Susan Coddington
Owner, CEO, and Senior Software Engineer
Expertise
- Over twenty-five years experience with all aspects of software design, development, testing, maintenance, and documentation.
- Tool customization especially involving Visual Basic (VB) and the Microsoft Office suite.
- Design and development of real-time equipment control, monitor, and alarm systems including antenna control and satellite communication.
- Design and development of user interfaces both textual based and GUI/X-Motif.
- Knowledgeable of compiler, parser, and translator techniques and experienced in using this knowledge in unique applications.
- Developed and documented software systems as per Military Standards (DoD-STD-2167A).
Experience
2006-Present HELLFIRE II Missile Software Upgrade Lead. Contractor to Army AMRDEC/Software Engineering
Directorate, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL
Sr.
Software Engineer
Responsible for development, test, and release of P+ upgrade to HELLFIRE II Missile and Launcher. Follow a strict CMM Level 4 process. Software is written in Ada. Coordinate the receipt and testing of externally provided prototype code. Member of CMMI Implementation team.
2004-2006 Contractor to Army AMRDEC/Software Engineering
Directorate, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL
Sr.
Software Engineer
Support testing of candidate Joint Track Managers for System of Systems (SoS). Define tests, generate test data, and conduct experiments to on track fusion, association, correlation, navigation registration, sensor registration, and formation algorithms. Define and implement new tools to support test and documentation automation. Support tailoring the Platform Independent Model and model compiler model.
2003-2004 Contractor to COBRO, Huntsville, AL
Sr.
Software Engineer
Designed and developed a documentation production system that automatically creates a full suite of military standard documentation by combining pieces that had been separately gathered. Extensively used VB to manipulate and read Word, Excel, Visio, Source Safe, and Access files.
2001-2002 Contractor to United Defense LP
DOD Crusader Program, Fridley, MN
Software architecture team member responsible for guiding the Ammunition and Control Systems (ACS) CSC. Re-architected and partitioned the ACS in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Designed a low-level interface between the CSC and the underlying hardware so that a common interface could be used across multiple subsystems.
Designed, implemented, and tested the projectile fuse setter and bore hazard sensor software subsystems as part of the Ammunition and Armament Loader CSC. Refined and analyzed system and software requirements. Designed software using Rational Rose and object-oriented modeling techniques. Implemented all software in Ada 95 programming language. Developed framework for testing low-level serial interfaces.
1999–2001 Rational Software
Corporation, Redmond, WA
Senior Technical Writer
Developed a major portion of the language reference documentation for the next generation of the market leading visual modeling tool, Rational Rose. Requiring a deep technical knowledge of the new as well as existing architecture, this documentation described the details of the tool’s extensibility interface (API). Created complete working examples of the API functions in Java, VB, and C++.
Devised and developed an innovative approach to reduce Rational’s HTML-based online help documentation generation from a three person-week to a one person-day effort. Implemented the process using an integrated tool chain including Rational Rose, Rational SoDA, VBA, and RoboHelp HTML.
1990-1999 Harris Corporation, Palm Bay,
FL
Lead Software Engineer
Software Project Engineer responsible for the design and implementation of required enhancements to an existing Antenna Interface Controller. Also, responsible for development of the SDP, SRS, STD, and ICD.
Cost Account and CSCI Leader for the Antenna Control subsystem. This subsystem performed real time control of two antennas. Responsible for defining and tracking schedule and budget for the subsystem as well as all technical aspects of the software development lifecycle. Directed the resources of a technical staff of 5 engineers. Created and implemented the architecture of a two-antenna control system that was configurable to handle several different antenna types.
Software Engineer responsible for designing, coding, and testing the Terminal Control Processor for a shipboard antenna system. Also, responsible for the operator interface design and implementation which was developed using the TeleUSE GUI builder with Ada application code. Used the SNMP network protocol to communicate and status distributed sensors.
Software Engineer responsible for the design and implementation of the Transmit and Receive Interface Controller (TRIC) CSCI. The software was written in Ada and the project conformed to DoD-STD-2167A.
1988-1990
Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Assistant Scientist
Researched software engineering issues for a major government contractor. These issues included design methodologies, performance issues for Ada development, and reusability. Authored several technical reports on topics such as the transition of a development process from structured oriented to object oriented and comparing Cray Ada compiler code generation to Sun SPARC Ada compiler code generation.
Performed contract research to facilitate the transition to the Ada programming language. Designed a program that translated application code from one run time architecture to another.
1987-1988 Software Engineering
Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Programmer
Evaluated implementation dependent aspects of Ada language compilers as support for the Ada Embedded System Test-bed program.
1984-1986 System Development Corp.,
Colorado Springs, CO
Programmer
Maintained application programs for the NORAD Space Surveillance Center, Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The JOVIAL and FORTRAN 77 applications synthesized message communications from journal tapes for later analysis by programmers.
Education
1991-1993 Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
Classes in Master of Science, Computer Science, program
1988
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
