Patrick Heaney PMP MBA

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Chapel Hill, NC 27514

aczrf5@r.postjobfree.com

919-***-****

Dear Sir or Madam:

My award-winning career in industry and government, including 10 years of engineering and

12 post-MBA years of project, program, and portfolio management, illustrates the expertise needed to guide your information technology (IT) projects from conception to cutover to close while assuring value. I have consistently achieved objectives of projects by applying exceptional abilities to listen, understand requirements, and align competing priorities; to learn, understand, and explain complex systems; and to assess and mitigate risks, even in fast-paced combat zones. The breadth of my achievements distinctly demonstrates the skills and expertise to needed to your project’s objectives and assure their value.

I am an innovative manager who is comfortable with complexity, and a motivated leader that keeps stakeholders and team members engaged and productive. My successes securing millions of dollars in funding for critical Army intelligence projects demonstrate my abilities to listen, communicate, and align the interests of teammates and stakeholders at all levels. My repeated selection for awards by my peers and leaders highlights my ability to learn complex systems quickly and work with teams to help them succeed. The breath of my 16 years of management, from engineering management at Pratt & Whitney to program management at the Army to requirement analysis and agile software development at EOIR Technologies, abundantly exhibits my exceptional judgement for establishing requirements, identifying and mitigating risks, and developing and executing project plans.

I look forward to talking with you to further understand your needs and to highlight how I can help you achieve your objectives for scope, cost, schedule, and value. Please contact me at aczrf5@r.postjobfree.com or 919-***-**** to arrange an interview.

Regards,

Patrick Heaney

Summary: Engineer and PMP certified Project Manager with award-winning ability to dialog and team with stakeholders at all levels and areas of expertise. I excel at understanding and articulating challenges and then initiating, planning, and executing innovative projects to solve them. The successes of my teams have spanned Academia, Industry, and the Intelligence Community (IC).

Relevant Work Experience

Chenega Technical Innovations, Chapel Hill, NC, Top Secret Clearance 04/2016 – 09/2016

Program Manager, Army Geospatial Center (AGC)

Guided junior and seasoned project staff through diverging team-member interests to:

• Develop stakeholder strategy and secure FY17 funding for an Intelligence Community hybrid cloud.

• Develop and spin off a pilot program proposal to demonstrate capabilities for enabling Continuous Integration Continuous Development (i.e. DevOps) on the Army Intelligence Enterprise.

EOIR Technologies, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC, Top Secret Security Clearance 02/2013 – 03/2016

Project Manager

Implementations Project Manager, Commercialization Lead, Business Development Lead

Initiated opportunities and demonstrated solutions to the most difficult problems with video and imagery using Advanced Video Activity Analytics (AVAA). Led agile software development

teams delivering AVAA implementations. Supported business development activities with customer networking, quality control, proposal management and writing. Achievements include:

• Increased the installed base of AVAA by 500% by creating marketing materials, building coalitions, and developing a detailed understanding of user needs, including those of the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, USAF, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

• Negotiated scope, cost, and schedule to lead a multidisciplinary project team demonstrating the first real-time object detection and tracking computer vision analytics in a U.S. Army aerial drone Universal Ground Control Station (UGCS) Simulator. Articulated and tracked user features in JIRA.

• Researched regulations, market, planned, guided development, and demonstrated commercial version of AVAA to commercial customers. Researched financing options to fund product launch.

• Managed, wrote, and contributed critical content to bid proposals including four winning $49M Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) proposals and two winning IDIQ Task Orders.

U.S. Army, Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center

(CERDEC) Intelligence & Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) Various Locations, Top Secret Security Clearance 4/2009 - 2/2013

Project Manager, Subject Matter Expert

Authority on Department of Defense (DoD) policies and procedures and the Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) of Intelligence, Reconnaissance, and Surveillance (ISR) information. Served as Army Science and Technology Liaison between I2WD and NGA.

• Led an integrated product team of Government civilians, Contractors, and Warfighters to balance priorities of multiple stakeholders, assess technologies, define requirements, compose government acquisition documents, resolve project issues including configuration management, and ensure the contracting team achieved cost, schedule, and performance targets for the procurement and demonstration for all sensors and exploitation capabilities of the Long Endurance Multi-INT Vehicle.

• Identified deficiency in operationalizing video analytics; solicited, collected, and analyzed user requirements; conceived and developed solution concept; developed cost and schedule; and built a coalition of stakeholders from U.S. Army, USAF, U.S. Navy, and NGA to secured over $50M in funding for AVAA, a software solution that demonstrated and enabled the rapid integration, assessment, and deployment of computer vision algorithms from academia, industry, and government.

