SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and experienced team leader seeking opportunity to leverage my experience in requirements management, lifecycle development, testing and training into a new opportunity for growth and success.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Applications: Microsoft Visual Studio, Jira, ARIS Business Architect, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Test Manager, Rational Robot, MS Office Professional Suite, MS Access, MS Project, MKS Requirements authoring & tracking tool, SharePoint, Balsamiq and Visio.

DOD: Information Assurance training and Operational security awareness Training for the United States Army client. DoD based operations security training (OpSec) Federal Security (FedSec)

Operating Systems: Microsoft Vista/NT/XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Principle Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for authoring, categorizing and publishing requirements (Business, Functional and Technical) for the JIFMS (Judiciary Financial Management System) and any of its future integrating components.
• Overseeing requirement team activities: Reviewing, releasing and tracking all phases of requirements lifecycle. Managing requirements and testing efforts, as well as tracking known bugs/ issues through their repair and re - release.
• Creation and maintenance of a systems wide RTM (requirements traceability matrix) which is used program wide, as historical and development reference point for the JIFMS program.
• Acting SME (subject matter expert) for Requirements related discussions, training and review for any requirements related releases from the client.
• Responsible for proposed changes on process and interaction between various teams within the AO Organization.
• Assisting in authoring, guiding and implementing best practices for program wide reporting..
• Key role in CCB process for all proposed changes and bug fixes.
• Involved in talent recruiting, vetting and training with NTT strategy on site for the AO.

Confidential, Rosslyn, VA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading Requirements manager responsible for secure development of a web based integration tool for the Department of Treasury’s FinCEN network. This is a part of the broader Bank Secrecy Act / IT modernization effort (BSA IT Mod)
• Acted as assistant designer on client facing portion of FinCEN Query tool, helping to create a user friendly and efficient interface for field ready use in locations varying from police vehicles and hand held devices up to desk top application.
• Acted as client support during rapidly paced development and deployment of this secure, globally deployed web based system.
• Testing team SME and QA/QC for testing effort on all FinCEN Query development. After requirements and development stages had been completed aided and assisted product knowledge for the full spectrum testing effort.
• Testing team member, defect reporting and defect tracking for AAR3 (Advanced Analytics Release 3)

Confidential

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Requirements analyst for process change for the US Army’s case management system for health care.
• Gathering current state analysis and authoring proposed state analysis for the MHS system, along with a team of Confidential and government SME’s.
• Performed and reported study of CM maturity level for the MHS system.
• Acted in role of client advocate, representing our Military staff in meetings with various other organizations involved with the MHS system updates.

Confidential, McLean,VA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Requirements author, recording and storing suggested changes and upgrades to the FMWRC’s process.
• Business process modeling team tasked with exploring more efficient processes for handling supply chain improvement at the FMWRC.
• Business Process Analyst in charge of capturing and defining the current state business process and modelling out and defining proposed future state process.
• Overall project support for the ongoing modifications and updates to FMWRC process.

Confidential

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering, organizing and authoring requirements documentation for this project from its inception.
• Managed team of 3 including requirements, design and testing personnel.
• Key contributor to system design and layout, system definition documents, and contributing training documents author.
• Responsible for heading requirements and design sessions for multiple clients in multiple locations for this high profile project.
• Key Involvement with this project resulted in bringing a once lagging project timeline back to speed to meet initially defined project deadlines without modifying budget or quality of delivery.

Confidential

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acted as main author for all requirements templates and requirements management processes which were adopted and used throughout the entire “Army Project Management & Acquisition Business” Organization (PmAcqbiz) host organization of Confidential .
• Assisted as subject matter expert in test planning, execution and defect tracking.
• Assisted in developing training materials and methods for the newly deployed Confidential tool.
• Assisted in onsite deployment and training for end users of Confidential tool including Military and Contractors in the field.
• Acted as team lead and POC for client support / help desk tasks on the tool which we deployed.

Confidential

Requirements Analyst / Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Test manager on the Confidential Project in charge of local and remote testing teams.
• Assisted in Requirements gathering alongside requirements team.
• Responsible for authoring and executing manual and automated test scripts.
• Reported and tracked defects for unit and end to end testing.
• Collected and reported defect and repair metrics (performance measurement based)

Confidential

Test Manager / Requirements Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as general help desk and defect tracker for the Confidential system.
• Acted as Confidential test manager overseeing and managing the testing and quality control of all defects and updates to the system.
• Acted as requirements analyst and author for modification on any existing functionality.
• Maintained and updated training materials for all Confidential users. Traveled to client location to teach and assist with any updates to Confidential functionality.

Confidential

Team Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as a team leader for the “Special Actions” group, which expedited high profile and/or sensitive cases through our own process outside of the normal Confidential case work timeline.
• Served as on site liaison, trainer and site manager to Confidential personnel, contractor personnel and active duty Army personnel. Acted as the go to for day to day operations and planning for our functional process teams.
• Developed a successful process flow for expediting records received from Army Veterans Affairs, and Army Review Board Agency (ARBA) which dealt directly with the handling of sensitive case files and private medical records.
• Managed a team of 4-6 full time direct report operators, handling urgent combat related compensation cases in a very time sensitive manner.
• Trained and mentored new hires to our work process. Our staff was diverse and ranged from retired combat veterans, military officers, NCO’s all the way down to college hires.