SUMMARY:

• Established a set of practices that ensured projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards and meet customer expectations. Balanced the competing demands for resources, quality, scope, schedule, and cost.
• Consistently delivered an entire project lifecycle, including: definition of project plans, resource allocation, and management of project risks, scope, schedule, and delivery of value. I have been responsible for overseeing and managing execution of day - to-day project activities, and I adapted project specifications, plans, and approach to the different concerns and expectations of stakeholders.
• Responsible for managing project related risks, issues, procurements, resource assignments, deployments, methodology deliverables, communications, and overall quality of project activities.. Worked with customers, to capture and document their business practices, and managed their expectations
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models - have led projects using both Traditional and Agile project methodologies.
• Supported commercial clients with software development and deployment strategies and provided analysis and expertise specific to the development and implementation of web based software solutions to enhance customer service response.
• Provided government clients software acquisition support in highly specialized areas and operational environment, and performed high-level functional and technical analysis, and software/hardware implementation and maintenance support, managing the infrastructure patch updates and scheduled hardware/network maintenance.
• Executed controls’ assessments, documenting risk impact on business processes (such as a required completeness, schedule, quality, compliance, and IT processes improvements - including interfaces), preparing as-is and to-be process models, and ensured that any control gaps’ remediation of the required prevention, detection and/or rejection control practices are tracked, resolved, and improve system service stability, system integrity and availability.
• Leadership in IT software development and implementation of enterprise solutions for: Risk Management and Mitigation, Governance, Compliance, Technology Innovation, and IT Security integration.
• Responsible for managing COTS implementations, training, customization and maintenance. Responsible for software development - managed customer services; managed IT technical staff, contractors and sub-contractors (including an off-shore programming team), provided 24X7 customer support and system recovery capabilities. Ensured IT controls in development and adoption of the regulatory compliance controls are in place.
• Managed the test execution and test results with Requirements Traceability Matrix. The test of the developed COTS enhancements consisted of integration testing of the IT controls, and included testing of the Confidential (Transmission Control Protocol) that allowed for reliable communication between two applications over the IP (Internet Protocol).
• Led Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies end-to-end implementations, using Scrum and Waterfall approaches - worked across multiple teams to coordinate software development efforts. Incorporated regulatory requirements, robust Change Management, budget and project schedule controls. Provided required Status Reports, and managed projects to include allocation of resources, schedule monitoring, and budget tracking.
• Prepared Project Requirements and defined the project Scope that included project management tasks dealing with: required infrastructure maintenance, resources to be used, interrelationships, specifically required schedule, staffing resources, code changes/customization/corrections, license purchases/management, task builds, network integrations, patches and upgrades implementations, and hardware replacements.
• Prepared and managed project deliverables: Project Charter, Project Plan, and proposed solution; managed Project Risks and issues - prepared Risk Management Plan and maintained a Risk Register. Provided Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for assigned technical activities. The solution Testing and Acceptance were tracked via Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Successfully led enterprise legacy AD migration to Cloud.
• Responsible for managing multi-platformed software development support and COT customizations. Managed vendors and off-shore Teams. In PMO, led certification and accreditation assessments and prepared appropriate documents - tracked the process until full accreditation and authority to operate was obtained.
• As a programmer, I developed, maintained and implemented business applications in adherence to the life cycle methodologies in a commercial environment. I supported, guided and managed the team, problem solving, and conflict/issue resolution, ensuring a successful project lifecycle/delivery of program technical services to remote customer base, including infrastructure and recovery capabilities.
• As a computer center manager in a commercial environment, I supported the computer operations, managing testing, development, and production environments, and designed and implemented effective backups and recovery capabilities for the network and hardware/software. I closely worked with infrastructure teams, development managers and information security teams, to make sure that computer operations activities meet expected standards and are responsive to required schedule targets.
• Holding Public Trust clearance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• I supported commercial client and performed a critical role in planning, scheduling, monitoring and execution of the project, schedules, resources, managing and stakeholders’ expectations for programming solution of practical Network-based IT controls development using Jira.
• The scope was to improve the customer service of Cyber Security Controls Exceptions management, to ensure the central Cyber Security Control Team and customers can communicate automatically on the status of the development and implementation of remediation of the Cyber Controls, and adequately manage the company’s Risk.
• Adhered to recommended practices per PMBOK, ITIL, and Confidential .
• Built strong collaborative relationships with business stakeholders and developed a deep understanding of their business objectives that were translated into developing a Jira-based solution for Cyber controls exceptions management. After business and IT controls assessment, developed recommendations that improved the business value of the processes in both the internal and client-facing controls.
• Used the Agile methodology in developing the Mobile software. Ensured that there was a strong and effective governance and program/project management while dealing with the complexities and demands inherent in the software development and the integration of HIPAA IT security controls compliance.
• Resolved the risks associated with the gaps in requirements via documentation, testing and collaboration with users during the scheduled Sprint sessions.
• Managed IT Security controls implementation by coordinating with the Network Engineering Group.
• The required Confidential testing/validation were successfully executed, with assistance from the IT Security Group.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assessing risk, defining and designing IT controls procedures for data protection, infrastructure operations and detection of security issues.
• Led Microsoft server’s replacements and hardened the baselines of the new servers.
• Managed risks and performed delivery planning for migrating legacy Exchange data.
• Provided leadership in assessing IT, financial and operating controls to improve business processes and accountability. Developed IT controls and collaborated with customers to develop strategies and solutions for in corporation of planning, execution, change control procedures, tracking and reporting on regulatory compliance controls and best practices use.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed enhancements development and release implementations: software, hardware upgrade and system/network software patch implementations.
• Assessed IT controls and their compliance with the Confidential . Managed interdependencies and Confidential
• Risk Management Framework - the reviews of the IT security and internal controls consisted of
• Identifying and documenting business and system functionalities, and any risk they carried. Formal recommendations with appropriate remediation steps were presented to customers.
• Ensured reliable project change management controls processes and procedures were followed.

