Manager Project

Bassey Ekanem ***** Health Center Drive, Bowie, Maryland 20716. Phone: 703-447-758

Experience Summary:

Over 28 years of experience in the areas of program/project management, change/patch/release management, and requirements/process engineering in Civilian/Defense Systems, Finance/Taxation, Housing/Mortgage, Banking, Telecommunications, and Manufacturing.

Excellent analytical, leadership, and communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Release Manager/Infrastructure Engineering, CSRA/CapitalWebMasters

(Jan 2009 – Present)

Support Release and Deployment management of the Modernized e-File (MeF) system for the IRS.

Interface with the IRS/IBM/Accenture/others to coordinate activities related to the release and deployment of all infrastructure artifacts of the MeF into Production, ATS, and the Alternate production environments.

Provide configuration management support to the MeF project representing the Infrastructure team at Configuration Board meetings

Support Requirements development for MeF

Versed in working with other Infrastructure and Systems engineers on areas related to Web Services, MQSeries, Veritas, Oracle GG, Oracle ASM, Tectia, Forum FSGs, etc.

Utilize the Rational tools (RequisitePro, ClearCase, ClearQuest, etc.) to support release/deployment/CM

Requirements Engineering Lead (Process/Requirements engineering), IT Consulting, Inc./GTSI.

Apr 08 – Sep 08

Provided Process/Requirements Engineering support to the IRS for the development and creation of the Concept of Operations (ConOps), Requirements (functional & non-functional), Use Cases, Activity & Sequence Diagrams, and Functional Architecture for the Modernized e-File (MeF) System Release 6 and the Account Management System (AMS) Release 2.1 projects;

Utilized Rational tools (Rational Rose, RequisitePro, ClearQuest, ClearCase).

Project Manager, AGi Mission Support Services, Inc.

Nov 07 – Apr 08

Provided project management support on a contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Security & Preparedness. Efforts included acquisition, design, installations, and deployment of video teleconferencing systems at four Emergency Management sites.

Project/Task Order Manager, CSC/PTO

Apr 07 – Oct 2007

Provided project and task order management (US Patents & Trademark Office, SDI Program) on the Patent Desktop Search Systems (PDSS) with 11 Automated Information Systems, with 5 Technical Leads, and 22 technical staff. In addition, provided technical leadership and management on the PDSS Maintenance/development Task Order to ensure task order processes and procedures are closely followed. CSC IT solution at USPTO included harnessing SOA to cut through complexity within the patents business systems. Environment included HP UNIX, Linux, WinTel, Apache, iPlanet, NSAPI, Oracle 10g, Documentum, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, VBA, VS.NET, ASP.NET, Perl, Web services, Rational Rose, ReqPro, ClearQuest, ClearCase, PVCS, MS Project, ANT, GNU, etc.;

Process/requirements management – Rational Tools (ReqPro, Rational Rose, & ClearQuest);

Senior Release Manager, Fannie Mae/CompuGain

Oct 2006 – Mar 2007

Provided release and requirements/change management in support of Restatement Financial Data Warehouse (RFDW) projects at Fannie Mae. As

Planned, coordinated and managed release schedules and activities (MS Project, SharePoint, Remedy, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Excel, etc.

Managed Oracle 9i to 10g migration and coordinated downtimes with all downstream and 3rd party consumers

Technical Director, TekBridge, Inc

Mar 2004 – Oct 2006

Summary of the support to our clients:

Business development and strategic planning (various clients – ARMA, CMI, etc.)

US SBA/DMS – HUBZONE project – managed the resource responsible for developing the HUBZONE online-system for registration, certification, re-certification, and reporting. Tools - Java, J2EE, MS SQL, ColdFusion, etc.

IRS PRIME/CSC:

oManaged the resources that provided program-level configuration management, development, testing, & deployment support to the IRS modernization effort (Financial & taxation systems - all platforms – mainframe, Unix, NT, Infrastructure services, etc.)

oSAP Consulting Lead support to the Integrated Financial System (IFS) project

Managed project to develop and provide maintenance on the web-based Conference Registration for the CMS (Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services) under sub-contract to DMS, LLC;

Created and managed DC Zoning kiosk-based zoning virtual library. Tools - .NET, GIS, Flex, etc.

