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Arlington, VA

Performing Quality Assurance consulting work for the U.S. Department of Defense, Joint Strike Fighter, F-35 program.

Fairfax, VA

• Performing software testing for the DoD’s Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database (DSAID); a centralized case-level database, used by all the U.S. military services in providing comprehensive sexual assault victim.
• Inputting and maintaining case data pertaining sexual assaults
• Tracking support provided to victims throughout the lifecycle of a case
• Consolidating data for analytical trend analysis
• Generating Congressionally-mandated reports on sexual assault cases throughout the military

Alexandria, Virginia

Software Tester on a DoD Policy division contract for AIS. Responsible for conducting functional testing of an array of Policy applications, to include a recording and processing of rewards offer submissions system and the Organizational Management Tool (OMT) for providing the agency the capability to assign and track personnel. Also responsible for.

Arlington, VA

Providing Quality Assurance services for the U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute (FSI). Tasked with performing QA review and functional testing of the various institute's online applications, to include Student Registration and Scheduling of Classes, Parking Permits, Child Care, Audio Visual ordering and tracking, Budget formulation and.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Providing IV&V services to assist the U.S. Department of Education’s (DoED) Financial Systems Services (FSS) group, within the Department’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), with managing the Contracts.
• Monitoring and providing independent assessment of the program’s schedules, deliverables, and performance information;
• Performing risk management assessments for supporting the Department’s mitigation of program risks;
• Supporting a change management process, to enable the Department in identifying and implementing changes to project baselines;
• Supporting the PMO in determining if the project is meeting the program’s defined goals, and is performing to established standards and parameters;
• Ensuring artifacts are posted to the project’s SharePoint collaboration site document library for all appropriate project information, deliverables, reports, and assessments

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conducted systems analysis for the U.S. Department of State (DoS). Responsible for the following:
• Assessed and evaluated the 25,000 Foreign Service employees’ HR systems’ database fields; findings included those key fields required by the State Department management to automatically account for how many employees.
• Presented analysis findings to the appropriate levels of management both verbally and through the preparation of periodic written reports, to include comments, reported defects, findings on defined metrics, and/or.
• Provided the means for DoS management to with high reliability and accuracy account for all deployed personnel in an effective and timely manner.

Alexandria, Virginia

QA Specialist on a Deputy Chief Management Office project. Responsible for conducting IV&V review and analysis for the department's Architecture and Standards Division.

Arlington, Virginia

Conducted systems analysis work on the U.S. Navy Sea Warrior Program (PMW 240). Responsibilities included researching and analyzing program's systems engineering issues, reviewing system requirements documentation (Software Requirements Specifications, Interace Requirements Specifications, Functional Requirements Documents, Program Management Plans.

Mclean, Virginia

Performing business analysis for major Veterans Administration tasks.

Currently working on a Department of Defense contract at the Pentagon.

Performing business and systems analysis for a U.S. Department of State contract.

Currently conducting systems analysis work for a Department of Army contract.

• Currently performing senior systems engineering support on the 73 million dollar U.S. Navy Harpoon missile program. Within this task, performing the following:
• Conducting formal assessments and quality control reviews of the design, development, and test document deliverables.
• Providing IV&V representation at various Integrated Product and Design meetings and working sessions.
• Working closely with the U.S. Navy program managers, ensuring traceability of Statement of Work requirements down to the individual technical design requirements and software configuration items.Past projects include.
• Mapping of over 5,000 system requirements to design and test documentation.
• Participating in numerous joint application design sessions, providing the agency with impartial input and recommendations for ensuring the proposed system design features fulfill the stated requirements.

Performed senior systems analyst and software engineering tasks for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRC). Responsible for planning and defining of the project’s functional, technical, and management requirements for fully automating the NRC's court room hearing system. Responsible for establishing requirements, ensuring the design, and creating test.

• Performed task lead management duties to include quality assurance, application testing, and acquisition support for the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI's 640 million dollar Integrated Automated Fingerprint.
• Designing, developing, and implementing the FBI’s law enforcement fingerprint identification user fee billing application; a process projected to, for the 2000 fiscal year, generate revenues over 120 million dollars..
• Ensuring quality control and ‘white box’ testing of over 25 system application tests, under a wide range of parameters and conditions, encompassing FBI processes such as fingerprint identification, user fee billing.
• Writing over one hundred software problem test reports, to include re-testing and re-running of test scripts in ensuring software fixes had been implemented. Responsible for evaluating and documenting test results.

Masters, Information Systems

Ba, History