David Rowse, MS, MAS, PMP

Ellicott City, MD ad29x4@r.postjobfree.com 443-***-****

CAREER SUMMARY

Over 20 years of federal government contracting management experience with agencies including: CMS, NASA, and the IRS. Strong leadership and management experience for complex programs. Successful track record of maximizing resources, production, and profitability. Extensive financial and operational experience. Significant experience interfacing with diverse groups of government personnel to achieve programmatic objectives. Strong problem solving, organizational, oral, and written communication skills. Extensive schedule and EVM management experience. Highlights include:

•Annual contractual services demanded increased from $35M to $42M during tenure in 2016.

•Identified low performance contracts. Increased project contributions by $1.5M over a six-month period.

•Provided key support on winning proposal efforts including staffing, pricing, resource loaded schedule development, writing and color team reviews.

•Managed project performance and achieved all cost/schedule/scope objectives at NASA.

•Recognized in NASA award fee evaluations for conducting praiseworthy status reviews.

•Recognized by CMS with outstanding CPARS scores.

•Management oversight leading to successful achievement of milestones. 100% compliance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TISTA Science and Technology – Program Manager 9/2019 – Present

Managed operational activities, personnel, schedule, and finances for CMS projects including NLR, MAISTRO and other miscellaneous projects. Received excellent CPARS scores from CMS during tenure with noted projects. Key interface with government to ensure that projects were meeting expectations of CMS. Responsible for all status related reporting including weekly submissions of schedule status and weekly status dashboard reports. Responsible for conducting weekly status review meetings with CMS. Responsible for creation and presentation of monthly reports.

•Achieved schedule completion rates of 100%

•Achieved excellent profitability levels for all projects while maintaining expenditures close to 99% for cost plus projects.

•Maintained a highly effective Agile environment for completing releases.

•Invited to attend the CMS Applications Management Group meeting sponsored by the Office of Information Technology. Invitations are extended to program management personnel that have a track record of outstanding performance with CMS.

Akira Technologies – Project Manager 2/2019 – 8/2019

Provided financial analysis and projections for CMS project related activities. Development and submission of financial status and EVM reports to CMS. Provided Agile based schedule development, analysis and status updates for Agile related work encompassing Sprints, Epics, User Stories, and sub-task related activities. Utilized Jira to verify that all Agile related activities were entered and that status updates were conducted in a thorough and timely fashion.

CORMAC, All Business Marketing (ABM), – Program Management Consultant 2017 – 2019

Providing a variety of consulting services related to program management and business development:

•Created staffing and pricing structures/recommendations for proposal activities.

•Developed plans and schedules for a rapidly growing company to coordinate all activities.

•Provided process reengineering services to standardize and optimize processes in an organization.

ActioNet, Woodlawn, MD – Program Manager 2016 – 2017

Managed operations and finances for as many as 250 full-time equivalents and involving over 60 projects. Monitored delivery and personnel areas, emphasizing management best practices. Key interface with government to bridge gaps between customer concerns, expectations and engineering and financial decisions. Reviewed and edited monthly status reports. Managed budgets, spending plans, and forecasts. Reviewed and edited EVM reports for proper cost/schedule variance identification and explanation.

•Management of a variable demand for service delivery environment with a blend of project focused teams that drew on a matrix of core centers for excellence in security, requirements, testing, Agile, development and architecture resulting in ability to successfully adjust to rapidly changing project dynamics from CMS.

•Key interface with CMS Government Task Leads and COR related to contract management.

•Maintained dual key role of Program Manager and EVM Lead while obtaining EVM Lead replacement.

•Maintained financial controls over fluid government demands to ensure that there were no overruns.

Quality Software Services Inc. (QSSI), Columbia, MD – Program Director/VP 2010 – 2015

P&L responsibility for up to $80M in contracts staffed with over 120 full-time equivalents. Successful financial, contractual management and performance optimization for up to $215M in contracts. Management oversight of deliverables. Proposal support for staffing, pricing, writing and color team reviews. Oversight of Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) development and related resource loading.

