Manager Engineer

Richard Childress

Sr. Earned Value Manager

Skills Summary

Key Skills and Senior level individual with over thirty-five years

Knowledge experience in program management and acquisition with

Program Management comprehensive understanding of the Federal Environment,

Business Process Program Management, Business Operations and Associated Tools.

Improvement Proven performance and skills in the areas of: financial

Earned Value management, multibillion dollar program management, business

Management process improvement and analysis using earned value

EVM System management, budget tracking, forecasting and trend

Development projection, variance analysis and cash flow analysis. Real

Program/Strategic time experience in implementing Enterprise software

Planning applications including a Earned Value Management System and

Business Development Integrated Project Management System.

Work Experience

IT/Engineering SRA, Earned value national security Lead

Computer Modeling Compliance and Operations

Variance Analysis 12/09 - Present

Forecasting Senior Manager EVM - Supports national Security Sector on

Software Development defining and implementing EVM on assigned projects. Help

develop new Enterprise EVMS, including methods to deploy

Software projects with minimum effort. Help write proposals requiring

Implementation EVM.

Cobra Operations

wInsight Operations Senior

PMP Unisys, Earned Value deployment Lead

Federal, Services

01/07-12/09

Senior Manager EVM/IPM - Supports project-specific and

general implementations of Earned Value Management (EVM)

including tools such as Primavera. Specific support to

projects and corporate implementations of EVM includes

developing required and tailored reports; developing and

reviewing Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and formulating

processes and procedures. Support also includes monitoring

data and process integrity, as well as providing Quality

Assurance. Conducting weekly update process and working with

project team to input variance explanations. Focusing on

revising status, schedules, applying actuals, and other

routine maintenance activities. Worked on the Foundations for

Growth project implementing the Cobra, EVM engine and

wInsight, analysis suite for UFS. Successfully implemented

the applications took three programs through pilot

implementation. Systems passed all tests and are now

operational in a production environment. Two programs are in

the new environment with several starting the process.

Expanding EVM system into an Integrated Project Management

System able to support projects through the entire

acquisition life cycle. The system is being used as a

discriminator for proposals.

United States Army

Contracting and Projects Office (CPO)

03/03-01/07 (retired)

Chief of Staff/ Chief Acquisition Officer- Responsible for

overseeing the day to day operations of the Department of

Defense (DoD) offices responsible for rebuilding Iraq. The

US Army was executive agent overseeing a budget of $18.5

Billion, allocated by Congress and a similar amount of Iraqi

funds. Developed the office structure for the US and Iraqi

located offices including developing operating budgets,

personnel allocations, acquiring space, and securing all

needed equipment. Help develop the plans for spending the

$18.5 Billion in concert with the State Department, Justice

Department, Commerce Department, Office of Management and

Budget, National Security Council and Congress. Developed

the Implementation plan and then help execute the plan.

Developed integration schemes that tied the many projects

together using Primavera, Microsoft and other software.

Developed a methodology to use EVM using performance metrics

as a primary reporting process and got it approved by all

agencies and Congress. Up to that time there was little or no

accountability of funds being spent. Acted as program

manager for initial projects.

United States Army

Business Process Improvement Directorate

08/99-03/06

Director- Planned and established the Business Process

Improvement. Directorate (BPID) to integrate good business

practices into the Army Acquisition system. Oversaw the

development and implementation of processes and procedures

that institutionalized the use of business plans, EVM,

balanced score cards, Six Sigma and the Enterprise

Architectures. Developed reporting schemes based on the use

of EVM to conduct reviews and standardize reports. Appointed

as the Army's agent working with the other services and DoD

on developing similar requirements. Acted as a consultant to

other Federal Agency on the Development of Business Processes

and use of EVM. Acted as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Army

for Resources and Strategy.

United States Army

Total Ownership Cost Directorate

08/97-08/99

Director- Planned and established the Total Ownership Cost

(TOC) Directorate as Army POC of a larger DoD Initiative.

Using Life Cycle Cost developed policies and procedures to

identify high cost items that could be eliminated with a

reasonable investment. Develop projects and programs that

used best practices, EVM and return on investment as measures

of effectiveness. Demonstrated and produced savings in the

Billions of dollars. DoD adopted developed measures of

effectiveness for all services.

Department of Defense (Training Assignment from Army)

Acquisition Workforce Demonstration Project

08/95-08/97

Deputy Director/ Director- First as Deputy and then as

Director planned and executed a new personnel system for the

DoD Acquisition Corps and workforce. This Congressionally

mandated program was successfully implemented and is the

basis for the new Federal Personnel System. This program

used EVMS like reporting as a means of assessing progress on

this extremely complex program for the Office of Personnel

Management (OPM) and Congress.

US Army

Battlefield Digitization Program

10/93-08/95

Acquisition Manager- Oversaw the development of the

architecture and acquisition strategy for the Army's part of

the Digital Battlefield. Developed and executed a plan to

initiate required equipment acquisitions and modifications

for the new strategy by each designated PM. Help develop

software for several integrations. Also served as technical

advisor to the Operations and Requirements Departments.

Army Research Laboratory

Engineer/ Manager

01/86-10/93

Research Engineer/ Manager- Worked on sensor and computer

systems related to weapons and intelligence Systems. Heavily

involved in Unmanned Air and Ground vehicles as well as

robotics. Headed the Strategic Planning Office for over a

year and then became acting Director of Plans and Programs.

Oversaw the reorganization of the Army Laboratories and

delineation of roles. Helped with the Security for the 1988

Olympics in Seoul South Korea, oversaw the Combat

Identification Program for DoD during the first Gulf war, and

oversaw the removal of special equipment from Germany after

the Berlin Wall fell. Developed software for UAV, UGV and

missile systems.

US Navy (Naval Air Systems)

Avionics and Weapons

01/80-01/86

Research Engineer/Manager- Worked on Naval Avionics and

Weapon systems. Help develop inertial navigation systems,

missile, guidance systems, early digital instruments,

laser/tv systems and digital radios. Managed the Navy Combat

Identification Systems including Identify Friend or Foe (IFF)

systems as well as commercial transponders. Helped develop

the software used in ring laser gyroscope based inertial

navigation systems.

Various Contractors

Computers and Computer Models

05/72-01/80

Engineer/programmer- Worked for Cornell Aeronautical

Laboratories, Cornell University on computer modeling of

aircraft, missiles and their performance. Help design,

construct and operate the Soviet Air Defense Simulators at

Eglin AFB. Helped develop the first computer based finger

print retrieval system for the FBI. Worked for SWL on

modeling submarine performance and systems. Owner of small

company with two partners that developed and produced

reliability and maintainability firmware for the Lamps Mark

III Helicopter and related Black Hawk. Wrote numerous

software applications for modeling and enhancing stealth

techniques.

Education

BSEE, IT/ Electronics, University of Arkansas, 1972.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Master level work -1990-1992

Defense Acquisition University -1991,1996

Certifications

Charter Acquisition Corps Member-1991

Program Manager, DSMC -1991

Executive Program Manager, DSMC -1995

Lever III Certification (DoD) - Program Management,

Logistics, Finance, Contracts, Telecommunications, IT,

Research and Development, Testing and Business Practices

(Level III is highest possible)

Six Sigma-2002

PMP-2002

Cobra Operations - 2007

Advanced Cobra Operations - 2007

Mastering wInsight - 2007

Welcom Home - 2008

Welcom Risk - 2008

OpenPlan - 2008

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