SUMMARY:

• A results - driven, Program/Project Manager with strong delivery management experience, rooted in business, process and requirements analysis and design.
• My focus is client centric, creating strong relationships through transparency and trust within project sponsor, stakeholders and project teams.
• I display project commitment through self-accountability, proactive and diligent oversight.
• I continuously strive to understand the organizational culture, business processes, business goals and objectives of my clients has resulted in a proven track record for the successful delivery of Enterprise level IT custom and COTS software applications.
• Project /Task Order Management
• Multi-disciplined project methodologies/SDLC (WATERFALL, AGILE, IT AS A SERVICE (ITIL), EPLC)
• Federal Government ATO Information Security Policy and Requirement Management (NIST 800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, FISMA)
• Multi-disciplined project methodologies/SDLC (WATERFALL, AGILE, IT AS A SERVICE (ITIL), EPLC)
• Ability to understand and convey project vision to the project team, key stakeholders, and executive level personnel.
• Manage projects from Inception to Close
• Proactive Project Monitoring and Updates
• Manage multiple projects Simultaneously
• Project Planning and Scheduling using different tools
• Budget Monitoring and Management
• Prepare and conduct presentations to executives and leadership
• Risk Assessment, Mitigation and Management
• Extensive Business, Technical and Functional Requirement Analysis and Management
• Status Report Preparation
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills
• Engage in active listening and client feedback techniques
• Proactive client interaction and liaison skills
• Strong team building and team motivational skills (Coaching, Empowerment, Personable, Accessibility)
• Exceptional and diligent organizational skills
• Proposal Contribution and Management
• PMO development Contributor

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Project Management Advisor

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Oversees and manages the engineering and operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, line management and Federal stakeholders.
• Reviews status of projects and budgets,
• Manages schedules, monitors resource allocation
• Prepares weekly and monthly status reports for direct stakeholders and Executive Leadership
• Work directly with project teams, assessing project issues and developing resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Developing mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, clients and other stakeholders.
• Engaging in management and monitoring across all technical areas,
• Specific focus and oversight of systems cyber security, system audit and compliance activities. Working with the System Cyber Security and Audit Team to refine process standards and methods for expedient and efficient vulnerability detection and remediation activities.
• Managing the deployment of vulnerability remediation software applications and tools to meet compliance regulations as directed by DHS and or NIH.
• Working with the System Security Audit Team to refine audit and compliance practices in an effort to offer a formal Security Audit and Compliance Services to our customers, inclusive of ATO audits for internal systems, consultation and formal review of customer hosted systems.

Sr. Project Manager\Consultant

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Responsibilities:

• Provided oversight of a highly visible data conversion and consolidation initiative for the American Nurses Association.
• Worked with strategic stakeholders from different departments to prepare data to be consolidated.
• Led team of third party data conversion and data analysts’ specialists in the planning and design of the conversion and consolidation process.
• Created detailed iterative project plan consolidating the data conversion project component within a large digital transformation program.
• Wrote vendor proposal to secure third party data specialists.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Supported a Confidential, providing oversight of the configuration, testing, implementation and maintenance of a new Agency-wide shipping application to be used by the central office and field sites across the country and Puerto Rico.
• Responsible for oversite and management of a large cross functional team of employees and contractors representing direct business, and technical stakeholders, the 3rd party software vendor, Agency Security Center and IT Center
• Proactively coordinated and organized the migration of an out dated and unsupported, decentralized system to a centralized Enterprise level IT Solution.
• Directly responsible for drafting required Enterprise Project Lifecycle artifacts,
• Directly responsible for security information documentation and ensuring required security controls and procedures were in place to receive the "authorization to operate".
• Performed formal and ad-hoc user training,
• Managed issue tracking and resolution and
• Performed risk management and mitigation.
• Acted as primary contact for ongoing operations and maintenance of the application.
• Performed issue triage and resolution.
• Worked directly with end users across the United States and Puerto Rico, to guide them through change adjustment to change in business processes and system interface resulting from the new system implementation,
• Worked directly with project leaders, Contract Officer, Senior and Executive management to communicate weekly and monthly project status, risk mitigation and management, issue response and resolution and implementation activities.

