An Executive level Program and Project Management Consultant with 30+ years of professional experience supporting both the Department of Defense, Federal Agencies and the Private Sector. A highly experienced senior level information technology project manager with diverse expertise spanning multiple IT disciplines in various federal and private sectors including the Intelligence Community (IC), Departments of Justice, State and Defense and the Joint Military Commands.

Expertise in Data Center and Cloud Migration policy development, data center migrations, Intelligence Agency executive level direction, Navy/Marine Corps C4 and National Military Command Center Management

Business Process Engineering Consultant – talented creator of many new business processes for the IC CIO Chief Enterprise Architect to include the reengineering of the daily, weekly, and monthly business rhythm

Skilled IT PfM in technical instruction, risk management, data center migrations, the joint-level JCIDS programs and joint functional capability boards (FCBs)

Specialized expertise in IT Service Management, Agile/Scrum software development methodology and developing department level IT Services Catalogs

Proven leadership in Project Management and SDLC Agile/Scrum environments

Reliable, diligent leader who works well under pressure in supporting executive level decision makers and CIOs

Customer-oriented problem-solver, results driven executive IT professional who can help any organization exceed its IT goals. Risk mitigation and issue resolution.

EDUCATION

B.S. Management Information Systems, National-Louis University, September 2004

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master, November 2022 (Scrum Alliance) 001443871

ITIL v.3 Foundations (#GR750173002SL) May 2015

Defense Acquisition Program Management Level I certification. (DAWIA) April 2006

Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) – MS Windows 2000 (#3028338) 2004

CLEARANCE

Active TS CI Polygraph SCI Eligible

SKILLS

Certified Scrum Master, Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, Visio)

Jira/Confluence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Virtual Service Operations (VSO) Jan 2023 – Present

Project manager for the Raytheon/Kyndryl Data Center Migration projects. These projects entail several Kyndryl data center migrations and consolidations into five designated locations throughout the US. Requires coordination between multiple data center managers, logistics carriers and equipment owners to ensure a smooth migration between data centers. This comprises local and long-distance carriers between locations. Coordination of equipment to be relocated, equipment installation, cabling and power requirements takes place to ensure data integrity, data security and data management.

Researched and incorporated the Lift and Shift operating procedures for multiple local and long-distance data center movers and logistics companies. Built an arsenal of additional moving carriers

Developed Lift and Shift checklist questionnaire to be used when planning for equipment pick-ups and deliveries.

Developed and maintained data center migration runbooks incorporating a vast network of customers, engineering teams (Linux/Windows), logistic carriers, program and facility managers and client executive leadership.

Project Manager for Boulder Network Attached Storage plan for migrating NetApp attached storage that needed migration from Boulder, CO to Lewisville, TX Greenfield Private Cloud (GPC) facility. Assembled a team or 30 + project managers, IT Networks SMEs and Dell network storage experts from multiple business units and companies and developed the plan to move mega TBs of data from Boulder to GPC. Led team to ensure the data transfer was synchronized with the planned migration waves and identified dependencies

Project Manager for the Raytheon/Kyndryl Pratt Whitney data center migrations for TeamCenter VIS application and hardware, SAP HANA, IBM Power 8/9, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and associated projects to Cyrus One Sterling VA or the Lewisville, TX GPC. Coordinated all levels of this project including pre and post migration, lessons learned, issues and resolutions.

Virtual Service Operations (VSO) Dec 2021 – Jan 2023

DoD/National Security/State, Local Education (SLED) Program Manager for six high-visibility programs comprising US Cyber Command, the Military Sealift Command, iHeart Media, Faith Technologies, US Secret Service, and the West Virginia Office of Technology (WVOT). These programs are providing various levels of subject matter expertise which includes the data center (capacity planning) and application migration for the WVOT and various Amazon Web Service solutions, Azure Cloud migration solutions and network engineering for these projects.

WVOT – Program Manager for the WVOT Data Center 2.0 Application Migration program. This is a multi-phased project which includes capacity planning for existing applications and application rationalization and migration development for mapping out the WVOTs multitude of applications.

