SUMMARY

• An innovative and TEMPeffective technology program/project manager wif deep experience in delivering successfully managed projects & portfolios, and well - suited product solutions.
• His history is one of on time, on-budget successful completion.
• An TEMPeffective team organizer and a skilled negotiator, Mattix is experienced in every facet of business operations.
• He is a skillful communicator who immediately earns the confidence of customers, decision makers, and team members.
• He holds a current Public Trust Clearance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Office Suite (Project, SharePoint, Visio)
• RFI
• RFP
• SOA
• SLAs
• WAN workflows.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Managing Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Founded and managed a consulting firm primarily serving government and telecom providers wif program support activities.
• Company’s emphasis is on project management for technology programs, technical product/solution design & management, solutions and strategies for program capture.

Senior Project Manager, Data Center Consolidation

Confidential, Washington, D.C.

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the drive to meet DOI’s four-year closure commitment to OMB; moved the Agency from 65 closed sites in mid-September to meet the target of 95 closed data centers by 12/31/14.
• Devised a strategy and developed Bureau/Office support materials, positioning the Agency to meet the 40% closure hurdle established by the White House (166 sites) by the end of FY 2015.
• Created the Department’s first comprehensive DCCI site closure cost savings model, which identifies the overall amounts saved through each consolidation/closure of a data center.
• Implemented the first full scale accounting of DCCI savings to date ($9.01M), wif auditable cost model documentation for each closure.
• Authored policy to implement the CIO’s stated goal of 100% closure of non-Core Data Centers, and developed a waiver process for sites that did not meet the criteria established in the policy.
• Completed the Department-Wide Annual Inventory and two Quarterly Core Data Center Inventories for submission to the White House.
• Led the 2015 Categorization Planning effort to identify opportunities for further consolidation and did long range planning for achieving the Departmental goal of 100% non-Core closure.
• Coordinated consolidation efforts among all of the Bureaus and Offices, leading a Department-wide weekly meeting of all Bureau/Office leads.
• Performed preliminary validation and negotiated adjustments wif Bureaus on site closure documentation to ensure acceptance by DOI management.
• Managed all DCCI change requests and maintained a Department-wide status of consolidations on a website he created.
• Produced a monthly status report for senior Information Resources Management personnel throughout the Bureaus/Offices.

Project Manager/Portfolio Management

Confidential, Washington, D.C.

Responsibilities:

• Created project plans, and developed reporting documentation and cost models to meet the ambitious Confidential (BLM) goal of consolidating or closing 47 of its 51 data centers.
• Managed the BLM DCCI project to complete consolidation of all planned data center shut downs on time per the annual plan, working wif individual site, region and state managers to generate closure documentation acceptable to the Department.
• Co-authored the documentation for certifying consolidation of BLM’s sites; the format was ultimately adopted Department-wide.
• Critiqued OMB’s Total Cost of Ownership Model on behalf of the Department, correcting and improving the product.
• Co-authored the annual Data Center Consolidation Plan (wif CTO). Most recently, they created a revolutionary IT strategy and plan that could potentially result in as much as 75% reductions in IT costs. The strategy involves concepts in workflow implementation through business process modeling; work process outsourcing; cloud-based geospatial information systems; thin-client implementation, and use of smartphones as WAN infrastructure.
• Executed complex, multifaceted major and non-major capital asset investment projects for several important BLM acquisitions.
• Generated formal requirements documents, project plans, RFIs and RFPS for the Minerals and Lands Reporting System (MLRS); the Geospatial Publication Module (GPM); and the Law Enforcement Asset and Certification Tracking System (ACTS).
• Conducted quantitative and qualitative IT asset portfolio research and analyses on existing Major and Non-Major BLM IT programs in preparation for “bSTAT Reviews”, during which an executive committee determined whether to retain or discontinue IT projects.
• Provided leadership and rekindled activity and enthusiasm for the BLM “Mobility” Team, which had been floundering; this led to a conclusive report recommending plans and actions for supporting the Bureau’s mobile workforce.
• Performed ongoing monthly portfolio analyses and conducted cost/benefit analyses and studies for eight mission-critical BLM IT systems.
• After a year’s involvement on a 6-year effort, he delivered a finalized version of the Integrated Lifecycle Management IT program governance handbook.

Project Manager

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirements assessment and prepared RFI/NDA/Demo/RFPs for procuring new systems.
• Managed six software upgrade projects for an aging, much patched system running on an AS-400.

Project Management /Product Management

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed nine state-level Confidential pilot projects;
• Marshaled the system through an intense Information Security testing process (DOD/JITC).
• Managed interactions wif Primary Entry Point radio station management;
• Managed TIR (Test Incident Report) Resolution; change management; and CM, wifin an Earned Value Management (EVM) framework.
• Project manager for the first customer installation at the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
• Developed the product roadmap,
• Managed change/configuration management, software testing, defect tracking.
• Generated product documentation and User Manuals.

Business Development/Product Management

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Earned $34 Million in Revenues, $28 Million in Net Income over the period.
• Drafted and negotiated all customer service agreements, both internal and external.
• Led capacity-grooming efforts that kept fill factors in excess of 90% across all transponders.

Founder

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Responsibilities:

• Started a company working from business plan through execution, for creating distance learning networks in foreign countries.
• Working through local embassies, made contact wif, traveled to and met wif education ministries, television authorities and universities overseas.
• Planned a strategy for delivering a certificate-based curriculum employing American distance learning experts, potentially wif degrees conferred through the local universities, funded by American corporate partners.

Director, Program Management

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Led cross-functional program/project teams of more TEMPthan 20 individuals.
• Built the Oregon Ed-Net, a 20-site pure satellite video teleconference network.
• Managed video networks for Sears, IBM and JC Penney.

Director of Sales/Product Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As Director of Sales and Product Management, Mattix created a solution for Confidential News enabling the first hybrid satellite/terrestrial news backhaul system for their southwest regional news gathering network.
• Created the “ Confidential ” product line of integrated satellite data channel solutions.