SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of outstanding program/project management experience and demonstrated skills with federal government and private sector clients leading projectized and matrixed teams.
• Extensive leadership experience in the Agile Methodology with Scrum/Kanban and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Customer facing skills and experience include creating strategic relationships with key stakeholders including Information Technology (IT) and Business leaders.
• Business s include achieving profitability goals as Control Account Manager (CAM) by intelligently maximizing project resources and expanding the program portfolio.
• Outstanding leadership demonstrated in areas of customer service, communication, and relationship management achieving enterprise resource planning, network security, cloud technologies, and technically challenging goals.
• Initiated solutions that minimized risk, maximized opportunities while achieving project goals in a cost - efficient manner.
• Skilled communicator informing key stakeholders regarding risks or opportunities and technical solutions to achieve project objectives.
• Collaborative managerial style to incentivize project team achieving financial and project goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Drove continuous process improvement and implemented change in directing “Lessons Learned” meetings after each deployment by identifying risks and opportunities. Implemented identified improvements resulting in superior team performance.
• Partnered with client to establish their IT priorities to set a strategy for project deliverables. Led 16 on-site and geographically dispersed team-members to achieve technical modernization goals.
• Apprised Contract Officer Representative (COR), task monitor, government and corporate leadership in presenting team s and risks in monthly Program Management Review (PMR).
• Initiated solutions to achieve superior Configuration Management results and auditability for all project artifacts. Successfully achieved objective and mitigated the risks in migrating the team to Atlassian Suite.
• Delivered data analytics/data mining program to improve enforcement/security/financial goals identified by senior agency leadership. Exceeded program assessment metrics by 5%.

Sr. Program Manager

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Accomplished EPA Chief Information Officer (CIO) goals by oversite on 35 Cyber-Security projects. Led team of project managers and ISSOs for goal .
• Created: Project Charter, Project Management Plan (PMP), Communications Plan, Change Management Plan and associated project artifacts.
• Led a team of ISSO’s that achieved Minimally Viable Product (MVP) completion of ATOs for Cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) applications.
• Advised Sr. EPA leadership: Senior Agency ISO, IT Directors, Business Program Managers, and technology professionals about project milestones progress and identified risks/opportunities. Administered project SharePoint site to promote transparency among geographically dispersed groups.
• Initiated the development of detailed project plan with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for achieving an aggressive ATO schedule for a cloud-based system. Client stated the plan was instrumental in identifying risks on the critical path that were not initially identified in previous high-level schedules.
• Accomplished Authorization To Operate (ATO). Partnered with federal program managers to accomplish Presidential initiative. Synchronized schedules with the Reseller and Supplier in achieving all milestones.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Presented Agile strategy to facilitate IAE change management transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodology. Developed team exercise presentation that demonstrated the Agile strategy.
• Exercise enabled senior leadership to participate in “mock” Sprint to understand the challenges during the transition.
• Achieved contractual objectives for an IT architecture, data governance/management, strategic stakeholder engagement including change management, and development of standard operating procedures goals outlined in Statement of Work (SOW) with a team of 12 IT professionals on a Confidential & Confidential contract.
• Developed Project Management Plan (PMP) and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that met client objectives and is aligned to Project Management Institute (PMI) PM Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
• Apprised Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) about projected revenue, project performance, and team “burn rates” to meet corporate financial goals. Advised GSA Program Leadership and Federal Contract Staff about projected future costs and anticipated balance for each task order.

Project Manager

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Improved revenue by 30% and created additional opportunities with enlarged project team to meet expanded work scope.
• Collaborated with clients and stakeholders to achieve Confidential ’s technical transformation objectives.
• Guided a team of ten on-site and geographically dispersed IT professionals achieving technical and business process objectives.
• Transformed team by incorporating changed management processes transitioning the team work processes from Waterfall based practices to an Agile Scrum with Kanban methodology.

Subject Matter Expert

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to three Agile Scrum teams that successfully met Product Owner goals for key mission initiatives. Created user stories (Jira), updated Agile team at daily Scrum, developed process diagrams (Visio) to team Wiki (Confluence). Wrote technical user stories that supported the team achieving Sprint and Increment goals.
• Advised Program Manager on the prioritization of key stakeholder initiatives.

Project Manager

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Achieved Confidential technical transformation mission objectives in leading three teams responsible for: Incident Management, Escalation/Proactive Remediation Services, and .
• Experienced Control Account Manager (CAM) producing Earned Value Management (EVM) reports; presented information at monthly Program Management Review to project leadership, key stakeholders, government oversight team, and corporate senior management.
• Accomplished client technical modernization objectives for all SDLC gate reviews. Created Microsoft Project Plan with a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that attained client mission objectives.
• Reduced documentation review time by 25% while improving quality; implemented Agile Methodology.
• Enhanced team performance by 20% in implementing “best practice” processes; client submitted reports to senior corporate leadership acknowledging the increased performance.
• Administrated the Branch SharePoint site. Informed clients and stakeholders of project status using a variety of tools including Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite, and SharePoint.

Project Manager

Confidential, Lorton, VA

Responsibilities:

• Increased project revenue by $1 million for a $5.9 million (annual) project budget.
• Slashed travel costs by 25% and increased performance while exceeding mission objectives.
• Led the effort to convert synchronous classroom instruction to e-learning asynchronous .
• Contributed to the successful Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 re .
• Created Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with project examples/artifacts documenting project compliance.

Team Lead

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Recognized for team leadership (cash ) resulting in client financial savings. Devised technical strategy to achieve complex technology goals.
• Wrote technical requirements and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Achieved all agency SDLC milestones.
• Identified risks/opportunities with mitigation strategy.
• Informed project and program leadership using Microsoft Project plan that identified risks, resource allocation, and critical path.