Senior Computer Scientist / Program Manager

Samuel D. DeWolfe, CSM, CSPO, SAFe Agilist (SA), SDP, SASM

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E-mail: adkyvp@r.postjobfree.com

Work Summary

Twenty (20) years’ experience in Information Technology, Computer Science, Program Management. With 15-years’ experience as an Information Technology PM, managing full development life cycle of IT systems, data centers and large-scale projects. Strong background in Azure, AWS, Agile, SAFE, Kanban, Software Development, System Integration, DevOps, SDK integration, programming and computerized Identity management and Scrum. Performed all functions necessary for the preparation and implementation of large-scale software development of Microservices, AWS/Azure APIs, algorithm testing, integration, and deployment.

Professional Experience

Principal Consultant / Sr. Information Technology Program Manager/Agile (USA Army work contracted through Resolvetech/SAP NS2), May /2020 - Current

Contracted to support US Army PEO ESI / Picatinny Arsenal Logistics Modernization Program SAP / AWS Cloud Modernization effort.

•Currently leading the US Army SAP AWS Cloud Migration from DISA Datacenter to AWS for the Logistics Modernization Program. Managing all aspects of the project including hardware ordering, budget management, inventory, resourcing, and customer engagement. Providing weekly updates to US Army Senior Executive presentations on status. This project scope is 320 servers and applications migrated from DISA to AWS, encompassing 200 Million in budget. and progress. Have successfully migrated systems and landscapes to AWS.

•Managing the project as a hybrid Agile/Waterfall using DEVOPS and cross functional teams. This project is an AWS cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment, lift and shift from other DOD datacenters at DISA and Picatinny Arsenal. Architected, Developed and implemented APIs, microservices, API health check etc to support end user cloud implementation.

•Overseeing, planning, and executing all aspects of building the landscapes, networks, infrastructure, Oracle, and Hana Database work. Solutioning/Directing all HA, DR, COOP clustering, replication and tuning of the architecture and implementation. The project is also undergoing SOC1 audit so am managing that and working with the compliance team to map local SAP security controls and inherited Security Controls from AWS to the US Army SOC elements as well. Team is using ServiceNow to track all incidents and managing overall progress with MS Project. Building MS Power Point presentations for updates to both senior military leadership but also for SAP leadership.

Managed all aspects of Cyber Security including RMF, SOC Controls, patching schedules, vulnerability reports, Army Cyber Scans ACAS / SCAP Scans, vulnerability remediation and POAMs.

Leading customer engagements to articulate requirements and map to SAP. Application Design and Configuration, Project Management, Technical Architecture and Infrastructure, Analytics

Managing all aspects of the full life cycle for SAP Hana architecture, migrations, enhancements, customer interaction, master planning, building customer roadmaps

Hands on trouble shooting and architecting SAP Hana into the AWS Gov cloud

Completed implementation of High Available Hana Cloud Infrastructure in AWS

Managing SAP S/4 HANA, including full lifecycle of SAP implementations

Acting as an SAP solution architect accountable for the design and implementation of SAP S/4 HANA capabilities supporting the workstream; production planning and execution

Accountable for planning and executing the day-to-day activities of the workstream including managing SAP and client personnel throughout the full lifecycle of an implementation.

Leverage leading-practice business process knowledge & proficiency for Plan to Produce and ability to apply to the client's business requirements.

Leading business development activities such as identification, proposal development, and other pursuit activities at clients while working with the other service lines, service networks, or industries.

Principal Consultant / Sr. Information Technology Program Manager/Agile, Nov 2016- May 2020

The Walt Disney Corporation

Disney Engineering Excellence Senior Program Manager

As the Disney Engineering Excellence Senior Program Manager managing 6 teams of high performing Architects and Project Managers.

Managed all Engineering aspects of Disney’s new ticketing system a 140-million-dollar effort. Engineering Excellence PM leading all engineering aspects, which encompassed much of the 120 team members on the project. Provided engineering solutions to complex business problems, building robust products.

Managed top priority initiatives for Disney within Engineering Excellence and provide scientific estimation for the solution and technology strategy. Leveraged waterfall workload being managed via Kanban, MS Project with ServiceNow being the ticketing tracker. Providing leadership to direct-report and cross-functional teams.

