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Mclean, Va, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Project - Agency Operations Engineer (AOE), Senior● Lead member of the AOE team supporting Health and Human Services(HHS) projectswith four direct reports● Serve as the engineering point of contact for HHS Enterprise, Center for Medicare andMedicaid Services (CMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Indian Health Services (IHS) for the CDM project● Manage major data quality improvement initiative including scheduling working sessions, create and manage implementation schedule, and work with both client and internal teams to implement plan● Hiring manager for the HHS AOE team, interviewed and vetting candidates for the role throughout the hiring process● Provide tier 3 cybersecurity support for secure data environments for clients ● Interface with clients to facilitate and support tool upgrades while providing technicalexplanations and answers to questions about the CDM environment● Coordinate support and communications between HHS clients and the CDM engineering teams● Work directly with clients to identify issues in the environment along with documenting and tracking tickets in Servicenow● Support Unix servers and tools hosted on the servers at an admin level● Cybersecurity tool experience includes: Splunk, BigFix, Tenable, Forescout

Mclean, Va, Us

Key team member driving a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) transformation forthe Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) healthcare.govMarketplace● Coordinate with both the client and other contracting firms to launch andsupport Agile Release Trains (ARTs) delivering solutions for the Marketplace● Preparing and facilitating a Program Increment (PI) Planning event every 10weeks involving 200+ contractors and clients● Leading the establishment and maturation of a System Team and SharedServices for the Marketplace infrastructure teams supporting the ARTs● Leading the creation and delivery of high level client facing presentationsrecommending next steps for the SAFe transformation in the Marketplace● Point of contact for the whiteboarding tool Mural used by the Marketplace for PIPlanning● Delivering the Monthly Status Report updates for the SAFe Team● Facilitate retrospectives for both Booz Allen Hamilton and external audiences togather feedback on the PI Planning event and lead implementing the feedbackfor future eventsCertifications: ICAgile Certified Professional, SAFe 5 Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist,SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager

Mclean, Va, Us

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

Recruited for a newly formed Agile team to implement the Informatica Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Quality (DQ) systems and supporting infrastructure across Principal Financial Group (PFG). This multimillion dollar enterprise-wide venture will consolidate and transform PFG’s data into master records for their customer base. Responsibilities include: Overseeing the installation and use, and serving as the point of contact, of the tools. Scoping and implementing a monitoring system for MDM, DQ and Infogix tools, ensuring a comprehensive, non-redundant review of them. Working with PFG and its vendors to build the infrastructure to revamp the company’s data consumption and providing automation through Ansible.Volunteering to implement a new data governance project from Infogix, including developing onboarding strategies and the enterprise-wide delivery of it. Serving as the on-call point person for several applications, including Business Objects, SAS, Microstrategy, Rstudio, Erwin Data Modeler, and other business intelligence tools. Language experience: Bash, YAML, SQL, and Java. Systems Analyst, Distributed Database Team (July 2016-July 2017) Experienced in distributed DB2 administration, with a focus in SQL Server, Mongo, Hadoop, and Oracle. Responsible for AIX, Linux and Windows servers.Served as on-call technical support, and worked with customers and vendors to troubleshoot issues.Specific projects included the migration of mission critical database systems from AIX to Linux operating systems and upgrading DB2 instances to newest version

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

Established and prioritized SAP Business Object projects for testing. Managed the migration of projects from sandbox to production. Coordinated communications between business units to facilitate end-user access tool. Managed the security setup, testing, communications, and documentation of a new content management product for business units.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Provided QA on the “Onboarding Project”, a new application for the company.Applied Agile Methodology through the release cycle of the new application.Designed and ran testing requirements, and performed regression testing prior to production release of the new application. Designed new hiring process for future internship applicants.

Annapolis, Md, Us

Designed and setup databases in Python and SQL to track statistical research data for Marine Protected Areas (MPA).Enhanced critical-thinking, technical writing, and videography skills. Successfully multi-tasked the primary project with meeting technical support needs of other transdisciplinary science researchers.

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems, General