Achievement Summary:

• As Technical Director (Systems Engineering), successfully took Technology Bridge, Inc. from a start - up to an SBA certified 8(a) corporation under 3 years.
• Harnessed SOA to cut through complexity within the patents business systems as the Project/Task Order Manager at CSC/US Patent & Trademark Office. Used EVM to manage and cut costs by 15%.
• Successfully supported Nextel Communications as a Senior Project Manager to nationally rollout (1) Micro-cell propagation tool, (2) Server consolidation to support RF engineering operations, and (3) Product enhancement and Actix Analyzer training for RF and Systems Performance engineers.
• As Senior Release Manager, working with Northrop Grumman/Computer Sciences Corp, successfully created the infrastructure to support the IRS modernization and deployed various applications to support Tax Administration.
• As Release Manager successfully assisted Fannie Mae to complete its financial re-statement.
• As District Development Manager at AT&T successfully created the Universal Platform (UP) and migrated all legacy applications and data to support Customer Account Data Management. This created the foundation for AT&T to have the capability for consolidated billing.
• Completed all projects within cost and budget.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Release Manager/Infrastructure Engineering, Lanham, MD

• Managed the Release and Deployment of the Modernized e-File (MeF) system for the IRS on the Infrastructure Shared Services contract. My efforts resulted in the availability of the system of record for electronic filing of all Individual and Business Tax returns for the United States.
• Interfaced with the IRS/IBM/Accenture/others to coordinate activities related to the release and deployment of all infrastructure artifacts of the MeF into Production, ATS, and the Alternate production environments.
• Provided configuration management support to the MeF project representing the Infrastructure team at Configuration Board meetings. This resulted in minimizing reworks and allowed completion of tasks within cost and budget.
• Supported Requirements development for MeF - resulted in satisfying contract and congressional mandates
• Versed in working with other Infrastructure and Systems engineers on areas related to Web Services, MQSeries, WebSphere, JBoss, DB2 Connect, Sun Solaris J2EE, SOAP, Veritas, Oracle GG, Oracle ASM, Tectia, Forum FSGs, etc.
• Utilized the Rational tools (RequisitePro, ClearCase, ClearQuest, etc.), and ServiceNow in an ITIL environment to support release/deployment/CM.

• Provided Process/Requirements Engineering support to the IRS for the development and creation of the Concept of Operations (ConOps), Requirements (functional & non-functional), Use Cases, Activity & Sequence Diagrams, and Functional Architecture for the Modernized e-File (MeF) System Release 6 and the Account Management System (AMS) Release 2.1 projects; This provided clarity and allowed successful development of the AMS and MeF systems.
• Utilized Rational tools (Rational Rose, RequisitePro, ClearQuest, ClearCase).

Project Manager, Silver Spring, MD

• Provided project management support on a contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Security & Preparedness. Efforts included acquisition, design, installations, and deployment of video teleconferencing systems at four Emergency Management sites.

Project/Task Order Manager, Alexandria, VA

• Provided project and task order management (US Patents & Trademark Office, SDI Program) on the Patent Desktop Search Systems (PDSS) with 11 Automated Information Systems, with 5 Technical Leads, and 22 technical staff. In addition, provided technical leadership and management on the PDSS Maintenance/development Task Order to ensure task order processes and procedures are closely followed. My efforts resulted in successfully harnessing SOA to cut through complexity within the patents business systems. Environment included HP UNIX, Linux, WinTel, Apache, iPlanet, NSAPI, Oracle 10g, Documentum, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, VBA, VS.NET, ASP.NET, Perl, Web services, Rational Rose, ReqPro, ClearQuest, ClearCase, PVCS, MS Project, ANT, GNU, ITIL, etc.;
• Process/requirements management - Rational Tools (ReqPro, Rational Rose, & ClearQuest);

Senior Release Manager, Herndon, VA

• Provided release and requirements/change management in support of Restatement Financial Data Warehouse (RFDW) projects at Fannie Mae. As a result, Fannie Mae successfully completed it’s restatement.
• Planned, coordinated and managed release schedules and activities (MS Project, SharePoint, Remedy, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Excel, etc.
• Managed Oracle 9i to 10g migration and coordinated downtimes with all downstream and 3rd party consumers

Technical Director, Ashburn, VA

Summary of the support to our clients:

• Business development and strategic planning (various clients - ARMA, CMI, etc.)
• US SBA/DMS – HUBZONE project – managed the resource responsible for developing the HUBZONE online-system for registration, certification, re-certification, and reporting. Tools - Java, J2EE, MS SQL, ColdFusion, etc.
• IRS PRIME/CSC:
• Managed the resources that provided program-level configuration management, development, testing, & deployment support to the IRS modernization effort (Financial & taxation systems - all platforms – mainframe, Unix, NT, Infrastructure services, etc.)
• SAP Consulting Lead support to the Integrated Financial System (IFS) project
• CM Lead and Testing (2 Testers) for the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) project
• Managed project to develop and provide maintenance on the web-based Conference Registration for the CMS (Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services) under sub-contract to DMS, LLC;
• Created and managed DC Zoning kiosk-based zoning virtual library. Tools - .NET, GIS, Flex, etc. Today the kiosk not only supports ease of access, but is a source of revenue generation of the District government.

