SUMMARY:

• Over 21+ years of IT Project Management experience as a Project Manager, Project Scheduler, Program Scheduler, and IMS Master Scheduler.
• Active Secret Security Clearance - Confidential .
• Projects managed have included both SDLC and IT infrastructure projects. SDLC projects have included RAD, Waterfall, and Agile. Infrastructure projects have included data center consolidation and migration, and design and implementation of a network access control solution in a corporate enterprise network.
• A majority of project management activities have involved concurrent management and scheduling of multiple projects in a matrix organization.
• Achieved success by focusing on communication, scope, budget, risks, staffing, quality, schedule management, and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated skills formulating business requirements, Basis of Estimates (BOE) and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
• Demonstrated experience with developing and managing high value scheduling processes and procedures.
• Able to apply strong analytical and planning skills, and coordinate the efforts of many to develop and maintain the WBS.
• Communicates well with technical, and senior and C-Level management, both orally and in writing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Temporary consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assist senior management and managers in the establishment and coordination of schedules, timelines, dependencies, and resource plans for multiple project WBSs
• Develop and maintain summary level schedule reports Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, and other program management tools used to support critical path analysis, near-term tasks work authorizations, priority based resource allocations, performance variances Interact with program senior management and staff to schedule work and coordinate assignments
• Interact with multiple project teams and managers to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan
• Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas
• Analyze critical path and constraints to determine effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-around
• Support the identification and management of risks impacting the program's progress across the enterprise
• Support project management team to maintain timely and effective change management processes and procedures
• Assist project management team to develop and maintain periodic status reports to keep program management informed on multiple projects' progress
• Conduct analysis to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules
• Develop schedule version control processes, policies, and procedures and monitors compliance
• Facilitate and participate in schedule reviews.
• Utilized MS Project 2010 Professional, WBS Chart Pro. MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio and MS Outlook.
• Utilized MS Project 2010 Professional, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio and MS Outlook.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assist senior management and managers in the establishment and coordination of schedules, timelines, dependencies, and resource plans for multiple project WBSs
• Develop and maintain summary level schedule reports Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, and other program management tools used to support critical path analysis, near-term tasks work authorizations, priority based resource allocations, performance variances Interact with program senior management and staff to schedule work and coordinate assignments
• Interact with multiple project teams and managers to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan
• Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas
• Analyze critical path and constraints to determine effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-around
• Support the identification and management of risks impacting the program's progress across the enterprise
• Support project management team to maintain timely and effective change management processes and procedures
• Assist project management team to develop and maintain periodic status reports to keep program management informed on multiple projects' progress
• Conduct analysis to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules
• Develop schedule version control processes, policies, and procedures and monitors compliance
• Facilitate and participate in schedule reviews.
• Utilized MS Project 2010 Professional, WBS Chart Pro. MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio and MS Outlook.
• Utilized MS Project 2010 Professional, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Outlook, MS SharePoint, MS Project Server.

Confidential

Master Scheduler, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Improved the SDLC project plans to better manage and track project status and risks.
• Developed detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, and resource plans.
• Conducted project meetings and communicated progress status to stakeholders.
• Planned and developed the master schedule and coordinated team’s activities.
• SDLC effort consisted of working closely with multiple teaming partners and agile software development project managers.
• Established and maintained SDLC schedules and integrate multiple project plans with the GSA’s overall plan by verifying and validating process, dependencies, and timelines.
• Analyze risk and critical path and work with the projects managers, technical leads, and GSA to mitigate risk.
• Utilized MS Project 2010 Professional, WBS Chart Pro.

Confidential

Temporary consultant, Germantown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives.
• Completed ISO 9001 training.
• Developed detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, and resource plans.
• Conduct project meetings as necessary;
• Act as liaison with other IT and business groups, business owners, and project managers to ensure coordination of projects affecting other functional areas;
• Track implementation issues and risks.
• Communicate progress and provide status reports to stakeholders.

Confidential

Sr. Project Planner, MD

Responsibilities:

• SDLC activities included developing the master schedule for an Agile project, decomposed the requirements and develop the WBS.
• Member of the requirements gathering team travelling to 4-6 military bases around the country.
• Worked closely with the agile software development scrum team to establish and maintain the schedule and integrate project plan, and verify and validate dependencies.
• Mitigate risk and developed risk strategies by analyzing schedule risk and critical path and worked with the teams lead to effect risk strategies..
• Coordinate and collaborate with project managers, functional managers, business analysts, developers, testers, and others in managing resource pools.
• Produce reports at the appropriate levels of detail for management review and presented with emphasis on cost and resource allocation.
• Utilized MS Project 2010 Professional and WBS Chart Pro.
• Define project scope and objectives;
• Develop detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and post-project review as requested;
• Conduct project meetings as necessary;
• Act as liaison with other IT and business groups, business owners, and project managers to ensure coordination of projects affecting other functional areas;
• Track implementation issues and risks;
• Communicate progress and provide status reports to stakeholders.

