Professional Background:

Confidential

I am currently the owner and CEO of an independent consulting firm specializing in integrating state-of-the-art artificial intelligence tools with various search engines and applications. The work is in the prototype stage, and is showing great promise as a way to develop lightweight ontologies within complex, free-text datasets.

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Assigned to a troubled project supporting a joint contracting office within the Naval Aviation Logistics community, I led a geographically dispersed team of analysts, developers and consultants to deliver a SharePoint-based application which monitors and manages the work in the contracting lifecycle from initiation through closeout. While the development effort was scoped for approximately 800,000, the system supported some 600m in active contract work in different stages of completion, and required extensive planning and coordination with multiple independent agencies as part of the implementation effort. The level of planning and coordination required a full-time project manager for a development effort of approximately 6000 hours spread across 7 individuals. Information security requirements were particularly stringent due to the nature of the information being managed. Ultimately, I delivered the system within the budget and the time allocated for the work.

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As the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management lead for the Western Region of the Army Corps of Engineers, I am responsible for the management of information assurance vulnerabilities in their IT infrastructure across more than 8000 desktops, interconnecting devices, servers and other systems. I analyzed data from multiple sources, reviewed policy guidance and coordinated the remediation of information assurance vulnerabilities. I was responsible to ensure the Corps remained in compliance with DoD, DA and other agency instructions related to information assurance, in particular, the various NIST publications and the DoD 8500-series directives.

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As the Deputy Director of the Operations for a major organization within the DIA, I was responsible for providing operational and staff direction to more than 100 intelligence professionals supporting a wide range of intelligence activities. I coordinated human resource, information technology support and executed a wide range of financial planning, budget and forecasting activities.

Confidential

The Confidential is the Army's largest library and archival facility. This material supports a wide range of research into the military profession, from popular histories and works e.g., Saving Private Ryan to academic and professional military studies. As Director of Operations, I was responsible for all budget, human resource, facilities and information technology support to the organization. I managed a budget of more than 10m, creating major exhibits throughout the region and supporting the largest digital archive of military documents available to the public. I was responsible for initiating an organizational strategic planning effort, disaster recovery planning and training and a wide range of technology training. ManagedTier 1 and 2 help desk for 100 customers.

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As a project manager, I was responsible for the delivery of complex systems integration projects. Sierra uses a rigid PMI methodology in their implementations. I have been involved in several governmental implementations, including an electronic procurement system for the Oregon State Procurement Office. The project was a multi-phase endeavor, and phases I managed or completed were estimated at approximately 2.0m, including several smaller agency efforts. I also collaborated with others in the development of a number of number of successful project proposals.

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• I worked with the Oregon Department of Human Services' Health Alert Network to assess and improve the security posture of the Oregon Health Alert Network. In this position, I worked with Oregon's local health department's Preparedness Coordinators assessing their security posture against the ISO 17799/20001 standard to ensure they have resilient, highly-available communications infrastructures connecting them to the Oregon Health Alert Network. This position required a high degree of skill in organizational communications, interagency coordination and technical skills. The work required a significant amount of internal and external network penetration testing. I conducted testing using a variety of tools, including open source and proprietary software and hardware Nessus, OMap,Snort, etc . In addition, I consulted with the organizations on their business continuity posture, physical security, operational practices and software development methods.
• Contract Project Manager, Oregon Department of Transportation, Salem, OR: Responsible for the management of the upgrade and disaster recovery preparations for ODOT Intelligent Transportation Systems. Over the course of a 6-month project, I coordinated staff, managed budgets, implemented and installed hardware and delivered a highly-available infrastructure for the ITS systems on-time and under budget.

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• As CIO, I was responsible for all County IT operations. I prepared policies and procedures for the management and maintenance of County information systems, managed staff, budgets and coordinated all County information systems activities. I managed tier 1, 2, and 3 help desk operations in support of county-developed and COTS applications. Major projects included replacing and reintegrating the following major systems:
• County Health records and Billing systems
• Assessment and Tax Systems
• District Attorney Case Management system
• Building permitting system
• Web-based GIS system
• Keystone project: My team developed and implemented secure hosting services for multi-County District Attorney Case Management system. I developed the business plan, built cross-agency partnerships, upgraded infrastructure and we implemented complete case managements systems for three client counties. We exceeded our business case financial projections by more than 25 in first year. This success was critical to achieving the ultimate policy goal of building a sufficient customer base for DACMS system to ensure viability of code base and continued business practice modeling.

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• Responsible for all computer systems and energy management systems used at the University, including central heat plant operations. Managed staff of 22 in support of University operations. Major responsibilities included:
• Support and development for maintenance management systems
• PC desktop support
• Energy Management System implementation and maintenance
• Heat Plant operations
• Keystone project: I led the effort to acquire a COTS-model computerized maintenance management system to replace our in-house development effort. I researched alternatives, wrote the RFP and worked with evaluation committee to select an appropriate vendor. The resulting contract was for more than 175,000 with approximately four times that in implementation effort.

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• telecommunications networks in support of public schools. Major responsibilities included:
• Implementation of first K12 Internet connectivity in region
• Supported more than 300 AS/400 users' connectivity
• Direct support for Albany Public Schools network infrastructure
• Keystone project: I designed and implemented a large frame relay network in support of K12 computing in region. At the time, most schools had no internet connectivity, and a frame-relay infrastructure was the only viable means to provide connectivity. The frame-relay infrastructure supported the Albany, Corvallis, Philomath and other Linn-Benton-Lincoln school districts. The project required close coordination with vendors, policy makers and classroom staff.