Skills

Computer Languages, Tools/Applications and Technologies:

• Programming - C , JAVA, Visual Basic
• Modeling Simulation - SilverScreen, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, ARENA, Carnivore, MATLAB, Simulink, CORE
• Requirements Management, Testing, Change Management Serena Business Management, OpsTool, Product Management Accountability Tool PMAT , Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System DOORS , Rational ClearCase, Remedy, ReqPro, AVTS Test Manager
• Microsoft Office 2007 2010 - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio

Operating Environments: Windows: 2000, XP, Vista, 7 Basic UNIX DOS

Methodologies: Systems Engineering 8 yrs , Systems Analysis 8 yrs , Management Consulting 8 yrs , System Design Evaluation 8 yrs , Software Development Life Cycle 6 yrs , CMMI 6 yrs , Agile Lifecycle Process Improvement 2 yrs , Requirements Analysis 3 yrs , Requirements Management 2 yrs , Requirements Mapping 2 yrs , Requirements Traceability 2 yrs , Requirements Gathering and Documentation 2 yrs , Software Testing 2 yrs , Integration Testing 2 yrs , Technical Writing 2 yrs , Database Design 1 yr , Decision and Risk Analysis 1 yr , Dynamic Modeling 1 yr , Operations Research 1 yr Simulation Modeling 1 yr , Software Development 1 yr

Interpersonal: Strong communication and teamwork skills, self-motivated, detail-oriented, time-efficient, multi-tasker

Languages: Spanish bilingual with advanced oral and written fluency, French moderate oral and written fluency

Professional Technical Experience

Confidential is an accomplished and dynamic professional with over eight years of progressively responsible technical experience in strategy, information systems design, and process improvement design in multiple industries including, healthcare, defense, technology, and air transportation. Clients she's engaged with have included various facets of the government, the public and private sector, and international, non-profit organizations. Ms. Garcia-Moreira has full SDLC capabilities as a Systems Engineer, specializing in Software and System Testing and Requirements analysis. She also has Process Improvement and CMMI expertise as a SCAMPI-A Appraiser in addition to supporting the achievement of the highest rating at a Level 5.

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Senior Consultant / Systems Engineer

• Serves as an Identity and Access Management Specialist, acting as an applications and requirements analyst to the Department of Veterans Affairs VA by assisting in the Integration and Implementation efforts of the VA Identity and Access Management IAM Business Program Management Office BPMO .
• Applies systems engineering skills in requirements development and analysis in the areas of identity management, active directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP commonly used to provide Single Sign On SSO , and system integration and data sharing.
• Coordinates with stakeholders in a team environment and lead the management of Service Request submissions by VA applications for integration with IAM Services, reviews of system development documents submitted to the BPMO by Product Development, and making recommendations to the client for acceptance and approval of them.
• Coordinates with development engineers to ensure that requirements were adequately defined and interfaces identified.
• Assists in supervising the business office vetting of requirements and ensuring readiness for stage gate and reviews by governance bodies.
• Applies experience with designing, configuring, and deploying various enterprise level systems and IAM-oriented products to support VA's strategy for implementation of the Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management FICAM Roadmap and Implementation Guidance.

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Senior Consultant / Systems Engineer

• Perform a variety of complex analytical and engineering-based tasks in support of DHCS, under the Defense Health Agency DHA , formerly the Military Health System's MHS Tricare Management Activity TMA . These initiatives span across the Department of Defense DoD and Veterans Affairs VA .
• Full life cycle capabilities of various work streams of the AHLTA Composite Health Care System CHCS Critical Fixes ACCFS Project for DHCS. First six months, focus placed on Objective 4 Initiatives: AHLTA Medication Reconciliation, AHLTA/CHCS Stabilization, Commercial Off-the-Shelf COTS Upgrade, Windows 2008 / x86 / Internet Protocol IP v6, CHCS Common Access Card/Public Key Infrastructure CAC/PKI , CHCS Phase 3 Enhancements, 800 SSA SSN, International Classification of Diseases ICD -10. Beyond, focus on Objective 1, 2, 3 Initiatives for James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center JALFHCC : Orders Portability Laboratory, Orders Portability Consults, Financial Management Reconciliation and Billing, Provider Alerts, Anatomic Pathology, and Pharmacy Initial Operation Capability IOC Healthcare Data Dictionary HDD Mapping. This work requires joint efforts between the ACCFS PMO and the Joint Initiative Program Management JIPM Team Integrated Program Office IPO
• Work with Leidos formerly part of SAIC development team and VA by successfully passing combined DoD and VA milestones, to include, official System Requirements Reviews SRR . Participate and contribute in Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews PDR and CDR and further in Test Readiness Reviews TRR , with focus on preparation of milestone checklists, engaging all key stakeholders.
• Led presentations of JALFHCC/North Chicago briefing materials to Client on behalf of ACCFS team, contributing to materials, taking note of key points gathered from various supporting meetings sub-project IPTs, touch-base, hot-topics, and vendor overall status meetings
• Interacted Engineering-wise with team, Client, and Integrated Program Office's IPO's Joint Initiative Program Management JIPM Team, understanding engineering initiatives and spawning discussions for various JALFHCC sub-projects covered by ACCFS. Taken extensive notes and developed meeting minutes on several occasions, with a twofold purpose: understanding concepts in depth while providing the meeting's key points to all participants.
• Managed team's milestone and action item tracker, maintaining historical notes to fully understand progress on actions and where follow-up was necessary by assigned POC
• Contributed in updating key documents for Client upper-level management, including weekly ACCFS Project IPT materials, ACCFS Monthly Progress Report MPR , Electronic Health Record Chief Information Office EHR CIO Forum Slides, and Deputy Secretary DepSec Report.
• Reviewed vendor-produced documents for milestones provided salient feedback when necessary. Followed up with vendor to ensure all stakeholder feedback was incorporated in updated documents.
• Participated in combined DoD/VA milestones, ensuring all key components were met as entry exit criteria to the milestones.
• Prepared Checklists as a Standard Operating Procedure SOP DoD requirement, obtaining relevant information from Enterprise Architecture EA and collaborating with the ACCFS Lead Engineer to ensure all engineering aspects were met.
• Reviewed daily VA Scrum meeting minutes, in their use of Agile Methodology, for Anatomic Pathology, Billing Encounters, and Consults Orders Portability, in order to solicit information ensuring actions were completed and move all sub-projects along, seeing some to ultimate completion.

