SUMMARY:

• Influential leader with intrinsic talent for conceptualizing and communicating vision, empowering management and consensus building for achievement of common goals across the Joint Confidential enterprise.
• 20 year’s track record in cross - functional, cross-industry team building for high technology driven public sector, Confidential organizations and private sector.
• Superior strength in acquisition and program management, cost management, earned value, technical innovation, and process improvement resulting in enterprise optimization.
• Organizational change management, long term strategic planning, and leadership of complex programs and developing High Performance Organizations.
• Innovating the future with strategizing and synergizing with technology, policy, governance, and culture.
• Enterprise architectures, skilled negotiator and ability to build relationships across Office of Secretary of Defense enterprise, commitment to development and mentorship of acquisition work force and intellectual capital.

SIGNATURE SKILLS:

Leadership Development Organization Development Business Development Strategic Planning Investments Acquisition Program Management Financial Planning Budget Management Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation Optimization Enterprise Architecture Engineering Technology Analysis Big Data Cybersecurity Agile Continual Process Improvement Lean Six Sigma Policy Governance Innovation Workforce Development

EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

Technical Director

Responsibilities:

• Develop technical aspects of the agency and department strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
• Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage; Help departments use technology profitably
• Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
• Build quality assurance and data protection processes; Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
• Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology; Communicate technology strategy.
• Provide technical leadership to Confidential and Intelligence Community (IC); Ensure national security.
• Develop technical and business strategies, and increase market revenue of $10 billion.

Confidential, Confidential, MD

Technical Director & Program Manager (PM)

Responsibilities:

• Developed technical aspects of the agency and department strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
• Discovered and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage;
• Helped departments use technology profitably
• Supervised system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
• Built quality assurance and data protection processes
• Monitored KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
• Used stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
• Communicated technology strategy
• Formulated, organized and monitored inter-connected projects; Decided on suitable strategies and objectives
• Coordinated cross-project activities; Led and evaluated project managers and other staff; Developed and controlled deadlines, budgets and activities
• Applied change, risk and resource management
• Assumed responsibility for the program’s people and vendors
• Assessed program performance and aim to maximize ROI; Resolved projects’ higher scope issues; Prepared reports for stakeholders.
• Managed cybersecurity program ($250 million) and supported Confidential and non Confidential customers to ensure national security
• Increased cybersecurity posture by 20%.
• Built consensus and facilitated multiple agencies synergistic goals; Increased holistic cyber capabilities; ensured national security.
• Identified complex challenges with other agencies and improved process time by 10,000%.

Confidential, Confidential, MD

Chief Technical Analysis Officer & Chief Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Set objectives and strategies for the IT department; Selected and implemented suitable technology to streamline all internal operations and help optimize their strategic benefits
• Designed and customized technological systems and platforms to improve customer experience
• Planned the implementation of new systems and provide guidance to IT professionals and other staff within the organization
• Overseen the technological infrastructure (networks and computer systems) in the organization to ensure optimal performance
• Directed and organized IT-related projects
• Monitored changes or advancements in technology to discover ways the agency can gain competitive advantage
• Analyzed the costs, value and risks of information technology to advise management and suggest actions
• Performed the full range of supervisory responsibilities over employees to include performance and execution of duties, hiring, promotions, training, and to improve production or quality of work directed.
• Conceptualized and managed department optimization (cost saving of $50 billion).
• Drove innovative training for workforce (cost saving $1 million).

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Cybersecurity Portfolio Manager & Senior Strategist

Responsibilities:

• Directed and approved the design of security systems
• Ensured that disaster recovery and business continuity plans are in place and tested
• Reviewed and approve security policies, controls and cyber incident response planning
• Approved identity and access policies
• Reviewed investigations after breaches or incidents, including impact analysis and recommendations for avoiding similar vulnerabilities
• Maintained a current understanding the IT threat landscape for the industry
• Ensured compliance with the changing laws and applicable regulations
• Translated that knowledge to identification of risks and actionable plans to protect the business
• Scheduled periodic security audits
• Overseen identity and access management
• Made sure that cyber security policies and procedures are communicated to all personnel and that compliance is enforced
• Managed all teams, employees, contractors and vendors involved in IT security, which may include hiring
• Provided training and mentoring to security team members
• Constantly updated the cyber security strategy to leverage new technology and threat information
• Briefed the executive team on status and risks, including taking the role of champion for the overall strategy and necessary budget; and Communicated best practices and risks to all parts of the business, outside IT.
• Provided oversight and direction to Confidential and Confidential, and other agencies totaling $4 billion.
• Developed, directed, and articulated strategies, policies, and plans to address current and future requirements and to ensure meeting goals and their necessary adjustment; ensured national security.
• Developed a cyber-attack prediction model; ensured national security.

Confidential, AZ

Chief Data Officer & Chief Data Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Managed open government data effort including coordinating how agency offered Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and created public data products
• Optimized Return of Investment (ROI) by decreasing the cost of managing data and increasing the value of the data
• Improved how the agency did collects, uses, manages, and publishes data
• Driven the agency efforts to track data collections, data purchases, databases, physical data models, and linkages between datasets
• Improved data quality and how agency measured data quality
• Ensured data is available, reliable, consistent, accessible, secure, and timely to support the mission and activities of the agency
• Aligned and standardized data models
• Chaired agency wide data-working group.
• Identified agency’s challenges, developed a plan, strategize, and led other executive leaders to reorganize the agency resulting cost saving of $50 million.