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Mandeville, La, Us

Newport News, Virginia, Us

• Instrumental Systems Engineer supporting ~$385M Navy Business Systems Transformation program to develop a System of Systems (SoS) IT Solution to migrate and retire over 55 legacy systems. • Provided thought leadership for several enterprise-class initiatives to establish common SoS engineering methodology, process, and tool foundations. Efforts served to facilitate coherent execution of several, technically-divergent System Pillar Projects to: Perform in a largely common way; Minimize unique resources across projects; and, Achieve a cohesive, lifecycle cost effective SoS IT Solution.• Developed original Portfolio/Program Engineering Mgt. concepts for Requirements (Functional and Non-Functional), to guide SoS Program/ System Pillar project initiation, planning, execution, and change mgt.• As a key team member, supported establishment of Agile-aware Systems Engineering Mgt approach for Navy Business Systems. Leveraging Scaled Agile Framework(TM), developed materials to plan, execute, and manage contractor work performed in Project Increments/Epics/ Sprints, including process features to prudently manage configuration baselines (e.g. System, Allocated, Production). Efforts served to provide a prudent Agile approach for sustainable software-intensive programs.• Developed holistic Digital Engineering (DE) designs for SoS Program ‘capabilities to build IT Solutions’. Identified object types/relationships within SysML (and cross-tool) schemas to manage SoS and Pillar System: Requirements, Architecture, Design, Test Cases/Scripts, and Software Objects, ..with attribution and other objects to support Agile lifecycle, configuration control, and Continuous Integration/ Deployment (CI/CD) processes. Led team efforts to mature capabilities, collaborating with SysML/ Architecture, Eng. Competencies, and Configuration Mgt. Efforts provided common foundations for Agile System of Systems Engineering, with sufficient rigor to cost effectively manage change over time.

Newport News, Virginia, Us

• Principal Program Systems Engineer supporting engineering planning of several System Pillar Projects and precursor Pilot Projects, to facilitate projects scoping and execution. Built master plans, management plans, cross-organization RASCI diagrams, scope statements, and schedules, supporting Agile-oriented, project software development lifecycle. – Efforts promoted stakeholder consensus and guided efforts to define scope, processes, roles, and collaboration, and to execute projects.• Led and performed requirements analysis/management for several System Pillar Projects to support establishing Allocated Baselines within System of Systems. Supported multiple requirements initiatives including cyber security and functional, e.g. addressing replacement of ~10,000 non-testable, customer requirements ..with ~300 testable requirements, compliant with standards. Facilitated System Pillar project requirements capture and management, consistent with evolving SysML Requirements Objects implementation within SoS-common Digital Engineering direction. – Efforts advanced goals to execute in a common way across System Pillar projects with well-written, actionable requirements. • Facilitated preparation of a Navy Business System IT Portfolio for Transformation Program execution. -- Successfully advocated for upfront migration/ retirement of obsolete, broadly-scoped, mainframe legacy systems ..into another legacy system with a modern, 3-tier system architecture. Efforts served to minimize legacy system scaffolding costs/risks to be incurred in Transformation program execution. -- Coordinated with over 135 system owners and facilitated complete legacy/external system interface products maturation and level-setting for a Navy Business Systems IT Portfolio. Impacts of efforts included minimizing technical and cost risks associated with legacy systems scaffolding, migration, and retirement, in executing System of Systems Program/ System Pillar Projects.

Newport News, Virginia, Us

• As a single resource, established, within three months, a public-facing, acquisition-support IT Solution to provide Government Furnished Information (GFI) to authorized vendors. Upon direction, performed complete IT Solution lifecycle services: identifying requirements; conducting alternatives trade study; obtaining funding; facilitating design/ configuration/ testing, ensuring ATO, and deploying IT Solution, maintained by Program for 34 months. Additionally, managed and supported its operational use, building/executing processes for vendor access and for posting authorized, properly-marked materials, also generating metrics for acquisition stakeholders. Efforts provided a positive, timely, effective, secure solution, that served to reduce risks with award of a ~$385M acquisition contract in record time.

