Project Management Program Manager

ABEDA S. MAHMOOD, PMP

E-mail: *******@*****.***

Mobile: 703-***-****

OVERVIEW OF WORK EXPERIENCE:

Dynamic professional with over 20 years of experience managing complex capacity building projects and acquisition programs. Develop partnerships with senior executives to find common ground and uncover key drivers to create and implement strategies that advance organizational goals. Resourceful, perceptive, and decisive leader with a unique ability to synergize teams and bring together stakeholders to achieve objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Raye IT Consulting, LLC – Washington, DC April 2022 – May 2025

IT Project Manager – Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Collaborated with the Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO) elite staff for providing project management expertise for the Enterprise Project Management Office (ePMO).

Managed integrated teams of engineers and technical professionals involved in analyzing, designing, training, testing, documenting, implementing, and maintaining complex IT systems related projects simultaneously.

Lead project team of federal staff and sub-contractors for developing a modernized website project.

Partnered with Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineering team for steering AI projects for the organization.

Steered project team of experts in engineering, communication, training, safety, security, and testing for an enterprise communication project.

Managed test planning, estimating costs, overseeing execution and delivery of several IT projects.

Computer Task Group – Washington, DC January 2022 – April 2022

PMO Business Analyst – Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Supported VA Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) PMO team by gathering data from SharePoint site for weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports to leadership.

Supported the full lifecycle SharePoint development process (requirements gathering, testing, training, and documentation) for the EHRM program.

Supported the Enterprise Lessons Learned Management process with integrated stakeholders.

NTT DATA Federal, Inc. – Arlington, VA December 2018 – May 2020

Project Control Specialist. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

Provided program support to CBP’s Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) by coordinating biometric investigation (BI) of new resources for streamlining completion process of their CBP clearance.

Managed various project cost control related reports in Costpoint, including Project Setup, Purchase Requisitions, and Reporting.

Authored multiple Process Improvement documents and Standard Operation Procedures (SOP).

Prepared graphs, diagrams, data, and other exhibits to illustrate cost status and forecast requirements for Project Management team and client.

NTT DATA Federal, Inc. – Washington, DC June 2014 – December 2018

Program Management Analyst - U.S. Department of Education (DoE); Federal Student Aid (FSA)

Consulted the Program Management Office (PMO) team for process development and continuous improvement in the areas of portfolio, program and project management following NTT DATA’s Project Management Methodologies.

Provided program review briefings and monthly status to upper management, FSA Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and to FSA Contracting Officer (CO) summarizing progress, issues, and financial portfolios for individual projects.

Responded to Requests for Proposals (RFP) and Statements of Work (SOW) issued by the Federal government.

Organized requirements analysis meetings with stakeholders for developing baseline activities for project schedule, solution, and cost proposal development.

Followed FSA’s Enterprise Change Management (ECM) procedures for ongoing projects that are centered around Infrastructure client facing project management.

Managed various short-term data center projects successfully and met their deliverables including project cost, schedule, and performance.

Dell Services Federal Government – Fairfax, VA July 2013 – May 2014

Program Management Office (PMO) Team Lead (Acting) - U.S. Department of Education (DoE); Federal Student Aid (FSA)

Supervised a team of IT Project Managers and project analysts to ensure fulfillment of contractual obligations including cost, quality, and schedules while maintaining customer satisfaction objectives.

Mentored junior PMO staff and new Project Managers on processes in place for effective project implementation.

Planed Process Improvements for the PMO, worked with program leadership team and Federal government officers to keep them updated on overall program status, risks, and ongoing project issues.

Managed overall program compliance for contractual deliverables including Technology and Security roadmap.

Supported Chief Security Officer on various projects to improve cybersecurity by participating in security assessments, identifying and mitigating security risks, providing continuous improvement for Web application security, database security, conducting security awareness training, and ensuring project team follow NIST, FISMA, and FedRAMP requirements and guidelines for the projects.

Dell Services Federal Government – Fairfax, VA November 2007 – July 2013

Project Analyst

Worked with leadership team and DoE’s Federal Student Aid CIO and COR teams for operational excellence of the Virtual Data Center (VDC) program.

Applied knowledge of estimating and pricing disciplines to develop labor, material proposals, and other non-labor estimates based on preset contractual T&M cost estimating techniques.

Participated in contract transition process followed by virtualization planning of over 900 servers of the VDC program successfully.

Collaborated effectively with IT functional areas including server, network, storage, database, and mainframe groups for day to day operations, change management, and configuration management requirements for the VDC program.

Assisted Project Managers for their project documentation including meeting invitations, meeting notes, change requests, impact analysis, RAID (Risk, Action, Issue, and Definition) management, status reports, etc.

Participated on conference calls for User Acceptance testing, documenting results, pre-production and production planning meetings, and in distributing meeting minutes for various application migrations for the overall VDC program.

EDUCATION

M.B.A in Project Management with Business Management minor, Strayer University, Woodbridge, VA - 2010

B.S. in Computer Information Systems with Business Administration minor, Strayer University - 2006

SPECIALIZED SKILLS

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified, March 2024

Azure DevOps

Leadership and Management

Business Analysis Certification Program

Financial Analysis

Business Case Development

SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server 2010, 2013

CITIZENSHIP AND CLEARANCE

United States citizen

Public Trust 6(C) clearance – Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

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