Project Manager Management

CHETNA LAL

US Citizen | Secret Clearance

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SENIOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

Results driven Senior Enterprise Architect with comprehensive experience in project and client relationship

management within the Department of Defense. Recognized for delivering high profile projects with strong

attention to detail. Effectively managed schedules in a continuously changing environment. Extensive

experience in data and enterprise management. Strengths include:

• FEAC Enterprise Architect, CEA • Information Security

• CMMI and ITIL Trained • Project Coordination & Oversight

• Legislative and legal requirements for PII • Data Management

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EXPERIENCE

United States Army

Digital iBiz August 2011– Present

Deputy Project Manager Strategic Planning and Enterprise Architecture Lead

• Organizes, plans, supervises and directs tasks for Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Planning

• Responsible for execution of highly complex IT projects in the areas of strategic planning, enterprise

architecture (EA), and information technology

• Developed program goals and objectives as well as strategies for meeting objectives

• Developed, managed and executed major portions of the G-3/5/7’s strategic IT plan

• Implemented policies, procedures and instructions across G-3/5/7

• Utilized lifecycle management principles to complete assigned projects

• Established a data management process for authoritative data sources (ADS) for G-3/5/7 and reviewed

proposed authoritative data using the Enterprise Authoritative Data Source Registry (EADS)

FCI, Chantilly, VA February 2007 – August 2011

Logistician

• Provide complete logistics support for the NETOPS Toolset Task including producing all logistics

documentation, Department of the Army (DA) Forms

• Provide logistics support for the NETOPS Toolset Task producing all Department of Defense forms

required by most contracts for supplies and services.

• Reviewed potential and approved Enterprise Licensing Agreements and Enterprise Service Agreements

(ELA/ESA) initiatives and worked with vendors for ongoing Army support

• Provide procurement support

• Led development team to automate report production

Senior Enterprise and Data Architect

• Managed and implemented strategic change using enterprise IT strategies, project management

methodologies, data and architectural governance structures, documentation, and infrastructure

migration to meet organizational goals

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• Assisted in the maturation of the Army’s Net-Centric Data Strategy, chair the Data Metrics working

group

• Established performance metrics, reporting processes, and/or evaluation methodology to assess

program accomplishments as the chair of the Data Metrics working group

• Acted as the G6 liaison to the Army Suicide Prevention Task Force, oversaw the integration of over 30

databases and wrote policy

• Coordinated with Office of General Council to comply with legislative and legal requirements for

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)

• Aided data architects, data stewards and functional data managers in developing and establishing their

data management processes and metrics in alignment with policy and enterprise level goals

• Introduced enterprise level data quality practices as endorsed by MIT data quality program

• Developed and analyzed architectures, intelligence and surveillance systems, and assessed trade-off

strategies used to evaluate Army systems, capabilities and risk

• Provided Enterprise Architecture design, assessment of methodologies for business transformation

including CMMI and Six Sigma methodologies, and implemented Data Strategy best practices

• Supported the aggressive adoption of the Net Centric Data Strategy for the Army in alignment with the

Army Net-Centric Data Strategy (ANCDS)

• Independently assessed program effectiveness

• Regularly briefed Senior Executive Service officials and General Officers

Binary Group, Bethesda, MD August 2005 – February 2007

Lead Enterprise Architect

• Provided strategic, analytical, planning, and policy development support to develop the Army’s

requirements for future system capabilities with a focus on the delivery of incremental functionality,

centered on use cases, prioritized by business criticality

• Grew business by $400,000 by expanded efforts to existing client

• Provided analytical support for the Army Chief Information Officer (CIO)/G6 in aligning the strategic

management system and portfolio management methods and oversight for the development of the Army

Enterprise Architecture

• Served as Department of Defense (DoD) liaison for managing Army leadership technology issues

• Developed requirements, project plans and system tools per global information grid architectures, net-

centric operations and warfare (NCOW) reference models, and DoD architecture framework

• Coordinate with project managers and vendors to assure the project’s compliance with requirements and

performance metrics

• Develop documentation, information papers and senior-level briefings on EA and data issues

Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, VA August 2003 – August 2005

Senior Consultant

• Generated over $300,000 of new work with an existing client

• Led several Joint Staff, J-8 Global Force Management architecture projects to create architecture

products as required and led an effort to draft functional requirements for the Army Continuing

Education Program

• Developed a prototype for the Military Health System (MHS) Requirements Traceability Matrix.

