THELMA D. EDMUNDS
Severn, Maryland 21144
Phone: 410-***-**** (office)
202-***-**** (home)
*********@***.***
Clearance: Secret
QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
Results-driven professional with skills in budgeting/finance, program management, acquisition, requirements analysis, Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) documents, and working with either a Commercial Off The shelf (COTS) or Government Off The Shelf (GOTS) products, and ACAT3 Information Management, DOTMLPF, Healthcare Information Technology Systems, DoD 5000., Service Contract Approval (SCA) Human resource, Customer Service, contracts- Firm-Fix Price, T&M (time and material) Statement of work (SOW), Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCE), FAR.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Acquisition Contract Specialist- Aberdeen Proving Ground 2004-Present
Conduct extensive research and performs analytical studies in support of selection and acquisition actions to support functional area requirements. Process invoice submissions according to terms of each contract to include current electronic systems when specified. Review proposals to continue, expand, or delete assets or services and recommends appropriate disposition. Plans and prepares Request for Quote (RFQ) and Request for Proposal (RFP) packages. Prepare Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCE), set up Acquisition meeting to maintain and to ensure all information and terms and conditions of contracts are met. Prepare Acquisitions packages through PR Web. Provide expertise in support of acquisition support, advising the implementation and management of major acquisitions, and administrative processing of routine contractual actions. Experience in all phases of government contracting, and acquisition, procurement. Expertise and experience supporting multi-million dollar Government acquisitions and short-term and long-range strategic plans. Develop Acquisition Plans and other procurement justifications and approval documentation, Source Selection Plans including development of evaluation criteria, contract line item structures, and statements of work, task statements, contract modifications, and contract correspondence. Perform contract administration including modifications, invoice reviews and contract closeout. Responsible for assessment of products and procedures for compliance with government standards, accounting principles. Review the documents created in support of the acquisition efforts. This includes all acquisition strategy documents. Participate in meeting and program reviews to create, review, plan, and evaluate the acquisition efforts in support of the related program activities. This included creating and facilitating contract action schedules, recording and reporting status of contract actions to the immediate team members and the weekly larger team meetings, and maintaining excel spreadsheet or other application representations of contract action milestone schedules.
● Obtained and developed rough order of quote and magnitude costs. Prepares and assembles acquisition packages to include Service Contract Approval (SCA) forms with impact and justification, purchase requests, and evaluation criteria.
● Developed critical success factors and quality surveillance plans associated with IT service contracts. Developed and updated spreadsheets, documents any deficiencies observed during surveillance of the contract would elevate to Contract Officers Representative (COR).
● Monitored contract cost, invoicing, fund changes, and balances applied to contract. Assist COR with implementation activities for new Customer Services. Acts as liaison between contractor and functional business units in the Government.
● Performed routine and recurring assignments, as a team player, in the administration, development, delivery and support of information technology (IT) systems and services. Work to propose standards and procedures and evaluate the need for changes in existing local policies or procedures for the accomplishment of the organization's IT goals and objectives.
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Requirements Acquisition Analyst - HQ Air Force, Requirements Division 2000-2004
Responsible for developing modernization requirements policies and procedures
and delivery of operational effects-based capabilities to the war fighter. Develop and
validate Air Force Medical System (AFMS) capability gaps using JCIDS requirements
documents.
●Conducted complex management analysis, and developed management briefings to assigned
MAJCOMs. Provided the central integration role validating the requirements process. Managed
requirements traceability information and tracked requirements status throughout the project for
validation at the Surgeon General’s Requirements for Operational Capabilities Council
(SGROCC).
●Coordinated AF/SG requirements matrix for 3-D virtual Models for Forensic Identification of deceased combat and accident casualties. Facilitated the development and submission of documentation regarding operational requirements and corresponding concepts of operations for the modernization, and sustainment of projects valued at $2.6M.
●Organized and facilitated (High Performance Teams) HPTs to engineer support required for identifying capability gaps. Generated a requirements matrix to develop Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) and Key System Attributes (KSAs). Provided technical and program management expertise support to generate the Capability Development Document (CDD). Coordinated current initiative requirements documents through SG Task and the Major Commands (MAJCOMs) for approval at the SGROCC. Monitored and tracked projects from Acquisition phase through testing and funding
●Led requirements analysis, validation and verification, and developed Medical Training Protocols for Distributed Human Patient Simulator valued at $3.3M, ensuring that requirement statements were complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, and feasible, and that they conformed to standards
Program Analyst, Armed Forces Medical Examiner Office (Army), 1998-2000
Responsible for operations management of Medical Examiner data bases, financial accounting, scheduling, medico-legal operations investigations support, and development of Memorandums of Agreement with Departments of State, Justice, and Treasury. Facilitate High Performance Teams (HPTs) to engineer support required for identifying capability gaps.
●Promoted team relationships with the Departments of Justice, State, and Treasury.
Set up error-free MOUs for transfer of funding between agencies. Recouped over $40K in just 3 months from past due receivables that were outstanding for two years.
