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Seattle, Wa, Us

As a primary leader in the PMO, drive complex product execution across the portfolio of ~550 team members to ensure predictable delivery of customer value through collaboration, relentless improvement, coaching, agile, and lean principles. - Guided client in designing, implementing, and running a PMO to support the ~550 people organization.- Collaborate across functional organizations to embed data and intelligence into the business and customers’ operations and driving revenue attributable to one of the products from $2M (4Q22) to $13.5M in 2023 to a forecasted $20M+ in 2024. - Helped to drive the creation of an Integrated Product Team to manage a program in three primary areas: Business Value/Process, Customer Engagement, and Digital Enablement. - Support business process transformation through digital enablement, automation, and lean principles.- Work with understaffed teams to find balance and flow of work without interruptions through the value stream to deliver predictably and consistently. - Managed the direct client engagement and deliverables for up to 18 consultants.- Helped deliver solutions to customers based on their environment and staffing constraints. Customers’ comments include: o "The only reason we [a large US airline] got through COVID without significant disruptions was due to your product."o “No other suppliers are doing this level of collaboration”.

As a Senior Manager and Project Manager, supported the client’s component services programs.- Managed the complex Joint IT project relationship between the client and its key airline partner. This work was critical for the success of warehouse management operations in support of the partnership and enhance the efficiency of managing the pool of parts (return of unserviceable and shipment of serviceable to customers).- Ensured alignment between the client and its partner on key program decisions- Communicated weekly with senior leadership regarding progress against milestones, risks, issues, opportunities, and help needed- Responsible for the performance of the team and key schedule milestones- Managed the Robotic Process Automation project, which has resulted in the reduction of 40,000 hours of manual effort in the first 6 months

Greater Seattle Area

Led several projects and teams across multiple projects.- Project managed the planning the effort and implementation of the cloud infrastructure to migrate a critical application from a company owned data center to the cloud. - Worked across both IT and Business teams with multiple stakeholders to ensure there was support and alignment for the plan.- Led a team of project managers to ensure overall integration of the several applications being migrated including leading common operating rhythms such as schedule review, RIO (risk, issue, opportunity) management and change management. - Led the initiating and planning of an effort to create a common experience across the client’s digital aviation channels.- Worked with senior leadership and 100+ stakeholders to gain support for the project, including overall strategic direction and funding.

Greater Seattle Area

Work with my fellow co-organizers to lead events with other Agilists curious about how to scale Agile beyond the team level. We explore a variety of scaling methods and work to bring together like-minded colleagues in the Seattle Puget Sound area.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Lead an agile software development team of up to 14 developers that integrates commercial technologies to achieve significant improvements in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) in support of the warfighter in theatre by providing Full Motion Video (FMV) and Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) ingest, storage, processing, access, and transfer along with Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) architectures and processes. • Drive continuous process improvements and efficiencies across the program, specifically in defect management, agile development, and work authorization processes. • Responsible for ~$5M in projects per year • Author defendable basis of estimates and impact assessments in support of new work • Engineering manager for up to 17 individual contributors. Responsible for managing time and attendance, disseminating information to the team, performing recruiting and hiring activities, writing and delivering performance appraisals, career development counseling, mentoring, coordinating program awards, conducting merit planning, participating in promotion planning, and developing performance improvement actions

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Led the Operations and Globe Building teams as part of an agile program supporting a system that enhances the imagery and geospatial analyst's exploitation experience by providing web-services based 2D and 3D GEOINT visualization services to the DoD. • Subcontractor PM responsible for managing subcontractor work and progress as well as the subcontractor’s award fee. • Drove continuous process improvements and efficiencies across the program, specifically in defect management, trouble ticket management, and Google Earth globe building. • Responsible for ~$5M in projects per year • Authored defendable basis of estimates and impact assessments in support of new work • Engineering manager for up to 28 individual contributors. Responsible for managing time and attendance, disseminating information to the team, performing recruiting and hiring activities, writing and delivering performance appraisals, career development counseling, mentoring, coordinating program awards, conducting merit planning, participating in promotion planning, and developing performance improvement actions

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Led the Database Engineering team and responsible for ~$5M in projects per year • Key contributor in helping the program pass both an Internal Baseline Review and an Internal Surveillance Review. Successfully presented and defended EVM processes for my control accounts • Prepared charts for the program Executive Program Review (EPR). Briefed the customer at program management reviews. • Engineering Manager for up to 15 individual contributors across 3 Washington Metro Area (WMA) sites. Quickly responded to program staffing challenges in response to budget cuts when the program downsized from 250 to 150 within a few months. • Developed a Java/J2EE based application utilizing the Lucene COTS tool that allows users to efficiently search a document repository

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Worked with P670 customer project managers throughout the entire project life cycle to ensure the cost, technical, and schedule objectives on multiple projects were successfully achieved. Managed the schedule and risks as well as helped compose the ConOps, Project Plan, and System Requirement Specification documents.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Selected to the highly competitive LMC Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP). Gained technical breadth, customer diversity, and organizational cognizance through diverse job rotations. Performed in various technical and leadership roles with increasing levels of responsibility. • One of 4 Integrated Product Team (IPT) leads responsible for the technical volume on the winning proposal for the $12.225 billion Encore II proposal. • Worked with the Integrated Defense Message System (IDMS) team to configure the System Management Server (SMS) to monitor the health and welfare status of a mixed Windows and UNIX environment. • On ATAS, interfaced with the customer to propose a solution that met 80% of the customer’s needs (including all the high priority requirements) but was developed in less than a quarter of the time. • Developed middle tier business logic and back end data access objects for POET (Planning, Operation, and Equipment Tracking), a J2EE web application

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed front-end GUI components for JAS (JCAG Analytical System) using ASP, Java, JavaScript and Oracle 8.1.7 as the backend database

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Worked on the Project Tracking System, a J2EE project. Utilized Enterprise Java Beans to control business logic and data persistence. Used JSP’s, Struts, JSPSmartUpload, and servlets on the front-end for displaying dynamic content. Integrated module with the rest of the system and developed unit testing procedures using JUnit. Also participated in code reviews.• Engaged in a joint startup between Tallan and Compaq that helps corporations achieve dramatic cost savings in IT support by providing corporate employees with the online support tools necessary to be tech savvy and self-sufficient. Developed complex queries to extract data from a relational database so it could be converted into flat files and loaded it into the data warehouse. Conducted small meetings to keep team members up to date on progress made and to explain implementation details. • Participated in a 1.5 month training program where I implemented applications using UNIX, databases, SQL, object-oriented programming, and Enterprise development tools (EJB’s, JSP’s, servlets, Java, Swing).

B.S., Computer Science

M.S., Systems Engineering