JaNassa L. Kearney
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
**********@*******.***
(H) 301-***-****
(C) (301) 806-38
Security Clearance: Secret Level
ANALYTICAL/PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Seasoned, versatile analyst with years of successful analytical experience in multi-faceted, high pressure and results-driven Department of Defense (DoD) organizations. Broad spectrums of analyst and project management include experiences in large scale organizations, congressional engagement and financial management. Manage DoD Air Force Acquisition program elements: coordinates with stakeholders, balance requirements, programming, and acquisition complexities, $350M basic and $205M applied research portfolios.
EDUCATION
M.B.A. Acquisition; Strayer University, Suitland, MD, 2008
B.S. Business Administration; North Carolina Central University; Durham, NC, 2005
TRAINING
Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management (Defense Acquisition University, DAU)
Intermediate Systems Acquisition (DAU)
Small Business Innovative Research Training (DAU)
Business Analyst Certification (Learning Tree International)
WORK EXPERIENCE
ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Acquisition Analyst, Secretary of the Air Force, Science, Technology and Engineering
Pentagon Headquarters, Washington, DC Oct 2006 – Sept 2011
•Manage leading Headquarters Air Force (HAF) oversight for 5 Program Elements, $350M/yr and $205M/yr, and 300+ Air Force (AF) personnel at four geographic locations
•Advocate and defend programs in the AF budget
•Act as a liaison among project stakeholders to elicit, document, and analyze requirements for changes to business processes and policies
•Coordinate with stakeholders to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals
•Achieve $5.6M program element from being reduced by $3.9M – total of $1.7M saved
•Strengthen S&T planning by improving the integration of S&T investments, and synchronized planning and review with DoD budget and internal guidance timelines
•Produce final input to Congressional Descriptive Summaries of five program elements, which serves as defense mechanism for technical programs
•Defend program budget during multiple budget drills and S&T Issue papers due to knowledge of program elements and AF priorities
COUNCIL FOR LOGISTICS RESEARCH
Executive Assistant/Business Analyst, Secretary of the Air Force, Financial Management Transformation
Pentagon Headquarters, Washington, DC Dec 2005 - Oct 2006
•Prepared military and nonmilitary correspondence
•Assembled final correspondence products for review, authentication, or other disposition
•Managed classified documentation, registered and certified mail for dispatch
•Prepared suspense control documents and maintained suspense files
•Prepared and maintained functional files publications, established and maintained publications library
•Set-up and maintained logs, calendars, rosters, status boards, and charts
•Advanced from Executive Assistant to Business Analyst within four months, and provided high-quality support to decision makers on budgetary, financial, cost and economic issues.
•Improved the quality, efficiency and customer-focus of the Air Force financial services and operations of the Financial Services Team
•Managed customer interactions, seen as the subject matter expert on applications, processes and asset types
•Ensured both internal and external customer satisfaction represented project stakeholders throughout the project implementation process
•Identified, documented, tracked, and managed issues through resolution
•Identified funding discrepancy issues that raised concern, and saved directorate from paying an unexpected AF bill
ENTERPRISE LEASING Jun 05 – Jan 06
Management Trainee
Camp Springs, MD
•Assisted manager with leasing of 450 car fleet, and with training new Management Trainees
•Identified operational problems/weaknesses to minimize business related losses through production, proper underwriting, quality control, and customer service
•Managed account receivables
•Built professional business relationships by marketing, communicating, and interacting with customers, vendors and existing corporate accounts
•Provided excellent customer service
•Established outside business-to-business marketing
•Set up corporate accounts for new business
•Performed daily reconciliation of vehicle inventory
•Compiled accident reports for customers with damaged vehicles
•Generated car sale leads for car sales department
•Updated and compiled daily reports for leasing department
•Booked reservations and negotiated rates and coverage’s
•Scheduled maintenance and repairs for damaged vehicles
•Collected payments and balanced cash drawers
NOTE: Relocating to Charlotte, NC October 2011.