Newport News, Virginia, Us

• Principal Program Systems Engineer supporting Navy Business System IT Solution Development and Sustainment projects. Performed evaluations of contractor engineering deliverables, ensuring quality, completeness, traceability, and coherence of requirements, architecture, design, interfaces and test cases. Facilitated legacy systems migration and retirement into an ERP IT Solution Platform. Efforts served to improve contractor performance, successfully achieving IT Solution deployment with an acceptable degree of risk.• Developed and continually updated program Engineering Management plans, processes and standard operating procedures, to perform repeatable high quality assessments of contractor performance across projects. Provided thought leadership for government customer to ensure analysis, design, configuration management, and decision making efforts are prudent, process-driven, and yield high-confidence results. Collaborated with contractor PM to affect improved performance. Generated program/project lessons learned, providing observations, causes, impacts, and recommendations, focused on enterprise and project execution to perform in a common way and achieve lifecycle cost effective outcomes. Efforts served to enhance government team leadership, management, and decision making.

Pascagoula, Ms, Us

• Principal Systems Engineer leading effort to evolve integrated shipbuilding lifecycle management concepts/ processes/ tools, supporting an enterprise of 15,000, which builds some of the most complex systems in the world. Performed efforts from vantage point of Engineering organization, focusing across Advanced Ship Design, Engineering, Supply Chain Mgt, Production Planning, Production, and Integrated Logistic Support.Performed 360° management stakeholder analysis of issues, risks and opportunities. Distilled and presented findings, resulting in executive decision to develop a strategic concept and plan to: Improve cross-competency/organization teams integration; Improve product quality; and, Reduce lifecycle costs. Developed, coordinated, and continually refined a To-Be Shipbuilding operating model and created a rolling five year strategic plan to achieve it. Planned and led strategic plan execution, to ensure Initiative projects yield cohesive solutions. Concurrently, led communications campaign to facilitate adoption within the conservative organizational culture. -- Efforts laid groundwork to transform shipbuilding operations across the enterprise, supported with scalable processes and tools ..to perform in a cohesive, repeatable, integrated, and cost effective manner across ship classes/ product lines. • Facilitated Shipbuilding innovation with definition/elaboration/use of a Ship Common Architecture, as a foundation to perform in a common manner across ship classes/ product lines. Additionally, developed configuration mgt concepts to maintain product quality and manage engineering change across ships in a class.• Principal Systems Engineer supporting Enterprise Engineering Quality Mgt System (QMS) maturation. Planned and led team efforts and developed several ISO 9001- compliant Procedures, Work Instructions, and Supplemental Guides to execute Enterprise Engineering Mgt and Sys. Engineering processes in a clear, repeatable, auditable manner.

Roles on two contracts• Senior Program Engineer – Led System Engineering, Requirements Analysis/ Management, and Quality Assurance for a U.S. Navy Manpower IT Solution program preparing for deployment. Led teams and executed initiatives across program, including: 1) Analysis/ traceability/ management of requirements, business rules, architecture, and design; 2) Refinement of configuration management processes/tools; 3) Development of Interface Control documentation for 17 external systems; 4) Development of interface analysis, testing, and certification processes; and, 5) Design/optimization of production operations batch process schedule. Efforts served to improve customer confidence in system operational deployment readiness, reducing risks and bolstering team at a crucial point in program.• Quality Assurance Manager for ADS-KETA-Prescient Joint Venture – Emergency Management Operations – Analyzed/developed/deployed Operations Mgt processes for a 40+ person team executing a FEMA disaster recovery support program. Created and continually improved metrics-based Quality Program. Efforts provided a timely impact for repeatable team performance, increasing operations cost effectiveness, and decreasing program risks. FEMA considered efforts exemplary.

