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Senior IT Program Manager and Systems Engineer

Location:
Warner, NH
Salary:
180,000
Posted:
June 08, 2026

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Resume:

Richard W. Crossman

**** ***** ***** *** ********, NH 03221

Telephone: 540-***-****

Email:****.********@**.***

Objective: To obtain a project/program manager position in the IT industry

Education:

Strayer University – Fredericksburg, Virginia 1995-1998

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems

Grade Point Average: 3.83

Certifications:

Security +, CCNP, TAM

Security Clearance: Active TOP SECRET CLEARENCE CI Poly

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 20 years of experiences in System Engineering. Working as a SETA contractor for the International Program Office as A Network COMM’s Engineer.

15 Years of service to BAE SYSTEMS with growth from entry level system engineer to Manager System Engineer level 1.

Over a period of 12 years Facilitated installation and operations of Community Airborne Library Architecture (CALA), Airborne Image Product Library (IPL), NSG Visualization Services (NVS), and High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment all NGA Airborne Libraries while managing a full up National Imagery Exploitation Systems (NIES) complement of Hardware.

Multi System integration coordinating between government program manager and vendor contractors. Facilitated between site and NGA customer for facility upgrades and additional space required for growth, and new system deliveries.

Coordinated System software upgrades on multiple systems and hardware platforms and involved in creating and performing regression testing process.

Managed lifecycle maintenance for software and Hardware recapitalization.

Excellent organization and communication skills, verbal, written, and presentation.

Ability to assess needs, analyze, and solve problems.

Management-level, decision-maker, accountable for setting priorities, planning, and meeting goals.

Provides motivational style of leadership technique, professional attention to detail, supplemented by clarity of expression and ability to organize, influence, and stimulate others.

Self-motivated, reliable, professional, and competent.

Over 20 years of responsible experience with the United States Marine Corps career reflecting flexibility of assignments, and continuous progression to positions of higher responsibility in the management and maintenance of military aircraft.

CLEARANCE

Active TOP SECRET SCI Clearance w/Poly

EDUCATION

Strayer University – Fredericksburg, Virginia 1995-1998

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems (Magna Cum Laude)

EXPERIENCE

System Engineer

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency EDGE Program Office.

Peraton Task Order 03 01/18/22 to Present

Provide System Engineering support for NGA current and Future development and modernize efforts in support of programmatic goals at the edge architecture.

Provide requirement assessment and responsible for managing and developing Request for Change process in developing a new modernized architecture.

Managed acquisition for hardware and software platforms as suitable solutions to the edge requirements.

System Engineer

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Sensor Integration

Perspecta/Peraton NEE TASK Order 11 (06/01/21 – 01/18/22)

Provide System Engineering support for NRG current and Future development efforts in support of programmatic goals.

Provide support to JREN PMO related development efforts in designing and engineering solutions to provide upcoming NRG system design requirements.

Developed and managed RFC program for planning and integration activities through delivery of derived requirement to include management of segments and costs.

Worked with Joint agency partnership to design and deliver new architecture requirements as a modernization approach to replace legacy systems

Manage NGA IPO IPA and associated segments through technical exchange meetings to clarify and develop requirements as they are realized by system engineering processes.

Work with customers to prevent technical creep and cost monitoring to deliver timely and accurate solutions to customer documented requirement.

Manage Frisk mitigation program to ensure capability delivery is on time and schedule

System Engineer

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Sensor Integration

Inspyir LLC, Duluth, MN, Sub to Perspecta NEE TO-11 (11/19 – 05/31)

Provide System Engineering support for NRG current and Future development efforts in support of programmatic goals.

Provide support to Transport related development efforts in designing and engineering solutions to provide upcoming NRG network requirements.

Manage RFC program from development through delivery of derived requirement to include management of segments and costs.

Manage all associated segments through technical exchange meetings to clarify and develop requirements as they are realized by system engineering processes.

Work with customers to prevent technical creep and cost monitoring to deliver timely and accurate solutions to customer documented requirement

System Engineer, DOD Civilian

DCO MCOG MCB Quantico, VA (03/19 – 11/19)

Provide engineering support for Red TEAM mission deployments

Support DCO for all Cyber security related activities

Responsible for ensuring all MITRE CVE are documented and tracked to all related MCRT identified threat activities.

Support Marine Corp Wide activities that are Cyber in nature to include Incident Response team and Incidence Detection and Threat analysis utilizing wire shark and other network tools to help contain and identify Cyber threats utilizing IRTK suite to analyze and understand threat to provide a solution to counter threat.

Signature Maintenance To develop real time assessment and signatures with in ePO identify analysis to provide counter solution or institute firewall blocks to threats to contain and or block cyber threat, To configure and set up Network Sensor support to identify and alert or block any new evolving threat.

to support and identify tools and analysis that provides support to the MCOG Hunt Team utilizing MYSQL tools and blue scope to perform a deeper dive into threats not yet identified.

To provide through briefing and analysis to the threat presented and to follow up with further analysis and remedy actions.

System Engineer

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, International Programs

Inspyir LLC, Springfield, VA, (04/17 – 03/19)

XATOR Corp, Springfield, VA, (06/15 – 04/17)

Provide engineering support and designs to meet PMO customer needs, assisting in developing requirements needs for engineering solutions in a multiple security domain and multiple system enclave program.

