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Plano, Texas, US

• Managed multiple Advanced Research Center (ARC) initiatives to deliver actionable real-time intelligence, staying ahead of the market and advancing customer outcomes and industry standards.
• Maintained proactive cross-departmental communication to ensure transparency and collaboration, implemented routine Status Reports for stakeholders to provide maximum visibility and support, and engaged with diverse.
• Identified and resolved resource constraints, workload imbalances, and conflicting priorities by utilizing third-party vendors as needed. Aligned program priorities with fiscal quarter goals, resulting in cost and time.
• Proactively ensured program compliance with legal and security standards by involving Legal, Marketing, Sales, and Security Compliance teams early in the program lifecycle. This approach minimized delivery challenges.

 Consulted to manage a fast-track acquisition program for the Workplace Solutions Team by streamlining the business process from pre-close to post-close, ensuring smooth transition for resources, monitoring, and directing progress while identifying and mitigating risks and issues. Assumed full responsibility of program from Senior Vice President to.

Ashburn, Virginia, US

• As the PMO Manager, directed a team of over 100 local and offshore individuals, spearheading the Program Management Office from inception to successful delivery on 30 pivotal projects.○ Collaborated with department.
• As Portfolio Manager, provided governance and oversight of programs to ensure alignment with contractual agreements and financial budgets, while devising and implementing investment strategies, priorities, generating.
• As a Senior Program Manager, managed multiple global programs and projects across diverse lines of business, overseeing the entire project lifecycle from initiation to deployment, ensuring alignment with strategic.
• Communicated effectively with stakeholders to deliver on all key objectives within allotted time constraints, mitigating potential project losses promptly, and fine-tuning Sales processes.○ Successfully generated.

 Consulted as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to manage a team consisting of an IT director, IT Help Desk professionals, and Project Managers to facilitate a Headquarters and Data Center relocation, End of Life Refresh, Microsoft upgrade and implementation of Teams, Conference Room Modernization, and Security System. .

• Managed large, complex programs for the Americas region during a global merger, increasing profit margins by reducing CapEx and offsetting OpEx costs through improved vetting and capacity planning.
• Relocated and updated Data Center, refreshed End of Life (EOL) components, and completed Cloud migrations as required.
• Managed acquisition and onboarding of over 150 Vision Centers.
• Established a PMO and expanded the IT Department, set standards, and streamlined processes to ensure network integrity and security.
• Created dashboards for real-time updates on all programs, Financials, Vision Center acquisitions, EOL Progress, and Network outages.
• Enhanced existing Change Control Board and process to ensure availability of information to all affected teams.

• Managed three aviation optimization application projects from inception to delivery, collaborating with a third-party Subject Matter Expert (SME) team utilizing historical data and generating algorithms to predict.
• Led initiatives, including flight maximization to reduce the number of flights for cost-savings without compromising passenger capacity, flight simulation to simulate delays and reroute aircraft as necessary, and.
• Generated alternative flight and operations plans preemptively in anticipation of adverse weather or natural disasters, ensuring minimal disruption to next-day flight schedules.
• Consistently collaborated with the third-party vendor SME team, analyzing historical data, and jointly developing algorithms and theoretical solutions aimed at achieving cost savings.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led end to end Technical Refresh Implementation for the $15B DoD Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) and Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) contract.
• Planned and coordinated all infrastructure activities to ensure contractual compliance.
• Communicated with customers, vendors, and internal organizations for status updates, asset tracking, and reporting.
• Proactively monitored and managed schedules and budgets (ranging from $300k to $22M), ensuring work completion and budget compliance for over 150 personnel at more than 3000 sites.

• Served as a Program Manager and Operations Analyst for a classified Electro-Optical and 3-dimensional imaging program. Developed proposals to provide turnkey solutions for the US DoD, US DoE and other US agencies.
• Advanced a classified Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR), Electro-Optical and LIDAR 3-D imaging program that I previously helped to develop and design for the US Central Command and US DoD.
• Developed training syllabus and procedures for US Servicemember personnel on the program capabilities and operations to add to the US Army Military Occupational Specialty Training (MOS – 21U).
• Planned missions, collected data, and disseminated final product to US and Coalition members in real-time.
• Developed proposals for turnkey solutions valued at over $25 million for the DoD, DoE, and other US agencies.

Dallas, TX, US

• Monitored and measured performance of internal and external multi-million dollar maintenance evolutions.
• Solely responsible for ensuring all out-of-service schedules were properly planned to ensure accurate budget allowances for each fiscal quarter and year.
• Calculated and forecasted man hours to ensure a balance between workforce and workload requirements was maintained.
• Functioned as a liaison between internal and external departments as well as contract facilities to ensure all work was completed in a timely manner and within budget.
• Identified and eliminated inefficiencies by conducting progress meetings and forecasting future scenarios.

• Served as an OCONUS Rep, Program Manager, and Senior Ops Analyst for US DoD experimental Electro-Optical program in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. Managed day-to-day operations of personnel, Mission Planning.
• Solely responsible for management to develop and test a classified Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR), Electro-Optical and LIDAR 3-dimensional imaging program in the US Central Command Area of Responsibility (AOR).
• Directed and led daily Operations, Mission Planning, Airborne Collections, Ground Processing, and dissemination.
• Reported weekly to senior executives, engineers, and programmers, ensuring the program supported US Central Command's (USCENTCOM) priorities and mission planning efforts.

US

• Served as an Intelligence Specialists (IS) for the US Central Command.
• Assisted in every phase of the collection, processing, and dissemination of intelligence information.
• Assembled and analyzed multi-source operational intelligence of surface, sub-surface, and air weapons in support of intelligence briefings, reporting, and analytical programs.
• Prepared and presented intelligence briefings.
• Prepared material for use in planning attack and photographic reconnaissance missions; prepared graphics.
• Plotted and prepared multi-sensor imagery; drafted intelligence reports.

Washington, DC, US

• Served as an Aviation Electronics Technicians (AT) for the HSL-48 Squadron on the SH-60B rotary-winged aircraft.
• I specialized in the Communications, Navigation, Missions, Data and Weapons systems.
• Performed preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repairs as required.
• Collateral duties included serving as a Plane Captain and Program Manager of numerous supporting programs.