• Key resource supporting Program Manager of a ~$66M program to focus three project teams to function as one cohesive program team to develop above IT Solution. Assessed quality, documented risks, and resolved issues with processes, architecture, requirements, integration and testing. Built architecture products for integrated development/ testing/ deployment environments. Took responsibility for a faltering requirements effort and focused project resources to deliver responsive requirements. Led personnel from multiple disciplines to design and implement system external interfaces and interface scaffolding to support legacy systems not yet retired. Performed software testing and facilitated metrics-based reporting for program decision-making. Led comprehensive deployment plan development.• Led a team of eleven, coordinating with over fifteen customer organizations to architect, design, develop, integrate, test, and deploy an IT prototype system to transform customer business processes. Led team to deployed three prototype iterations, accomplishing the first in two months. – Efforts served to validate organization customer as an important provider of IT solutions supporting a major program being initiated.

• Collaborated with subject matter experts and technologists to build first U.S. Navy Business Enterprise Architecture and a subordinate Domain Architecture for Human Resources. Facilitated establishing Domain IT solutions that provide authoritative business services and data ..and facilitate external integration. Developed processes to establish and maintain Domain architectures and component services, consistent with commercial best practices/ processes/ standards and applicable Navy Policy, Instruction, and Regulation. Efforts provided foundation to initiate programs with enterprise-compliant, system architectures.• Developed a comprehensive business strategy for a customer IT Services organization of 1500 personnel to rapidly analyze, design, develop, and deploy high quality, lifecycle cost effective IT Solutions. Provided IT and management consulting services, advising corporate and customer executive management, formulating policies, positions, governance models, charters, program plans, budgets, proposals, scopes of work, briefings, and marketing materials. • As a key member of a six-person team, developed a comprehensive program plan to migrate and retire 78 systems in enterprise IT portfolio, resulting in executive commitment and funding to execute the initiative, estimated at ~$66M.

Planned, organized and controlled contractor efforts for a $3.3M project to provide IT services. Scope included IT architecture development/ management, computing infrastructure acquisition/ configuration, upgrading a legacy system, and establishing an enterprise web portal.

Supporting Defense Information Systems Agency:• Led a team of sixteen personnel from a small, deprecated software testing organization and turned them into a leader within parent organization. Provided key support to customer, facilitating expansion of their influence.• Performed analysis and re-engineered all business processes for software testing, quality assurance, and configuration management. Efforts resulted in team ability to perform auditable, repeatable, high quality software evaluations. • Developed concept and received approval to create a web-based test and configuration management system. Performed analysis, identified requirements, designed, developed, tested and deployed the system, successfully used three years.

Madison, Al, Us

Led a team of ten systems engineers for a Product Data Management system development project. Performed project planning, adapting software development methodology and specification standards. Planned and managed requirements collection process, including metrics collection for project control.

New Orleans, La, Us

6 Month Contract with Maxim Consulting - Designed and developed software to support an electric power corporation making transition to a deregulated market environment. Performed in a team environment to take a pilot system into a follow-on phase of development.

Huntsville, Al, Us

• Performed system engineering analyses and developed requirements and designs for a $2.7 billion program. • Modeled and simulated systems to analyze integrating components and design constraints. Efforts set expectations for contractor design formulation and supported government decision-making.• Developed/ managed requirements from system to software levels using structured processes, methods, and tools. • Developed tasks, schedules, budgets, and resource requirements. Prepared and presented plans, status, performance assessments, analyses, proposals and scopes of work.

For Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm - Planned, organized, directed and controlled development, distribution, and operational use of a critical, classified communications product in theater of operations. For ten sequential deliveries, coordinated with 30 customer organizations, producers, world-wide transportation providers, and distributors to 300,000 personnel, providing a timely and positive operational impact.

Planned and organized program and engineering management to integrate five systems, programs totaling $8 billion. Developed integration concept, analyzing requirements and prototyping integrated system user interfaces. Developed capstone schedule to execute system integration and testing program.

Planned, budgeted, directed and controlled test efforts for a $98 million system acquisition.

Took responsibility for a $20 million system project six months behind schedule and falling farther behind due to testing problems. Performed testing and analyzed contractor cost and technical performance. Managed contractor to expedite faltering software development program, resulting in delivery of a useful system.

Mses, Systems Engineering

B.S., Mathematics/Computer Science