•Developed and reported key project metrics that provided a clear picture of contract performance and contributions to executive management.

•Developed project EVM system for a project resulting in no additional overhead expense.

•Formulated financial goals, identified project deficiencies, and provided solutions to executives.

•Restructured project financial dashboards, reducing maintenance levels and improving accuracy.

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Greenbelt, MD – Program Manager-(Multiple Assignments) 2003 – 2010

NASA, National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) 2007 - 2010

Developed, coordinated, and managed planning and scheduling processes of Advanced Technology, High Performance Computing, Infrastructure, Security and User Services projects totaling $10M in annual revenue and impacting over 50 FTEs. Responsible for scheduling activities and financial and report development and analysis.

•Recognized in NASA award fee evaluations for conducting praiseworthy status reviews.

•Created the NCCS Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) resulting in increased efficiencies of operations and elimination of resource conflicts.

•Resolved problematic resource conflicts and interface issues between various NCCS groups.

•Created an acquisition/maintenance database, resolving problems with hardware and software budgets and tracking of maintenance contracts.

NASA Glory Spacecraft Program 2004 - 2007

Negotiated timelines, evaluated, and managed contractor schedules and performance. Advised NASA management pertaining to contractor performance status and issues. Presentations to NASA management, the Independent Review Team, PDR, and CDR reviews.

•Identified contractor deficiencies that threatened critical path. Quantified potential impacts to critical path and launch date. Directed contract management to correct schedule deficiencies.

•Projected launch date impacts based on various schedule scenarios, funding profiles, contractor performance and related critical path impact.

•Identified deficiencies in contractor EVM system and reported to NASA.

•Advised NASA management pertaining to proper WBS structure for Glory and identified deficiencies in contractor WBS structures that impacted EVM analysis.

•Refuted completion date projections by contractor for instrument delivery and projected a nine-month delay that was proven to be correct.

•Supervised contractor planning and scheduling activities.

IRS Prime Contract 2004 - 2005

Managed planning and scheduling personnel for $125M IRS contract, overlapping management of IRS Prime and the NASA Glory Spacecraft contract for about eight months.

•Monitored progress and directed adherence to master plans and schedules utilizing MS Project.

•Defined, mapped, monitored production cycles.

•Managed process analysis and re-engineering activities.

•Modified proprietary EVM software system and resolved interface problems with COBRA.

NASA Integrated Financial Management Program (IFMP) 2003 - 2004

Interfaced with executives having conflicting priorities in a high-visibility, politically charged environment. Consulting role with up to six NASA managers and external program managers.

•Conducted planning, schedule, and technical analysis of major projects. Advised NASA management pertaining to project status and problems associated with interfaces.

•Facilitated contractor interfaces to support critical business strategies.

•Managed IFMP status review process.

•Consulting role with NASA Change Management Team

QSS Group, Inc., Greenbelt, MD – Schedule Manager 2001 – 2003

NASA – James Webb Space Telescope

Managed planning and program analysis for Flight Software/Ground Systems. Developed schedules, identified, and managed critical path activities.

•Successfully predicted and advised NASA management of a slippage of launch date of over a year.

•Advised Project Manager pertaining to proper requirements development and structure utilizing Rational tools.

•Utilization of Microsoft Project and Primavera for scheduling activities.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & AWARDS

• Project Management Professional - Project Management Institute • Top Secret Clearance – Inactive • Certificate of Recognition for MBDSS Project- CMS • Next Generation JWST Group Achievement Award – NASA • Flight Projects Directorate Award – NASA

• IEEE - Power Engineering Society (Baltimore Chapter) – Chairman • Adjunct Professor – Johns Hopkins University

•Previous consulting assignments with the Space Telescope Science Institute and Millennium Chemicals

EDUCATION

MS Computer Science The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

Master of Admin Science Business The Johns Hopkins University

BS Chemistry Georgia Institute of Technology

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