Manager Project

***** ***** ***** ( Great Falls, VA *****

Home: 703-***-**** ( Cellular: 703-***-****

Email: *******@*****.***

INTRODUCTION:

I am a seasoned, multi-discipline, pragmatic professional with over twenty

years of diverse technical and management experience. Responsibilities

include those of maximum accountability, with extensive experience in

program and project management, resource and personnel management,

strategic and tactical planning, quality assurance and quality control

management, process definition and re-engineering, business continuity

planning, and client support management; proven abilities in team building

with outstanding verbal and written executive communication skills.

Security Clearance:

I hold an active Top Secret security clearance and I am a former law

enforcement officer / public safety professional.

Education and Training:

. Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - James Madison University 1991

Major: Communications

Minor: Public Relations

. Motorola, APX CPS Training 2010

. DHS / FEMA, NIMS IS-100, 200, 700, 775 and 800 2009

. Nextel, iDEN Systems School (5-Day Course) 2004

. Motorola, Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Interoperability Solutions

2004

Employment History:

Engineer Technologist IV, Systems Engineering

July 2009 - Present

BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services

c/o U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Wireless Management Office

12801 Fair Lakes Parkway, Fairfax, VA 22033

Full time contract support position providing project management and

technical support for the nationwide Department of Justice, US Park Police

and Treasury roll-out of IWN (Integrated Wireless Network.) Specifically

responsible for various design, deployment, maintenance and operations

functions next generation narrowband VHF trunked communications systems.

Also responsible for Subject Matter Expertise supporting various Federal

Law Enforcement radio user requirements and regional Interoperability

functionality for radio systems interfacing with local law enforcement and

the DOJ 25-cities project.

. Radio Site Development: Directly responsible for coordinating and

scheduling site development activities for new construction (greenfield,

co-location and tenant improvement) radio / antenna sites. Implemented

30+ new trunked radio sites in two years.

. Change Management: Serve as the Government's Configuration Change

Manager, tasked to approve and process all radio system related change

requests including requests for new subscribers to use the system.

Collect and store detailed records of site and system configuration

changes through both a manual form and a database. Manage the Change

Control policies and process. Host Change Control Board meetings as

needed.

. Operation and Maintenance: Define plans, establish objectives and create

processes related to managing operations and maintenance activities,

budget development, inventory management, parts replacement efforts, user

training material development and contract administration support.

. Program Management: Manage program relationships between systems

integrator contractor (General Dynamics) and senior DOJ management to

include reporting, briefing, attending program meetings and generating

correspondence and documentation, resolve and/or escalate issues,

reinforce business perspectives and ensure on-going program success.

. Regional Interoperability: SME in field and tactical interagency

communications, suggesting and recommending COTS communications solutions

and policy/procedures. Represent the Government at meetings with local,

state, regional or national agencies. Develop and maintain cooperative

working relationships with other government entities, the business

sector, community organizations, and local, state, and federal officials.

Senior Program Manager, Business Operations / Engineering Development

June 2003 - March 2009

Sprint Nextel Corporation

2001 Edmund Halley, Reston, VA 22191

Managed wire line, wireless iDEN and wireless CDMA engineering project

teams. Supervised lifecycle of Next Generation technologies and products

for the Sprint Nextel network. Responsible for development and management

of project and programs to build radio software features and functionality,

field equipment, fixed network infrastructure and consumer products /

services.

. Design team management: Provide effective and productive leadership to

teams working on the design and development of feature enhancements

and upgrades to national telephone and IP networks. Coordinated

deployment teams for upgrading end-of-life network elements in

nationwide carrier grade networks, maintaining team productivity and

on-time/on-budget delivery of multiple related programs and projects

simultaneously.

. Program/project management: Define plans, establish objectives,

procure resources, manage scheduling, design work flow and maintain

internal and external business relationships (including, but not

limited to, vendor contract meetings and future hardware / software /

feature roadmap meetings with Motorola.)

. Lifecycle management: Direct and control all aspects of network

technology infrastructure, supporting information and communications

systems and end-to-end processes. Successfully led Motorola iDEN

software release (included SR 11.8, 12.0, 13.0, 13.4, 14.0, 15.0 and

16.0) implementation efforts, focused on meeting critical FCC

regulatory deadlines and feature upgrades - all resulting in new

feature sets offered to customers on the Nextel network.

. Leadership direction: Manage program relationships between core teams

and senior management, broker staff and resource issues, resolve

and/or escalate issues, reinforce business perspectives and ensure on-

going positive program perception.

. Special Projects: Special Project Manager for the development of

Nextel's SATCOLT (satellite based cellular on light truck) equipment

purpose-built for Nextel's ERT offering.

Senior Consultant November 2002 -

June 2003

BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting)

1660 International Drive, McLean, VA 22102

Business Process and Operations consulting in the public services industry,

working with clients in the top-secret intelligence, law-enforcement and

homeland security sectors.

Senior Business Process Manager

June 2000 - October 2002

Nortel Networks, Inc.

2010 Corporate Ridge, McLean, VA 22102

Global Professional Services division manager leading teams providing

Operational Support Systems (OSS) requirements analysis and

telecommunications related process engineering for Network Operations

Centers (NOC), Internet Data Centers (IDC), Application Service Providers

(ASP), broadband service providers and wireless carriers.

Senior Systems Engineer IV September

1999 - June 2000

Evergreen Systems

1851 Alexander Bell Drive, Reston, VA 20191

Systems engineer who managed software installation engagements for help

desk, call center, customer support center and network operations center

clients. Consulted with large companies on developing and deploying

focused on Tivoli and Remedy. Provided pre- and post-sales systems and

technology consulting services.

Awards:

. Sprint Nextel Corporation - Patent Design and Assignment, 2006

(System/Method for forwarding Dispatch Communications)

. Nextel, Inc. - Spotlight Award, 2005

. Nortel Networks - Success Award, 2000

. Datatel, Inc. - Outstanding Achievement Awards, various dates: 1995-1999

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