Visual Concepts, LCC Project Manager IT41Naval Information Technology Center NAFAC Application Services Program Manager Provide project management, leadership, and administrative support to ensure the successful and timely completion of all tasks and deliverables; recommend and implement new and revised project management processes and provide enterprise information technology life cycle project coordination; enforce Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and ensure contracts are in compliance; Oversee time, performance, schedule and funding for multiple projects; Perform a variety of tasks including: setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, monitoring and summarizing progress of projects, project planning, perform risks and budget management, product and contract support, and prepare project status reports and performance improvement metrics for upper management; Identify and communicate areas of overall program improvement; create, maintain, and submit MPP’s to the government on all critical projects, using WBS; develop Execution Plans; provide project management status reports and conduct status meetings weekly, monthly, and quarterly; ensure project results are in compliance with relevant quality standards; implement Best Practices and corrective actions to eliminate unsatisfactory performance; Make the final assessment for employing new incoming employees and technical personnel.Manage and provide support for the IT services and infrastructure necessary to deploy and sustain the delivery of NAVFAC enterprise applications. The applications are developed, tested and deployed in distinct environments (such as Development, Test, Acceptance, Education and Production) that support the stages of the system development lifecycle. Included in this effort is the daily operation and maintenance of all systems and applications hosted by the NITC on a 24X7X365 basis.

Provided support to DON NAVSEA PMS415 for various aspects of the Anti Torpedo Defense System (Countermeasures Anti-Torpedo (CAT)/Torpedo Warning System (TWS)), the AN/SLQ-25 and other PMS415 programs for the program requirements validation and acquisition milestone preparation and accomplishment of each. Senior key position involving extensive interaction with Navy Personnel by provided high-level expert advice, assistance, guidance or counseling to the government in support of DoD programs from a DOD Program Acquisition perspective, using the specifications contained in DOD Instruction 5000 Series documentation and other relating Navy specific regulations and instructions. These duties also included performance and analysis studies, and investigative efforts, development of reports documenting any proposed developmental positions and elements to include resulting implementation efforts/recommendations. Provided weapon system specific or functional area expertise in technical areas which may include: management, engineering processes, Test & Evaluation, financial (PPBE/PPBS), contracting, life cycle management, earned value management and/or business improvement, program oversight management, task execution, developing new and/or review of program reports, technical papers, drawings, specifications, procedures, etc., provide comments and recommendations, skill in adjudicating conflicting viewpoints and documents. Provided technical and budgetary briefings and information to Navy Management for Navy Acquisition and Contracting as well as the PPBE/PPBS practices which included NAVSEA organizations and ISEA activities. Performed review, analysis, and validation of acquisition related engineering and logistics documents; preparation of executive-level reports and briefs. Supervision of junior team members, coaching and leading a team for a specific area of expertise as mentioned above and mentoring junior-level personnel in various areas of assigned work.

Senior Level Information Technology Acquisition for the Office of Procurement Operations ITAC Division in support of the Department’s effort to consolidate several of its technical data collection centers currently located in its component organizations into two centralized centers. This effort was structured through an $840M contracted effort. Duties ranged from senior level acquisition/contracting officer to senior budget officer and senior program management responsibilities. Successfully identifying and corrected several departmental issues. Provided sound, decisive, responsible solutions to each issue identified and DHS management took corrective steps in each instance validating recommendations with the DHS PMO, the CFO/ budget offices to the DHS legal office. The group phased out contractor support with FTE government personnel.Performed contract administration functions focused on contract audit and close-out. Conducted in-depth, comprehensive independent research and analysis on the Dept. of the Treasury’s Debt Collections Program. Assessed acquisition requirements and funds reconciliation for each contract closeout action. Prepared reports and provided briefing information to the customer based on analysis and program tracking information, compiled and submitted for proper contract close-out based on FAR and DOT FMS AMD Contract Close-Out procedures. A major DOT FMS AMD contract named Fed Debt Collections, whose sole purpose is to collect delinquent funds owed to the Federal Government from all areas of the U.S. economy. This inter-agency effort is a Fed.-wide effort servicing such areas as the Dept. of Internal Revenue, Social Security, all DOD Agencies, Educational and Personal Loans (VA), private businesses, personal and business taxes, state and local entities, colleges and other educational institutions, veterans home loans, student loans, income taxes, real estate taxes, virtually touching all aspects of Federal lending and financing.

Program Management/Analysis functions (PPBS), including COTR responsibilities for this organization. Participated in contract source selection activities for the following CI acquisition programs: SPHINX (4-years behind schedule when assigned), Travel Net (2-years behind schedule), Personnel Net (identified and implemented classified and unclassified data structure for this program, it too was over 2-years behind schedule), Horizontal Fusion Wrapper (1-year behind schedule). Brought these programs up to contract conclusion in 4 weeks. The success of these tasks were brought about not only through automation and integration of the processes available at that time to the organization to provide faster, more current and accurate data depositing and retrieval and reporting to the agency, but also through the combined efforts and interaction of the personnel I managed while conducting this task. Provided senior level acquisition and program management, contract and budgetary KSA’s to support the DOD Joint Services PORTICO IT System program. PORTICO is a multi-million dollar, real-time, single-source, military messaging system for all DOD Intel. and CI Agencies and eventually all Federal users. During meetings many sensitive, critical program issues and concerns having national security impacts were addressed, discussed, negotiated, agreed to and/or disagreed to. The resulting decisions were later implemented into the membership agencies' strategic planning and budgetary strategies and requirements packages. Their mission and goals postures were at times changed to meet the emerging PORTICO program requirements, which resulted in changes to existing agency policies, and affected their budgetary and funding levels as the changes touched all aspects of the program.