PHP Engineer Certification, Zend Corporation, 2005, San Francisco, CA
Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML, NASA Glenn Research Center, 2003, Cleveland, OH
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2003, Rochester, NY
Attaining CMM Level 3, Thales Broadcast & Multimedia, 2001, Montreal, Canada
Mr. Bunk has over eight years of experience in software engineering including requirements analysis, software design, development, implementation, documentation, testing, configuration management and project management.
More recently, Mr. Bunk has focused on database driven web application development, semantic technology, and is proficient in PHP, Java, JavaScript, CSS, XML, HTML and SQL. He has applied his core software engineering skills to the technologies of knowledge management, collaboration, data mining, systems engineering and graphic design. He compliments these technical abilities with his experience in project management, process engineering, business strategy and business development.
Mr. Bunk currently is currently the ARES project manager of a project to develop an Integrated Bio-Surveillance System (IBS) that mines and analyzes disparate data sources to detect medical epidemics and Bio-Terrorism attacks. The system architecture includes a triple store and custom semantic technology based natural language processing engine to detect patterns in unstructured text. The system features a customizable survey system to collect medical data on-line or off-line with PDAs or desktop computers that was utilized during hurricane Katrina.
Mr. Bunk worked to architect the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) contractor IT infrastructure. Mr. Bunk was the project manager on a 210k CEV project to validate the CEV IT Infrastructure complies with the NASA Exploration Initiatives Ontology Model (NExIOM) and to design and implement a search portal that uses Semantic Technologies to more effectively manage program data and exchange it with NASA’s ICE Environment using a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. As part of this task Mr. Bunk implemented a Java/JSP based search system that indexed information from a PLM System, PDM System, and outside websites. Mr. Bunk helped develop a plan to transition from the use of NASA’s Windchill system to the NGC Enterprise Standard PDM solution, Livelink. Mr. Bunk was responsible for contributing to the CEV Phase II proposal in the areas of NASA Integrated Collaborative Environment (ICE) integration, knowledge management, NExIOM compliance, IT Security, NASA Enterprise Architecture (EA) and IT infrastructure design.
Mr. Bunk is responsible for all aspects of the software life cycle for many diverse projects on the Process Based Mission Assurance and Assurance Technology Center contract at NASA. He used PHP, MS SQL, and other common web technologies to implement a one of NASA’s largest knowledge management systems. He has made significant improvements in the quality of products by introducing a system for configuration management, defect tracking and source control. In addition to web application development, Mr. Bunk has evaluated, implemented, and integrated numerous commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software packages. Specific accomplishments in software development include the one-week implementation of a web-based forum that hosted discussions of NASA’s transformation, development of a content management system specialized for knowledge management and the implementation of a dynamic portal for NASA’s Safety and Mission Assurance community.
Mr. Bunk is responsible for expanding knowledge management and collaborative technologies at NASA. Working in a team environment, he has designed and implemented NASA’s only secure collaborative environment. This environment supports communities of practice and real-time web conferencing to over 4,400 users at NASA. These activities have earned his team three NASA honor awards and an E-Gov Pioneer Award. Mr. Bunk’s focus is not only on the technical systems that support knowledge management, but also on the processes and methodologies that support knowledge capture and utilization while leveraging business factors that help prioritize and justify business decisions.
Mr. Bunk has proven himself as a polished speaker and respected voice. He has spoken at events such as the NASA/NIA Workshop on Fresh Perspectives in Trending with Application to Shuttle Return-to-Flight and Other Critical NASA Missions on The Current State of Data & Trending Analysis at NASA and the NESC Data Mining and Trending Analysis Workshop on Text Mining the Incident Reporting Information System. He has helped draft a white paper on the implementation of a knowledge management system for the Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
Mr. Bunk has represented ARES at various trade workshops, symposiums, and conferences in business development and engineering capacities. He has managed the NASA Assurance Technology Center contract ($120,000) with responsibilities that include maintaining a Microsoft Project schedule, managing resources, tracking budget and interfacing with the client. He has participated in various proposal efforts as a technical writer including the implementation of the SMARTS web based tool, NESC Data Mining COTS Evaluation and the HITSS IT support contracts.
Mr. Bunk was responsible for various tasks as a Software Engineer working in the software research and development department. He helped the company increase its productivity by developing various automated installation programs for transmitter control operating systems and support software, automating the manual tasks of the field engineers. He designed and implemented various Java software solutions that enabled the remote control and monitoring of different HDTV transmitters. He developed an embedded transmitter control system consisting of PIC, FPGA and PPC circuits interfacing to hundreds of sensor I/O.
He has traveled around the country providing onsite upgrades, system troubleshooting, and field engineer training. These trips required him to work tight schedules, interact with customers and perform on-site troubleshooting and debugging. He taught classes to Broadcast Engineers on computer and network maintenance. He designed a test strategy that involved collaborating with field engineers and customers on the identification of outstanding defects, and also the classification, categorization, and disposition of those defects.
Mr. Bunk worked extensively with distribution systems for MPEG digital television content and next generation interactive television. He was chosen to represent Thales at an interactive television plug fest and trade show, leveraging his technical and communication abilities.
Mr. Bunk’s efforts were recognized with a letter of recommendation.
Mr. Bunk founded and managed a consulting company dedicated to providing clients with end-to-end software and hardware solutions complete with training, documentation and maintenance. At its peak, Mr. Bunk managed ten employees and six clients. He successfully completed numerous projects that required him to manage the challenges of the company’s clientele, employees, budget and schedule.
Mr. Bunk designed a utility to export the land assessment data of Farmington, Connecticut from a legacy VAX database into a MySQL database, and designed a front end for users to search and view assessment records in a dynamically generated PDF format, thus saving the town hundreds of hours previously spent on manually generating the records. He developed a web based training system, a customized content management system, and implemented a company intranet for the employees of Thales Broadcast and Multimedia. He developed a system to manage, display, and export to CD, the policies and procedures of the Farmington Police Department, streamlining their accreditation process and ensuring that officers could have the latest knowledge while in the field. For the RC Consulting Company, Mr. Bunk developed a system to solicit help desk tickets, notify appropriate employees via a text page, and track the status of the tickets greatly improving the consultant’s customer service satisfaction rating.