PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Software Delivery Project Manager and Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering through direct customer communication
• Preliminary design
• Software development
• Manages software development team through various phases of software development lifecycle
• Responsible for communication and feedback from customers
• Responsible for final product handover and delivery to the customer ..
• Project Management Process: Agile Scrum
• Project Management Tools: JIRA for Agile planning and Sprint tracking. Microsoft Project for detailed project planning, milestone and resource tracking. Visio, Power Point, Excel, Word, OneNote, Evernote, Outlook, Microsoft 360 suite.
• Product Programming Languages: MQL4, Java, Python, JAVAScript, HTML, CSS
• SW Programs: MetaTrader 4 (MT4), Meta Editor (MT4), Python IDLE, Atom
• Web Development (Web Services): REST API, JSF (JAVA ServerFaces), JAX - WS (JAVA API for XML Web Services), Django Framework, Flask-RESTful, JSON, XML, SQL Database, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Git (version Control), Flask Security.

Software Delivery Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Utilization of Agile Scrum processes, methodologies, and Sprints driving Software releases
• Waterfall process also applied to accommodate legacy processes
• Utilize CMMI process for any infrastructure and Architectural enhancements
• Budget projections based on actual and forecasted utilization and maximum billable hours
• Timeline/Schedule and resource planning for deployments
• Coordinate and drive Sprints and Agile Scrum meetings from start to end
• Responsible for driving and presenting Weekly IPT customer updates, and day to day customer interaction
• Drive Task Order kick-off and any other contractually obligated meetings
• Update contractually obligated project deliverable documents with every release, such as; Project Management Plan, Project Schedule, Program Management Plan, Master Test Plan, Version Design Description (VDD), etc.
• Interfaced with Information Assurance (IA) leads helping enforce IA standards, POA&M extensions, and ATO compliance to FDA standards. Also, was responsible in updating all Technical and Project Management documents to reflect any updates.
• Support Task Order Statement of Work responses through brainstorming technical solutions, estimating timelines, resources, etc.
• Develop detailed Technical Project Plans related to infrastructure software and hardware enhancements, capacity and performance testing, regression testing
• Software Utilized: Microsoft Project, JIRA for Agile planning and Sprint tracking, HP ALM, SharePoint, Visio, Power Point, Excel, Word, OneNote, Evernote, Outlook, Microsoft 360 suite.
• System Related Software:
• Python, Python IDLE, Atom, REST API, Flask-RESTful, JSON, XML, SQL Database, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Git (version Control), Flask Security, Django Framework, JAVAScript, CSS, HTML
• JAVA, JSF (JAVA ServerFaces), JAX-WS (JAVA API for XML Web Services), EJB (Enterprise JAVA Beans), SOLR (Open Source Search Platform), Hibernate ORM, Oracle Weblogic, Oracle Fusion Framework, Oracle Database 11g,
• Supporting Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure cloud

Manager/Project Manager

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD & Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Manages a team responsible for customer contract deliverables.
• Contract worth $852,000 over 6 months
• Responsible for monthly Contract/SOW (Statement of Work) deliverables on a timely manner
• Contract/SOW financial monthly overview and tracking
• Time and Expense report review and approvals.
• Interface with business stakeholders and lead matrix team of architects, designers, technical analysts and developers who have responsibility for defining solutions, completing high level and detailed design.
• Collaborate with various functional managers to confirm IT project budget is properly estimated and controlled, provide overall financial recommendations, and develop controls and measurements to monitor progress. Supervise the assignment of resource hours per project
• Collaborate with functional managers and SMEs for the development of SDLC timelines, supervise timelines are met within the various stages of the Agile SDLC lifecycle from design, development, testing, approval, to deployment
• Drive design sessions and discussions with application leads and developers. Responsible for the distribution of meeting minutes and action items. Responsible for presentation and approval of final design through vetting and final review board and collaboration with solution partners
• Act as main escalation point of contact for any testing issues that need to be funneled to application SMEs and developers
• Collaborates with Information Assurance (IA) and Security Leads for obtaining approvals that the solution abide with Carefirst’s PHI/PII, authentication/authorization, port control, and other security policies. Also, was responsible in updating all Technical and Project Management documents to reflect any updates.
• Collaborate with release management for the setup of BPs (Build Packages), DMs (Development Modules) & BCs (Build Components). Responsible for the setup of any IT Operations tickets related for Capacity analysis and Infrastructure deployment. Utilizing Serena Business Mashups (SBM) application
• Collaborate with Release Management to obtain Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Approval. Setup deployment checkpoint meetings and is the Go-To person for any deployment escalations
• Project management software used: Microsoft Project, JIRA, Serena Business Mashups (SBM), Clarity, HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), SharePoint, Visio, Power Point, Excel, Word, OneNote, Evernote, Outlook, Microsoft 360 suite.
• Product related software:
• Python language, Python IDLE, Atom, REST API, Flask-RESTful, JSON, XML, SQL Database, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Git (version Control), Flask Security, Django Framework, JAVAScript, CSS, HTML
• JAVA, JSF (JAVA ServerFaces), JAX-WS (JAVA API for XML Web Services), EJB (Enterprise JAVA Beans), SOLR (Open Source Search Platform), Hibernate ORM, Oracle Weblogic, Oracle Fusion Framework, Oracle Database 11g.
• Systems: Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Weblogic, Oracle Database.
• Technical concepts and protocols: SOAP, REST, SOA, Web Services, TCP/IP, EDI 834 Enrollment Implementation Format
• Networking concepts and protocols: Understanding OSI layers, routing, switching, client/server concepts, security fundamentals

