Project Manager

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Professional with over 20 years of diversified experience in coordinating and managing projects. Background includes software development and maintenance, technical project leadership, execution, budgeting and cost control. Excellent people skills and stakeholder management. Experienced at managing cross-functional teams for fast-paced complex projects.

EXPERIENCE:

Sandia Staffing Alliance, Sandia National Laboratories Kirtland AFB, NM Apr 14 – Present

Project Scheduler

Work closely with project leads and stakeholders to develop multiple project schedules, perform risk analysis, identify and resolve critical path and network logic concerns. Apply project management principles and practices, including Earned Value Management (EVM), in developing schedules. Using Primavera P6, integrate schedules into a master project schedule, resource loading, baselining, bi-weekly status updates, and earned value reporting. Calculate variances for project activities perform variance identification and analysis, schedule analysis, and EVM analysis. Provide technical advice and guidance to leadership on all matters relating to schedule and EVM.

I.T. Project Manager, Sr. Jul 12 – Mar 14

Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court

Responsible for replacing the courts custom case management system with Tyler Technologies case management enterprise level application, Odyssey. It included, integration into the existing statewide deployed application, reviewing and developing a data model for the in-house database, API reprogramming of custom applications and a complete rewrite of older programs/scripts to JAVA and C#, 16 applications in all.

Created a Program Management Plan, Risk and Issues tracking spreadsheets and a WBS using MS Project 2010

Also worked with the vendor Project Managers to complete a Project Scope document

Generated and delivered a weekly progress report to C-level executives

LinQuest Corporation, 3548 Aberdeen Ave. S.E. Kirtland AFB, NM Jun 09 – Jun 12

Lead Systems Engineer

Space Test & Engineering contract (STEC), provide systems of systems level planning, engineering, and architectural support to the satellite ground system applications. Conduct long-range planning activities, analyze software requirements and identify necessary application functionality to support current and future satellite programs.

Transition legacy mission requirements to new ground system software application.

Create transition project schedules using MS Project 2007.

Modify Mission Planning Software applications to accept new satellite command and telemetry databases.

Create verification and validation plans for testing satellite ground system applications.

ASRC Aerospace, 3548 Aberdeen Ave. S.E. Kirtland AFB, NM Dec 07 – Jun 09

Program Manager

Engineering Development, Sustainment contract (EDS), responsible for all personnel concerns (14 engineers across 5 sites in 3 states), cost control accounting (>$4 million annual) and proposal management (>$3 million annual), for multiple simultaneous systems engineering and software development task orders.

Reconcile ASRC monthly financial report for delivery to prime contractor Lockheed Martin.

Evaluate candidates and prepare all paperwork associated with in processing and out processing of employees.

Execute Project/Cost Account Manager (CAM) duties (includes financial, technical and contractual responsibility) for Coriolis, CloudSat, and the common software, sustainment and upgrades using MS Project 2007.

TEK SYSTEMS, Albuquerque, NM Oct 07 – Dec 07

Software Team Lead

Manage the TEK Systems on-site software development and maintenance contract, time management and billing. Work with Ethicon Endo-Surgery managers to develop project schedules using client standard tools, including MS Project to capture tasks, resources and scope of projects.

Perform risk management, provide resource capacity and allocation analysis and utilize change management process to control contractual scope of projects.

Interact with stakeholders and support organizations to ensure expectations are commensurate with product delivery.

Prepare/present briefings for and lead the weekly stakeholder projects review meeting, including distribution of the agenda, and writing and distributing meeting minutes.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN, San Diego, CA Apr 07 – Oct 07

Software Development/Delivery Manager

Managed Software Development and Software Test teams (15+ engineers) for the County of San Diego Probation department. Established an Operations team to handle help desk issues.

Built team and managed subcontract labor to match short and long-term goals.

Provided direction and oversight for development team during contract execution.

Established the use of industry and company standard software engineering processes.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN, 3548 Aberdeen Ave. S.E. Kirtland AFB, NM Sep 05 – Mar 07

Software Development Lead

Space Test and Engineering Contract (STEC), Managed the software development team for multiple simultaneous satellite software Mission Operations Center development and sustainment projects. Established architectural, design and programming languages used for the development of the STP-1 missions (SPTSat-1, NEXTSat & ASTRO)

Provided guidance to three project leads, eighteen (18) software engineers, and technical support staff.

Created an MS Project schedule to track and report against mission milestones.

Performed Systems Analysis and Design, Software Requirements Analysis, Code Generation, testing, Maintenance, reuse, and Configuration Management in line with CMMI Level 3 certification.

Worked with EDS counter parts to develop the CCSDS configurations for the RT505 and RT508.

IITC, 3548 Aberdeen Ave. S.E. Kirtland AFB, NM Jan 04 – Sep 05

Senior Software Engineer

Space Test and Engineering Contract (STEC), Performed software, development and maintenance, for ground system applications supporting the MESA mission operations center.

Updated the satellite command database for the Coriolis mission

Created PERL scripts to automate manual tasks for all missions

Coded applications using JAVA for C/NOFS and CloudSAT missions

EDUCATION:

College of Santa Fe, Bachelor of Science, Magna cum Laude May 2002

Major: Computer Science

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