Responsible for ensuring all COMM’s related activities are in place to facilitate project milestones, this includes developing and writing CRQ’s and too facilitate their schedule and delivery to address requirement derived from project needs. This included evaluation current COMM’s architecture for supportability. Develop new requirement to recapitalize and reengineering updated COMM’s solutions to support new requirement.

Responsibilities include developing and submitting all Firewall Access control requests to allow program access to remote and other agencies program’s for seem less integration efforts. Developed and submitted Domain Registration activities to ensure all new enclaves where discoverable with in programmatic guidelines.

Involved in all levels of planning activities, manages, monitors, and controls all COMM’s related projects, and resources. Responsible for any Security impacts to Program EXACTA record in COMM related activities, to involve developing and submitting SIDR form to address impacts.

Responsible to engage and Maintains communications with the program manager, remote international customers. By setting up and holding Technical exchange meeting to support and facilitate multilevel program coordination for COMM’S related integration.

Manage All CRQ’s for schedule, delivery and integration efforts, monitors and mitigate any slips within the program IMS.

System Engineer

Blue Glacier Management Group, Chantilly, VA (06/14 - 07/15)

Currently working as part of the Configuration Management team in support of DHS

Provide CM support in development of Cyber security project development.

Support DHS by providing Change Management process development.

Support SE & I team by developing and instituting a configuration Management Library which documents the continuing change processes.

Support Customer to developer integration meetings

System Engineer

BAE SYSTEMS (I & S), Dahlgren, VA (06/09 – 06/14)

Assigned as NIES Site lead to manage Dahlgren site operations for NGA assets at site.

Manage a 24X 7 operations of sixteen FSR’s for two separate Libraries, and responsible for all personnel management functions.

Consolidation of work and data center to a centralized area, Worked to merge crews and cross train personnel to support collaborated environment.

Recapitalized Legacy data storage library while migrating legacy airborne data and reprocessing into new format with enhance data processing capabilities and a modern approach to providing data as a web services portal.

Supervised daily operations and any site upgrades and software build enhancements.

Operations Management all phases of system and personnel management at remote customer site

Coordinated System software upgrades and created and instituted regression testing with each software version upgrade delivered.

Performed lifecycle maintenance for software and Hardware recapitalization, also coordinating with Cyber security HBSS for all patching on maintained systems.

During this period expanded data processing capabilities for new data types and expanded data storage capabilities to 75 PETA Bytes.

Integrated a 14 Rack expandable Internet Service Provider (ISP) Platform for High Power Computing (HPC) for future NGA’s Application Service Providers (ASP) needs.

Currently involved in on Decommissioning activities on legacy NGA library architecture.

Supporting all site related Technical Exchange Meetings, OPS ERBs, and other external meetings related to site operations.

Managing all maintenance contracts accounts and vendor support functions for the library.

Maintained an Inventory CMDB and are TAM certified responsible for annual audits

Senior System Engineer

BAE SYSTEMS (Mission Solutions), Dahlgren, VA (06/00 – 06/09)

Assigned as Site lead for two distinct data storage systems A Still framed product IPL and a COTS developed Full Motion Image Library.

Assigned as Senior System engineer to engineer to enhance and develop process to streamline data storage and data availability.

Managed a 24x7 operations of eight FSR’s responsible for all personnel management functions.

During this period expanded data processing capabilities for new data types and expanded data storage capabilities to 10 PETA Bytes.

Integrated a web type environment delivery for data.

Managed all maintenance contracts and vendor support functions for the library.

Assigned as System engineer /Imagery Exploitation Capability site lead

Responsible for development and maintenance of IEC System software.

Responsible for integration and maintenance of SUN System hardware.

Proficient in Unix System administrator duties.

Responsible for troubleshooting, and repairing hardware, and software malfunctions.

Developed tools in UNIX shell scripts for monitoring and system functions.

Provided customer support for 8 IEC workstations.

Certified in SGI Origin 2000 hardware repair

Computer Programmer

BAE Systems (Mission Solutions), Reston, VA, (05/99 to 06/00)

Assigned as to Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) in Suitland, MD.

Responsible for Development and maintenance of existing application tools.

Developed and integrated a GLI tool application to address database query requirements.

Developed PL/SQL packages for HTML interface.

Programmed in X-Windows Motif, C, and C++ within a Solaris Environment.

Performed integration and customer requirement upgrades between developed GLI Tools and existing ONI databases.

Executive Maintenance Control/Production Supervisor

HMX-1 Executive Transport Squadron, Quantico, VA, (12/94 – 05/99)

Directly responsible for scheduling and coordinating maintenance of Presidential Helicopters.

Responsible for acquisition of parts and materials required for accomplishing aircraft maintenance.

Responsible for aircraft flight hour monitoring to perform all scheduled inspections in order to ensure optimum aircraft availability for mission requirements.

Directed work assignment of six maintenance departments.

Excelled as Presidential trip leader by planning and organizing personnel, aircraft, and equipment in direct support of Presidential trips across the United States and Overseas.

Served as assistant to System Administrator for Unix based LAN system

Executive Avionics Shop Supervisor

HMX-1, Executive Transport Squadron, Quantico, VA, (08/93 – 12/94)

Scheduled, coordinated, and supervised the maintenance of aircraft avionics systems.

Supervised the production, maintenance, training and administration of 36 personnel.

Responsible for the developmental operational testing of future avionics systems for UH-1N aircraft platform.

Quality assurance representative providing expertise on avionics system and oversaw final inspection of avionics maintenance performed on aircraft.



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