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Baltimore, Md, Us

Constellation is the nation’s largest producer of carbon-free energy and sustainable solutions to millions of homes, institutional customers, the public sector, community aggregations and businesses, including three fourths of Fortune 100 companies.Managed the NERC CIP TSA Exit program requiring project management and oversite for the establishment of a complete NERC CIP capability for the newly separated Constellation corporation. Results: Coordinated effort across 12+ workstreams. Integration of 25+ technologies resulting is standup of a NERC CIP compliant regulated network and GMS. Comprehensive key stakeholder reporting. Forecast & budget management with zero variance alerts.  Project successfully completed on time and below budget.

Knoxville, Tn, Us

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a corporate agency of the United States that provides electricity for business customers and local power distributors serving 9 million people in parts of seven southeastern states.Recognized leader in managing collaboration across diverse business units to ensure the optimal outcome for TVA’s mission. Well versed in managing complex projects from Initiation Phase through Implementation Phase. Thorough understanding of relevant utility industry standards and best practices. Certified Contract Technical Steward (CTS). Key Results:Currently managing three critical projects in the Transmission space that have broad impact on the entire fleet. These include replacement of the outage management system with iTOA, Digital Fault Recording/Power Quality Meter System replacement, and the next generation NERC Compliance Dashboard implementation.Successfully spun up and managed multiple projects in the Infrastructure and Cybersecurity groups within the IT PMO. Challenged Maximo Joint Project Team to commit to stretch goals for retiring applications. Stretch goal was exceeded with closure 3 months early saving TVA substantial money. Created a method for communicating and managing Multi-Track Projects that is now in use across many groups and projects.Stepped up to take on Customer Application projects that were experiencing significant delays and Business Partner dissatisfaction. Stabilized the projects and gained the confidence of all stakeholders.

Working with organizations to enhance product value, market penetration, and profitability. Public and private companies are leveraging my experience in market analysis, product requirements definition, and execution planning to build on their success and create a sustainable growth path for the near and distant future. Payment processing, points of sale, PCI compliance, and high availability software are just a few of the areas of technical expertise contributing to expected success. With many years of Agile/Scrum (certified Scrum Product Owner), CMMI, and PMBOK experience, execution planning is optimized for the unique environments that each of my customers have in place.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Founded in 1999, Apriva is a leading provider of end-to-end wireless transactions and secure information messaging solutions that meet the exacting security requirements of financial service providers, government entities and public service sectors. Successfully orchestrated the strategic direction, growth and deployment of Apriva’s unattended payments, consumer mobile applications and campus programs, driving growth through on-time product delivery while delivering products to customers that met or exceeded requirements. Key Results:Completed programs resulted in growth of Unattended business by 36% in 2015 and created conditions that enabled 50% year-over-year growth.Spearheaded business modeling and analysis, market analysis, and the creation of execution plans that enabled Apriva to overcome significant market barriers to entry. Overcame many organizational issues to significantly improve on-time deliveries and customer satisfaction by championing and solidifying a corporate wide SCRUM/Agile based culture.Provided technical expertise in payments processing, encryption, authentication, tokenization, PCI-DSS Security, Service Organization Controls Level 1 and high availability IT infrastructure.

Enea is a leading global provider of mobile phone and network infrastructure systems software, development tools, and professional services for telecommunications, medial, aerospace and military systems.Recruited to position Enea as a major player in the telecommunications software middleware space by managing numerous programs in mission critical IT solutions. Successfully collaborated with Product Management to address high-availability, multi-core and virtualization requirements in the industry and guided the development team to define product scope, architecture, development schedules, features, resources and budgets. Key Results:Overcame significant barriers to complete the Service Availability Forum program 6 months ahead of projection and well under budget, propelling the organization to be recognized as thought leader in establishing industry-wide software interface standards and products and substantially increasing sales of the Element product line. Successfully collaborated cross-functionally to resolve organizational issues and significantly improve communication between research & development, marketing, and product management, resulting in on-time product delivery for the first time in 8 years. Spearheaded the development of a new business model establishing the organization as a leading producer in the middleware software industry and led several industry-wide programs that defined and standardized key aspects of manageability software.Increase market visibility by publishing 20 white papers and delivered numerous speeches to trade and standards bodies.

Petaluma, Ca, Us

OpenClovis was a startup firm in the early growth stage offering a leading product in the telecommunications infrastructure industry using and open-source business model.Worked closely with the Founder/CEO and Board to define the value proposition, strategic direction and operating plan to sustain Series B round of funding and build a world class software company. Took a leadership position in executing the business plan through project management and development utilizing the latest SCRUM/Agile methodologies.Key Results:Resolved serious cultural issues while managing diverse teams of engineers and staff in California and India resulting in the delivery of IT Application Service platforms and a companion tool set that quickly became a leading industry product. Raised organization visibility and reduced attrition from 50% to less than 5% after spending 14 months in Bangalore, India directly managing the engineering programs. Increased product deployments and revenue substantially by developing and implementing an open-source business model.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Defined the marketing and engineering programs enabling high-availability capabilities for embedded products and established programs and projects with Tier 1 customers to gain support for the products. Key Results:Formed extensive partnerships to advance high-availability IT Systems capabilities and was instrumental in forming the SA Forum and defining the eco-system for standards and efforts. Invented the advanced hardware platform interface (UPMI/HPI) technology and project managed its development, adoption, and release by the SA Forum.As Program Manager and Chairman of the SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface Working Group, collaborated with more than 30 major industry leaders to embrace competition and a new business model, resulting in the release of the first specification of its kind in less than 9 months from conception.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Motorola is a world leader in technology advancement.Technology and organizational leadership throughout an eighteen year careerResults:Established the Platform Integration Operation to architect, design, develop, implement, and support high-availability systems. Developed the business model and had indirect responsibility for profit and loss.Assembled a world-class team of 300+ architects, HW & SW engineers, systems integration and test personnel, and management from internal and external Motorola sources.Cultivated a multimillion dollar partnership with SUN Microsystems for joint development of low- and high-level systems software.Reestablished and staffed a systems engineering organization from the ground up and developed new business processes and development programs that cut development and release times in half.Established the Motorola corporate-wide Program Management career ladder and capability.Drove numerous growth initiatives at Motorola EMTEK Health Care Systems resulting is EMTEK becoming the dominant Clinical Bedside Information System and successful sale of the Motorola startup to GE Medical.

Master'S Certification, Program Management

Airworthiness Certification (7 Level), Aeronautical Engineering

B.S.E.E