Aaric Smith Email & Phone Number

United States

Hampton Roads, Virginia Metropolitan Area

Virginia, United States

• Leads and directs project teams including systems engineers, site engineers, subcontractors, vendors, and other personnel • Creates cohesive project plans with identifiable critical path, task dependencies, major milestones, and manages the approved plans and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters.• Develops project plans identifying key issues, approaches, and performance metrics.• Generate and issue statements of work (SOWs) for subcontractors to perform required contract work for assigned projects.• Responsible for complete project management throughout the entire project lifecycle.•Creates deadlines, assigns responsibilities, monitors, and summarizes progress of projects.• Continually monitors project costs and performs financial analysis using Business Intelligence tools.• Creates implementation methodologies to control project costs and meet deadlines.• Responsible for project delivery of approximately 80 IT infrastructure projects supporting stateside U.S. Naval Bases for the Navy's NMCI Network on the SMIT contract.• Prepares project reports for upper management regarding project status.

Norfolk, Virginia, United States

SENIOR TECHNICAL PROJECT/ PROGRAM MANAGER, TYTO GSI• Leads and directs project teams including systems engineers, site engineers, subcontractors, vendors, and other personnel • Develops project plans identifying key issues, approaches, and performance metrics.• Creates implementation methodologies to control project costs and meet deadlines.• Manages Enterprise Wireless LAN (WLAN) Program containing approximately 125 new install projects at all stateside U.S. Naval Bases for the Navy's NMCI Network.• Responsible for project delivery of Guest WLAN Services to provide guest access to authorized government users and contractors.• Validates correct disbursement was received for monthly recurring support for Operation and Maintenance of active WLAN devices on the network.• Mitigates project risk and resolves any conflict or issues that arise.• Assists Proposal Manager interpreting requirements included in government customer SOO, SOW, and PWS to develop and submit competitive proposal submittals to win new contract work, in addition, knowledgeable and experienced executing programs with prime contractors, sub-contractors, vendors and suppliers.• Drafted BBPs, SSS, implementation plans, MOA’s MOUs, SLAs, and various other communication documents in support of U.S. Navy and program stockholders.• Experience in the preparation and support of various program office activities and meetings, to include U.S. Navy and other Government-agency internal meetings, design reviews, program assessment reviews, interface control working groups, technical interchange meetings, and project reviews.

Norfolk, Virginia

• Led and directed multidisciplinary project teams to deliver WLAN projects on time, within scope and budget utilizing Agile Methodology.• Developed project plans identifying key issues, approaches, and performance metrics.• Created implementation methodologies to control project costs and meet deadlines.• Managed Enterprise Wireless LAN (WLAN) Program containing approximately 168 new install projects at all stateside U.S. Naval Bases for the Navy's NMCI Network.• Delivered approximately 168 WLAN projects per fiscal year.• Reported on project progress and performance during weekly project briefing with internal leadership.• Supported WLAN Program as liaison of AT&T for all WLAN associated meetings with the Prime Contractor, U.S. Navy, subcontractors, design reviews, configuration request reviews, and technical interchange meetings.• Controlled project scope, time, cost, quality, and risks.• Ensured network policy adherence by sending all projects adding new devices to the network through design and configuration management for accountability and required documentation. o Manage, oversaw, and facilitated U.S. Navy governance, procedures, regulations, and program completions.• Integrate and coordinate all activities required to execute the WLAN contract and manage the timeliness, completeness, and problem identification.o Support all aspects of sound acquisition planning (vendor and supplier exposure, market research, source selection planning, ASP planning, SOO/SOW/PWS writing, RFP planning, document preparation, contract negotiation• Assigned work to network engineers for WLAN Access Point and Wireless Controller provisioning to add devices to the network through the approved Change Management process using HP service manager ticket system.• Succeeded at Program execution dealing with both the Prime contractor and several subcontractors to ensure consistent solution delivery to the customer.

Norfolk, Virginia

• Led and managed regional project staff of approximately 100 team members engaged in administering complex IT infrastructure upgrades.• Implemented changes to improve the performance of network infrastructure maintenance output for one region tenfold.• Conducted project meetings with field services network engineers to plan maintenances, assign responsibilities, and resolve issues.• Coordinated maintenances on network equipment, including access switches, routers, WLAN access points, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Virtual Private Networks (VPN), WAN Accelerators (WANX), and video teleconferencing (VTC).o Attended and led several internal meetings, design reviews, program assessment reviews, interface control working groups, technical interchange meetings.• Developed Enterprise tool to plan, monitor and track project progress, deliverables, and milestones utilizing Microsoft Project and Excel. o Developed and maintained, and configured MS Project projects and taskings to support the base, the program Staff and U.S. Navy level configurations.o Generated, reviewed, and documented an audit trail to track, record, and deliver funding documentation status, ensuring use of all expended funds and to Government funding leads for approval/review.o Assisted in program management support for the development of the U.S. Navy POM and individual Program Manager (PM) support.• Analyzed thousands of lines of data using v-lookups to develop work breakdown structure for network infrastructure upgrades.• Managed and completed required approved forms to request designs and configurations required for network upgrades.• Identify, implement, and ensure full integration of cybersecurity into all phases of WLAN VPN, WANX, and VTC acquisition, upgrade, or modification programs, including initial design, development, testing, fielding, operation, and sustainment.

