OVERVIEW:

Senior Systems Engineer with extensive experience on systems development and systems integration projects, in both the commercial and federal sectors. Ms. Confidential has worked on network, telecommunications, financial and DOD/intelligence community systems. In support of these projects she has utilized both structured analysis and design techniques and worked on requirements, requirements management, CONOPS,and JCIDS tasks. She has also participated in enterprise architecture projects, as well as business process modeling, data modeling, data warehousing and portfolio management projects. Ms. Confidential has served as a team lead and a project manager on multiple projects and possesses multiple certifications including a PMI PMP, Zachman Enterprise Architect and Scrum Master.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Sr. Systems Engineer.

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Confidential has provided systems engineering and programmatic services on a government contract, as well as supporting an acquisition sensitive portfolio management project. She has analyzed and written capability and sub-capability statements for one of the portfolio initiatives supported by this project. Additional tasks have included an analysis of dependencies and risks between the customer service portfolio and the content portfolio, team efforts to create resource loaded schedules and subsequent analyses of the resulting critical path, and tasks providing support to the portfolio management office. In support of these activities she also produced work breakdown structures WBS and schedules for use in integrated master plans.

Sr. Systems Engineer

• Confidential provided systems engineering services on a biometrics project, including updating the CONOPS and managing and writing user stories and epics. This prototype utilized agile development techniques and JIRA, and provided direct support to a government client.
• Confidential provided systems engineering and project management services on a network contract. Her primary duties included providing project management for network field services projects, as well as analyzing and documenting current and proposed business processes. She also participated in ITIL working groups for a pending service request system implementation, attended the PM Framework class and received her PMP. In support of these activities she produced work breakdown structures WBS and schedules.
• Confidential as an Enterprise Architect for Defense Medical Logistics DML. Her duties encompassed working with joint application development JAD teams to produce DODAF artifacts, including OV-6's for various aspects of the DML organization, to include overseas operations. The resulting OV6's were to be used by the systems integration and development team who were beginning agile development of a new system to support all phases of logistics.
• Confidential also performed a quality assurance review and assisted with updates to the Enterprise Pier Connectivity Architecture EPCA Capability Document CDD. The focus of this document was to define the required capabilities for the EPCA, which is an integral component of the Navy Warfighter's in-port network communications capability, connecting ships and submarines to each other, and ultimately to the Global Information Grid GIG , via the EPCA's shore-based infrastructure.
• Confidential was also employed as an Enterprise Architect for the Census Bureau, focusing on producing the 2010 Decennial Enterprise Architecture. In support of this activity she reviewed and critiqued the existing, as-built 2010 Census Decennial Enterprise Architecture, as well as suggesting new primitives and evaluating candidate documents for the 2010 architecture. Ms. Confidential also participated in efforts to identify 2010 primitives and composites that would be good candidates for inclusion in the 2020 decennial architecture.
• Confidential was employed as a systems engineer on a confidential federal contract. Her tasks included providing requirements and design support for re-engineering major systems, utilizing SCRUM, an agile development methodology. Additional tasks included leading the production of a security CONOPS for proposed system enhancements and leading the work on a systems security plan for an infrastructure re-build, well as supporting development and deployment activities such as business process re-engineering and subsequent training. Ms Confidential also managed a deployment for a small budget system which supported OMB required documents. These tasks occurred in an ITIL environment. Ms. Confidential also participated in business development activities, focusing primarily on technical proposal development.

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• Confidential worked as a Sr. Systems Engineer on an enterprise-wide geospatial intelligence and imagery contract in support of a government agency. As part of the Enterprise Engineering CDD Capability Development Document team she assisted with capability assessments and wrote the System of Systems section of the CDD for the 2008 2013 time frame. Ms. Confidential also collaborated with the enterprise architecture team to update and procure a current OV-1 for inclusion in the Family of Systems and System of System sections of the CDD.
• She also worked on the production of the Geospatial Knowledge Base Initial Capabilities Document ICD. Both of these documents were compliant with JCIDS Joint Chiefs Information Dissemination System. Ms. Confidential also worked with risk management staff to identify risks associated with Geoscout Block 2 in support of a brief being presented to the Joint Chiefs staff. Ms. Confidential CDD analysis and engineering tasks also included a comparison of inter agency space radar and imagery performance capabilities.
• Confidential also worked as a Sr. Systems Engineer on a government agency system integration project which was an SEI CMM level 3 contract and encompassed the modernization of imagery and related systems. Her primary areas of responsibility were systems engineering and requirements analysis tasks, including requirements traceability tasks related to IESS. Additional tasks included participating in the identification of analysis of alternatives for fulfilling RFC's Request for change to baselined requirements. In order to ensure that all affected systems' needs and proposed requirements for new systems were adequately considered the team engaged in TEM's technical exchange meetings and JAD joint application development sessions. These sessions and meetings allowed the team to gather all impacts and alternative requirements and designs before recommending a final proposed alternative.

Sr. Systems Engineer.

• Ms. Confidential worked as a Sr. Systems Engineer on a JAVA systems development project for a government agency. Her primary areas of responsibility included managing a user group and producing requirements for this collection management system, including vetting graphical user interfaces and report formats. She also worked on the interface for this system and the CONOPS. These documents conformed to the customer's project management methodology.

