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Washington, DC, US

• Oversee and guide three application development teams with approximately thirty total staff across three different federal government engagements, including multiple high visibility, public facing applications.
• Lead the programmatic management of projects in portfolio, with a focus on: client engagement; long-term planning and strategy; creating high-performing teams through process and technology improvement; risk.
• Coach managers and team leads in leading high-performing Agile Scrum teams.

Washington DC

• Led the successful on-time, on-budget delivery of Integrity.gov, a government-wide web app for financial disclosures. Integrity serves ~22,000 users across 137+ agencies (~95% of executive branch) and reduces.
• Facilitated Integrity team's execution of Agile Scrum as Scrum Master, while also supporting TCG to achieve CMMI Level 3 certification with Integrity as a model project.
• Managed all aspects of the Integrity.gov contract, including schedule, staffing, scope, financial planning, and risk management.
• Modeled Integrity team based on the US Digital Services Playbook: human-centered design for user experience; Jira for ticket tracking; Jenkins and Git for continuous integration and branch management; Neoload for load.
• Coordinated dependencies amongst as many as 12 FTE’s (20+ actual staff) across development, requirements, quality assurance (QA), user experience (UX), architecture and security teams with team leads.
• Worked with client, end-users, UX team and requirements teams to define the product roadmap and individual sprints as the team’s internal product manager.

Washington DC

• Managed contract for a Drupal-based human capital system (PEEPS) for the selection and vetting of presidential appointees for the Presidential Personnel Office (PPO), as well as two related applications, Job App and.
• Responsible for project portfolio’s financial, schedule, staffing, scope, and contract health.
• As on-site project manager, engaged client daily to ensure success in a fast-paced, highly visible environment.
• Facilitated client buy-in and understanding of technical solution, while confirming that the technical team’s understanding of business drivers and needs.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed five staff to establish reporting/business intelligence office for Federal Emergency Management Agency Grant Programs Directorate with $33 billion in grants since 2002.
• Led team in automation and process improvement of reports that reconcile almost half a million rows of source data from 7 systems, resulting in efficiency gains of more than 90%.
• Supported creation of Program Management Office for a $200 million grants system, the Grants Management Integrated Environment (GMIE) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
• Obtained full funding for GMIE by managing capital planning and creating business case documenting business need, cost and schedule, procurement strategy, performance metrics, enterprise architecture.
• Maintained resource-loaded project schedule and tracked Earned Value Management (EVM) for GMIE.

• Established FEMA’s GMIE Program Management Office. (See previous.)
• Gathered requirements and designed features for multi-million dollar web application, CAP System, for FEMA National Preparedness Directorate (NPD).
• Led testing efforts of eight person team for three major software releases of CAP System.
• Provided internal management support through task, schedule, and risk tracking, as well as internal communications on proof-of-concept advanced data analytics project.
• Managed team of three to design, develop, and deploy leave tracking system to improve forecasting.
• Taught bi-weekly training courses in Communications and Business Process Mapping.

New Brunswick, NJ

• Instructed, planned syllabi and lessons, met with students, and evaluated student work.
• Achieved high marks for student satisfaction and course usefulness.
• Courses taught: Intro to Poetry, Scientific and Technical Writing, and Expository Writing.

• Conducted research, analyzed data, and authored white paper on adoption of e-Prescribing program.
• Identified common request for proposal questions and created stock answers.

• Analyzed circuit designs for F-19 power supply re-design.
• Drafted schematics and managed schematic workflow for Kodak satellite power systems.
• Member of the Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP).

Bse, Electrical Engineering; Optics/Optical Engineering, Gpa: 3.3

Activities and Societies: Princeton Triangle Club, Terrace F ClubCompleted coursework comparable to a double major, including a thesis, in.

Ma, English Literature, Gpa: 4.0

* Research interests included drama, race studies, literary theory and psychoanalysis. * PhD-track before leaving to pursue career.