EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

I am a Certified Project Management Professional, seeking a leadership position where I can utilize my strong background in Program and Project Management, Resource Management, Disaster Recovery, software development, data warehouse and business intelligence projects to champion organizational change across an enterprise. I have experience with multiple State and Federal Agencies, Healthcare organizations, e-commerce financial industry leaders, as well as targeted experience in Federal health Care Reform, product implementation, vendor coordination and integration, and CareFirst business and processes.

ACHEIVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Successfully managed teams of Project Managers, Professionals, and analysts in design, development, integration, and implementation of multiple product and software solutions within CareFirst.

• Created and implemented new business processes and change management plans to ensure successful implementation strategies.
• Designed and implemented multiple Disaster Recovery, Continuity of Operations Plans, Processes, and Facilities.
• Facilitated the acquisition of a number of small businesses, formulated strategic alliances, and negotiated a number of preferred technology partnerships.
• Identified and negotiated lucrative strategic partnerships, alliances and co-marketing opportunities to capture new business.
• Served as an incubator for a number of new small business ventures and established mentor-prot g partnerships.
• Developed and mentored new staff to increase productivity, effectiveness, and morale.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Project Manager

Sr. Project Manager and Technical Deliver Manager

Technical Delivery Manager

Currently serving as a Senior Project Manager for Federal and State HealthCare Reform Mandate Projects at CareFirst.

Have successfully delivered solutions for multiple projects, including: Rate Review, Electronic Health Records Adoption Incentive Program, and the Summary of Benefits and Coverage Project.

While serving in these capacities, I have worked cross-functionally within the organization to coordinate the full SDLC from requirements, technical documentation, software and hardware development and implementation, and post-production warranty support.

Worked closely with business, architecture, and technical staff to drive the development and successful delivery of the solutions.

Demonstrated strong capacity for business and technical aspects of Project Management and Project Delivery.

Quickly integrated into and demonstrated strong knowledge of CareFirst Business Processes and Practices.

Established a strong network of business and technical relationships that have enabled effective and efficient communication and coordination across cross-functional organizational boundaries.

Recognized as a proven leader and Subject Matter Expert.

Program Manager

Pursued and captured new business through unsolicited proposals and RFP responses.

Served as customer-facing Project Manager for a financial securities firm Business Intelligence Assets Reporting Data Warehouse.

Provided drill-down reporting and created processes for developing new reports.

SDLC, Led all Software Development activities for COTS Integration/J2EE application.

Served as Program Manager for the development and maintenance of corporate financial management, content management solution utilizing PeopleSoft, Oracle, Java, WebLogic, Informatica, Sybase, and Business Objects.

Working on-site with internal leadership, championed the implementation of Business Objects business intelligence solutions for internal and external reporting.

Managed team of professional engineers and developers to develop web-based solution through full software development life-cycle.

Ensured compliance with all Federal Legislation, including Sarbanes-Oxley.

Fostered effective communications from the technologists to the end-users and management to ensure consistent vision and focused solutions.

Managed data extraction process and ETL interfaces to mainframes, servers, flat files, and external data partners for near-real time feeds from legacy systems into central repository.

Provided technical management and expertise to drive the execution of object-oriented, J2EE Commercial-Off-The-Shelf COTS product selection and purchases, systems engineering and systems integration planning in accordance with all Federal guidelines and legislation.

Managed team of software engineers, network engineers, database engineers, data architects, and enterprise architects on system design and integration into existing enterprise.

Led all Search Engine Optimization activities, including: content creation, keyword analysis, link analysis, site map creation, DMOZ, Yahoo, and Google, metadata, etc.

Authored numerous technical documents, performed requirements generation, analysis, and decomposition, designed an overarching technical solution, and provided technical leadership through the Governance Processes.

Confidential Associate

Served as the on-site Program Manager for secure facility and secure information systems build from ground up. Managed integrated team of staff, external vendors, and Government personnel to develop system security plans, Concepts of Operations, accreditation documentation, engineering plans, secure desktop services, and secure Voice over IP VoIP systems.

Managed team of 10 direct reports responsible for creating job descriptions, conducting interviews, resource management, time and reporting, quarterly evaluations, training coordination, staff development and mentoring.

