SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years professional experience
• Program Management & Project Management in Government, IT and Defense industries
• Managing complex projects in very dynamic, fast paced, and matrix environments
• Experienced managing multiple tasks in parallel from inception to completion
• Client expectation management
• Experienced managing budgets over $25M and teams of up to 30 people
• Proposal development experience
• Risk Management, Requirements Management & Configurations Management (CM)
• Business Process Re - engineering (BPR)
• Certified in Agile, Scrum, ITIL, PMP, Six Sigma. Masters Business Administration (MBA)
• Security Clearance: SECRET CLEARANCE

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Office: Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio & SharePoint

Others: Clarity PPM, DOORS, DoDAF, UML use cases, Rational ROSE, Clear case, Remedy & CVS

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Program Manager

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Participate in strategic planning
• Primary liaison/point of contact with government client (CIO) for program delivery
• Periodic program updates to company executive leadership (President/CEO & VP of operations)
• Resource management ensuring timely & continued program staffing
• Escalation point for contract and personnel performance issues
• Final authority responsible for ensuring services delivered by project teams conform to contract
• Ensure delivered services meet schedule, quality, scope and budget guidelines
• Overseeing quality-control efforts
• Report on budget plans and performances
• Provides general oversight to inputs and deliverables
• Responsible for creating/briefing periodic and final status reports to client
• Participate in proposal writing and other new business development efforts

Deputy Program Manager

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Full SDLC management of IT projects from Initiation through Closeout
• Leading Software development projects via waterfall & agile methodologies
• Managing project cost/budget, schedule & performance (scope and quality)
• Coordinating project teams to meet contractual deliverables & other internal milestones
• Close coordination & communication with client liaison (client expectation management)
• Create periodic leadership briefings & report on project progress internally (OC) & externally (DO)
• High visibility enterprise timesheet & resource management application upgrade
• Thorough development, review & acceptance of project, test/upgrade plans & risk mitigation plans
• Periodic stakeholder progress updates including executive steering committees & C-level leadership
• Briefing status (costs, schedule, performance & risks) to organization leadership & clients/sponsors
• Liaising with various stakeholders & department leads on resources & project execution
• Risk mitigation, issue resolution & escalation as required
• Managed a budget of over $25M and a dispersed team of about 30 people

Program Manager

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Change Management; incorporating SharePoint utilization into business operating culture
• Capture & standardize processes & advising on incorporating PM best practices to core processes
• Reporting on contract status/performance to Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR)
• Negotiating contract changes to the PWS or SOW with KO or COR
• Coordinating meetings, as needed, to initiate working sessions, resolve project issues, etc.

Deputy Program Manager

Confidential, Springfield, VA

Responsibilities:

• Assist Program Manager on portfolio of short & long term projects
• Managing resources across multiple projects in a matrix environment
• Negotiating contract changes to the PWS or SOW with KO or COR
• Ensure contractor compliance to PWS & timely delivery of contract deliverables (CDRLs)
• Development & maintenance of Risk Management Plan & Project Management Plan
• Lead development of all required Project Management documentation
• Identify new areas for expansion within the customer base
• Organization wide development & review of processes & policies on behalf of senior management
• Participated in proposal writing teams outside business hours
• Assisted in the management a portfolio budget of over $50M

Project Manager

Confidential, Fort Belvoir, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managing subcontractors & development teams via entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Worked with team to define the details of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Lead project coordination, documentation efforts and communication to stakeholders
• Lead development of Strategic Plan, Tactical Plan, and Fiscal Year Plans
• Liaise with multiple teams coordinating project schedule and resource management
• Providing briefings to senior level executives
• Participated in proposal writing teams outside business hours

Sr. Systems Engineer/Project Manager

Confidential, Woodbridge, VA

Responsibilities:

• Platform testing measuring performances and making recommendations
• Assisted in providing management support to enterprise system implementation
• Providing IT systems support via participating in CCB meetings

Training coordinator

Confidential, Fort Meade, MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for platoon troop readiness, preparing training plans and safety standards
• Leadership duties - conflict resolution, troop performance appraisal & promotion
• Briefing HQ training preparedness to top brass (senior level executives)
• Training coordination, documentation and communication up the chain of command