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Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Associate Partner at IBM. Serving US Federal practice with a focus on Watsonx and FM AI

Development of IT strategy for product and service companies. Director of emerging technology practice specializing in AI/ML and RPA and providing thought leadership on AI/ML, RPA, and Intelligent automation. Participating in Industry- Government partnerships. Co-author of RPA White Papers “Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Improving Performance in Federal Government”. Customers include Salesforce, SAIC, Peraton, DELL, Guidehouse & Accenture.

Indianapolis, In, Us

Established DevSecOps practice and Development of Corporate IT strategy for the Federal practice. Director of emerging technology practice. Director of Intelligent Automation Center of Excellence (COE). Provided roadmap for implementation of emerging technology like AI, RPA, Intelligent automation for HPG’s clients. Represented HPG in Industry-Government partnerships (ex: ACT-IAC, Professional Services Council, and AFCEA). Served as a member of the Intelligent Automation Working Group, in the Emerging Technology Community of Interest (COI) at ACT-IAC to develop the RPA White Paper “Robotic Process Automation. (RPA): Improving Performance in Federal Government”. Support HPG with liaison activities with the Federal community.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

Served as the principal leader in USPTO for IT investments supporting 11,000 users associated with the Corporate, Trademarks (NextGen & Legacy), Policy, Technology Sustaining, Dissemination & Enterprise Business Systems portfolios and managed up to five USPTO portfolios simultaneously. Saved 60% (FY17) and 36% (FY18) of the budget by consolidating capabilities across portfolios. As a member of the 2018/2019 Portfolio Financial Review Board recommended savings of 10%-15% from the FY18/19 budget estimates (FY18 - $700M and FY19 - $690M) by removing redundancies, prioritizing new IT efforts, and moving de-prioritized projects future fiscal years. Delivered on time and on budget--successfully managed up to five portfolios-ensuring development/deployment of internal and public-facing applications. Resolved a Congressional interest item in less than a year: led a team that developed and deployed a way to track employee badging/online presence.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

Executive leader for USPTO IT investments in the Corporate, Policy, Technology Sustaining, Dissemination & Enterprise Business Systems portfolios. These portfolios comprised investments & programs for IT capabilities for the USPTO Organizations totaling more than $80 Million. I managed customer relationships and IT strategy for these capabilities that supported the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Communication Officer, Chief Economist, Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Officer, and Chief Information Officer. I championed IT modernization for these offices using Agile & DevSecOps methodologies.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

Portfolio manager for Trademark NextGen and legacy portfolios. I was responsible for defining, planning, managing, and executing the vision for the Trademark NG portfolio and sustainment of the legacy portfolio.

Silver Spring, Md, Us

Planned, initiated, designed, and successfully executed the inspection management IT initiative across the FDA including aligning IT goals with customer needs and continuity of operations; developed & presented the Inspection Management blueprint to FDA executive leaders; managed stakeholder relations, change management, IT budgeting, and procurement related to the project. Used AGILE methodology, and open source tools, and deployed a training program that introduced the Hyper care process.

Founded Welt Software Solutions, LLC as a provider of strategic consulting services to the public and private sectors. Oversaw Human Resources, Payroll, Customer Relations, Vendor/sub-contractor relations, Business development, and RFP/RFI activity. Developed relationships with Big-4 consulting organizations like IBM & Deloitte for Sub-Contracting. Advised DOD and other public-sector entities on IT project strategy, architecture, risk management, execution, and change management. Managed portfolio-wide implementation of a software development methodology based on the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model to provide standardization and predictability in the software development process, resulting in a uniform approach to project development with well-defined roles and responsibilities for all project participants. Served as a liaison between public sector agencies and contracting teams to maximize ROI by implementing industry best practices. The major engagements covered the US Army and Army National Guard. Led a diverse team of 22 contractors, functional, business, defense, and technical professionals to design and implement an IT solution for the US Army Environmental command. The engagement goal was to systemically track Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste from “Cradle to Grave” and comply with reporting requirements mandated by the Federal (EPA), State, and local jurisdictions at both domestic and international sites. Used SAP’s proprietary methodology (ASAP) in line with the relevant industry best practices to desired results. Managed planning, cost control, client relations, execution, delivery, and negotiations with the US Army, Army National Guard, and contractors. Established and managed policies and procedures for a Project Management Office (PMO) to increase budget controls, and project/program tracking along with stage-gate compliance.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Managed 10M+ portfolio as Global IT portfolio manager responsible for 32 people in teams located in Europe, North America & Asia. Teams were involved in application development, cyber security, networks, enterprise services, call centers, offshore support/development, and 24x7x365 international data center operations. Led large global organizations (amongst the Top 500) through complex IT initiatives including the Global rollout of an International Supply Chain & Procurement platform for multi-national organizations.

Worldwide, Oo

Managed $11M SAP consulting engagements in the public and private sectors specializing in Aerospace & Defense with responsibility for overall delivery. Conducted proposal and business development activities for the global SAP Supply Chain Management & Procurement practice. Developed business plans to bring internal groups in line with new business goals for clients.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led 27 subject matter technical and functional consultants in the IBM public sector practice specializing in supply chain management, procurement & materials management. Duties included business development, IT delivery, and contract management valued at $10M. Major clients included the Department of Interior & Smurfit-Stone.

Walldorf, Bw, De

Designed, configured, and developed SAP applications in North America & Europe for the public & private sectors. Applications included HR, procurement, materials management, time management, funds management, and the enterprise portal. Completed an overseas assignment in Nice, France to start a project team for European HR operations. Software development using ABAP (SAP’s proprietary programming language).

New York, Ny, Us

Member of the core team developing AOL’s proprietary search technology. Duties included the development of safeguards mandated by the government under Child Online Protection Act regulations to protect children online. Programming experience included object- oriented programming in C++ and Java. Developed core search technology to power “AOL Search” using C++ and Java. Worked with Oracle, Java, SQL, Oracle, Visual Basic (VB), JavaScript, and C/C++ on different projects.

Managing Risk In The Information Age, Cyber/Computer Forensics And Counterterrorism

Leadership For A Democratic Society, Federal Executive Training

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