PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Leader, project manager, trusted consultant, and information technology professional with over twenty - five years’ service to the world’s greatest organizations. Superb ability to manage complex enterprise-wide information security, voice, video, and IT transformation projects, many with international stakeholders. Successfully manages projects and programs, analyzes business requirements, develops architectural frameworks, creates systems engineering concepts with solutions, and author sustainment plans. Help business leaders better understand IT costs and IT business value.

KEY COMPETENCIES AND INDUSTRY EXPERTISE:

IT Program Management IT Project Management Business/Systems Analysis Information Security Network Operations Problem Resolution Solutions development Project Engineering Executive Mentoring

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Peoria, Illinois

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created financial budget identifying all necessary training, materials, and equipment to advance Outside Plant, Frequency Management, Enterprise Telephone, and Information Security personnel
• Best budget submitted in office, loaded with details, spot on Wowed government personnel
• Strong leadership mentoring Confidential ’s InfoSec program—first major advancement since 9-1-1
• Authored Confidential ’s first five year comprehensive information security plan—methodical plan synchronizing technical and InfoSec training, doctrine development, structure, etc.
• While mentoring Confidential G6 officers, led efforts to advance Confidential ’s enterprise Avaya voice platform life-cycle planning to in corporate a long-term approach—ensures ANA forces reliable voice systems to fight insurgents
• Project manager, skillfully turned two year project into a six month project, developed electrical/HVAC statement of work with civil engineers, and authored a SLA
• Project manager developing quick-turn, three security domains VOIP, data, and VTC capability, completed four months early, creative eqpt repurposing; lieutenant general personally lauded achievements

Confidential, Scott AFB, IL

Deputy Director of Staff

Responsibilities:

• Led/managed six work-centers/21 person staff, 100K sq. foot facility supporting IT for an 850+ person unit; $2M budget, executive IT support and briefing preparation, facility maintenance, and personnel security
• Developed first effects-based strategic communications plan for an agency with $4B+ in programs
• Managed help desk/client support administrators supporting 600+ PCs, initiated and implemented new InfoSec trusted agent process resulting in cutting new computer account setup to three days verses three weeks

Confidential, Scott AFB, IL

Deputy Chief, Intelligence, Surveillance

Responsibilities:

• Crafted easy to understand IT systems Business Continuity plan—Intel directorate 4 months ahead of schedule
• Prepared responses to Confidential ’s classified enclaves InfoSec vulnerabilities checklist
• Key strategist authoring Air Mobility Command’s classified network migration—1st actionable plan for Confidential
• Established Web 3.0 Semantic Web industry and Academia Partnership Day advancing a new development framework—lieutenant general personally coined, pledged future funding

Confidential, Scott AFB, IL

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Authored Confidential AF-ICE Architecture for security accreditation--achieved AF-ICE Approval to Operate
• Developed security accreditation—270 InfoSec control questions—saved two months on accreditation
• Implemented Security Guides/ Confidential GOLD vulnerability scans on servers/clients—created best IT security

Confidential, Scott AFB, IL

Chief, Enterprise Network Evaluation and AF-ICE Agency Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed three senior government civilian computer engineers and seven contractors ($950K+ contract) responsible for enterprise evaluations including identity management, Active Directory, and MS Exchange
• Led major identity-management, cyberspace-security threat response—ensured all commands capable could support an enhanced smart card login—IT security supporting 700,000+ AF users

Confidential, Bridgeton, MO

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manager, 11 member team, nationwide voice over IP (VOIP) network
• Initiated creative network redesign—corrected major design faults—put project back on track
• Led enterprise business management— help develop plan to reduce servers by more than 100

Confidential, Gurnee, IL

Senior ATM Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer maintaining a Cisco- Confidential BPX ATM network and associated AXIS ATM concentrators
• Developed three analysis-of-alternatives on the most cost effective way to procure DS3 port capacities

Confidential, Florissant, MO

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Crafted strategic network plan moving from a private-line to a frame-relay architecture—30% annual savings
• Authored superb troubleshooting report for a chronic server performance problem resulting in IT director applauding report as the first time he understood problem and solution—restored 8 sales offices to service
• Implemented migration plan of 25 stand-alone Novel LANs to the corporate mainframe—expertly captured IP conflicts during the migration and implemented new WAN IP addressing architecture

Confidential, Chesterfield, MO

Network Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Ops engineer supported 10 Asynchronous Transfer Mode and a 42 node frame relay swiches
• Extensive expertise in carrier circuit engineering, testing, and setup of private-line, frame-relay, IP, and ATM circuits while operating in a multi operating system environment (NEXT, Unix, and LINUX environments)
• Developed computer-telecomm disaster recovery plans for 5+ Fortune 500 customers over WCOM networks