US Cyber Command – program manager for engineering services in support fo the Wide Area Network Cross Functional Team. Led a team of six satellite engineers system configuration updates, patching, best practices and site equipment testing and integration. Directed Engineering Team for site equipment deployment and configuration at distant ends to ensure integrity and interoperability. Updated installation, operations & maintenance manuals and Privileged Users Guide.

Military Sealift Command (MSC) – leads a team of SMEs supporting AWS Lambda integration for full motion video team. Engineers were able to correct an email distribution glitch with Lambda stripping off the email address before it made it to its destination.

IHeart Media and Faith Technologies – leads AWS Solutions Architect and Azure DevOps engineers in implementing single-sign on solutions and user account management.

US Secret Service – manages a Juniper Network Engineering SME for a highly-visible project which includes network optimization and performance testing.

XCELERATE Solutions Dec 2019 -- Dec 2021

Senior Network Program Manager

Office of the Director of National intelligence (ODNI)/IC CIO/Mission Resources Group

Senior Network Program Manager for six major Intelligence Community (IC) large-scale high visibility network transport systems. Provided IC CIO level management expertise to the Service Providers for performance, policy updates, funding needs, efficiency and continuous improvement in meeting IC CIO goals and expectations

Principal Network PM for the Intelligence Community Network (ICN) backbone through the Network Requirements and Engineering program

Network integration for the Commercial Cloud Environment (C2E) with the IC Network and commercial cloud service providers (CSPs). Reviewed Cloud Service Provider requirements for The ICN Internet Exchange Points and integration. IC integration includes Microsoft Azure, Amazon, IBM, Oracle and Google CSPs

Principal consultant for the ODNI Network Requirements and Engineering program; responsible for delivering network solutions to the IC. NRE incorporates the integration of the IC networks to create a single community network. Participant in network engineering, requirements and resource and technical allocation forums

Lead business process engineering consultant for the Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer Mission Resources Group

Collaboration Service Solutions Transition Manager – delivered full blown transition plan for the IC Collaborative Services which effects all 18 IC agencies and how they communicate via chat, email, shared collaboration solutions and universal user mobility/login. Developed “Light Touch” approach that allows agencies autonomy and self-governance over the services they use until full MS Office 365 (via Azure cloud services) implementation and integration. Identified risks, mitigation, next steps, implementation timeline, program management reporting procedures

XCELERATE Solutions Aug 2018 – Dec 2019

Executive Business Process Engineer

Office of the Director of National intelligence (ODNI)/IC CIO/Chief Enterprise Architect

Principal business process engineering consultant for the Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer Chief Enterprise Architect. Implemented business engineering processes for newly minted Enterprise Architecture division; re-tailored outdated business practices for maximum efficiency and integrated new business practices for daily business battle rhythm and project forecasting

Orchestrated & overhauled the new Technical Integration Committee (TIC) forum. Created committee standard operating procedures, meeting minutes forms, stakeholder communications, backward planning schedules and rehearsals; furnished new process for topic initiation and briefing coordination. Directed the governance coordinators for meeting preparations and implemented action tracking across internal/external IC agencies

Executive coordination with external IC agencies; served as conduit to the 17 IC agencies for briefings to the IC CIO Chief Architect and related forums

Jira/Confluence Configuration Implementer – created new customer splash page in Confluence allowing users to view roles, responsibilities, and Tech Integration Committee schedules.

Jira/Confluence -- renovated master reference architecture timeline and forecasting schedules to reflect maturity and full operational capability using MS Project and Jira

Assembled new MS Visio reference architecture view with project governance path that leads to executive level approval

CACI Jun 2018 – Aug 2018

Deputy Program Manager

US Army CIO/G-6

Deputy Program Manager and Transition Team Lead for new CIO/G-6 contract. Mentored newly developed team and implemented new reporting for project accomplishments to government client. Strategized CIO/G-6 top priorities for large multi-million-dollar IT portfolio including Chat, telephony, enterprise email, data center consolidation & mobile technology programs

Directed newly formed 12-person engineering network team in developing the CIOs top priority initiatives and shepherded teams members on organizational touch points, reporting and IT portfolio management

Tygart Technology Oct 2016 – Jun 2018

Technical Manager

Department of Justice, FBI--OCIO

IT Technical Manager for the newly minted Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Enterprise Requirements Unit (ERU). Researched and directed the IT Service Management (ITSM) issues, solutions and integration for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Shepherded the mapping of capabilities, business units, systems and processes to the FBI Capability Model using the Technology Business Management discipline. Developed capability models aligning them to the Technical Business Management (TBM) framework and incorporated FBI unique specialties and needs

Led development of the new Enterprise IT Service Catalog initiative for the Bureau, planning and integration of the many disparate service catalogs to build a single-entry point for services and capabilities for the enterprise.

