Michael E Preciado

Principal Programmer Analyst for the Virtual Observatory (VO) Operations group.

Syneren - N.A.S.A. GODDARD SPACEFLIGHT CENTER, Greenbelt,Md.

2005 - Present

Contractor for the Virtual Observatory project (2005-present)

Contractors include: Syneren: Principal Programmer Analyst (2016-present); Innovim: Principal Programmer Analyst (2015-2016), Senior Programmer Analyst (2011-2015); SP Systems: Senior Programmer Analyst (2008-2011), Programmer Analyst (2005-2008)

18 years total experience in Software Engineering and IT (IT: 4 years; Software Development at N.A.S.A.: 14 years)

• Develops software systems and web applications in Java,Perl,OOP Perl, MySQL,XML,HTML,XSL,CSS and JavaScript for the Virtual Observatory (VO) Operations Team.
• Experienced in full life-cycle software development as well as front-end and back end development
• Maintains multiple systems in the operations group and acted as the Operations monitor of VO services.
• Designs, creates, builds and maintains MySQL databases and tables for various software systems
• Manages JIRA and GitHub tickets for VO service issues and is in continual contact with service curators to ensure the integrity of registered VO services.
• Builds tests on newly registered services and integrates these tests into hourly testing frameworks
• Built VO Monitoring, Validation, and Notification systems in a web environment.
• Built VO statistics service and automated VO service status notification system
• Integrated external software tools and systems into local operational frameworks (E.g. integrated NCSA Python OpenID framework into Notification System; integrated NCSA Java validation system into local validation system; integrated JavaScript widgets into systems, etc.)
• Built Selenium and HtmlUnit/JUnit framework for testing VO services.
• Developed user interfaces, data mining tools, and dynamic web pages for the VO
• Built XML archives for external data harvesting via Open Archives Initiative data collection tools
• Interacted with customers nationally and internationally to troubleshoot and resolve issues with VO services

Specialist I in the Community Schools program.

Cambridge Port School - Cambridge, Ma.

2003 - 2004

• Taught classes in the child enrichment program, including math, origami, and scientific experiments.
• Developed lesson plans for courses and provided feedback to parents and director.
• Summer camp lead counselor (2 summers)
   

IT Specialist/Archive Specialist in the Chandra X-Ray Center Archive Operations Team

Smithsonian - HARVARD CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS, Cambridge, MA

January 2000 - April 2002

• Ingested scientific data taken by the Chandra Space Telescope into a Sybase SQL database.
• Monitored the health of SYBASE SQL/Archive servers and via PERL/SQL scripts
• Wrote UNIX/awk/sed/SQL/PERL scripts to aid in the retrieval/storage of data products.
• Wrote Perl code to monitor database connection history and to retrieve archival data
• Performed data integrity checks and data reingests. Documented server issues.
• Tracked down and fixed inconsistencies between metadata in the db tables and archived data
   

IT Specialist//Archive Specialist in the Chandra X-Ray Center Archive Operations Team.

Smithsonian - HARVARD CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS, Cambridge, MA

June 1996 - August 1998

• Performed data checks, DLT tape backups, reingests of data products, and created reports.
• Provided the archive team with UNIX scripts to aid in the retrieval/storage of data products
• Created Histogram Plots for data analysis
• Wrote Unix/SQL scripts for ingesting data and finding data problems in the archive
   

American Astronomical Society

1998 - Present

Fulbright Association

2000 - Present

Phi Beta Kappa Society

1995 - Present