EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Executive and Confidential veteran (Lt Col) with over 25 years of progressive experience in IT management, consulting, program management, Cloud Architect, and mission critical systems delivery and integration in government (State and Federal), and commercial space.
• AWS Certified Solution Architect. Amazon Web Services operation, maintenance, implementation and design. Devops Lead Engineer - architect end to end CI/CD deployments. Hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Services, planning, procurement, implementation and operation of an enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure operation and software development using Agile methodologies and system integrations.
• Proven expertise in building and managing high performance organizations that deliver excellence and tangible values. Experienced in developing and bringing innovative solution to market. Projects have included Enterprise Architecture, SOA implementation, DevOps, Agile Scrum, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Data Strategy, Decision Support Systems, Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Business Process Engineering, Portal and Collaboration Solutions, Identity and Access Management, Enterprise Management, Cloud solutions, COTS Implementations, Information security to include data remediation implementation, identity access management, and IT Risk and Governance.
• Experience working with formal project methodologies and associated accreditation (PMI PMP, IPMA Level C, PRINCE2 Practitioner, etc.), Change control, CA Clarity PPM, and Issues log management. Over 10 years of IT operations experience and knowledge of ITIL methodologies, working within the ITIL framework in an operational support environment, including service desk, incident management, change control, and problem management.
• Interactive/Application Development Project Management experience. Solid knowledge of Web development processes, including experience with full cycle of both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Experience implementing, managing and deploying asset management, incident management, change management and configuration management. IT Customer support at various Tier I/II/II support levels from hardware and software application support. Perform business analysis processes to model, design, and optimize business processes determining the relevant analytics, automations, and reporting needs that lead to solutions provide optimum business processes and trusted information transforming the business towards the client’s vision.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led and implemented end to end Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) deployments on the AWS Cloud platform for the MDThink program for the State of Maryland. Responsible for designing, building, migration to the cloud and improving cloud environments on Amazon Web Services. Develop and delivered Amazon Web Services Architecture and Design for the DevOps environments. Provide direction to project team, including determining DevOps strategies, tool selection, development and deployment strategies, including code management, continuous integration and other aspects of Dev Ops
• Hands on implementation of AWS services to include: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Route 53, VPC Peering, WAF, Security Groups, NACL, and Direct Connect Gateway. Hands-on Amazon Web Services operation, maintenance, implementation and design such as VPC maintenance/setup, EC2 management, IAM, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, EBS management, AMI and more.
• Develop, lead and deliver large-scale AWS cloud application development and transformation engagements, helped customers understand cloud considerations, develop cloud application strategies and helping refactor existing applications for AWS. Build suite of tools to monitor and govern AWS cloud resources.
• Execute technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to the AWS Platform
• Deliver architectural design workshop and Proofs of Concepts. Establish architectural and operational standards for AWS deployment of existing and future applications across different technology stacks.Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for AWS.
• Build a suite of tools for engineering to use for deploying and maintaining AWS resources. Work with development teams to ensure high availability and cost effective solutions.
• Expert in the software development life cycle and be able design, document, and migrate applications.
• Led conceptual / planning level of the application architecture in collaboration with other architects and technical teams.
• Architect DevOps pipeline to include all DevOps operation, workflow, and services. Build, design, deploy, maintain and lead the implementation of AWS Cloud solutions for DevOps pipeline. Adherence and communication of DevOps Best Practices aligned with Continued Integration and Delivery.
• DevOps tools include: Jenkins/Bitbucket/ECS/ECR/Proget/Artifactory/Ansible/Ansible Tower/ Docker/Microservices, Open DJ/Open AM/Sailpoint, Fortify SCA, SonarQube, Selenium Grid, Junit, Jmeter, Test Complete, and Test Rail
• Facilitate daily scrums, stand-ups, and meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing. Guide and coach the team and organization to follow Agile/Scrum practices
• Automate security controls to ensure security best practices are followed and enforced.
• Continual re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure. Institute infrastructure as code, security automation, and automation of routine maintenance tasks.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide subject matter expertise and program management for the implementation of large data management efforts in an agile application development environment for DC Access System (DCAS). DCAS is the state-of-the-art health and human services solution, providing the District’s health Benefit Exchange (HBX) with a new integrated eligibility system for Medicaid, private health insurance, and other programs with new case management capabilities that span programs and agencies. Coordinate with DCAS system integrator to ensure the District’s system and applications comply with OCTO and Center for Medicaid and Medicate Services (CMS) standards and guidelines.
• Drive architecture standards for the applications and services in the Domain to ensure alignment with Enterprise Reference Architectures. Champion the in corporation of technical architecture direction for projects, working closely with Leadership to ensure solutions fit within the required delivery timelines.
• Oversees complex technical lifecycles from inception, requirements analysis, design, to agile implementation phases. Negotiate approach/scope of projects and vendor contracts. Act as the technical lead during the architect phase, working in conjunction with a Project Manager to create the development plan.
• Contribute to platform strategy projects by educating customers on options and providing recommendations for platform architecture, coding best-practices, security, integration, add-ons, development process, migration etc
• Consult to application development teams regarding new technologies, system requirements, and enterprise and solutions architecture options. Oversee the documentation of solution blueprints in context of enterprise reference architecture and transition architectures roadmap.
• Identify and/or analyze problems relating to project critical services and manage the building of automation to prevent problem recurrence, with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
• Prepare project updates for governance meetings and clearly communicate status in written documents and presentations. Identify project risks and prepare mitigations and contingency plans. Ensure accurate tracking and reporting of project milestones and deliverables. Identify and communicate resource constraints to senior management
• Set strategic direction and translate cross-divisional, integrated product/program strategy into an efficient executable plan ensuring rapid and effective decisions can be made to increase proof of concept (POC).
• Monitor and manage key metrics to influence continuous improvement, while driving standardization, training and governance.
• Advise in the design and implementation of a data models and business intelligence tools to ensure the needs of transactional, operational and open government needs are met while maintaining privacy and security of information.
• Develop data exchange relationships with multiple District agencies' directors and CIOs as part of DCAS. Work with agency program staff to develop data element metadata, establish a prioritization order to resolve data conflicts and establish processes and data dictionaries that will be maintained by OCTO after post implementation. Agile Scrum/Kanban expert using JIRA. Creates epic and user story and sprints.
• Implement and develop server monitoring and application management performance (APM) using New Relic, Dynatrace, Sitescope, and Opnet AppInternals.
• Work with various teams on SOA, IAM and ESB environment running on the Oracle Grid.
• Coordinate with developers on Business Objects, Microstrategy, and Informatica solutions within the program. Led all ITIL process flows and develop of standard business procedures on Remedy 7.6 and Salesforce CRM. Develop transition, training and data migration plans to RemedyForce/Salesforce.
• Deploy AWS Developer tools and EC2 container registry. Provide guidance across all work streams and Agile and DevOps practices.
• Ensure successful delivery of CI/CD environment and associated standards and processes that meet business needs (maintain knowledge Wiki, document standards and processes.) Work as a facilitator, communicator, and collaborator in a multi project, multi contractor environment. Set the standards for infrastructure as code and testing for the team and develop technical solutions to meet a wide range of business needs leveraging cloud native and open source technologies.
• Implemented data remediation and protection of PII, PHI, HIPAA and FTI data using various scanning tools, continuous scans, and discovery.
• Provide tools to easily discover and protect NPI, PII and other confidential data and enables management of Nonpublic Personal Information (NPI) quickly and accurately.
• Provide solution to search files and e-mails anywhere they are stored including websites, databases, file servers, and the cloud. Implemented tools to satisfying FISMA mandates through continuous monitoring and sensitive data management.
• Matrix Managed / Directed / mentored team (20-30 people) of software developers, BA, Architects, Project Managers to plan, develop and build high-functioning systems that meet / exceed client’s expectations delivering capabilities on time and on budget.
• Ensure teams use best tools / platforms / methodologies to complete tasks in anAgileenvironment.
• Strong understanding of and hands-on experience in Capturing business requirements (user stories) with AgileProcesses & methods, includingScrum using JIRA. Strong customer facing experience in managing medium to large and complex application development / implementation projects.