Consultant

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Responsibilities:

• Provided professional consulting services to Confidential,
• Directed project closeout activities.
• Managed a cross functional team, ensuring all task order project artifacts defined in the SOW and contractual deliverables were completed
• Reviewed all project and contract deliverable and finalized for delivery.
• Prepared the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) for delivery of the application,
• Performed project scheduling updates to the project plan.
• Communicated week task goals to project team
• Lead daily Stand up and SCRUMs
• Analyzed and updated requirement change requests
• Drafted and implemented a standard requirements management process for the project and corporate adoption.
• As acting SME to another application in the O&M performed requirements analysis, and created user stories.
• Collaborated with developers to address requirements using AGILE methodology principles, preparing sprints, managing sprint freeze and working on backlogs.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of software development professionals in the design, development, testing and delivery of the newly redesigned Pharmaceutical Drug Pricing application using a blend of waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Oversaw the design and development of an ETL process to prepare and "scrub" and consolidated data from 3 different Federal Agencies to perform the correct critical calculations to derive correct pricing pharmaceutical companies enrolled in a Federal Government Drug Pricing Program,.
• Oversaw a team of application developers to design and develop a new workflow based application, which incorporated analytic a robust business rules work flow engine to check data against policy driven business rules to arrive at the correct decision points used in the pricing calculation .
• Managed the business analysis team in requirements gathering, analysis and documentation of the application.
• Interfaced directly with the client Sr. Manager, leadership and end users I conducted presentations illustrating development progress.
• Proactively engaged the client in the process to empower them to take ownership direction and overall vision of the application long term.
• Oversaw a team of 5 -10 including analysts, developers, and testers in the operation and maintenance of an Agency wide budget forecasting systems.
• Performed risk analysis, mitigation and management.
• Worked directly with end-users on training issues
• Prepared and presented weekly application “bug” and process issue reports for the customer CCB.
• Prepared and presented weekly status briefings to customer leadership on issue closure and approval of change requests by the CCB (Change Control Board).
• Prepared and provided weekly and monthly status reports to both customer and corporate senior leadership.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 7 - 10 personnel in the analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of multiple software applications for a large Federal Government Healthcare Agency, Office of Acquisitions.
• Proactively oversaw the enhancement and maintenance of the intranet, internet, an enterprise acquisition management system, multiple SharePoint sites providing, content management and infrastructure support.
• Managed the creation and maintenance of the customer’s small business initiative web site including posts for solicitations form the customer’s prominent partner, a large medical research and clinical trial management company.
• Demonstrated new and or expected functionality directly to the customer senior leadership.
• Demonstrated the versatility of the applications produced to senior staff and leadership to other offices and departments within the Agency.
• Performed analysis and design of updates and enhancements for another Confidential Research Reporting System.
• Conducted requirements analysis, tracking and implementation activities
• Wrote test cases and performed testing.
• (I was also responsible for creating test cases a d conducting function and load testing activities.
• Provided training to 100 + personnel in the use of the new system.
• Designated primary contact for application issues, system documentation and end user training.

Project Manager/Senior Requirements Analyst

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• I provided supervision of the Confidential team on site.
• Reviewed team time sheets and monthly invoices.
• Prepared and presented monthly financial charts.
• Prepared and submitted monthly project reports to the customer.
• Performed staffing activities, ensuring staff positions were fulfilled with qualified personnel.
• Provided business\systems analysis support for a Confidential .

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw and managed the delivery of a variety of web based application development projects for a large Confidential .

Project Manager

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the delivery and implementation of the Confidential Membership/Customer Management System for customers in the non-profit sector.