Senior Project Manager,Reston, VA

• National Rollout of a Micro-cell radio-wave propagation tool. Efforts included RFI creation, negotiation/purchase of building/terrain data, oversight of the conduct of microcell tools trials at 6 Nextel locations, etc. Wavesight successfully rolled out to all 4 regions of Nextel;
• Provided project management support for the following projects – Wizard terminal services rollout (infrastructure re-design – server specs, terminal services, citrix metaframe, Oracle, etc), CellOpt ACP trials in 7 markets. “Wizard” is a macrocell radio wave frequency propagation & planning tool for wireless networks;
• Supported product enhancement and the creation of a national training program for RF and Systems Performance engineers on the use of Actix Analyzer.

Release Manager, Lanham, MD

• As the Release Manager, I was responsible for providing integration oversight, lead PMO portfolio management, creation of the release architecture in accordance with the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) framework, mapping of requirements to Configuration Item List (CIL), Test Cases, and Requirement Matrix; manage cross project dependencies to create a program level release from requirements engineering, development, testing, through deployment;
• Provided management oversight on the schedules and interfaces between projects and the IRS production systems utilizing the PRIME developed integrated master schedule (IMS);
• I established the first indexing schema for projects work-products and deliverables breakdown by requirements driven by the IMS;
• Maintained change Request updates to the requirements and assured change propagations to all related artifacts;
• IRS PRIME contractor point of contact for coordinating upgrades, patches, firmware releases to infrastructure within all environments (Dev, Test, and Production);
• As the release manager working with the FY2002 projects, and IT&D team, the PRIME successfully modernized the IRS infrastructure from installing mainframe z900 machines, to creating Registered and Employee User Portals, to deploying an internet-based application for taxpayers to verify Refund status via the Internet. Infrastructure included mainframes, Unix and NT servers, firewalls, switches, telecommunication equipment, voice recognition devices, etc. Supported the testing of a Customer Account Data Engine that now hosts all individual and business tax payers data, as well as an electronic services delivery to support IRS trading partners management including application, registration, CRM, TIN matching, transcript delivery, and secure mailing;
• Constituted the Defect Review Board (DRB) and ran the daily meetings for all testing phases (during RSIT, DSRT, and ST&E for STIR 1.1, ESM, and IRFOF) and conducted the combined PSIT DRB meetings for e-services 1.1 and STIR 1.2. Functioned as the program DR coordinator as well as approve Endevor packages for transmittal to the IRS test environment and/or production. Coordinated the staging of the builds as well as installation of staged components in either EITE or production. The Test Managers for all projects (10) were matrixed to me (as the Release Manager); My efforts were instrumental to the success of the program.
• Summary environment: multi-tier (mainframes, App Servers, Web Servers, Switches, 3 data centers (West Virginia; Detroit - MI, & Tennessee); Portals (Public and Internal); IBM z/OS, Unix (Sun, HP, & IBM), WinTel, Security related tools/infrastructure – CA products, Netegrity, SiteMinder; ESM – Tivoli Access, Rational Tools (ReqPro, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Rose, etc.), Web Services, C++, J2EE, Java, perl, Cobol, DB2, Oracle, SAP, .NET, WebSphere, PeopleSoft, Informatica, NetCool, SAS, Business Objects, Crystal Report, Rules Engine tools, monitoring tools, Remedy, Endevor, MS Project, Primevera, etc.

Systems Architect,Arlington, VA

Bell Atlantic in trying to get into the long distance market was required by the FCC to open up its local market to competition. Hired as a Consultant to create a Strategic Architecture District responsible for carrying out the software and system Architecture practice that will enable Bell Atlantic to support interoperability and interface with CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers). The flow through systems were required to support pre-ordering, ordering, provisioning, and billing activities for such CLECs as AT&T, MCI, Sprint, Williams Telecom, etc. on all voice, data, and broadband services.

Project/Release Manager,, Herndon, VA

• As E-2-E Project/Release Manager for DSBS & CM at AT&T; was responsible for all projects and releases related to providing the Infrastructure services, the UI capabilities and DAL services for all Tier1, Tier2 & Tier3 development constructs required to enable AT&T to deliver services on the Universal Platform (UP);
• Worked in an environment consisting development tools and methodology that included Java, C++, Weblogic, Rational Rose, ClearCase, ClearDDTS, UML, Oracle 8, Orbix, CORBA, MessageQ, Swing, Netscape Enterprise Server;
• Managed a team of more than 40 Developers, Systems Engineers, and Testers.
• Responsible for release of the applications (CM and DSBS) into production per AT&T Release schedule;
• Utilized AT&T Software Development Framework (SDF) as the Life Cycle support methodology. Managed Releases 2000.02, 2000.04 and 2000.10.

