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-Contract Management: Support a $12M+, multi-year contract for a Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Execution (PPBE) tool utilized by ~250 users.-Supervisory Management: Supervise ~12 junior and senior staff members, tracking all activities to ensure timely project completion.-Agile Project Management and Needs Assessment: Employ semi-Agile approach with a diverse user community to define system requirements. Research and needs assessment methods include user discussions, design sessions, and systems analysis.-System Architecture and Process Flow Documentation: Lead functional design development, converting requirements into design components. Create process flows to depict user interactions with the application interface, supporting system development.-Reporting & Analysis: Oversee report analysis, including review of report layouts and data mapping, ensuring a fit between requirements and system architecture.-Innovation Development and Data Integrity: Provide ongoing guidance on future system adaptations to support agency-wide objectives and improve financial data integrity, leveraging functional experience to identify potential innovations.-Project Implementation: Delivered initial implementation of PPBE tool, which uses IBM Cognos TM1 and Cognos Report Studio, $40K under budget and 4 weeks ahead of schedule.-Client Relations and Business Development: By becoming valued advisor to client, secured an extra $3M in follow-up work, including functionality that will automate manual processes.

-Financial Projects and Audit Management: Oversaw a $10M financial transformation project, which focused on audit readiness and PPBE functions for the NGA’s Financial Management Office, as part of a larger contract to implement an application to transform the agency’s PPBE processes.-Data Modeling: Assisted government team and program sponsor with data modeling that linked financial data from programming to execution phases of the project.-Change Management and Stakeholder Engagement: Supported government team in defining change management strategies, preparing stakeholder communication, and identifying workforce training requirements, ensuring a smooth implementation.-Business Process Improvement and Gap Analysis: With business process stakeholders, analyzed current budget structure and data elements and documented data gaps, providing information needed to optimize PPBE processes.-Budget Management: Identified areas for improvement, such as increasing correlation between budget formulation descriptions and budget execution, resulting in budget reductions.

-Project Management: Managed a $10M per year, multi-year project, leading a team of 10 functional and technical practitioners while overseeing implementation and ongoing support for an enterprise-wide budgeting and program tracking application used by ~300 individuals.-Business Process Improvement and Policy Compliance: Utilized extensive finance/accounting experience to ensure data integrity and improve compliance with business processes and policies.-Solution Implementation: Advised on long-term application functionality to support requirements for budget management, collaborating with client management team and business sponsors to integrate solutions and updates as needed.-Operations Improvement and Data Integrity: Led total budget restructure, improving compliance with reporting requirements of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and boosting reporting integrity. These efforts reduced budget submission times from 3 weeks to 1 day and achieved an error-free process.

-Change Management and Training: From 2005–2008, managed a $5M upgrade to information technology (IT) and communications infrastructure, including change management, business process improvement (BPI), training, and systems integration.-Large Scale System Integration: Led 12 team members in pricing strategy analysis, pricing and cost recovery modeling, process improvement, policy development, and systems integration and support. Efforts resulted in changes to business policies and processes that remediated negative audit findings and improved cost recovery and cost integrity of services.-Program Management and Risk Management: Provided program management support for large-scale installation, including schedule management, contingency planning, and risk mitigation, leading to efficient cost recovery and improved pricing for IT projects.-Program Evaluation and Business Process Improvement: From 2004–2005, oversaw a $2M comprehensive study of the Language Training Program within the CIA’s Community Management Service, leading 6 team members and using BPI methods to evaluate and improve program efficacy.-Strategic Planning and Process Optimization: With team, established strategic vision, identified best practices, and developed a plan to optimize foreign language training across the organization, delivering insights and recommendations that were used to make program changes and establish process improvements.