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Washington, Dc, Us

Dulles, Virginia, Us

Dulles, Virginia, Us

Dulles, Virginia, Us

Contract with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Responsiblities included:• Assisted in managing an Integrated Product Team (IPT).• Worked with government customer to develop system requirements and acceptance criteria for product backlog.• Held bi-weekly design meetings with the government customer and the development team.• Ran all scrum mandated meetings including: Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Design Meetings, Sprint Retrospectives with the development team and Sprint Reviews with the government customer.• Executed test plans for each sprint.• Managed the RMF/Security team in an effort to achieve IATT/ATO.• Active TS/SCI Clearance with CI Poly.• Certified Scrum Master.

Fairfax, Virginia, Us

Contract with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Responsiblities included:• Work directly with the Product Owner and Stakeholders to gather business requirements and acceptance criteria. • Run weekly design meetings with developers to process business requirements into functional requirements.• Run Agile meetings including, daily scrum/standup, sprint planning, sprint reviews, design meetings and sprint retrospectives.• Manage a help desk portion of the application that helps us gain user insight into bugs, possible application enhancements, and general outreach.• Work with the Test Lead to help ensure that all testing is completed for the sprint.• Manage Team Foundation Server (TFS). TFS is our means of documenting user stories and requirements for the contract. Providing metrics such as burn down charts and velocity based on the user story management. • Active TS/SCI Clearance with CI Poly.• Certified Scrum Master.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Contract with the United States Air Force (USAF) in managing the CarePoint Application Portal. The CarePoint Application Portal houses all Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) Applications, defines a standard framework, technology set, and tools for the development of AFMS software applications.Duties include weekly meetings and joint application design (JAD) sessions with subject matter experts (SMEs) and stakeholders to ascertain business requirements. Translate business requirements into functional requirements for design and development teams. User interface (UI) demos to ensure development is meeting the requirements and business need of the client. Assist the quality analyst (QA) to create precise and accurate test cases and UAT plans based on requirements and development. Work to ensure all deliverables are met with high quality products and within proposed deadlines.Project requires use of JIRA and Confluence for both project tasking and requirements/test cases respectively. Agile methodology is employed on the contract including: scrum events, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective activities.Write and maintain technical documents such as System Requirements Specifications and instruction documentation for implementation of developed software for application owners.Work with development team to perform frequent development code reviews prior to UI demos to ensure accurate code and all aspects of requirements are employed.Additional responsibilities include:o Working to provide a monthly list of activities for each member of the team to justify monthly hours billed.o Review all documentation written by members of the development, management, and QA teams prior to providing documentation to client.o Manage the CarePoint Help Desk for the development and stage environments along with backup for the production environment help desk.• Currently possess active Secret Clearance.

Vienna, Virginia, Us

Contracted with the Department of State (DoS) Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA). Duties include weekly meetings with Government Technical Monitors and business representatives for application portfolios within the CA/CST bureau. Translate changing business requirements (major and minor) into functional requirements for development. Use IBM Rational Clearquest and Clearcase to track and monitor requirements. Created and edited technical documents such as System Requirements Documents (SRS) and System Design Specifications (SDS). Work with developers to ensure that application development is consistent with requirements before Quality Control testing.Additional responsibilities included Project Management of projects within the scope of the contract. Employed an agile approach to managing project plans using Microsoft Project. Manage availability of project participants and ensure that key personnel are available for meetings and technical discussions. Attend all meetings and technical discussions to take detailed meeting notes and take any action items for follow up.Worked with team on Configuration Management policies in the area of Change Management.• Possessed Top Secret Clearance

Vienna, Virginia, Us

Worked on the National Transit Database for the Federal Transit Agency and Department of Transportation. Serve as Developer and responsible for creating the next generation National Transit Database using the Appian platform. Worked as a developer for 6-7 months to assist in a backlog of development tasks. Worked with Database Administrator (DBA) in both Oracle and SQL Server to create and edit database tables.Also served as Business Analyst and responsible for understanding FTA business requirements and transforming business requirements into functional requirements. Work with the Requirements Lead to gather, analyze, and understand business requirements. Communicate with developers to ensure functional requirements are understood and complete. Liaison with FTA and contractors through meetings to discuss any gaps in requirements or when developers require further understanding of specific requirements. Responsible for learning and implementing Appian product and practices to develop various forms, records, and all areas of NTD. As a developer there is constant communication and discussion with the Requirements Lead in the areas of functional requirements and design. Collaborate with the customer through weekly development demos to ensure customer satisfaction and input in developed areas of the National Transit Database.Other key assignments included: o Work with Quality Control lead as a Quality Assurance/Quality Control tester for various developed aspects of NTD. Responsible for end to end testing of the system to ensure a quality product. Work with the developer to understand defects in the system and test the areas when they are re-developed. Worked through both System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Written both test scripts and User Acceptance Testing plan.o Recently began serving as part of training program, to train future system users on new and improved aspects of the NTD system.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Worked on the Process Modeling and Design Center (PMDC) contract with the Veteran Affairs (VA) performing Business Process Engineering for areas of need within the VA. Serve as Session/Project Manager for individual PMDC sessions. PMDC sessions can last either 30, 60, or 90 days depending on the complexity of the business need associated with the session. Responsibilities include: managing of assigned PMDC session members (analysts, modelers, and session leader), monitor progress and timely delivery of session deliverables, schedule and coordinate participation of session meetings, facilitate and ensure all session meetings operate properly and providing analysis on business process models and other session issues when needed. Ensured all session deliverables were developed on schedule and accepted by the client.Performed as Configuration Manager which required creation of the Configuration Management Plan, management of the PMDC SharePoint site, control over the content and output of all PMDC deliverables, and control and management over change requests and subsequent changes to deliverable documents.Assisted in technical writing for the contract. Provided development, analysis, and quality review of the various PMDC deliverables, such as: the PMDC Charter, Concept of Operations, and Operational Framework and other key documents as well as technical presentations, models and other artifacts. Wrote and reviewed System Requirements Specifications and System Design Documents.Employed agile approach including: scrum events, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective activities.

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Worked in the property management department, directly under the property manager for the commercial property building at 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. Managed engineering group, and assigned engineers to calls based on urgency and availability. Daily and weekly meetings with engineering group to identify areas of improvement and expected work based on call volume and upcoming projects.Managed the 360 call system provided for the tenant to submit any maintenance issues throughout the building so that we may quickly and accurately address; electrical, HVAC, plumbing, or any other maintenance concerns. Analyzed data and produced reports based on call volume, floors with most frequent calls, average time to complete calls, and other data reports to show areas of success and need amongst the team.Collaborated bi-monthly with Property Manager and engineers to monitor and discuss upcoming projects as well as areas of concern throughout the building. Analyze daily, weekly, and monthly service calls to determine what areas of the building require most service and which calls are frequent.Worked with the Property Manager to handle tenant relations including; bi-monthly tenant meetings, consistently updating tenant in regards to scheduled vendor work, monitoring the 360 tenant call system and directing engineers to immediate maintenance issues. Responsible for administrative duties including; vendor scheduling, answering incoming calls, monitoring and entering invoices into payroll system, as well as ensuring vendor documentation is current

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science; Political Science

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