Post Job Free
Sign in

Manager Project

Location:
Petersburg, AK, 99833
Salary:
105,000
Posted:
September 17, 2013

Contact this candidate

Resume:

Jean S. Davidson

P.O. Box ****, Alaska, *****

Home: 540-***-**** Cell: 907-***-****

****.*.********@*****.***

Summary:

Years of Experience: 16

Education: M.S., Administration (2000), M.S. Geographic Information Sciences (2014), GIS Graduate

Certificate (2010)

Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Business Continuity Professional

(CBCP)

Security Clearance: TS (SSBI), SCI and Polygraph Eligible

Goal: Looking for challenging and rewarding position with the ability to work virtually.

Career Highlights:

• GIS Workflow Analyst

• IT Coordination, Organizational Workflows and Analysis, Requirements Analysis, Use Case Development

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Team Lead, GIS Requirements Manager

• Critical Infrastructure Risk and Hazard Analysis

• SME Analytical Lead for DoD Public Works Critical Infrastructure Program

• Project Manager, DoD Personnel Critical Infrastructure Program

• IT Project Manager for DoD Personnel and Public Works Critical Infrastructure Programs

• IT Project Coordinator/Requirements Developer/Data Manager for U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force

Critical Infrastructure Programs

• GIS Analyst

Experience Summary:

Mrs. Davidson has 16 years of experience supporting multiple state, local, federal and Department of Defense

clients through policy, analysis and technical support. Mrs. Davidson has acted as the liaison between technical

and non-technical staff for several high profile DoD IT systems. In addition, she has supported clients through

analysis and development of federal, departmental and organizational policy and doctrine. As an analyst and

manager, Mrs. Davidson has led and conducted gap, business, and strategic analysis at the federal, department and

organizational levels.

Experience

Rentfrow Incorporate (September 2012 – June 2013)

Geographic Information Systems Workflow Analyst

As the Geographic Information Systems Workflow Analyst, Mrs. Davidson was responsible developing

the Department of Navy’s Naval shore Geospatial Energy Module (NSGEM) strategic and operational

program plans and documentation. In this capacity, Mrs. Davidson developed (long, mid, and short

term) goals, objectives, and workflows for the program. After developing detailed documentation, Mrs.

Davidson assisted the program and operational managers with the development of the plan of action and

milestones (POA&M), determining task budgets and schedules. Mrs. Davidson was also responsible for

identifying, determining compliance, communicating and developing policy and procedures relating to

the Navy’s energy program, information security, national and commercial systems and changing

Jean Davidson Resume - 2

requirements. In order to ensure client requirements were addressed, Mrs. Davidson analyzed the

following: the DoN Energy Strategy, the DoD Energy Strategy, national policy, Navy personnel

methods, policies, and procedures, and commercial trends. In addition, Mrs. Davidson developed

comprehensive data mining efforts, data analysis, commercial capabilities/product analysis, trend

analysis, and developed data access methodologies for the NSGEM system. Mrs. Davidson developed

the following documentation and methodologies for the following NSGEM modules: reports, roles and

permissions, data sharing, data access, and geographic information systems analysis. While developing

comprehensive current and future workflow products, Mrs. Davidson developed innovative strategic

business development for future IT capabilities. These capabilities would ensure the customer and client

base would expand in a phased approach. Mrs. Davidson also acted as the liaison between many

stakeholders and the development team to ensure clear and concise understanding of requirements,

capabilities and problems.

Booz Allen Hamilton (May 2003 – March 2012)

GIS Manager/Analyst – Defense Critical Infrastructure Program, Public Works Sector

Senior Program Analyst – Defense Critical Infrastructure Program, Public Works Sector

While at Booz Allen Hamilton, Mrs. Davidson became the geographic information systems program

analyst/manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP),

Public Works Sector. As the SME Mrs. Davidson, was responsible for the co-development for the

Department of Defense Public Works strategy, policy, procedures and coordinating information across

all military services and DoD organizations. She reviewed and conducted detailed research on emerging

technologies, current and future military systems/applications, identified potential candidates for usage,

analyzed policy impacts, analyzed policy (national, commercial, departmental, and organizational),

identified potential redundancies, conducted gap analysis, and brief senior leadership on potential

impacts. As the GIS manager, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for developing, project management

activities relating to data analysis, IT and data strategies, and methodologies to include: task

management, quality control and assurance, budgeting, coordination with DoD and non-DoD

organizations, integrating geographic information systems (GIS) into DCIP program, developing and

implementing (short, mid, and long term) goals, ensure compliance and governance meets all national

and DoD requirements, developing data access plans and requirements, develop and deliver

programmatic and technical documentation. Mrs. Davidson developed, implemented, and coordinated

data strategies, requirements, and multiple GIS platforms internal and external to the U.S. Army Corps

of Engineers. In addition, Mrs. Davidson analyzed and developed foundational technical methodologies

and policies (memorandums of agreement/memorandums of understanding) allowing the Public Works

