KEITH L. MAXWELL

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

Hampton, Virginia 23666

Phone: 757-***-****

Email: acb4gh@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Offering a strong foundation built upon numerous years of extensive

management, education, research, analysis, training, and experience as

Project Manager, in support of numerous successful and intensive projects,

with a focus on improving, developing, and implementing efficiency-based

capabilities toward customer needs, requirements, and implementations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Project Management Process/Quality Improvements Risk Management

Contract Negotiations

Procurement/Logistics Configuration Management Organization

Alignment Business Best Practices

Regulatory Compliance Strategic Project Planning Team Management

Change Management

Vendor Management Subcontractor Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager, Software Engineering, Northrop Grumman Corporation,

Williamsburg, VA

(Jan 07 - Aug 13)

Project Manager on several successful multi-million dollar government

contracts, to include Active RFID III, enhanced Parachute Tracking System

(ePTS), Standard Army Ammunition System-Modernization (SAAS-MOD), Standard

Army Retail Supply System (SARSS), and Worldwide Port System (WPS), which

focused on Automatic Identification Technologies (AITs), such as linear/2D

barcodes, active/passive RFID, and mobile/wireless solutions.

. Experience in bid and proposal and responding to Request for

Information (RFI), Request for Proposal (RFP).

. Excellent writing, verbal, communications, and presentation skills and

strong problem solving skills.

. Experience with Fixed Firmed-Priced (FFP), Time & Material (T&M),

Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), Cost Plus Fix-Fee and

Interdepartmental Work Orders (IWOs) contracts from start to close.

. Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Rapid Prototyping, Earned Value Management

(EVM) Software/System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)/Project Management

experience.

. Generated Statements of Work (SOWs) for multiple subcontractors and

tracked their contract performance.

. Developed and executed strategies in partnership with Business Capture

managers.

. Planned/Developed project scope, plans, timelines, goals, milestones,

developed metrics, and collected trend data for client and capture

manager satisfaction, proposal win rate, cycle time for proposal

delivery, accuracy of estimates, project execution within agreed-to-

schedule and tracking project budget.

. Reviewed results, performed root-cause analysis, and directed

corrective actions, as appropriate.

. Managed superior engineering staff assigning project workload,

performing systems analysis, system/architectural design, and system

integration, programming, testing, delivery, implementation,

logistics, quality assurance, support dedicated to external business

growth, and documentation development.

. Generated and briefed weekly and monthly reports to management, team

members, and stakeholders for projects detailing status of tasks and

hours and funding utilized utilizing Microsoft Office.

. Managed changes in project scope and future tasks, identified

potential issues, and devised risk mitigation plans.

. Met weekly with project teams to discuss and document status project

schedule and issues; tracked action items.

. Coordinated with vendors in the evaluation and procurement of new

software and hardware solutions to better provide clients with

"cutting edge" solutions.

. Conducted yearly performance reviews and evaluations of assigned

technical staff.

. Ensured compliance to corporate standards and policies.

. Configuration Management experience (Tortoise Subversion).

Software Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Williamsburg, VA

(Aug 93 - Dec 06)

Regularly met with customers to gather system requirements and determine

design specifications following Capability Maturity Model Integration

(CMMI) Level 3 standards. Managed and conducted software peer reviews and

ensured timely software deliverables. Managed and developed numerous

Automated Identification Technology (AIT) applications, utilizing Linear/2D

barcode and active/passive RFID technologies that enhanced the accuracy and

reliability of logistics data. Managed development team that utilized

skills in C#, .NET, Java, and Oracle programming to develop a middleware

solution to track and manage advance shipping information for the U.S Army.

Managed and created dynamic mobile applications to manage the receipt and

storage of U.S. Army ammunition components using Service-Oriented

Architecture (SOA) and data synchronization. Managed development teams

which programmed Java software applications to scan bar-coded shipping

labels and automate receipt and inventory processes. Integrated Commercial-

Off-The-Shelf (COTS) RFID software with legacy logistics systems, improving

in-transit visibility of supplies and equipment during shipment. Wrote a

significant number of technical documents which included Risk Assessments,

Requirement Plans with Traceability Matrixes, System Design Documents, Test

Plans, Disaster Recovery Plans, User, and Training Manuals. Provided

exceptional on-site training and maintenance support for system

administrators and end users when fielding new systems. Supported Help

Desk operations for remote sites, quickly resolving challenges and

restoring operations in a timely manner. Supported marketing teams in

organizing and implementing effective technical demonstrations.

Technical Staff Member, Bell Communications Research/Ericsson, Piscataway,

NJ

(May 87 - Jul 93)

Designed, implemented, tested, and maintained real-time software that

synchronized processes, monitored system hardware efficiency, performed

statistical analysis, and verified integrity of software upgrades in an

intelligent network. Provided 24-hour field support to clients, modified

existing software at the request of user and system testers, and conducted

code inspection of software, which resulted in code size reduction and

logical error elimination. Wrote design documentation and user's guides

for developing software.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Northrop Grumman Program Management Development

2012

Northrop Grumman Program Execution Framework

2012

Northrop Grumman Program Management Handbook: Introduction

2012

Lean Six Sigma, Certified Green Belt

2009

Northrop Grumman Decision Analysis & Resolution

2008

Northrop Grumman Requirements Process Overview

2008

Northrop Grumman Decision Analysis & Resolution

2008

Oracle Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

2007

Northrop Grumman Proposal Writing

2002

Oracle Develop PL/SQL Program Units

1999

EDUCATION

M.S., Computer Science, May 1990

Howard University, Washington, D.C.

B.S., Computer Science, January 1988

Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 1650/2650/2950/6450/6650, Intermec/Symbol Mobile

Radio Frequency (RF) Hand Held Devices (HHT)(2.4GHz),

Intermec/Zebra, Thermal Transfer Printers, Intermec RF Access

Points (2.5 GHz, 802.11b/g), Fortress/Aruba RF Access Points

(2.4 GHz, 802.11b/g), SAVI, Matrics, Alien, Psion Teklogiz,

Motorola, IMpinj, Evigia & Intermec HHT/Fixed RFID

Active/Passive Readers, SAVI, Evigia, Omni-ID, Vanguard &

Intermec Active/Passive RFID tags, Avery Dennison, Data ax,

Printronix, Zebra Passive RFID Printers, Common Access Card

(CAC) Reader.

Languages: C, WIN32 (Windows Programming), C++, COBOL, ADA, Java, XML.

Applications: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Oracle

11g/10g/9i, Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle RDBMS, SQL*Forms, SQL*Plus,

SQL*Net, Oracle Lite Database, Oracle Business Execution

Language (BPEL), Microsoft Visual Developer Studio, .NET

Compact Framework, WinZip, Sophos, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2,

SQL Server, SAS, IBM JCL, Tortoise Subversion, Bugzilla,

Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Access.

Networking: TCP/IP, Cisco, Aruba, Fortress Access Points, Routers, FIPS 140-

2, Wireless Encryption.

OS: UNIX, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, Windows 2003 Server, Windows

Mobile, MS-DOS.

SECURITY CLEARANCES

Presently holds Department of Defense Secret Clearance (2007 - Present).

Previously held Department of Homeland Defense Clearance (2008 - 2009).

REFERENCES

Personal references available upon request.

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