Crista Smith Email & Phone Number

State Road, NC, US

Remote

State Road, NC - Yadkin Valley AVA

Hobby vineyard of 5 planted acres in Yadkin Valley, Surry County, North Carolina. Varietals consist of Petit Manseng, Tannat, Petit Verdot, Merlot, Traminette.

Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Supported the COVID VAX project.

Remote

Role: Project Lead for System Interfaces (SI)Crista is the Senior Project Lead for all system integration efforts supporting the Cerner integration. She client faces daily on high priority projects and taskers in support of the overarching the EHRM Testing and Evaluation efforts. She manages high profile system interface projects, and ongoing coordination.

Herndon, VA

• Role: Project Manager, East Coast
• Lead utility driver for executing the Jazz Rational tool in order to maintain contractual obligations and agile methodology complianceo Establishing and conducting daily maintenance of product, release, and sprint.
• Lead for the coordination for Section 508 compliance and auditing efforts to enforce assistive technology capabilities
• Liaison between current company and prime (total team presence of 30 members), acting primarily in a Technology Analyst role providing testing support (requirements validation, regression testing, and overall SQA.
• Lead for project management release efforts preparing necessary forms prior to each production release in alignment with Veteran-Focused Integration Process (VIP) methodology
• Accomplishments:o Successfully supported seven production deployments within the fiscal year following the Veterans Affair's VIP methodologyo Established and sustained Development, and Release processes and maintained.

Alexandria, Virginia

• Role: Deputy Project Manager for JLV and Community Viewer
• Project Management Lead for IT project management support contract
• Led remote teams up to 15 people (core group available in person)
• Led the daily PMO activity for the two projects at the VA, executing ongoing software development lifecycle (SDLC) activities in an Agile methodology
• Key liaison for interagency coordination with the DoD Defense Medical Information Exchange (DMIX), focusing on viewer and interoperability projects and initiatives
• Accomplishments:o Successfully accomplished two major acquisition compliance milestones in less than one year using waterfall methodology; successfully transitioned projects to Agile methodologyo Successfully.

Arlington, VA

• Client: DoD Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM), Defense Health Medical Systems (DHMS), 10 monthsRole: Co-lead for Program Controls for the Systems Engineering (SE) Branch
• Managed priorities for operational controls and risk management o Led SE stakeholder management efforts (e.g. identification, analysis, maintaining stakeholder relationship management, etc.)
• Managed one consultant and mentored six junior staff members, growing the company presence in front of current clients and on client site
• Led efforts for the cross-agency Work Stream Committee (WSC) focusing on optimizing collaboration between Defense Health Agency (DHA) and the Program Executive Office Defense Healthcare Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
• Earned firm project performance award for delivering consistent excellence in challenging project environmentClient: Defense Medical Information Exchange (DMIX), Defense Health Medical Systems (DHMS), 5 monthsCo-lead.
• Managed the daily PMO efforts regarding the Data Federation product level oversight over the project managers for the JLV, ESB SOA, and Med-COI projectso On-boarded junior staff to respective Data Federation projects

Consulted the Department of Justice in strategic planning, corporate policy, and performance management.

Human Resources consulting

Retail

Bs Business Administration, International Business And Finance

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi (AKPsi) Trinity Multicultural Network (TMN) Chinese Culture Club president

Healthcare Information Management, Healthcare It

Health Information Certification in Information Privacy and Security