Environment: Windows, Remedy, SharePoint, MS Office Suite products, Visio, Budgeting Applications.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Identified web design vulnerabilities and proposed web solutions that supported high availability.
• Ensured web design’s compliance with required financial and IT security control compliance Standards.
• Led GRC activities in PMO. Provided guidance on priorities’ settings based on business impact And agency initiatives - used COBIT, Confidential and Confidential as acceptance guidelines. Tracked Confidential for completion of risk remediation.
• Performed ROM Cost, gathered requirements, and aligned to IT standards. Worked with multiple data center clients and customers (i.e., project and application teams) to develop strategies for complex server builds.
• Responsible for ongoing recommendations, and insertion of best practices in business continuity, high availability, backup, recovery and archiving. Responsible for capacity planning.
• Developed, tracked and reported on Service Level Agreement compliance for existing service contract agreements.
• Led the Engineering Committee sessions to evaluate incoming projects for operational impact to the client’s systems and network architecture, and coordinated implementation of strategies to mitigate any negative effects.
• Facilitated enterprise systems integration, business process development, release launches and operations.

Environment: Windows, Remedy, SharePoint, Team Tracking Modeling, MS Office Suite products, MS Project, Visio.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed Data Center migration, validating test readiness of data bases migration, Interfaces/network connectivity with external and internal entities, and assessed reliability and Completeness of IT controls in migration project plans for moving the production activities to a new Data Center, in a different State.
• Executed Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) programs in compliance with IEEE Guidelines. Collected data for reporting Earned Value.
• Provided guidance on IT implementation processes/controls, ensuring adequate and reliable IT Controls are in place for authentication and issues resolution.
• Ensured de-activation of old Data Center equipment is adequately controlled.

Environment: Windows, Remedy, Inventory Systems, MS Office Suite products, MS Project, Visio

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Significant leadership experience in program management, with strong PMBOK and program management practice, managing virtual off-shore team, consultants/vendors, matrixed project Team. Responsible for robust infrastructure maintenance programs of critical systems.
• Managed programming, customer services and operational support for 8-14 systems, that Consisted of managing 6-60+ IT technical staff, contractors and sub-contractors (including an off-shore programming team), with $1 to $7 million annual budget; providing 24X7 customer support and system recovery capabilities. Ensured IT regulatory compliance controls are in place.
• Managed test execution and test results with Requirements Traceability Matrix. The test of
• The developed enhancements consisted of integration testing of the IT controls, and included Testing of the Confidential (Transmission Control Protocol) that allowed for validation of communication Controls between two applications over the IP (Internet Protocol).
• Prepared System Security Plan, Contingency Plan, Disaster Recovery Plan, and System Test And Evaluation Plan, along with other required deliverables; any unmitigated weaknesses were Identified and tracked in a Plan of Actions and Milestones (POAM).
• Developed COOP and successfully reconstituted critical systems, business processes and IT Controls for roll back, back-up and recovery.

Environment: Windows, Remedy, Java, SharePoint; Accounting systems, Payroll and Personnel systemsInventory Systems, Sales and Distribution, Payables and Receivables; MS Office Suite products, MS Project, Visio, Prosight.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Risk Manager/Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Assessed operational and network vulnerabilities and risks, and provided recommendations for their remediation.
• Coordinated JAD/RAD sessions. Developed functional specifications and a design for financial
• Software enhancements that processed $5+ billion annually, using Oracle relational database.
• Rapid Application Development sessions included stakeholders and users of the on-line
• Software system, and it followed the Scrum process.
• During my tenure, I wrote 10 technical proposals, ranging from $4million to $10 million each - all 10 proposals were contract winners.

Environment: Windows, MS Office Suite Products, MS Project, Visio; Financial systems: Accounting, Payroll and Personnel; Budgeting applications, Cost and Billing Systems, Inventory Systems, Sales and Distribution, Payables and Receivables