Technical Project Manager

Confidential , Falls Church & Rosslyn, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed a $4.3 Million over 3 years contract for the sustainment and software development of three Bi-Directional Health Information Exchange (BHIE) systems (BHIE AHLTA, BHIE SHARE, BHIE Confidential Adaptor), Clinical Health Data Repository (CHDR)
• Conducted scope management, requirements validation, scope validation and control, development of WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
• Acted as in interface between government product owners and vendors
• Managed sustainment and development vendors throughout the SDLC (Agile Scrum and Waterfall)
• Project time management, tracked deliverable, tasks, and schedule development
• Managed, controlled and reviewed software releases, patches and fixes to Configuration Management (CM)
• Cost management, cost estimations, forecasts, participated in Program Objective Memorandum (POM) development, and familiar with Earned Value analysis
• Reviewed and validated vendor LoEs (Levels of Effort)
• Constructed architectural diagrams and presentations explaining complex concepts to Program stakeholders and solution partners
• Interfaced with Information Assurance (IA) leads supporting the enforcement of IA standards, POA&M extensions, and ATO compliance to Confidential standards. Attended IA related meetings to stay up to date with forecasted IA updates. Also, was responsible in updating all Technical and Project Management documents to reflect any updates.
• Interfaced with Quality Assurance test teams for software package prioritization and acted as a liaison with development teams
• Regularly conducted technical risk/impact analysis on to-be deployed software packages
• Assured vendors comply with project closure procedures and submit required deliverables
• Regularly reported updates to government leadership and reviewed weekly vendor status reports
• Project management software used: Microsoft Project, Serena Business Mashups (SBM), and JAZZ, SharePoint, Visio, Power Point, Excel, Word, OneNote, Evernote, Outlook, Microsoft 360 suite.
• Python language, Python IDLE, REST API, Django Framework, Flask-RESTful, JSON, XML, SQL Database, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Git (version Control), Flask Security, JAVAScript, CSS, HTML
• JAVA, JBOSS, Oracle database, OC4J, Oracle Weblogic,, Oracle Fusion Framework, SQL, RHEL, Windows Server 2003, Tuxedo/FEP
• Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure cloud
• Technical concepts and protocols: SOAP, REST, SOA, Web Services, TCP/IP, HL7
• Networking concepts and protocols: Understanding OSI layers, routing, switching, client/server concepts, security fundamentals, wireless technologies

Technical Project Manager & SW Developer (Associate)

Confidential, Herndon & Ft. Belvoir, VA

Responsibilities:

