Company Project

Tessie Albert

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Lexington Park, MD 20653

Home 301-***-****, Cell 240-***-****

Email: ********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Seeking the ability to expand on my current experience from a Corporate or Customer perspective, or build upon my

experience as a Program Manager; as a strong team player, seeking the opportunity to become a member of a team

working simultaneously towards common goals and future growth opportunities.

EXPERIENCE

Have over 25 years of experience working within the Department of Defense, including Patuxent River, MD, St. Inigoes,

MD and Stafford, VA. Possess an extensive contract/finance/legal background in both the client and corporate side of

business and a willingness to tackle new opportunities and prosper from challenge.

EDUCATION

MS, with Honors, Management/Information Systems, College of Notre Dame, 2003

BS, with Honors, Business Management, University of Maryland, 1993

AA, with Honors, Management Development, Southern Maryland College, 1990

SKILLS OF THE TRADE

Microsoft Software, Power Point and Cost Point/Deltek Accounting Systems

WORK EXPERIENCE

8/2014 to Present

District Director

Fortune 500 Company

Webster University

PROFESSOR

Teaching - Masters Contracts/Certificate (needed for Government DAWIA certification) and IT and Business Masters,

supporting both the Bowling Air Force Base and the SMHEC locations.

Smartronix, Inc.

Sr. Contracts Manager

11/2005 to 5/31/2013

Primarily responsible for managing all company direct revenue by working closely with the VP’s, Directors, Program

Managers and other Departmental colleagues with a common mission, to remain profitable which is successfully done by

keeping company goals, strategy and vision in the forefront.

Back-up for the Director of Contracts/Legal – TA’s and NDA’s and managed the Contracts/Legal/Pricing/Subcontracts

Departments.

Most recently, added a new SIN to Smartronix GSA IT Schedule, EaaS/SaaS, which entailed writing the contract terms

and conditions, the labor categories and descriptions and researching and comparing rates for each category to be

competitive with other companies offering the same services.

Created via Excel a 5-year forecast of the company business units and presented the Power Point presentation to the CEO

of the company. The results demonstrated that a major contract effort needed to be captured or the company would be at

risk. The forecast was accurate to the timeframe provided and within that month a major contract effort was won placing

the company in a better financial position.

Prepared and presented briefs to potential customers to introduce our available contractual vehicles for placement and the

expertise our company had to offer to capture new Government clients. The PM would speak to the technical expertise of

the company and Contracts provided documentation and explained how each vehicle worked and what each had to offer

should there be interest via Power Point slide presentation.

Provided acquisition, contract, legal and financial guidance to the Contracts Department for all Prime/Subcontract

vehicles across the various Smartronix Business Bases (Marine Corps, Air Force, Army, Health IT, Federal, Navy, Joint

and Product Services).

Held signature authority, from day one, that contractually and legally binded the Company working directly with

Government Contracting Officers and other DoD Contractor equivalents.

Managed the GSA IT Schedule, MOBIS, 8A Stars Small Business, Alliant and SeaPort E Contractual Vehicles. Within

this capacity, provided guidance to VP’s Directors and Project Leaders in regards to the best vehicle for work placement,

pricing analysis, preparation for potential tasking and process/regulations governing the vehicle(s).

Led a team of Sr. Contract Specialists delegating workload as appropriate across all active contract vehicles issued to

Smartronix on a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF), Time and Material (T&M) or Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) basis.

Responsible for writing Department procedures utilized by personnel for consistency and to meet ISO directed regulations

and reviewed and compiled data in preparation of internal and external audits.

Represented the Contract Department at monthly Program Reviews to discuss the welfare of all current projects, which

included risk potential, current profit, estimate to complete, estimate at completion, workforce and the future of each to an

audience that included the President, CFO, CEO, Company Directors, VP’s and Program Managers.

Reviewed all Prime and Subcontract vehicles working with other Smartronix Departments and the Contracts Director and

once complete, moved into negotiations, as required, to prepare for acceptance and signature to begin work on the

awarded tasking.

Smartronix, Inc.

Sr. Contracts Specialist

11/2003 to 11/2005

From a contractual/acquisition prospective, reviewed all awarded contracts to assure adherence to requirements. If

tasking requires subcontractor support, issuance of a subcontract with flow down of all contractual requirements and

applicable FAR Clauses, review of terms and conditions and negotiations, if necessary, prior to final signature/execution.

From a financial prospective, managed Smartronix Marine Corps Business Base, which includes (8) Prime Vehicles,

several subcontracts and various Task Orders. Within this capacity, responsible for profit analysis, overseeing the funding

and ceiling values, monitoring to the lowest reporting level (CLIN), creation and upkeep of the financial deliverables,

projections, costs proposals/estimates, cost to complete, estimate to complete, issuance of subcontract/task orders,

program reviews, purchase requisitions, invoice review/processing and relevant data calls. Most importantly, assuring

each contract vehicle was fully funded and remaining proactive to avoid risk sending out limitation of funds letters for

contractual compliance.

On a daily basis, worked with Program Managers, Government Contracting Officers, supporting Subcontractor Personnel,

Technical Government Personnel and other Smartronix employees to address contractual or financial questions, issues or

concerns and if a problem was identified, continued to work closely with the applicable personnel to offer possible

solutions.

Met monthly with the company President, CFO and other Executives to present profit realization per contract and to

discuss possible risk factors for prevention measures and resolution. Attended meetings representing the contract

department as required.

Trained new Program Managers and Project Leaders (usually Military personnel) from a financial/contractual perspective

in preparation of monthly reviews and the overall management of their business unit for presentation to the Executives of

the company.

