Management Manager

Adam Hawkins has extensive experience in organizational strategic planning,

development and implementation of complex multi-disciplinary solutions to

meet internal and customer goals. He has managed entire lines of business

and joint ventures driving them to meet P&L goals. Adam is a certified

Program Management Professional (PgMP), Project Management Professional

(PMP), ITIL v3 Foundations Practitioner, and is a Certified ScrumMaster

(CSM). His executive leadership experience includes running a regional

business, leading senior operations managers in the delivery of commercial,

federal and DoD-based program portfolios.

Formal Education /Industry Certifications

Type Of Degree / Certification School Attended / Granting Yr.

Institution Completed

ScrumMaster Scrum Alliance 2012

ITIL Foundations Version 3 IT Information Library 2011

PgMP Program Mgmt Institute (PMI) 2010

PMP PMI 2006

MS Systems Management Capitol College 1995

BS Computer Science George Mason University 1990

Management of Technology Capitol College 1993

Certificate

Experience Highlights

Strategic Leadership

Mr. Hawkins is an integral member of the BlueWater executive leadership

utilizing a multidisciplinary approach in setting organizational

objectives for federal market penetration and corporate growth. He then

generates tactical operational initiatives for his senior managers to

lead their teams to deliver operational excellence (as measured through

CPARS and other customer evaluations), organic sustainment and growth.

He has performed similar strategic management duties in the

entrepreneurial small businesses he has been associated with for almost

30 years.

Operations Management

Currently leads Sr Program and Project Managers in the delivery of IT,

program and financial management contracts for federal and DoD customers

in the greater Washington, D.C. Area. Responsible for setting goals and

objectives for his team and in their delivery of their program benefits

to their customers in DHS, the DoD, and FAA.

Innovative Solutions

A continous theme is his management of technology based and business

process solutions to improve performance and efficiency while meeting

organizational goals and conform to coporate governance and

regulations.

Company Position From To

BlueWater Operations Director 2007 Present

Operations Director, October 2010 - Present

Directs a portfolio of DHS centric IT services programs (Software

development, Systems Integration, Information Assurance, IT services and

Operations & Maintenance) for BlueWater Federal Solutions (BFS)

utilizing PMI standards for Program and Project Management to deliver

strategic benefits sought by customers from their programs. Leading

SENTINEL Contract Management System software development, datacenter

migration and hosting, IT security, including C&A support, for the U.S.

Coast Guard (as part time direct labor). This system provides mission

critical Contract content and Change Management workflow support to the

USCG's acquisition of the next generation of Fast Response Cutters.

Providing proactive project leadership and customer communications

through monthly status reviews of the project and the application's

functionality. Managing the ongoing application technical support

services for the current version of SENTINEL while our development

continues.

Provides PMO subject matter expertise to BFS operations, joint ventures

and alliances for strategic program management, governance, stakeholder

management and benefits management are integrated and executing per plan

or are being remediated into compliance.

Deputy Program Manager (TSA STIP) Sept, 2009 - October 2010

Managed the development and delivery of STIP Release 2.4, a TSA security

solution following technical architectural standards, into production.

Ensured our STIP customer support team was trained on the new

functionality and incorporated it into their application technical

support services to STIP users nation-wide.

Assisted the PM with planning, estimating and executing STIP Releases

and ongoing support services.

Designed and led the build out of the BFS STIP Development and Test

Environments in support of STIP. 10 complete environments each

requiring a suite of 7 web, portal, application, Oracle, Web Logic,

Cognos Reports servers were concurrently created and maintained for STIP

releases in production (patch testing), staging, and development.

Migrated these internal environments to a commercial datacenter

Planned and built out the stand alone TSA TSIF STIP Integration Testing

Lab and updated policies and procedures for use of the facility for

testing networked TSE prior to transitioning from development to

deployment. Monitored and controlled the project and provided TSA of

ongoing reviews of the project's execution through the completion and

close out.

Maintained multiple platforms for the development and testing of STIP

Releases (both major and minor) within the BFS Software Lab and at TSA's

TSIF Integration Testing Facility.

Planned and implemented STIP Help Desk workflow modifications and

application enhancements to align the service to the customer's need and

deliver service excellence.

Coordinated remediation and mitigation activities in production systems

to address DHS and TSA Certification and Accreditation (C&A) reviews of

STIP. Performed Risk analysis and routine upper management updates for

or high visibility project situations

Deputy Program Manager TSA/OST Program Management, July 2008 - Sept,

2009

Used PMI, ITIL , and ISO standards are used in training and mentoring of

BFS task, project and program managers to better align and coordinate

their activities, to continuously improve the quality of services

provided and to leverage best practices in daily operations on

individual Task Orders to ensure each Task team aligned their activities

and focus with OST strategic goals.

Managed the PMO team and their processes for governance and controlling

the contract of 17 concurrent tasks and over 130 staff. Performed

Program Control activities (monthly and quarter program status reporting

to TSA) and monitored resource utilization against Task Order budgets

and schedules and took necessary action, including customer notification

of any deviations, on any issues that arose.