●Pivotal in coordinating the pathology teams world-wide for multiple agencies during the
medico-legal operations following the terrorist attack on the Pentagon of 911. Cued travel orders for all personnel, arranged lodging at Dover Port Mortuary, established a DNA courier service to ensure 100% positive identification of remains, and tracked the epidemiology reporting and successful electronic case filing and reviews by staff pathologists
●Established procedures for transferring data and accurately closing out cases into
the Pathology Information Management System (PIMS). Case Reports visible within moments for pathology reviews among various federal agencies
● Process re-engineered the tracking of death certificates for all active duty military
deaths by developing the Armed Forces Medical Examiner Tracking System (AFMETS). This electronic technology also enabled full reporting to include DNA, toxicology, and dispositions
●Ensures compliance with government regulations and assists with research proposal
negotiations with agencies such as the Global Emerging Infectious Surveillance and Response System. Tracked casualties in the pipeline using DCIPS
Contract IT Acquisition Analyst – Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1995-1998
Tracked disbursements using CCaRS, CAFRMS to record funding remaining on projects and initiated commitments using Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request (MIPR) documents. Prepared budget patterns, projected expenditures, and approved budgets. Set up budget accounts once award(s) were granted or contract(s) signed. Administered the expenditure of funds, ensuring that funds were expended according to sponsoring organization's stipulations and appropriate Congressional guidelines.
● Monitored CCaRs database and established daily connection to CAFRMS accounting system for most recent data and highlights. Created Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPR) using JSCBIS system.
● Tracked funds from the Presidential Budget using CCaRs to export, sort and filter to assemble the precise information needed. Formulated and executed the DTRA budget for assigned appropriation accounts in conformance with OMB policies and relevant appropriations regulations and policies.
● Maintained financial reports using Visual Express to execute Chem-Bio Plan reports which pulls specific contracts. Monitored program activities in specific appropriation accounts for compliance with Congressional limitations.
●Monitored BA1-Basic Research and BA2-Applied Research RDT&E appropriations through the Funding Authorization Document (FAD). Analyzed, reviewed and ensured input is technically accurate and consistent with DTRA priorities.
Office Manager, Center for Community Development, 1990-1995
Consistently effective in optimizing capital, reducing risk, and increasing liquidity. Developed accounting and workflow processes.
●Maintained a strict cash management policy that maintained quality and inventory control
●Maintain billing/Account receivables/Account payables
●Team lead to automate financial invoices and hand receipts. Managed project from
initial needs assessment through vendor sourcing, acquisition and implementation
●Instituted quality control measures for travel vouchers, purchase orders, and
invoices
●Established quarterly briefs to Department chairs.
Office Manager, Dept of Social Services, Prince Georges County, Maryland, 1986-1990
Senior manager of the daily operations of a organization. Responsible for all agency daily business operations, administration and all human relations programs.
●Supervised an administrative team.
●Attended the Executive committee meeting and brief CEO
●Prepared correspondence to the CEO with rare returns for any corrections or
changes in strategy
●Performed annual evaluations for administrative staff
●Managed the payroll, accounts payable, and travel for two departments
EDUCATION
• Woodland Institution, BA, Business Administration, 1988
• Philmon Research Training Center, Computer Training
SKILLS
• Microsoft Office Suite 2007,
• OuickBooks
• DAU ACQ 101,
• DAU ACQ 201,
• DAU CLC 106 COR with a Mission Focus
• DAU CLC 222 Contracting Officers Representative (COR)
• DAU CLL015 Business Case Analysis
• DAU RQM 110 Requirements Management
• DAU CLM 101 Analysis of Alternatives
• DAU CLB 007 Cost Analysis
• DAU CLM 041 Capabilities Based Planning
• DAU CLE06 Capability Maturity Model-Integration (CMMI)
• DAU LOG101 Acquisition Logistic Management
• SAM101 Software Acquisition Management
• Requirements 111 certification
• Proper Financial Accounting Treatment for Military Equipment certification
• AFMETS Systems, PIMS System
• DCIPS Defense Causality Information Processing System
• Defense Travel System (DTS)
• DOORS
• SharePoint
• Computerized Accounting & Finance Resource Management (CAFRM)
• Intelligent Telecommunication Management System (ITMS)
• Visit Authorization Request (VAR)
• Staff Action Control Coordination Portal (SACCP)
• PR-WEB
• Wide Area Work Flow (WAWF)
• Notary Public
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
THELMA EDMUNDS
1830 Richfield Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144
Phone: 410-***-**** (office)
202-***-**** (home)
*********@***.***
Please consider my resume for possible employment opportunities with your organization. I bring enthusiasm and dedication to my field of work, and I am sure that my previous work experience will allow me to be an asset to your organization.
I am flexible, a self-starter, and can handle tasks with deadlines. Also I am a team player; people oriented, and also can fulfill tasks independently.
My salary requirements is 90k-95k
Thank you, for your consideration, and I look forward to discussing my qualifications.
Thelma Edmunds