Colleen Collord Downing ** Walaka st L*** Kihei, HI 96753
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Scottsdale, AZ 85251 QUALIFICATIONS email: **********@*****.***
** ***** ** ********* Value-Added Technical Management and System/Software Engineering expertise SOA Visionary Leader, and Transition Manager, web implementation. Significant systems architectural experience on large data intensive, service oriented and communication systems specializing in real-time computing intelligence scenarios and needs. System engineering expertise in SOA, semantics, data strategy, ontologies, enterprise architecture and design. Solid background in team leadership, bringing teams together and result-driven program management; applying best practices in organization development and change. Analytical, creative, flexible thinker. Win-win attitude. Expertise at implementing process improvements and procedures, specializing in CM, QA and test; policy & governance. SEI Auditor. Broad background in technical pre-sales, publish speaking, teaching and mentoring. Skilled at writing winning proposals and contract management. Risk management expertise. Liaison expertise. Master at requirements analysis and developing good rapport with management, customers, and teams achieving products that exceed customer’s expectations and increase profitability. Past Clearances: TS SCI, SECRET, et al.
EDUCATION: B.A., Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara.; Master level courses in Computer Science and Psychology
Seeking part time or full-time work in the defense contractor field. Virtual or on-site.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE BACKGROUND
Collord Engineering, Carlsbad, CA, Technical Business & Engineering Consultant, Program Management 2009-Present
X-Feds Inc., San Diego, CA, Sr. Engineer www/x-feds.com, www.public.navy.mil/spawar/Pages/default.aspx 2012-2013
SOA & Cloud Architecture Consultant to PEO C4I SPAWAR Technical Authority to research, review, conduct SoS SE analysis, create/amend and modernize US Navy IT Standards, DoD stds, Navy Enterprise Standards Profiles, Level of Integration Network Guidance, to include data/IA/cloud computing to affect US Navy Enterprise shore and afloat systems/programs to satisfy DoD wide interoperability (data- and net-centric) requirements; and provide inputs to PEO C4I Masterplan 2013 on future technologies and acquisitions. Lead/conduct and produce whitepapers to sell modernization of advanced technology concepts/stds.
TechnoSweat, LLC, Carlsbad, CA www.technosweat.com 2009-2013
COO/Sr. Technical Marketing
Broaden worldwide brand awareness and facilitate strategic alliances.
Developed action plan to use social media and web widgets to increase exposure.
Implementing expansion strategy, with iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps and new product aimed at mobile market.
Results: Concepts were implemented; two new strategic alliances, first page placement on Google.
San Diego State University Research Foundation, San Diego, CA www.ccatsandiego.org 2009-Present
Active CCAT Proposal Evaluator for SDSU Research Foundation, Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) an academic-based technology transfer of technology commercialization and transition collaborative partnership.
Northrop Grumman, Inc., San Diego, CA www.northropgrumman.com 2008-2009
CS Security Analyst V/Sr. Chief Architect (ORACLE 10/11, JAVA, C++, OWL, RDF, SWRL, ESB, XML, SQL, SPARQL, BPMN et al.)
Transformed and virtualized smart systems for planning, analysis and assessment in intelligence arena, applying semantic and forensic pattern matching technologies, SOA infrastructure, Security arch. and policies for national and international community of interest.
Led cross country teams to adapt and transition current practices, technologies, processes and policies to new modern methods. Worked with over 50 DoD agencies and national organization clientele daily.
Presented an entire restructure of the technical management organization to combine best fit technical leads to proper roles, authority and eliminated duplicate and out of date teams, through interviews, assessments and observations.
Set technical direction, path forward and guidance as well as establish processes and defined community of interest approach
to get “ buy in” from users, educate users of this cross cultural community in diversity of services, models and data.
Assessed, qualified and presented technical feasibility solution sets to define and develop customer’s needs
Evaluated customer proposals, selected vendors, and set up process for small business to transform to government providers.
{ C++, Java, XML, UDDI, SPARQL, SQL, ORACLE, J2EE, JMS, ESB, EAI, BPEL, Spring, Hibernate, Restful Web Services, UML, DOORS, DODAF 1.5, 2.0,TOGAF,erl, open source SOAs, Web Services, open standards, security standards, communication stds, pub/sub, open-source SOA, semantics, CXF, active MQ, servicemix, dynamic ontologies, security MLS/MSL, taxonomies, disparate data sources, context services, analytics, nosql…et al}
AT&T Inc., San Diego, CA www.att.com 2005-2008
Sr Specialized Project Engineer (ORACLE 10/11, JAVA, C++, OWL, RDF, SWRL, ESB, XML, SQL, SPARQL, BPMN et al.)
Data Strategist/SOA Lead across all Navy Acquisition Agency product lines. (PEO SPA. PMW120 I/O,ISR & METOC).
Perform budget and cost analysis and assess risk, technical evaluations, data architecture, service architecture, ontology, taxonomy, schemas, net-centric pub/sub standards and processes associated with DoD transformation needs/directives/standards.
Consult, collaborate, coordinate with other C4I codes, Joint DoD Services/National and Federal Agencies on technical strategy fulfillment of the warfighter needs, in the areas of data fusion, exposing data, applications and context, pub/sub, svcs.
Mentor and leader to government teams within and outside of PMW 120 organization and as directed to large DoD players to understand/align and meet net-centricity requirements, show deficiencies and illustrate possible solutions.