District Development Manager, Herndon, VA

Functioned as the Development Manager for AT&T Customer Accounts and Data Management (CADM). My responsibilities included the following:

• Managed a staff of 28. Responsible for conversion/migration of AT&T customer accounts information from legacy platforms (MVS, IMS, DB2, Cobol, VSAM, etc) to a new architecture on a “Universal Platform (UP)” to support end-to-end customer information management. The new platform with the new AT&T universal biller (UB) constructs supports ordering, provisioning, through billing. The UP is a client/server environment running Oracle 8.05, C, Pro*C, C++, ClearDDTS, ClearCase, ReqPro, etc.
• Designed, implemented software modules to unload data from the various legacy stores, develop translation software to create the new UB structures in accordance with the new AT&T UP hierarchies, and load/update data into the universal platform.

Senior Manager,  Fairfax, VA

• Assigned as the Project Manager to US Clearing Corp (a Quick & Reilly Company / Fleet Securities), NY to support IT Systems Re-development and Y2K Remediation & Testing on all Internal Applications (87 applications in excess of 7Millions LOC) supporting Trading, Margins, Options, Billing, General Ledger, Mutual Funds, Electronic Trading, Human Resources, etc. Staff level 20;
• Assigned as the Project Manager to LCI International (QWEST), to support scanning and parser tool development for Y2K Assessment and Renovation. Staff level at 10;
• Assigned to the James River (Fort James Corporation) effort with Millennia III as the IT Coordinator.

Program Manager, Systems Engineering, Chantily, VA

• Functioned as a Program Manager at Telos with emphasis on portfolio management and developing new business within the Federal market, and in particular within the Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM). Provided technical and management direction through FEDSIM on Data Management and Standardization projects for the United States Army;
• Technical Advisor/Database Architect to the US Army PMO Sustaining Base Automation (part of PEOSTAMIS) in the areas of Data Management (Logical/Physical Data Modeling & Standardization), as well as the physical data base design (Oracle 7.1, IBM/AIX environment) and development efforts. Provided IV&V services for the conduct of PDR, SCDR, and all inspections related to designing a distributed client/server SBIS within an Open System Environment; Tools – Pro*C, Ada, ClearCase, PVCS, ReqPro, ErWin, etc.
• Technical Advisor/Database Architect to PEOSTAMIS on the TCAIMS II (DoD movement planning, tracking & mobilization system) – currently in use supporting war-fighting. Sybase, NT, Oracle, etc.

Others:

1. Principal Technical Staff, PRC, INC FEDSIM, IRS, DoD

2. Project Manager, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (CBIS), Inc. HUD/FHEO/FHA/Ginnie Mae

3. Project Leader, CALCULON CORPORATION (Housing/mortgage

4. Senior Systems Analyst, THE WASHINGTON CONSULTING GROUP Energy – EIA

5. Staff Consultant (Project Leader), ORKAND Corporation Energy – EIA, EPA

IT Environments, Languages and Tools:

• Operating System: z/OS, UNIX (Solaris 7-10, HP AUX, Linux, AIX, Digital UNIX), Wintel, etc.
• Database packages & Languages: Oracle 7.x, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 9i, 10g, 11g, MS SQL, Informix, DB2, Access, ODBC, PL/SQL, ANSI SQL, SQLPLUS, Java, JavaScript, Perl, C, C++, COBOL, PowerBuilder, etc.
• Other Software: Microsoft Office suite, Erwin, Cognos, Microsoft Exchange server, Visio, Rational Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest, ReqPro, Endevor, TestDirector, LoadRunner, Remedy, DreamWeaver, Teamwork, AutoSys, Tivoli, Serena PVCS, ANT, etc.
• Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project, MS Project Server, Primevera, COCOMO.
• Protocols and Relevant Technologies: J2EE, SOAP, SOA, Web Services, TCP/IP/SSL, Named Pipes, RPC, XML, XSL/T, VS.NET, VBA, ASP.NET, Websphere, Weblogic, MQSeries, etc.
• EIM, Six Sigma, ETL, System Methodology tools: Agile/Scrum/devOps, CoE model, Abinitio, Informatica, Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM), ITIL, etc.
• Hardware: IBM MF z-900, IBM/AIX, Enterprise E4500, Sunfire 4800, v240, E15K, X4150, Sun Enterprise 250, Sun 490, sun blade 6000, IBM Power series, EMC Symmetrix, HP Aux, Compaq Alpha GS160.
• Case & Modeling Tools: Select Enterprise tool, Sybase Power designer, Visio, Erwin.
• ERP/Document Management Systems and Tools: SAP, PeopleSoft, EMC Documentum, FormScape, Microsoft SharePoint.