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Reston, Virginia, Us

Developed the ICES Architecture Framework and the ICES Architecture Maturity Model utilized by ICES architects on architecture and architecture program quality, value and maturity assessment engagements. Develops commercial, government, private partnership, and other client architecture engagements. Recruits qualified architects for ICES architecture engagements. Guides ICES architects, mentoring architects and engineers pursuing a career in architecture. Key Accomplishments:Established the standard for enterprise architecture and solution architecture for a federal major system acquisition (MSA). Led the architecture element of the initiative resulting in approval and funding to proceed with a multi-agency development and integration program. The architecture was hailed as the exemplar for future MSA submission requests.Integrated major Federal agencies with cloud technologies, securely, effectively, and efficiently. Guided agency paradigm shift from a history and culture of developing and managing systems to a services-based dynamic and versatile organization. Advised executive-level leadership on a range of technical issues focused on developing and implementing their long-range strategic vision. While normalizing an agency services integration and strategic planning approach, became one of the primary voices at the agency leading discussions on service design, development, and agency-level service management. Became a major voice in the service migration for agency management as they struggled with the cultural and technical paradigm shift. He was equally adept in technical discussions with service developers explaining how to manage an organization with hundreds of services.Demonstrated strategic architecture elements for investment and divestment decisions. Enterprise strategic and functional capability analyses enabled effective technical investment portfolio management decisions.

Springfield, Virginia, Us

Led strategic agency-level enterprise architecture (EA) projects. Managed development of enterprise architecture artifacts to influence executive decisions leading to operational efficiencies while driving future technical directions. Effectively integrated investment and capital planning with the technology roadmap. Recognized for ability to discuss complex technical issues in the executive suite as well as with the technical engineers. Led an Army EA development project for the CTO. Demonstrated effective mission scenario-based, customer focused architecture approach to associate agency enterprise investment decisions and priorities to the impact of those decisions upon a customer's mission. Delivered As-Is and To-Be Enterprise and Segment Architectures including technology migration incorporating storage and compute services, virtualization, and software-defined networks.Increased team architecture artifact production by 400% with existing resources.Strategically partnered with business stakeholders to achieve alignment between technology strategy and business goals. Led the definition and maintenance of the technical strategy, which enabled the agency to deliver on its business plans at acceptable cost and risk dynamics. Led agency's EA governance board to ensure that the technology investment is well-founded in business and technical value.Guided, reviewed and approved segment architectures targeted to eliminate redundancies and align new solutions with standards, patterns and target architecture strategy. Successfully partnered with IT peers ensuring effective design, development, testing, deployment, and sustainment of all IT solutions. Advocated enterprise strategies in light of business goals and objectives. Successfully restructured the project from a traditional waterfall schedule to an agile paradigm with two week sprints, sprint deliverables, and effectively managed resulting sprint backlogs.

Chantilly, Va, Us

Advise multiple federal agency Chief Technology Officers, collaborating as member of inter-agency, executive-level group. Implement shared cloud and data analytics project worth $600+ million, addressing significant implementation challenges efficiently using agile methodologies.Develop strategic approaches to information sharing and protection across diverse organizations and architectures, initiating mitigation in response to schedule variances.Prototype ingestion of mission data into cloud, enabling data analytics across various agencies.Key Accomplishments:Manage architectural projects and teams, integrating secured data-centricity across enterprise. Develop strategies to utilize metadata tagging for access control and discovery across environments.Improve business and technology processes, identifying opportunities for cloud environment to enable data analytics within newly implemented data-centric, service-based cloud paradigm.Evaluate capability gaps, coordinating with capital planning and controls to develop strategic technical investments.Coach and mentor enterprise, data and security architects, leading development of artifacts for strategic operational and executive investment decisions.Improve information management strategies, refining approaches to cloud data storage and retrieval, maintaining complex data provenance within secure shared information. Commended for successfully developing strong relationships with senior level group, while integrating architecture on time and within budget. Evaluate Information Assurance of the cloud architectures including identity and access management, entitlement, attribute, digital rights, and credential management. Increase the value of integrated data through improved data management, quality and utility.

Chantilly, Va, Us

Led strategic approach and design for GEOINT project, allowing clients and analysts to obtain necessary information swiftly for immediate use. Integrated program architectures between Federal Government contractors, designing services, including Information Sharing, Collaboration, Data Integration and Security. Drove technology insertion for agencies based upon needs and program capabilities, objectives and funding profiles. Improved quality of deliverables through careful review of all segment products.Key Accomplishments:Trained and mentored architects for multiple integrated contractors, providing leadership and guidance in architecture development techniques. Delivered artifacts for 42-mission scenarios on-time and within budget. Validated the architecture against requirements as a key reviewer for all segment requirements.Conducted technical analysis of artifacts, creating 132 services and hundreds of data objects, enabling architectural integration across the enterprise, from the strategic architecture through detailed technical implementation architectures. Conducted gap analyses, identifying pain points and weaknesses in existing development strategies. Promoted to Chief Architect, driving architecture analyses and anticipating acquisition, development, implementation and user scenarios to meet potential budget, schedule and technical constraints.

