Brad Lord Email & Phone Number

Roseville, Ca, Us

Roseville, Ca, Us

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Develops innovative solutions to our current and future customers’ most critical challenges. Manage a diverse team across various contracts, aim to improve program maturity, and coordinate with all enterprise stakeholders. As a member of corporate leadership structure, strive to empower all members of our team through various types of training to promote leadership, integrity, and other tools to succeed.• Assist employees at local sites as well as in external remote locations.• Provide detailed reports to management and government customers.• Document all procedures, protocols, policies, and system standards.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Focusing on humanity and charity, VolunCharity aims to encourage and inspire volunteers everywhere to start giving and give more in their local communities through a unique mobile application. These feature a "gamified" experience that results in rewards, badges, discounts, and more! As CEO/President, Brad oversees all administration and operations related to the requirements, development, and release of the application to its users (Volunteers and Charity Organizations!). Daily activities also include donor relations, brand awareness, and all oversight of related non-profit activities.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Biggest Accomplishments• Alongside corporate leadership, assisted in implementing the transformational Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to a previously process-immature environment across 5 major work areas, where no industry methodologies were currently in place. • Using technical analysis and PM best-practices, took the largest current project from an 8 month completion date down to 4 months, and assisted in saving the clients over $500,000 in unnecessary equipment and resources.Core Duties• Managed all systems and networks functions in support of over 20,000 global IT Enterprise end-users on various levels of secure and unsecure government infrastructure.• Led Program, Project, and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) daily work across an enterprise specializing in Networks, Systems, Client Services, and Software Development tasks for government clients.• Directly supervised 65+ employees across geographically dispersed sites around the United States using various modern collaboration tools to keep everyone engaged and team-oriented while supporting various projects and operations work for the enterprise.• Conducted regular meetings with Senior leadership, enterprise stakeholders, and federal customers to acquire feedback on IT services and provide modern solutions to project and maintenance concerns.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Biggest Accomplishment:• Celebrated by stakeholders as putting IT and site fit-out efforts “two-years ahead of schedule” through creation of overview products that indicated every conceivable item, room-by-room, throughout the entire 97-room building for the new building being constructed.Core duties• Working for a federal client's IT/communications division, responsible for initial design and technical fit-out of new $100 million construction project.• Directly led efforts such as budget verification, stakeholder engagement, unfunded request management, design review, scrums, and meetings between technical teams, government decision-makers, military executive leadership, and construction personnel to ensure clarity and optimization of complex work efforts for the construction project.• Optimized collaborative efforts relating to construction sub-projects, utilizing project management tools to increase transparency of efforts led by the communications team which is delivered regularly to stakeholders and outside organizations.• Working with compliance officers and security personnel, responsible for adhering to technical policies and procedures for accreditation of systems and secure environment specifics.

Universal City, Texas, United States

Biggest Accomplishments• Creation of legacy database knowledge repository for 50+ interfaces related to client systems, highlighting valuable data elements, transaction information, and methodology used to optimize data migration to a new cloud-based learning services ecosystem.• Saved AETC over $1 million dollars per year through recommendation, research, and presentation of new ITSM software solutions.Core duties• Oversight of all data science, design, build, and implementation operations for business owners/stakeholders/executives while transitioning long-standing legacy systems to a new modernized cloud-driven ecosystem servicing over 850,000 enterprise customers.• Manufactured Business Architecture related to client's organization and its partners capturing business processes, application overviews (high-level and technical), service definitions, informational meta-models, and cloud network structure.• Directly led the integration of Lean principles and Agile methodology, including collaborative toolkits for team members (Atlassian Toolkit, Azure DevOps, Trello, Microsoft Teams)

San Antonio, Tx

Biggest Accomplishments• Alongside the Program Management Office (PMO), directly led all phases of software modernization effort over a 5-year period to include multi-year roadmap, implementation of modern collaborative tools and software, training of new development team on software, and process definitions through all phases of work.• Converted from Waterfall methodology and integrated Agile operating practices throughout organization for all engineers, testers, operators, managers, analysts, and project leadership.• Directly managed all process capture, documentation, and definition through Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI v2.0 for Development) incorporation into program.Core Duties• Led business process improvement and enhancement for software development based on analysis of practices, incorporating new collaborative technology and methods based on assessments to include policy guidance and documentation updates based on government regulations.• Modeling and Simulation (M&S) operations and training, utilizing specialized software and Linux/UNIX technologies to support various federal organizations and training systems at 30 operational sites worldwide.• Product Management and scoping of the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring end-to-end traceability of requirements, features, tickets, testing, configuration, and release to customers.• Managed a team of simulation operators and program personnel improving documentation, operational capabilities, issue-capture, data analysis and operations, product integration test and evaluation procedures, and collaboration among legacy and modernization development teams in all functional areas.• Executive delivery of project operations and updates via presentations, workflow diagrams, data models, design and requirements assessments, metrics modeling, and scrum team reviews.

Worldwide Operations

• Arabic language translation (cryptologic and tactical) working in both office and field environments. • Specialty in counter-terrorism techniques and tactics for Middle-East North Africa (MENA) hostile organizations.• Direct support to Special Operations Forces (SOF) from strategic level and in tactical field situations when deployed.• Signals and All-source intelligence analysis to include assessments, report-writing, and delivery of information to high-level military personnel.

Master Of Science - Ms, It Project Management

MS in IT Project Management with Honors

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Intelligence Studies (Operations), 4.0

Activities and Societies: - National Society of Collegiate ScholarsGraduated with BA Summa Cum Laude