· Technology professional with over 10 years of experience in diverse government environments to include confidential agencies.

· Working knowledge of Project Management and IT best practices.

· Project experience extends technical architecture study, networking infrastructure, IT certification and accreditation, line of business application and hardware deployment, and system testing.

· Managerial and technical experience extends database management, systems administration, and Tier-1/2 support.

· Energetic, assertive, and skilled professional with ability to lead, manage, and support project teams.

· Exceptional communication skills and interpersonal relations; proven ability to develop strong rapport with customers, management, and individuals on all levels.

· Versed with identifying and organizing resources, levels of effort, and operational direction to achieve desired results.

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Front Office: MS Office Suite 2003-2010 (including Visio, MS Project), BMC Remedy, SharePoint

Back Office: Windows Server 2003, UNIX (Sun Solaris 9, 10), Oracle 9i,10g,11g, TOAD, SQL, Symantec AV, Citrix 5.0, NetBackup 6.5, vCloud, VMWare

Networking: Retina, Gold Disk (Platinum), HBSS, Active Directory

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Adjunct Professor | confidential

Online and on ground instructor for undergraduate Business Program.  Create and facilitate course curriculum to help individuals meet the desired course objectives through lectures, dialogue and group exercise learning environments.  As an instructor I develop course assignments that incorporate and requires research of current events, case analysis and delivery via written and oral presentations.  Students are taught to use the tools that are utilized in real world environments, such as MS Project and Excel Spreadsheets, to promote a balance educational platform.  Courses lead include but not limited to Project Management, Marketing, and Business/Organizational Management. Assist in Faculty training coordination and Student awareness at the VA Campus.

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Project Manager | confidential

As an IT Project Manager for the Enterprise Network Management (ENM) division of Information Resource Management (IRM) department for the Department of State, I effectively direct, implement, coordinate, and oversee the project administration of foreign and domestic projects.  I incorporate PMI’s project management (PM) methodology, business analysis and departmental processes and policies to ensure foreign and domestic projects are successfully executed.

Manage Projects and Task Orders for Department of State Foreign Posts averaging budgets of $30 million.  Ensure IT hardware and Telephone Installation project activities are completed in a timely manner, to include processing request for quotes (RFQ), managing engineers Site Surveys in-country and Installations are schedule and funding is approved.  Conduct Project Manager duties for Bandwidth Managed Services for U.S. Embassy’s in the Middle East.  Duties include coordination with SAIC contracts department and procurement office as well as the government foreign posts to ensure embassy/consulate IT requirements are documented in a Statement of Work (SOW), RFQ and Sole Source Justification documents for each OY contract renewal and any new site request. Ensure services are funded and proposals expedited between DoS and the vendor Inmarsat.  Review and approve new bandwidth requests from foreign posts and facilitate the order.  Manage and coordinate with the engineers that are in-country to ensure all work is being performed on schedule and mitigating any issues that may arise to include VISAs, eCC and travels are processed in a timely manner for deployment.

Successfully manage domestic IT projects deploying hardware infrastructure and creation of virtual enterprise labs.  Overseeing cross-functional engineer team activity completion and milestones are met by directing the planning, development, and implementation of projects according to cost, schedule, and scope requirements throughout the lifecycle of the project. Tracking project initiation activities, including plan and budget preparation using MS Project as well as iSchedule.  Lead the project teams in successfully executing the project as planned and budgeted; and conduct project closeout activities, including collection and archiving lessons learned, creation and maintaining project documentation such as Charter, Risk Management Plan and Communication Plans.

Develop and maintain close relations with other DoS bureaus outside of IRM as well as other divisions within IRM/OPS.  Provide timely notification to senior management in instances where projects/tasks may fall short of meeting pre-established deadline requirements.  Develop and report monthly Earn Value (EV) metrics to the Budget Management Team (BMT) and Senior Management office.  These duties require financial management responsibility and I ensure appropriate management, customer, and supplier involvement throughout the life of the project.

Function as a PM Trainer and Coordinator for the IRM Vanguard Project Managers across the contract.  Maturing PM’s abilities based on industry best practices with PM information distribution as well as facilitating training.  Maintained a SharePoint site allocated to the PM Community of Practice with the latest Departmental PM news, trainings and upcoming events. Training to include risk management, scheduling and process improvement, ITIL and requirements gathering.

Assist Project Line Manager with managing the project managers, to include allocating PMs on to new projects as well as identifying and escalating any project risks they may have.

