Experience

Confidential

Program Manager Subcontracts , Corrections System Support Program

• Streamlined subcontract management platforms into a consistent model across over fifty active subcontracts, in fields spanning judicial advisory and security services to maintenance and information technology
• Manage infrastructure contracts from inception to completion, including architecture and construction civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering and waste water management projects
• Innovated Standard Operating Procedures SOPs and process workflows for subcontract management and administration in the field, coordinating support from CONUS and international PAE administrative assets
• Established collaboration with CIVPOL counterparts, and took the lead on coordinating subcontracts across Task Orders, eliminating redundancy and realizing significant cost savings for PAE and its USG Customer
• Initiated performance and metrics measurement, minimizing the turnaround time for deliverables
• Direct and manage a broad portfolio of cost, schedule, and technical performance mandates, ensuring achievement of milestones monitor compliance with Customer and FAR flow-down requirements
• Collaborate with Seniors on the Risk Management Plan, identifying and mitigating risks on a real-time basis
• Identify new areas of engagement and potential revenue for PAE through innovative subcontracted efforts
• Collaborate to develop contract requirements prior to award, leading technical reviews and vendor audits
• Liaise with Afghan Interlocutors at multiple levels of government mentor and advise Afghan counterparts
• Brief PAE leadership and Customer Seniors on program subcontract status, development, and initiatives

Confidential

Military and Veterans Outreach Manager Pro Bono

Collaborated on outreach programs with the Virginia Employment Commission, U.S. Department of Labor, Veterans organizations, and industry professionals to combat the high Veteran unemployment rate, offering discounted Video Interview Vi , r sum , and interview coaching services to unemployed Veterans

Confidential

Program Manager

• Served as the primary interface with the Customer responsible for timely and accurate submission of deliverables, providing the Customer with an excellent work product and top-notch contract performance
• Established Program Management Office PMO accountable for all facets of program execution, including budget forecasting, metrics, scheduling, and personnel, ensuring constant technical and financial compliance
• Achieved 100 fill rate requirements two months ahead of schedule, and maintained staffing benchmarks
• Identified and corrected shortcomings in ILC business systems in order to best support OCONUS contracts

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• Managed contract de-scope and demobilization of employees upon US drawdown of Operation Iraqi Freedom
• Served as point of approval for invoicing, expense reports, timekeeping, and employment documentation

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• As CONUS Program Operations Manager during Task Order transition, provided oversight of CONUS staff, meeting financial and technical requirements while maintaining contract compliance
• Conducted procurements and maintained cradle-to-grave control over GFE and CFE, including DCMA reallocation, LTDD and DRMO, coordinating with the COR, Contracting Officer, and military officials
• Collaboratively created hiring practices for foreign nationals defined a system for documentation and badging
• Served as point of approval for invoicing, expense reports, timekeeping, and employment documentation

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• Supervised operations of the Processing Team, deploying new hires OCONUS in support of USG contracts
• Created SOPs and process workflows for all DEPCEN staff, reducing processing time by up to one week
• Promoted innovation, efficiency, and effectiveness among the workforce provided conflict resolution and fostered group collaboration, empowering Staff to work collectively to identify and implement solutions to complex organizational challenges
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• Supported DoS and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe/Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights OSCE/ODIHR
• Cultivated relationships with political and government contacts, including political party leadership, election administration officials, courts, Chiefs of Police, Mayors, and Governors

• Monitored media, political and civil activity, electoral and legal issues, and participation of women, minorities, and Non-Governmental Organizations NGOs in the political process synthesized data and identified trends
• Supervised deployment, reporting, and operations of up to thirty Short-Term Observer STO Teams
• Hosted OSCE, NATO, European Union, and Council of Europe Parliamentarians assigned to my regions

• Conducted all local recruiting and human resources activities: interviewed, hired, and managed field work and remuneration of local Staff for all STO Teams
• Responded to inquiries by local print, radio, television, and web-based media outlets
• Briefed and de-briefed STOs, Parliamentarians, Core Team, the Head of Mission Ambassador , U.S. Embassy staff, and the Director of ODIHR Ambassador and his team

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Observed campaigning, voting, polling station opening and closing, ballot counting, transport of protocols to Election Commissions, and tabulation authored progress reports for seniors

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Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer CFO

• Ensured business tax compliance within all jurisdictions at the city, county, state, and federal levels
• Cross-performed multiple functions, to include procurement, property management, and human resources
• Responsible for financial performance of all contracts, creating budget forecasts, providing periodic financial status reports and projections to the President and General Manager
• Directed corporate financial and strategic positioning, yielding 30 growth in 2008 doubled personnel and quadrupled assets in under three years leveraged relationships with global contacts to enhance market share

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• Provided analytic and technical oversight of SATCOM Memoranda of Understanding MOUs between the U.S. and NATO for the Defense Information Systems Agency DISA
• Field-tested Ultra-High Frequency Integrated Waveform UHF/IW performance across software/hardware platforms created a database to measure UHF/IW testing and results
• Briefed DISA stakeholders, including Tactical Communications TACOMS and Acquisition Working Groups

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Supported the Chief Scientist's Office at DISA, earning multiple performance-based salary increases

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• Implemented MOUs among the U.S., NATO, and Allied Nations ensured technical and cost compliance
• Supported operations and logistics as Assistant to the NATO SATCOM Working Group WG-2 Chairman
• Briefed detailed background information and developments to Chairman and stakeholders within the Working Group, in preparation for tri-annual WG-2 conferences

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• Advised the Representative on animal welfare, minting, postal, science, Veterans, and Military legislation
• Developed the House Member's collaborative relationship with the Marine Corps Congressional Liaison Office

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Processed constituent requests successfully led the effort to obtain a Combat Action Ribbon from the DoD for the estate of the late Gil Hodges, a former Brooklyn Dodger and United States Marine in WWII

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Recruit/E-2 Private First Class

Enlisted Recruit Training RE-3P separation due to training injuries as a 9900 Basic Marine

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• Researched, coordinated, and generated Interventions, communiqu s, cables, reports, and position papers
• Coordinated election observation policy and conferences with NGOs, DoD, the Inspector General's Office IGO , the Helsinki Commission, and various Bureaus within the Department of State
• Served as Control Officer for VIP visits, including Foreign Ambassadors and the OSCE Chairman-In-Office

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• Graduate-level internship completed as an undergraduate during Leave of Absence from Syracuse University
• Generated reports and cables to leadership at US-NATO and the NATO Desk in EUR/RPM
• Liaised with NATO Press Office, Core Staff, the U.S. Military Delegation, NATO International Staff, and NATO International Military Staff, coordinating policy alliance among all three bodies and the U.S. Mission
• Represented the U.S. in meetings of the Science Committee collaborated on the speech delivered by Secretary Cohen at the December 1999 Defense Ministerial conference