Performed analysis and offered re-design initiatives to major acquisitions that would reduce risk, improve funding and attract more buy-in from competing agencies.
Instilled creative business modeling through illustration of technical re-hash of business models and ability to cross talk with closed systems and share/merge/fuse information bypassing archaic communication sharing methods.
Evaluated proposals, selected vendors, risk assessment and acquisition process fulfillment.
Harris Corp., Long Beach, CA www.harris.com 2004-2005
Program Manager & Acquisition Specialist (JTM, SCA, JTRS, WNT-T, WNW, SRW, JCA ORDs et al. )
Managed team of 25 on both coasts for delivery of $25 million portion of Future Combat Systems US Army Network/Signal Communications Infrastructure. Direct report to Director of Army business operations.
Collaborated with Prime contractor PMs, US Army Customer PM, US Army Colonel for Ft. Gordon Signal Core, B&D Vice Presidents and Directors for Harris Corporation.
Reversed customer’s opinion by controlling engineering resources and taking a pro-active PM stance. Results: maintained contract status quo and successfully negotiated (3x) early turn-on funding, in anticipating of entire FCS program stretch.
Pro-active in establishing relationships and obtaining permission to visit FCS US Army customer site. Key player in developing spectrum management center of excellence business case.
Established Harris contract relationship with Army contractor and SAMS Lab team, utilized Melbourne resources; created a winning team environment between CA/FL offices.
Collord Engineering, Carlsbad, CA 1998-2000, 01,02,03,04
Technical/Business Analyst. (C/C++/Java/SQL Server/HTML/XML/Oracle/PHP/Sybase/UNIX/NT)
Providing system engineering solutions for small business communities, including database and website design, and web services
Providing user training, wrote training manuals, established call support center and performed technical pre-sales
Chief e-Commerce Technical Architect for small ecommerce firm. Worked directly with the CTO & assisted process teams.
Designed architecture of complete systems including database layouts, legacy system interfaces, cyber cash, dynamic publishing, XML, ASP, security, and communication methods to meet client requirements for business to consumer and business-to-business OLTP applications. Chief Clients: Wherehouse Records, Men’s Warehouse, Hyundai, iXL, RHIC, Medlin Associates
Robert Half International Inc., La Jolla, CA www.roberthalftechnology.com 1998-2000
Sr. Engineer Consultant (Uniface, C/C++/ Cobol/Ada/Java/Assembler/ Motif/Fortran/Jovial/ SYBASE,ISODE stds)
Guided and instructed engineering management in computer design techniques and presented solutions to overhaul out-of-date military aircraft maintenance system. Results: improved product-to-market time. Chief Clients: Com Global Inc., WPDS Inc.
Bluebird Systems, Carlsbad, CA 1998
Program Manager (IBM AIX, Windows O/S, C/C++/Basic/Powerpoint/ SQL Server, Informix)
Directed product turnaround; designed, organized and implemented customer service/technical support processes.
Established software department for the TransDoc Imaging Software; recruited, hired and trained personnel.
Replaced out of date management and engineering processes. Improved overall financial performance without appropriated fund support; reduced employee turnover; upgraded image.
Opened communication channels and coordinated the operations between engineering, marketing and customer support.
Coordinated with marketing the CEO and CFO to solve customer relationship problems. Wrote contract vehicles.
Held contract negotiations with customers, collected outstanding account receivable, and received follow-on contracts.
Results: Maintain existing accounts and increase market share; improve quality and timeliness of product releases.
GDE Systems, San Diego, CA 1996-1997
Software Manger/Sr. (Neural Net) Lead Engineer (Ada/C/C++/Motif/Oracle, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX O/S, Corba, Neural Networks, JAVA)
Guided and instructed engineering mgmt. in CORBA; Designed CORBA architecture for satellite imagery products.
Designed and developed the Ultimate Geo-Positioning Capability for satellite imagery product software.
Presented an architectural re-design of system, replacing aging technology to yield a modern and competitive system.
Became/Gained expertise on a huge satellite imagery neural network system.
Horizons Technology Inc., San Diego, CA 1995-1996
Software Manager (OOA/OOP/C++/C/Oracle/OpenGL/Motif, UNIX Sun Solaris, DEC VAX O/S)
Created and controlled budgets and negotiated financial; monitored quality controls and financial performance.
Performed a detailed systems analysis of General Instrument’s cable TV satellite Uplink Control system including encryption methods, bandwidth management and satellite communications.
SAIC Corporation, San Diego, CA www.saic.com 1991-1995,1997
Project Manger/Task Manger/Proposal lead/SEI Auditor(Oracle8i,Java,Corba,Ada/C++/C,Ingress,Sybase, Mumps)
Managed subcontractor, customer and software team interactions on a 1 million dollar submarine communication system
Led subcontractor and development team portion of a 25 million dollar Navy project.
Created and controlled budgets and negotiated financials; monitored quality controls and financial performance.
Established and met DoD 2167 engineering and acquisition standards, and CMM SEI III milestones.
Negotiated and secured funding for the projects; provided basis of estimates for follow-on contract proposal.
Designed and developed applications, message handling system and produced detailed design documents.
Wrote the key technical portion of a $10 million project contract that won.
Writer and reviewer on six other contracts for contract win in excess of $25 million.
Conducted SEI audit; defined and implemented SEI compliant procedures and processes for major projects.