Professional Summary

Technical and functional project management professional, PMP certified, with eleven years of experience overseeing and managing all aspects of the project life-cycle from inception to closing. Supporting Federal, State, and commercial projects ranging from 100K to over 20 million dollars leading small development teams through teams of up to 20 persons.

• Specialized technical project and operations management experience includes
• Technical Project Manager: Eleven years working with various levels of stakeholders to define and align strategic business needs with technology including: initiatives to implement prototype systems and engineering applications, establishing laboratory networks, enterprise reporting, business application COTS, and data warehouse/business intelligence systems.
• Functional Project Manager: Eleven years working on the functional side, leading small to intermediate sized teams 1-20 persons , overseeing the management of task orders, personnel contracts, stakeholder relationship management, business and project risk management
• Eleven years experience with waterfall software development life cycle methods, and five years with agile development methods.
• Specialized technical experience includes
• Certified Engineering Applications Developer: Fifteen years enhancing and developing new engineering software control applications to support the automation development for laboratory, pilot scale, and manufacturing scale systems utilizing software development life-cycle models SDLC .
• Field Process Engineering: Ten years performing various roles as a field process engineering providing support for: new product and process development for commercial applications, chemical weapons demilitarization and, other specialty design projects.
• Research and Development: Twenty years performing various research roles, executing diverse tasks relating to research and development efforts including: process engineering, electrical engineering, automation engineering, quality engineering.
• Sample of industry verticals I've worked in include research and development, research pilot plant operations, commercial chemical production, federal contracting, DoD, state government consulting, commercial consulting, higher education, K12 education, early childhood, and social services.

Work Experience

Confidential

Managing Consultant/Project Manager

Performance/Past Performance:

Confidential

Project Managercurrent contract Project Value 1.5M

• Provide functional and technical project leadership to support a transition project to migrate vendor hosted applications to a new State hosted site specifically:
• Responsible for all scope, schedule, and budget management and reporting
• Assume role as point of contact POC for agency stakeholder management and communication
• Lead team of 6 technical resources to analyze as-is applications
• Oversee environment build and maintenance
• Manage application development, testing, and deployment

Confidential

Engineering Consultant

• As part of an equipment refurbishment project design, build, and install a new AVLAG operating system to include: Project Value 37,000
• Software development
• Panel build and install
• Field wiring
• Integration of new process control instrumentation
• Application testing
• Operator training
• Issuance of a technical manual

Confidential

QA/QC SME

• Provide subject matter expertise SME support to Maryland Department of Human Resources DHR oversight for the Maryland Children's Electronic Social Service Information Exchange MD CHESSIE .
• Provide subject matter expertise SME support to Maryland Department of Human Resources DHR oversight for the Automated Fiscal System AFS this is a new role added Apr. 14, 2014 .
• These role oversee the quality assurance, quality control QA/QC functions to ensure that operations and maintenance O M and new development information technology IT projects that the State and the State's Vendor are adhering to all State policies and guidelines with respect to Department of Information Technology's DoIT system design life-cycle SDLC model, Department of Information Technology's DoIT data security, DHR's project management office PMO , and the project management body of knowledge PMBOK best practices.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Completed build-out and implementation of P-20W data warehouse, a longitudinal data warehouse accessing K-12, MHEC, labor data, and making that data available to State Policy Analysts and the Public via front end BI reporting system and secure and non-secure web portals. Development tools include: Oracle Warehouse Builder OWB , Informatica, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition OBIEE , APEX, and Web Center Portal, Project Value 3.5M
• Functional and technical management of seven 7 Oracle 11g based information technology IT projects for the Maryland State Department of Education MSDE including:
• Procure adaptive testing units for high schools, Project Value 1.0M and,
• Procure Items Content, Project Value 780,000
• Procure Computer Adaptive Test System, Project Value 2.7M
• Procure Test Item Bank System, Project Value 3.2M
• Completed build-out and implementation of a new data warehouse for Maryland Higher Education Commission MHEC and BI reporting system, using Oracle Warehouse Builder OWB , Informatica, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition OBIEE , Project Value 3.0M
• Executing proof of concept development of educational data to dashboards on Oracle platforms, Project Value 6.8M.

Confidential

Project Manager

Functional, technical management and engineering support to develop new prototype equipment used in the evaluation of soldier protection systems. Provide life-cycle maintenance services.

Confidential

Project Manager

Functional, technical management and engineering support to develop new prototype equipment used in the evaluation of soldier protection systems. Provide life-cycle maintenance services.

