Manager Test

Edward Dearing

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

Address: **** **** ***** **

City: Zuni

State: VA

Zip: 23898

Country: USA

Phone: 757-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $110,000

Willing to Relocate

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Edward Dearing Jr.

PO Box 113

ZUNI, VA 23898 US

Phone: 757-***-****

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

Objective: To obtain a position as a Program Manager for communication systems

Clearance: Active Top Secret

Summary of Qualifications

* Able to work in a collaborative and challenging environment while applying, task management, and execution skills as I've balanced five contracts while growing business and personnel.

* Over 24 years of naval communications, supporting battle groups as the Deputy for Carrier Group Four Communications to Communications ashore and afloat (LPD 12)

* Provide project planning to ensure personnel are covered and work is completed on time.

* Maintain responsibility for project reporting requirements and deliverables and communication and coordination across government stakeholders thru requiring weekly reports from personnel.

* Attended Navy and Air Force Operational Test Directors course.

* Over Ten years of Navy and Air Force Acquisition knowledge and testing.

* Experience in conducting organizational studies and evaluations.

* Managed group upwards to 160 personnel while on active duty upwards to 30 personnel after active duty service.

* Designing systems procedures, and preparing operations and procedures manuals.

* Government strategic support and communications skills, able to designed briefs in Power point that bring the point home on where the program stands across all stake holders.

* Skilled in analyzing requirements, drafting test procedures, performing tests, conducting data reduction and data analysis, drafting final Operational Test (OT) report, and developing briefings in support of OT debrief for the Operational Test Coordinator (OTC) and Operational Test Director (OTD).

* Excellent communication skills with clients and personnel.

Employment History

Principal Account Manager Ground, Fixed Site & Maritime

12/2010 - 1/23/2013 Rockwell Collins Tidewater VA

Develop sales to US Military and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) for Rockwell Collins line of communication equipment. Sole over $1M in the first quarter of FY13 which start 1 Oct 12, with additional sells set for March and April to NASA and US Navy. Worked out of my home in Zuni, VA, for the past two years travelling to client locations providing brief and DEMO's. Develop business and capture plans, provide cost estimates, arranged client visits to Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids Iowa.

Management Analysts

02/2010 - 08/2010 CMASVets, LLC Chesapeake, VA

Responsible for the company's spend plan, marketing, company development, teaming, and personnel management.

PRIOR POSITIONS

Program Manager

06/2005 - 02/2010 Tri Star Engineering, Inc Chesapeake, VA

* Managed five different contracts, all with different primes and numbers of personnel, ranging from 3 to 14 per contract.

* Planned budgets for present and future contract years.

* Formulated budgets to include estimated travel requirements, standard man year work hours, overtime and estimated growth for additional personnel.

* Provided monthly updates as to burn rate and percent of funds remaining in order to submit requests for additional funds as required prior to the expiration of funds.

* Served a secondary role as a Senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Communications equipment and systems, possessing over 44 plus years experience in Naval Communications with nearly 20 of those years in the area of Navy Acquisition (6+ years developmental testing and 13+ years operational testing).

* Served as Tri Star Engineering, Inc. Senior contractor to Commander Operational Test and Evaluation Force (COMOPTEVFOR) Norfolk VA under the Omnibus contract and GSA contract for Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS).

* Represented Operational Test and Evaluation Force (OPTEVFOR) at numerous communications equipment and communications systems program acquisition meetings for Army, Navy and Joint programs (i.e. Air Force Core Team, JTRS Modeling and Simulation, Airborne Maritime Fix (AMF) Risk, AMF Integrated Test Team (ITT) (both government and developing prime contractor), and Mission Based Test Design (MBTD) for JTRS Network Enterprise Domain (NED) and AMF.

* Attended the COMOPTEVFOR course on OT Framework/MBTD; the course gave me the knowledge, along with my years of experience in naval communications, developmental test (DT) plan development, OT plan development, operational research, data collection, and data reduction.

* Conducted more than numerous tests: ten OT (four Operational Assessments (OA's) and six Operational Evaluations (OPEVAL's) and two developmental test (DT), one Technical Evaluation (TECHEVAL) and one developmental field test.

* Provided drafts of Mission Base Test Design (MBTD) for two ACAT 1D programs through step eleven and drafted two frameworks for the same programs.

* Witnessed a number of contractor tests (CT) Field Experiments (FE) in support of the Army Evaluation Center (AEC), a branch of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), and OPTEVFOR.

* Supported parts of the JTRS Cluster 2 Handheld Signal Channel Radio Operational Evaluation (OPEVAL) conduct by the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) with analysis, data reduction, and discussions and provided a detailed written report to OPTEVFOR and JITC on my findings.

* Witnessed developmental field test for the Network Enterprise Domain (NED) thirty node network test and provided on-the-spot data reduction, submitted my analysis to the Operational Test Director (OTD), and followed up with written reports of my findings at the end of the DT.

* Provided numerous draft Part IV's and areas of Part V's to a number of Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMPs), Joint Test and Evaluation Master Plans (JTEMPs) including JTEMP Annex for different product lines while being attached to OPTEVFOR on three different occasions and while supporting Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Atlantic and OPTEVFOR as the lead contractor. One of these documents was the JTRS JTEMP while supporting SPAWAR Atlantic as the lead contractor.

* Provided comments to numerous documents (i.e. OT (OA and OPEVAL) plans, DT plans (TECHEVAL), test reports, operational requirements documents, Matrix for Critical Operational Issues (COI), Integrated Test Team Charter, etc.).

* Determined assets required and drafted fleet service requests to ensure the correct assets are available for the test in order to resolve the COIs the first time.

* Drafted and provided briefs to DT and OT platforms; assist platforms prior to test to ensure that all know their role in supporting data collection.

