SUMMARY:

• An effective leader and instrumental team player with experience in both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Successfully manages large and complex projects regardless of scope, schedule and cost constraints.
• Cultivates relationships with stakeholders (business owners and technical staff) to not only ensure buy - in but also contribution.
• A creative problem-solver and manages to meet client expectations. A team player with a “get it done” perspective.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager for Confidential ’s Universal Licensing System for Modernization; upgrade the ULS legacy system with over 35 service areas using an enterprise platform called Confidential (PaaS/SaaS)
• ULS accounts for 90% of Confidential ’s licensing fees
• Transitioning Confidential ’s licensing business area by ensuring that moving applications/services and systems to a new cloud platform that can leverage enterprise data across all elements
• Direct program management including but not limited to project documentation, governance management, IPT lead, oversight of requirements gathering, risk management, test management and project scheduling for multiple license services, general oversight of product/application development
• Large and complex agile/iterative program

Confidential, Washington, DC

Program Management Team

Responsibilities:

• Provision of Program Management for over Confidential to be modernized and/or transitioned to the cloud based Confidential platform
• Trained and utilizing the Confidential Portfolio Project Management (PPM) module to manage all service transitions to production and ensure ongoing operations
• Establish PM framework for all projects using Confidential

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Effort tracking with regular updates from Confidential to task leads
• Improve integration and coordination to support Confidential strategic initiatives
• Ensure visibility to all milestones, projects, and initiatives across the projects
• Provide advisory services for Confidential and Confidential
• Provide consistent program and project management approaches across projects

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the successful completion of Confidential ’s Data Center Migration project within a six (6) month period to move 200+ IT assets and decommission targeted IT systems; recognized as one of the most significant Confidential IT achievements in at least the past 17 years
• Direct project management responsibilities including but not limited to leading Integrated Project Team (IPT), project scheduling, development and implementation of risk management, communication planning and Confidential leadership buy-in, project reporting to IT leadership, infrastructure discovery (hardware & software inventory), site assessment, network design, detailed migration planning, configuration management, hardware and software testing, Confidential operations shut down and operations start-up
• Lead IPT consisting of both Confidential employees and contractors; design/build tasks, durations, and interdependencies between applications/systems

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Project management support; specifically Risk Management and initial Project Scheduling, for the Confidential and Technology Architecture Evolution program; specifically Confidential (eHMP) project including development of VistA Exchange 1.0 and generating patient data in an enterprise Virtual Patient Record (eVPR); works directly with Confidential and vendors such as ASM Research and AgileX
• Working on a large scale agile development project focused on improving the capability of VistA to find and use health information to make informed clinical decisions at point of care using a global eVPR
• Participates in Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning and Sprint Review activities to identify and discuss Features/User Stories, Tasks, Risks, Schedule, Retrospective and Improvements
• Works intimately with developers/technical team members for risk management, and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)

Confidential, Reston

Project Manager

• PMO support to the Confidential Veteran Relationship Management (VRM), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Self-Service Interactive Interface enterprise program.
• Specifically, AccessVA (single sign on web portal), Provisioning, and Access Services (enterprise web service delivery program)
• Project Manager for electronic signature (eSignature) and specialized access control (SAC) projects including use of Axiomatic and Radiant Logic products
• Demonstrates project management and agile methodologies including project scheduling, risk management and change management
• Assists with review of business functions, project requirements and output of requirements
• Monitors project progress by tracking and analysis of activities via project schedule, requirements, scrum meetings, sprints, etc.
• Quality assurance for testing activities such as master test plan, test scripts, use cases and test strategy including IST, UAT and IV&V
• Project documentation such as PMP, SDD, Test Plan, Test Scripts, MOUs, OAP, VDD
• Manages system integration activities such as eSignature and VAPii

Confidential, Fairfax

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for federal enterprise data center migration project to migrate a Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS) solution; physical to virtual (P2V)
• PMO support for a Confidential multi-million logistics management program; software upgrade, logistics planning support, operational planning
• Plan and support software quality assurance (SQA) activities and processes for a COTS package including test strategies such as IST, UAT and IV&V
• Test coordination from test script development and smoke testing to IST, UAT and IV&V
• Project impact assessment to evaluate the progress per test results, working functionality and product delivery.
• Project artifacts: project charter and project management plan (PMP) including subsidiary plans for communication, risk management and process improvement plan and repository
• Develop and track the project schedule in MS Project; assisted with Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) development
• Effectively manage a functional matrix team providing support to the customer in strategic management, customer care, project management, and risk management
• Participate in weekly IPT meetings to discuss tasks, risks and project performance
• Performed risk based analysis and program analysis; including reports
• Lead project team meetings/conferences with executives, business process owners, technical specialist and collaborating vendors
• Work diligently to manage scope, time, costs and quality management
• Familiar with federal policies and procedures such as 508 compliance and Confidential