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Technical Architecture Project Manager | confidential

Provided managerial and technical support to the engineers to ensure that all projects clearly identified the business as well as the architectural goals and objectives were aligned to the MSC enterprise strategic technical roadmap.  Overseeing that the engineers identified all requirements, maintained integrity of the information and submitted deliverables on time to the customer.  assigned by CAB/CCB or stakeholders. Routinely and effectively review and disseminate all technical documents created by the Technical Architecture (TA) team to the Chief Enterprise Architect and Senior Management.

IT Project Manager | confidential

Successfully manage IT projects such as deploying hardware infrastructure and creation of virtual non-production labs for pre-production deployment and testing environment for MSC using Citrix platform and VMWare.  Overseeing cross-functional engineer team activity completion and milestones are met by directing the planning, development, and implementation of projects according to cost, schedule, and scope requirements throughout the lifecycle of the project. Ensure all hardware and software are purchased in a timely manner and once configured to the DoD security standards Accreditation Packages are prepared and meet ODAA requirements and expectation on schedule. Tracking project initiation activities, including plan and budget preparation using MS Project, as well as creation and maintaining project documentation such as Charter, Risk Management Plan and Communication Plans.  Lead the project teams in successfully executing the project as planned and budgeted; and conduct project closeout activities, including collection and archiving lessons learned

Develop and maintain close relations with other DoD and Navy bureaus outside of MSC as well as other divisions within MSC.  Provide timely notification to senior management in instances where projects/tasks may fall short of meeting pre-established deadline requirements.  Develop and report monthly Earn Value (EV) metrics to Senior Management office.  These duties require financial management responsibility and I ensure appropriate management, customer, and supplier involvement throughout the life of the project.  Promoted to Project Manager over Technical Architecture team

Project Engineer

Lead and conducted technical implementation on each project assigned to include server installations, Retina and Gold Disk scans, install and test Symantec NetBackup platforms for the physical and virtual servers.  Provided technical expertise and reports to the Project Managers during the entire project life cycle.  Worked with the PMs to ensure the project is in compliance with all change management and configuration management policies and procedures.  Designed the technical aspect of a solution to meet the identified system requirements of the customer. Created project artifacts as required including Charters, project schedule, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Communication and Risk Plans.  Liaison between the engineering and operations team and the Project Manager for all IT-related issues for internal and external interfaces as related to the project.  Team lead on several projects to ensure that all internal resources are functioning together to execute the deliverables.  Back filled PM and resource lead fulfilling duties such as conducted engineer meetings, assisted resources in daily task needs, conducting meetings with stakeholders, and managing the project during different phases of the life cycle.  Promoted to Project Manager over IT projects.

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Jr. UNIX System Administrator |

As a Jr. UNIX Admin I performed daily and weekly routine operational duties such as system backups and monitoring of 40+ servers that supported the Department of Defense Media infrastructure.  Installed, configured and deployed network servers into production media environment.  Responsible for applying patches to systems, maintained documentation, installed software and allocated mass storage space to the environment.  Duties also included maintaining various servers and scripts which reside on each server, setup and managed user access, permissions and controls for Unix Solaris Sun servers.    Worked with DNS BIND to issue and maintain IP addresses and Domain Name changes for the DMA department.  Managed project to create a UNIX Architecture diagram for data center and developed an asset tracking database through MS Access.  Monitored and maintained military website using Site Monitoring tool.  Onsite DoD PKI Registered Authorizer (RA) of SSL certificate issuer and approver.

Project Manager Assistant /IT Support Services Coordinator |

Assistant to the Lead Site Project Manager on the DMA contract.  Worked as a Resource manager and project coordinator conducting new hire coordination (i.e. set up/conduct interviews, obtain security forms), set up employee’s accounts for the IA training web portal, as well as administer the initial training for new hires.  Assisted with project communication initiatives to include scheduling meetings, and conferences.  Created daily management reports, time tracking, and assist with expense reports for special projects.  Generated weekly/monthly report and upload to company portal.  Coordinated in-processing with Security officer for all new hires DMA wide.  Acted as liaison between Division HQ Human Resources and the employees at the contract site by conducting internal audited timecards for Lockheed Employees for HQ.

Provided administrative and project support for the Lockheed Program Manager with proposal writing and contract bids at Lockheed Head Quarters for other Corporate efforts.  Trained as an On-site Registration Authority (RA) for DMA location, (approve PKI server certificates).  Non-routine duties included back filling as a helpdesk tech.