Pioneered Enterprise Service Catalog working groups within the Bureau to assess the footprint of the multiple catalogs and repositories in existence so that an enterprise solution could be formulated and implemented.

Provided professional development to Capability Framework pilot project teams for the Bureau allowing them to reorganize capabilities and how they are defined, searched, and discovered

Developed GEOINT/Geospatial community of practice and consolidated 13 disparate licenses into one Esri Bureau license; a savings of over $9M per year

clearAvenue Mar 2015 – Oct 2016

IT Project Manager

Department of State, Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM)

Project Manager for the IT Service Management Software Development team. Directed and implemented multiple high-visibility software development lifecycle (SDLC) projects utilizing project management and Agile methodologies with Scrum discipline.

Led Remedy Design Modification and Enhancement (DME) feature teams in developing multiple IT solutions using BMC Remedy integration & new Enterprise IT Service Catalog

ITSM Configuration and Asset Management for Software Delivery team for several SDLC projects including the IT Service Catalog

Developed policy guidance for the Enterprise Service Portfolio and the IT Services Online Process Guidance for entering new services.

Created Service Level Management procedures for implementing new catalog services using ITIL v.3 principles and best practices.

IFAS Sep 2010 – Oct 2014

IT Project Lead

HQ Army CIO/G-6 Architecture, Operations, Networks and Space

Performed as Senior Data Center Consolidation project leader for the US Army Data Center Consolidation Program (ADCCP) providing guidance and leadership to multiple Army commands and proponents in data center consolidation, application rationalization and migration to Enterprise hosting facilities, local Installation Processing Nodes (IPNs) or the private cloud computing environment

Executive-level project lead for all Headquarters Army Staff elements, the US Army Forces Command (FORSCOM), the 2nd Army, the US Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM), US Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) and the Office of the Administrative Assistant (OAA) and the Pentagon Information Technology Agency (ITA)

Developed the Guidance for Migration of Army Enterprise Systems/Applications to Commercial Cloud Service Providers for the Army CIO

Senior IT Systems Budget Analyst to the Chief Information Officer/G-6 (CIO-G-6) Programs and Resources Directorate. Performed Capital Planning Investment Control (CPIC) for the Army Data Center Consolidation Project (ADCCP) and the Chief of Information, Programs and Resources. Developed Cost Benefit Analysis and Migration Costs strategy and led project team in support of CIO/G-6 customer

WBSI Jun 2007 – Sep 2010

Deputy Program Manager

HQ Marine Corps

Deputy Program Manager for Headquarters, Marine Corps WBSI contract supporting the Director, C4 and Chief Information Officer. USMC liaison to Joint Staff J-6 as the for Net Centric Functional Capabilities Board (FCB) Working Group and the FCB in various fora including computer network and satellite communications projects

Led USMC CIO Joint Matters program review for all Net-Centric JCIDS programs enroute to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC). Represented the USMC, Executive Director for C4 in various JCIDS fora including the Net-Centric Functional Capabilities Board (FCB) Working Group and FCB for computer network and satellite communications affecting USMC, Army, Navy and USAF warfighting communications. Solicited Service positions (Army, Navy and USAF and Joint) and how they affect portfolios and acquisition strategies

Executive Coordinator to the USMC CIO for the Military Communications Electronics Board (MCEB). Prepared the Deputy Director C4 for MCEB Deputies meetings to engage communications senior leadership in warfighting communications issues and functions

Coordinated joint matter programs, engineering and test studies and developed briefings for the CIO-C4 Principals forum informing the USMC CIO on key DoD topics affecting warfighter communications platforms (aerial, radio/satellite, ground, mobile and afloat)

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