Summary:

I am an educated, trained, and experienced executive manager focused on project and program management, process transformation, and modernization. My executive and military experiences allow me to understand the difference between real and perceived challenges and guide organizations to applicable solutions for both. I am a flexible and adaptive manager and I apply my education and experience to create productive, profitable, and personal relationships with internal and external stakeholders. I have a unique ability to understand requirements, develop solutions, prioritize resources, and manage execution that exceeds clients' expectations. I have 20 years' experience aligning direct report employees, stakeholders, subcontractors, Government agencies, and industry executives to ensure project and program deliverables exceed expectations. I lead teams by example and we deliver to our clients.

SKILLS:

Program Management, Project Management, Contract Negotiations and Management, Earned Value Management, Risk Management, Cost Management, Lean Six Sigma, AS9120 Quality Management System development, certification, and auditing and Proficient in all MS Office and Prolog Project Manager applications.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

• As the corporate Program Manager, responsible for establishing, managing, and improving the Program Management Office, providing Program and Project Management services, contributing to business development, supporting and improving ISO and CMMI procedures, and contributing as a member of the senior corporate management team.
• Supported corporate operations improvement and business development that led to twice doubling the annual revenue of VersaTech in 18 months
• Streamlined HR recruiting, interviewing, and hiring process
• Supported several multi-million dollar proposals led and contributed
• Developed improved processes for corporate use of SharePoint
• Government Staff Augmentation Teams
• 508 Remediation
• Web Content Management
• Secured increased penetration, at the account level, at FDA and DoT resulted in three contract expansions
• Completed project closeouts for several lingering projects one of the reasons I was initially hired
• Matured corporate and programmatic operations to improve efficiencies and increase executive level bandwidth to support significant growth in 2013 and 2014
• Custom application development Full SDLC
• O M services for Government Legacy applications
• IV V
• Business Process Improvements

Confidential

• Managed all design and manufacturing life cycle activities, to include managing technical subcontracts, in an organization of scientists and engineers focused on Defense R D.
• Led the organization to meet every technical and budget milestone of all Cost Plus Fixed Fee contracts while delivering cutting edge technologies.
• Managed as many as 13 design teams simultaneously budgets ranged from 100K to 6.3M . Negotiated and managed FFP, IDIQ, CPFF, and T M contracts to deliver every project on-time and under budget maintained a 22 profit for all FFP contracts .
• Developed strong personal and professional relationships with clients to navigate the technical uncertainties surrounding Defense R D contracts and secure non-compete contracts.
• Developed and managed all government proposal efforts for the organization.
• Developed and managed short and long term resource management plans to effectively manage RCT personnel during the ever changing DoD budgets of 2009 2011.
• Developed, executed, and managed project activities and risk mitigation plans to deliver 140K safe man hours while managing ISO 9000:2008 requirements.

Confidential

• Served as a Special Operations Watch Officer for the U.S. Army Crisis Action Team at the Pentagon. Responsible for daily reporting and presentations to senior Pentagon General Officers.
• Held a variety of leadership positions as a Civil Affairs Officer to include: 2 Combat tours in Iraq as a Special Operations, Civil Affairs Team Chief. Responsible for significant civil and political development programs at the city, province, and national level.
• Selected for and completed three successful Company Commands while on Active Duty with as many as 560 soldiers.
• Planned and safely executed major deployments to locations around the world.
• Testified at 2 Congressional Committees on gender-integrated training.

Confidential

• Provided program and project management consulting services to the US Coast Guard's Logistics Transformation Project Integration Office LTPIO to centralize logistics operations.
• Coordinated multiple working groups' activities into collective support of the mission and vision of the LTPIO program.
• Developed the information and logistics infrastructure to transform the existing program office into the USCG Business Transformation Office BTO .
• Developed and managed project plans, work breakdown structures, organization breakdown structures, and spending plans to meet all program and projects' objectives and deliverables.
• Developed and facilitated program and project meetings' content to ensure that supporting efforts are aligned, efficient, documented, repeatable, and scalable.