Engineer Management

Location:

Fredericksburg, VA, 22407

Posted:

April 25, 2013

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Certifications

PMP*, (May 2013)

ITIL v3.0 Foundation Certification, (2008)

I have 13 years of experience in the Commercial and Intelligence Community environments. I have performed in various

capacities including: Program Management, Requirements Engineer, Configuration Management, Systems Integration, S

ystems/Network/Electrical Engineering and Software Testing/Quality Assurance. I’ve leveraged my professional experienc

e in the areas of Systems, Development and Integration Engineering to help contribute to program & mission success. Re

cently, I performed PM duties for a multi-million dollar effort supporting an IC customer to overhaul and transform their bus

iness practices while consolidating their physical footprint in the DC Metro area. I continue to acquire risk management a

nd technical analysis skills through my years of experience and specific technical training. I am pursuing an opportunity th

at will allow me to continue to develop my leadership and technical skills as a Project/Program Manager in the areas of e

merging IT, wireless, and mobile technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IZoom Technologies, Miami, FL May 2011 Present

Job Title: IT Consultant

Manage existing and new IZoom development projects.

Developed a Mobile Events & Ticketing application for use on Android and Apple IOS devices.

Collaborate with the development team to provide new features to the application suite.

Responsible for documentation and code configuration.

Maintain baselines, repositories, and document libraries.

Collect and manage Clients’ business requirements for mobile platforms.

Negotiate new development and services contracts.

Configure Wireless LANs with WEP security and mobile streaming multimedia functionality.

Configure Android, Apple IOS, and Windows Mobile devices for Clients.

Configure Windows 8 & Mac OS X computers on Private Networks for Clients.

Present the products and tools of the IZoom Technologies Application Suite to potential Clients.

Created a social media presence for IZoom and actively market products and solutions.

Facilitated meetings with the Miami Chamber of Commerce.

Innovative Technology Systems, an A-T Solutions Company September 2007 – September 2012

Herndon, VA

Job Title: Project Integrator / Senior Systems/Software Engineer

v Guided a change through the lifecycle and achieved the goal of successful integration into the baseline

v Maintained baselines, repositories, and document libraries.

v Defined the baseline by development of requirements, ensuring that the design met the requirements, ensuring

that the procurement matched the design that fulfilled the requirements, etc.

v Developed the capability by ensuring the requirements were met with the capability design, that all elements for

C&A were addressed and all necessary artifacts were aligned to ensure accreditation.

v Delivered the capability into the baseline by guiding change through the appropriate outages where changes were

implemented to fulfill the requirements, validated & verified which requirements were met at each outage, ensured

that the appropriate validation efforts had taken place to prove that the requirement had been successfully

established.

v Ensured the capabilities that were built were consistent with the requirements and interoperated with other

systems.

v Monitored, assessed, and reported on the progress of the development to Stakeholders.

v Monitored and managed outages with a focus of establishing capabilities to meet the requirements; attended the

CCB and represented the Engineering changes for my team.

v Managed and maintained a project schedule that displayed the lifecycle development of a change into the

baseline.

v Applied the concepts and business processes of the ITIL Framework on the AIT contract.

v As the Core Project Team Lead, used my communication & interpersonal skills with individuals whom reported to

me weekly to produce a Weekly Activity Report (WAR) for the Program Management Office (PMO) and

Stakeholders.

v Areas of the WAR included: Project and Program Management, Performance Management and Risk

Management, Systems Engineering, and Entity Transition.

v Contributed in the risk & opportunity management planning, identifying risks, analyzing both qualitative and

quantitative risks, and risk response planning and executing.

v Served as an AIT subject matter expert and briefed the IT infrastructure and services of the NCE at the monthly

Town Hall Forums with NGA Leadership.

v Produced AIT fact sheets for the PMO website that provided Users with important information regarding the NCE.

Updated the information monthly to ensure the information was current and baseline changes were accurately

reflected.

v Recruited and interviewed potential candidates to fill staffing opportunities on the AIT contract.

v Prepared and presented articles for various publications that accentuated the AIT contract progress.

v Led the User IT Audit that identified critical gaps and shortfalls in the NGA baseline.

v Led the effort to stand up a NCE Demonstration Cell that was revered by the Director of the Agency.

v Collected User Facing Requirements that were derived from interfacing with the Users and the User IT Audit

activity.

v Wrote and executed the RA Project Plan.

v Co-authored and executed the NCE AIT Communications Plan.

v Managed and helped prepare briefings and presentations for NCE AIT program milestones.

v Participated in program meetings and reported outcomes and decisions made as required via meeting minutes.

v Extracted business processes, reviewed and improved use cases, and ensured requirement documents were

harmonized and comprehensible.

v Wrote scripts and storyboards that were used in the PMO NCE “Newsflash” commercial and a computer

animated presentation for major program milestones (Tech Center CDR and User Facing CDR).

v Received a certificate of appreciation for outstanding contributions from the Program Manager.

v Received a NGA Honorary Team Award from the Gov. Program Director.

Prysm Technology, Inc., November 2006 – September 2007

Fairfax, VA

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer/Configuration Manager

v Provided Systems Integration, Engineering, and Configuration Management support to the customer for my

Program.

v Participated in the creation of system concept documents, tool evaluations, technical exchange meetings,

planning sessions, project planning, risk identification sessions, requirement management development, and

configuration management activities.

v Interfaced with the customer and vendors daily to manage mission systems requirements logging, tracking and

reporting the requirements in the JIRA software tool.

v Monitored and maintained patches and upgrades for the JIRA software.

v Maintained baselines, repositories, and document libraries.

v Facilitated the bi-weekly Configuration Control Board (CCB) meeting.

v Supported requirements gathering for the new Configuration Management Information System.

v Collected requirements from the customer to develop a project management tool.

v Developed and delivered a Lotus Notes Database (LNDB) from customer requirements that exceeded the

customer’s expectations.

v Trained project managers and users on the use of the new LNDB.

v Processed PTI equipment as required.