Chantilly, Va, Us

Supported federal agency CIO, increasing business value by leading strategic architectural efforts.Contributed to development of initial IT Roadmap, integrating EA vision with IT implementations to determine necessary technology insertion and alignment to changing business models.Key Accomplishments:Managed agency-level strategic planning, business and technical analysis projects, significantly contributing to investment decision-making. Directed all project baseline deliveries, reducing significant defects in baselines by over 50% and accelerating the requested delivery cycle by 50%. Managed, supervised and trained dozens of senior Enterprise Architects. Developed and conducted courses for enterprise architects on projects across program.Designed and implemented methodologies to provide integration of GEOINT architectural efforts across organizations, leading project gap-analysis and enabling IT portfolio decisions. Led technology insertion projects, determining appropriate artifacts and researching concepts and impacts.Requested as key architectural reviewer for Architectural Review Board, Integrated Architecture Working Group and Agency Architecture and Standards Board.Analyzed agency-level business & technical models, based upon the agency EA, for strategic planning, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, & Execution (PPBE), technology investment decision making with the Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process, leveraging industry best practices & standards. Collaborated on development of the Joint Architecture Reference Model with the Joint Architecture Working Group. Developed enterprise architecture models of an enterprise based upon the ASP / ISP and ITSM paradigms. Analyzed architectural impacts to the agency, including cloud computing and massive storage concepts

Falls Church, Va, Us

Managed requirements and project analyses, leading reviews and training and mentoring engineers.Key Accomplishments:Led architectural reviews, mentoring junior engineers in techniques for major system component.Awarded for leadership in design engineering activities by premium customer; leadership resulted in successful product delivery within aggressive schedule.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Managed Engineering Support Department with 62 engineers. Conducted professional development of staff. Provided technical staffing management for various organizations; interviewed and hired employees, adjusted staffing and skill levels, conducted skills assessments, and redeployed staff.Key Accomplishments:Led team in reducing unidentified software defects and rework efforts by over 80%.Directed team that reduced volatility of product requirements and volume of software development rework, realizing $600K annually in cost-reductions.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Managed development project, utilizing architecture controls throughout capital planning process.Key Accomplishments:Designed solution architecture through agile development processes.Demonstrated a pilot development project using architecture to establish the framework for a system development project interfacing to the Department EA. Created an End-to-End Architectural Process to describe the IT development lifecycle from pre-funding through system retirement.Hired specifically for exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to communicate solutions clearly.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Developed Model-Driven architecture artifacts for a complex data-driven system developed using agile techniques using a modified RUP within a Zachman Framework. Key Accomplishments:Interfaced with customer to evaluate impact to customer-requested enhancements, including volatility, credibility, producability, and testability of program requirements. Designed detailed system attributes and mission capabilities. Managed group earned value activities. Developed subsystem and component test plans.

Managed a Systems Development and Maintenance project. Led law enforcement database design team. Key Accomplishments:Designed law enforcement database in Informix, architecting the design. Analyzed system design for a Java-based application based upon a mobile, replicated Informix relational database.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Designed spacecraft telemetry data and data formats allowing raw binary data downlinked from space vehicles to be stored and manipulated in an RDBMS. Developed and maintained calibration schemes to convert raw data into calibrated units. Designed embedded wavetrain architectures, transmission channel strategies, data parameters, and data tables to efficiently manage spacecraft data, and memory management and allocation. Maintained existing telemetry databases and designed new telemetry databases for spacecraft products. Designed and developed systems, calibration, data integrity, and mission analysis tools.

Managed all operational aspects of information systems, including Unix and PC environments and networks, accessing centrally controlled and maintained relational databases while reducing operational costs by 26% and overhead costs by 33%. Reengineered processes incorporating strategic planning onto existing spacecraft programs. Reduced spacecraft program processing time for complex engineering analyses by a factor of 17:1 with no increase in costs. Designed engineering processes for the Mars Global Surveyor program that utilized legacy workstations and software. Enabled engineers to collaboratively design interactively and concurrently on remote systems. Reduced capital expenditures by $310K while increasing engineering design and analysis efficiency.

Post-Grad Studies, Computer Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science - Bs