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Provide leadership, management, and direction for formulating and enforcing work standards, assigning contractor schedules, reviewing work discrepancies, supervising contractor personnel, and communicating policies, purposes, and goals of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to subordinates. Support DTRA-wide operations for a large size, multi-year.

Client Engagements: * DOD: Developed plans and policies in support of DOD JIEDDO J6 Directorate. Member of Metrics Working Group responsible for identifying MOE/MOP that align with JIEDDO Strategic Plan. Executed risk-based assessments with a focus on policies, laws, and regulations. Established QA program aligning 38 J6 operational functions and metrics.

Trusted partner of GSA/FEDSIM COR and DTRA Senior Leadership providing advisory services regarding Research & Development/Science & Technology contract performance. Delivered independent assessments and recommended Courses of Action (COAs) for various Performance-Based Acquisition contract actions. Independently monitored and evaluated technical.

Project Manager with single point of contact responsibility to FEDSIM COR and Senior Government Leadership TPOC. Role included overall management of multiple Task Areas, full life cycle execution, and performance in delivering services to the J6 (IT) Directorate in support of a GSA Performance-Based SETA Contract. Managed project operations and contractor.

Established Quality Program and conducted Independent Assessments for large mission critical strategic programs. Institutionalized Quality Operations framework allowing the team to capture metrics and report monthly/quarterly trending results driven by Project Team adoption and implementation of recommended improvements.

Delivered strategic roadmap based on "current state" gap analysis focused on CMMI Engineering Process Areas. Managed project teams in the delivery of IV&V support to DHS FEMA client. Solutions included full life cycle verification and validation services based on IEEE 1012, ISO and PMI standards as well as DHS directives.

Responsible for daily operations and management of 250+ personnel supporting a multi-year 56 task order contract. Prepared monthly reports including profit-and-loss and EVM analysis, customer satisfaction performance, and process improvements. Estimated costs for new task orders, performed risk management and implemented mitigation techniques to secure the.

PMO Lead assigned to the Restatement / Close The Book initiative. Addressed OFHEO audit findings specific to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and managed team to complete remediation activities. Led team in responding to database access and segregation of duties material weaknesses. Institutionalized processes and controls required to successfully complete the SOX.

Responsible for large multi-year contract delivering technical solutions for Overseas Building Operations (OBO) globally-based user community. Directed concurrent, mission critical infrastructure and software enhancement projects across 28 applications in client-server and web-based Oracle environment used by over 2,000 personnel to manage U.S..

Delivered global telecommunication network, systems and operational solutions to European, American, and Asian international partners. Worked collaboratively with stakeholders across various business areas. Expanded Concert’s voice, data and VOIP data center operations and network in eight countries. Managed eCommerce B2B Siebel CRM sales and service.

Technical Lead for "Friends & Family" and "Friends of the Firm" products. Project Lead for multiple full-cycle systems releases of voice billing application New Commerical Billing System (NCBS). Researched integrity of billing cycle and presented recommendation to VP of Finance for streamlining manually intensive audit processes via automation opportunities.

MCI Account: Redesigned Circuit Order Management System (COMS) from requirements capture to UAT and deployment. DOD DMSSC Account: Defined requirements to modify peacetime hospital application for wartime scenario in DoD medical facilities. Performed exercise in military theater during a REFORGER exercise in Zweibrucken, Germany. Created system.

Designed, developed and implemented a cargo tracking system for the State of Maryland Port of Baltimore. Developed user procedures and conducted onsite training for the Baltimore maritime community.

Designed, coded, tested payroll and pension/retirement applications using COBOL in an IMS/CICS IBM mainframe environment. Analyzed and resolved production support issues to meet critical payroll deadlines.

Programmed agricultural applications using PL/I in OS/MVS mainframe environment.

M.B.A., Management Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Graduate Assistant to the Director of the Syracuse MBA Program

Executive Education, Executive Studies, Enterprise Architectures

B.S., Computer Science

Activities and Societies: General Motors Internship Program