• Secured sustainment funding for AVAA from the Army Distributed Common Ground System

(DCGS-A) program. AVAA is now the government provided video exploitation tool for DCGS-A.

U.S. Army, Deputy Chief of Staff Intelligence 12/2006 – 04/2009 Washington, DC, Top Secret Security Clearance

Program Manager, Portfolio Manager, Science and Technology Team Chief

Guided staff identifying, assessing, and positioning Army science and technology programs. Evaluated technology trends, risks, and opportunities and influenced designs and specifications at academic, industry, and other government institutions to align with Army intelligence priorities. Secured funds through the Financial Management Directorate, the Planning, Programming, Budget, and Evaluation (PPBE) process, and other sources to address Army intelligence priorities. Achievements include:

• Shaped over $2B in government spending on Army Intelligence priorities over five years through the PPBE process and the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO); by conducting outreach to build relationships between academia, industry, and government institutions; and by performing operational assessments on existing and emerging capabilities in extremely complex environments.

• Deployed to Iraq to provide operational assessments and expert advice on employment of ISR systems and architectures.

• Received "Commander's Award for Civilian Service" and "Global War on Terrorism Civilian Service Medal" in 2008 for leadership, qualitative and quantitative analyses, and performance reporting in Iraq on mission critical ISR capabilities, including the Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS). My work directly contributed to decisions to expand PTDS funding by $1B.

• Provided technical and non-technical guidance on Army Science and Technology priorities, scientific and engineering standards, funding, governance, and emerging Warfighter requirements to acquisition program offices, Congressional Staff, staff members from the Office of the Secretary of Defense

(OSD) and Multi-National Corps – Iraq (MNC-I), JIEDDO, the Intelligence Community, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASA(ALT)).

ManTech – Grey Hawk Systems Inc., Washington, DC, TS/SCI Clearance 6/2004 – 12/2006

Management Consultant, Project Manager, and Strategic Business Analys

Embedded with Headquarters Department Army Deputy Chief of Staff Intelligence Science and Technology Team to use qualitative and quantitative analyses to identify technical & business issues, provide leadership, strategy development, program management, project management, and systems engineering to help develop creative solutions to address strategic Army Intelligence priorities. Achievements include:

• Secured $26M in funding for the development and deployment of PTDS and received "Commander's Award for Public Service" and “US Army Top 10 Inventions of 2005” awards for contributions including leadership, analytical problem solving and expectation management of senior executives.

• Established Budget, secured and aligned $106M in funding and received "US Army Top 10 Inventions of 2006" award for contributions to Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) projects, including aligning the interests of Congressional, DoD, and Intelligence Community stakeholders and conceiving and leading the first-ever government symposium on WAMI.

Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, CT, Secret Security Clearance 01/1992 – 06/2002

Engineering Manager, Project Engineer

Created and led multi-functional engineering teams to provide technical support to international customers with technical investigations to restore flight-readiness. Planned, modeled, simulated, built, and tested advanced jet engines and components using waterfall and agile methodologies and an Earned Value Management System (EVMS). Achievements include:

• Restored customer satisfaction by reducing response time to customers’ issues by 85%.

• Slashed 8-week engine test program by over 40% by applying modeling to optimize the test plan.

• Saved $500k in annual expenses for the Joint Strike Fighter program and received cash bonus award.

North Palm Beach Volunteer Fire Department, North Palm Beach, FL 01/1992 – Present

President (1996-1997), Firefighter, Life Member

Responsible for team recruiting, training, coaching, and mentoring new Firefighters. Established and managed budget control process. Raised $30,000. Identified requirement and convinced Village Council to increase the size and budget for a new public safety facility by $1.3 million. Received Life Membership Award in 2004 and Community Service Award in 2006.

Education

• Harvard Senior Executive Fellows Program, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 2008.

• MBA, Georgetown University, The McDonough School of Business, 2004.

• Graduate Program in International Management, Oxford University, 2003.

• Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering (BSME), University of Florida, 1995.

Certifications

Project Manager Professional (Cert # 2012094)

Lean Six Sigma White Belt Certification

Core Competencies

Public Speaking, Project Management, Program Management, Portfolio Management, Requirement Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Data Analysis, Process Development, Process Improvement, Business Development, Proposal Writing, MS Office Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, OneNote, SharePoint, Planner), Atlassian (Jira, Confluence), Evernote, Google Drive Applications, excellent oral and written communication skills Significant Publications

Army Cloud Video Analytics, National Symposium on Sensor Data Fusion, Washington, DC, October 2012

Interests

Parenting, Public Education, Conflict Transformation, Structured Finance, Adventure Racing, Cycling, Marathoning (3:06 PR), Ultra-Marathoning (83.1 mile PR), History.

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