SUMMARY:

• Successful career as a Program Manager, Business Analyst, Data Analyst and Business Intelligence Analyst. Managed several Data Warehouse projects that collected data from multiple source systems to provide better data analytics for executive management.
• Current task is supporting the Program Manager with the technical aspects of the data warehouse project. Managed a Business Process Re - engineering project with the Confidential bringing several improvements to their processes for product inspection.
• Was the Program Manager of a team defining the data requirements and doing Business Analysis for an OSD data warehouse allowing analysis of status and financial reporting for Major Acquisition programs.
• Tasked to move to QNA headquarters to Manage and be the Senior Data Architect overseeing the development of the Executive Financial Data Store as a Warehouse for executive financial data Business Analysis and reporting. Requires defining the ETL from the OLTP systems.
• Well educated in current Program Management procedures including ITIL and EVM ensuring the highest quality customer service. Proficient in Agile methodologies from Scrum to Kanban, providing support for a highly dynamic environment with ambiguous and constantly evolving requirements.
• Outstanding success in providing data architectures and semantic ontologies that meet process requirements and industry or federal standards. A recent achievement included, as the Program Manager, evaluating disparate systems and creating a federated solution through a common data model using SOA services for data and web service integration into a centralized Data Warehouse. Defined the architecture in terms of RDF/OWL. Used SPARQL for enhance data analysis.
• Expert in analyzing business processes (BPMN and other methodologies) and collaborating with the customer to create more efficient processes using a variety of methodologies. Using SOA methodologies and guidelines to align business with applications.
• Proficient in designing analysis environments to turn data into useful information for the business or agency to make future strategic and tactical decisions through Ontologies and Data Warehouses. Proficient with data analysis including SPARQL.
• Extensive involvement in Enterprise Architecture projects specializing in the Business Reference Model (BRM), Data Reference Model (DRM), and some with the Performance Reference Model (PRM).
• Can provide expertise in the Zachman, DoDAF, and TOGAF frameworks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, WA

Responsibilities:

• Hired to manage a data warehousing project starting with a 30-day discovery phase.
• The project was managed using VSTS/TFS. I managed the project and wrote the business requirements document.
• My future role would also include data modeling, data architecture and data analytics.
• The project is on hold awaiting customer approval, budgeting, and implementing the next steps.

Senior Information Architect / Technical Project Manager

Confidential, WA

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Program Manager for the technical aspects on a Data Warehouse project.
• Specifically tasked to write the supporting governance documents and feature specification for the Data Warehouse to be expanded throughout the WV Partnership.
• Wrote the RFP to bring in a contractor to design and implement the Data Warehouse now in process.
• Performing an in-depth proof of concept comparing BI Analytic tools with a focus on Tableau and PowerBI.
• Created visualizations and dashboards from SQL, Excel, Twitter, et. al.
• Finalizing the design of the data warehouse from data modeling and design, document management support, BI and Analytics support, Data Quality support with a focus on profiling.
• In order to get more out of our data, became certified as a Data Scientist and worked on a marketing application to identify repeat customers and targeted marketing to reach those in various demographics.
• Working on a predictive model regarding child nutrition and restoring malnourished children to good health. Advanced analytics using Excel (formulas, pivot tables, and macros) and PowerBI.

Senior Data Architect

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Utilizing a hybrid SDLC/Agile approach we initiated a data modernization task for the educational branch of the VA as well as the Defense Health Agency.