Sector to coordinate data elements across the federal government. Mrs. Davidson was responsible for

analyzing all Department of Defense policies and procedures to ensure all technical requirements were

achieved or exceeded. In addition, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for conducting gap and technical

analysis on Department of Defense Critical Infrastructure Program policies and procedures and provides

recommendations to all stakeholders.

As technical lead Mrs. Davidson was responsible for the development of methodologies to analyze,

determine dependencies and identify potential Public Works Sector critical infrastructures. Mrs.

Jean Davidson Resume - 3

Davidson participated in multiple working groups on the client’s behalf as the senior technical lead to

ensure coordination of data, data access requirements and policies were achieved, technical policy and

methodologies. As technical coordinator Mrs. Davidson developed and managed requirements,

identified and recommended emerging technologies, developed use cases, and ensured that all

development documentation was updated and understood by all stakeholders (technical and non-

technical personnel). In addition, Mrs. Davidson developed and implemented GIS methodologies to

analyze Defense Critical Infrastructures for man-made risks and natural hazards. These methodologies

were adopted by the Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Homeland

Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs Critical Infrastructure Program Office.

Mrs. Davidson was recognized by the Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of

Defense Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs Critical Infrastructure Program as the

subject matter expert in GIS, requirements management, data mining, data integration, data access plans

and system integration as she was selected to coordinate several Department of Defense data integration

and GIS tasks. As a SME, Mrs. Davidson participated on numerous working groups within the

Department and across multiple organizations within the Department of Defense. As a senior program

analyst, Mrs. Davidson provided detailed comments, recommendations, conducted policy gap analysis,

identified redundancies, developed methodologies to reduce overall impact, identified potential policy

and technical impacts and conflicts as well as commenting on Department of Homeland Security

documents.

As the subject matter expert for the DCIP Public Works Sector, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for

developing, coordinating, and facilitating a programmatic level table top exercise. Over a hundred

participants from the Department of Defense participated, including members from overseas locations.

During this exercise, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for managing and training of staff technical and

non-technical staff (20 personnel), developing and monitoring a budget, and maintaining deadlines. In

addition, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for assisting in the development of scenarios, all administrative

duties, leading and monitoring staff responsible for scenario development, coordinating graphics and

publicity production. In addition to all administrative duties, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for all

technical requirements and activities to include GIS, data sharing, ensuring policy and procedure

compliance, and security requirements.

Manager/Analyst – Defense Critical Infrastructure Program, Joint Staff

Mrs. Davidson was requested by the Department of Defense, Joint Staff J-34 office to be the task lead in the

development of a system to track, monitor and prioritize critical infrastructures submitted by DoD services,

agencies, and organizations. Leading a team of analysts and programmers, Mrs. Davidson conducted detailed

process analysis, policy analysis, and identified organizational goals and objectives. As the task lead, Mrs.

Davidson identified and developed data management requirements, data attributes, made process recommendation

and ensured data integration issues were addressed. Mrs. Davidson developed the system on-time and under

budget while attaining all goals and objectives. In addition, Mrs. Davidson acted as IT Coordinator between the

client and contract developers. In this capacity, Mrs. Davidson developed requirements, managed requirements,

Jean Davidson Resume - 4

developed use cases, identified and developed workflows, developed initial schema, and ensured that all

development documentation was updated and understood by all stakeholders (technical and non-technical

personnel).

Program Manager

Mrs. Davidson served as the Department of Defense Personnel and Readiness Information Management Division

(P & R IM) Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP) project manager in which she was responsible for all

contractual efforts and tasks. In this capacity, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for a budget of $1.2million, task

authorization, financial tracking, and strategic program development. As program manager, she was responsible

for developing the statement of work, scope, task, sub-tasks, budgetary constraints, identifying and mitigating

risks, and ensuring all deliverables met or exceeded expectations for all contractual requirements. Mrs. Davidson

hired and managed over 20 team members ranging in experience from college intern to experienced professionals

in multiple areas (policy, technical, facilitators, etc.). Mrs. Davidson provided comprehensive programmatic

support to the P & R IM client to include conducting organization business analysis, identifying and

recommending programmatic strategies, identifying gaps, developing and analyzing sector workflows and

developing process improvements. As the Project Manager for the DCIP Personnel Sector, Mrs. Davidson was

responsible for all policy and IT deliverables, to include the development of a new DoD system (ArcIMS, SQL

Server 2010), Sector strategies and milestones, conducting Balanced Scorecard Analysis and then implementing

the results, and all tasks associated with the pandemic influenza table top and contingency operations planning

exercises.