Other Work Experience

Confidential

Project Manager

• Serve as the Project Manager PM supporting MSDE executing seven 7 IT projects under a federal grant for the Race to the Top program. Functional and technical project management responsibilities include:
• Managing all aspects of projects to Maryland State's system development life-cycle SDLC model and,
• Federal reporting and State reporting internally to the executive team and externally to the State's Department of Information Technology DoIT .
• Day to day management includes: financial analysis of projects, managing key stakeholder expectations, executing team meetings, developing and executing work plans, developing and executing requests for resumes, developing and executing requests for proposals, technical evaluation of proposals.
• Oversee: design, development, implementation, test, and operation phases of projects and directly manage transition of systems to owners.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Serve as the PM supporting the Permeation and Analytical Solutions Branch PASB of the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center ECBC and directly manage on-site JRAD personnel.
• JRAD administrative functions: Alignment of contract personnel with branch strategies to meet PASB organizational goals, conduct of annual performance appraisals and on-going assessments to track individual performance goals, approval of timesheets, other direct management activities, perform new business development, support proposal development, identification of business growth opportunities, marketing JRAD corporate capabilities, and assisting with strategic corporate planning.
• PASB administrative functions: Develop business and organizational strategies to include organization planning, marketing development, business consultation, and staffing planning. Responsible for developing enterprise resources to include: development of an internal laboratory network, and implementation of Microsoft SharePoint.
• Functional and Technical PM functions: Manage technical projects, oversight and technical leadership for the PASB engineering processes, leading process improvement initiatives, development and integration of hardware systems and applications software for prototype test equipment used to support testing for soldier protection systems, and perform other process engineering functions to support laboratory systems.

Confidential

Task Manager

• Serve as the Task Manager TM supporting the Permeation and Analytical Solutions Branch PASB of the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center ECBC . The specific nature of the project work is to develop specialty prototype equipment for use in toxic laboratories in support of testing initiatives set forth by the U.S. Dept. of the Army. Technical work activities include new hardware and applications software development, maintenance and operation M O support of existing software applications to perform system enhancements.
• Functional and Technical PM functions: Development of projects from inception to close-out including development of project charters, management plans, defining scope, schedule, and budget, and developing quality, resource, risk, procurement plans, and successful execution of projects.
• Engineering functions: Support the PASB's many engineering functions to include new test fixture development mechanical, process, electrical, and automation , performing mechanical build-outs of physical equipment, process development and integration, electrical panel build-out, field wiring, new and upgraded automation programming, field systemization, and system troubleshooting.

Confidential

Project manager

Responsible for executing project tasks to develop new hardware and software applications and testing equipment for deployment in government operated toxic laboratories. Project management activities include development of technical proposals, preparation of project charters, planning and executing technical projects and reporting progress to internal and external stakeholders. All PM activities and deliverables were within scope, schedule, and budget. Additional technical responsibilities include overseeing mechanical, process, electrical, and automation designs as well as the physical build-out, process development and integration, electrical panel build-outs, field wiring, automation programming, field systemization, and system troubleshooting of deployed systems life-cycle support. Other technical responsibilities include development of process logic and automation design to support commercial plant expansions.

Confidential

Research Scientist/Project Manager

This position required a diverse skill set to fulfill all job requirements. Accomplishments include project management functions and technical task support. Specific achievements include development of business leads into technical proposals, leading project activities to support specialty projects including activities. An example of such work is the support to chemical demilitarization of Mustard Agent stored at the Accelerated Aberdeen Chemical Demilitarization Facility in Edgewood, MD. This specific work required skill sets to support normal field operations, closure operations, and developing solutions for complex problems. There were numerous other responsibilities that included process logic design, new prototype equipment design, applications programming, and life-cycle maintenance and operation M O support many deployed systems. Recipient of numerous performance awards for projects completed on-time, on-budget, and within scope.

Key Project Performance: Completed Plant System Decommissioning for the Accelerated Aberdeen Chemical Demilitarization Facility AABCDF , Project Value 4.5M.

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Technologist

Key responsibilities include leading plant production research trials for the development or enhancement of new products and processes. Additional responsibilities include maintenance of pilot plant chemical processing equipment PLC hardware and software application systems used for processing pilot scale experiments related to the production of titanium dioxide TIO2 .

Key Project Performance: Participated in more than 50 projects over 5 years to develop new products and processes for the manufacture of TiO2. Recipient of Millennium Chemicals Chairman's Award of Excellence for participation in the development and commercial launch for a new commercial product.