ARINC, Inc.

Sr. Staff Analyst

4/1996 to 11/2003

Managed the 4.11.3/4.11.7 CPFF contract and the follow-on contract to the 4.11 Lot II presented in detail below, a

$93.6M contract, several T&M projects and other company prime/subcontract/corporate efforts.

Served as the Sr. Management Analyst for the 4.11 Lot II Contract, a $73.9M effort, at the contract and task order levels,

interfaced directly with the Program Managers, Project Leaders, Subcontractor personnel, Technical Point of Contacts,

Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and the COR’s BFM to fulfill requirements. Responsibilities included

managing contract and task order ceilings/funding (i.e. labor, travel, material, NMCI, hours and fee) and reviewing

personnel proposed to assure personnel qualifications were met and rate proposed was within the range of rates bid,

processed task orders from the Response for Quote (RFQ) stage to award of tasking working with the appropriate

company personnel. Interacted with Program Managers, Project Leaders and Subcontractor personnel to identify needs;

coordinate actions required; review technical write-ups and subcontractor cost estimates submitted. Processed cost

estimate packages for ARINC, incorporating subcontractor effort proposed for delivery to Corporate Pricing.

Reviewed company and subcontractor invoices for allowable costs billed, as well as adherence to ceiling

proposed/awarded. Coordinated and compiled the monthly technical deliverable from ARINC and all subcontractors for

compilation into acceptable Government format. Created and prepared graphs and financial spreadsheets for the monthly

financial Government deliverables utilizing both Microsoft Word and Excel to process cost estimate packages and for

creation of spreadsheets required to accomplish the above tasking.

Assigned as a Project Leader for all tasking under the 4.11 Lot II Contract where a subcontractor to ARINC was

responsible for the tasking requirements. Within this capacity, responsibilities included creation of a Project Plan and all

subsequent Project Reviews for each task order thereafter for ISO 9001 compliance.

Reviewed subcontract orders to ensure technical requirements had been met and deliverables submitted. Monitored all

financial expenditures reported compared data to the original cost bid/awarded and projected expenditures for the

remainder of the period of performance to compare against the current ceilings and funding availability and took proper

actions as required.

Corporate responsibilities entailed review of company business endeavors, marketing efforts, current revenue and profit

analysis for direct report to the ARINC Company Director.

Eagan, McAllister Associates, Inc. (EMA) – Now SAIC

Contracts Specialist

7/1993 to 4/1996

Served as the Subcontracts Administrator for all tasks where EMA was a supporting subcontractor to a Prime

Contractor (7 subcontracts and 65 task orders) and Contracts Specialist for the Strike Prime Contract. Managed these

efforts at the contract and delivery order level and interfaced directly with the Government, subcontractors and EMA

Program Managers to fulfill contractual requirements.

For both Prime and Subcontract efforts, tracked expenditures, prepared financial reports, monitored funding levels,

prepared financial reports, monitored funding levels, prepared task costs estimates and interacted with representatives at

all levels from other firms, the Government and within EMA.

In addition to these duties, prepared and processed invoices checked for accuracy against spreadsheets created; calculated

variances in indirect rates; and prepared variance billings. Processed cost proposals, prepared graphs and financial

deliverables and worked with the company cost accounting system, Deltek, for billing, contract set-up and maintenance of

contractual vehicles.

Booz-Allen & Hamilton, (BAH)

Senior Consultant

4/1986 to 7/1993

As a Sr. Consultant provided contract and acquisition management support to the Communications, Design and Test

(CD&T) Division, Naval Electronic Systems Engineering Activity at St. Inigoes, MD. Supervised a team of (4) personnel

that provided service contract support for (7) U.S. Navy Contracts working closely with Government Program and Project

Managers providing contract cost data, delivery requirements and information on contractor performance in accordance

with the statement of work.

Duties included compiling and analyzing data to determine if sufficient ceiling was available and to assist in planning for

future service contract requirements acting as the liaison between the Government and service contractors to provide

guidance of contract performance and task expenditures. Met weekly with the CD&T Branch Heads to discuss financial

and level-of-effort status of the services contracts supported.

Provided extensive support for a $22M contract, within this capacity, drafted and reviewed technical direction letters and

delivery orders and monitored tasking, CLIN and contract level and financial and contract data. Reviewed vouchers for

contractual compliance and accuracy, tracked data deliverables using an automated deliverable tracking system and

maintained COR files per established content and format requirements. Duties also included tracking contract tasking,

funding and expenditures at CLIN and contract ceilings to identify potential overruns or funding deficiencies. Compared

contractor reported expenditures with actual performance to ensure adequate progress and to ensure that contract terms

and conditions were met. Compared contractor labor utilization to proposed estimates and informed the Government

client of any deviations. To perform these duties, utilized Lotus 1-2-3 and an automated tracking system designed in

ORACLE. Reported on and ensured timely submission of required reports, identified potential schedule slippages,

determined their effect on program milestones and recommended corrective action as necessary.

As a Budget Analyst, supported ad hoc reporting requirements and problem solving of non-routine administrative

problems reporting and reported to the VP. Prepared draft correspondence required for contract administration and

contract closeout reports. Maintained the BAH Lexington Park Office annual training budget for 128 employees. This

budget encompassed all internal and external training costs and professional memberships, evaluating all employee

reimbursement requests before approval and presentation to the VP. The data was tracked by developing an automated

budget tracking system in Lotus 1-2-3 to provide upper management with real-time data. Responsibilities were exercised

with strict adherence to fiscal constraints, company policies and employee rights considering the effort of the decisions.

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