Data and Requirements Manager

Mrs. Davidson has served as the requirements and data analysis task and job manager for the P&R IM. While

acting as task lead and co-IT lead, Mrs. Davidson assisted in the development of the Characterization and

Dependency Analysis Tool (CADAT) through identification of hardware and software requirements, identification

of data requirements, analyzing data, and coordination of technical and analysis teams. Mrs. Davidson was

responsible for the identification of all organizational requirements, technical solutions, use case development,

user interface, workflows and processes. In addition, Mrs. Davidson provided detailed recommendations on

process improvements, developed and implemented methodologies for data conversions and transformations.

Mrs. Davidson was responsible for the identification, development and submission of all requirements for the P &

R IM client. In addition, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for developing GIS requirements, developing the GIS

schema, GIS workflows, managing GIS analysis on assets, developing GIS plan of action and milestones

(POA&Ms) (MS Project) and ensured that all technical requirements were fully communicated between the client

and the technical staff. As the task lead, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for developing the scope, budget, task

identification, staff requirements, and ensuring all deadlines were met. In this capacity, Mrs. Davidson was

responsible for 10 technical and non-technical staff.

Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps DCIP SME

Mrs. Davidson acted as the subject matter expert for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Critical Infrastructure Protection

program. She has acted as the deputy to the U.S. Marine Corps client and has assisted in the development of the

CIP Marine Corps Order, Standard Operating Procedure for CIP, Marine Forces CIP Guide, and POM submission

development. As the SME, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for identifying business processes, making

recommendations on policy, developing programmatic policy, coordinating programmatic efforts across the U.S.

Marine Corps and managing tasks and subtasks on multiple deadlines. While acting as deputy to the client, Mrs.

Davidson has coordinated taskings, supervised virtual and client-site staff, assisted the client on daily

management issues, ensure taskings and coordination with Marine Forces, coordinated working groups and

Jean Davidson Resume - 5

conferences, developed and conducted CIP training and database training, acted as Marine Corps CIP liaison with

other services, agencies, Joint Staff and Combatant Commanders, acted as coordinator for all contractor activity

within the Marine Corps’ Physical Security Division, assisted on Naval Integrated Vulnerability Assessments

(NIVA) for the U.S. Marine Corps installations and coordinated products pre and post assessments. As a co-

leader of the NIVA team, Mrs. Davidson ensured all aspects of the assessment were conducted and assisted in

document reviews, provided remediation and mitigation measures, such as contingency operation plans.

As the deputy to the client, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for coordinating three annual conferences for U.S.

Marine Corps anti-terrorism, law enforcement, and critical infrastructure programs. These conferences included

government members from multiple departments, military personnel, and contractors. Over 300 personnel

attended each conference. As conference coordinator, Mrs. Davidson ensured all aspects of the conference for all

programmatic aspects of each of these conferences, to include identifying and requesting guest speakers,

budgeting, scheduling of conference activities and events, briefings, conference materials, identification and

coordination of sessions, publicity, administrative duties, and security requirements. Due to Mrs. Davidson

experience and expertise, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for developing and conducting training for all new

military and non-military personnel for the Marine Corps Critical Infrastructure Program and all technical

programs supporting the program. In addition, Mrs. Davidson was requested by Headquarters Marine Corps to

develop the foundations (programmatic, policy, and technical) and continue the support of a Defense Critical

Infrastructure Program at multiple echelons within the U.S. Marine Corps to include: Marine Corps Base

Quantico, National Capitol Region, Marine Force Atlantic, and Marine Forces Reserve.

Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps IT Task Lead

While supporting Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, Mrs. Davidson acted as the IT task lead, requirements

manager, data manager, and IT coordinator for the Critical Infrastructure Protection Database (MC-CAMS) and

MC-CAMS version 2. In this capacity, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for reviewing and analyzing business

processes, policies, strategies, workflows, use cases, communication between all stakeholders and requirements to

develop technical solutions. Through analysis, Mrs. Davidson provided the client and stakeholders technical

solutions, workflows, and business processes to assist in managing programmatic requirements. Mrs. Davidson

was responsible for the tasking and coordination of IT and non-IT personnel supporting MC-CAMS tasks.

