Project Manager Management

Full Name: John (Jay) Silverman

Current Job Title: Project Manager and Principal Technical Advisor

Experience Summary:

Mr. Silverman has over 30 years of management, software engineering, and operations experience encompassing the implementation of a wide range of business and biomedical systems including financial/accounting, student loan, grants management and bibliographic retrieval applications. As a project manager, who has earned a Project Management Institute (PMI) certification, he has established a proven track record for managing large-scale projects and achieving business growth by successfully implementing numerous IT projects on schedule and within budget. He possesses strong leadership, written and oral communication and project planning skills coupled with an ability to create and integrate effective project teams that operate in a cohesive and disciplined manner. He has successfully managed and architected various large-scale projects that adhere to the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (SEI/CMMI) model, Level 3.

Education:

B.S., Quantitative Business Analysis Indiana University, 1969

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Program Management Institute (PMI)

B.S., Business Information Systems University of Maryland, 1978

Graduate Studies, MBA Loyola University of Chicago, 1970 - 1972

Recent Specialized Training:

Volere and CaliberRM Tools Dell/PerotSystems, 2009

Performance Based Contracting Dell/PerotSystems, 2007

Rational Unified Process (RUP) PerotSystems, 2007

Earned Value Management PerotSystems, 2006

Principles of Interviewing PerotSystems, 2005

PMI Certification Training Northrop Grumman, 2004

Project Management Principles Northrop Grumman, 2002

Earned Value Management Northrop Grumman, 2002

Professional Certifications:

Project Management Professional Certification Program Management Institute (PMI), 2004

Work History:

Principal Technical Advisor

Dell Computers/Perot Systems Government Services (PSGS) 2004 – July, 2012

Mr. Silverman served as a strategic advisor to guide NIH/NIAID’s investment decisions in building grants-related and financial application systems.

Mr. Silverman also served as the project manager for the NIAID Planning and Reporting System (NPARS) that entails the implementation of a major, Web-based, NIH enterprise-wide system that consolidates and centralizes budgetary data and manages extramural grant applications through a progressive workflow approval process to ensure compliance and funds availability. Mr. Silverman has provided overall direction for the NPARS design and performed logical data modeling for the application database. Mr. Silverman also manages a variety of Web Content Management Projects based on SharePoint technology. These systems facilitate content authoring, publication, extended search, workflow, and user navigation among numerous NIAID Web sites. Mr. Silverman has chaired the Software Engineering Process Improvement group (SEPIG) that is responsible for documenting and implementing standard operating “best practices” in accordance with SEI/CMMI guidelines.

Director of Software Engineering, Vice President (R.O.W. Sciences, Federal Data Corporation)

Northrop Grumman IT, Rockville, Maryland 1994 – 2004 and 1988 – 1992

As the eRA/IMPAC II Program Manager, Mr. Silverman directed and managed a large-scale team of over 100 professionals responsible for implementing NIH’s enterprise-wide grants management system, an application that supports over 4,000 users. This effort included system and data architecture, software engineering (design and development), integration testing, database and systems operations, user support, and training. Mr. Silverman’s accomplishments entailed significant achievements in project planning, cost management, subcontractor acquisition and management, risk management, team building, quality assurance oversight, and overall technical direction for the software engineering function. For eRA/IMPAC II, Mr. Silverman developed an outreach program and identified and implemented Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) for all project aspects, including processes to support a major call center infrastructure to support 3,000 end users. Mr. Silverman successfully directed the implementation of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology for software engineering and established a full complement of processes and procedures based on SEI/CMMI best practices. Based on this effort, the eRA/IMPAC II Project earned an SEI/CMM Level 3 evaluation.

As a Vice President for Federal Data Corporation and R.O.W. Sciences who were acquired by Northrop Grumman Mr. Silverman successfully directed and managed numerous health-related IT projects for the NIH, including:

National Medicine (NLM) – Spearheaded two contracts as a major contributor to the MEDLARS-related applications software for bibliographic retrieval support. This included indexing support of biomedical research articles for inclusion into MEDLARS. Developed a system to automate the transfer Elsevier articles to MEDLARS using XML and HTML. Performed special studies and analysis for automating indexing and other library functions involving the extensive use of CICS and PL/1. Provided support for conference planning and management.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – Served as a Program Manager for a contract that provided network operational support and the design/development of large-scale, multi-user applications that supported over 1,000 users within NIAID’s 3Com LAN/WAN environment.