McDonald Bradley Inc. (formerly InfoData Systems) December 2004 – November 2006

Herndon, VA

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer/Integrator

v Appointed by the GPM to be the Lead CM on the program.

v Participated in tool evaluations, technical exchange meetings, planning sessions; project planning, risk

identification sessions, requirement management development, and configuration management activities.

v Supported requirements gathering for the new collaboration capability; draft other documentation as required (e.g.

minutes, agendas, etc.), and coordinate project activities.

Played a key role in the organizational change management activities within my Program.

Helped develop an IC community-wide Wiki presence for the customer.

Performed technical planning, systems integration, analysis, definition, supportability, and effectiveness.

Ensured the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions

that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.

Assisted in the implementation of new technologies, architectures, and methodologies.

Completed documentation, compile notes and research analysis reports, create/review briefings and agendas,

and facilitate meetings.

Managed the APPS ARB, APPS ERB, APPS RTE Meeting, Support Council, and Steering Committee.

Organized selected vendors, with products on the APL, to solve interoperability issues in an unclassified

environment.

Contributed in the Wye River APPS Offsite, Change Management APPS Offsite, I2S Management TEMs, SOA

TEMs, and AIA WG.

Contributed to the SOA Working Group and helped devise and implement a SOA strategy for APPS.

Developed and wrote a Database Design Review process for new APPS projects.

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Reston, VA June 2003 – December 2004

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer

v Performed technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and

effectiveness analyses for total systems.

v Analyzed at all levels of total system product that included: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation,

operation, maintenance and disposal.

v Performed functional analysis, timeline analysis, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to

translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

v Wrote and executed test cases for a customer application.

ManTech International Corporation, Chantilly, VA November 2002 – June 2003

Job Title: Systems Engineer

v Provided Configuration Management and, Systems Integration support

v Completed documentation, compile notes and research analysis reports, create/review briefings and agendas,

and facilitate meetings.

v Upgraded software in Air Force test system (VTS-9000) to support new hardware.

v Wrote source code to migrate from JOVIAL to C++.

v Inspected and understood test program sets (TPS) written in JOVIAL.

v Compiled and debugged JOVIAL TPSs to validate functionality.

v Prepared presentations for Software Design Review and Hardware Design Review for VTS-9000.

v Assisted in the assembly of the upgraded VTS-9000 system.

Anteon Corporation, Chesapeake, VA January 2002 – October 2002

Job Title: Lead Systems Engineer

v Performed engineering work consisting of the design, evaluation, planning, testing and operation of electric al,

electronic, mechanical, and/or computer components, equipment and systems.

v Developed electrical, electronic, mechanical, and/or computer applications for commercial, government, military

and scientific uses.

v Performed various tests (including system/equipment instrumented tests), run test procedures, and document

results.

v Provided system/equipment/specialized training and technical guidance as required.

v Identified and documented clients’ functional requirements.

v Gathered and correlated engineering data.

v Carried out engineering assignments that involves research, design and development of a moderately complex

nature.

v Worked on moderately complicated phases of engineering projects.

v Maintained current knowledge of relevant technologies as assigned.

v Participated in special projects as required.

v Performed evaluations of COTS based processing equipment.

v Reviewed vendor specifications to determine Circuit Card Assembly replacement candidates.

v Performed circuit card assembly analysis of high failure rate items and recommended ways of increasing MTBF.

v Reviewed ECPs for adherence to common engineering practices.

v Reviewed and suggested maintenance and design alternatives for the AN-SQQ-89 a component of the AEGIS

system.

Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), Red Bank, NJ. June 2000 – July 2001

Job Title: Systems Engineer/Consultant

v Engineered, conceptualized, and integrated Cisco’s Unified Messaging product [UM (Solaris 2.6, UNIX, and

Cisco IOS based)] to support bilingual capabilities for Telecom Itali.

v Wrote and performed test cases for the billing mediation solution and software acceptance tests respectively in

the deployment of UM for Ipulsys.

v Configured and provisioned Cisco routers at London, England POP for the Ipulsys project.

v Aided in the integration of WAP with UM by executing functional test plans.

v Assisted in the engineering, assembly, and implementation of a production system of UM within Telcordia

Technologies, which consisted of SUN servers and Cisco routers (5300, 3600, and 7200).

v Utilized technical skills in the areas of hardware and software configuration, troubleshooting, and implementation.

v Worked efficiently and effectively with other members of the team to produce quality results on the TelcordiaUM

Production System project effort, Designing and Implementing the Telecom Italia Demo, and the UM Demo for the

Dec. 2 “Campus Day” event.

v Participated in upgrading the laboratory configuration to emulate various customer configurations.

v Researched xDSL information (Loop Qualification, Benchmarking, etc.) to compose presentations, business

models, and flow charts for British Telecom DSL deployment in London, England.

v Developed and tracked the UM project using MS Project software.

EDUCATION

Masters Business Administration, Global Management (GPA 3.45) - University of Phoenix

Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering (GPA 3.0) - Hampton University

P ROFESSIONAL DEVELOP MENT COURSES & SKILL S MATRIX

Consultant Skills Network & Technical Tools Languages/OS Business Management

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ATM/SONET

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PMP

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Solaris

Office

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“What’s

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Microsoft”

Electronic

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Cisco

router

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JIRA

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