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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

Currently leading a team within the Program Management Office to review, update and maintain program-wide policies and procedures, and program planning and monitoring documentation, as part of a business growth strategy, establishing robust Risk/Issues/Opportunities and Continual Improvement approaches, and incorporating improvements to ensure that plans and processes are in alignment with all current operational and development efforts, including incorporation of PMBOK best practices, Agile development and management, and CMMI and ITIL industry frameworks.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Provided Business and Solution Analysis services for a US Government Agency client. • Served on the Project Management team for a technical refresh project, responsible for documenting and managing internal processes and knowledge assets. Estimated and managed a travel budget for more than 50 technicians, exceeding $2 million. Developed and maintained a project wide SharePoint-based knowledge management portal. Analyzed and improved subcontractor travel invoicing processes, clearing a significant invoicing backlog, while maintaining positive supplier relationships, and enabling the project to bill travel costs to the client in a timely fashion, improving the flow of receivables,• Assisted a federal government client with SDLC process improvement, re-engineering, and knowledge management as they integrated new procurement and development processes, while transitioning from traditional development methods to an Agile environment with heavy reliance on Scrum practices. Analysis included process mapping to both internal and industry reference models establishing a baseline for test automation improvements, and developing a SharePoint solution architecture for a Community of Practice collaboration and knowledge sharing portal.• Assisted this same client conducting an Information Security Management gap analysis and remediation plan as part of the agency's implementation of The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program. This involved working with agency Subject Matter Experts to determine current capabilities, identify functional gaps against CDM and the agency's internal Security Plan, and develop remediation plans to close those gaps.• Participated as a member of a geographically dispersed Scrum team, in a quick turnaround Agile effort developing deliverable product for a Department of Defense client.

Global, Us

Served as a member of an internal SharePoint Solution Architecture and Development team. • Designed and created SharePoint Project Management portals for Public Sector projects. • Designed, developed and maintained SharePoint workflow applications using Nintex Workflow for internal and external clients• Provided subject matter consultation and training to other organizations as needed.

Global, Us

Served as Chief Process Architect and Standard Process and Methodology Subject Matter Expert (SME) for CSC’s North American Public Sector (NPS) Business Process Management Office (BPMO). • Authored an extensible Program/Project Management, SDLC and ITSM process framework and related processes and procedures to ensure alignment with strategic goals and industry best practice, and deploying to the project Management staff• Conducted/supported Delivery Assurance and Project Management reviews. • Performed CMMI-based appraisals as an appraisal team member, and prepared business units and projects for appraisals• Supported a series of successful bid qualifications related to process maturity, resulting in new contract wins• Received President's Award for Process Improvement for efforts related to business opportunity assessments, by reverse-engineering an internal MS Access/Visual Basic Delivery Assurance application and repurposing it for the specific need.Performed solution architecture, business analysis, process architecture and modeling, process appraisals and improvement, and Knowledge Management. • Designed, developed and maintained several knowledge-management applications including taxonomy. Participated in proposal activities as both an author and reviewer. • Collected, analyzed, and reported project KPI and demographic data to provide executive management with a quantitative basis for strategic planning. • Provided subject matter consultation and training to other organizations as needed. • Member of CSC’s corporate methodology architecture team, and certified corporate methodology instructor.• Working with the Service Delivery Manager, prepared a gap analysis and process improvement plan, successfully preparing a key data center for an ISO-20000 process certification; the first ISO-20000 certification in North America, and the first globally for CSC.

Global, Us

Managed the Configuration Management organization for a major SAP ERP system deployment, supporting the Program Director.• Managed a staff of Configuration Specialists supporting the project and the program office• Developed and implemented procedures and SQL applications allowing controlled simultaneous updates to the test and production platforms of the world’s largest SAP Defense Logistics system, ensuring that changes had been subjected to change management processes, resulting in the stabilization of an out-of-control development/production environment, enabling concurrent development and production.• Procured and managed a code management system (Serena Dimensions) for non-SAP custom code

Global, Us

Served as Standard Process and Methodology Subject Matter Expert (SME) for CSC’s North American Public Sector (NPS) Business Process Management Office (BPMO). • Performed solution architecture, business analysis, process architecture and modeling, process appraisals and improvement, and Knowledge Management. • Developed and maintained knowledge-sharing applications, supporting enterprise-wide level CMM and project management initiatives. • Managed and conducted internal CMM-based process appraisals to successfully prepare projects for pre-award surveys and credentials• Participated in multiple proposal activities as both an author and reviewer in areas of Quality Assurance, Testing, Requirements Management, and Process Management/Improvement.• Assumed the management role for the group, managing a nationwide virtual staff with additional matrixed staffing for specific projects and tasks.• Supported a series of successful bid qualifications related to process maturity, resulting in new contract wins• Received corporate Award for Technical Excellence for process engineering efforts that led to the award of two SEI CMM Level 5 ratings

Global, Us

Managed a staff of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) specialists on a large-scale software contract for a DoD client. Developed and implemented a process-based software quality methodology and supporting DBMS, including quality metric reporting. New Business Development Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the Quality Management discipline, supporting multiple proposal efforts.

Global, Us

Performed full software lifecycle development from concept, architecture, design, to development, test and run & maintain. Languages used included CMS-2Y, Fortran IV/77, Pascal, Ada, and several COTS DBMS systems.

Global, Us

Developed, executed and monitored JCL scripts and CMS-2Y applications for source code management and program builds. Supervised a small staff of specialists monitoring batch processing. Received the US Navy Aegis Excellence Award for designing a process to manage changes in multiple, simultaneous source code baselines, and developed a Fortran application to implement the change management system.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Graduate Studies, System Analysis & Design / Database Engineering

Graduate Studies, Project Management

Master Certificate, Business Analysis

Certificate, Java Programming

Certificate, Information Security Management