Engineer Project Manager

Denise Ridgeway-Hobbs

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Spotsylvania, VA 22553

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(Home) 540-***-****, (Mobile) 202-***-**** (eFax) 208-***-****

Clearances:

TS (updated 09/02/09)

(SCI w/ CI Polygraph expired as of 12/2005)

Public Trust (2006-2007)

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

10 years of experience in supporting of Department of Defense and 2 years of experience in

supporting Department of Homeland Security programs.

I have knowledge of the following:

Earn Value Management (EVM)

Risk Radar

Experience in the following hardware and software systems and languages:

MS Office -98, 2000, NT, XP

MS Visio

MS Project 2000, 2003

Adobe Acrobat Professional

Sybase

DOORS

Sun Workstation Ultra IV and IIIV

TCP/IP

Visual Basic

Lotus Notes

UML

IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP)

HIGHTLIGHTS OF EXPERIENCE:

IT Systems Analyst

Employer: Frontier Technology Inc. – Contracting Company

Quantico, VA

Program: BRAC 131

March 2010 July 2010 – Contract ended in July

Program Support for the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 131 program at Marine Corp

base in Quantico, Virginia.

-Quality Assured IT and Security drawings documentation

-Quality Assured the Security inventory of equipment documentation

-Reviewing, modifying and creating IT drawings documentation.

-Supported the Military Department Investigative Agencies (MDIA) Electronic Systems Project

Manager (ESPM) on the development of the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, which

includes all MDIA IT acquisition development and support of the MDIA IT Working Group (ITWG).

-Supported the development of the Statement of Work (SOW) of the-MDIA Data Center IT System

Integration for procurement (i.e., SOW requirements; bill of material (BOM), referenced network

information on drawings and spreadsheets, evaluation criteria, etc.)

-Supported the development of the MDIA acquisition strategy for all budgeted and unfunded IT

items needed to complete the BRAC 131 Project; also included latest acquisition status and action

of each item.

-Supported the technical proposal evaluation by providing an evaluation criteria spreadsheet and

a pricing spreadsheet for equipment & labor cost comparison of the budgeted BOMs.

-Supported the resolution of the facility IT related issues (i.e., security, logistics, Energy

Start/Green, and building management)

Program Management Support and Scheduler

Employer: Preferred Systems Solutions - Contracting Company

McLean, VA

Program: Consolidation of Servers for DLA – DISA, PMO for Army Contract Command G6 at Fort

Belvoir

September 2008 November 2009 – Reorganized due to rate- layoff

-Created an Integrated Master Schedule for the Migration of software and hardware from different

DLA and DISA sites in the United States

-Created Weekly IPT status schedules from Project to Excel. Updated IMS schedules with

Change Requests from IPT Leads and PMO.

- Created Weekly redacted files from Project Server to standard schedules of each IPT to be

presented to Government Customer

-Created Change Request Log for future tracking of current and past changes to the Integrated

Master Schedules.

-Created Impact Analysis for scheduling team to input changes from Change Requests into

Integrated Master Schedules.

-Mentored Government resources in created personal schedules that will be migrated into the IMS

for Gov. PM.

-Facilitated status weekly meetings

-Created Program Management folders on customers SharePoint sites.

Integrated Master Scheduler

Employer: L-3 Communications Global Security & Engineering Solutions - Employee

Chantilly, VA 20151

Program: SBInet, Homeland Security

August 2007 September 2008 – In process of mass lay-off

-Support in the development and management of project budgets and resource loading.

-Performed Critical Path Analysis and report results to Project Team.

-Provide Weekly Project Status updates including Earned Value Performance (ACWP).

-Supported the EVMS consultant in analyzing Earned Value monthly data Schedule Variance (SV)

and Cost Variance (CV).

-Supported the Project Manager and Control Account Managers (CAMS) to develop ETCs, EACs

and Variance Reports.

-Support the Project Team in developing Recovery Plans.

-Performed Risk Analysis on the schedule when necessary.

-Support in development of Program Proposals

-Supported in developing Continuously Improvement Processes

-Supported in the preparation/coordination and development of program contract deliverables

schedule.

-Developed resource and cost-loaded schedules and earned value reports using Microsoft Project

-Collected detailed schedule information and merge into an overall master schedule.

-Assisted Project Managers in developing and updating project schedules, earned value

management reports, prepared monthly progress reports incorporating performance to schedule,

and developed look-ahead reports.

