SUMMARY:

Engineering experience spans Enterprise Architecture (EA), System Engineering, Project Management, Government Acquisition & Business Development Requirements Analysis (functional & non - functional). Initiatives led: data analytics, business Intelligence; business change; process models; plans; standards; imagery processing; linguistics; telecom; capacity planning; healthcare; architecture analysis; etc.

SKILLS:

• Vitech CORE 8 MBSE tool (use); iGraphic BPM tool (use); SPARX Enterprise Architect (use); INNOSLATE MBSE tool, IBM Rational System Architect & DOORS; & Erwin, Service Now, Remedy, & LeanKit.
• Routinely use the Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Access, VISIO, & Windows environment
• As needed university & commercial training exposure to various computers languages (JAVA, C, SQL) & tools for class exercises
• Confidential International Proposal Academy for proposal development skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Architecture Analysis& Validation Plan (AAVP): Hardware; Software; Data Flows; System Interaction; & Methodology
• Conducted Capability Planning & Performance Analysis (CPPA): Monitoring; Service Level Agreements (SLA); Program Alignment; External Dependencies & Capacity; Hardware & network capacity; Resiliency; & Testing
• Non-Functional Requirements & Performance Capacity investigated under CPPA included: Installation Effort; Accuracy, Interoperability, Security, Compliance, Reliability, Usability, Efficiency, & Portability
• Applied AAVP & CPPA to Joint Legacy & Community Viewers that enables VA & non-VA Doctors to view electronic health records
• Applied AAVP & CPPA to 8 systems compromising VA’s enterprise Identity & Access Management Access Service Access solution Business Development (BD) activities included proposal contribution & architecting BD proposal development capability
• Conducted enterprise needs analysis of reusable & repeatable proposal content, address governance needs, outlined enterprise agile scrum approach, & worked with senior leadership to on an initial demo leveraging SharePoint query & metadata tagging.

Enterprise Architect / Engineering Manager

Confidential, Centerville, VA

Responsibilities:

• Worked with prime contractor’s Chief Engineer During Agile Development Operations (DevOps) transition phase restructuring engineering workforce roles & responsibilities to Confidential US Citizenship & Immigration Services ( Confidential ) customer expectations.
• Provided knowledge elicitation, recommendations, resource plans, engineering business needs, gaps analysis, concepts of operations, business process models (VISIO), conducted team lead scrums, coordinated requirement assignments to engineering teams developing & maintaining Confidential telecommunications network.
• Worked requirements management & progress reporting using system of record (Service Now) & agile engineering management tool (LeanKit).

System Architect / Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Governance Policy & Directives; Strategic Plans; Business Plan Portfolios; Schedule; Knowledge Management Plan; High level business concept of operations (CONOPS); Process & data models; Performance Scorecard; & Analytic assessments working with senior managers, staff, & subject matter experts (SMEs)
• Facilitated Architecture Working Group to advance EA progress for Customer’s Chief Engineer / Architect consisting of SMEs working EA & to harmonize EA strategic governance with Change Management, Program Management, & System Engineering
• Formulated EA segmentation to establish EA work breakdown structure for FEAF artifacts across the strategic, business, data, application, infrastructure, & security sub-architecture domains working with Customer leadership & SMEs to validate utility
• Adapted semantic dictionary based approach to business process analysis incorporating ontologies; Investigated applicable standards; Planned approach to capability & requirements representation; & Conducted trades studies of EA tools & methods
• Maintained the planning out-year budget cycle requests for the Customer’s Engineering Group

Business Systems Analyst - Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Arlington & Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Elicited Stakeholder & User program evaluation knowledge MDAP & Major Automated Info System (MAIS) assessment. Documented governance, requirements, processes, use cases, data, semantics & test for business intelligence (BI) developers
• Represented AV Customer at Office of Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO) Business Transformation Agency (BTA)
• Investigated discovery needs of Program Offices to access Acquisition Research findings of Federally Funded Research & Development Centers (FFRDC), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) & DOD Schoolhouse sources
• Tested Defense Acquisition Management Information Retrieval (DAMIR), Kaleidoscope, & Service Oriented architecture (SOA)
• Evaluated technology tools & led integrated product teams (IPTs) including Business Rules standards for EA process captures

