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Boston, MA, US

United States

Greater Boston Area

Responsible for quality management operations across Koniag Government Services while managing project teams and supporting business development activities such as capture management and technical proposal development.

Boston, MA

• Oversaw federal Information Technology contracts in Boston, MA; Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Sioux Falls, SD; and Washington, D.C. area that provide geospatial, help desk, network, web, multimedia, and scientific research.
• Oversaw project execution of all teams and monitors and controls deliverable output.
• Assessed the financial health of each contract by tracking project performance, gross margin, and profit/loss to ensure each project is efficiently managed within budget and on schedule.
• Performed corrective and preventative actions as project issues are identified to streamline the efficiency of staff and deliverables.
• Regularly met with project stakeholders across the country to assess the performance of staff and to build and maintain positive customer relations.
• Performed business development activities such as proposal writing/management and solution development in the offering of new or existing services.

Boston, MA

• Managed and completed projects for Federal civilian and defense agencies whose scope involved desktop/server/web/training/database, library, and research and development support tasks.
• Reported on project milestones and financials. Effectively operated projects within budget and charged with managing project revenue and direct/indirect costs that benefited staff while balancing the fiscal needs and.
• Hired employees, conducted job interviews, negotiated offers, evaluated staff, determined annual salary increases, and resolved conflicts.
• Coordinated regular staff meetings to oversee service level agreements, set/tracked deadlines, and verified if deliverables were accurate, on schedule, and on budget.
• Effectively communicated with colleagues to empower ownership of tasks and encouraged team members to trust their expertise when making decisions.
• Collaborated with senior management in the pursuit of new business opportunities by applying proposal writing skills and best management practices.

Boston, MA

• While supporting a federal civilian agency, performed spatial analysis and data development tasks to study natural resource and environmental impacts upon the New England landscape.
• Designed quality maps that highlighted the results of GIS analyses and used expert knowledge on cartographic concepts such as layout and color to successfully portray study results.
• After six months with Vistronix, was chosen as a “Rising Star” and was promoted to Project Manager in 2007.

Boston, MA

• Responsible for data and application development projects involving the creation of geographic data through digitizing, formatting U.S. Census data, and the design, layout, and production of GIS maps and reports.
• Incorporated GIS into programs such as Homeland Security and Pre-Disaster Mitigation planning. Technical lead responsible for assisting the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MA DPH) – Region 4A, in.

Phoenix, AZ

• Updated official water and sewer utility maps and performed field checks to determine the location of valves, water taps, and mains.

Bachelor'S Degree, Geography

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