Senior Project Manager, Nextel Communications

Oct 2002 – Mar 2004

Supported Nextel Communications - RF Engineering Operations, as the Project Manager. Some of the activities included:

National Rollout of a Micro-cell radio-wave propagation tool. Efforts included RFI creation, negotiation/purchase of building/terrain data, oversight of the conduct of microcell tools trials at 6 Nextel locations, etc. Wavesight successfully rolled out to all 4 regions of Nextel;

Provided project management support for the following projects – Wizard terminal services rollout (infrastructure re-design – server specs, terminal services, citrix metaframe, Oracle, etc), CellOpt ACP trials in 7 markets. “Wizard” is a macrocell radio wave frequency propagation & planning tool for wireless networks;

Supported product enhancement and the creation of a national training program for RF and Systems Performance engineers on the use of Actix Analyzer.

Release Manager, Northrop Grumman IT/ CSC

Oct 2000 – Oct 2002

CSC was the lead of the PRIME contractors (IBM, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, Unisys, KPMG, Avaya) on the IRS Modernization program. I was part of CSC’s integration team.

As the Release Manager, I was responsible for providing integration oversight, lead PMO portfolio management, creation of the release architecture in accordance with the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) framework, mapping of requirements to Configuration Item List (CIL), Test Cases, and Requirement Matrix; manage cross project dependencies to create a program level release from requirements engineering, development, testing, through deployment;

Provided management oversight on the schedules and interfaces between projects and the IRS production systems utilizing the PRIME developed integrated master schedule (IMS);

I established the first indexing schema for projects work-products and deliverables breakdown by requirements driven by the IMS;

Maintained change Request updates to the requirements and assured change propagations to all related artifacts;

IRS PRIME contractor point of contact for coordinating upgrades, patches, firmware releases to infrastructure within all environments (Dev, Test, and Production);

Systems Architect, Bell Atlantic (Telecom Group Systems)

Feb 2000 – Oct 2000

Bell Atlantic in trying to get into the long distance market was required by the FCC to open up its local market to competition. Hired as a Consultant to create a Strategic Architecture District responsible for carrying out the software and system Architecture practice that will enable Bell Atlantic to support interoperability and interface with CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers). The flow through systems were required to support pre-ordering, ordering, provisioning, and billing activities for such CLECs as AT&T, MCI, Sprint, Williams Telecom, etc. on all voice, data, and broadband services.

Project/Release Manager, AT&T (Desktop Suites Base Services & Customer Manager)

Sep 99 – Jan 2000

As E-2-E Project/Release Manager for DSBS & CM at AT&T; was responsible for all projects and releases related to providing the Infrastructure services, the UI capabilities and DAL services for all Tier1, Tier2 & Tier3 development constructs required to enable AT&T to deliver services on the Universal Platform (UP);

Worked in an environment consisting development tools and methodology that included Java, C++, Weblogic, Rational Rose, ClearCase, ClearDDTS, UML, Oracle 8, Orbix, CORBA, MessageQ, Swing, Netscape Enterprise Server;

Managed a team of more than 40 Developers, Systems Engineers, and Testers.

Responsible for release of the applications (CM and DSBS) into production per AT&T Release schedule;

Utilized AT&T Software Development Framework (SDF) as the Life Cycle support methodology. Managed Releases 2000.02, 2000.04 and 2000.10.

District Development Manager, AT&T (CADM Conversion & Data Integrity District)

Feb 99 - Sep 99

Functioned as the Development Manager for AT&T Customer Accounts and Data Management (CADM). My responsibilities included the following:

Managed a staff of 28. Responsible for conversion/migration of AT&T customer accounts information from legacy platforms (MVS, IMS, DB2, Cobol, VSAM, etc) to a new architecture on a “Universal Platform (UP)” to support end-to-end customer information management. The new platform with the new AT&T universal biller (UB) constructs supports ordering, provisioning, through billing. The UP is a client/server environment running Oracle 8.05, C, Pro*C, C++, ClearDDTS, ClearCase, ReqPro, etc.

Designed, implemented software modules to unload data from the various legacy stores, develop translation software to create the new UB structures in accordance with the new AT&T UP hierarchies, and load/update data into the universal platform.

Senior Manager, HCL James Martin, Inc.

