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Responsible for all aspects of program/project management for external contract programs and internal corporate product development efforts for Blackbird’s Technical Development Group. Duties included, project initiation tasks, planning phase tasks, execution, and closeout activities. Managed budgets, risks, issues, and project teams, also supported proposal development and proposal cost estimation. Post award tasks included project kick-off coordination, preparation, and presentation to all key stakeholders and sponsors. Composed, delivered and maintained project management plans, project schedules, spend plans, meeting minutes, and monthly status reports. Coordinated and managed as many as 20 matrixed personnel resources at any given time. Served as primary POC for all program/project communications with internal personnel, company exectutive management, and customer stakeholders and sponsors. Worked closely, through iterative technical discussions, with customer stakeholders to ensure project objectives were being met. Managed iterative releases throughout the test and Quality Assurance phase, which included test plan review and approval, Users Guide review and approval, Test Readiness Review coordination, and overall product delivery. Collected, analyzed, and managed technical requirements and delivered multiple high-level systems design and finished product presentations throughout product development life cycle.

Managed a four-person operations and maintenance staff responsible for ensuring data availability and integrity of a large-scale mass storage, data warehousing, and data mining system. Negotiated with subcontractors and support vendors regularly in an effort to provide the customer with the best value service. Interfaced with the customer and contract management personnel on a daily basis to provide system availability and status reports. Responsibilities included ensuring data integrity and data availability through management of a four-person systems administration staff. Team responsibilities included system configuration management, software configuration management, system change request management, systems engineering, and systems and network administration. Coordinated all aspects of team schedule and taskingServed as senior systems administrator for an onsite government contract responsible for all facets of a large-scale super-computer network. Interfaced with the government customer and contract management personnel on a day-to-day basis and managed hardware and software vendor relations. Offered engineering and integration support to aid the customer in finding technically superior and cost-sensitive solutions to IT needs. Aided in the successful design and integration of a 3 PetaByte high-availability data archive system. Responsibilities included system and network integration and administration of SGI, Sun Microsystems, and PC hardware and software including data storage and archive systems.

Managed the day-to-day system and network administration for 150+ UNIX, Mac, and PC systems. Provided user desktop system and network support to more that 100 users. Administered enterprise data telecommunications systems and directed the successful enterprise-wide integration of advanced-network infrastructure. Managed and maintained infrastructure cabling, hubs, and routers. Responsible for the administration of corporate voice telecommunications system supporting 200+ users. Researched, recommended, and purchased systems and peripherals.

Information Systems Management With A Focus On Software Development And Systems Integration.

Diploma, Computer Electronics Technology

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