SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a seasoned project management professional with proven leadership, management and technical experience in the government, and commercial, information technology space. Confidential ’s continuing focus on innovation, efficiency, and quality, has won high grades for the projects under his management.
• He has a keen understanding of business priorities, and is a genuine team player committed to managing operations and projects flawlessly while contributing to revenue - producing activities.

SPECIAL SKILLS:

• Agile Development with SCRUM
• SDLC Methodologies SME
• Software development
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
• Cyber Security/Identity Management
• Cloud Computing/AWS Architecture

WORK HISTORY:

Solution Architect/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for the Confidential Agile Training Pilot project, responsible for all aspects of the project from scheduling, working with the trainers and the OAGM clients to develop custom training on writing agile contracts and managing agile projects.
• Solutions architect for multiple proposals, which involved researching technologies, and developing presentations, and actually writing proposal sections.
• SME for DevOps theory, including writing whitepapers on Microservices and DevOps, delivered a talk at Confidential giving an overview of DevOps, continuous integration, and branching strategies for version control.
• Technical advisor for the Confidential LILS contract, responsible for suggesting improvements in the technical solution, and guidance on transitioning from manual processes to DevOps driven automated workflows.
• Confidential subject matter expert, provided detailed explanations and architectural overviews on Confidential onboarding of applications, role management, approval workflows, and other identity governance workflows.
• Developed the ConOps for the VA iSOC intelligence driven security operations center to integrate intelligence based proactive network protection.
• Developed the DevSecOps recommendations, identified the cybersecurity tools to address security concerns at every step in the delivery pipeline.

Sr. Infrastructure Manager

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for four teams, which make up the Confidential infrastructure group, these four teams consist of Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS), Enterprise File Transfer, Database Administration, and System Administration teams.
• Confidential is responsible for the transfer of data between the various entities in support of the Affordable Care Act.
• These entities may consist of government agencies, Insurance Issuers, or states.One of the major initiatives I have introduced thus far is to move towards following the DevOps through the extensive use of Puppet to automate all SA tasks, and Jenkins for code builds and deployment in production.
• This reduces risk and introduces consistency in the environment.
• Responsible for managing resources, budget, and schedule for five teams that make up the infrastructure support team.
• Responsible for presenting and explaining the EVM stats to the Confidential contract officer representative (COR) during the monthly financial meetings.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for all infrastructure related activities, including the establishment of new or improved design concepts, criteria and engineering efforts for product research for innovation and efficiencies in the infrastructure.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Served as the primary point of contact for all program activities, including the leading of program review sessions with customer to discuss cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Managed the complete SDLC for Scheduled quarterly releases as well as monthly off-cycle releases, and Help Desk through tier 3 O&M support, for Centers for Confidential & Confidential Enterprise Identity Management system which services 24 major Confidential applications.
• The Confidential Project is a multiyear contract that comprised of up to 138 fulltime employees.
• Is responsible for weekly status & monthly reports, monthly financial reports, staffing levels, project schedule, change management, risk mitigation and avoidance, and the strategic direction of the project.
• Confidential has been the identity management system of choice to support registration of users for the Confidential as part of the Affordable Care Act through the open enrollment ending in February 2015.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Successfully changed the SDLC from a modified waterfall methodology to a SCRUM SDLC. This required the restructuring of three functional groups into six development teams that included business analysts, developers, and testers.
• Increased the quality of the product through the introduction of automation testing, this resulted in a reduction in code defects in the production system such that, no helpdesk tickets resulted in code changes in 2013, and only one in 2014.
• The Confidential project received Confidential ratings of “exceptional” for innovation, quality, schedule, business relations, and management of key personnel. For cost control and all additional categories a rating of “very good” was received.
• Oversaw the complete redesign and development and migration of the Confidential system functions from a Sun Identity Manager based system to be based on the Oracle suite of Identity products. This was an effort that included the creation of a metadata driven rapid application integration framework, so that no code deployment is needed for the integration of new applications.
• Oversaw the complete lifecycle for adaptive maintenance and O&M support for the Sun based Confidential system.
• Introduced Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) using Jenkins and Selenium, to compliment the agile development.
• Introduced vulnerability scanning as part of the release testing cycle, resulting in a reduction of operational findings to zero for the 2013 SCA

Project Manager

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed the deployment of the Confidential product with customizations and support for the issuance of approximately 200k smart card credentials over a two month period, for the Boeing Corporation.
• Oversaw software customization to allow the system to be certified at the Medium Assurance Hardware level and allow interaction with Department of Defense systems.