Seyed H. Moussavi - MBA

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Career Summary

Dedicated, innovative, solutions-driven, technically sophisticated Program Manager with expertise in managing full system development life cycle including analysis, design, development, implementation, Capital Planning & Investment Control and Quality Assurance management. Excels at boosting performance and productivity by establishing realistic goals, enforcing deadlines and working closely and effectively with all management levels to satisfy work requirements. Over the years, has demonstrated commitment to teamwork by making positive contributions in streamlining systems and providing superior customer service.

Accomplishments

Since the beginning of the sixth year of career, has served as key contributing member to all the Leadership teams he has been associated with. Has helped set up and sustain multiple program management offices within both public and private sectors and has conducted researches leading to many development initiatives of which the multi-million dollar a year revenue-generating GSA Advantage! Online shopping service is but one.

Brief Profile

Leadership

Exceptional motivator adept at various management styles. Quick thinker on his feet and capable of making “on the spot” decisions.

Planning & Organization

Arranges projects, tasks, personnel and information based on goals in order to decrease costs and increase productivity. Employs comprehensive techniques using analysis, visualization and rehearsals to ensure mission accomplishment.

Technical Knowledge

Over 20 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) including computer system design, build and evaluation, component integration, quality assurance, management and problem resolution. Has expert --PMBOK Guided-- level experience in Business Intelligence (BI), Earned Value, IT Project and Portfolio Management including implementation and tracking of the Select-Control-Evaluate cycles using QlikView, eCPIC, Primavera/ProSight, MS Project and Oracle PM.

Communications

Initiates and maintains communication vertically and horizontally. “Unafraid to ask the hard questions.” Articulate, with calm, even temperament under pressure.

Summary of Experience

Sr. IT Specialist & CPIC SME

Burjas Corporation, Tehran 2013 – 2020 (May)

Supported the Iranian automaker’s --SAIPA-- main plant in Tehran in the following areas:

Established, and co-led, the steering committee for implementation of their ERP system (SAP R/3 4.6c with ABAP/4 and Oracle 8i database)

Established a brand-new PMO for enterprise-wide system health control with the initial mission of: Business Intelligence (BI), Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC), Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Strategic Planning (SP)

Managed the development/configuration of both Financial and Logistic modules of the ERP system

Conducted the economic trade-offs and programmatic analyses for the Go-Live of the ERP system (the system stood up on 10/10/2014).

Daston Corporation, VA 2004 – 2013:

Supported General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) IT capital planning, by providing the OCIO with federal financial and IT experience and expertise relevant to the OMB Circulars and GSA’s internal guidance and direction for the following activities:

Collected EVM Inputs from multiple sources

Conducted economic, trade-off, and programmatic analyses

Developed/Updated the financial-based Standard Operating Procedures

Developed/Reviewed the business cases, and supported the PM documentation and client briefings

Established project and program EVM Metrics

Provided -- as integral part of Exhibit 300 process-- Alternative Analysis (AA) :

-Financial and Cost Benefit Analysis of IT trends

-Net Present Value (NPV) and Payback period Computations

-Return on investment (ROI) Computations

Reported to OMB and Stakeholders

Supported Business, Capital and IT Planning Process

Supported Capital Planning and OMB 300/53 Business Case tasks

Supported Executive Reported (periodic and ad-hoc/on-demand)

Supported Managements’ Cost Assertions

Supported performing financial and business analyses, risk management and performance goals measurement, in support of CPIC

Supported Budget Formulation and Execution including Preparation and Submission.

Additionally, he is:

Liaison between the FAS/OCIO, FAS/OCFO and the GSA/OCIO, as well as Regional Staff to devise annual budget strategy and spending tracking, Capital Planning, Earned Value Management (EVM) & Control reporting, and maintenance of OMB Exhibits for the FAS IT Investment portfolio in eCIPC (GSA’ system of records.)

Project Manager responsible for the daily activities, performance and time-keeping of the Daston contract team. Duties include preparation and submission of on-demand and monthly status reports to the client, as well as, developing CPIC training materials and delivery of subsequent training workshop(s) to the FAS-OCIO’ senior project staff.

SME and consultant to GSA-FAS Chief Information Officer (CIO) on Enterprise Architecture (EA), Financial Management, Governance and CPIC for FAS IT investments.

Pre-2004:

Sr. IT Specialist & ERP SME

Planned Systems International, MD 1999-2004:

As Technical Lead, managed Strategic Planning, Business Modeling and BPR studies using the Oracle CDM modeling tool.

Directed the following phases: Objective Setting, Data Capture, Analysis, Prioritization, Synthesizing and Finalizing the Roadmap.

Managed a cross-functional band of business and technical staff from other departments and assisted in forecasting hardware and software needs.

Managed one of the groups responsible for the conversion/migration/development of two of the US Navy's six ERP programs (NavAir and SpaWar).

Took part in all development phases in an enterprise architecture including multiple UNIX servers serving all clients within a national Windows NT 4.0 Server WAN.

Worked on the SAP implementation of SAP R/3 4.6c with ABAP/4 and Oracle 8i database.

Sr. IT Specialist, Web Developer

&

Quality Assurance Manager

Unisys Corporation, VA 1988-1999:

Managed the interface amongst cross-functional technical staff and system users to determine further system requirements and hardware/software needs.

Webmaster responsible for the development and maintenance of CECOM' dynamic website using HTML, Active Server Pages (ASP,) Java and VB scripts under Windows NT 4.0 with an Oracle 8.0 database.

Accountable for quality assurance of all CECOM EIS-related deliverables.

Web-enabled the mainframe-based Retail Online Customer Sale system for General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Supply Service (FSS).

Accountable for the FSS' worldwide users’ intranet access to the new web-enabled system.

Technical staff member in the development of GSA Advantage! Online shopping service in the same enterprise architecture.

Involved in all phases of the development in a Unisys A-Series and Sun SC2000 enterprise architecture using ALGOL, COBOL, C, DMS II, COMS, SDF, CANDE, WFL and HTML.

Designed and wrote Unisys A-Series to Sun SC2000 interface to enable real-time data transfer between the two machines.

Administrator, in charge of development of a GUI front-end for the mainframe-based Fleet Management System (FMS) for GSA-FSS.

Managed a staff of 15 highly skilled quality assurance (QA) specialists.

Participated & incorporated quality steps, in all phases of system development life cycle (SDLC) for GSA Public Buildings Service’ Information Systems (PBSIS.)

Performed Capital & Budget Planning for PBSIS Office Automation & Business Systems. Activities and responsibilities included devising of annual budget strategy/execution and spending tracking, and monthly EVM & Control reported.

Provided guidance to the staff on how to conduct documentation reviews using the QA established standards as guideline, how to develop test methodologies, write and execute test scripts/plans, and how to prepare and report the findings.

Hands-on in the development of in-house testing tools in an enterprise architecture consisting of Unisys A-Series and a C3/PC LAN.

Accountable for quality assurance of all GSA PBS-related deliverables.

Education & Certifications

Education

MBA, Computer Information Systems, Oklahoma City University

BS, Geology, University of Oklahoma.

Certifications

3D Visualization Certification

Earned Value Management Certification

IBM MQSeries Certification

Project Management (PM) Certification (Unisys)

SAP R/3 Level III Certification

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Certification.

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