SUMMARY:

Certified Scrum Master and Project Manager with 20 years of experience in defense and weather satellite industry, specializing in IT Management, Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering and Systems Engineering. Positions held as a Cost Account Manager, Release Manager, Deputy Lead, Computers, Networks, and Storage Lead, System Administrator, and Section Manager.

SKILLS:

Project Management: MS Project, JIRA, Sharepoint

Change Management: Clear Case, Clear Quest

Other Tools: MS Office Suite - Outlook, Powerpoint, Word, Excel, Visio, OneNote, Sharepoint, and Salesforce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Aurora, CO

Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise, Security and Infrastructure Deputy lead responsible for the design, requirements verification, material procurement, and hardware manufacturing of Deliverable and Development hardware for the customer sites and factory located in the continental US, Alaska, Norway, and Antarctica.
• Responsible for deployment of all Infrastructure and Security to the Deliverable environments at the customer sites and factory including OS and COTS software upgrades and security vulnerability upgrades.
• Project Manager responsible for managing the Integrated Master Schedule, leading daily team meetings, managing Risks and Opportunities, and providing inputs for Baseline Change Requests (BCR) to schedule as needed. Manage 5-6 projects concurrently valuing $500,000 to $1M.
• Cost Account Manager (CAM) - Manage 8 control accounts valuing approximately $120M. Prepare Earned Value and Variance Monthly reports, manage charge numbers, provide inputs to the Detailed Rolling Wave, and provide inputs to quarterly Estimate at Complete (EAC) analysis.
• Section Manager for the Systems Engineering (SE) department responsible for writing performance reviews for JPSS team members, setting goals for team, hiring for open positions, onboarding new personnel, and communicating flow down from the SE Department.

Confidential, Aurora, CO

Sr. Principal Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning and management of Platform Release builds occurring on 8-10 week cycles. Duties included holding release kickoff meetings, creating MS Project schedules for each release, communicating upcoming due dates to team, providing weekly status to leadership team, running daily Critical Chain meetings to manage progress of the build, collecting weekly status from Engineers, and holding build closure meetings.
• Platform builds can range from administrative updates, procurement of COTS, major network upgrades to COTS product upgrades.
• Backup to Sub IPT Lead responsible for Systems Engineering, Test Engineering, Automation, and Change Management team.
• Duties included team management of 145 employees, Project manager for specials projects, Budget management, Risk and Opportunity management, Schedule management, Earned Value and Monthly Variance reporting, Change management, weekly and monthly status for IPT Management, Staffing and team organization. Managed team using Agile tools and methodologies.
• Responsible for writing performance reviews for (15) GPS team members, setting goals, hiring for open positions, onboarding new personnel, and communicating flow down from the HWI Department.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Marketing Assistant/ Salesforce.com Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created and developed print and email marketing materials
• Administered and maintained Salesforce.com client database for the company

Confidential, Aurora, CO

Principal Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Cost Account Manager (CAM) for the Command, Control and Communications (C3S) Segment on the Computers and Storage Team - Managed three cost accounts with a total budget of $23M.
• Prepared inputs for Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) and Technical Description Basis of Estimates ( Confidential ), created and provided inputs to Baseline Change Requests (BCR) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), and prepared Earned Value and Variance Monthly reports.
• Technical Lead of Computers and Storage team responsible for the planning, scheduling, design, requirements verification, material procurement, and hardware manufacturing of Deliverable and Development hardware. Tracked and maintained the hardware and software baselines for C3S Development environments.
• Section Manager for Hardware Infrastructure Engineering team - Responsible for writing performance reviews for (9) JPSS team members, setting goals, hiring for open positions, and communicating flow down from the Hardware Infrastructure Engineering Department.

Confidential, Aurora, CO

Sr. System Integration Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead of the Computers and Networks team supporting Confidential Program. Managed the team schedule by coordinating all activities with Systems, Test, and the Software Engineering teams.
• Coordinated, scheduled and developed deployment plans for all deployments to the customer site. This included participation on pre-ship reviews, deployment meetings and after action reviews.
• Participated in system design reviews and technical exchange meetings with the customer and associate contractors for a complete hardware and software tech refresh.
• Security Point of Contact responsible for providing monthly security reporting to the customer, attending security meetings and requirements reviews, and coordinating the installation of all security updates to the systems.
• Responsible for managing and maintaining the fabrication and test areas. Required coordinating lab space with the HW Manufacturing team, planning the installation of all hardware and software on EMOS systems, and providing lab access for all EMOS employees.
• Scheduled the installation of security updates and backups on all build and development machines and coordinated the use of all Raytheon infrastructure (networks, routers, etc) equipment required by the EMOS Program.
• Represented the team and IT organization in Gate 4 and Engineering Bid Reviews for contract proposals. Developed and reviewed all Basis of Estimates (BOEs).
• Responsible for coordinating the maintenance of all property with the Raytheon Property Management Team including the shipment of all property sent to the customer site.
• Chaired the weekly Hardware Engineering Board Reviews to track and status problem change requests (PCRs) assigned to the C&N team
• Information Technology Professional Services (ITPS) Line Lead - Responsible for writing performance evaluations for all Computers and Networks (C&N) team members, setting team goals, coordinating staffing issues, and communicating flow down from the ITPS Leadership team.

Confidential, Highlands Ranch, CO

Technical Operations Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Implementation lead on all server related projects including the upgrade to Windows 2003 Active Directory, Windows 2000 domain collapse, build up of the disaster recovery lab, deploying and migrating client applications to new hardware, and monitoring the computer infrastructure.
• Responsible for all system administration tasks in lab, Highlands Ranch Corporate Office, and the client production environment.
• Provided technical support as needed to approximately 150 users solving Tier 3 issues.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of a five person team whose daily tasks included configuring and installing custom software applications on an Active Directory Windows 2000 platform in a test lab and at various customer sites.
• Built and maintained lab and customer Windows servers and workstations, configured security, backup and restore software, and performance monitoring software.
• Responsible for ensuring that new releases of custom software integrated smoothly with all other applications and maintained integrity of their security requirements.