Ensured solution Azure and AWS clouds architecture met customer need. Developed product roadmap, execution plans and delivery strategy for engineering solutions and presenting those to executive leadership and business stakeholders.

Provided regular updates on project status to Disney’s Executive teams VPs/ EVP and technology leadership. Developing and managing digital environments including Mobile, Web, Apps, APIs, Messaging, Databases, Big Data, Networks, AWS/Azure Cloud infrastructure and their integrations. Tracking development and debugging in JIRA also leveraging Confluence.

Managed financial plan and overall budget for engineering initiatives with awareness of security and policy compliance requirements. Working closely with Business & Technology Leaders to define and implement critical business functions, needs and products.

•Walt Disney Corporation, Okta Identity Management Resiliency Program Manager

Managed Disney's CIO Project MyID Resiliency Team. MyID is the Identity Access Management (IAM) Platform or Disney cast members to access global information services and is an integral part of Disney operations.

The MyID Resiliency effort is a large-scale corporate effort spanning across the Disney business units, such as ESPN, Disney Parks, Marvel, ABC, Lucasfilm, Pixar and Walt Disney Studios to ensure biometric identity services are Tier 1 with 100% up-time.

MyID is the Identity Access Management (IAM) Platform or Disney cast members to access global information services and is an integral part of Disney operations.

The project included rebuilding the application and moving it from a local data center to the AWS cloud. The new application and interfaces were built with multiple redundancies.

The MyID Resiliency Agile Working group involves several scrum teams and Scrum of Scrums. Delivering value through a scaled Agile approach and framework with daily stand-ups, scrums and weekly scrum of scrums, retrospectives, and sprint planning.

This effort also including adding in MFA, Mobile IOS, and Biometric authentication.

Worked with Disney Stakeholders across the family of Walt Disney Company to partner in the implementation of resilient, secure, scalable, Identity Platforms.

Lead agile software development teams and software developers through design sessions. Building new security features such as MFA and mobile.

Managed multiple teams of full stack developers utilizing Java, Spring Boot, Reactive Programming, ReactJS, Python, API and Microservices etc.

Provided troubleshooting for application development with Okta APIs with existing and prospective customers and developers.

Take end-to-end ownership of questions and issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution.

Support development of code/script to build user scenarios using Okta API, Microservices, PING Federate and IDM SDKs.

Provide guidance to API developers on how Okta works, and the various technical use cases of the platform.

Collect information and document bugs with Engineering for API and product issues. Provide feedback to the training and documentation teams.

Migrated applications from current IAM system to the new Okta Cloud solution in AWS.

Partnered closely with InfoSec, compliance, and other service owners responsible for establishing governance, policies, and requirements.

Used Ping Federate Monitors across the enterprise to monitor usage and health of CIAM services and ensure SLA’s are met.

Build and implement highly available and resilient architecture and secure Identity solution in the AWS cloud.

Implemented a global Mobile Authentication framework leveraging fingerprints and MFA.

Senior Enterprise Project Manger/Information Technology PM, Orange County Public Schools (OCSP), Orlando Fl April 2015- Nov 2016

Managed the Data Security Program and implementation to protect enterprise users data, a Full Life Cycle project including identification of data Security gaps, providing security reconditions to the stakeholders including the CIO and implementing IT solutions with follow-on training. Leveraging Remedy, Jira, and ServicNow.

Managed multiple Enterprise portfolio projects in Program Management Office (PMO) environment for large Orange County FL School Board.

Developed OV1 Diagrams for Enterprise Architectures concepts

Managed the Data Security Program an implementation to protect enterprise users data. This was a Full Life Cycle project including identification of data Security gaps, providing security reconditions to the stakeholders including the CIO and implementing solutions with follow on training.

Deployed various cloud environments such as Oracle Cloud, IBM Watson along with building out microservices and API frameworks.

Worked with security teams to identify data owners, key data sets including data at rest, in motion that needed protection. Identified Risk to data sets and risk to organization and implemented Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Strategy to address gaps.

Conducted data security gap analysis with InteliSecure to help with identifying potential technologies for security information and event management (SIEM) and DLP integrations such as IntelSecurity, Forcpoint, Logrythm and others. Implemented Proofpoint to protect data at rest and encrypt data in motion.

