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Winchester, Va, Us

Winchester, Va, Us

Leesburg, Va, Us

• Support federal clients by overseeing complex technical projects from conception to completion. • Combine project management practices with Agile development requirements to improve section’s project delivery performance and health, and align the organization with Agile methodologies.• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to customize solutions and meet clients' specific needs, enhancing overall customer satisfaction.• Collaborate with customers to create and prioritize user stories and define story points, and refine / prioritize product backlog.• Administer and manage business relationships with the project’s external consultants and third parties ensuring they meet their project obligations.• Facilitate team meetings and other day-to-day activities as required by the team.• Review current corporate financial reporting data and graphics; provide recommendations and prototypes for conversion to Power BI dashboards.• Oversee the development of section's SOPs for the procurement process and managing projects.• Identify and pursue strategic partnerships.• Conduct market research to stay abreast of industry trends and competitor activities, providing valuable insights for decision-making.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

• Implemented Agile methodologies, facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to drive continuous improvement and team productivity.Collaborated closely with product management to define requirements, prioritize features, and roadmap enhancements, resulting in a streamlined development process.Combined project management practices with agile development requirements to improve section’s project delivery performance and health, and align the organization with Agile methodologies.• Administered and managed business relationships with the project’s executive leadership, external consultants, and third parties ensuring they meet their project obligations.• Used Agile Project Management best practices to gather customer requirements, create product roadmaps, write user stories and effective acceptance criteria, in an effort to improve customer acceptance of each feature.

Worldwide, Oo

• Combined project management practices with agile development requirements to improve section’s project delivery performance and health, and align the organization with Agile methodologies.• Oversaw vendor’s management of sprints, deliverables, and milestones for multiple technical projects.• Administered and managed business relationships with the project’s external consultants and third parties ensuring they meet their project obligations.• Regularly reported overall project status to management and key stakeholders, escalating major issues as necessary.• Maintained a project repository of historical and current project information.• Facilitated team meetings and other day-to-day activities as required by the team.• Implementing an IT governance program to improve adherence to project management processes, to include creating an automated earned value management system and risk management project in Jira and Confluence.• Established a project management process for software development project in Jira that organized issue tickets into categories, then prioritized them into Initiatives, Epics, Stories, and Sprints.• Led teams in gathering requirements for client’s technical projects, to include the modernization and replacement of legacy system and analyzed and defined alternative solution options.• Generated automated reports in Jira to convey project health and earned value progress.• Managed, maintained, and prioritized product backlog.• Tested and validated project sprints based on requirements and defined business processes.• Collaborated with customers to create and prioritize user stories and define story points.• Wrote and approved test cases and led User Acceptance Testing.• Created and oversaw performance testing plan and test cases, and led testing of software performance based on Statement of Objectives and customer requirements.• Planned and managed the creation SOP searching platform that automated Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).

Bethesda, Maryland, Us

• Planned and led digital transformation project of section’s training program; created digital, self-paced content for new-hire and experienced analysts – enables newly hired analysts to become highly skilled in shorter duration; provides continuous improvement opportunities to experienced analysts.• Designed and managed team SharePoint site using SharePoint Designer, HTML, and CSS capabilities.• Assessed, designed, and conceptualized training scenarios, approaches, objectives, plans, tools, aids, curriculum, and other state of the art technologies related to training.• Created technical guidance for software and operating systems (software user guides, software and system user manuals, training guides, jobs aids, etc.).• Prepared training catalogs and course materials (training exercises, software and system simulations, etc.).• Created lesson plans for 20+ courses in accordance with Bureau best practices.• Identified the best approach training requirements to include, but not limited to course assessment and refreshment, interviews, computer assisted and adaptive testing, behavior-based assessment and performance, and team and unit assessment and measurement, etc.• Managed training databases and quality of information, coordinated classes, and ensured training deadlines were met.• Provided customer with weekly and monthly project status reports.

Reston, Va, Us

• Generated technical guidance for software applications and Standard Operating Procedures. • Supported Program Manager and client with coordinating and completing special projects as needed.• Used project management tools, functions, and methodology such as budget development, project planning, control and assurance methodologies, project management software concepts and practices.• Recruited, interviewed, and recommended new employees for open positions.• Developed technical content for business development proposals.• Created a Workflow Forecasting Model to predict duration of projects and how many resources are required to complete a project within a specified amount of time. Used 3 points to predict: Standard department metrics, actual achieved metrics using “After Action Reports”, and “most likely” metrics using an average between the standard metrics and the achieved metrics. Model was proven to be 99% accurate.

Folsom, California, Us

Herndon, Virginia, Us

Graduate Certificate, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Science - Ms, Organizational Leadership