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Dennis Walker, PMP

** ********* ****, ***** *****, FL 32931

321-***-**** Email: adgkcm@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Technology and business visionary with hands-on experience in government aerospace and defense industries, corporate IT environments, and public/private sectors

Proven professional mentor in areas such as Business Process Improvement, Cross- functional Team Leadership, and Software Project Management

Experienced program and project management professional

Strong record of success engineering robust high availability methods and tools

Strategic experience in DevOps, Software Test Automation and Agile SCRUM methodologies

SPECIALTY SKILLS

Software Management

o Test Automation

o Requirements Analysis

DevOps

o Open Source Technology Integration & Virtualization o Service Level Agreement/Metric Development

o Data/Internet Security & Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Application Delivery & Project Management

o Agile Project Management

o Budgeting & Cost Control

Organization & Staff Development

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

EXPERIENCE

L3HARRIS CORPORATION, Melbourne, FL 8/18 - Present Engineering Manager/Chief Engineer/Sr. Project Manager – Program Development

• Engineering Manager responsible for mentoring and professional development of a team of 9 software engineers. Enthusiastically participate in college recruiting activities, to include being the mentor and college recruiting representative for our Employee Resource Group, named SERVE (Supporting Emergency Responders and Veterans Engagement)

• Chief Engineer on a software development program. Responsible for system solution design, architecture, development and delivery oversight. Manage a third-party software development sub-contractor, comprising of 20 software engineers, a chief engineer and a project manager

• Sr. Project Manager for software data automation and one-way diode data transfer initiative. Project involves the daily synchronization of several software applications/data from an unclassified environment, to a classified environment. Calculated initiative annual savings to the division is approximately $400K annually

• Product Owner and Software Test Automation lead, responsible for software test automation and continuous delivery strategy, culminating in the standard to be used across business area, and an annual savings of $556K 2

L3HARRIS/HARRIS CORPORATION, Melbourne, FL 8/10 – 8/18 Software/Project Manager – DevOps & Applications Development Services

• Manager responsible for mentoring and professional development of a team of 14 engineers. Established and managed an Applications Development Services team, comprised of 4 Systems Engineers, 6 Test Engineers, and 4 Software Engineers, establishing IT’s first software automation test team, and Agile project practitioners

• Project Manager - Developed 3yr strategy plan for Harris IT DevOps transformation. Included tech stack, culture, people and process impacts. ROI calculated a savings of $420K in the first year

• Key member of selection committee which assessed vendors for DevOps technology stack, to include Microsoft, Pivotal, XebiaLabs, SmartBear/Zephyr and Amazon AWS

• Mentored Corporate IS software project managers with emphasis surrounding Agile projects. Established Agile “Check-Point” process for Corp IS Project Management Office

• Financial Advisor to the Director of IT. Worked closely with Finance organization, preparing monthly budget reviews

• Managed vendor relationships associated with software automation, collaboration and code review tools. Member of SmartBear/Zephyr Customer Advisory Board

(CAB). Presented “Behavior Driven Development” lecture at CAB HARRIS CORPORATION, Melbourne, FL 1/07 – 8/10

Software/Project Manager – Integrated Applications Development and Support

• Managed team of 8 engineers, in support of Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system, for all of Harris

• Worked closely with Oracle on licensing negotiations and true-up audits

• Project Manager - Lead a team of software developers, systems engineers and customers, who created complex integrations between the PLM, Material Resource

& Planning (MRP) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) Nuance/Dictaphone Corporation, Melbourne, FL 1/04 – 1/07 Director – Maintenance Contracts & Software Service Support

• Managed over $500M in future revenue, associated with multi-year software support and equipment maintenance contracts

• Oversight of daily operations associated with contract management and sales, consisting of 18 contract agents, and 3 sales associates

• Performed due-diligence (x2) - divestiture of business unit, and company acquisition by Nuance

Dictaphone Corporation, Melbourne, FL 1/97 – 1/04

Sr. Manager – Applications Development and Support

• Managed technical support operations for critical voice recording systems/loggers, consisting of 8 engineers

• Worked closely with FBI agents on recovery of vital voice recordings associated with emergency services related to 9/11 terrorist attacks

• Established and managed first 24hr customer support help desk, consisting of 3 shifts, and approximately 18 agents

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INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY, Melbourne, FL 3/96 – 1/97 Production Manager – Newspaper Production & Distribution

• Implemented remote-printing capabilities, allowing publication and distribution of newspaper at lower costs

• Awarded “Highest Quality” rating for newspaper production

• Documented standard procedures for executing remote printing capabilities US ARMY, Ft. Rucker, AL/Ft. Riley, KS 1/90 – 3/96

Captain - U.S. Army

Officer – Apache Helicopter Pilot & Battalion Operations Officer

• Platoon leader responsible for 18 pilots, 6 crew chiefs, 6 Apache helicopters and 1 HMMWV ground vehicle

• Awarded Army Achievement medal for mission related achievements associated with National Defense initiatives.

• Developed and trained Attack Helicopter Desert Tactics, for U.S. Army Aviation Command

• Co-Authored U.S. Army field manual, - Apache Hellfire Lock-On-After-Launch tactics EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

Florida Institute of Technology

Melbourne, FL

Master of Science – Information Technology

2008

Florida Institute of Technology

Melbourne, FL

Bachelor of Science – Electrical Engineering

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management Institute (PMI) (Feb 2013)

1989

CLEARANCE

Top Secret/Special Compartmental Information (TS/SCI)

• Current Poly (Dec 2019)

2011 - Present

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