-Assisted in the preparation/coordination and development of the risk management plan for the

program.

-Assisted in preparation/coordination and development of the program management presentation

slides.

-Assisted in preparation/coordination and development of the war room/fusion center.

-Developed process and procedures for the integrated master schedule.

Electrical/Electronics Engineer

Employer: Chenega Technology Services Corporation – Contracting Company

Alexandria, VA 22315

Program: Enforcement Technology Center /Customs and Border Protection- Department of

Homeland Security

October 2006 May 2007 – Layoff – dissolve position due to low requirements (i.e. job duties)

Evaluated system designs and configurations for weakness, design improvement and perform

fault isolation and failure trending on NII equipment.

-Analyzed and reported component failures and evaluate or propose recommendations for design,

component, and preventive and corrective maintenance changes.

-Conducted reliability analyses of electronic and control systems and their major components.

-Developed plans and strategies for implementing new concepts for failure and reliability analysis

for electronic systems to be utilized in logistics support functions (Maintenance Planning, ECP

development and evaluation, performance and failure trend analysis).

-Generated testing requirements.

-Interfaced with other computerized databases.

Requirements Systems Support Engineer

Employer: Sapphire Design, Woburn, MA – Contracting Company

Customer site: General Dynamics Land Systems, Woodbridge, VA

November 2005 October 2006 – No full-time employment

Backup Suspension Requirements System Engineer for Future Combat System program.

-Performed Requirements Engineering Activities

-Decomposition, Allocation, Singularization (Level 3 and Level 4)

-Performed Verification/Validation Management/Planning Activities

-Coordination/Preparation Activities for Reviews

-Coordinate/Facilitate/Manage Trade Study (Sub-System to Component)

-Performed Concept Level Trade Studies

-Performed Risk Management

Program Scheduler

Employer: Sapphire Design, Woburn, MA – Contracting Company

Customer site: General Dynamics Land Systems, Woodbridge, VA

October 2005 November 2005 – Contract tasks completed early

-Integrated the Woodbridge Technical Center foreign customers’ program schedules from

Microsoft Project 2003 to Open Plan Software.

Program Analyst

Employer: CIBER, Inc, Fairport, NY – Contracting Company

Customer site: ITT Industries Space Systems Division, Vienna, VA (formally Kodak C&GS)

Program: GIAT II & IRAD AGILE

May 2004 July 1, 2005 – Contract ended

Temporary Project manager of IRAD (Research & Development) program (May-September 04)

-Managed the baseline schedule with periodic updates sent to NGA customer

-Created and managed the risk management log database in MS Access

-Provided financial/ cost- budget and updated the schedules (both MSExcel and MSProject)

-Managed the use of the job/charge numbers & keep track of the maximum number of hours

charged by each resource

-Managed and planned the risk management log, identify schedule risks & report the status of the

program to the Program Manager

-Created several configuration management documents and templates on scheduling and risk

management.

-Facilitated and planned staff and team meetings (min. 10 people)

-Capturing, maintaining, tracking and statusing action items at staff meetings

-Organized and prepared programmatic documentation to support periodic reviews with the

customer, managers and other senior members

-Requirements Validation and Verification Reviewer and Document Editor

Schedule Analyst

Employer: NW Systems, Inc., Largo, MD- Contract Company

Customer site: SAIC, Reston, VA

Program: NSES

May 2002 January 2003 –Contract Reorganized – layoff

One of five schedulers of the NGA (NIMA) Master Schedule Team maintaining the schedule in MS

Project 98 and transition to MSProject 2000.

-Developed and updated of an integrated master plan and schedule in the MSProject database

-Performed analysis on the database and represent Scheduling Team at Customer Engineering

Review Board and the Configuration Management Board

-Briefed Schedule and an assistant facilitator at monthly Customer Engineering Review Board

-Performed integration of projects and analyzing integrated schedules including critical path

-Created and modified new schedules

-Supported the System Integrators in planning and defining segment, project and program

dependencies, precessors and successors and risks

-Supported the System Integrators and Configuration Management team in planning, creating and

updating request for change schedule pages

Integrated Product Team Lead Engineer

Employer: McDonald Bradley, Inc., Herndon, VA – Contract Company

Customer site: Northrop Grumman TASC, Chantilly, VA

Program: Rhasophy

February 2001 March 2002 - Contract Reorganized – layoff

Provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance to government personnel on issues of

systems development and integration.

