About Us

ABOUT

The JSTRE Groups mission is to assist Governments and private organizations having a clear scientific mission. Our experience resides in leveraging technology to support that mission. While not scientists ourselves The JTRE Group has been working with scientists since 2008 primarily in Meteorology, Astrophysics and Aerospace. In short, our mission is to support scientific efforts.

The JSTRE Groups vision is reduce our footprint on engagements in support of the United States Federal Government as we attempt to build International, State and Local engagements. While the current United States Federal Government administration has shown a clear intent to reduce scientific initiatives, we have seen Europe, Asia, Canada and Australia appear to share common goals concerning scientific initiatives and the value of using science to create a better more sustainable world for the future.

About Us

DATA ANALYTICS

Data Analytics experience was obtained during engagements across multiple organizations. While each organization had differing missions our focus on data analytics and supporting activities blossomed when we engaged exclusively with organizations having a core scientific mission.

While data analytic efforts are necessary, having a strong background in software architecture, design and implementation, technical / scientific writing and presentation experience facilitate the success of the efforts.

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METEOROLOGY & ASTROPHYSICS

Meteorology and Astrophysics experience was obtained on engagements at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) and NOAA Environmental Satellite Data and Information Systems (NESDIS) divisions.

Engagements involved data analytics of space weather phenomena, technical / scientific writing, presentations to senior and executive management, software analysis, design, modeling, development and project management. Additional activities included providing assistance during efforts to transition legacy software from on-premise to the Amazon cloud infrastructure.

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AEROSPACE

Aerospace experience was obtained on engagements at The MITRE Corporation’s Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development (CAASD) and at Rockwell Collins Aerospace.

Engagements involved engineering, technical / scientific writing, data analysis and presentation skills. I became a Solutions Architect / Multidisciplinary Systems Engineer. Engagements supported The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Additional experience was obtained at Rockwell Collins Aerospace where I was afforded an opportunity to learn about Human Resource activities including Human-Factors as it pertains to the manufacturing of advanced avionics equipment.

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LOGISTICS COMPLIANCE

Logistics Compliance experience was obtained during engagements with the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the Customs and Border (CBP) agency.

Engagements involved software architectural design, engineering and data modeling. The engagements supported the CPB Cargo Systems Program Office (CSPO).

An additional engagement supported Border Enforcement Management Systems (BEMS) and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Telecommunications experience was obtained while employed at XO Communications, NextLink Communications and Pervigil.

Engagements involved software engineering and customer local number portability (LNP). Software engineering involved creating a mandated Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Enhanced 911 (E911) product and integration into the Telecom Business Solutions (TBS) software. Development of a network performance analysis software product was also performed. LNP activities included client consultation and issuing number portability requests into existing LNP software.

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CONTACT

The JSTRE Group

c/o Jason Travis
6920-B Braddock Road
Suite 233
Annandale, Virginia 22003
Email: info@jstre.com

Telecommunications

Details

Performed a variety of analysis and programming initiatives for XO / Nextlink Communications and Pervigil. Utilized Java/J2EE and CORBA software to create an FCC mandated Enhanced 911 (E911) telecommunications application.  Performed various development projects for the company in a UNIX, Solaris, and Oracle environment to include scripting and XML processes.

Technology Stack

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Java / Java Enterprise Edition (JEE)

An object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.
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SWING API

A graphical user interface for the Java programming language.
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Unix Shell

A command-line interpreter providing multiple procedural programming languages including Korn (KSH), Bourne (SH), C-Shell (CSH) and Bourne Again (BASH) shells.
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Extensible Markup Language (XML)

A file format for storing, transmitting and reconstructing data.
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MetaSolv TBS

Product owned by an Oracle subsidiary called MetaSolv Software, Inc., they offer a library of gateways and APIs that electronically interface with third-party systems for order processing, service activation, convergent billing, and other telecommunications services.
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Oracle Database

A proprietary multi-model database management system.
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Sybase

A database management system.
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SUN Solaris

A Unix operating system now owned by Oracle.
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Hewlett Packard Unix (HPUX)

A Unix operating system created by Hewlett Packard.
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HP OpenView

A software suite developed by Hewlett Packard providing large-scale system and network management of an organization’s Information Technology infrastructure.
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IBM AIX

A Unix operating system created by IBM.
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Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

A standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems deployed on diverse platforms.
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Microsoft Windows

A graphical operating system.
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Eclipse

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for primarily for the Java programming Language but provides strong support for other programming languages like Python, C and C++.

Milestone Accomplishments:

My software and data analytics skills were recognized while at XO / Nextlink Communications leading to a promotion to lead the Enhanced 911 system development project. The promotion resulted in a departmental transition from the Local Number Portability (LNP) team to the software development division.
The PVLMon application developed at Pervigil lead to a stronger foothold within Hewlett Packard (HP). Licensing rights were eventually sold to HP resulting in a significant increase in the organizations profitability.
Validation and verification (V&V) of the PVLMon application involved database integrity checks and user interface consistency across multiple Microsoft Windows and Unix operating systems. The effort led to the discovery of a deficiency in the user interface where some text and button layouts were mis-aligned.  The deficiency was observed on AIX and Solaris.  Investigation led to a known issue with the SWING Java API.  I created a software patch to force the software to think it was running on the HPUX platform.  The fix kept the effort on track for a sales presentation and demo to HP.

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