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Experienced project management professional who excels in liaising between business and technical areas, possesses vast experience of coordinating and managing all project activities throughout the project lifecycle, and provides clear guidance and leadership to a team to ensure all project deliverables are fully met.

Specialized Competencies

Project Management Skills

• Experience in managing technical infrastructure projects
• Knowledge of the latest project management tools and methodology.
• Comfortable working on large projects or numerous, smaller size pieces of work
• A good knowledge of the techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programs and resources
• Ability to deliver quality outcomes under time pressures
• Comfortable working with clients and third parties at the senior level
• Resolving/Escalating issues in a timely fashion
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high pressure environment
• Computer literate, with high level of competence in the use of the Microsoft Office suite of tools, including Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Visio/Project/SharePoint.

Professional Experiences

Confidential

Project Planning Assistant

• Serving as a volunteer project planning team member for the Hampton Roads Project Management Institute Chapter's Professional Development Conference. Assisting in any of the following capacities as needed:
• Pre-registration management and accounting
• Participant program development
• Speaker selection and contracting
• Marketing Advertising to participants
• SharePoint site development
• PMI Sister Chapter Outreach

Confidential

Acquisition Support Specialist

• Assisted with evaluation criteria for structured response analysis
• Supported and drafted program management and acquisition milestone documentation e.g., Acquisition Strategy, Acquisition Plan, Request for Information RFI , Concept of Operations CONOPS , Request for Proposal RFP
• Served as Acquisition Support Specialist for the PMO on a Confidential contract assisting the agency in planning, acquiring, implementing, and monitoring IT related system acquisitions.
• Experienced with the Information Technology DoD Acquisition Lifecycle Oversight Management process and its milestones and the Business Capability Lifecycle
• Assisted in conducting market research to identify potential sources of contract vehicles
• Participated in meetings and supported specified Program Integrated Product Teams IPTs
• Supported acquisition planning consistent with FAR requirements
• Worked in close coordination with PEO/Headquarters staff

Confidential

Project Functional Support II/Junior Project Manager

• Served as project support for the PMO on numerous large scale complex IT development and support projects and as project manager for numerous moderately complex projects for the Confidential Information Technologies Agency IT Infrastructure partnership, a 10 year 2.4 billion partnership to transform the Confidential IT infrastructure.
• Full systems development lifecycle experience from requirements gathering through design, testing, and deployment
• Promoted to a project manager role to plan, schedule and execute all stages of enterprise hardware implementations. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets
• Ensured business and technology requirements are suitably defined, understood and signed off
• Managed project constraints in terms of cost, time, scope, and quality in adherence with established organization and enterprise project management practices.
• Initiated and maintained reporting relationships with project stakeholders including team members, peers, managers, customers, vendors, and other affected departments to coordinate efforts across multiple business units and ensure continuous efficient management of projects.
• Managed project plan modifications, budgeted/actual hours, schedules, action items, and timelines and revised as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Identified, managed, controlled, and mitigated risks across multiple, interdependent projects by analyzing and identifying trigger events establishing contingency plans anticipating and managing dependencies affected by ongoing changes across projects recommending ways to mitigate future risks and managing them to resolution or escalating them accordingly to minimize their impact on the project.
• Managed project teams by assembling team resources which ensure the alignment of team member skills and strengths with project demands
• Coordinated team activities to ensure project milestones are achieved, providing performance feedback to team members' supervisors as appropriate
• Regularly communicated project expectations to team members and stakeholders to use their feedback to optimize progress.
• Managed resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects.
• Analyzed competing priorities, financial/resource constraints and schedule considerations to determine costs and benefits of change requests.
• Worked collaboratively with internal and external teams to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Conducted planning and operational readiness assessments to provide an effective transition into production.

Confidential

Administrative Coordinator

• Served as the primary contact for client support and sales support for the District Manager and field sales representatives related to the procurement of various industrial chemicals.