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Reston, VA, US

Reston, Virginia, US

Falls Church, VA, US

• Hand-picked by the Vice President of the Business Unit to address business’ challenge with filling, communicating and staffing programs across the portfolio.
• Responsible for addressing staffing challenges across entirety of a $600M annual revenue portfolio. Accountable to business unit vice president for staffing goals, process and reporting.
• Worked with multiple support and functional areas to address shortfalls in staffing to ensure individual accountability and ensuring communication between principle decision makers.
• Increased hiring by 10% over the course of a single year and cut attrition in half across the portfolio.
• Responsible for supporting the activities associated with executing, planning, scheduling, communications, satisfying deliverables, technical performance and security compliance of the program staffing needs across a.
• Responsible for having a strong understanding of all requirements and skill sets needed for program execution across the portfolio

Falls Church, VA, US

• Responsible for multiple programs that contribute to Operating Unit success with an annual revenue contribution of $4M.
• Lead a commercial project with an annual operating budget of approximately $2 million responsible for all aspects of the Product. Major margin contributor for the Division, delivering over 30% margin, 120% of the AOP.
• Took over a struggling program in June of 2018 and addressed issues to achieve program success before the end of 2018.
• Experience with numerous contract types including FFP, CPFF, T&M.
• Responsible for all phases of contract execution from inception to completion and operations and maintenance.
• Responsible for executing programs within cost, in schedule, meeting quality and technical goals, and identified risks and managed mitigation factors, and

Falls Church, VA, US

• Lead a commercial project with an annual operating budget of approximately $2 million.
• Define the technical direction of a commercial product sold to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community which takes advantage of service oriented architectures to expose its capabilities across the.
• Define and execute system architecture and overall design goals to meet customer needs and anticipate market direction.
• Create project timelines and manage team of up to three full time equivalents to ensure the established deliverable dates are met.
• Report progress on status regularly to senior management and stakeholders.
• Work with financial analyst to track and forecast sales in support of the development of a business plan.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Led the vision, strategy, long term plans, and implementation of an enterprise geospatial system deployed with the Army’s Battle Command (BC) and the Distributed Common Ground System – Army (DCGS-A) System of Systems.
• Led team of 20 developers and associated systems engineering, test, integration and training staff.
• Defined, implemented, and established development processes in line with CMMI Level 5 focusing on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) modified to use Agile techniques such as Scrum and Feature Driven Development (FDD)
• Utilized continuous integration (Cruise Control) methodologies in order to simplify the development process and ease the hand off between the software development and systems integration teams.
• Identified program resources needed to achieve organization goals, provided guidance and direction to multiple teams, and supported the cost, customer, and schedule management.
• Led the continued transition and developed the tactical plans to migrate a 22-year Software Development Effort to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Falls Church, VA, US

• Assigned work and set priorities for a team of seven software engineers.
• Responsible for initial planning and estimation of the development project during initial stages of project start up. Developed Rough Order of Magnitude estimates as input into budgeting process.
• Led the team in architecting and designing the software. Stressed the use of design patterns and influenced other project teams to utilize the benefits of design patterns.
• Provided assistance to development team when problems are encountered or clarification was required.
• Ensured that development processes are followed. As a result, the project was used as an exemplar for CMMI Level 5 Re-accreditation. Work included managing and running numerous code and design reviews.
• Interfaced with customer on a regular basis to provide status and clarify technical details.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Part of a team that performed a technology refresh of an outdated Army system by extending ArcMap and accessing peripherals.
• Interfaced with GPS and laser range finders to directly pull data into the system for calculations.
• Developed the prototype of a system to update an outdated Army system by extending ArcMap.
• Participated in gathering of data for CMMI Level 5 Accreditation.
• Participated in all aspects of the application development lifecycle.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Developed applications on multiple platforms, including Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP and CE.
• Developed applications under a compressed schedule to meet customer needs.
• Helped define requirements and ensure accuracy of documentation.
• Participated in all aspects of the application development lifecycle.
• Acted as point of contact for customer concerns on multiple projects, as a result, interfaced with customer on a regular basis.
• Documented progress and issues that arose during development in order to update customer on a bi-weekly basis.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science