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Systems Engineer

• Performed a variety of complex analytical and engineering-based tasks in support of DHIMS, under the Military Health System's MHS Tricare Management Activity TMA initiatives. These initiatives span across the Department of Defense DoD .
• Responsible for the continued development and maintenance of the Theater Medical Data Store TMDS and its connection to the Medical Situational Awareness in the Theater MSAT system. Work with the Akimeka development team to help prioritize each builds' content list through official System Requirements Reviews SRR . Participate and contribute in Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews PDR and CDR and further in Test Readiness Reviews TRR . Participate in defining testability of new major, minor, maintenance and patch releases to TMDS.
• Responsible for ensuring all current and future requirements are captured, drafted appropriately for testability, monitored through development, and then implemented in subsequent system builds, following the standard Requirements Development RD process.
• Worked with varying DoD entities and the VA to assist in developing and maintaining system interfaces for TMDS.
• Collaborated in the development and implementation of a Continuity of Operations COOP site for TMDS, as a redundancy fail-over plan, in the event that the main system should experience an outage or major disruption due to various external factors.

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Systems Analyst

• Performed a variety of complex administrative, analytical and engineering-based tasks in support of the high profile contract program within the EHRWA Planning Office for the United States Government, under the Military Health System's MHS Tricare Management Activity TMA initiatives, in conjunction with the Defense Health Information Management System DHIMS . These initiatives span across the Department of Defense DoD and Veterans Affairs VA .
• Initial focus was placed on the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center's JALFHCC , North Chicago effort, and involvement with Systems Testing and Evaluation of the Patient Registration and Single-Sign-On portions of this project. Included participation and contribution in training activities and demonstrations, by acting as a liaison to understand all areas. Interacted and engaged with various product teams and product pieces, and by doing so also attended pertinent meetings to gather information and provide feedback when conducive.
• Moving forward, a more centralized focus was drawn to the Engineering aspects of the EHRWA Planning Office initiatives, including attending various weekly Engineering meetings through the office, as well as high-level through DHIMS. Included in this was involvement with Data Migration, Data Strategy, and Enterprise Architecture in conjunction with utilization of an Enterprise Service Bus ESB , and Service Oriented Architecture SOA as it relates to an integrated Electronic Health Record iEHR for the DoD and the VA.
• Participated in key meetings and off-site conferences held by the EHRWA Planning Office, with hands-on learning and contributing to break-out sessions. Completed high-level administrative tasks associated to planning/scheduling of some of these events and meetings, including note-taking and pre-preparation. Administrative efforts were also made for necessary travel of government personnel within the EHRWA Planning Office.
• Conducted research efforts in preparation for EHR site visits with vendors, as well as researching key components of technical areas that were important to the initiatives of the EHRWA Planning Office, and in maintaining current knowledge of relevant technologies.

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Systems Analyst

• Responsible for full-lifecycle capabilities related to software development of the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle EFV , with a focus on software testing in a simulation laboratory using AVTS Test Manager in conjunction with Carnivore, including test-case development and revision, based on customer requirements.
• Provided System Test Reports STRs when necessary to report and log system testing failures. Worked closely with the programmer responsible for the specific test step that failed, in order to ensure that the failure was corrected in the subsequent test build, and thus the specific STR could be closed out.
• Developed Standard Practice SP document forms and templates to be used at a company-wide level. Final approval decreed by leadership and in process.
• Actively contributed to CMMI efforts in achieving a Level 5 rating in the SCAMPI-A appraisal mid-September 2008 , with a focus on gathering and evaluating evidence for review in the appraisal.

