SUMMARY:

• 24+ years’ project management experience across multiple industry, government, and defense sectors, with specializations in the following disciplinary areas: requirements gathering and analysis, integration, communications, planning, scope, time, risk, testing/quality, and human resources management. Project domain areas included:
• Defense: Confidential (IT); surface - /airborne-/space-based command, control, communications, computers, intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems; air-launched missile systems; air defense simulation systems; maintenance-repair-overhaul (MRO) processes; counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) capabilities; and, systems acquisition life cycle.
• Homeland security: surface/subsurface/airborne transportation security systems; and, border surveillance and defense solutions.
• State and municipal government: airport security; and, surface/subsurface transportation security.
• Industry: management consulting; banking/financial; commercial mortgage; energy utilities - electrical/nuclear/fossil fuel; and, news publishing.
• 18+ years' experience encompassing management of the following enterprise-wide project types: software/systems development life cycle (SDLC); telecommunications infrastructure and server-systems relocations/migrations, and database migrations; business and systems process reengineering; and, systems acquisition life cycle.
• 7+ years' experience working within and developing/managing Program Management Office (PMO) environments.
• 6+ years' experience mentoring/training project teams in PMI-PMBOK principles/processes/best practices/methodologies.
• Applied Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) project life cycle (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling, and closing process groups) methodology and management areas to projects.
• 10+ years’ experience in Microsoft (MS) Office applications: Project, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Current DoD Secret clearance.
• Current PMI (Project Management Institute) PMP (Project Management Professional) certification.
• 10+ years’ experience in Microsoft (MS) Office applications: Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential, Fort Meade, Maryland

Responsibilities:

• Managing all phases of upgrade life cycle per telecommunications link and military base/site/installation.
• Managing and coordinating vendor, government, and military personnel relationships.
• Tracking progress and completion for CONUS, EUR, PAC, and SWA telecommunication links and sites/bases/installations.
• Tracking and resolving special problems.
• Maintaining and managing project documentation.
• Reporting status and facilitating meetings.
• PMBOK process groups/management areas demonstrated: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring-controlling, and closing/integration, time, quality, scope, cost, risk, communications, procurement.

Technical Writer

Confidential, Arlington, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Ground, airborne, sea-surface, subsea-surface, and satellite-based C4ISR systems.
• Offensive and defensive cyber systems.
• Project/program management disciplinary areas and process groups.
• Defense, government, and civilian solicitations/proposals.

Senior Defense Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed analyses on F-15C, F-16C, and F-22A squadron readiness for single- and multi-theater operations, based on the following readiness indicators: flying hours, weapon systems sustainment, support skills availability, training resource availability, and deployment to training ratios.
• Wrote 87-page on Confidential service core function interdependencies with Confidential strategic, tactical, and theater missions/weapon systems.
• Wrote additional papers: Confidential -USN readiness interdependencies (in progress); growing Air Force readiness with reduced force structures, government austerity programs, and delinquent “deploy-to-dwell” ratios.
• Created multiple analytical graphs comparing Confidential fighter aircraft levels with those of Russia/Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China, North Korea, and Iran ( ).
• Completed T-/P-/C-rating analytical tables Confidential service core function assets (Air Superiority, Global Precision Strike, Nuclear Deterrence Operations, Global Integrated Intelligence-Surveillance-Reconnaissance, Command and Control, Rapid Global Mobility, Personnel Recovery, and Special Operations) for pre- and post-sequester periods .
• Applied multidisciplinary models to predictive force readiness analyses.
• Completed training environment index ( Confidential ) analytical spreadsheets for Confidential cyber, ground- and satellite-based space systems, and Confidential operations.
• SME for the following aircraft and missile systems: F-15C Eagle, F-22A Raptor, F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16C/D Fighting Falcon, B-1B Lancer, A-10A Thunderbolt II, B-52H Stratofortress, B-2B Spirit, LGM-30G Minuteman III Confidential, RC-135V/W, U-2S, MQ-1 Predator, MQ-9 Reaper, RQ-4 Global Hawk.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Fort Belvoir, VA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and wrote Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for Confidential J6 (Information Systems Operations) IT governance structures and operations and their relationships to Confidential IT environment, Confidential internal business enterprise operations, and the external DoD organization.
• Developed and wrote IT new capability recommendation packages for potential deployment within the Confidential J6 IT production environment.
• Developed and wrote white paper on Confidential IT governance theory, structures, and capabilities and their relationships with and impact on Confidential IT, business, and mission area enterprises. Paper presented to Confidential J6 CIO and Deputy Director.
• Developed functional specifications for IT governance processes and operations.
• Managing the following enterprise-wide application projects within the Confidential J6 program/portfolio:
• Confidential Office of Operations Research and Resource Analysis (DORRA) process modeling software: commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) application designed to model, simulate, and analyze processes for purposes of identifying cost reductions, improved effectiveness, and greater efficiency from a process; application reduces the time and risk it takes to service customers, fulfill demands, and develop new products through operations research.
• Quality Audit Management Tool (QAMT): Automated program managing the training, policy, and procedures necessary to monitor contract compliance for acquisition contract requirements throughout Confidential business units and mission areas.
• Document Automated Content Services (DACS): COTS automated toll for the management and processing of content services and requirements analyses.
• Contracting Officer Testing Software (COTS): Web-based Confidential application to test the knowledge/credentials of contracting officers prior to them being granted warrants.
• Class IX Price Research Tool (CLIX-PRT): Decision support tool to assist Confidential contracting specialists in evaluating the price reasonableness of vendor quotes for Class IX repair parts in the context of the current market.
• Matching Acquisition Strategy to Industry Capabilities (MASIC): Application designed to assist Confidential in obtaining new sources of supply, increasing competition, decreasing prices, and improving item availability in the area of long-term contract solicitations.
• Joint Certification Program (JCP): Enhancements to and consolidation of supporting databases for application designed to track and maintain defense contractor certifications.
• Providing consultative expertise of Confidential SES-level management on the reengineering of IT governance structures and processes to ensure effective alignment between IT and business-mission area objectives across both the Confidential and greater DoD Enterprise.
• PMBOK process groups/management areas demonstrated: initiating, planning, integration, scope, cost, risk, communications, procurement.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and maintained life cycle documentation for security projects.
• Security Technology Integrated Program (STIP) Service Management Application (SMA) designed to network 16,000 pieces of transportation security assets located at 450 US airports; Confidential (Enterprise Operations Center) designed to perform incident management, coordination, and situation awareness functions for all modes of surface, subsurface, and airborne transportation; and, Confidential Local Storage System/Distributed File System (DFS) designed to provide virtual server emulation of end-user access to local storage of spreadsheets, presentations, and other flat file documents for all Confidential field offices.
• PMBOK process groups/management areas demonstrated: initiating/planning/executing/monitoring-controlling/ closing, risk, communications, schedule.

Senior Project Consultant

Confidential, Fort Meade, MD

Responsibilities:

• Managed requirements gathering phase for Strategic Visual Information Map (SVIM) project outlining the Strategic IT Plan supporting the full spectrum of DoD warfighting and defense intelligence missions.
• Served as IT and defense systems subject matter expert (SME) in the analysis of source documents and the writing of executive summaries of the documentation in order to develop the SVIMs;
• PMBOK process groups/management areas demonstrated: planning, scope, communications.