John J. McMahon
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Summary of Qualifications
A Certified Project Manager and Agile Professional with over twenty years of IT industry experience with technical knowledge and leadership in government and commercial contracting. Over fifteen years’ experience leading HHS and DHS government programs. Proficient at providing full technical project management software development life cycle and infrastructure support while delivering expanded growth to programs.
Professional Experience
Dev Technology
Technical Project Manager/Team Lead August 2017 – Present
Project Manager assigned to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) Mission Scheduling and Notification System’s (MSNS) Applications Development teams for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Manager of dual location agile development teams developing and maintaining MSNS applications used to monitor available air traffic, prioritize available missions, assign marshals, monitor missions, and track mission statistics. Applications to include FAMIS, NGPortal, MocAuto, RTFD, TISS, ASOP and FFDO.
Team Lead for multiple scrum teams executing two to four-week sprint cycles engaging the government throughout the entire life cycle to ensure cross-functional awareness and collaboration.
Creation and implementation of software development lifecycle processes for agile and waterfall projects to include defining system and integration requirements, defect tracking and release management.
Project and problem management tracking using JIRA and Remedy.
Transferred projects from the waterfall methodology to the TSA agile development framework methodology implementing continuous integration processes and procedures.
Project Manager for pilot project integrating TSA’s agile DevOps methodologies into the cloud leveraging Azure, Jenkins and GIT
Project Manager for pilot project of transferring MSNS applications into Salesforce.
Project Manager leading the creation of a new infrastructure development environment.
Project management activities including overseeing all aspects of project design, planning, cost estimates, budgets, staff and schedules to ensure conformance with program service level agreements (SLA’s).
Interact and report on project status and deliverables to the Government Contracting Officer Representative (COR), Government Project Management Office (PMO)and other customer representatives.
Proactively seek out new business opportunities to help increase the value of the project and the company.
FEi Systems
Project Director July 2014 – March 2017
Project Director responsible for a 60 million-dollar HCQIS Independent Verification and Validation Support (HIVVS) contract within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) Information System Group (ISG).
Provide senior leadership, oversight, and coordination of all activities for the program.
Provide monthly deliverables in accordance to the statement of work and SLA’s.
Monitor and maintain financials and staff.
Single point of contact to the Contracting Officer and Operation Managers.
Business development activities to include lead Capture Manager for all potential customers.
Project Manager for the agile Quality Payment Program (QPP). Implementation of agile methodologies and transitioning of projects from waterfall to DevOps.
Facilitation, management, and implementation of project methodologies across multiple teams to include creation, facilitation and management of the project schedule, project artifacts, change control process, lessons learned and project retrospectives.
Coordination and participation in designated project reviews with internal and external teams. Product owner for quality assurance and V&V testing to include the implementation of JIRA and Confluence.
Established a Testing Governance team that created a defined a CMS approved testing model along with the corresponding standard operating procedures for project integration. These artifacts served as the basis for conducting audits to verify procedures were followed by all contractors.
Expanded contract total by 20 million in the first three years and staff from 55 to 103 employees.
General Dynamics Information Technology
Senior Program Manager September 2003 – July 2014
Provide Program and Project Management leadership for multiple government programs to include the Department of Labor and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Manage the operations of our Software Testing Center of Excellence (STCoE) team which provides testing support throughout the company. Manage the operations and budget of an 11,000 square foot data center, overseeing the day to day operations of hundreds of servers, racks and networking appliances. All functions include business development, budgeting, cost related activities, contract deliverables and staffing.
Project Manager for numerous projects in the areas of Infrastructure, Software Development, Quality Assurance testing, Verification and Validation (V&V) testing and automated testing.
Data Center Management for all power, floor and cooling capacity requirements, fire suppression systems, generators, UPS systems, cabling, maintenance records and inventory. Project Manager for three data center expansions to the existing data center to include designing space, power and cooling requirements. Provide Data Center tours for new and existing customers.
Established a Testing Center of Excellence team and implemented testing tools and test processes along with the creation and maintenance of isolated test environments. The team is proficient in requirements analysis, test case development, defect management as well as system and integration testing.
Projects require knowledge of HP QuickTestPro, LoadRunner, and Quality Center; Microsoft Windows Suite; Microsoft Access, Oracle and SQL Server; Visual Basic; custom CMS software; and other commercial-off-the-shelf software products.
Prepare a significant amount of project and process documentation, including the design and implementation of Software Development Life Cycle Process and Procedures and Data Center Infrastructure Procedures. Perform all business development activities in an effort to expand our base business and to respond to solicitations and proposals.
ComTek April 2002 – September 2003
Project/Test Manager
Contractor to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to manage multiple test teams that performed functional, integration and acceptance testing for Web, UNIX and client/server applications.
Build the testing organization from one person to two teams of four testers.
Project management duties to include creating project schedules; coordinating multiple releases with the project teams; hiring and budgeting of the staff.
Implementation of test processes, procedures, models, metrics, and reports for the organization and implementing test software, such as, Rational Test Manager, Robot, Robotj, and RequisitePro into the testing department.
Creating, executing, and monitoring system performance tests as well as creating automated regression test scripts using Rational Robot and RobotJ.
JJM Consulting September 1998 – April 2002
CEO
Provide testing support to Winstar Telecommunications. Manager of ten testers assigned to perform functional, integration and acceptance testing for multiple Web and Solaris based systems.
Provided project management leadership and training to the team and was responsible for creating and maintaining project schedules and resources using Microsoft Project
Created an automated regression test suite for a Web and client/server system using Mercury’s Winrunner.
Creating and managing a regression test plan and data using the VI Editor, which was updated and executed every release
Perform user acceptance testing
Testing Oracle data migration using SQL
Implementing testing methodologies, procedures, models and metrics
Wellspring Resources
Test Engineer February 1996 – September 1998
Test Engineer responsible for the testing of multiple 401k systems.
Testing on customer conversion data on a UNIX system
Creating and manipulating test data files for testers using the VI Editor
Loading data and retrieving results from Sybase database tables using DB Artisan and SQL
Testing new and enhanced code for a GUI application coded in PowerBuilder on a client/server platform
Designing automated regression test suites using QA Partner, an object oriented test tool
Creating basic UNIX shell scripts to assist in automating the test process
System and volume testing Computer Telephony Integration, Interactive Voice Response, and desktop applications with the QA Partner and Hammer test tools
Education
BS, Economics, Saint Peters College, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1989
AA, Management, Saint Peters College, Jersey City, New Jersey 1987
Certifications
PMI - Certified Project Manager
CSM - Certified Scrum Master
Foundations of DevOps
Security Clearances
DoD Secret
DHS Public Trust
HHS Public Trust
Technology
Software
Microsoft Project
SharePoint
JIRA
Confluence
Salesforce
Amazon Web Services
Operating Systems
Languages
Unix
Visual Basic
Linux
; Solaris
.Net
Java
Windows
Java
Qualification Highlights
Over 22 Years of Project Management experience
Over 17 Years Program Management experience
PMP Project Management Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Proficient at contract expansion and business growth