Confidential, Simi Valley, California

Senior Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide project delivery on time and on budget. Key member of the Project Management Office (PMO) on all day-to-day project management activities.
• Responsible for structuring and executing project approaches that deliver on client objectives resulting immediate feedback to clients.
• Manage multiple projects throughout the project life cycle from original concept through final implementation.
• Create, track, and manage comprehensive, realistic project schedules and measure progress regularly.
• Manage project scope including documenting all change control requests.
• Make and communicate tactical decisions as necessary when balancing between cost, schedule, technical functionality, and quality.

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

Vice President, IT Services

Responsibilities:

• Led IT services business development, and delivery to spearhead services
• . Provide solid technical strength and client development skills to build peer-client relationships with senior leadership across the Confidential .
• Manage the business capture and proposal development process, management of contracts, delivery of client work, management of administrative and operating budgets, and strategic planning and execution. Provide capture and business acuity and won $30M project for the company.
• Develop the enterprise strategic IM/IT plan to deliver a 21st Century, State-of-the-Art Medical Campus.
• Successfully stood up and migrated the Enterprise Data Center, Cloud Computing based Campus Support Call Center, Campus Portal, and deployed over 10,000 computers, 700 printers, campus network, and wireless infrastructure. Initiated all planning, charter, scorecards, test plan, QA for the entire operation.
• Provide technical solution for a full-service, state-of-the-art Experience Labs, personnel and technical resources to conduct a wide range of studies in psychology, customer behavior, usability testing, Human-Computer Interaction research.

Chief Information Officer (CIO), Information Technology Division

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic communications and well-developed consulting, business management, and leadership skills in the execution of a multi-faceted communications program area encompassing internal and external audiences.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate large information technology system in support of administrative and technical activities.
• Project management includes strategic planning, developing and administering a balanced approach to the strategic planning, technology development/deployment planning, project implementation, evaluation and analysis. Manage P&L for a $20M a year program to support all infrastructure projects.
• Implement and develop system architecture and network plans network management, configuration management, security engineering, customer support, and web management to support the overall objective of consolidating resources from all services.