Summary of Qualification:

Respected manager with distinguished career providing strategic business planning, project/program management, team leadership, quality improvement and process improvement expertise from start-up to high-growth global Hi-Tech organizations

Skilled program manager who has led high risk, time-sensitive and multi-million dollar projects from conception to completion

Experience building annual operating plans, revenue forecasts, project performance reports and analytical/metric models

Expert presenter, negotiator, businessperson able to forge solid relationships with staff, team members, customers, executive management and strategic partners

Professional Experience:

Coley Solutions – February 2014 – December 2016,

Project Manager Overview:

I had overall responsibility for Cost, Schedule and Scope.

Indirectly managed a development team of 15 team members including System Programmers, Instructional Designers, Graphic Artist and Multi-media programmers that were remote and local.

Provided business development support in reviewing statement of work (SOW) for determination of risks and resource planning.

Developed SOWs and negotiated and developed Subcontracts.

I was the lead of the Coley Process Improvement Group (CPIG) whose charter was to update Coley’s process and develop the Project Management and courseware development process from Project Initiation to Project Closeout documentation.

Conducted daily, weekly, and monthly meeting with Internal and External stakeholders to give updated status on programs to include budget, schedule and scope.

Developed Weekly and monthly status reports for all projects to document overall status of programs.

Conducted Daily Huddle meeting with operations and or IT department to review work completed and status of work to be done that day based on the baseline schedule.

External Projects:

Provide project management support for Federal Government Procurements of project services and product development.

Responsible for project management of 10 federal programs that included VA, USSS, DOD and other government agencies for the development of Web Based Training development products using waterfall development.

Managed the development of Virtual, and Instructor Led training products.

Direct supervisory responsibility for 7 staff employees at government facilities supporting IT Programs.

Internal Projects:

Managed software updates to the Coley’s Proprietary Project Management System (PMS) using agile development.

Worked with Executive team documented new systems requirements for the PMS.

Developed Project Plan based on new system requirements.

Developed and managed the PC upgrades for GTS department of 20 Desktops computers as well as five remote laptop upgrades.

Worked with IT department and current resources to upgrade computers with no interruption to current project schedules.

Worked with IT Department to ensure each resource had the required software, hardware, applicable rights assigned for their computer for their position.

NCI Information Systems (previously Karta Technologies) - March 2010 – January 2014.

Principle Pricing Analyst:

Responsible for reviewing potential statements of work (SOW), for commercial and government procurements.

Managed cost proposal from draft request for proposal (DRFP) through proposal submittal. Worked with operation managers, business development managers, and procurement teams to accurately quote prices on new and existing programs in relation to overall proposal strategy and customer tolerance.

Developed various price proposals from small product and services to large IDIQ cost proposals that contained up to 150 sub-contractors, 250 labor categories that included SCA Wage determinations.

Review SOW, analyze internal and external costing data, build initial descriptive and predictive models to include and FAR and SCA requirements and present the results of the research to operations, senior management and the executive team.

Responsible for developing detailed financial analysis and executing pricing strategies for competitive procurements in compliance with the current state of business and the procurement business strategy.

Performed costs analysis studies to determine labor requirements and determining manufacturing costs to establish baseline costs.

Karta Technologies - March 2002 – March 2010.

Manager, Finance & Program Analyst:

Reported to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Provided strategic and financial support to proposed business changes, key initiatives, SOP and planning model changes for the company.

Developed corporate 90 days rolling revenue and profit forecasts reports for the executive management team.

Developed monthly indirect expenditure reports for CFO and other executive managers.

Analyzed corporate financial performance,

Managed Special Projects for Executive Team from inception to closure.

Audited all company projects to ensure they were in compliance with revenue and cost goals.

Developed division status reports and program briefings for the executive management team. Provided business decision support to program team to drive value and ensure appropriate metrics are established and sound business decisions are made including consideration of all options and variables.

Established and enforced corporate project management standards, processes, and tools. Developed metrics and models for setting project goals and determine project health.

Developed and lead Financial and Operations (Standards of Performance) Training for: Project Administrators, Business Unit Leaders, and Project Managers.

Special Internal Projects for Executive team:

Managed Special Projects for Executive Team from inception to closure, with responsibility for Scope, Cost and Schedule.

Supported Karta’s corporate initiative to attain CMMI and ISO 9001:2000 certification.

Developed initial and subsequent modifications of corporate policies and process to delineate areas of responsibility, personnel requirements, and operational procedures.

As an additional duty, I was the project manager in charge of the new addition to our building.

I managed the migration of three departments to their new area, as part of the migration we developed reports to track what software was on each PC as well as the age of the PC to develop plan for PC replacements. During the migrations we moved 200 PC’s without any disruption to current project work.

During the movement we also upgraded all PC’s to the updated version of Microsoft Office and some additional software packages depending on what was required for their position.

Managed the PC replacement Program within our company. Worked with IT and Operations managers to schedule and do PC replacements to include Remote resources.

PMO Manager:

Managed Multi-million dollar projects as well as a team of 15 Project Managers and developers. As the PMO Manager I established the strategy, goals, objectives, roles and responsibilities for the project management team.

Implemented quantitative methods of tracking project progress, using CPI, SPI, and other earned value metrics.

As a PMO Manager worked with customers to develop project metrics and analyze ROI of all projects.

Organized and led numerous requirements-gathering sessions at client site to help customers to develop project metrics and analyze ROI.

Managed projects with significant complexity while meeting all scheduled milestones and deliverables.

Developed detailed project plans to include work breakdown structures and communication plans. Developed project tools usage plans and administered MS Project Server, and SharePoint for all business units.

Briefed the client and executive management team on project status throughout the project life cycle.

External Projects:

Provide project management support for Federal Government Procurements of project services and product development.

Responsible for project management of 35 commercial and federal programs that included Army, Zachry Construction, Air Force, DOD and other government agencies for the development of Web Based Training development products using waterfall development.

Managed Zachry University Learning Management System for reporting monthly usage and adding training products.

Direct supervisory responsibility for 15 staff employees at government facilities in the development of Web Based training Products.

DigitalThink: - June 2000 – March 2002

Account Manager:

Responsible for overall account management of all accounts assigned to me to include managing client, and DigitalThink resources.

Worked with client to define client requirements; determine project scope and deliverables; evaluate and make necessary adjustments to team productivity; stay informed of and apply evolving DigitalThink methodology and technology developments; escalate issues where appropriate to executive team.

Reviewed Statements of Work and developed change requests when required.

Supported Project Managers where appropriate; assessing team workload, progress, and morale; effectively negotiated tradeoffs.

I was responsible for managing the project team, and collaborating with other departments to complete project objectives on time, within quality, budget and implementation guidelines.

Member of DigitalThink integration team that worked with executive management during the purchase of new companies – my responsibility was to go into the recently purchased companies and audit programs and projects and report to Sr. Management the current status of the projects to include the customer relationship.

Developed and implemented integration plans on how we would integrate the new company into DigitalThink this include determining what current computer software and hardware requirements that were need to work with DigitalThink’s network.

Education:

M. B. A. International Business Graduated December 1998, Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) San Antonio, TX (3.8 GPA)

B. S. Industrial Technology Engineering Graduated December 1989, Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale IL (3.0 GPA)

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