SUMMARY:

• Project/Program Technical Software Development Manager
• Software Development / Hardware Design, Manufacturing and Systems Integration
• Twenty - five year career Project Management Professional (PMP) who achieves results generating complex strategic software executive decision and marketing systems as well as engineered hardware infrastructure integrations and sophisticated manufactured telecommunications devices for military, federal government and commercial clients. External client facing lead for satellite, data, audio/video and voice networked systems. Accomplished creating and managing multiple high value projects from proposal/bid scope definition through administrative closure building large cross-functional international teams, technical work-plans and budgets that generate large-scale high quality integrated software system solutions and engineering communication equipment.
• Fluent in a broad range of software technologies, including business performance tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, Access, Visio, PowerPoint; technical assessment tools such as SQL - PL/SQL (Oracle), Crystal Reports, Remedy; and web design and development, utilizing HTML, Java Beans, JavaScript, JSPs, java servlets and Vitria middleware. Lead technical development teams using Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.
• Project Profitability - Process Improvement - Earned Value Management (EVM) - Team Building and Motivation
• Software Application Design - Customer Facing Relationship Management - Subcontractor/Vendor Management
• Proposal / Bid Development - Contract Development - Procurement Management - Quality Management
• Test Plan Development - RF/Microwave Engineering Design - Lean Manufacturing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading an initiative to restructure and decrease the number and content of Waterfall documentation deliverables to conform to Agile methodology.
• Run Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using Hewlett Packard Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM).
• Prepare document deliverables per Global Project Management Office (GPMO) requirements. Monitor and track project financials and resource hours utilizing Clarity PPM.
• Perform project budget analysis and control requirements, resources and schedule to perform within financial plan parameters. Project budgets run between $200k and $650k.
• Monitor and control vendor relationships to meet strict project specifications and timelines.

Confidential

Program Manager Operations and Manufacturing

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects for demanding government clients for newly created technically complex and high risk satellite communication products. Budget responsibility ranges from $600K to $3.1 million. Cross functional technical teams consist of engineers, programmers, planners, assemblers, test technicians and Quality Assurance (QA) inspectors.
• Direct responsibility for external client facing customer relationship management. Lead teams of 10 - 20+ members to comply with Statement of Work (SOW) deliverables, Printed Circuit Board (PCB), communication product design specifications, manage scope changes, budget, issue resolution, resources, schedule, risk management, material planning and procurement for delivered manufactured equipment.
• Spearheaded initiatives as MITEQ’s only Certified Project Manager to create and implement project process and standards policies based on Project Management Institute (PMI) best practices to improve design and product quality. Wrote the corporate Quality AS 9100C Risk Management policy with the SAE granting MITEQ in 2012, standardizing work breakdown structures (WBS) and shared resource master plans for the Program Management Office (PMO).
• Respond to Requests for Proposals (RFP) and Requests for Quotes (RFQ) for labor resource and schedule requirements.
• Drive the security and interface software control design efforts of the products to comply with the signal specifications as well as embedded firmware.
• Attain and Deliver technical program status to external customers and executive management. Accountable for adherence to schedule and completion of a quality product. Extensive background in application development supplied the executives with keen strategic reporting insight from the Solomon Material Resource Planning (MRP) system.

Confidential

Project Manager Communications and Business Process Improvement

Responsibilities:

• Create and respond to military and federal government proposal/bid and project equipment, material and staffing requirements for proposals and engineering solutions to respond to Requests for Proposals (RFP), Statements of Work (SOW), Requests for Quotes (RFQ) and Statements of Objectives (SOO).
• Managed touch panel software design and roll-out using Tandberg development software. Engineer systems to maintain the required separation of secure and un-secure networks. Secure networks required analysis and recommendations for the purchase of security equipment and software to guard against intrusion detection.
• Research, recommend, procure and implement emerging hardware and software technologies for cutting edge military and commercial projects. Project management engineering through deployment responsibility for video teleconferencing, Command Centers, Technical Operation Center (TOC), VOIP, IP, ISDN and COTS equipment and software system applications.
• Manage and direct international teams of 10 to 15 employees/contractors. Direct and control activities of staff and stakeholders to achieve performance objectives. Direct hire, review and termination decisions.
• Develop and manage prime and subcontractor vendor / government agency requirements, program specification changes and progress to assure successful project completion on time and within budget.
• Recommend organizational policy process changes to senior management to facilitate improved project management, superior content and exceptional professional documentation deliverables.

Confidential

Information Technology and Business Services Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Business services include: bookkeeping, bid preparation, grant writing, financial planning, business plan development, business process improvement, technology and website development.
• Develop custom course curriculum and educate students in business and information technology bachelor’s programs

Confidential

Project Manager/Cost Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and perform current A/P, A/R, purchasing, job costing, period-end closing procedures and controls and implement improved accounting and financial business processes and control practices corporate-wide. Recommend, apply and implement computer system technology where appropriate. Perform period-end closing, accruals and assist with financial statement preparation.

Confidential, New York

Project Manager/Application Development Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed the EIS web-based application upgrades and budget that provides key statistical and trend analysis reporting on budgets, expenses and cost estimates provided to Executive Management. Responsible for all system support, enhancement requests and design, supervision of technical development, production support and application architecture oversight on interrelated Web and client server applications. Development experience in Java, JavaScript, servlets, JSPs, Java Beans, Oracle and HTML. Software development and system engineering implementing J2EE, high transaction client/server and web based architecture environments, Oracle databases, and utilizing complex OOP methodologies.
• Performed business analysis and technical design for system architecture on integration of Intranet and packaged client server applications. Performed software analysis and design for legacy system integration to optimize publish/subscribe common data elements across systems using Vitria messaging middleware.
• Technical System Lead on all internally supported Remedy/Oracle/Unix applications. Responsible for managing vendor relationship, business requirements, system design, development, integration, test and support functions for more than 20,000 monthly transactions, 26,000 employees and 1200 end users.
• Managed and mentored junior employees during a major project upgrade. Using in-house development staff saved the company an estimated $125K in software performance specialist consultant fees.
• Managed and reviewed API integrations written in “C” with existing legacy systems.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a custom application to track and manage executive compensation performance goals and evaluations. This system administered a payout of $20M in executive compensation. Included were extensive statistical reporting and evaluation criteria for presentation to senior management. First Oracle/client server application at Cablevision.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided international expatriate and relocation staffs with global head count and cost statistics on their program valued at $200M.

Confidential

Assistant Vice President, Manager

Responsibilities:

• Information system development, reporting and analysis consultation on systems to permit immediate decisions on human resource information such as compensation, benefits, costs, revenues and positions, trend analysis, takeover/merger, head count, employee relations, turnover, expatriate and other domestic and international management issues.
• Identified and presented human resources systems and process reengineering project ideas and evaluated alternatives for senior management. Redesigned data flow and documented systems, which, when consolidated, streamlined data accuracy by 30% and improved access by 50% to worldwide information.