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Richmond, Virginia, United States

IT Portfolio Manager for Investment Planning and Oversight. Responsible for investment forecasting and planning for large IT procurement efforts across VDOT IT. Managing numerous diverse VDOT software acquisition portfolio efforts from design through awarded contract. Responsible for Program Management Oversight and controls across VDOT IT.

Virginia

Owner / Consultant | 2022-Present Big Bang Consulting LLC| Gainesville, VAProvide marketing consulting and oversight in digital advertising space to multiple companies. Generation of contract documents, execution of tasks to agreed specifications, and provide metrics and value presentations to clients.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Program Manager/Senior Project Manager managing multiple concurrent VDOT software acquisition efforts from design through awarded contract. Including contract document generation, contract negotiations, requirements traceability and analysis, risk identification and mitigation, escalation management, mentoring and programmatic analysis. Leading matrix team.

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

• Technical Director and Program Manager ensuring momentum and delivery of $50M+ portfolio of key software and hardware programs and enterprise cloud software services. Technical lead, acquisition team leader; developed.
• Drafted documentation and guided source selection for new support contract after others' lack of experience slowed initiative, eliminating further extensions of inadequate legacy contracts, and meeting all federal.
• Led analysis, risk estimation, and technical review, and drafted documents for new technical program contract in danger of failing federal deadlines, enabling timely contract award and smooth handoff from legacy.
• Conducted critical analysis of failing, large cloud migration program, and evaluated and conducted risk analysis of replacement program, enabling company to meet all milestones with no service disruptions.
• Created proof of concept and business case for creating machine learning algorithm to improve downstream software systems provisioning through enterprise logging architecture to ensure delivery and reduce footprint.
• Expanded company presence at customer site 11% through exceptional team building and leadership, critical technical analysis, and ability to collaborate closely with senior customer representatives.

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

• Requested by client to direct $1M/year federal contract for mission-critical technical analysis and support, and to act as technical lead with end-to-end program oversite, including conception, financial management.
• Led end-to-end test creation and execution, including MOP / MOE analysis for independent validation, winning team award for successful deliver of program yielding critical data for future hyperspectral studies.
• Analyzed critical customer hardware for anomalies, and quickly identified unique anomalies in geographically separate links of connected systems built by different contractors, enabling fast return to normal operations.
• Assumed leadership of multiple customer contracts, and successfully delivered all technical objectives within tight schedules with no cost overruns.

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

• Supported Architecture and Engineering divisions by designing and creating architecture toolset for National Security Space programs, and developing full-cycle program management software tools for government agencies.
• Conducted alternate architecture design reviews to ensure completeness and consistency; drafted architecture alternatives enabling critical program baseline adjustments to allow completion of major program acquisition.
• Led seamless, end-to-end project to develop proof-of-concept software timeline module to interface with existing database and facilitate real-time gap analysis and baseline adjustments.
• Directed all optics lab programs implementing cutting-edge optical research, and demonstrated effectiveness of new optics setup with smaller footprint for new, major program.
• Managed ground testing for key program evaluating airborne sensors, leading team of 15 on multiple projects to qualify family of optical systems as ready for operations.

Master'S Degree, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cum Laude, Mathematics Minor, Physics

Graduate Certificate, Big Data

Graduate Certificate, Cybersecurity Management