SUMMARY:

An accomplished, dedicated, self - starter Project Management Professional with over 20 years of information technology (IT) experience - hands-on design and development experience as well as proven leadership driving technical teams. Excellent communicator and negotiator who possess proven abilities to design and implement effective problem-resolution strategies, by evaluating issues and developing appropriate solutions to achieve the customer’s goals and objectives.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Project & Program Management
• Risk Management
• Proposal Management
• Systems Design & Development
• Contract Negotiation & Management
• Change Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Operations and Maintenance Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program Manager & CEO

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a veteran and woman owned company based out of Washington, DC specializing in professional and technical consulting for federal clients.
• With over 20 years of proven experience, Confidential specializes in professional and technical consulting for federal clients.
• Confidential balances the consistency and delivery of a large firm with the flexibility and affordability of a small business.
• Confidential is a global consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company specializing in delivering innovative business and technology solutions which help commercial and government customers worldwide achieve their goals.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed and coordinated IT Projects for the AO.
• Was responsible for overseeing and coordinating dozens, of project deliverables daily.
• Tracked and coordinated these projects and they were performed and accomplished using MS Project.
• Created and maintained artifacts for over 25 projects of the AO. Developed and Maintained several monthly and weekly reports of the status of IT customization projects in order to explain status of projects to Stakeholders.
• Made sure that Project Management best practices were followed throughout the duration of the project.
• Facilitated monthly and weekly meetings with developers and programmers to obtain the most updated information on IT software projects using Agile methodology and PMP best practices.
• Managed and coordinated IT Project, such as GovDelivery, K1000 National patch, Websense and EndPoint IT.security software etc.
• Tracking and coordination of this is performed and accomplished using MS Project. 365 MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, HEAT.

Project Manager/Program Manager

Confidential, Arlington, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained master schedule for over 22 projects for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( Confidential )’s information technology projects.
• Managed and coordinated classified IT Projects for Confidential .
• Responsible for overseeing and coordinating dozens, of project deliverables daily.
• Full time Aid to Mother suffering from health ailments, involved in taking care of legal issues surrounding estate etc. as the only other family member became a full-time issue, until could free funding to hire a full-time nurse, which has now been accomplished.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Management of the entire Telecom system of the Office of Personnel management.
• In the process of converting all telephone, audio and WebEx accounts.
• Worked directly with both vendors (Spring and Verizon) and indirectly with over 6,000 users through their department executives.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Management of Farm Storage Facility Loan Program migration from legacy system to current system.
• Provided 508 Compliance and cyclical activities of the Price Support Division. Project tracking for Price Support Division using IT software legacy project migration (Used MS Project).

Project Control Specialist/Program Manager

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Directed project activities and resources throughout the project life cycle. On-going expense/capital tracking and actual vs. budget analysis using
• Managed project risks, issues, escalations, problem resolutions.
• Managed Change Request (CR) intake/assignment, gathering impact assessments, and report preparation for CR approval.
• Acted as project liaison between IT partners, client organizations and IT leadership. Prepared project summary views for high ranking officials.
• Developed and maintained relationships with key client stakeholders.
• Managed the IT upgrades for over 16 joint Air Force/Air National Guard bases across the United States.
• Spearhead talks for One Air Force/One Network joint communications.

Project Scheduler/Program Manager

Confidential, Arlington, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Created Master Schedule for over 22 projects.
• Project tracking with cost forecasting using; MS Project and Primavera.

Systems Engineer, Project Manager

Confidential, Maryland

Responsibilities:

• Defined system scope and objectives to develop and modify complex information systems; provided program information and coordinate and developed policies for Confidential .
• Analyzed and revised existing system logic challenges and documenting as necessary; Performed budgeting cost/cost performance analysis and training using the General Federal Enterprise Business Systems ( Confidential ) software
• Performed fundamental engineering advisory and consultative capacity to other organizations in matters concerning current and future.
• Used MS Project for various functions within this role.

Team Lead/Senior Requirements Analyst/Project Analyst

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements to customize commercial over-the-shelf (COTS) applications to add Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Technology to increase security to those applications.
• Used MS Project for various functions within this role.
• Analyzed systems requirements, existing business processes, and information systems.
• Developed cost-effective information technology solutions
• Served as liaison between application systems and business customers for the development of new system processes and application programs
• Drafted complex systems requirements and scope documents
• Participated in complex application systems analysis projects. Assisted in the planning and coordination of projects, establishment of priorities, and then monitored their progress;
• Modeled and assessed risks associated with requirements
• Used the “Waterfall” method in the software development lifecycle (SDLC); Prioritized, documented, traced and managed requirements for deploying systems.