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Sarasota, Fl, Us

Sarasota, Florida, United States

Greater Tampa Bay Area

- Drive business value and results at complex organizations in the Federal Government and Department of Defense, such as NAVAIR, Army CIO, Army National Guard, National Guard Bureau, Space and Missile Defense Command, and US Army Corps of Engineers.- Advised and challenged multiple Army HQ organizations to re-imagine and transform customer & employee experiences, challenge traditional business models, and re-imagine operations by disrupting the organization's mindset and co-creating new digital business models. These include concepts like a Modern CIO, AI-enabled strategy development, knowledge mining, and user adoption. - Partner with organizations from setting a digital vision all the way through guiding and driving the delivery of tangible digital business outcomes.

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md

- Delivered engagements within the constraints of schedule, features/functionality, and budget by managing the work that must be done to deliver an integrated solution usually composed of products, services, or a formalized solution offering.- Established a strategy of continuous risk management that enabled proactive decisions and actions throughout the project life cycle and created an environment where the project team has visible, measurable, and repeatable processes for managing these risks.- Maintained the Master Project Plan to include a Communication Plan (communications within the team and between the team and external entities), the Team Reference Guide Plan (identifies team and external team members) and the Master Project Schedule.- Compared actual performance with planned performance, analyzed variances, evaluated possible alternatives and took appropriate corrective action (control) as specified by the established project protocol.- Worked closely with the Microsoft account teams to adjust to changes in customer needs.

Fort Belvoir, Va

- Served as the lead technical architect for the Army. Oversaw the establishment of the first Army-wide guidance on technical standards. The guidance provides DoD, federal, industry, and foreign military partners with the technical direction that the Army is heading and will affect the investment strategies of the US Army and these organizations.- Led the a division of data architects to publish the first-ever Army Data Strategy and officially establish the Army Data Management Program and its objectives. - Represented the CIO/G-6 as a panelist at the 2014 AFCEA MILCOM conference. Communicated the Army’s new strategy and processes in the area of technical standards and compliance certification. Interacted in multiple sessions with foreign military, US military, and Industry partners on the significance of the new strategy.- Oversaw and coordinated the development of the enterprise architecture validation process strategy. The validation process will allow the Army to validate architectural compliance of technical solutions and make informed decisions on program resourcing.

Stuttgart, Germany

- Led AFRICOM's digital transformation to the Joint Enterprise Network (JEN), an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) construct, similar to the Army Data Center Consolidation Program (ADCCP) and Common Operating Environment (COE)/Joint Information Environment (JIE). Oversaw and led the AFRICOM effort to be the first organization in the Department of Defense (DoD) to implement a consolidated, robust, survivable IT enterprise that allowed for seamless data integration and collaboration between multiple entities and domains. Examples of IT investments programmed and deployed were virtual server infrastructure, virtual storage infrastructure, Unified Capabilities (UC), security boundary suites, secure remote access solutions, mobile solutions, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), Cross Domain Solutions (CDS), Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems (WIDS), messaging, Identity and Access Management (IdAM), data security management (rights management, data at rest encryption), and IT transport (Campus, metro, and wide area networks supporting Multiprotocol label switching, virtual route forwarding, dense wave division multiplexing, and quality of service). Oversaw the establishment of the Command’s systems engineering process and services catalogue.- Supervised and led the Engineering and Implementation branch of the AFRICOM J-6. Oversaw team of government and contractor engineers and solution architects in support of multiple engineering efforts. Define and issue project priorities for all teammates within the engineering team. - Managed cost, schedule and performance parameters for multiple projects and identify risk sources and their potential impact to projects. Identify, evaluate, recommend, and brief courses of action to mitigate risk factors to senior leaders. -Contracting Officer Representative (COR) on multiple IT delivery orders for multiple technology sets.

Mannheim Area, Germany

- Led the team of Army electronics engineers and information technology specialists responsible for all telecommunications solution architectures on Army installations throughout the European theater.- Designed telecommunications network architectures using various mediums and network topologies that are implemented throughout the European theater- Techincal and project consultant to multiple Army, DoD, and other government agencies at both the action officer and leadership levels in the field of telecommunications designs and requirements, as well as national and industry standards and best practices.- Designed unified communications networks incorporating the latest technologies such as passive optical networks, dense wave division multiplexing, 10Gbps ethernet, fuel cell technology, voice over internet protocol, and unified messaging to enable the customer to accomplish their mission.

Ft. Detrick, Md

- Led the team of Army electronics engineers and information technology specialists responsible for all telecommunications designs on Army installations in the US and European theater. - Designed telephony and computer network telecommunications networks using various mediums and network topologies that are implemented throughout the European theater - Techincal and project consultant to multiple Army, DoD, and other government agencies at both the action officer and leadership levels in the field of telecommunications designs and requirements, as well as national and industry standards and best practices. - Designed unified communications networks incorporating the latest technologies such as passive optical networks, dense wave division multiplexing, 10Gbps ethernet, fuel cell technology, voice over internet protocol, and unified messaging to enable the customer to accomplish their mission.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Master Of Science (Ms), Information Technology Management: Project Management

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Alpha, Varsity Baseball, Eta Kappa Nu