Specific work included: development of the workflows for the system, ensuring schedule of development,

development of use cases, requirements identification, requirement development and documentation, initial

schema development, quality assurance, quality control, data analysis, data identification, management of staff,

task authorizations, management of the control board, research for future development, hardware and software

identification, coordination of data and issues with COCOMs, Sectors, Joint Staff and sister services; review of

GIS requirements and capabilities, data retrieval and analysis efforts, and extensive coordination with the

development team. Mrs. Davidson was responsible for identifying, documenting, recommending, coordinating

and implementing methodologies for programmatic business processes. In addition, Mrs. Davidson was

responsible for developing, conducting and coordinating training of the U.S. Marine Corps CIP program at the

installation and at the Marine Forces echelons. Mrs. Davidson applied lessons learned and similar efforts to the

U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army clients. The U.S. Marine Corps system became the foundational system for the

Critical Infrastructure Program for the Department of Defense.

Cubic Applications (August 2002 – March 2003)

Special Projects Officer

Mrs. Davidson was employed by Cubic Applications, where she served as the special project officer for Marine

Forces Pacific Antiterrorism Force Protection Program Manager. Mrs. Davidson acted as the principal advisor for the

Jean Davidson Resume - 6

Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) program at Marine Forces Pacific (MARFORPAC), where duties included:

planning, organizing, coordinating, synchronizing, budgeting, preparation of briefings, presentations, white papers,

provide detailed recommendations to client and stakeholders and developing policy and procedures. Other functions

included: conducting research and analysis of U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Marine Corps CIP programs,

ascertaining the key differences of both programs, identifying MARFORPAC’s roles/functions and responsibilities,

and formulating the findings in a report that was developed into a MARFOR CIP campaign plan. Mrs. Davidson

coordinated education and training requirements for personnel with CIP responsibilities and major subordinate’s

commands. In addition, after analyzing organizational requirements, Mrs. Davidson coordinated the deployment of

the Area Security Operations Command and Control system within MARFORPAC’s Area of Responsibility and acted

as technical lead for the countrywide ACTD technical demonstration. Mrs. Davidson ensured that all CIP

programmatic activities correlated to Headquarters Marine Corps and U.S. Pacific Command regulations, policies,

and methodologies.

Science Applications International Corporation (May 2001 – August 2002)

Web and Database Design Developer and Manager

As a web and database designer, Mrs. Davidson supported the Joint Movement Center, Pacific. Mrs. Davidson

developed new database and web based products and programs custom for the Joint Movement Center based upon

business and operational requirements using SQL Server 2000 and ASP/HTML. Based upon interviews and

operational requirements, Mrs. Davidson designed and implemented automated compliers to ingest multiple data sites

and analyzed the information to develop a single information source. In addition, Mrs. Davidson developed timelines

for product development, developed and conducted training sessions, and assisted in solving shortfalls. Through the

identification of processes, technical and non-technical products were developed to track all forces, supplies, and

equipment that were used in support of military activities during September 11, 2001 operations. In support of active

operations, Mrs. Davidson designed and implemented the first program which was able to track activities and supplies

transversing through Aerial Port of Debarkation (APOD) and Sea Port of Debarkation (SPOD) across multiple

combatant commands.

U.S. Air Force (February 1997 - May 2001)

Intelligence Analyst

Mrs. Davidson served in the U.S. Air Force as an Intelligence Analyst with the Pacific Air Force Command,

where she worked at every level of all source intelligence development and production. She managed and trained

intelligence personnel on a multitude of threats consisting of foreign aircraft, air defense systems and other related

systems that pertain to the mission environment. Mrs. Davidson created and managed the Force Protection

Terrorism Cell for the Air Intelligence Squadron focusing on terrorist issues in the Pacific command. In addition,

she was responsible for updating and verifying air portions of operational plans. While serving in Incirlik,

Turkey, Mrs. Davidson was responsible for developing a tracking system, allowing analysts to conduct trend

analysis on multiple activities in the Iraqi theater.