Sr. Systems Engineer.

• Ms. Confidential was employed as a Sr. Systems Engineer on an SEI CMMI level 3 contract government agency systems development contract that was modernizing SIGINT technical infrastructure and information systems. Ms. Confidential responsibilities centered on systems engineering tasks, including leading the production of a framework services description document which included potential designs for messaging and event services. These services were being utilized by the subsystem prototype as a precursor to widespread utilization throughout the proposed system as the precursor to a SOA services oriented architecture. Ms. Confidential also worked on mitigation plans for all identified risks and coordinated with the risk management staff to ensure that these risks were accurately reflected in program level and executive reports. In a separate task Ms. Confidential analyzed functional requirements and subsystem physical architecture in order to re-engineer and retrofit a prototype subsystem into the existing architectural framework, C4ISR. Other tasks that related to this re-engineering included evaluating the physical data model for this prototype for inclusion in the overarching enterprise architecture.

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• Ms. Confidential was employed as a Systems Engineer - Staff for a government agency contract. Her responsibilities included systems engineering tasks, primarily in the arenas of knowledge management tasks and networking and included trade studies and functional test plans.

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• Ms. Confidential was employed as a Sr. Systems Engineer/Integrator on a government agency contract. Her duties encompassed such diverse areas as process improvement, business process re-engineering, metrics, CONOPS, and system requirements analysis and production, all of which conformed to the customer's project management methodology CPMP. In addition, she co-authored a PMP project management plan and managed a configuration control board which supported a proprietary project tracking system to include monitoring software improvement and development.
• Ms. Confidential worked as a Sr. Systems Engineer on the U.S. Customs Modernization Project, an SEI CMMI level 3 contract. Her duties included assessing requirements and architectural designs and ensuring adherence to and alignment with the project's requirements and architectural framework TEAF Treasury Enterprise Architectural Framework - a Zachman-based framework, utilizing Popkin Systems Architect 2001. Ms. Confidential reports and critiques were used to support and ensure successful external certification of the project's Enterprise Architecture. As a result of her achievements Ms. Confidential was appointed to serve on a committee evaluating the existing architectural framework and possible improvements.
• Ms. Confidential served as a Requirements Officer for a major State Department network. Her responsibilities encompassed managing several federal agency customer accounts and providing all aspects of support for customer requirement fulfillment. In support of these tasks Ms. Confidential participated in various activities to include reviewing network design and monitoring acquisition and provisioning processes. She also participated in marketing and billing functions, relative to her customer accounts.
• Ms. Confidential served as the Program Manager for FIDUL Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Laboratory at a federal agency. In this capacity she provided program management for numerous web-based tasks in such areas as text mining, advanced visualization, and machine translation and linguistics evaluations. She provided project, vendor and inter-agency coordination and worked to ensure adequate task funding from multiple inter-agency sources such as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA . She also led ISO 9000 activities for re-certification of the project by the British Standards Institute. Ms. Confidential participated in business development activities for a PRC developed intrusion detection system, AIDE Automated Intrusion Detection Environment that was in use by the Air Force Research Laboratory. She was also instrumental in tracking major information assurance and networking business development activities within the federal sector and has completed training in the Logicon Defense Enterprise Solutions Information Assurance program.
• Ms. Confidential managed vendor software development efforts for a telecommunications billing system, focusing her efforts on release functionality and trouble ticket system metrics for both the production and development systems.

Senior Systems Engineer.

• Ms. Confidential served as the project manager on a contract providing operations, maintenance and software development support to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Image Capture and Retrieval System TICRS. She also produced project deliverables for the XML/SGML transition project at USPTO and assisted with project planning for the deployment of a web-based system for submission of financial documents to the IRS and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network FinCEN .

Senior Systems Engineer

• Ms. Confidential was employed as a systems integrator on a software development project for a government agency. She also participated in a study of crisis response management and produced a high-level needs document that recommended potential areas for software development activities for the same government agency. In addition, she participated on a team producing a Concept of Operations and high level requirements for an XML web-based digital document system for another government agency.

Independent Consultant,

• While providing consulting services as a business analyst for Concert, an international telecommunications company, Ms. Confidential produced requirements documents for a data warehousing system. These requirements were primarily derived from data statistics supplied by Cisco routers. These statistics were utilized to produce data statistics reports for network operations and network engineers and included Asynchronous Telecommunications Mode ATM and Frame Relay network data. The reports encompassed such diverse areas as trunk utilization, global nodal parameters, ATM cells or Frame Relay frames dropped per hour, busy hour trunk percent utilization, port availability, etc.

Staff Consultant.

• Ms. Confidential served as a senior systems integration specialist on the IRS Tax Modernization project. In this capacity she wrote requirements for the telephone infrastructure subsystem of the proposed Customer Service Call Routing system and utilized an MS Access based requirements traceability matrix to track and assess requirements. She also provided requirements analysis support for the billing and business components of a telecommunications systems integration effort for a government agency.

Independent Consultant

• As a senior systems analyst for MCI Local Services, Ms. Confidential managed the interface between a development group supporting a trouble tracking system and interfacing systems. In support of another project she analyzed and documented the current business processes and associated data and requirements for re-engineering a legal case tracking system for the Department of Justice, Criminal Division.