IT Professional

Project Management Technology Strategies Leadership

Program / Project Management

Business Analysis

• Process Improvement
• Research and Development R D
• Requirement Development / Management
• Earned Value Management EVM
• Technology Proposal Evaluation
• Team Leadership
• Scope / Schedule / Cost Management
• Strategic Planning
• Budget Planning
• Contracting Office Technical Representative COR / COTR
• Vendor Management
• Current Top Secret Clearance

Professional Experience

Information Specialist Project Manager / COR

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Office of the Chief Information Officer Project Management Branch

• Lead Project Manager for the customization of a Commercial off-the-shelf COTS application used to process security clearances for employment. This project is in the Design, Development, Testing and Implementation phases. This project has a budget of 1.6 million.
• Lead Project Manager for the implementation of Guest Wi-Fi in over 30 international locations. This project has an annual budget of 2.9 million.
• Lead Project Manager for an Enterprise Disaster Recovery EDR plan and implementation. This project is in the concept phase and has not been funded. This project is driven by policy and several audit findings. As the project manager for this effort, I am responsible for moving this project through the intake process to project approval and funding.

Information Specialist Project Manager / COR

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Office of the Chief Information Officer Project Management Office

• Project Manager for the identification of requirements for implementing the latest web technology for our external and internal Internet / Intranet sites. I work closely with our Web Services Staff and selected Vendor to develop a detailed requirements document that will be used to design and implement new technology for the internal and external web sites.
• Project Manager for the Enterprise Messaging System Cloud Service migration project. This project consist of migrating Microsoft MS Exchange Public Folders to MS SharePoint, migrating 9,000 email accounts from local exchange servers to the MS Cloud Services and the de-commissioning of all legacy MS Exchange servers.
• Project Manager for the migration of an existing WebSphere Application to WebSphere Portal environment Customization of WebSphere Portal e.g., portlets Design and implementation of modernized features e.g., collaboration, mobile support, content management .
• Project Manager for the development of an application that will replace a manual process for the food industry to submit labels and documentation for USDA approval.
• Helping to implement a new Project Management Office PMO following an Enterprise Life Cycle EPLC and Systems Development Life Cycle SDLC . My project is the pilot for EPLC / SDLC and MS Project Server.

Information System Specialist / COR

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IT Headquarters Office of the Chief Information Officer

• Responsible for managing request and large-scale complex projects related to Enterprise Commercial Off-The-Shelf COTS Software, Hardware and Telecommunications.
• Developed and reviewed requirements SOW, BOM, ROM and Non-competitive Justifications , Assisted with the development of acquisition strategies and processes, provide extensive research Gartner, IDC, Forrester and personal hands-on experience.
• Responsible for vendor management including Incident / Issue Management, Performance Scorecard and Escalation Management.
• Program Manager with direct responsibility for contracts totalling over 100 million dollars. Recognized for participating in an acquisition strategy that saved the USPS over 6 million.
• Worked closely with our Enterprise Architectural Committee EAC to ensure that all requirements adhered to established policies and standards of IT. This includes software COTS, Open Source and Operating Systems Software , Hardware Firmware, Processors, etc. and Telecommunications Voice and Data .

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Distributed Environment Manage the contract and vendor HP for desktop, laptop, Wintel Servers and managed print solutions for 300,000 users. Worked with our customers to develop new requirements based on a new mobile and telework environment for the future.
• Midrange Computing Environment Managed the contract and vendors HP SUN for our Linux servers.
• Mainframe Environment Manage the contract and vendors IBM, BMC, CA , including enterprise software and hardware. Responsible for increasing zOS mainframe capacity.
• Enterprise Storage Manage the contract and vendor EMC for attached and detached storage requirements. Worked with my customers to develop new storage requirements for the next 5 years.

Program Manager

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IT Headquarters Office of the Chief Information Office

• Responsible for the oversight of three major projects dedicated to upgrading the Federal Reserve infrastructure Data Circuits and CISCO Routers throughout the United States.
• Primary responsibility focused on a 10M Project to upgrade the Federal Reserves External Network to Sprint's Peerless IP Network PIP and Sprint's SprintLink Frame Relay Network as a backup circuit. This project was implemented on time and met all projected revenues.
• Other projects included Managing Special Customer Arrangements SCA , Homeland Security assigned Telecommunications Services Priority TSP Codes and the master implementation schedule.

ADDITIONAL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Partial List

Project Manager

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Wachovia Securities

• Responsible for delivering infrastructure Servers, LAN / WAN / VPN and Voice , desktops and applications throughout the United States.
• Worked with various business units Matrix , external vendors and cross-functional teams to define the project scope and manage projects to completion.
• Served as an escalation point for customers and as technical consultant working with external telecommunications, infrastructure and desktop vendors.
• Provided business requirements analysis for processes and based on this analysis, developed a complex work breakdown structure, which was used to develop pricing strategies.
• Developed Project Management guidelines for new and inexperienced Project Managers. These guidelines were based on the PMI PMBOK.

Systems Analyst

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• Office of Technology Information Systems OTIS and the Directorate of Subsistence
• Systems Analyst - Developed requirements for the DOD Information Supply Management System DISM . This system was in support of Subsistence Contracting for the various branches of service. Wrote system specifications for EDI and other Supply Management functions.
• Developed a stand-alone system for the Meals Ready to Eat MRE program. The MRE made national news because of defective spoiled products.
• Analysed the business system in use and made recommendations for improvement. In the process of gathering requirements and understanding the current manual system, Developed a prototype system using a desktop application Lotus Notes .
• Branch Chief, End User Computing Customer Support

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Office of Technology Information Systems OTIS / Information Center

• Provided technical analysis, support, project management, contract administration, training and documentation.
• Managed distributed systems UNIX within a mainframe operation.
• Managed a team of 22 direct reports.
• Responsible for desk top support and break fix, mid-tier systems administration and development, level one customer support, and administration.
• Researched, developed and implemented an enterprise Help Desk Customer Support Center .
• RELATED EXPERIENCE COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION
• Technology Manager and Administrator, FFC Non-Profit
• Led strategic direction of technology planning efforts and manage volunteer teams to execute hardware and software solutions and support. Reported directly to the organization's top leadership.
• Created short- and long-term technology plans to advance the organization's mission and growth.
• Applied entrepreneurial attitude to build exceptional technology program within a limited budget.
• Optimized time, money and resources to meet the organization's technology requests and projects.
• Taught Project Management methodologies using the PMBOK.