Confidential

Temporary consultant, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain and report the IMS, develop the WBS, develop the SDLC(s).
• Analyze risk and critical path and worked with the program managers to mitigate risk.
• Coordinate and collaborate with program managers, functional managers, business managers, developers, testers, and others in creating plans.
• Produce reports at the appropriate levels of detail for management review.
• Utilized MS Project 2010 Professional, WBS Chart Pro.
• Define project scope and objectives.
• Develop detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans.
• Conduct project meetings as necessary.
• Act as liaison with other IT and business groups, business owners, and project managers to ensure coordination of projects affecting other functional areas.
• Track implementation issues and risks.
• Communicate progress and provide status reports to stakeholders.

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with multiple Agile software development project managers to establish and maintain schedules and integrate project plans, and verify and validate dependencies.
• Analyze risk and critical path and worked with the projects managers reporting to the PMO on risk strategy and mitigation.
• Utilized SharePoint, MS Project, PMIS.
• Define project scope and objectives;
• Develop detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and post-project review as requested;
• Conduct project meetings as necessary;
• Act as liaison with other IT and business groups, business owners, and project managers to ensure coordination of projects affecting other functional areas;
• Track implementation issues and risks;
• Communicate progress and provide status reports to stakeholders.

Confidential

Temporary consultant, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Master Scheduler on an SAIC contract with the National Science Foundation (NSF) for managing the information technology (IT) infrastructure and providing a comprehensive suite of IT, voice and data telecommunications, and related services.
• Worked with the technical leads to planned and reported on the work effort of 72 projects assigned to the PMO.
• The 72 projects included SDLC and network infrastructure.
• Utilized SharePoint, MS Project, WBS Chart Pro, Milestones Pro, One Pager Pro.
• Define project scope and objectives;
• Develop detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and post-project review as requested;
• Conduct project meetings as necessary;
• Act as liaison with other IT and business groups, business owners, and project managers to ensure coordination of projects affecting other functional areas;
• Track implementation issues and risks;
• Communicate progress and provide status reports to stakeholders.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Management Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I developed the initial Master Schedule for the national broadband implementation across 26 federal agencies.
• Developed the security risk assessment for a cloud computing system which addressed the security risk in accordance with the methodology described by NIST.
• Developed the monthly measurement & analysis matrix, prepared monthly measurement report, facilitated bi-weekly project review meeting, maintained, and reported action items, issues, and risks.
• Utilized Métier Enterprise Project Management System (EPM), MS Project, WBS Chart Pro, SharePoint.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Owner / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans.
• Track implementation issues and risks;
• Communicate progress and provide status reports to stakeholders.
• Oversee all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and provide a single point of contact for those projects;
• Define project scope and objectives;
• Develop detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and post-project review as requested;
• Conduct project meetings as necessary;
• Act as liaison with other IT and business groups, business owners, and project managers to ensure coordination of projects affecting other functional areas;
• Track implementation issues and risks;
• Communicate progress and provide status reports to stakeholders.
• Consultant with NucoreVision as a Project Manager. Managed a Level-3 and 24x7 support team. The team provided call-out support and training on the Activ Voice, e-911 Digital Voice Logging Recorder System (DVLR) solution. Project was valued at $4M. Tool was MS Project.
• Oversee all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and provide a single point of contact for those projects;
• Define project scope and objectives;
• Develop detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and post-project review as requested;
• Conduct project meetings as necessary;
• Act as liaison with other IT and business groups, business owners, and project managers to ensure coordination of projects affecting other functional areas;
• Track implementation issues and risks;
• Communicate progress and provide status reports to stakeholders.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Project Manager / IMS Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Managed a staff of seventeen (7) systems engineering professionals on a project valued at $4M.
• The project consisted of seven (7) tasks: 5 FFP and 2 T&M. I was responsible for decomposing and costing the SOW and negotiating work with the client.
• Responsible for all project status reporting. In addition, I was responsible for project performance, allocation of resources, determination of priorities, negotiating project commitments, development of the project plans, and project reporting.
• I was the primary interface with the client in all matters pertaining to the contract and performance.
• Policies and procedures mirror those established in the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and utilized Rapid Applications Development (RAD) methodology as the SDLC
• The tool sets for the web based system development project used Information Services (IIS), Active Server Pages (ASP) or (ASP.NET, HTML, and PL/SQL, COGNOS Impromptu, Rational Tool Suite, Oracle 10g, Oracle 10g Designer, Oracle XML Developers Kit 10g, XML, Altova XMLSpy, Microsoft SQL Server DTS, and Pervasive Data Profiler.
• Utilized SharePoint, MS Project, WBS Chart Pro.
• Oversee all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and provide a single point of contact for those projects;
• Define project scope and objectives;
• Develop detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and post-project review as requested;
• Conduct project meetings as necessary;
• Act as liaison with other IT and business groups, business owners, and project managers to ensure coordination of projects affecting other functional areas;
• Track implementation issues and risks;
• Communicate progress and provide status reports to stakeholders.

Confidential, Arlington VA

Sr. Management Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility was developing and maintaining the master schedule for a $1B acquisition program.
• Developed the Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) Statement of Work (SOW).
• Developed the framework for the Performance Management Incentive Plan (PMIP / SLA).
• Utilized MS Project, WBS Chart Pro.
• Define project scope and objectives.
• Develop detailed work and implementation plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and post-project review as requested.
• Conduct project meetings as necessary.
• Act as liaison with other IT and business groups, business owners, and project managers to ensure coordination of projects affecting other functional areas.
• Track implementation issues and risks.
• Communicate progress and provide status reports to stakeholders.