Newport News, Virginia

• Owned and led multiple complex Supply Chain Procurement projects in support of Aircraft Carrier Construction with cross functional project teams to ensure projects were completed on time, on budget, and within scope by utilizing the routine industry project management processes and standards. o Conducted project baseline reviews, prepared follow-up activities, ensured and assisted with monitoring project validity and integrity.o Collected, reviewed, and performed data analysis, reported through project deliverables consisting of various types of reports, tracking tools, and analyses and assessments results.o Developed long-term business strategy by using customer feedback to identify necessary process improvements, project accountability and the equipment and inventory logs and reports.o Responsible for subcontract management and performance, integrated work performed, managed work distribution, and ensured no organizational conflicts of interest.• Developed and maintained project plans that identified project milestones utilizing Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, in addition, efforts included delivery of compliant documents in support of a variety of activities associated with project milestones for planning, policy, programming, budgeting, and future execution of this project• Monitored day-to-day vendor operations and performance against Purchase Order requirements and key performance indicators using v-lookups.• Performed detailed assessments to determine constraints and develop mitigation strategies factoring in the development of program specific funds, management documentation, task scheduling, and management of risks.• Prepared presentations for executive level briefings and U.S. Navy project reviews.• Conducted financial reviews to various events, including budget execution reviews, integrated baseline reviews, program milestone decision reviews, monthly activity reports, program management risk assessments.

Newport News, Virginia

•Analyzed, planned, issued, and controlled production schedules along with material requirements utilizing SAP GUI software to ensure a controlled flow of materials to meet production requirements. •Maintained the Microsoft Access database for Controlled Material Release Authorization project that controlled tracking of developmental material that had not completed qualifications but was needed to support ship’s construction. •Controlled and released developmental nuclear and non-nuclear material for ship’s construction.•Represented Supply Chain Management on cross functional teams for Ford Class Aircraft Carrier Program nuclear reactor plants and distributive systems.•Provided accurate and detailed material availability status at internal production agenda meetings.•Prepared work orders or purchase requests for the production or purchase of components or parts based on a master production schedule, shop load, and inventory requirements. •Expedited replacement material needed for engineering inspection reports that were written against damaged, lost, and malfunctioning equipment. •Coordinated interdepartmental activity with quality assurance, manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, inventory control, traffic, etc. •Scheduled and expedited the movement of parts by means of move orders, stock transfers and requests for shipping orders and receipt inspection. •Responsible for expediting procurement and delivery of over 10,000 material line items. •Researched, investigated, and found lost material in warehouses, kitting areas, and shipboard that provided savings to the company of over $25,000.

Langley Air Force Base, Va

•Provided coaching, training, supervision, and mentoring for other employees as a senior store worker at the Defense Commissary Agency.•Received shipments and reviewed invoice documents for receipt inspection to verify that shipments and invoices accurately matched order requirements.•Inspected deliveries for spoilage to ensure quality assurance standards were followed. Identified discrepancies then reported and filed paperwork for corrections, inventory accountability, inventory control, and inventory management.•Provided world class customer service to over 100,000 customers annually, maintained over 90% customer satisfaction rating. •Ensured shelves were adequately stocked and merchandised correctly to increase customer purchases. •Applied (FIFO) first in, first out stock rotation and culling techniques to keep a supply of the freshest produce available for customers. •Utilized a computer based ordering system for the procurement of products. Generated automated reports using computer based systems. •Communicated via telephone and email with suppliers to report broken or damaged equipment and building maintenance issues for repair. •Transported items to shelving to be stocked using electric and manual pallet jacks as well as carts. •Ensured that sanitation was scheduled and completed for shelving along with other areas in the department including coolers and preparation rooms. •Supervised and trained multiple teams of 4-6 employees in department operations. •Organized and maintained $60,000 of produce on sales floor and in storage coolers on a daily basis.•Dealt with unexpected staff shortages by reassigning work in order to meet mission requirements. •Conducted problem analysis of department inventory and developed solutions. Received an excellent yearly appraisal rating for six consecutive years.