Confidential, VA

Senior Data Architect/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully created financial analytic tools (Deltek, SQL Server, SQL, Sharepoint, BPMN, Entity Relationship (ER) diagrams (both AS-IS and TO-BE used across the accompany to not only provide required government and civilian reporting but also tools to analyze the business and allow senior management to make better decisions.
• Created a data model from all executive systems and the current and needed interfaces between them.
• Defined the dashboard and the tools for it as well as the SQL to export to Excel for configurable charts and graphs as well as supporting “What IF” capabilities
• Program management oversight for the Acquisition Visibility SOA Technical team including: team oversight, sub-contractor coordination, scheduling, project planning and task assignments, timesheet and invoice approvals, and other PM tasks as required. Updating Program Management Plan and other subsidiary management documents to a constantly set of changing contract requirements. Updating all documents and implementing practices that fully support our companies CMMI level 3 practices.
• It is also the Program Manager’s responsibility to work with the team and ensure Confidential standards are maintained. In addition to these responsibilities, maintaining my role as the chief enterprise architect for our solution architecture and the BEA (DoDAF) as well as working with the data team to create a semantic ontology (RDF/OWL) and the design of a data warehouse based upon our logical data model that supports all the statutory reporting and analysis requirements for major acquisition programs using SPARQL to enhance the analytical capabilities.
• Working very closely with the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) documenting in DoDAF format the processes and data architecture used to manage and monitor the Confidential ’s major acquisition programs as defined within the Confidential 5000 series, both for weapon systems and Information Technology.
• Facilitating across teams changes within the architecture to support ontologies and BPMN primitives with various working groups to provide advice on such as common vocabulary within the Confidential and other strategic decisions to improve the efficiency and direction of the acquisition processes and coordination with other Confidential areas such as the Comptroller community. Supporting the change to the End-to-End framework.

Business Process Consultant/Data Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide process review of several applications for the GSA Public Building Service related to inventory management, occupancy, and leases.
• Current task is designing an operational data store (ODS) to serve as the interface between several applications.
• Task includes authoring the policies and agreements for data governance and management. Also tasked with defining the interfaces and metrics to ensure data integrity and availability.
• This includes support for a PBS wide data warehouse and business intelligence solution from standard reports to management dashboards.
• Provide subject matter expertise and program management support for tactical level business process reengineering project for the Confidential as part of a larger application consolidation project using service oriented architecture (SOA). Provide for the Enterprise Architecture team an analysis of the current data architecture to better design a common data model for 8 disparate applications.
• Designed the implementation strategy for their Business Intelligence solution using Cognos. Created development, testing, and staging environments and documented the installation. Wrote an implementation plan for the reporting life cycle. Produced sample reports from test data the emulated existing executive reports..
• Delivered an AS-IS set of deliverables with recommendations leading to TO-BE documentation and oversight of the agency’s implementation of the process changes.
• Designed a common data model (tactical DRM) supporting the existing model, business requirements as reengineered, and enhanced analysis.
• Utilized BPR and database architecture to design a SOA/SOI framework.
• Provided the Confidential team a ready-to-go reporting environment.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Director of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Provided a proof of concept using SPARQL to demonstrate the capabilities of semantic technologies. IT director overseeing 4 project managers in the data analysis IT domain.
• Delivered a research prototype showing the value of semantic technologies to increase data analysis capabilities. Worked with the customer to initiate a project to implement a live solution.
• Utilized agile management methodologies to oversee 4 projects and assist the project managers in the design and development of a secure Federated SOA environment with stakeholders from a variety of agencies and locations. Assisted in the design to add cross-domain functionality.

Confidential, Parker, CO

Lead Business Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extended the Agency’s Enterprise Architecture with Business Process Execution Plan (BPEP) to document the BPR approach and project plan for the FBI’s security division. Provided Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Engineering subject matter expertise for the SOA team and sub-project.
• Trained in ITIL and utilized this with SOA methodologies to author the software and SLA requirements for DARPA’s seat management re-compete. This was based upon using metrics and other artifacts from the Performance Reference Model (PRM), Key Performance indicators (KPIs and BSCs).
• Management oversight over all software projects.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Chief Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical role in analyzing business processes and data requirements and re-engineering them to create a system having many components including portal technology, business intelligence tools, predictive analysis tools, security tools, GIS tools, incident management tools, data distribution and recovery tools, and others.
• Created the process and architecture to provide data from 54 states and territories for the Confidential ’s daily briefing.