Independent Consulting

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Business Analyst

• Provided support in the System/Software Development Lifecycle SDLC to include the following processes of the HPMS database project: Requirements Capture, Design, Verification and Validation, Quality Control, and Production Support. Also provided support in other SDLC support tasks to include Documentation in all areas, Training User Manual, Technical Manual, Help Files and Client training , and support of the Development team during detailed design and development by acting as a Subject Matter Expert SME , answering questions and providing additional insight and clarification.
• Participated in CMMI Level 3 activities, including evaluating and recommending project Process Improvement PI opportunities.

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Systems Analyst

• Provided support for the Joint Combined Human-In-the-Loop Event JCHE under the Single Integrated Air Picture SIAP Joint Program Office JPO for the DoD. Experience included gaining a familiarity with existing and emerging military networks and systems such as SIAP. In addition, gaining a familiarity with various computer networks such as MIL-STD 6011 Link 11 and MIL-STD 6016C Link 16 . Also supported the Test and Analysis Division Chief for SIAP JPO coordination of the Integrated Architecture Behavior Model IABM demos.
• Specific responsibilities included reviewing and writing documentation such as technical reports, requirements and test planning documents, and status briefings participating in planning and design meetings conducting technical literature searches and assisting in the testing of software.

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Process Improvement Engineer

• Provided development and maintenance support of ENABLER Engineering Process standards and assets, which follows the Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI framework. Provided key support to projects in implementing these process standards in optimizing resources for SDLC and to ensure optimal results in achieving their desired CMMI rating-level. Received extensive training on how to evaluate project evidence in becoming a SCAMPI appraiser.
• Researched best practices in process improvement methodologies and evaluated current NG methods were ineffective and required a stronger cost benefit for the resources expended. Developed a recommendation for re-engineering and adopting a system-wide process-improvement standard for the CAG, by utilizing the Agile lifecycle methodology. Became knowledgeable in the Agile approach, and served as a catalyst to further develop expertise in this method at NG. Training of Agile experts decreed by leadership and in process.

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Systems Analyst

• Provided IT-based project support under the Information Technology Systems, Engineering, and Management contract to support the SOMD. Completed client work in accordance with established plans and quality standards with an initial focus in leading all facets associated with maintaining optimal mobile computing for the department and ensuring rapid turn-around time when problems arose. Efforts centralized on the operation and maintenance of the Space Operation Center and SOMD enterprise initiatives, with co-leadership in ensuring effective problem solutions to project tasks, utilizing optimal resource management with appropriate team-member collaboration.
• Transitioned focus to systems analysis testing of the Property Capitalization and Depreciation System, a system which effectively and efficiently integrates asset management of property, plant, and equipment resources with their associated risks, benefits, and costs. Worked with developers to effectively identify and correct system errors. Developed recommendations for enhancing the user interface in meeting business requirements to improve reliability of analysis.

Internship Technical Experience

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IT Associate

• Shadowed technical projects of the department and actively participated in all facets of the Active Directory Service Project in transitioning the network of the Organization to this system. Performed PC configuration and installations on the network as appropriate. Provided effective feedback to the ITS Unit Managers regarding current procedures and how to improve and optimize their purpose, in addition to providing ideas for future projects in order to strengthen productivity initiatives of the department.
• Assisted Systems Engineers in providing video-teleconferencing VTC , with a dedicated system for meetings that were hosted by the DC facility and transmitted outside of the US to country offices, and vice versa.

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Analyst, Senior Design Capstone Project

Designed an Automated Airway System for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle UAV Concept, sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration FAA . To overcome the security problems that arise from current air cargo operations and to respond to current and future consumer demands in air cargo delivery, a year-long case study project was performed to evaluate the concept of a UAV Cargo System and propose possible solutions in making it a viable system. The project included the team's design approach analysis methods including simulation, evaluations, and recommendations on whether the UAV System would be safe and reliable and whether this system could provide a viable business case.

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IT Assistant

Shadowed technical projects of the department, giving feedback when opportunities were presented. Provided administrative support to the ITS Unit Managers, involving filing, documentation, phone communication, scheduling meetings, organizing appropriate materials for meetings and presentations, processing travel authorizations and claims, making travel arrangements, and shipping products to country offices/vendors.

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Engineering Intern

Collaborated with fellow team-members in gaining hands-on and practical experience in all facets of the visual services division to include sales, federal and state bids and proposals sales engineering video system installation video-bridging services customer site visits and technical training.

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Participated actively in collaborating with fellow Electronic Performance Standard System Team members in converting and further developing an electronic, interactive help tool for the procurement software, PD , using a system product called RoboHELP. This help tool was for use by the Department of Defense DoD .