a faster processor.
Performance Modeling
- Simulated control traffic through an ATM switch fabric. Computer
results indicated voice traffic would be impaired due to cell delay
variation.
- Created statistical models for voice traffic and when control
packets would be sent between switches.
- Started performance modeling processes in the Tellabs Systems
Engineering Group that would model the cost and performance of system
components. Before implementing an algorithm or feature, the Systems
Team would simulate the performance.
General Instrument, Hatboro, PA, Horsham PA
Systems Engineer
1994 to 1995
Performance Modeling
- Created simulation models to verify the delay in requesting a to
video-on-demand service.
- Created and simulated signaling protocols used to subscribe to a
movie. Performance parameters measured included movie setup time.
Application Development
- Developed an application in C that would provision head ends to
deliver video to subscribers.
Booz Allen Hamilton, Eatontown, NJ (Fort Monmouth)
Senior Consultant
1994
Performance Modeling
- Modeled network performance problems for mobile troops communicating
on an IP network.
- Simulated routing protocols on a digital battlefield to verify that
overhead packets did not impair communications between mobile troops.
- Designed and simulated new networks and algorithms to send traffic
over legacy military networks with limited bandwidth.
Martin Marietta, Valley Forge, PA
Systems Software Engineer
1993 to 1994
EDA Development
- Created digital-circuit design processes.
- Created libraries of parts for schematic capture.
- Created digital components that could be placed on schematics.
Application Development
- Developed a SCSI driver in C on a computer that managed input and
output to disk drive.
AlliedSignal, Teterboro, NJ
Hardware Design Engineer, Digital Simulation
1990 to 1993
EDA Development
- Instituted electronic design automation practices including part
creation, digital circuit model development, and schematic capture.
- Developed electronic parts to create printed circuit-boards.
- Developed VHDL models of digital parts to verify the behavior of
digital circuits.
- Simulated circuit-packs and FPGAs using QuickSim II. Collected
waveforms to verify functional requirements of digital circuits.
Circuit Design and Test
- Tested inertial navigation systems to verify performance parameters.
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES
Passed Engineer-in-training (EIT) exam in State of Pennsylvania
(1994).
PUBLICATIONS
Ten refereed publications in SPIE and IEEE conferences in the area of
network survivability.
PRESENTATIONS
Gave presentations at seven conferences on the areas network
survivability, multilayer restoration, network security, and network
management. Main areas of research include operations and management
of multiprotocol networks and how to automate consistency checking so
that network devices will cooperate during a failure. This area is
important in network survivability where many components can fail as a
result of a fiber cut.
- IEEE International Conference of Communications (ICC) Atlanta, GA
(June, 1998)
- IEEE Military Communications Conference (Milcom), Boston, MA (Oct,
1998)
- IEEE Military Communications Conference (Milcom), Atlantic City, NJ
(Nov, 1999)
- SPIE Photonics East, Boston, MA (Nov, 2000)
- SPIE Opticomm, Dallas, TX (Oct, 2000)
- SPIE ITCOM, Denver, CO (Aug, 2001)
- IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS),
Florence, Italy (Apr, 2002)
TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES
- Reviewed technical papers for IEEE Network Operations and
Management Conference (2000).
SECURITY CLEARANCES
- Department of Defense Top Secret (Inactive) 1994 - Martin Marietta
- Department of Defense Secret (Inactive) 1994 - Booz Allen & Hamilton
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Member of IEEE Communications Society
- Member of IEEE Computer Society
- Member of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Member of Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences
(INFORMS)
- Member of Society of Photonics Engineering (SPIE)