Volunteer Activities

Petersburg Children’s Center (July 2012 – Current)

Board of Directors

As a member of the Board of Directors, Mrs. Davidson is responsible for: researching and writing of grants,

developing and implementing alternative revenue sources for the Center, managing of resources, coordinating

efforts with the Executive Director, develop the Center Strategic Development Policy, review and participate in

fiscal policies, and coordinate college internship program. Mrs. Davidson is also responsible for updating and

Jean Davidson Resume - 7

writing policy for the Center, to include the Staff Handbook and Parent’s Responsibility Handbook. In addition,

as new laws are implemented at the local, state and federal level Mrs. Davidson conducts the research to identify

potential impact and reports to the board with recommendations.

Contracted Short Term Tasks

Allied GIS (August 2012 – Current)

GIS Analyst – The Alaskan Wet Dog Race 2000

As a GIS analyst for Allied GIS, Mrs. Davidson provided detailed wildlife and environmental maps using several

ESRI ArcGIS functionalities to include: Spatial Analyst, Statistical Analyst, ArcGIS Online, and general

analytical tools. The maps provided critical details on wildlife habitat, race route, and potential areas of danger.

GIS Analyst – Nenana Route Analysis

As a GIS analyst for Allied GIS, Mrs. Davidson provided detailed route analysis to wells in the interior of Alaska.

Analysis included terrain analysis, route analysis, well usage, demographic, spatial analysis, ArcGIS Online, and

general analytical toolsets.

Petersburg Mental Health Services (June 2012 – July 2012)

Process and Procedure Manager/Quality Control Manager

Mrs. Davidson was responsible for all activities relating to process and procedure improvement, quality control,

auditing, and vocational rehabilitation. As the Process and Procedure Manager, Mrs. Davidson analyzed the

current goals, objectives, functions, and processes of the Petersburg Mental Health Services organization to

identify process which may be streamlined. This included analyzing Alaska Department of Health policies and

regulations and applying them to current organizational processes and procedures. Through strategic business

analysis, Mrs. Davidson recommended the development and implementation of a system to track client records

while maintaining HIPA and client confidentiality requirements. The methodology and system employed ensured

that all reports meet and exceed State and National requirements. Due to Mrs. Davidson programmatic expertise,

she was task lead to ensure that the Petersburg Mental Health Services meet all accreditation requirements.

Education

Formal Education

Mrs. Davidson holds a M.S. in Administration from Central Michigan University, graduate certificate in

geographic information systems from the University of Denver, and is in the process of completing a second M.S.

in Geographic Information Sciences from the University of Denver. Mrs. Davidson has also completed the

Foundations for Geospatial Information and Spatial Systems course from the Pennsylvania State University. Mrs.

Davidson has taken the following master level courses for general knowledge: Network Security, Decision

Support Systems, Risk Management, Investigations, and Organizational Management. In addition, Mrs. Davidson

has taken the following doctoral courses: Strategic Knowledge Studies, Management, Organizational Behavior,

Homeland Security and Terrorism, Homeland Security Studies, and Managerial Statistics.

Professional Education

Mrs. Davidson has completed the following professional development courses: Financial Performance,

Communicating with Presence, Managing People for Peak Performance, Managing Staff Time, Workplace

Harassment Prevention, Ethics and Compliance in the Workplace, Personnel Best Management, The Negotiation

Process, Leadership and Team Development, and Capability Maturity Model Integration courses. In addition,

Jean Davidson Resume - 8

Mrs. Davidson has taken several Project Management, Configuration Management and PMBOK courses. Mrs.

Davidson has taken an introductory course in Full Motion Video analysis.

Mrs. Davidson has completed the following Emergency Management Institute courses: Critical Infrastructure and

Key Resources, ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents, Introduction to Continuity of Operations,

Emergency Program Manager – An Orientation to the Position, Continuity of Operations Awareness Course,

Introduction to the Incident Command System, Special Events Contingency Planning for Public Safety Agencies,

and Radiological Emergency Management.

Skills

IT Coordinator/Integration ESRI Software (Server, Extensions, Desktop,etc)

Process Development Google Earth

Microsoft Office (PPT, Access, Office, Visio,

Program/Project Management Project)

Requirements Development and Management Model Building

Use Case Development Risk, Hazard, Spatial Analysis

User Interface SharePoint

Workflow Development and Management SQL/ASP/HTML

SDFIE Geodatabase

Data Mining Extraction Transformation Load

Capability Maturity Model Integration Workflow Analysis

Infrastructure Analysis Virtual Environment/teams

IT/GIS/Requirements/Organizational Analysis Policy Analysis/Development



Contact this candidate