David Gardner, Mba, Pmp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Serves as the Program Manager (PM) for three of DTIC’s external applications: Acquisition Information Repository (AIR), Comptroller XML Exhibits (CXE), and Test Capabilities Directory (TCD). In this role, coordinates with and on behalf of external Product Owners in OSD(A&S), OUSD(C), and DoD Agencies to identify business requirements, manage prioritization of program improvement efforts, oversee contractor tasking, coordinate DevSecOps and Testing support from across DTIC Directorates, manage program risks and interdependencies, and diligently resolve identified system vulnerabilities with timely and coordinated software patching and upgrades.

Manage the cost, schedule, and performance of projects through the contracting process. Conducts planning, solicitation, award, and administration of Federal Government contracts. Closely coordinate with or serve as a Contract Officer's Representative during contract administration. Integrate Multiple Functional Discipline Teams into an Integrated Product Team (IPT). Leverage the cross functional skill sets of an IPT to deliver products, services, and capabilities to the customer on-time and on-budget.• Re-designed and reformatted budget tracking processes to increase visibility and fidelity of projected costs which realigned procurement purchases with the installation schedule preventing a one-month schedule slip.• Consolidated three years’ worth of budgetary changes, challenges, and adjustments with impact statements from what-if-analysis and inputs from multiple functional disciplines and stakeholder groups into a single first-glance-friendly POM25 submission.• Coordinated a program-wide life-cycle cost estimation forecasting expenses over the span of the next ten years resulting in increased visibility and shared understanding of the financial health of the program.• Identified schedule friction points based on external dependencies and influenced external organizations to update their change management processes to proactively prevent numerous schedule slips attributable to external dependencies

Serves as a project manager within a Project Management Office. Responsible for implementation of Agile and Scrum methodologies across portfolio of projects.• Advises multiple project managers on Scrum Methodologies across portfolio of projects to maintain consistency and adaptability across organization.• Facilitates organizational change by collecting, analyzing, and sharing best practices across projects and implementing best practices across projects within organizational portfolio.• Maintains, updates, and shares organizational best practices and facilitates change management within an agile environment.• Standardizes, supports, and manages knowledge for organization's portfolio of projects.

Fort Bliss, Texas, United States

Served in a Joint Air Ground Integration Cell in a 35,000 personnel organization. Responsible for planning effects during organized planning processes. Responsible for supervising execution of planned effects. Integrates efforts from multiple Army organizational and functional groups with Air Force plans to create synergistic effects and supervises execution.• Utilized thorough understanding of Army and Air Force functionalities to develop tactical plans resulting in increased efficiencies in execution.• In execution, clearly communicated planned objectives and operational information to create sharedunderstanding of clearly defined effects which would meet stakeholder needs and support organizational actions and operational performance.• Monitored and controlled execution of operational plans by applying understanding of operationalconcepts and operations process to support decision making through threat and risk reduction andcontinuously assessing and reporting progress towards completion of actions required to meetoperational objectives.

Camp Humphreys, Korea

Served as a current operations officer in a 35,000 personnel organization. Responsible for conducting projectstatus reviews and integrating scheduled events across all organizational functionalities to ensure organizationalsuccess. Responsible for maintaining processes, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, and on-timedeliverables and results. Responsible for leading cross function groups during responses to dynamic situations.• Successfully assessed project friction points, often requiring effort from multiple functional teams andensured that projects overcame friction and met organizational goals and objectives.• Implemented new processes, made continuous changes to improve existing processes, and fosteredcrosstalk between program managers, line managers, and employees.• Supported organizational exploitation of opportunity while mitigating risk through deliberate decisionmakingprocesses.• Established rhythm for meetings and touch points, adhered to schedule control methods, rapidly builtshared understanding across the organization, and tracked action items to completion.• Prepared, developed, and continuously updated Integrated Master Schedule and utilized as a basis fordynamic responses and actions to keep the team on track for completion of program objectives.• Conducted technical briefs, presentations, and submitted project progress reports to Flag Officers andsenior organizational leadership on a daily basis.

Fort Campbell North, Kentucky, United States

Served in a Division Artillery composed of 5,000 Soldiers. Responsible for unit public outreach program, overseeing multiple, related projects, key leader and stakeholder engagements.• Achieved synergistic effects by developing mutually beneficial partnerships and community relationships with external stakeholders by integrating external organization into unit’s Veteran Relations, Fallen-Warrior Family Outreach, and organizational Leadership Development Programs.• Coordinated, resources, and scheduled key leader engagements with other military senior leadership, local community leadership, and local community stakeholders resulting in trust and connection between the Army and its surrounding communities.

Fort Campbell North, Kentucky, United States

Served in a 100 Soldier Battery, leading a team of 12 technical analysts. Responsible planning technical team’s training to meet unit training objectives and managing the team during operations to meet unit’s tactical objectives. Responsible for maintenance, accountability and management of government supplied property.• Planned, Developed, resourced, and scheduled individual and collective training events to meet unit training objectives within the units’ annual training schedule with minimal guidance.• Developed team’s proficiency and capability while serving as project lead for numerous training events.• Managed maintenance plan and accountability for government property valued more than $1.5 Million.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Management; Minor In Leadership