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Advocate within the firm for resources and set strategic priorities with internal and external leadership. Act as the final point of decision and advocacy within GLOBE, to Agenda leaders, and to the greater Booz Allen and external community.  For BFY2019 and 2020, responsible for overseeing the GLOBE 20th anniversary celebration events.Oversee the Pride project chair, the intersectionality chair, the volunteerism chair, and the membership priorities and implementation efforts.  This includes managing the projects both internal and external where GLOBE participates or volunteers, developing external relationships, and advocating for the recruitment and reputation building opportunities that allow Booz Allen to give back to the community.

Attract – Support the attraction and recruitment of diverse candidates in high demand skill areas and in line with business needs and goals.Retain – Support onboarding, acclimation and engagement of employees to make meaningful career supporting connections with the firm.Identify and establish meaningful partnerships/sponsorship with external allies demonstrating strong diversity and inclusive initiatives.

Project: Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM) Defend B, Phase 2 Transition; Department of Homeland Security (DHS):▪ Serve as lead in Cyber Security Policy and Cloud Mobility ▪ Currently support Cyber Security efforts of DHS under the Task order of Phase 2 CDM (Defend B) for Bravo (.gov) agencies▪ Provide readiness planning, and technical assistance to agencies for the deployment of CDM Phase 2 tools▪ Provide Guidance and support of CDM Phase 2 Transition▪ Conduct internal assessment and gap analysis of Bravo agency cyber tools, Network and infrastructure▪ Coordinate with agency stakeholders and project team managers to deliver a strategic CDM Transition Plan▪ Support technical lead in configuration and testing of Cyber Security CDM tools (CyberArk, SailPoint) within CDM Lab

Plan organize and manage the delivery of new and existing ITIOD projects. Interface with High-level government stakeholders and project core team in facilitating project meetings, defining requirements, assigning and ensuring completion of project task and deliverables, updating and maintaining project documentation. Tracking project performance and metrics while mitigating risk and issues:• Provide Project management and technical support of the implementation, deployment and agency wide migration of Mobile Phone Upgrade and Federal Field Offices Relocation projects.• Develop technical and business requirements for new and existing projects.• Utilize Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and Visio to produce status reports; track project progression, deliverables and milestones• Facilitate with Division Directors (technology, facilities, business units) to define IT and GSA requirements, schedules, plans and deliver project risk mitigation and project success.• Create documentation on Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for cross-organizational teams.• Provide contract negotiations and project management on behalf of government customer.• Define project resource LOEs and schedule for project/program implementation. • Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning. • Provide effective communication to ensure key stakeholders are informed in a timely mannerof project statuses and progression.• Deliver Project Plans and schedule project deliverables, goals, and milestones within given deadline.• Execute one-on-one communication with stakeholders via weekly status meetings.

Project Manage the successful planning, scheduling, execution, and implementation of various Network project efforts that utilize enterprise infrastructure solutions. Manages matrix-based project teams that may include resources from multiple organizational components of the organization as well as other organizational entities. Collaborates with HHS offices and staff, vendors, contractors, and others in government and industry to coordinate project work and provide guidance and status of project initiatives. Provides guidance, direction, technical expertise, training, and management support to members of the component project team(s). Provide oversight to ensure that the strategic plan, mission, and values are integrated into project strategies, objectives, plans, work products and services. Collaborate with customers and business domain owners to define and refine project scope, requirements, and deliverables; obtains business and information technology sponsor approvals. Defines and implements project plans to meet objectives; coordinates and integrates project activities; estimates required level of effort; manages, leads, and/ administers project resources; monitors project activities and resources to mitigate risk; implements and maintains quality assurance processes; makes improvements, identifies problems, and takes corrective action when problems arise. Manage project activity prioritization and sequencing. Produces timely and accurate project status reports and maintains appropriate project history documentation. Develops and monitors meaningful performance metrics used in evaluating the accomplishment of project goals and objectives. Complete projects within agreed upon timeframes and budget constraints. Oversee project acceptance procedures.

Projects: Subscriber migrations, Server upgrades, Order Management tool upgrades (OMSe), Billing-tool upgrades (ICOMS) (CSG). Manage Operations Support Services (OSS) for voice operation releases per a standard release methodology based on the software development life cycle (SDLC). Projects include OSS deliverables as well as process, training, knowledge management, documentation, job aids. Standard deliverables include Lessons Learned and Release Notes. Standard roles/responsibilities with User Group, OSS, Business Analysis and Test Team. Standard Release Cadence based on Roadmap for the calendar year. Manage Release Baseline. Dependency tracking across multiple NetOps APO-OSS applications for residential product launches.▪ Managed all the GIA ORT Sprint migration onto Time Warner Cable Network Systems. ▪ Utilized Microsoft Project to manage the planning, scope, reporting, scheduling and execution in each phase of projects which included testing TWC new system processing functions and the order processing functions of our vendors.▪ Developed and documented Project deliverables, design, test cases, and requirements for GIA Order Flow Use testing.▪ Traveled weekly to each division to provide on-site support, leadership, training and project management.▪ Conducted Shared Service testing to document and create Use cases and Test scenarios to identify processes and requirement standards for the project migration.▪ Tracked project action items and progress through metrics detailed daily reports and test documentation.▪ Developed and maintained daily and weekly Matrix report specific to each stakeholder of the project (vendor and High-level reporting).