-Lead Integrated Product Task Engineer for SIGINT and IMINT, responsible for tracking and

processing requests for change forms through the configuration management and System

Engineer process (SEMP) of new information system(s) and communications services for the

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) COMM system.

-Facilitated Customer Line of Business Meetings weekly

-Facilitated Technical Exchange Meetings

-Capturing, maintaining, tracking and statusing action items at staff meetings

-Developed, monitored and technical oversight of Request for Change (RFC) concept briefs,

change packages, impact assessments, and large cost impact briefings to ensure the timely

update of the NRO Requirements baseline

-Proposed and modified changes to the existing baseline

-Coordinated (by phone, email, and in-person) the responses of the integrated project team to

formulate a final impact assessment report and present to the customer engineer review board.

-Assured that schedule milestones are achieved and RFCs closed.

-Briefed weekly status updates, from 1 to 5 Request for Change forms/packages with information

on cost, schedule, and documentation per a week, on the coordination of changes to the

engineering review board.

-Interacted with Communications Requirements Support Staff to assist customers and clients in

the definition of communication requirements.

-Assist and maintain open communication with the NRO GPOC as the technical representative

during RFC coordination activities such as TEMs, ERBs, etc.

Communication Systems Engineer

Employer: TRW Chantilly, VA – Employee

Program: GEOLite

May 2000 January 2001 – Better Opportunity

-Design and develop procedures, processes and training manuals for a new satellite vehicle.

-Attended and participated in telecom meetings on the development and testing of the satellite.

-Participated in the dress rehearsal and testing in the stimulation of the launch and life of a

satellite.

-Trained as COMSEC custodian and security monitor

Mission Operations Planner & Scheduler

Employer: Stanford Telecom (presently ITT Industries AES), Ashburn, VA - Employee

Customer: Lockheed Martin Mission Data Systems, Bethesda, MD

Program: DORAL

September 1997 April 2000 – No new opportunities – project in O& M status

As a Satellite Network Planner & Scheduler, was responsible for receiving and processing user

requests for satellite communications service in accordance with priorities established by a high

level government steering group resulting in an optimized schedule maximizing user requirements

satisfaction for a 24x7 operation.

-Operated a multi-process UNIX (SOLARIS) priority based scheduling tool to determine most

optimal scheduling combinations and distributed resulting schedules to users and satellite

controllers.

-Analyzed short & long-term operational and technical requirements received from users,

operators, orbit analysts & system engineers and organized these inputs into a timeline plan of

vehicle contacts to meet these requirements and continue mission operation.

-Interface with numerous DOD customers and other users in the conduct of these functions.

-Developed testing procedures and processes for testing integration on SUN workstations

platforms using UNIX (SOLARIS) and Sybase programs.

-Successfully completing an extensive training program addressing telecommunications, space

operations, vehicle & payload designs, command & control system design, and orbital dynamics.

-Deconflicted (by phone) resources assigned by the Air Force Satellite Control Network,

replanned, as required, and created contract summaries for Real-Time Satellite Operator

Controller to execute on a UNIX based distributed command & control system.

-Assisted the government, other contractors, and management during an anomaly resolution

effort.

-Participated in the design of ground systems, design/development/test of flight operations

procedures, created customer/operator-training manuals, and prepared mission operations

procedures. Trained and mentor incoming personnel.

Education:

-Defense Acquisition University (DAU), ACQ 201A, On-Line, Presently

-Defense Acquisition University (DAU), ACQ 101, On-Line, May 2010

-Strayer University, Fredericksburg, VA USA, May 2015, presently attending graduate school for

MBA in Management

-B.S., Electromechanical Systems Engineering, University of the District of Columbia, Washington

DC USA, 1997

-A.A.S., Electrical Engineering Technology, University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC

USA, 1995

-Network Planning & Scheduling (NPS) Certification, USAF &LMTO/STEL, Newington, VA USA,

1999

-Space Vehicle Planner (SVP) Certification, USAF &LMTO/STEL, Newington, VA USA, 1998

-TASC Certified Systems Engineer Program Phase I, Northrop Grumman TASC Institute, Reston,

VA USA, 2001

-SAIC: NIMA (NGA) Systems Engineering Process Training Courses (PTC), Reston, VA USA,

2002

o SE Configuration Management PTC

o SE Readiness Support PTC

o SE Evaluation of Alternatives PTC

o SE System Design PTC

o SE Project Quality Management PTC

o SE System Integration PTC

o SE Request for Change Writing Course

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