• Implemented a process for identifying requirements and conducting verification and validation testing.

• Provided technical consulting to the National Guard Bureau (NGB), DoD MHS, and to the Business

Management Modernization Program

• Coordinated software testing and managed NGB’s PRECISe Portal project

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• Drafted the systems analysis section of EA documentation for NGB. Analyzed present and future NGB

systems to manage NGB’s strategic growth and created SV-1, SV-3, and SV-5 diagrams for NGB using

Popkin software and Excel

General Accounting Office, Washington, DC July 2001 – August 2003

Information Systems Auditor/Analyst (GS-12)

• Evaluated Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contracting and technical controls for developing and

implementing information technology, estimating cost and schedules, and managing human resources

and capability maturity models

• Evaluated IRS business cases and tested pilot projects for Customer Account Data Engine (CADE)

• Briefed congressional staff on results of systems development and evaluated DoD MHS test procedures

and pilot projects to improve standards and efficiencies

• Evaluated technical contractors’ on-site capabilities to produce software products and drafted the

chapter of the GAO report, “Challenges to Effective Adoption of the Extensible Markup Language” and

contributed to several reports

• Verified the accuracy and clarity of written products

Dyncorp, Inc., Reston, VA January 1998 – May 2001

Project Lead

• Served as a project lead for developing Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund

electronic data applications

• Led an eight-person team in developing Java applications using XML to transfer data from EPA

field sites and laboratories to the EPA

• Identified requirements working closely with the client and oversaw the creation of Java

applications identifying user needs, creating user interfaces and optimize performance

• Developed technical guidance for developers, documentation for the user, and created web site

support

• Developed and taught a week-long course to train EPA personnel and private sector clients

MCI, Reston, VA June 1997 - January 1998

Network Engineer

• Provisioned, engineered and wrote multiplexing messages for dedicated networks for MCI clients.

Civil Engineering Firms, Centreville, VA June 1994 - June 1997

Environmental Engineer

• Provided water resource and environmental engineering support for various civil engineering

firms

Professional Memberships/Licenses:

• Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Certification Program, CEA, FEAC

Institute, 2005

• Engineer-in-Training Exam, 1994

Published Papers/Presentations:

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• GAO-03-768 Business Systems Modernization: IRS Has Made Significant Progress in Improving

Its Management Controls, but Risks Remain, GAO, June 2003

• GAO-02-345 Greater Use of Best Practices Can Reduce Risks in Acquiring Defense Health Care

System, GAO, September 2002

• GAO-03-327 Challenges to Effective Adoption of the Extensible Markup Language, GAO, April

2002

EDUCATION

Universities Attended

• Carnegie Mellon University, Information Systems and Management, MS

• University of Maryland, Civil and Environmental Engineering, BS

Special Training

• ITIL Version 3, 2008

• Lean Six Sigma, Green Belt, 2006

• FEAC Certification (DoDAF & C4ISR) 2005

• Project Management, University of Virginia, 2004

• System Architect C4ISR (Popkin’s Software), 2003

• Software Configuration Management Fundamentals, System Technology Institute, 2003

• Interviewing Skills, GAO, 2002

• Software Capability Evaluation v.3.0 Team Training, Software Engineering Institute, 2001

• Introduction to the Capability Maturity Model-Integrated, Staged Representation, v1.02,

Software Engineering Institute, 2001

CLEARANCES:

Current Security Clearance and date awarded: Secret, 25 April 2005

Available for 1099 contracts

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