• Expeditionary Target Surveillance System Combined ( Confidential ) in Theatre Afghanistan.
• This was a project with a $2Million annual budget.
• Remotely led a team of field operation officers supporting technical networking and video application issues in theatre operations.
• Supported schedule and budget development.
• Worked closely with acquisition and procurement teams.
• Led technical discussion and specifications validation with FMV vendors such as Vbrick, Raytheon, and Haivision.
• Supported technical meetings that included government sponsor, development vendor, and other government stakeholders.
• Supervised over requirements gathering and compliance with FMV technical standards specifications.
• Supervised over network planning for interoperability of Confidential Family of Systems (FoS). Supervised over quality assurance testing for any vendor releases.
• Coordinated with Information Assurance (IA) leads for ATO compliance and POA&M extensions. Attended system related IA meetings. Updated Project and Technical documentation. Updated stakeholders with any changes.
• Video encoding solutions and vendors utilized: VBrick, NGREPv3 & PSDS2 (Raytheon), Haivision.
• Project Management tools: SharePoint, Visio, Power Point, Excel, Word, OneNote, Evernote, Outlook, Microsoft 360 suite.
• Supported Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) office of Unified Communications (UC) & Collaboration.
• Was technical project manager for a $1 Million project
• Lead a team of systems engineers and developers that were responsible for research of (Presence) aggregation in XMPP (eXtensible Messaging & Presence Protocol), and mapping SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) Presence to XMPP Presence over IP networks.
• Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.
• Managed requirements gathering and validation. Standards compliance.
• Validated and controlled scope.
• Schedule, and cost development.
• Acted as an interface between Government customer and vendors in technical discussions.
• Technologies, Protocols utilized: XMPP, SIP, SIMPLE, WebDAV/HTTP, JAVA, Python, Python IDLE, REST API, Flask-RESTful, JSON, XML, SQL Database, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Git (version Control), Flask Security, Django Framework, JAVAScript, CSS, HTML, RHEL Linux, Windows Server 2003, Presence, Unified Communications, Web Services. Interfaced Vendors: Microsoft, Avaya, Cisco, Nokia Siemens, Tandberg, and Polycom. Project Management tools: SharePoint, Visio, Power Point, Excel, Word, OneNote, Evernote, Outlook, Microsoft 360 suite, Microsoft Azure cloud.
• Mr. Jaff provided support for the upgrade of DCO (Defense Connect Online) to DCS (Defense Collaboration Services).
• Managed requirements gathering.
• Developed complex diagrams and presentations.
• Defined activities, estimated activity resources and duration, developed schedule and controlled schedule.
• Product utilized and upgraded was Adobe Connect Enterprise Suite. Features upgraded: video, voice, chat/IM, and Presence.

SW Developer/Technical Project Manager (Agile Scrum Master)

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Responsibilities:

• This was a $ 6 Million project over 3 years.
• Managed a team of developers and testers.
• Helped establish eXperimental Test Environment (XTE) lab.
• Utilized Agile Scrum methodology for rapid development.
• Interfaced with DHS security and IA leads to validate all developed concepts were in compliant with DHS IA (Information Assurance) standards.
• Software Languages Used: JAVA, Python, Python IDLE, REST API, Flask-RESTful, JSON, XML, SQL Database, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Git (version Control), Flask Security, Django Framework/Web Services, JAVAScript, CSS, HTML, Linux scripting.
• Networking Technologies: IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) infrastructure utilizing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), SOA (Service Oriented Architecture).
• Vendor and network components utilized: Radvsion SIP stack for IMS, Acmepacket Session Border Controllers (SBC), Sonus Network Border Switch (NBS), GSX, PSX switches/Gateways, Red Hat Linux, Cisco routers, open source Session Border Controller (SBC). Test tools utilized: Radvision’s Prolab, Hammer Call Analyzer & IxNetworks tools, SIPp & JPERF/IPERF. SharePoint, Visio, Power Point, Excel, Word, IBM Lotus Notes Email client.

SW Developer/Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Developed, tested and implemented a converged RF/WLAN distributed in-building solution. He interfaced with Nextel communications Development & Custom Network Solutions (CNS) teams.
• He was responsible for developing, unit testing, troubleshooting, performance testing, software upgrades, hardware upgrades, feature/status reporting for the first Beta versions of this Nextel sponsored/funded solution.
• Wireless access protocols used were 802.11 a/b, iDEN, CDMA, GSM, in addition to IP based routing /switching and centralized software management.
• JAVA EE (Eclipse), Tomcat/Apache, ActiveMQ, JMS, MangoDB, MangoVUE, Git, Jenkens, Maven, Ant. SharePoint, Visio, Power Point, Excel, Word, OneNote, Outlook.