Independent Scientist

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Elicited geospatial requirements in TRADOC Geospatial Team sessions engaging over 100 Confidential Stakeholders, Program Managers, Users, & Experts from Combat Arms Proponents, Confidential Schools, & Weapons System Program Offices to satisfy doctrine needs to inventory & catalog Confidential needs & requirements for GI&S & GEOINT products & support services
• Provided geospatial engineering support to HQ DA G2 Confidential voting rep to the National Center for Geospatial Intelligence Standards ( Confidential ) - participated in GEOINT Working Groups (GWGs) such as: Metadata; Motion Imagery, Information Technology & Services Architecture, Automated Feature Extraction, Community Sensor Model, Reporting, etc.
• Represented AGC & Confidential as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee member. Introduced AGC to emerging capability presented by small business at OGC that AGC adapted to scan paper maps to disseminate as electronic maps
• Initiated Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards & served as Contracting Officer Rep (COR):
• Geospatial Exploitation of Motion Imagery capability to track objects in motion imagery using a spatial-temporal helix
• Cognitive Battlespace Terrain Intelligence Manager to prototype business rules management system in corporation in geospatial production management

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Physical Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Acted as AGC agent to DARPA Program Manager for annual cycles to update planning, budgeting, execution, contract coordination, & Program Objective Memorandum (POM) for Defense Multi-Intelligence Correlation & Fusion (DMIF) program intended to leverage recent advances in artificial intelligence
• Contracting Officer Rep (COR) managing DARPA Message Handler System / Military Language Processor development applying DARPA computational linguistics artificial intelligence research to extracting information from military message free-text >$10M
• Principle Investigator for the Confidential Space Program Office (ASPO) Tactical Exploitation of Spectral Imagery Data (TESID) study establishing architecture to integrate Eagle Vision II into Confidential TENCAP for ingesting new commercial spectral imagery sources & initiating migration pathway to introduce future hyper spectral imagery exploitation
• Participated in joint planning of evaluation, test, & demo planning & overseeing assembly & analysis of intelligence & test data working with Intelligence Community, NIST, Navy & Air Force Laboratories, & Military Commands.
• Served on National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB)
• Prepared procurement packages or served as COR managing contracts such as Agile Modeling, System Designer, & System Architect to advance DARPA intelligence correlation & fusion research.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Physical Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Assignments supported execution of full lifecycle development, fielding, & operations of imagery exploitation systems in mobile shelters designed for in-theater GEOINT imagery analysts to support the Commander.
• Served as Confidential Technical Engineering Rep to Air Force (AF) Electronic System Center (ESC) Joint Service Imagery Processing System (JSIPS) Program Office reporting to both AF Chief Engineer & on-site Confidential Deputy Program Manager > $200M program
• System Engineering Project Manager Division overseeing the contractor’s development for 3 (of 7) mobile segments built in ISO shelters: (1) Softcopy Exploitation Segment; (2) Hardcopy Exploitation Segment; & (3) Database Exploitation Support Segment
• Coordinated complex interactions among Development Contractor Engineers; JSIPS Program Office’s MITRE Engineers; User, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs); Stakeholders; System Engineering & Technical Assistance (SETA) contractors; Joint Service Military Officers, Civil Service Engineers & Scientists; JSIPS Program Office staff (Contracts, Test, Finance, Test, Logistics, Configuration Management, & other entities). Supported on-site testing & configuration audits
• Software engineering lead for Database Content Working Group composed of senior Customer leaders, subject matter experts, and technologists to identify critical data & determine the data handling & use in the objective system

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Cartographer, Physical Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed source material selection processes by eliciting input from senior analysts to establish new ‘as-is’ baseline aligning operational production processes so that Techniques Office working under an artificial intelligence engineering paradigm could design ‘to-be’ transition toward future digital environments
• Worked with Production Division subject matter expert team to redesign business production process flow for the division
• Researched, screened, assessed, evaluated & maintained source material for geospatial products & crisis support
• Prepared Map Preparation Guides to advise cartographic compliers of intended uses & limitations of sources
• Applied imagery analysis in evaluating existing topographic products for currency & accuracy to identify specific items for the Production Office to consider in production planning
• Served as a Team Leader developing business process for new branch screening, assessing, & selecting source material
• Used, researched, evaluated, updated, & maintained data as a subject matter expert data in various data bases dealing with Stakeholder requirements, existing product accuracy, & map library holdings.
• Conducted extensive research for impacts of feature changes & land use on usability of individual military map products
• Graduate level Civil Engineering (Geodesy, Photogrammetry, & Remote Sensing) one-year long-term career training assignment