Manager Project

John Hudanich

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** ****** ****** • Norwell, MA 02061 • (M) 781-***-**** • (H) 781-***-****

Executive Profile & Highlights

Senior business manager with proven success helping business leaders advance business goals by building trusted customer relationships and finding opportunities to solve their problems and increase revenues. Diverse experience in Information Technology across all phases of development and implementation of complex systems. Solid capability to lead cross functional teams and achieve challenging goals. Demonstrated ability to analyze business needs, conceptualize innovative solutions, plan successful implementations and troubleshoot projects to optimize results.

MBA, Master of Engineering, and Active DoD Top Secret Security Clearance (TS/SCI and SAP).

Highlights:Manage 6 contracts with DoD customers, including all scheduling, pricing and performance. Key Business Development member, capturing, planning, forming teams and writing proposals. Garnered additional business from customer, increasing contract value 300%. Lead all corporate security needs for over 150 personnel.Expanded $18M government contract by winning an additional $50M follow-on services contract. Coordinated the successful roll-out of products to more than a dozen sites with over 1500 end-users.Operated as primary point of contact between military customers and multiple, geographically-dispersed PMs and development teams. Leveraged solution assets to meet existing and new warfighter needs.Initiated effort to devise measurable metrics to gauge progress toward achieving DoD directives on net-centricity for implementation of $1billion upgrade of Air Force theater-based command center.Formulated and launched risk reduction study to evaluate the cost/benefit for the first-time implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus within the USAF’s Air Operations Center, as part of its Service-Oriented Architecture modernization.Orchestrated a successful launch of a complex software trading system, directing 10 teams with 50 members and managing the $8 million budget, schedule and contract relationships. Launched the system in six months, at one-third the cost and one-half the time of competitors.Recruited, trained and managed 15-person in-house technology team, transforming contractor-dependency into a sustainable, adaptable in-house core competency.

Core Competencies

Program Management

Strategic & Tactical Planning

Partnership Alliances

Client Relationships

Contract Negotiations

Vendor Management

Consulting

Technology Operations

Budget / P&L Management

Professional Experience

Gemini Industries, Boston, MA May 2009 – Present

Director, C4ISR and Homeland Defense Division

Responsible for the scheduling, pricing and technical performance of C4ISR and Homeland Defense projects. Lead the preparation of proposals, plans, specifications; ensuring delivery of quality products and services; and financial management and negotiation of contracts. Develop new business and expand product lines. Ensure adherence to master plans and schedules; develop solutions to program problems; direct work of manager and staff assigned to projects within the Division. Ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.Coordinate with and provide technical oversight to Project Managers to obtain technical, financial and contractual information needed to create monthly status reports for various customers.Oversee the creation of monthly status reports, reconciling any discrepancies for each Delivery/Task Order. Prepare proposals, work plans and draft Statements of Work.Prepare and maintain contract actions, change and funding summaries and letters/documentation for government Contracting Officer’s signature.Facilitate the creation of purchase requests and purchase orders for vendors / subcontractors and approve invoices.Track Delivery/Task Orders from award through contract close-out and reconciliation. Supervise Division personnel and authorize timesheets, approve expense reports and perform annual reviews.

Accenture, Boston, MA (Product Manager to the US Air Force) Mar 2007 – Mar 2009

Senior Manager

Built relationships and explored potential business opportunities with Air Force customers. As a Warfighter Advocate, worked collaboratively with fellow Program Managers, Solution Owners and Business Development team members to deliver quality work products, garner new business and achieve company goals. Facilitate programmatic and business-level activity coordination among Agile Software Development delivery teams and customers. Steered the introduction of service-oriented architectures (SOA) and web services for Modeling and Simulation capabilities. Piloted the evolution from infrastructure to user-facing applications, to thread-based, mission and facility tools for warfighting M&S events and testing environments.Oversaw the development and created architectures for the Enterprise Services for Reachback project; effort to distribute simulation environments across disparate secure environments. Supervised testing with 1st AF and Mission Training Centers. Directed $20M portfolio of software development projects focused upon net-centricity and service-oriented architecture. Operated as primary point of contact between military customers and multiple, geographically-dispersed PMs and development teams. Leveraged solution assets to meet existing and new warfighter needs.Spearheaded participation of Command and Control capability in the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) exercise, involving over 300 warfighting end-users, 75 systems, 20 sites, 10 countries. Identified additional $60M opportunities with new Air Force customers.Expanded $18M government contract by winning an additional $50M follow-on services contract. Coordinated the successful roll-out of products to more than a dozen sites with over 1500 end-users.

MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA (Supporting the US Air Force) Jan 2006 – Mar 2007

Lead Information Systems EngineerDeveloped migration strategy for the Air Operations Center modernization from legacy system to a modern Net-Centric Environment. Devised quantitative metrics for a capability-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA) to gauge progress toward achieving DoD directives on net-centricity. Investigated and developed notional infrastructure architecture.Formulated and launched risk reduction study to evaluate the cost/benefit for the first-time implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus within the Air Operations Center modernization.

TEK Systems, Bedford, MA (contracted with Lockheed-Martin) Jan 2005 – Jan 2006

Senior Business Systems AnalystConstructed growth and transition plan for Web Services management tools from USAF’s Electronic System Center Net-Centric Management office to GCSS-AF and DoD operations. Delivered application and upgrades on-time and within budget. Transitioned to operations ahead of schedule.

Business Consultant, Boston, MA (At-Will Consulting Projects) Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 Provided marketplace competitive analysis for The Watermill Group on self-service kiosks industry.Advised M&A specialist firm focused on steel industry.

FerrousExchange, New York, NY (Founding Team Member) Sep 1999 – Jan 2002

Vice President of Technology / Chief Technology Officer

Created online trading exchange for $700 billion global steel industry. Crafted corporate technology strategy and recruited, trained and managed 15-person in-house technology team.Orchestrated the development of proprietary technology that provided a comprehensive transaction platform supporting real-time forward physical and hedge contracts in steel, garnering $14 million in investments and increasing the company’s valuation 31%. Garnered customer commitments of 5 million tons ($1+ billion value) of product postings. Established a joint venture for a futures contract with LIFFE, the largest commodity exchange in the world.

Management Consultant, Boston, MA (concurrent with MBA studies) Sep 1997 – Aug 1999 Atlantic Information Systems: Created commercialization strategy for transforming the business model. Fidelity: Assessed transaction-based website services outlined system capacity to handle predicted increase. Houghton Mifflin: Evaluated strategy and ability to leverage existing assets into a new market.

Horizons Technology, Bedford, MA (since merged with Titan Corp) Apr 1996 – Aug 1997

Software Project Development ManagerDeployed $2.5 million software development effort. Directed a subcontracting team of 10 engineers and scientists. Released one year ahead of schedule and $1M under budget. Patent (pending).

US Air Force, Hanscom AFB, MA (Captain, Active Duty) Sep 1989 – Apr 1996

Information Security R&D Program Manager, Rome LaboratoryCommanded $4.5 million research effort. Conducted 25 scientists and engineers across 10 projects.

Communications-Computer Systems Project Manager, Electronic Systems CenterLed teams for testing interfaces of a $324 million upgrade to NORAD’s communications hub.

Education

Babson College, F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business

Master of Business Administration, Magna Cum Laude, 1999

Cornell University

Master of Engineering (Electrical), Dean’s List, 1989

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Dean’s List, 1988

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