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-Supports integration of acquisition and contracting activities within Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA/Department of Defense).-Coordinates with program officials and technical points of contact (TPOCs) to create procurement documentation and acquisition packages, including Performance Work Statements (PWS), Statements of Work (SOAs) Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs), and Market Research Reports.-Conducts business case analysis, requirements planning, and market research to ensure acquisitions align with directorate IT and acquisition strategy. -Supports development of inter-agency agreements (IAAs) to include the drafting of 7600A/B forms, Economy Act Determination and Findings, and IGCEs.-Reviews agency-wide requests for IT supplies and services to verify requests align with agency IT compliance regulations.-Records and distributes meeting minutes.

-Supported multiple contracts within Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) enterprise program management office. -Functioned as assisting project manager for enterprise-wide indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) with 13 individual task orders. -Conducted contract activities such as invoice reconciliation, issue tracking and mitigation, and financial forecasting. Tracked contract modifications to verify obligated and funded amounts across contract line item numbers (CLINs).-Supported ongoing IDIQ re-compete effort by creating WBS schedule, gathering and analyzing requirements, conducting market research, and stakeholder coordination.-Created briefs for and assisted briefing of agency Senior Executives. Recorded, maintained, and illustrated brief data including financials, vendor performance, and contract milestones.-Interfaced with multiple stakeholders across agency to ensure development of proper requirements.-Created contract financial tracking mechanism that visualized funded, obligated, and invoiced funds over time that was adopted for use by the program management office.

Crystal City Va

-Interface with government client to support 5 year IT planning and road-mapping, creation of organization-wide software accountability processes, and public/private website migration planning.-Served as team lead and sole team member during personnel transition.-Create all encompassing software accountability and acquisition processes that will be leveraged across all WHS directorates to reduce money and time spent on acquiring software.-Catalog and maintain list of WHS owned software and websites.-Evaluate service providers for website hosting based on client given business requirements.-Manage and update content on WHS owned public and private websites utilizing Drupal and AFPIMS platforms.-Meet daily with client for requirement gathering and knowledge transfer to adapt in rapidly changing environment with frequent priority shifts.

-Built testing environment for Defense Health Agency (DHA) client in AWS GovCloud to mirror production environment in DHA hosting environment (Capacity Services).-Created scalable and reliable compute, storage, and network resources to host various software tools.-Managed and configured Oracle Linux and Windows Server EC2 instances including network configuration, weekly backup processes, and -Created and distributed SOPs for building environment and resolving various challenges.

Fairfax, Va

-Managed all project source code using Git UI Sourcetree for DHA contract.-Assisted and educated developers on corporate source code control practices.-Ran project Readiness Review meetings to gather approval from team and client.-Documented software configuration management process.-Performed project-wide security audit using STIG scanning tools and mediated employee workstations to ensure NIST compliance.-Completed NIST checklist for deliverance to DHA.-Wrote SQL queries to test applications using SQL Developer.-Performed manual updates to applications using PL/SQL.

Fairfax Va

-Full ownership of ALM tools including JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket.-Planned for and executed JIRA and Confluence upgrades. Created upgrade, validation, rollback, and communication plans and delivered to leadership for approval.-Migrated Confluence database from Oracle XE to MySQL as a part of major version upgrade.-Owned ALM administrative process areas including user account management, project creation and configuration, deleted issue recovery, and system troubleshooting at UI and command line level.-Configured and leveraged local testing environments for testing prior to production release of ALM upgrades.-Supported system administration of six Linux and Windows VMs hosted on IBM Softlayer Cloud and managed via Oracle Virtualbox Manager (OVM).-Managed weekly backup process and patching of OVM environment. Troubleshooted and assisted lead cloud administrator to solve reliability and availability issues.-Provided support for corporate headquarters location including major and minor incident troubleshooting and resolving, inventory management, VOIP phone installation and configuration, MS Office installation, and general IT support.-Acted as IT Manager during personnel transition, at the time being the highest point of escalation.-Served as on-site system administrator to support business critical local and cloud hosted Windows, Mac, and Linux servers.-Created and executed patching schedule to keep servers up-to-date. -Administered Cisco Meraki firewall/router. Reviewed and mediated security incidents.-Conducted IT asset and user/group access right audits.-Mapped corporate internal network/server infrastructure.

Fairfax, Va

-Primary tester on Scrum team developing a health care claims processing and audit tracking application-Wrote test scripts in Nightwatch.js and automated them using Jenkins-Validated front-end and back-end data input/output by writing and executing SQL queries -Created a user and admin guide for the application

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Computer Information Systems