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Recruited to establish and manage a scalable application development environment as a company leadership team member. Responsibilities included technical staff management, development methodologies, and daily team operations. Served as the client liaison, project manager, and technical lead for multiple, simultaneous projects receiving high post-project client survey ratings. Industry verticals included private sector, federal, state, and local governments with a strong focus on state National Guard units.Responsibilities / Contributions:• Consult with clients to define solution requirements, level of effort, execution, implementation, and project closure• Management of technical staff employees• Generate new business opportunities within existing client organizations• Increase efficiency and effectiveness of company application design and development processes• Support proposal and RFP responses by writing technical approach sections• Define thematic goals, strategies, and actions for Fiscal Year Business Plans (2 years) • Adjust business unit staff workloads for maximum utilization• Responsible for software development estimates

2006 President’s Award recipient for participation in Independent Research and Development (IRAD) project providing GIS support. Primary IRAD task involved developing demonstration applications for the Global Disease Surveillance Platform on Northrop Grumman’s TouchTable technology (www.TouchTable.com).

Continuation of previous role. Responsible for project scheduling, organizing development team day-to-day operations, client interactions, and coordinating activities with 60-person application delivery team. Lead team through multiple iterations of all software development lifecycle phases deploying Web-based applications. Organically grew client base and company footprint as a result of successful projects.Instrumental in developing and successfully delivering first interactive Internet GIS application at CDC.Developed Web-based GIS applications using ASP, ASP.NET, ESRI software and SQL Server technologies.Coordinated collaborative interaction between multiple health agencies during software design and development phases to facilitate meeting a broad set of functional and system requirements.Recognized by clients to have successfully delivered applications under tight timelines and challenging circumstances.Defined team software development standards and deployment policies.

Recruited to establish and manage a Web-based GIS program for the National Center of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Responsible for project scheduling, organizing development team day-to-day operations, client interactions, and coordinating activities with 60-person application delivery team. Lead team through multiple iterations of all software development lifecycle phases deploying Web-based applications. Organically grew client base and company footprint as a result of successful projects.

Birmingham, Al

Responsible for all GIS department operations including ESRI application development, spatial data storage, support of and interaction with other BWWSB department leadership.

Responsible for reviewing functional design and testing custom GIS application developed for large telephony company. Successfully completed ten-week EDS Systems Engineering Development (SED) program.

Master'S Of Science, Gis, Human Geography

Bachelor Of Science, Geography, Political Science