Provided technical leadership in support of multiple Systems Information Assurance Activities, leadership initiatives, and standards and best practices.

Managed high risk trade study analyses for large systems integration activity, which included interfaces with multiple storage devices, servers, mainframes, and data warehouses.

Successfully delivered and reported program, system, technology, and information assurance risks for spiral-based engineering activities.

Led implementation of Disaster Recovery/Continuity of Operations infrastructure.

Provided technical leadership in support of multiple Systems Information Assurance Activities, leadership initiatives, and standards and best practices. Delivered and presented to client programmatic, system, technology, and information assurance risk assessments for spiral-based engineering activities.

Led infrastructure modernization and new system build-out and integration into existing enterprise architecture and network design.

Confidential Lead Architect/Vice President

Provided on-site architecture design, technical leadership, systems engineering, business process reengineering, and strategic alliance development in support of a Federal Agency Enterprise Architecture Program.

PML, Developed Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations Concepts of Operations. Defined the Disaster Recovery, fail over, and Continuity of Operations Strategies to ensure 24x7x365 operations.

Designed the System Architecture for the aggregation of multiple, disparate, legacy database systems into a central data repository.

Led the implementation of Cognos Business Intelligence reporting solution for enterprise reporting of assets in the new central data repository.

Managed team of IT professionals through requirements, design and development activities.

Managed and grew a business unit from 2 to 35 direct reports responsible for creating job descriptions, validating resource skills against Federal labor category requirements, conducting interviews, resource management, time and reporting, annual evaluations, staff development-including training plans and mentoring staff.

Led the modernization of Enterprise architecture within agency and federal guidelines.

Worked with in-house and vendor Subject Matter Experts to create the right team to execute corporate vision.

Served on the Citrix Enterprise migration team to ensure application compatibility with new architecture.

Led Capture of four multi-million dollar contracts in new business segment.

Led corporate growth from 17 to 125 people.

Confidential Program Manager/Enterprise Architect

Provided customer facing, Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance SETA support as an Enterprise Architect and Program Manager for a Department of Defense Agency Program Management Office.

Provided on-site technical leadership for new computer hardware analysis and design specifications.

Organically grew a new business unit by leveraging existing relationships to penetrate new Federal Agency and contracts from 1 to 13 direct reports providing on-site consulting services ranging from requirements analysis and administrative roles to senior software and database developers under 3 new contracts.

Performed detailed analyses of the customer's Enterprise systems and infrastructure in order to develop disaster recovery and continuity of operations plans.

Led the Acquisition Program Management SETA activity for an advanced Information Technology Research and Development program and the implementation of a Disaster Recovery field site.

Created an integrated electronic asset data warehouse by ETL of legacy data into a modernized central data warehouse and utilized Cognos to provide enterprise reporting on organizational assets.

Conducted manual audit of IT assets to verify existing database against active inventory.

Successfully penetrated new market segment and created new business unit for firm.

Confidential Chief Systems Engineer

Provided on-site, technical leadership for team of 80 engineers through the ground-up architectural design efforts for the evolution of an as-is system to the to-be architecture, which included a ground-up Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations implementation.

Managed 15 or the 80 engineers as direct reports, ranging from Requirements Analysts to software developers and architects.

SDLC, Led development team using Java, Cold Fusion, Weblogic, Rational, Sybase, Oracle, WebMethods, PowerBuilder, and XML.

Instituted and chaired a cross-functional Architecture Working Group to facilitate consistent, synergistic, focused target architecture. Authored Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations Plans.

Managed a team of 18 direct reports ranging from business analysts to senior java developers.

Led the implementation of Business Objects reporting to provide Business Intelligence reports on agency data, including metrics on group and individual productivity.

Confidential Technical PM Product Engineering

Served as the Technical Project Manager for e-commerce software development.

Managed a multi-million dollar budget that included the development, tracking, and maintenance of a large collaborative sourcing organization with local, remote, and offshore development teams.

Worked with multiple industry leaders, including: General Electric, Ariba, Clarus, Commerce One, WebMethods, etc. to deliver complete e-commerce, financial applications.

