IT Project Manager

• Program Manager and leader with extensive experience leading cross functional teams, aligning goals and resources, improving efficiencies, and enhancing earnings. Knowledgeable in systems integration. Called upon by leadership to solve complex problems. Additional areas of expertise:
• Systems Engineering Strategic Development System Development Life Cycle SDLC
• Process Improvements Risk Management Six Sigma Stakeholder Management Change Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Operations

Leads the Risk and Opportunity and Engineering Change Proposal activities for the Sustainment IPT, maintaining the deployed JPSS Common Ground System. Ensures that R Os are identified in a timely manner and handling plans developed and put in place. Develops change proposals based on customer requests, using bid models based on past performance to estimate work.

Operational Highlights:

• Developed and managed risk handling plans to effectively mitigate 20M in risks and avoid months of schedule slippage. Represented the sustainment IPT on the Risk Review Board.
• Developed Engineering Change proposals totaling over 6.1M based on customer and senior management requests. Estimates were all fully supported with detailed Basis of Estimates.
• Managed Earned Value as the CAM for R O and ECP business areas. Ensured cost and schedule targets were achieved.
• Participated in Program Management Reviews and developed Cost Performance Reports and other presentations and reports.

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Manage IT intensive projects supporting the US Census Bureau, ensuring projects are delivered successfully at acceptable quality levels.

Operational Highlights:

• Managed projects in a highly structured PMO setting, ensuring fully resourced schedules are developed and statused weekly. Reviewed and analyzed earned value metrics and developed variance reports and corrective action plans as necessary. Conducted weekly team meetings to ensure tasks were being worked as planned, identified emergent risks, and addressed problems that arose.
• Led a 16M project implementing Service Oriented Architecture, leveraging Oracle OPA to implement business rules in an Operational Control System to more effectively conduct Surveys and the Decennial Census. This project was on the highest priority list and required rigorous attention to development and delivery of Life Cycle artifacts.
• Assumed leadership of a strategic project - with a potential to save 1B in Census costs - that languished for over a year - and moved it quickly to a path to reach a decision point by mid-2015 on whether to use the approach for the 2020 Census. Developed concept of operations and training, and conducted field site tests to prove concept. Engaged with psychologists to develop surveys to determine public acceptance of the concept. Commissioned penetration tests to determine security vulnerabilities and to harden the architecture.
• Teaching PMP Boot Camp courses in US and Canada, for PMBOK 4th and 5th edition, preparing PMs to pass the PMBOK exam

Program Manager

Identified and implemented engineering and financial services solutions to a Navy Ship Integration customer. Developed secure video solution in distance support maintenance.

Operational Highlights:

• Coordinated the delivery of professional services to the Ship Integration Test customer, As team lead, ensured estimates and spending plans support client goals and functionality, assuring the ability to meet client priorities. Managed a staff of 32 at the customer site, ensuring the correct talent was being provided to the Program Managers. Prepared Monthly Status Reports for delivery to the Navy COR.
• Developed secure near real-time video system for Reliability Centered Maintenance through leading a team in developing CONOPS and system design, leading to an affordable COTS-based solution. Mentored junior engineers, preparing them for greater responsibility.
• Positioned company for expanded work through leading proposal teams delivering fully compliant and compelling proposals, increasing probability of win

Program Manager / Chief Systems Engineer / Director of Capability Development

Ensured successful delivery of quality products and services through adherence to fully resourced schedule. Recovered failed project through root cause analysis leading to corrective action. Improved technical capabilities of the business unit through implementing new processes in risk management and Agile development.

Operational Highlights:

• Managed and led project teams, providing daily management including development of the statement of work, preparing the budget and schedule, monitoring and controlling finances, analysis of earned value based on CPI/SPI metrics, and subcontractor management. Developed IMS and IMP. Ensured projects successfully delivered to the triple constraints of budget, scope, and schedule.
• Delivered maximum contract value by managing and leading project teams working on the Trident II Weapon System. Communicated with senior Navy leadership at the GS-15, O-6 and SES level, ensuring expectations were understood and communications were effectively managed to all stakeholders. Developed high level briefing presentations for senior leadership.
• Developed an Enterprise Risk and Opportunity Management system, proactively managing risk of the enterprise. Effort included including development of the plan, process, and procedure, selection of the risk tool and delivering initial training to project managers
• Restored a failing project by identifying and rectifying failures via root cause analysis, resulting in improved training and delivery of higher quality products and services. Developed improved quality assurance and delivery processes.
• Developed a business transformation plan to realign the business unit's technical offering through capability improvements of the enterprise, improving the organization's technical offering. Developed transformational roadmap to reach end-state goal. Communicated needs and benefits to stakeholders through the principles of Change Management.
• Introduced Agile and SOA methodology and tools into the business unit by collaborating with systems engineering groups across BAE Systems, reducing development time of contemporary methodologies and processes. Developed CMMI Level 3 processes.
• Reviewed project and program progress using BAE Systems review gates processes. As a certified assessor and chairman, participated and chaired design and project reviews, ensuring program risks identified and mitigation plans developed, and business case satisfied.
• Participated in capture teams and authored technical and management sections of key proposals involving multiple companies, maximizing potential of winning new work.
• Led and directed a distributed team delivering innovative solutions.

Director Systems Engineering / Program Manager

Started up and led a software development organization, leading to a multi-year contract with the Navy to develop and integrate a display framework into the Display System of a major combat system.

Operational Highlights:

• Championed use of iterative development process, resulting in the ability to capture evolving requirements, speeding development and boosting collaboration, delivering profits 7 higher than similar projects. Responsible for full P L for new product development and integration.
• Established and led a 50M systems and software development project successfully developing and integrating a tactical display software product for the Navy. Established and led cross-company IPT for product development and integration. Managed a team of 25 professionals.
• Established an Integrated Development Environment, selecting and integrating contemporary toolsets. Developed processes for use of the IDE in development of tactical display software.
• Implemented CMMI processes in support of Systems Engineering and Program Management, leading to assessment of CMMI level 3. Developed plan driven and agile processes.
• Reduced cost and risk through outsourcing critical software development efforts. Developed a SOW, negotiated the subcontract including cost and quality standards, and conducted weekly telecons to discuss risk, progress on deliverables, and financial status.
• Ensured stakeholder satisfaction through effective communications, coordinated and briefed program reviews and status with the customer and other major stakeholders.
• Facilitated company's capability advancement by collaborating with major team mates to define strategic agreements and negotiating contracts thus promoting development.

Systems Engineer / SE Project Manager

• Analyzed system performance via modeling and simulations, reducing risk in advanced system development. Developed beamformer models based in MatLab.
• Developed models of system performance and bounded expectations through statistical analysis, leading to the ability to detect trends and recommend corrective action.