IT Project Manager / Business Analyst

• Seasoned IT Professional with extensive project management and business analysis expertise for enterprise solutions within the federal, defense and private sectors.
• Accomplished, results-oriented leader with proven record of driving enterprise-level business, process, and system transformations. Adept in estimating and managing project scope, cost, schedule, and resource requirements.. Manage software application planning, requirements analysis, and solution oversight spanning the system development life cycle SDLC for a wide range of technologies. Expertise in requirements and business analysis, content management, functional design, documentation, modeling, and user testing. Current Secret level clearance.

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Professional Experience

Confidential

Worked on a short term FBI process improvement project on feasibility study focus was automating a largely manual process and determining possible automated solutions and deriving requirements. Interviewed employees performing the work, examined work products, policies and regulation. Used various techniques to communicate understanding of the requirements including wire frames, UML Use Cases, state diagrams, and workflows. The results were documented in for major deliverables: Concept of Operations CONOPS , System Requirement Specifications SRS and Use Cases. Responsible for project scope, schedule, deliverables and resource management.

Confidential

Contracted with clients to support and manage requirements analysis, solution development, process improvement, and implementation efforts. Key Engagements:

Confidential

• Provided Management consulting services to ICMARC RC a Retirement services corp to implement a new System Development Lifecycle SDLC procedures for the IT Division to use to develop custom applications, maintenance and enhancements. Established procedures and policies created templates and tools. Delivered SDLC presentations to the entire IT Division-purpose to inform, educate and assimilate the division on the SDLC. Contributed to the SDLC Steering Committee, by providing guidance and advice on SDLC industry best practices.

Confidential

• Falls Church, VA: Served as Business Operations Systems Manager in support of solution development for contracting, financial, auditing, and project management functions built and implemented 40 SharePoint sites for diverse operational areas and lines of business. This included migrating data/documents from SharePoint 2007 to 2010.
• Maintained legacy systems in parallel while testing, validating, and enhancing SharePoint portals defined legacy system migration strategies.

Confidential

Held role of Project Manager for Department of Homeland Security DHS program partnered with software development and database administration teams to coordinate software updates / releases.

Confidential

Project Manager,

• Led project team of 16 in full life cycle management for 3M in enterprise projects held responsibility for project scope, schedule, budget, and resource estimation / allocation. Managed project governance and change / issue / risk management controls. Oversaw cross-functional team comprising systems administration, IT operations, software development, IT acquisition and outside consultants.
• Managed the deployment of an enterprise SharePoint 2010 portal and .NET application integration initiatives. This project included legacy modernization of SharePoint 2007 and Cold Fusion web sites and applications. Implement Agile Scrum framework-something that was not in place. The team experienced success using this framework.
• Performed duties in Business Analysis by gathering requirement with individual and small groups as well as spearhead JAD sessions with functional teams
• Proposed project, defined scope and cost received approval, delivered demos and presentation to the senior leadership
• Developed plans, schedule, governance, presentations and other project documents
• Founding member of the 1st IO Command, INSCOM Knowledge Management Group. Established the organization's KM's charter, processes and procedures which reduced ad-hoc request for disparate KM software projects by 70 within six months and ultimately improving the time it took users to access information.

Confidential

Contracted with clients to support and manage requirements analysis, solution development, process improvement, and implementation efforts. Key Engagements:

• Oberon Associates, Inc.: Served as Requirements Analyst for US Army biometrics program produced requirements, Preliminary Design Review, and UML-based use case documentation consulted on CMMI-based process improvements and tools.
• Binary Group: Worked an Requirements Analyst for the US Army's Army portal Knowledge Online AKO initiative, collaborating with the Army CIO G-6 to lead the cross-functional AKO Functional Advisory Board defined system, policy, and procedural requirements. Worked with AKO PMO office to improve and refine the requirements process.
• Disys: Held role of Senior Business Analyst for Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI , elicited, analyzed and prioritized requirements. Created requirement documentation-Use Case, wireframes, mock-ups. Utilized Caliber to manage requirements. Worked in an Agile Scrum environment.
• Lockheed Martin: Supported requirements analysis phase for FBI's Virtual Case Management system SENTINEL partnering with enterprise architects, product teams, and Project Management Office PMO members to perform requirements analysis and define functional requirements. Worked in an Agile environment.

Produced activity and use case diagrams created requirements traceability matrices to sources, subsystems, COTS, designs, and test plans.

• Confidential

Program Analyst,

Performed diverse program and systems analysis supporting policy, procedure, and system development within DoD law enforcement agency. Key Projects:

• Served the Naval Criminal Investigative Service NCIS , Combating Terrorism CT Directorate, in development of an internal training / billeting allocation information system.

Provided process and impact analysis for Special Agent staffing, training, and billeting processes delivered new capability for system-based determination of Special Agent qualifications.

• Confidential

Project Manager,

• Managed client-facing projects for US Army contract, developing enterprise solutions using both commercial off-the-shelf COTS and custom-developed systems. Analyzed and defined requirements, modeled processes, and produced functional specifications facilitated joint application development JAD sessions. Key Projects:
• Spearheaded a SharePoint 2007-based intranet portal implementation
• Led benchmarking of requirements gathering / documentation techniques to inform process improvement and standardization effort decreased manual tasks by 930 hours per year.