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) – Served a Project Manager of a contract that engineered, furnished, installed, operated, and maintained (EFI/OM) a 3Com network that supported over 150 end-users.

National Cancer Institute (NCI) – Served a Program Manager for a contract that involved maintenance of extramural mainframe applications including grants extension systems and the migration of mainframe applications to a PC/Network architecture.

National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR) – Performed as a Program Manager for the implementation of a PC-based distributed grants tracking/management information system utilizing the Division of Computer Research and Technology's (DCRT) mainframe system resources for interfacing with NIH's IMPAC database.

Information System Director

Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), Herndon, Virginia 1992 – 1994

Mr. Silverman served as an IT director for a $4 billion company that was the nation’s premier student loan service provider. He managed two major software implementation projects involving over 60 software implementation professionals ranging from software engineers, quality assurance testers, trainers, and user support staff. These projects included: Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) of student loan data and Portfolio Sales and Services (PORTSS), a network-based application product that was distributed to over 100 participating banks who originate and manage student loans. The EFT Project entailed significant business process re-engineering (BPR) involving a massive interchange of data among member banks, guarantor agencies, and universities that transferred student data associated with numerous colleges and universities across the nation. The EFT project involved the application of EDI as the coding mechanism for identifying student loan information and related financial transactions. As the manager for the PORTSS Project, initiated and planned a major migration from a COBOL/CICS application to a client-server solution using Visual Basic and Microsoft SQL Server technology.

Software Design Analyst/Manager

Computer Data Systems, Inc. (CDSI), Rockville, Maryland 1981 - 1988

Mr. Silverman served as the lead senior director in managing a professional group of 30 analysts and programmers in designing, developing, maintaining, and enhancing CDSI’s Federal Accounting and Reporting System (FARS), a large-scale, GAO-accredited proprietary software package that was licensed to a variety of federal and commercial clients. The FARS product was a fully integrated on-line (CICS) and batch general ledger accounting system that performed Governmental accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, debt collection, and payroll functions. In addition to his responsibilities for IBM Mainframe implementations, Mr. Silverman successfully managed the migration of the FARS product from an IBM CICS environment to HP-3000 and WANG VS systems. Beyond his role in project management, Mr. Silverman personally developed numerous complex on-line COBOL programs, including the development of a large-scale multi-user edit module and a complex queue processor that performed coordinated real-time posting of accounting transactions based on user-defined job priority criteria. The queue processor provided the capability to interrupt lower job priorities in favor of high priority posting requirements and to resume the processing of interrupted posting streams.

Professional Associations: Project Management Institute

Honors and Awards:

Eagle Award for outstanding performance Federal Data Corporation, 2000

Note: In 2000, Mr. Silverman was one of only five employees out of 1,600 who received the Eagle Award

Publications: None

Languages:

Verbal: None other than English

Written: French

Technical Profile:

Languages and Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, C, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, InterComm, Databus, IBM Mainframe Utilities, Fortran, PL/1, Inquire Database, HP Image Database, Wang VS100 Forms and Database

Hardware: Sun, Pyramid, IBM Mainframe (3090, 370, 360, 1400), Hewlett Packard, Datapoint, HP3000, Wang VS100, NCR, PDP 8/11, IBM CRTs, IBM 1287 Scanner, Farrington Scanners, AB Dick Mailstrip Printers

Software: Microsoft Office Products (Outlook, Word, Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint), Visio; Embarcadero (Data Modeling tool), CailberRM (Requirements Management Tool), PVCS, Web Browsers: Internet Explorer; Portals: SharePoint--MOSS2007, Oracle; Other: J2EE, XML, EDI

Operating Systems and Environments: Unix, MS Windows, MS DOS, Novell, 3Com, CICS, IBM MVS, WYLBUR, TSO

Programming Languages: Oracle, SQL Server, C, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, InterComm, Databus, IBM Mainframe Utilities, Fortran, PL/1, Inquire Database

Security Clearances: Secret, 1993

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