David Whipkey Email & Phone Number

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

- 2021: I recently completed leading a custom software development application project using a Hybrid project management approach. Managed software development team in India, business and support organizations in multiple US locations. Application was credited as the most complex technical project in the company history due to the large number of other.

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Supported projects for the Cyber Security team at FSU: Multi-Factor Authentication project and hardening of applications to support the transition to remote working / learning related to Covid.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Mar 2016 to Present: Program Manager leading a business re-engineering program to migrate a commercial business unit that is selling into the defense industry to a fully certified Defense contractor that will be compliant with Federal Acquisition Rules and Cost Accounting Standards (FAR / CAS), NIST security and DCAA accounting regulations. Projects are.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Director – Solutions Development: Managed the Innovation Council which was responsible for quickly building applications that could be demonstrated to potential customers to showcase L-3 capabilities. Projects ranged from quick hit demo creation for pursuits to multi-year creation of new solutions to bring to market. Refined the overall allocation and.

• Managed the Infrastructure budget for all server and data storage equipment for the EPS business unit. Created the initial budget for a new enterprise system and worked with senior leadership to recommend trade-off.
• Led Systems administrator and DBA teams supporting enterprise applications supporting all printing and mailing operations for worldwide operations. Team was control point for all system upgrades and software changes.

Mason Ohio

I was responsible for coordinating approximately 120 volunteers in the course of running large and small swimming competitions for the Mason school system and Mason public swim teams. Swim meets ranged from dual competitions between high school and middle school teams to high school Sectional and Conference championships. For the year round team the larger.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Directed the technical support of seven enterprise software applications that serve a user population of over 10,000 military and civilian personnel. Managed both contract and government personnel.Designed and implemented the testing methodology for Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) to include the introduction of a testing environment separate from.

• Led a wide range of technical teams (software development, infrastructure, help desk and functional/technical testing) of consulting and customer personnel at multiple Fortune 500 companies: Options Clearing.
• Sold consulting work for standalone projects and add-on project work on larger engagements. Managed the billings of these projects as well as the personnel working on those engagements.
• Managed the vendor relationship between Deloitte Consulting and Mercury Interactive, a company specializing in automated testing and system monitoring tools.

Team lead for response time tuning for Rolls Royce SAP project at Allison Engine division. Established automated testing capability, trained employees in use of Mercury tools to create a support group leveraging the automated scripts created during that project.

• Led Disaster Recovery testing for enterprise applications at both Capital One and Phillip Morris. Led stress testing and application tuning team for Philip Morris SAP project as well as validation / set up of.
• Led the requirements analysis and design of a physical inventory SAP module for Philip Morris. Led client team moving this module into production and then led the production support effort.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Army Software Development Labortary, Fort Lee, Richmond, VA.Technical Writer, Data Modeling and part of software selection for software used for training personnel on new Ordanance Warehouse software application.

• CIO for Numbered Air Force in Korea responsible for all computer operations and support for US Air Forces stationed in Korea. Responsible for oversight of a combined computer support organization in Korea (over 100.
• Crafted the design of a consolidated computer support organization responsible for main frame, network and desktop support where separate organizations existed previously. The new organization included new.
• Project manager for delivery of the first distributed network of computer systems used by US and Korean military forces to create the Air Tasking Order for forces (Army, Naval, Air Forces) in defense of South Korea..
• Supported classified operations based in Central America and Guam. “Purple suited” with management of US Army personnel as well as joint USAF and USN operations. Authored classified tactics manuals for USAF / USN joint.

Bs, Computers

3.9 GPA. Attended courses and completed degree while stationed at Osan Air Base, Korea.

Mba, Management

MBA, Took courses while stationed at Grand Forks AFB.

Ba, Management

Activities and Societies: Tau Epsilon Phi, Air Force ROTC, Dance Marathon Chairman Nominated for Top Ten graduating seniors 1977 by.