Lead Process Engineer and Control Account Manager on the SEIC program. In this role, I amresponsible for process definition and maintenance at the Air Force Mission Planning level as well as the SEIC program level. SEIC program level. Lead the Enterprise process definition by overseeing an Enterprise Process Improvement Board and Process Asset Library as well as publishing a regular Process Improvement Newsletter that is distributed to the entire Enterprise audience. I have participated… Show more Lead Process Engineer and Control Account Manager on the SEIC program. In this role, I amresponsible for process definition and maintenance at the Air Force Mission Planning level as well as the SEIC program level. SEIC program level. Lead the Enterprise process definition by overseeing an Enterprise Process Improvement Board and Process Asset Library as well as publishing a regular Process Improvement Newsletter that is distributed to the entire Enterprise audience. I have participated in numerous Class A, B and C appraisal activities both for the SEIC program and for Mission Planning Enterprise Contractors (MPECs). In addition to process definition activities, I am responsible for the estimating and management at least 1/2 of the control accounts for the program under DCMA certified SAIC Earned Value Management System. I was one of the foundation CAMs who participated in the achievement of the advancement agreement award certification from DCMA for SAIC through numerous rigorous audits of the SEIC program and the CAMs. I oversee a team of Process, CM, QA and Metrics engineers responsible for the SEIC and Enterprise process and metrics programs. Additionally, I serve as the Enterprise Risk Management Liaison and Secretariat and SEIC Team Training Coordinator. Show less

Ms. Vance worked with a team of developers using Microsoft Visual C++ and the MFC libraries to develop an application that aids in the conversion of paper-based technical manuals to electronic documents. System features include character recognition, symbol recognition and image translation. Ms. Vance served as the Task Lead for a project to unite multiple dissimilar, disjoint legacy database systems and a data warehouse though a user-friendly decision support… Show more Ms. Vance worked with a team of developers using Microsoft Visual C++ and the MFC libraries to develop an application that aids in the conversion of paper-based technical manuals to electronic documents. System features include character recognition, symbol recognition and image translation. Ms. Vance served as the Task Lead for a project to unite multiple dissimilar, disjoint legacy database systems and a data warehouse though a user-friendly decision support environment. Tasks included requirements elicitation and determination, system design, COTS product feasibility studies and system implementation/prototyping. Ms. Vance also performed research to produce an in-depth review and report on the IBM MQSeries messaging middleware product. Ms. Selmon served as lead for a task to perform a comprehensive review and evaluation of hardware and software platforms capable of supporting a data warehouse of large magnitude (10+ terabyte Show less

Ms. Vance served as the instructor for the Applied Software Validation and Verification course (CS391) in the WVU Software Engineering Masters Program. Class size: 30. Course Credit Hours: 3. Ms. Vance was responsible for the selection of the class text, preparation of course syllabus, and preparation and presentation of lectures and examinations during the semester long, graduate level course.

Ms. Vance was focused on preparing the SAIC - Morgantown office to attain SEI's SEI CMM Level 3 certification. She served as the team lead for a team of engineers assigned to achieve this goal. Her duties included, planning, budget, scheduling and preparing for the official assessment. Ms. Vance served as the Configuration Manager and consulting Quality Assurance Manager for projects. Using Java, added enhancements to the Soliant (Bellcore) Advertiser product to… Show more Ms. Vance was focused on preparing the SAIC - Morgantown office to attain SEI's SEI CMM Level 3 certification. She served as the team lead for a team of engineers assigned to achieve this goal. Her duties included, planning, budget, scheduling and preparing for the official assessment. Ms. Vance served as the Configuration Manager and consulting Quality Assurance Manager for projects. Using Java, added enhancements to the Soliant (Bellcore) Advertiser product to meet customer requirements. Served as Project Manager responsible for requirements elicitation, design and software maintenance/development in addition to schedules and coordination of the SAIC staff and Bellcore management. Ms. Vance served as Technical Team Lead for a group of engineers and project manager for various tasks at the SAIC - Morgantown office. Her responsibilities included reviewing and responding to RFQs and RFPs. Prioritizing and assigning tasks to team members, scheduling and designing implementation of software systems and WWW sites as well as implementation of software using reusable software modules. She was also responsible for developing and maintaining one of the first web-based electronic market places. Application development was performed using C, Pro*C, SQL and UNIX shell scripts. Show less

Ms. Vance performed software analysis, design and implementation for digital library implementations emphasizing portability and maintainability using the C programming language (POSIX standard) across multiple UNIX platforms. Served as Webmaster for the SAIC/ASSET WWW site averaging over 30000 accesses per month, 2 Intranet sites serving internal policies and procedures and other documents for the local staff. Duties included maintaining more than 1000 static and… Show more Ms. Vance performed software analysis, design and implementation for digital library implementations emphasizing portability and maintainability using the C programming language (POSIX standard) across multiple UNIX platforms. Served as Webmaster for the SAIC/ASSET WWW site averaging over 30000 accesses per month, 2 Intranet sites serving internal policies and procedures and other documents for the local staff. Duties included maintaining more than 1000 static and generated HTML documents, monitoring metrics, writing C programs and UNIX shell scripts to generate HTML documents and metrics output, integrating 3rd party software for metrics, searching, etc., responding to user questions, installation, maintenance and configuration of the three WWW servers. Ms. Vance served as the Point of Contact on several contracts that required extensive interaction with novice computer users requiring explanation of the intricacies of UNIX, WWW applications and various other aspects of the WWW real estate business. Her tasks have included the analysis, design and implementation of a search mechanism for the HTML documents at the ASSET site. Analysis, design and implementation of a hierarchy of a hierarchical directory structure for the organization of the HTML documents. She was responsible for the maintenance and expansion of the library of functions (scripts and C programs) used to generate the HTML documents, including extensive integration of UNIX scripts with the SQL query language for the ORACLE database. She was responsible for the porting and conversion to POSIX compliance of various C applications. Show less

Ms. Vance worked as 1 of 2 programmers on an extensive project to integrate a Geographical Information System (GIS) with the technologies of databases and knowledge bases in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) environment using the C Programming language and the X-Windows interface functions under the UNIX operating system. Extensive programming with an emphasis on user acceptance and understandability for non-computer-users. Ms. Vance worked on several large projects… Show more Ms. Vance worked as 1 of 2 programmers on an extensive project to integrate a Geographical Information System (GIS) with the technologies of databases and knowledge bases in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) environment using the C Programming language and the X-Windows interface functions under the UNIX operating system. Extensive programming with an emphasis on user acceptance and understandability for non-computer-users. Ms. Vance worked on several large projects involving the analysis, design and implementation of sub-systems of the overall project, the primary being a database to integrate the GRASS GIS with .dbf format database files using the C language, X-Windows and a 3rd party database toolkit. She wrote a 200+ page users' manual documenting the aforementioned application using FrameMaker. She provided technical support for users requesting assistance on both the operating system and general UNIX applications and the software system currently being developed. Ms. Vance also served as the System Administrator for approximately 10 PC workstations running SVR4 UNIX. Her duties included the determination and acquisition of hardware and software, installation and maintenance of the UNIX operating system and other applications, maintenance of the LAN (Ethernet) design, design of the local internet access plan, installation of operating systems and software on PCs and Macintosh computers, including Networking software, and installation and maintenance of a SUN workstation running the SUN OS, and later Solaris, which served as the office mail-server for approximately 50 staff members. Show less