SUMMARY

• Highly experienced and accomplished Information Technology Executive with domestic and international experience in IT operations, Training, Logistics, and Application Development.
• IT Management Professional with a record of developing and supporting successful projects and solutions incorporating a wide range of applications and technologies.
• A builder of high performance teams and a natural Team Leader and Mentor who excels in dynamic, demanding environments, while remaining pragmatic and focused.
• Results - oriented, decisive leader with proven success in analytical thinking and possessing crisis management skills utilized in driving profitable and cost effective collaboration between IT and critical business functions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Applications: Microsoft Office (including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio), Jira, MS SharePoint

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Software Development Life Cycle, Project Mgmt. Tools, Rapid Appl Dev (RAD)

General Skills: Ability to work independently & as effective team member, communication and customer skills (both verbal & written), flexibility to cope with changing environment & short deadlines, planning & organizing

Database: Oracle DBMS, Oracle Stored Procedures, Microsoft Access, SQL Server 200-2012, MySQL

Internet Technologies: CGI Scripting, HTML (any), Internet Infrastructure, Web Enabled Applications, Website Development Tools, Oracle Application Server 9iAS through 12c (and Oracle Portal), Apache Server

Occupational Specialty: Project Manager, Proposal Writer, Training, Software Tester, Systems Analyst, Web Designer, Web Developer, Web Master

Operating Systems: Macintosh OS and iOS, MS Windows 3.x through Windows 10, Linux, VMWare

Programming Languages: FORTRAN, Java Script, PL/1, SQL, SQL*Plus, PHP

Security Clearances: Top Secret (expired 2008), Secret (expired 2014), and DOE L and Q (expired)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Systems Integration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Selected by senior management to lead development of a data warehouse to support the Department of Health and Human Services Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services Program.
• Promoted by senior management to oversee the sustainment activities of the software development projects and Help Desk activities for each country that we deploy our Central Alarm Station (CAS) software. Success was based on passing all client acceptance tests for over 10 years.
• Managed projects valued to $6,900,000 and responsible for adding more than $200,000 in additional task orders for opportunities presented to client.
• Took on the additional duties of the Help Desk Manager, System Administrator and Test Engineer when the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence ( Confidential - formerly Second Line of Defense) program budget was reduced. Confidential program is under the DOE Confidential .
• Successfully led new installation and preventive maintenance teams to support the Confidential Program.
• Successfully managed the development and test efforts of the Confidential software that passed the DOE Megaport and Core program Certification Acceptance Tests on the first attempt - saving company over $75,000 in potential retesting costs.
• Commended by senior management for my proposal writing skills, technical solutions and visual graphics for corporate proposals in other Confidential business units. Received several excellence awards for my work.

Confidential

Systems Integration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully met a Congressional mandate for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Secure Freight Initiative (SFI) for installing a radiation detection and alarm adjudication system at the Port of Southampton, United Kingdom.
• Managed all aspects of this project where the integration was very complex and involved seven different interfaces for a Non-Intrusive Imaging device, Radiation Portal Monitors, container recognition system, container manifest system, Spectroscopic Portal Monitor, Port Terminal Operating System, DHS National Targeting Center connection, and gate traffic control systems (signage, drop-bars, lights and overheight protection).
• Created a simple software solution that saved over $250,000 in construction costs.
• Aided DHS in the development and revision of the N25 (v1.4) and N42 ANSI Standards.
• We completed this project in 8 months versus the one year expected by the client.
• Managed the development of a country specific CAS that integrated with radiation portal monitors, video cameras, optical character recognition systems and interfaces to other vendor products or foreign port terminal operating systems.
• Developed and reviewed project plans and work breakdown structures. Planned and conducted requirements analyses, presented project status reports to Senior Management, and provided cost analyses for software and hardware used in the program. Provided accurate monthly project activity and budget reports to senior management.
• Wrote or updated the CAS user and administration manuals, lesson plans, test plans, and test procedures.
• Conducted engineering site surveys in countries that would participate in the Confidential Program.
• Coordinated with peer managers on resource allocation of test laboratory hardware, software testers, business analysts, administrators, developers, and database experts. Supervised, trained and mentored system administrators, project leads, network engineers, helpdesk technicians, and installers.
• Managed the test efforts that resulted in passing all DOE’s required system level acceptance tests in the countries of United Kingdom a DHS SFI port, Israel, Spain, Slovenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Lithuania, Poland, Lebanon, Bangladesh, South Korea, and Kyrgyzstan.
• Led communications and coordination efforts with the international project teams (Customs, Port Security, and Port Operators).
• Provided engineering advice and expertise in researching and recommending new technologies and software that can be used in the Confidential program.
• Spearheaded the first successful technical solution to integrate an optical character recognition system into a Confidential CAS software system.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained a functional requirements database using Microsoft Access to provide reports quickly to both the development team and the client.
• Wrote the Design and Portal Guidelines documents, the lesson plans, and test procedures.
• Performed and documented functional and integration testing of the JSEP capabilities.
• Provided monthly/quarterly project activity, financial and budget reports and updates to senior management and Joint Staff Deputy CIO /NAVAIR

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed a Knowledge Sharing plan to ensure the corporate knowledge of the two Confidential staff was captured for future use by OCC.
• Provided monthly project activity and budget reports to Confidential senior management and the OCC Points of Contact and quarterly status reports to the OCC Project Manager.

Senior Functional Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported the Validation and Verification efforts at the DOL in support of their payroll migration to the National Finance Center.
• Developed and maintained status metrics to aid DOL in solving their lack of understanding of the true status of the migration effort. Performed validation of payroll data field conversions from PeopleSoft to the National Finance Center.

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved integrating efforts of 14 subcontract companies and over 60 staff to maintain over 60 websites, critical DOE databases, inventory, and technical refresh projects.