1. Cecil Thornhill
cecilthornhill@mac.com
863-698-4504
4932 Rolling Greene Dr.
Wesley Chapel, FL 33543
USA
OBJECTIVE
I am seeking a cybersecurity/architect/analyst position where I can apply my technical and business skills to support clients in meeting
security and compliance goals for web scale cloud based IT systems as part of a growing, strong, diverse, coherent team delivering useful
IT services, products and systems.
EDUCATION
University of South Florida
Masters of Science in Cyber Security
Concentration: Information Assurance
University of South Florida
Bachelor of information Technology,
Major: Web Development
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Cyber Security
Information Architecture
Data Science
Enterprise Web Architecture/Cloud Architecture
Information Architecture
Data Science
Software Start-up Business Management
Software Development Management
RELATED EXPERIENCE
LongView International Technology Solutions, Inc., 11950 Democracy Drive Suite #275, Reston, VA, 20190 2015 - Present
Sr. System Engineer
Provide analytical, architectural, process, security and implementation support to federal and commercial customers. Principle projects
include consulting services for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Enterprise Systems Engineering group. Consulting activities
include enterprise architectural design, system and application design review, system performance assessment and capacity planning,
engineering infrastructure assessment, data modeling best practice identification and ongoing support for operations of systems.
Harris Inc., 1025 West NASA Blvd. Melbourne, FL 32919 2010 - 2015
System Engineer 4
Deliver analytical, architectural, and implementation support to Harris Healthcare customers. Principle projects include analytical
consulting services to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Enterprise Systems Engineering group. Services provided include enterprise
systems architectural and application design review, system performance assessment and capacity planning, engineering infrastructure
assessment, data modeling best practice identification. Past tasks also include architectural design and implementation oversight for the
Virtual VA project. Responsibilities included design and transformation of enterprise systems, including service components, enterprise
disaster recovery implementation, and support for enterprise operations systems delivering paperless business processes for over 10,000
concurrent users.
FIT Systems Inc., 1408 N. Westshore Blvd. Tampa, FL 33608 2006 - 2010
CIO
Provide strategic direction and growth policy for corporate technology investment decisions, including capacity planning and platform
selection.
Design, manage, and supervise the information infrastructure and daily information technology operations, for the headquarters office and
all remote sites.
Establish standards and practices for internal IT operations.
Plan IT budgets and manage IT expenditures.
Establish strategic partnerships with related technology firms to support internal systems and business development efforts.
Select IT service and equipment vendors and manage vendor relationships.
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Support federal business development by providing Sr. consulting and analysis services as required by the customer.
Support federal and commercial sales efforts by providing analysis and review for technical proposals as needed.
Provide business management and development support to the CEO as required.
TRIRIGA Inc., Las Vegas NV 2000 - 2002
Lead Middleware Architect/Operations Liaison/SQA Manager
Assist the Chief Software Architect in the selection of team members to support initial web-based enterprise management product suite
under development.
Coordinate with other Sr. Architects in the Database, Interface, Desktop Groups to support the design and implementation of the product
architecture.
Coordinate with the Marketing and Sales Groups as needed to support business objectives.
Design product J2EE middleware architecture and technical approach.
Manage the middleware development team during implementation and support phases of the product lifecycle.
Act as primary interface between the VP of Operations the COO and the Development Department after product launch.
Support Sr. management to provide operations status reports and development status reports on a daily basis.
Supervise the daily operations of the SQA team responsible for both development and operational quality issues.
Supervise the technical communications group responsible for on-line and print product documentation.
Act as primary interface between the Customer Support Group, Operations, and Development Department to manage customer incidents.
Supervise the deployment of all revisions or patches to the production environment, reporting to the COO, Chief Architect, and CEO as
needed.
MicroClinique, LTD., Orland FL 1998- 2000
Director of Development
Act as primary architect working under the Chief Scientist for the federal web-based telemedicine/HIS interface system under development
for the Department of Defense.
Select and manage the development team members and supporting staff.
Provide project management services to the federal customer for the telemedicine system under development.
Support budget and financial management requirements of the firm and project.
Provide direct support as an integrated team member of the federal project team responsible to all service branches participating in the
project.