Sept 1997 – 12/98

Assigned as the Project Manager to US Clearing Corp (a Quick & Reilly Company / Fleet Securities), NY to support IT Systems Re-development and Y2K Remediation & Testing on all Internal Applications (87 applications in excess of 7Millions LOC) supporting Trading, Margins, Options, Billing, General Ledger, Mutual Funds, Electronic Trading, Human Resources, etc. Staff level 20;

Assigned as the Project Manager to LCI International (QWEST), to support scanning and parser tool development for Y2K Assessment and RenovationStaff level at 10;

Assigned to the James River (Fort James Corporation) effort with Millennia III as the IT Coordinator.

Program Manager, Systems Engineering, Telos Corporation (Federal Systems)

July 1991-Sept 1997; 9/97 – 02/2002 (PT)

Functioned as a Program Manager at Telos with emphasis on portfolio management and developing new business within the Federal market, and in particular within the Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM). Provided technical and management direction through FEDSIM on Data Management and Standardization projects for the United States Army;

Technical Advisor/Database Architect to the US Army PMO Sustaining Base Automation (part of PEOSTAMIS) in the areas of Data Management (Logical/Physical Data Modeling & Standardization), as well as the physical data base design (Oracle 7.1, IBM/AIX environment) and development efforts. Provided IV&V services for the conduct of PDR, SCDR, and all inspections related to designing a distributed client/server SBIS within an Open System Environment; Tools – Pro*C, Ada, ClearCase, PVCS, ReqPro, ErWin, etc.

Technical Advisor/Database Architect to PEOSTAMIS on the TCAIMS II (DoD movement planning, tracking & mobilization system) – currently in use supporting war-fighting. Sybase, NT, Oracle, etc.

Others: 1981-1991:

1. Principal Technical Staff, PRC, INC [FEDSIM, IRS, DoD]

2. Project Manager, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (CBIS), Inc. [HUD/FHEO/FHA/Ginnie Mae]

3. Project Leader, CALCULON CORPORATION (Housing/mortgage]

4. Senior Systems Analyst, THE WASHINGTON CONSULTING GROUP [Energy – EIA]

5. Staff Consultant (Project Leader), ORKAND Corporation [Energy – EIA, EPA]

Environments: IBM mainframe, Unix (HP/AUX, IBM/AIX), Unisys mainframe (2200), Honeywell DPS 6-8, NT, etc.

IT Environments, Languages and Tools:

-Operating System: z/OS, UNIX (Solaris 7-10, HP AUX, Linux, AIX, Digital UNIX), Windows 95 / 98 / XP / NT 3-4 / 2000 / 2003 / 2007, MS-DOS. OS2 2.x., etc.

-Database packages & Languages: Oracle 7.x, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 9i, 10g, MS SQL, Informix, DB2, Access, ODBC, PL/SQL, ANSI SQL, SQLPLUS, Java, JavaScript, Perl, C, C++, COBOL, PowerBuilder, etc.

-Other Software: Microsoft Office suite, Erwin, Cognos, Microsoft Exchange server, Visio, Rational Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest, ReqPro, Endevor, TestDirector, LoadRunner, Remedy, DreamWeaver, Teamwork, AutoSys, Tivoli, Serena PVCS, ANT, etc.

-Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project, MS Project Server, Primevera, COCOMO.

-Protocols and Relevant Technologies: J2EE, SOAP, SOA, Web Services, TCP/IP/SSL, Named Pipes, RPC, XML, XSL/T, VS.NET, VBA, ASP.NET, Websphere, Weblogic, MQSeries, etc.

-EIM, Six Sigma, ETL, System Methodology tools: Emagineering, Jupiter, CoE model, Abinitio, Informatica, Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM), etc.

-Hardware: IBM MF z-900, IBM/AIX, Enterprise E4500, Sunfire 4800, v240, E15K, X4150, Sun Enterprise 250, Sun 490, sun blade 6000, IBM Power series, EMC Symmetrix, HP Aux, Compaq Alpha GS160.

-Case & Modeling Tools: Select Enterprise tool, Sybase Power designer, Visio, Erwin.

-ERP/Document Management Systems and Tools: SAP, PeopleSoft, EMC Documentum, FormScape, Microsoft SharePoint.

Education:

Completed coursework for PhD in Sedimentology/Stratigraphy, Brown University

M.Sc., Geological Science/Math Modeling, Brown University

B.Sc. (Hons), Geology/Mathematics, University of IFE, Nigeria

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