SUMMARY:

• Senior IT leader with 24 years of experience leveraging project management expertise and IT noledge to deliver results and meet program objectives on - time and within budget
• Modernization of Legacy IT Systems ~ Insertion of New Commercial Technologies in Government ~ Budgeting and Planning ~ Program/Project Management ~ Contract Negotiations ~ Process Analysis & Redesign ~ Configuration/Change Management ~ Stakeholder/Requirements Management ~ Software Lifecycle Development (SDLC)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Chief Architect

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical strategies for the Naval Product Lifecycle Management (N-PLM) Maritime program ($36M annual budget) through technology insertion of SaaS, data integrations (eQ Technologic) and PLM (Windchill/Siemens), evaluating Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure, Oracle, PTC), service offerings (PaaS/IaaS) and identity management solutions, integrating of immersive technologies supporting predictive analytics, spearheading transition plan to host Unclassified Navy Nuclear Propulsion (U-NNPI) in non-Navy environment, and retiring 11 Legacy IT systems to successfully deploy modernized capability to initial user base of 200 users scaling up to 10000
• Direct and advise 40+ person cross-functional, geographically dispersed team with industry leading integrator across 5 work streams through cyber compliance, requirements/stakeholder management, streamlining execution of SDLC (Agile versus Waterfall) reducing implementation schedule ~3 months
• Govern technical execution to manage cost, schedule and performance for system prototyping, cloud hosting, engineering services and software procurements through development of cost estimates and Statement of Works, coordinate technical assessments, and facilitate negotiations with vendors to contracts, executing $26M annually
• Facilitate N-PLM risk management program ($80M annual budget) by coordinating with 250+ team members to perform risk analysis, develop mitigation strategies, assess technical/financial impacts to brief senior leadership monthly and evaluate program efficiency
• Served as member on numerous hiring panels for entry-level/mid-management to senior leadership positions for IT, budget/finance, and data analyst disciplines successfully fill vacancies throughout the organization

Lead Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as executive mission owner to successfully a 5-year $96M contract for NAVSEA’s first SaaS offering with PTC; See article Navy expands ‘digital twin’ use to track ship parts (fedscoop.com)
• Managed cost, schedule, performance and risks to successfully implement PLM technologies for the Product Support Office’s (PSO) $11.3M annual budget by directing workloads for 10 on-site and remote team members, performing tradeoff and gap analysis of PLM vendor software solutions (PTC, Dassault, Siemens), established configuration management process and procedures, managed data center system changes/upgrades with provider, procured IT software and services (23 total), collaborated with PSO leadership team to develop strategic plans and organization change management approaches that optimized resources and deploy PLM capabilities to Navy, Army and Marine Corps logistics workforce (500+ users)
• Spearheaded the program’s first System Engineering Technical Review (SETR) by coordinating and facilitating the creation of a Systems Engineering Program (SEP), Configuration Management Plan (CMP), Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), System Requirements Specifications (SyRS), Requirement Traceability Matrix and presentations to successfully respond to risks and issues identified by the SPAWAR SETR team
• Served as member on 8 hiring panels for positions ranging from entry level to senior leadership, mentored 2 entry level employees and led colege recruiting efforts specializing in engineering and computer science disciplines to successfully fill vacancies throughout the organization

Supervisory Senior Management Analyst

Confidential, Port Hueneme, CA

Responsibilities:

• Supervised and directed workload for 5 analysts by facilitating business process development and improvement, performing data analysis, developing metrics, and managing a $2.7M annual budget to increase visibility of IT Investment strategies.
• Led 5 strategic planning sessions with senior leadership by performing critical value stream analysis, developing programmatic process metrics, coordinating resources requirements across 35 projects, developing project management standards and curriculum recognized by PMI to construct multi-year IT investment plan and streamline organizations efficiencies such as rework and processing time by 10-15%

Information Technology Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led successful project implementation to deploy the Expeditionary Management Information System in US and Navy Enterprise Transportation (NET) application in US, Europe, Asia and Middle East based on IBM Maximo $6.1M annual budgets, managing cost, schedule and risks retiring 3 mainframe systems and 15 site specific applications that modernized the IT portfolio resulting in reduction in IT resources and sustainment costs of ~20-30%.
• Headed project execution team of 30+ person cross-organization, geographical dispersed team by capturing requirements/enhancements with SMEs, developing Mercury/HP load scripts, performing analysis of test results, troubleshooting application issues, conducting end user for over 300 in US and Europe, and standardizing fuel management processes to instantiated usage of enterprise IT systems for 3000+ users that improved the Transportation Business Line operations throughput by 20%