PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior Information Technology Consultant with over twenty years of information systems, business analysis and leadership experience. Skilled at both strategic and tactical planning with an emphasis on Return on Investment (ROI). Extensive experience with business development on the vendor side and management of the solicitation/procurement process on the client side. Experience in all phases of System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering and project management. PMP Certified 2010. Highly skilled at team building, listening, analysis and writing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Modeling Tools /Requirements Management Tools: MS Visio, IBM Rational, HP Quality Center (Test Director), Mercury

Project Management Tools: HP Mercury, Microsoft Project

Programming Languages: HTML, Visual Basic, .Net, Java

Architecture, Software, Integration and Hosting: COTS Implementation, Custom Software Development and Implementation, Data Migration, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Hosting, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), API s, Logical and Physical Architecture, Mobile Data Management, detailed technical requirements

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center (Test Director), Bugzilla

Methodologies: Agile - SCRUM, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process

MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio

Other: Adobe Light room, Photoshop CS

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, ARLINGTON, VA

Senior Business Systems Analyst and Project Manager

• Provided information technology leadership, procurement and advisory services to a large county agency with 1,750 personnel. Identified members of core management team and led team through review of operations and requirements, business analysis, business process reengineering changes and recommendations. Led team through procurement including RFP development, evaluation of software vendors and vendor negotiations on a project with a budget of approximately $10 million. Led agency in planning efforts to transition to meet federal reporting requirements. Developed detailed functional, application and technical requirements.
• Provided information technology procurement and advisory services to a large national corporation. Conducted stakeholder interviews, reviewed organizational documentation and industry standards, developed high level technical design and architecture, detailed requirements, new standard operating procedures and a Request for Proposal (RFP) for an enterprise records management system.
• Provided cost benefit analysis of replacing or upgrading enterprise wide records management system for state agency. Evaluation included level of effort and cost to implement Ruby/Rails MySQL system for client, resource availability, on premise versus cloud hosting, application stability and training costs.
• Performed evaluation of current business processes and made recommendations for improving timeliness and accuracy of information updates to multiple databases for state agency. Identified grant resources which could support technology recommendations.
• Developed User Interface (UI) wire frame documents using MS Visio and drafted white paper to explain how identity credentials and access management would work with multi-billion dollar nation-wide network.
• Developed presentations around Cyber Security issues affecting government organizations.
• Researched and analyzed how existing software applications could be enhanced by roll-out of nationwide government network.
• Managed the selection, procurement and implementation of a legal case management system hosted in a private cloud and a Software as a Service (SaaS) grants management system.
• Managed the implementation of a Donor Relationship Management system and its integration with over a dozen systems including a large scale high volume marketing membership database.
• Responsibilities included maintaining relationships with over 70 people including direct reports and executive staff and managing a budget of $2million.
• Gathered requirements and provided business process recommendations as part of a $15 million Agile SCRUM software development and integration project involving multiple government agencies.

Confidential, Jefferson County, AL

Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators

• Developed Statewide Strategic IT Implementation Plan spanning multiple agencies covering 7,200 employees. Plan included SOA Architecture and blueprint for PMO.
• Acted as project manager and analyst for the procurement of a data warehouse and enterprise wide information system for an agency with over 4,000 personnel; developed requirements and drafted Request for Proposal (RFP).
• Conducted requirements gathering and business analysis as product owner on an Agile SCRUM software development project.
• Drafted Statement of Work (SOW) for custom application to be based on .Net Framework.
• Developed Test Plans & Test Scripts for .Net Web Service application; coordinated and tracked testing activities and provided education to others on testing methodologies using Bugzilla.
• Developed Use Cases for analyzing suitability of customizable Commercial Off the Shelf Systems (COTS).
• Conducted SWOT analysis covering both business processes, human resources and information technology for large county.
• Developed Information Technology Strategic Plan spanning multiple agencies for large county.
• Developed Operational Strategic Plan for large county agency.
• Performed business analysis, gathered and developed requirements for an RFP for a nationwide software development and integration initiative.

Confidential

ASSOCIATE

• Led a grant writing effort that resulted in a $6 million award.
• Provided project management guidance and counsel to $6 million interoperable communications project.
• Gathered baseline technical requirements for Integrated Wireless Network for large federal agency.

Confidential

JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY PRACTICE, MANAGER

• Performed a variety of roles including project manager, systems analyst, tester, proposal writer and technical writer.
• Managed troubled project from code yellow to green status by identifying needed resources and implementing a new project plan using Microsoft Project.
• Managed multi-agency Agile SCRUM software development and integration projects.
• Developed requirements, led Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with end users and developers for Oracle based system.
• Acted as Lead Consultant for business process and system evaluation for government clients. Examined systems, organizational structure and business processes, identified risk areas and recommended strategies to ensure that operational needs would drive technology choices that could be effectively supported by both the client and vendors.
• Managed interface project utilizing third party vendors.
• Applied legal knowledge to contracting and scope issues to ensure correct change management methodologies were followed
• Analyzed policy and managerial impacts associated with migration to new software.
• Planned and coordinated marketing efforts of Unisys for major conference tradeshows.
• Developed user manuals for case management applications.
• Conducted training on new production applications.

Confidential

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

• Managed U.S. Department of Justice funded project on statewide justice integration; conducted site visits to meet with executives and developed planning model for integrated justice efforts
• Managed grant funded projects, drafted policies, and conducted research in support of information requests and police executive candidate searches.
• Wrote grants for the Confidential resulting in the award of several projects.
• Developed policies on a variety of national policing issues after gaining input and facilitating consensus from advisory committee members.
• Acted as liaison for IACP and the Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run.