Led in-house and offshore development team using Java, Cold Fusion, Weblogic, Rational, Oracle, WebMethods, PowerBuilder, and XML.

Managed a team of 6 internal direct reports and 20 onshore/offshore staff augmentation resources

Created and implemented Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations Plan COOP .

Confidential Program Manager/ Senior C4ISR Systems Engineer/Analyst

Working directly with the Federal CIO office, served as a Project Management Office technical Project Management consultant to Served as the Project Manager for a series of dynamic, global enterprise commercial and government web-based applications.

Led the secure systems architecture and Information Assurance Plans for the Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection Y2K Information Coordination Center initiatives.

SDLC, Managed the full product development life cycle for the TRICARE CEIS distributed Federal healthcare solution.

Led development and deployment of web-based training using Cold Fusion, PowerBuilder, and Oracle.

Managed a team of 3 direct report employees.

Designed and analyzed land-based, satellite, and wireless communications architectures.

Provided software and systems engineering management for a pre-9/11 Healthcare-Bioterrorism test-bed program to identify Weapons of Mass Destruction WMD events and coordinated communication to critical and first response units geo-location and healthcare provided data for rapid response intervention.

Space Systems Engineering Analyst/Project Manager

Served as a hands-on Project Manager for numerous Internet and Intranet web sites and web-based applications.

Provided direct management and reporting of the corporate SETA operations.

Conducted in-depth analysis of Government database architectures of compartmented programmatic information, key technologies, and emerging technology capabilities.

Developed and managed 3D modeling simulations of space based architectures utilizing proprietary modeling and simulation analytical software.

Executed successful marketing and business development activities through white paper proposals and RFP submissions that successfully targeted customer requirements, resulting in new business opportunities and generated several multi-million dollar contracts through business development and networking activities.

Confidential Served as project manager and liaison for Marine Intelligence Activities and IO support to the National Security Agency.

Analyzed multiple source intelligence i.e. SIGINT, IMINT, OSINT, ELINT, etc. to developed Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation plans for several key hostile target environments.

Served as a SIGINT collection operator and analyst.

Served as a Supervisor for 12 junior Marines duties included mentoring, career development, physical training, annual fitness reporting, collateral duty assignments, and team building.

Developed webpages in HTML for Intranet.

Worked with PC, Sun, mainframe and Cray supercomputers.

Served as Marine Corps Public Affairs Officer and published multiple articles in various military periodicals and journals.

While is South West Asia worked in conjunction with an Air Force Office of Special Investigations AFOSI team conducting a theater-wide threat and vulnerability assessment.

Conducted briefings for senior executive and flag level personnel on Marine Corps intelligence operations, Marine Corps roles in joint operations, and Marine Corps roles at the national level. Represented the Marine Corps in key national, strategic, and tactical level policy and review meetings.

Served as the Special Security Officer for the Marine Corps Liaison office by managing all clearances, visit certification, and security requirements for off-site personnel visits and Liaison office personnel visits to off-sites.

Served as event planning manager for all major conferences, seminars, parades, and special events.

TECHNOLOGIES AND COTS EXPERIENCE

• Architectures: Microsoft .NET Framework, Federal Enterprise Architecture, DoDAF/C4ISR, POPKIN
• Languages: ColdFusion, JAVA/J2EE, C, C , Flash, Visual Basic, SQL, SQL Plus, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Cobol, Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Visual C , PEGA
• WebServers: Tomcat, Apache, IIS
• Databases: SQL Server, Informix, Sysbase, Access, DB2 and Oracle
• Web Application Servers: BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere
• ETL: Informatica
• Online Help: Robohelp
• Developer Tools: PowerBuilder, Cold Fusion, Rational Suite, PVCS, CVS
• Business Intelligence: COGNOS, Business Objects, Crystal Reports
• Project Management Life Cycle and Project Management Methodology
• Project Management tools: Microsoft Project, Clarity
• Storage Solutions: EMC, Network Appliance, Sun
• Testing: LoadRunner and WinRunner
• Hardware: PC, SUN, Compaq, Cray, EMC, Network Appliance