* Knowledge of US Navy, Department of Defense, and Secretary of the Navy Documentation leading to Navy Acquisition and Joint Acquisition (DoD 5000.1, DoD 5000.2, SECNAVINST 5000.1, SECNAVINST 5000.2, COMOPTEVFORINST 5239, COMOPTEVFOR 3960.1H, Navy Training System Plan (NTSP), OPVANINST 4790.4, Program Acquisition Logistics Support Plan (ALSP), and Concept of Operations).

Senior Subject Matter Expert

09/1997 - 05/2005 Computer Sciences Corporation Chesapeake, VA

Senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) September 8, 1997 to May 31, 2005

* Program Manager/Lead Contractor May 2001 to May 2005. Senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Communications equipment and systems', capitalizing on my experience as a retired Communication Warrant Officer (WO-4, 7191) with over 35+ plus years of Naval Communications experience, with nearly 16 years in the area of Navy Acquisition, 6+ years DT and 9+ years OT. I was CSC's Lead Contractor to COMOPTEVFOR under the GSA contract.

* Represented OPTEVFOR at numerous communications equipment and communications systems program acquisition meetings for Army, Navy and Joint programs (i.e. Air Force Core Team meetings, AMF Risk Assessment, AMF Integrated Test Team, DMR, JTRS (Clusters 1, 2, 5, and AMF variant) and Shipboard Signal Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS)).

* Assisted in the Operational Evaluation Tests of two ACAT 3 programs, conducted analysis of the results of test procedures and equipment availability. Thru data reduction and discussions, I provided a written draft OPEVAL Test Report for both programs to the programs OTD.

* Reviewed and provided comments on numerous documents covering a number of acquisition programs (i.e. JTRS Joint Test and Evaluation Master Plan (JTEMP) and the JTEMP Annexes for Cluster 1, 2, and 5, PART IV and parts of PART V to the DMR TEMP, AMF JTEMP Annex, etc.). Attend and represented COMOPTEVFOR at numerous program meetings. I attended Air Force OTD course at Kirtland AFB, NM in order to understand the OT process of the Air Force, since they will assist with OT of the JTRS AMF and NED product line.

* Drafted over eight OT plans and two DT plans.

* Performed tests in support of SPAWAR Atlantic and OPTEVFOR, and drafted test reports.

* Support of SPAWARSYS Command, San Diego CA. and SPAWARSYS Center Charleston, Charleston SC, September 1997 to September 2001, responsible for Technical Assessments/Evaluations and Test Reports.

* Drafted the JTRS JTEMP, drafted the DT Test Plan for the Battle Force E-Mail (BFEM), and briefed testers on how to proceed since the government allowed me to support the SINCGARS OPEVAL at the request of OPTEVFOR, since the OTD was new with no OT knowledge.

* Conducted document reviews (Test Plans, TEMPs), approved comments, conducted DT and provided evaluations, and provided guidance on materials and documents leading to the acquisition of Naval and communications programs.

* Provided appropriate documentation and guidance across a wide range of communications programs (i.e. JTRS, Miniaturized Demand Assigned Multiple Access (Mini-DAMA), DMR, Digital Wideband Transmission System (DWTS), Battle Force E-Mail (BFEM), SINCGARS, and High Frequency Radio Group (HFRG).

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Jan 96 to Sept 97 Unisource Systems, Inc Washington DC

* Supported SPAWAR Command, Naval Surface Warfare Command, and US Coast Guard Telecommunication & Information Systems Command in communications programs.

* Supported Commercial vendors in the area of Testing and Acceptance.

* Supported Civil and Civil Rights Divisions within the Department of Justice as the Planner for Asset Management.

* Directly responsible for Technical Assessments, Evaluation and Testing, for HFRG.

* Develop DAMA ILSP for USCG Telecommunication & information Systems Command.

May 95 to Jan 96 SEMCOR Corp. Washington DC

* Conducted the successful Developmental Evaluation Testing of the HFRG system leading to a successful Operational Evaluation with Fleet Introduction approved.

* Supported SPAWAR Command in the area of Navy Acquisition Program.

* Directly responsible for Technical Assessments, Evaluation, and Testing, writing of test plans, and technical guidance on material and documents leading to the acquisition process of Navy and Joint programs.

* Provided appropriate documentation and guidance across a full range of PD 70 programs (i.e. Mini-DAMA, SINCGARS, HFRG).

Military, U.S. Navy

Number/Type Personnel Supervised: From 1 upward to 167 depending on the duty assignment. Supervised females and males, both military and civilians during the course of my career. Retired as a U.S. Navy, Commissioned Warrant Officer, Communication Surface (7191) (WO-4) after 26 + years (Apr 69 to Jun 95).

Operational Test and Evaluation Force Norfolk, VA

Jul 89 to Feb 90, Sept. 91 to Feb 92, and Nov 92 to Jun 95

* OTC and OTD, Radar, Communications, Navigation and Automated Information Systems. Directly responsible for detailed planning of operational testing, analysis, evaluation of test results, and preparation of the final report.

* Provided recommendations for or against fleet introductions of five major programs into the U.S. Navy. Systems were; Naval Modular Automate communications system (NAVMACS II), Fiber Optic Integrated Voice Communications System (FOIVCS), Combat Survivor/Evader Locator (CSEL) System, Navy EHF Satellite Program (NESP), (MILSTAR), Mini-DAMA, and HFRG, involving over $4 BILLION in procurement funds. Retired from the US Navy after 26 years of Service, as a Chief Warrant Officer W-4 (Communicator). Perform OPEVAL on NAVMAC II and OAs on Mini-DAMA and HFRG like Canada systems.

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