Cloud Security Principal / Information Technology Director, Bogart Associate Inc, Vienna VA March 2012-Dec 2014

•Project Managed and Prototyped Enterprise Cloud Systems for US government clandestine operations.

•Managed Cloud Security and Mobile security Applications Development.

•Integrated Biometrics, PKI and Smartcard technology.

•Developed converged authentication and Identity management end-to-end systems.

•Build out solutions for AWS, Azure, IBM Watson APIs and applications for multiple cloud environments.

•Built custom applications, big data analytics and Identity technologies.

Biometrics Enterprise Systems Lead/ Information Technology Senior Software Engineer Level 5, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Orlando, FL Jan 2009 – Sep 2011

Lead management efforts for Department of the Army, Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASAALT), PEO Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), PM DoD Biometrics, Joint Personnel Identification (JPI) development and deployment.

Supported Joint Program JPI and the United Kingdom National IDENT Systems and New Scotland Yard.

Key member of the Identity Management leadership team with 750 person Identity & Enterprise Systems division.

Managed Biometrics Operational Support Services Unrestricted (BOSS U) of 475 Mil IDIQ.

DoD Biometrics Identity Management Agency, Senior Computer Scientist/ Sr. Information Technology Project Manager, Clarksburg, WV Oct 2000–January 2009

•Senior Computer Scientist/Senior PM and Biometrics Subject Matter Expert (SME) to take biometric projects from original concept through final implementation.

•Defined project scope and objectives, developed detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports for both research projects, and large-scale identification systems.

•Interfaced within DOD and external stakeholders to assist in the development of a comprehensive DoD Biometrics Enterprise-Wide capability.

•Externally involved with various efforts linking DoD with FBI, DHS, and NIST to achieve its Identity Management mission.

•Extensive knowledge of Biometrics products as a SME, including algorithms, test harnesses, and product evaluation life cycle.

•Recommended and acted to direct the analysis and solutions of Identity Management problem sets.

•Key contributor to ANSI/NIST M1 INCITS, the DoD Biometrics Standards Working group, DHS Biometrics Community of Interest, and the White House Office of Science Technology & Policy Sub Committee on Identity Management.

•Supported the CAC Biometric Technology Demonstration, worked with DISA Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) to develop test plans, test methodology, test campaign package, and test procedures for the CAC Biometric Technology Demonstration.

•Researched and compiled information pertaining to the NIST fingerprint tools.

•Worked with FBI’s Electronic Fingerprint Transmission Specification (EFTS) document to apply interoperable concepts to ongoing database development.

•Worked with various Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) compression tools, including Pegasus Imaging toolkit, and WSQ by AWARE.

Education

B.S., Computer Science, Alderson Broaddus College, Philippi, West Virginia

Professional Licenses/Certifications

Biometrics Management Office/West Virginia University Biometrics Short Course (earned certificate)

Rational OOAD Certificate (earned certificate)

University of Los Angeles Biometrics Short Course (earned certificate)

Rational Rose Overview Training

Rational Requisite Pro Training Requirements Training (earned certificate)

Various Biometrics Vendors Provided Technology Training

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance (earned certificate)

Amazon Web Services Essentials (AWS, earned certificate)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Certified Leading Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agilest (SA)

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

SAFe DevOps Practitioner

Certified Price to Win Analyst

Technical Skills

Cloud: Azure, AWS, Cloudera, Spark, Hive, Splunk, Power BI, Oracle

Agile and DevOps: JIRA, Version One, Confluence, Clarity, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Scrum, Retrospectives, Burndown Charts, Work Estimation, Kanban, PI Planning, Git/Bitbucket,

Programing Languages: ANSI C, Borland C++, Sun Microsystem Java Forte, Intel C++, Oracle JDeveloper, Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual Basic Microsoft Visual Studios .NET VB, CPP, SQA Basic, Borland Delphi, and Borland Pascal 7.0., Java/J2EE, REST Services, NodeJS, Oracle Cloud, MS SQL Server, Postgres. PHP

Data Loss Protection (DLP), IDM and Other Tools: Stealthwatch, FireEye, Windows Servers, Linux Servers, Checkpoint Firewalls, Windows Firewall, Ping Federate, OCTA Identity Management Framework, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Ping ID, Ping Identity, Ping Access, Phone-as-token methods, Mobile Push, FIDO, OAuth, One-time password (OTP),

Clearance DoD Secret

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