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Riverview, FL, US

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Florida Dept of Emergency Mgmnt, Travel & Leisure, Hertz, Mosaic, NCR, MoDMed, Cox, AT&T Consumer / Small Biz, Cricket Wireless (Aio): Product, Program / Vendor Mgr; (Aio Arch Lead)IHG: PMO Lead and Vendor Mgr- Quality.
• Directs delivery team responsibilities, to include resourcing, budgets, forecasts, all planning aspects in the creation of Program level client and vendor partnerships focused on producing negotiated deliverables
• Creates and executes program level work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements; as well as identifies resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities
• Directs the day-to-day operational and delivery aspects of an efforts scope by reviewing deliverables prepared by the team before passing to the client
• Effectively applies development methodologies and enforced organizational standards by facilitation and preparation for multiple client and vendor group engagement reviews and quality procedures
• Ensures project documentation is complete, current, and stored appropriately based on firm and client requirements; as well as tracks and reports resource hours and expenses on a timely basis by managing overall.

224th JCSS, Brunswick, GA

• Retired: Georgia Air National Guard - Cyber Communications Officer (17DY) - MajorCurrent Director of Plans and Resources for the 224th JCSS; former Director of Operations and the 283rd Combat Communications Support.
• Former Acting Commamder for 180+ personnel, prior Director of Plans and Support - Responsible for Operational Plans and Support Flight functions, to include Logistics, Material Control, Power Production and Vehicle.
• Deployed Director of Operations - Responsible for 120+ service members, contractors and surveillance equipment; scope of work includes efforts associated with all aspects of an expeditionary communications, such as.
• Former Director of Support Flight activities - Responsible for the Logistics, Material Control, Power Production and Vehicle Maintenance arms of the 283 Combat Communication Squadron; responsibilities include the.
• Logistics Readiness Officer (4+ yrs.) - Responsible for operational plans and support flight functions
• Enlisted Satellite/Wideband Journeyman (9+ yrs.) - Supervision of tactical teams focused on satellite and wideband technology in support of war and peace time missions.

Alpharetta, Georgia

• Cox Communication: Lead PMO / Technical Project Manager - Granite Implementation
• Technical Program lead responsible for the implementation of the current Cox Communications outside plant repository; managed vendor delivery of the program and traveled to markets, in an effort to transition local.

Alpharetta, Georgia

• Sprint: Lead Program Manger - Billing TransformationAT&T Consumer: Product, Program and Vendor Manager - Billing Transformation
• Led the program life cycle of the Sprint billing transformation with Nextel and the AT&T consumer billing enhancements, to include the resource direction of project management teams, business analysts, architects.
• Lead the estimation, demand and allocation of the project management team across multiple in-flight client work efforts to identify overall project budget, schedule, and scope of a request
• Directed the capture and tracking of assumptions, risks, dependencies, concerns, and other project issues that rose to a leadership level. Assessed client resources to accomplish project goals via the facilitation of.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Director, Program Management: BellSouth Long DistanceProgram Manager: BellSouth Internet ServicesTechnical Project Manager, Sr. Business Analyst and Application Architect: BellSouth Internet Services
• Directed the Accenture IT BellSouth Long Distance account and Program Manager for the BellSouth Internet Services (Formerly: DotNet) account: Responsibilities included the direction of resources in support of the.
• Develop the system requirements for cross-business unit software development projects. Influences the customer and impacts the business process.
• Worked as high-level Application Architect for new and legacy systems

Greater Atlanta Area

• GTE Wireless: Project Coordinator, Process & Business Analyst - Wireless Systems Implementation, Executive Customer Relations Manager
• Provided subject matter expertise in support of corporate wireless e-business initiatives to include Business System Analysis, System Design, As Is/To Be process workflow engineering, QA/UAT and back-end System.
• Position also encompassed analysis for GTE.COM e-business initiatives, which entailed working cooperatively with Project Management and Development team members throughout the SDLC using the standard UML model.
• This position also included work with and travel to other subject matter expert's locations to develop seamless wireless process that met company objectives.

Master’S Degree, International Business With Focus In Diplomacy, 3.87

Activities and Societies: Norwich Alumni, Georgia National Guard Association; Atlanta TAGGraduated with a Master's Degree/MDY June 2009

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Technology - Focus In Business Analysis, 3.92

Activities and Societies: National Guard Association, UoP Alumni; Georgia TAG OrganizationGraduated with Honors - 3.92 GPA

Computer Science

General Education; initial IT focused courses