Led a team of senior program managers who managed the acquisition

lifecycle for emerging Passenger Screening Transportation Security

Equipment (TSE). The team followed federal management directives in the

validation of needs (against security threat matrices), analyzing and

presenting the candidate solutions and CONOPS, obtaining the solution

and vetting capabilities and functionality through CM physical audits,

FAT&Es, Quality Audits, and limited rate production to full production.

These TSEs were then handed off to PSP's Deployment team guided by our

Deployment program managers. TSA successfully fielded thousands of TSE

at federalized airports during this tenure.

Deployment Program Manager, TSA/OST Program Management, Dec 2007 - July

2008

Worked in a small team of senior program managers to develop the program

management plan and regional implementation processes, and Site

Implementation Plan used to deploy networked Transportation Screening

Equipment (TSE) at the approximately 460 federalized airports. To

ensure the PMP created would be accepted by all stakeholders, the team

had to coordinate the plan within OST and between TSA departments. This

process has been used to deploy over 3,000 networked TSE and is still in

use by TSA.

Provided program management support to the TSA's Office of Security

Technology (OST) for deploying Passenger and Carry-on baggage screening

technologies to U.S. airports. To deliver the benefits of this program

I had to closely coordinate with all stakeholders involved (Airport

Authorities, OSO, FSD staff, OEMs, the arch/engineering vendor, and TSA

OST departments) to maintain the overall deployment schedule and

minimize disruption to airport operations.

Professional Program Manager 2006 2007

Solutions

Supported the USPTO OCIO with program management support of OCIO-wide

initiatives; including the creation of planning tools and processes used

to prepare Capital Project Investment alternatives and OMB 300

submissions for business systems solutions. The systems chosen for

inclusion to the IT Portfolio aligned with USPTO strategic planning

goals and provided horizontal integration and Patent and Trademark

review workflow capabilities sought. Assisted OCIO leadership in

guiding these systems through the CPIC review and approval processes.

Assisted in developing a project management training program to aid the

OCIO with standardizing Development and Operations and Maintenance

estimating, budgeting, management, and execution. Performed over 20

training and workshop sessions for OCIO managers to facilitate

conformance with OCIO requirements for defining, planning and budgeting

Dev elopement, Operations and Maintenance activities.

Digital Fusion, Mid-Atlantic General Manager 2000 2005

Inc

Led a multi-office regional business unit focused on the Mid-Atlantic

providing Microsoft and Macromedia based software development,

Information Assurance, Infrastructure standardization, Tier 2 staff

augmentation services and IT infrastructure technology refresh to

commercial, Federal and DoD customers.

Infrastructure standardization activities included CONUS-wide support

assisting component organizations at over 20 locations with providing IT

platforms standardized with the parent organization, the installation of

application suites from the parent organization's base load of COTS and

internal apps on over 30,000 workstations, and with Tier 1 -3 staffing

to assist with transition to the parent organization's operational and

maintenance processes and procedures.

Managed multiple concurrent projects and proactively executed resource

and schedule management, and risk mitigation activities to ensure the

successful delivery of Cold Fusion based business systems solutions.

Marine Corps Services Mgr and IT Specialist 1995 2000

Association (MCA)

Liaised with senior Marine Corps officials and Board of Directors,

performed Business Process Improvement to workflows within and across

departments engaged in mission critical processes.

Migrated the IT infrastructure from an IBM System 38 hosted mode

utilizing a Token Ring backbone to a Novell client server on Ethernet

topography. Migrated organizational systems onto the new platform and

developed software Developed and maintained automated information

systems to support the MCA's and customer organizations' missions.

Gannett Programmer/Analyst 1992 1995

Performed code maintenance and development on AS/400 systems to support

Newspaper Division Advertising management. Additionally, assisted in

GUI applications development in support of the corporate Finance

Department. Revised USA Today's batch credit card transaction processing

system.

Assisted in the development of a GUI based Sales Lead management system.

Customized newspaper advertising system upgrades to suit USA Today

specifications. Migrated the Corporate programming staff from terminals

to workstations and administered the Corporate Programming Staff's file

server.

Veda Inc Programmer/Analyst 1991 1992

Supported the contract of Marine Corps Training and Education Computer

system at Quantico, Virginia. Responsible for generating DEC VAX COBOL

system code to meet original contract specifications and customer

requested modifications. Created a Database Diagram to document the

system's data files and their interdependencies.

Assisted with developing automated scheduling tool to replace a manual

system used by 180 Reserve sites. Generated ad-hoc reporting to meet

decision support demands of Headquarters Marine Corps during a 25%

reduction in personnel.

USMC Reserves Marine 1984 1988

Marine reservist in the 4th Force Service Support Group providing supply

administration, payroll disbursement, and cold weather operations

instructor activities to the 4th Marine Division. Service was based at

Anacostia Naval Station in Washington, D.C. with temporary billets at

Camp Lejeune, NC, Camp Ripley, MN for Cold Weather Survival Training

(instructor), and Parris Island, SC for Non Commissioned Officer Academy

(student). Honorably Discharged 1988

Ridge Development Director of 1983 1991

Corp Operations

Final position served to lead all operational activities to deliver

commercial and residential land development activities. Profit and Loss

responsible to deliver multiple concurrent multi-million Dollar projects

on-time and within budget.

Clearance Status: Active TS

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