Program Manager

David Gellen - Six Sigma, PMP, CSM

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SUMMARY

Director of IT / Senior Program Manager: A team oriented, proactive, high-energy Director of IT who has strong interpersonal and communication skills coupled with extensive experience directing professionals and engineering teams in the Information Technology environment.

- Cultivated and directed a Fortune 500 customer, using SDLC methodologies providing the framework to guide global multidisciplinary teams on best practices in achieving business goals. Including: Strategy / Planning / Mentoring / Operations / QA / Risk / Conflict / Budgeting / Change Management

- CSM – Certified Scrum Master Agile ceremonies sprint planning, daily standups, sprint review retrospectives.

- PMP – Program Manager Professional

- Six Sigma – Green Belt

- Leadership Academy

- Solid understanding of project management principles and techniques including Waterfall, Scrum, Prototyping, Spiral, Sashimi, WBS, MS Project Server, PRINCE2

- Implementing the complete software life cycle of multiple projects simultaneously

- Leading by effective communications of multiple programs / projects, by providing a clear vision at the beginning of every release, to management and all team members.

- Program Manager/ Director of Marketing & Sales for Raytheon’s Emergency Patient Tracking System (EPTS)

- Certified high performance Director of IT capable of coordinating multiple projects across a global work force. Ability to work efficiently with C-Level executives and team members TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: Agile Software, JIRA, SmartSheets, EVM, SCRUM, Lean Waterfall, UDSP, RUP, CMMI, TDD, XP, PMBOK, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, High availability, Model–view–controller (MVC), ITIL, Databases, Web Services, Android, IOS, OpenVMS, ESRI Software, ERP, JAVA, J2EE, OO Design, UML, Analytic and Reporting tools, SharePoint, Apache Tomcat, Data Warehousing, Big Data, Networking LINUX, UNIX, Apple OS, RDBMS, Oracle, Perl, Sybase, J2ME, Crystal Reports, Rational Rose Clear Case, HTML, XML, C, C++, C# Hardware: Infrastructure, Data Centers, Real-time data, Artificial intelligence, Windows OS up to and including Windows 10, Apple, Mobile, Windows CE, IBM PC's, IBM 3090, Digital VAX/VMS, IBM 370, IBM AS 400, MICROS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Program (WIPP) Edgewater Federal Solutions 2016-present Program Manager

Working as the Program Manager for the Information Resource Management Group at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Program. Currently leading a team of 25-30 members.

- Security awareness on multiple platforms for the entire organization

- Working on over 100 Projects with the Information Resource Management Team to create an IT Program

- Introduction of Scrum / Agile to the Applications Development Team Key Result: Provided an improved working relationship amongst key stakeholders and managers Accenture – Cisco, San Jose, California 2012 – 2016 Program Manager

Managed a Cisco System team of 25-30 team members in an On-shore / Offshore delivery model. Working with clients on prioritizing issues, fixes and enhancements to Cisco’s worldwide systems

- Proactively identify risks, prioritize and drive risk mitigation to project issues saving $50K per quarter

- Provide mentoring for authoring and reviewing project process documents, and relationship management

- Manage as the End to End (E2E) project manager, for Quarterly and Monthly release with all stake holders

- Lead a company wide transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodology reducing the time to market from 9 months to 1 month

Key Result: Transforming the delivery cycle from 9 months to 3 weeks, providing faster results to the market place, saving the end customer 1/3 of their budget moving software into production Hughes / Raytheon Systems, St. Louis Missouri 1995 to 2012 As a member of Raytheon’s Network Centric Security and Transportation Systems group, which is a leader in delivering transformational command and control capabilities, I have worked in many facets including:

- Director of Marketing efforts for new and existing product lines to take to market

- Responsible for ensuring adequate staffing levels on all projects, overseeing subcontractor relationships and associated effort, advising Raytheon leadership on technical direction, and ensuring success on all projects

- Complete product life cycle of bringing a new products to market such as Raytheon’s Emergency Patient Tracking System (EPTS), Received National Mayor’s Award and International awards

- ESRI mapping integration for EPTS and gang crime data for the city of Houston, TX Key Result: Created new product line outside Raytheon’s Traditional DOD Business Director / Program Manager, 2005 - 2012

- Increasing responsibilities as a leader/manager in multiple divisions of Raytheon

- Responsible for all aspects of the EPTS system: engineering, development, marketing, sales, interacting with customers, vendors, trademarks, patent issues, conducting demos, closing sales, contracts, pricing, training customers, and program management duties

- Responsible for creating national and international interest in the EPTS system

- Increasing company profitability by managing relationships with various sub-contractors, suppliers, vendors and customers

Key Result: Managing multiple projects with on time delivery milestones Lead Software Engineer, 1999 – 2005

- Responsible for designing, documenting, and presenting software systems to Raytheon Senior Management

- Lead various technical trade-off analysis, software development and integration efforts which resulted in completing projects on-time and under budget

Key Result: $500 - $750K in increased profitability Site Manager / Program Manager, Felltham, England, 1996 - 1999

- Customer Liaison between Ministry of Defense and Hughes Information Systems

- Supported a digital productions system for the production of map data for the Ministry of Defense Key Results: 3 years of A+ Rating from the UK Ministry of Defense Director of Marketing / Program Manager, 1995 - 1996

- New business development with the National Imaging and Mapping Agency (NIMA) for Help Desk, and Asset Management working with ITIL Systems.

- Technical Lead for infrastructure management at the National Imaging and Mapping Agency (NIMA)

- Demonstrations to commercial companies to generate new non-DOD business in St. Louis Area.

- Managing, designing, developing an Emergency Patient Tracking System (EPTS) Key Results: Created new business generating 10 new jobs and a new St. Louis office State of Missouri Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) Program Manager PAR Government Systems Project Manager

General Electric Company Syracuse, New York Lead Programmer IBM Sterling Forest, Sterling Forest, New York Systems Support IBM Boca Raton, Boca Raton, Florida Consultant Information Center Education / Certifications

PMP – Program Manager Professional

CSM – Certifies Scrum Master

Six Sigma – Green Belt

Leadership Academy – New Mexico State University (NMSU) State University of New York - B.A. Computer Information Sciences and B.A. Mathematics Honor Societies: Epsilon Delta Pi and Pi Mu Epsilon Security : Top Secret / SSBI eligible / HSPD12 / DOE-Q - Pending

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