CAREER SUMMARY:

Results - driven professional security clearance and 13+ years of progressive specialized government experience utilizing strong analytical, communications, and follow-through skills to support the organization’s overall goals and objectives. Known for managing projects for national government clients which required identifying, assessing, and managing risks.

DEMONSTRATED STRENGTHS INCLUDE:

• Project Management
• Qualitative / Quantitative Elicitations
• MS Excel
• Self-Development
• Risk Analysis / Modeling
• MS Word
• Research
• Data Mining
• MS PowerPoint
• Technical Writing
• Data Visualization
• MS SharePoint
• Intelligence Analysis
• Tableau
• MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide an array of services, including strategic direction, project planning, data gathering, development, communication, status tracking, implementation, monitoring, data analysis, internal and external briefings, portfolio management, project tracking, horizon scanning, lexicon development, refining and updating Standardized Policies and Procedures (SP2), organizational planning, issue papers, and presentations.
• Support portfolio management, health, and project tracking, which are designed to enhance the ability to track, evaluate, and inform policy and planning.
• Responsible for evaluating performer deliverables, including strategic studies, reports, and modeling efforts.
• Coordinated with and provided strategic guidance papers for the White House Presidential Transition Team to support the preparation of Bill Bryan for the role of Acting Undersecretary of S&T in early 2017.
• Drafted strategic guidance whitepapers and other materials to prepare Acting Undersecretary of S&T, Bill Bryan, for his Congressional Confirmation Hearing on August 22, 2018.
• Planned, initiated, and managed the design and development of the S&T Project Management Information System, which serves as a repository for program and project data and documents as well as guiding the project manager through the steps of managing their programs and projects.
• Planned, initiated, and manage the DHS-wide Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI / ML) Community of Interest (COI), and well as initializing the Noblis AI / ML Center of Excellence (COE).
• Planned, initiated, and manage the Five Eyes Research & Development (5RD) Technology Foresighting Network (TFN), which coordinates the identification and information sharing of future domestic security and public safety technology across the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Supported the Communications and Outreach Division (COD)’s efforts to plan and prepare executive leadership for presentations and engagements at technology showcases, like CES and SXSW.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Program Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed stakeholder database and communications.
• Developed, analyzed, and reported on the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA) which supported the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office's (DNDO) Architecture & Plans Directorate (APD).
• Conducted risk and pathway analysis to determine gaps and vulnerabilities in the GNDA, made recommendations, and presented insights to the team and branch chief.
• Researched, compiled, and analyzed data on a host of mission critical topics to support the GNDA utilizing Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Managed TS/SCI research and analysis for APD utilizing JWICS / C-LAN and MS Office products.
• Compiled DNDO lexicon and created a wiki to host it on the internal SharePoint site utilizing Document Analysis and Word.

Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in optimizing pooling strategy for TPSB maintenance \ repair to improve resource allocation.
• Conducted aggregation and normalization of logistics data in order to feed the enterprise system.
• Conducted QA/QC audits on Maintenance Procedure Cards (MPC) to ensure accuracy and safety of all mechanical procedures and compliance with MPC Development Process Guide.

Intelligence Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided research and assessment of foreign and domestic threats on a continual basis using classified and open-source databases in support of Domestic Port Threat Assessment (DPTA) mission.
• Provided all-source counter-terrorist intelligence analysis for the Confidential Intelligence Coordination Center.
• Responded to Requests for Information (RFI) from other members of the intelligence & law enforcement community.
• Functioned as intelligence coordination and dissemination service to support remote DPTA teams.
• Conducted threat analysis inputs \ judgments for the Maritime Security Risk Analysis Model (MSRAM).

Operations Research Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Captured data via verbal elicitations, surveys, and mined data from Confidential .
• Normalized captured data in order to calibrate and update the staffing model.
• Developed the SSM V3.0 assumptions and framework by working with Confidential SMEs using expert elicitation.
• Assisted technical writer in documenting SSM V3.0 from concept to completion.

Risk Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Organized, distilled, and analyzed data for RAPID II, which evaluates risk across all-hazards.
• Researched methodologies for assessing natural disaster and cyber threat probabilities & consequences.
• Mapped risk mitigation activities for all DHS agencies for use in RAPID II.