Provide hands-on technical analysis and design as needed to support the project.
Direct research projects as required to prototype new web technologies required by the project.
Act as liaison between other project vendors developing sub-components and legacy systems related to the project.
Select and manage physical locations for the firms Florida offices.
Multimedia Medical Systems Inc., Orlando FL 1995 - 1997
Director of Development
Select and manage the development team responsible for software projects and product in the Florida offices.
Coordinate with my peers in the other software divisions and with Sr. management as a member of the corporate wide executive team for
software products and services.
Provide strategic analysis to Sr. management on web-based software projects, and telemedicine market issues.
Supervise and support major customer installations of the telemedicine products.
Act as project manager and chief architect for web-based products and research efforts on new products.
Coordinate with corporate accounting to provide budgets and related cost management tools for Florida development efforts.
Support the Sales Group as needed to promote business development.
Provide technical support for academic partners producing research papers on telemedicine issues.
Provided management support for the spin-off our the web-based telemedicine group to Micro-Clinque.
md/tv Inc., Orlando FL 1994-1997
Software Development Manager
Manage select the software team developing Internet and modem based telemedicine projects.
Provide project management for telemedicine projects.
Design, develop and manage Web-based and on-demand publishing medical travel safety products.
Support major customer installations of the telemedicine product.
Manage new product and new version releases.
Provided management support to the transition team during the firm’s acquisition by Multimedia Medical Systems.
NCSU School of Design Virtual Environment Lab Raleigh, NC 1992 - 1994
Research Associate
Under PhD. Supervision, perform hands-on research on selected topics to support Lab grants.
Perform specialized research and development for Advanced Media projects including print on demand, and interactive video.
Develop prototype web-based teaching/learning aids to support the Architectural curriculum.
Coordinate with the NCSU Academic Computing Department, Department of Library Sciences, NC and National Supercomputing Facility
to support the implementation of prototype web technologies, including initial NCSA Web Server/Mosaic and CGI releases.
Genesys Inc. 1990 - 1991
European Business Support
Provide corporate representation to European business partners in England, Holland, France, Italy, and Austria.
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Provide technical marketing support to European business partners as needed.
Provide special liaison and support services for IBM Europe.
Provide long-term on-site support for major telemedicine product installations in France.
Evaluate and analyze partners and markets for Sr. management.
Mathematica Inc., Lakeland FL 1986 - 1990
President, Founder
Establish and manage the creation of the company and all physical, financial and legal aspects of the corporation.
Oversee the daily activities of the firm in conjunction with the Sr. management staff and supervisors.
Plan and manage the strategic direction of the corporation.
Plan and manage the financial activities and reporting of the corporation.
Select and oversee banking, accounting, marketing, public relations, and legal vendor partnerships.
Coordinate with legal counsel to assure the protection of all corporate intellectual property rights.
Establish strategic corporate customer relationships and manage those accounts directly.
Supervise the hiring and management of corporate employees and supervisors.
Act as primary technologist responsible for technical vision, and execution products and delegation of project tasks.
Directly provide product management for core commercial graphics software products.
Establish national and international sales channels and distribution for commercial products.
Establish OEM sales channels for numerous graphics software products.
AFFILIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS
I am active in the various professional associations for the computer, graphics and telecommunications industry including the ACM,
SIGGRAPH, IEEE and ITVA. I have participated in many inter-company forums and discussion groups.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
1988
American Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Graphics
Annual Conference and Convention Anaheim, California
I chaired a user-sponsored forum on "Graphic File Formats and Data Interchange".
1989
Autodesk Thursday Forum
Sausalito, California
Topic: "Why TV - The Use of Television in Computer Scene Simulations"
1990
Autodesk Annual National Developer Forum
University of California Santa Cruz, California
Topic: "Tangible Dreams - Realistic Scene Simulation Using Photographic Techniques"
1995
Interactive Courseware (Paper)
1996
Web Based Adaptive Learning (Paper)
1996
Telemedicine and Managed Care (Paper)
1998
Java in Web Based Telemedicine (Paper)
1998
Emerging Technologies in Healthcare (Panel Discussion)