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Manager Six Sigma

Location:
Bowie, MD, 20720
Posted:
January 12, 2011

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S HEL LEY MASSENGALE

***** ***** ***** ****

Bowie, Ma ryland 20720

Phone: 301-***-**** Cell: 301-***-**** E-mail:

abhw27@r.postjobfree.com

P rocess I mp rovement/Project Management/Management Consultant w ith

over 30 years combined expertise in business operations, continuous process

i mprovement (e.g., Organizational Excellence, CMMI, Lean & Six Sigma), software

engineering, and functional and project management. A Lean & six sigma certified

B lack Belt with strong leadership and organization skills which facilitate success in

a ttaining commitment and teamwork.

S ELECTED ACCOMPL ISH M E N TS

Business Operations

• Establishes and utilizes metrics to assess organization support to programs

and functional organizations for overall process improvement. Manages

employee resources and development including staffing requirements, talent

p ipeline, succession planning, mentoring, t raining, workforce planning &

analysis, configuration & data management, enterprise-level budgets,

business initiatives, etc.

Led executive initiative to reduce overhead cost for Administrative Support services

across ten geographically dispersed sites by defining an integrated infrastructure that

optimizes virtualization to achieve over a 15% overhead reduction.

Directed an executive sponsored team to define and rollout the Golden BOE (Basis of

Estimates) Initiative that increases the accuracy, captures and reduces the cycle time by

over 20% to obtain BOE approval.

Managed corporate sponsored Leadership Development Programs to accelerate the

advancement of entry level and mid-career high potential employees.

Continuous P rocess I mp rovement

• Led initiatives to re-architect the company’s Process Asset L ibrary (PAL) and

re-wri te the Organization Standard Process (OSP) in preparation for the

i ni tial Capability Matu ri ty Model In tegrated (CMMI) appraisal.

• As the Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG)/Integrated Process

G roup (IPG) Lead, led and coordinated process improvement activities that

enabled the company to achieve Software CMM Levels 2, 3 and 4 and CMMI

Level 3. As the Engineering Operations Senior Manager was a key player in

company’s effort in achieving CMMI Levels 4 and 5.

• Used six sigma statistical process control tools and methods to establish and

monitor programs process performance and to predict the organization’s

p rocess capability.

• Help defined and lead Structured Improvement Activities (e.g., Value Stream

M ap, Kaizen, projects) that utilized lean principles to reduce costs, and

i ncrease quality.

P roject M anagement & Functional Management

• Managed costs, schedules, personnel and technical activities for several $5M+

p rojects (e.g., three Towed Array Sonar Systems, Global Telemeter Seismic

Network, Landsat image analysis, etc.). Directed and supervised up to 15

engineers including contract engineers. Designed software system

a rchitecture for real-time distributed, and client server applications.

• Engineering Operations: a project engineering senior manager leading the

m ulti-function Engineering Operations & Governance Department.

Departmental responsibilities include engineering excellence, business

operations, configuration & data management, measures collection & metric

generation, design produce-ability, engineering tools, learning &

development, leadership development programs, etc. at Lockheed Martin in

B altimore, Maryland.

• Software Engineering: Managed a section, consisting of 29 direct report

software developers, responsible to four different programs at Lockheed

M art in in Glenn Burnie, Maryland, and a Software Unit at General Election

i n Lanham, Maryland.

• Responsible for technical direction, coordination, resource allocation, process,

design and implementation integri ty, and for making administrative

decisions on how the work will be accomplished within the constraints of

f unding and schedule.

S HEL LEY MASSENGALE, Page 2

PROFESSIONAL EXPER I E NCE

LOCK H EED MART I N CORPORAT ION, B altimore, MD 1987-

2010

Project Engineering Senior Manager, Engineering Operations

Continuous Process Improvement, CMM I & Lean Six Sigma

GENERAL E LEC TR IC COMPANY, L anham, MD 1980-

1987

Unit Manager, Software Engineering

P roduct Manager, Image Analysis

ED UCAT ION

• Certified Lean & Sigma Black Belt, Lockheed Martin Corporation

• Johns Hopkins University, M.S., Computer Science

• University of Alabama, B.S., Mathematics / Mathematical Statistics

AWARDS AND RECOGN I T IO NS

• Special Recognition Team Awards for CMMI Level 3 – Lockheed Martin

• Award Night Honoree for CMM Level 4 process improvement - Lockheed

M art in

• Business Excellence Award for CMM Level 3 - Lockheed Martin

• Professional Recognition for Outstanding Project Leadership – Lockheed

M art in

• Professional Recognition for Outstanding Project Leadership- General

E lectric

• Ford Foundation Scholar - Excellence in Education



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