Project Manager

Senior Project Management Strategic Planning Risk Management

Professional Profile

Performance driven Project Manager with 18 years of experience and is a committed team leader who places a concentrated emphasis on bridging the communication gap between technology and stakeholders. Proven track record of adhering program/project management best practices to ensure projects are delivered on-time and within budget, while meeting or exceeding customer expectations. Solutions driven manager who bridges the communications gap between business and technology while managing complex matrixed environments, programs and concurrent projects.

Core Competencies

Contract Management and Budgeting

Personal Management

Financial Modeling & Analysis

Risk & Issue Management

Change Management

Offshore Resource Management

Strategic Planning

Leading and Mentoring

Business Process Management

Key Accomplishments

Managed the technical and business teams on a $65M FDA grant consisting of cross-matrix teams of federal, academic, and international agencies to successfully execute a course acknowledged for the advancement of medical countermeasures.

Developed and managed the IT PMO/Center of Excellence that contained over 30 projects ranging in cost from $10K to $147M in a highly matrixed environment serving public health, government agencies, DoD, academia, and industry.

Initiated Program/Project Management offices and incorporated Microsoft Project Enterprise to improve program/project management execution for DHS, DoD, the State Department, Fannie Mae and GEICO.

Received FDA Office of the Commissioner Leveraging/Collaboration Honor Award for outstanding team contribution to the development, implementation and initial management of FDA’s MCM regulatory science program.

Skill Summary

Project Management Software

Project Management Methodologies

MS Project Enterprise

Agile/Scrum

MS Project Professional

Waterfall

MS Project Server

Spiral

MS SharePoint

Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

MS Access

Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Jira

Joint Application Development (JAD)

Professional Experience

Management Consultant, A+ Government Solutions, LLC a Chickasaw Nation Industries Company (2011–Present)

Project: FDA, Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats (OCET), Medical Countermeasures Initiative (MCMi)

Monitor executive programs and projects to provide recommendations for process improvement supporting the FDA-wide initiative to coordinate medical countermeasure development, preparedness, and response (MCMi).

Provide project leadership necessary to meet defined project deliverables and ensure that all project goals and objectives are accomplished within the prescribed timeframe, budgetary parameters and to the customer’s satisfaction. Regularly maintains positive working relationships with the customer and key stakeholders. Worked with executive management to identify business processes to improve operational efficiency.

Restructured the manual process to collect FDA-Track program measures which reduced weeks of data collection to a 5 day process. Spearheaded SharePoint implementation, which improved document collaboration and reduced document reporting from 3 days to one day.

Associate Director, Danya International, Inc. (2008–2011)

Project: Various Agencies (Government, DoD, Academia and Industry)

Performed an organizational assessment of Danya's IT capabilities to better align business requirements and technology to strategic goals. Successfully led efforts to improve software development standards. Implemented configuration management system and applied project management Best Practices and moved the company closer to obtaining CMMI Level 3 Certification.

Developed and managed the PMO/Center of Excellence that contained over 30 projects ranging in cost from $10K to $147M. Managed all internal and external IT functions in a highly matrixed environment serving government public health agencies, DoD, academia, industry and Danya.

Senior Consultant Project Management, BearingPoint, Inc. (2007–2008)

Project: Various (DoD, Department of State, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), academia, industry and SAIC)

Managed onsite professional teams tasked to assess the program health of agencies.

Provide services that bring structure and manageability to programs/projects which enable strong collaborative environments to provide predictable results.

Program Manager, Aviel Inc./PMC (2006–2007)

Project: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of the Chief

Information Officer (OCIO) Resource Management Office (RMO) Financial Management Branch Project

Managed 5 contracts and 2 subcontracts totaling $15M

Evaluated the impact of existing and proposed internal and external policies and policy changes on the accomplishment of OCIO’s mission as it related to ICE.

Generated financial forecasts and evaluated budgets, policies and programs under the Office of the OCIO.

Program Manager, Edge Professional Services (2005–2006)

Project: Fannie Mae Financial and Portfolio Technology (FAPT) PMO Contract

Established a PMO that would serve as the corporate PMO model optimized by an Enterprise Project Management (EMP) Solution utilizing Microsoft Office Project Server, Project Web Access, and MS Project Professional.

Developed and conducted Project Server and SharePoint training to train over 25 executives, managers, and project teams.

Wrote MS Project and SharePoint training materials, quick reference guides, user manuals and administration manuals.

Project Manager/Mentor, Sogeti USA, LLC (2004–2005)

Project: GEICO EXCEED Contract

Partnered with Executive managers, the Competitive Analysis Group, and Software Engineering Process Group to streamline processes which resulted in a 60% improvement meeting deliverables.

Drafted action plans and led meetings with department executives to develop a process to review project status and proposed changes.

Mentored Project Managers and Team Leads on the best practices of project management using MS Project Enterprise.

Database Manager/Administrator, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (1998–2004)

Project: Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Contract

Responsible for the conversion of infrastructure deployment databases that contained over $10 billion in deployment data.

Provided weekly project and department status reports to the Assistant Commissioner and Deployment Director.

Maintained and monitored occupational groups and series for INS Reorganization Committee.

Marketing Specialist/ Securities Supervisor, Fannie Mae (1984–1998)

Developed the procedures and technical solutions for the Single-Family Selling and Servicing Guides subscriptions resulting in a reduction of the printing budget from $1.2M to $625K in the first four months of operation.

Managed the team responsible to prepare the monthly financial transactions and financial accounting reports for mortgages traded on Wall Street.

Education/Certification

Bachelor of Science: Technology Management, 2001 Certified ScrumMaster ® (CSM), 2010

University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD Scrum Alliance, Inc., Westminster, CO

Certificate ID: 000100359

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