Nicolas Prabhavat, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Sterling, Va, Us

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Program Manager that oversees an Intelligence Agency contract with over 40 employees, in 13 sites, located in 3 States. Responsible for implementing and execution on contract, ensuring customer requirements are met, prerogatives are satisfied, compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and other applicable Directives, Regulations and Policies. Directly manages all aspects of program activity to include personnel recruiting, hiring, team training and performance evaluations. Interacts directly with Senior Executives and Branch Directors ensuring monthly status reporting and timely deliverables are met.

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland

Directed IT operations and training in planning and providing secure and non-secure voice, video, and data communications infrastructure to 300+ employee organization’s main headquarters including its remotely located assets dispersed over five continents. Responsible for the daily operations and accountability of assets valued more than $30M while managing an annual IT budget of over $6M. Led a coalition of 15 military, government civilian, and contract personnel.Major accomplishments in this role include:• Spearheaded efforts in lowering annual cost by $2.8M over five-year period through improvement of organization’s satellite communications (Ku, Ka, X, and L bands) network resources.• Successfully ensured availability, integrity, identification, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation of friendly data/voice/video systems while denying adversaries access to same information systems resulting in zero reported intrusions.• Established global business marketing integration strategies, successfully completed 10 projects for network expansions and upgrades through Department of Defense policies and procedures, which involved integration of $3.1M of satellite communications terminals, cyber, information, and automation systems into the organization’s infrastructure. • Decreasing quarterly cost by $150K through evaluation and adjustments to contract, while increasing acquisition and services from commercial vendors.• Fostered work environment embracing innovation to maximize efficiency by, improve manageability, and cut costs; improving productivity by 95%. • Earned promotion to rank of Master Sergeant, a senior enlisted leadership rank representing top 2.5% of United States Army’s enlisted force.• Designed and created a marketing and recruitment program increasing candidate applications and hiring by 90% within 6 months.

Fort Gordon, Ga

Supervised 3,500 personnel of veterans in school for Information Technology and Cyber Security. Defined incremental learning objectives aligned with U.S. Army knowledge and technical skill proficiency goals and performance measures. Leveraged existing or personally developed performance evaluation tools. Created curriculum and developed training strategies for classroom and field exercises, incorporating audio, visual and kinesthetic activities to address all learning styles, reinforce concepts, build retention and promote carry through to on-the-job utilization. Monitored progress toward mastery; identified and addressed gaps. Provided small groups and 1:1 targeted instruction to overcome obstacles. Entrusted in maintaining two building facilities and equipment worth over $1M.Major accomplishments in this role includes:• Received Top Platoon of the Quarter awards three times, over a two-year period through execution of rigorous training and management program derived from employees and peer input.• Gained selection to administer Brigade’s Yearly Marksmanship Range that boosted 120 personnel staff yearly scores, from 75% to 95% in two days.• Guided and instructed five veterans that led to their attainment of the Brigade Soldier of the Quarter, competing against 3,500 veterans.

Fort Gordon, Ga

Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Training Developer for Signal Support Systems courses; developed, reviewed and revised all training materials including Program of Instructions (POI), Lesson of Instructions (LOI), Exams, Field Manuals, and Technical Manuals on United States Army battlefield signal systems and terminal devices. Validated Instructors training and recommended changes to the Army Correspondence Course Program (ACCP).Major accomplishments in this role include:• Analyzed requirements across information technology and communications system to define diagnostic tools and aids, associated training for use of equipment, critical thinking and mechanical skill requirements affecting the United States Army Signal Corp.• Created curriculum and developed training strategies for classroom and field exercises, incorporating audio, visual and kinesthetic activities; certifying over 3000 students graduate to the Army workforce.• Collaborated with Company, Battalion and Brigade Commanders, civilian and military instructors to conduct quarterly lessons learned in turn implementing changes which increased the graduation rate by 93%. • Developed web-based training on use of multiple enclaves and platforms. Incorporated best practices for e-learning and distance learning.

Fort Drum, Ny

Performed network administration and configuration for military network environment. Served as Signals Support System Specialist, installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting battlefield signal support system terminal devises (HF, FM, UHF, VHF radios), satellite communications equipment (KU, Ka, X and L band) and automated telecommunications computer systems. Major accomplishments in this role include:• Inventoried, repaired and maintained communications equipment valued at over $4M; trained, supervised and evaluated 20 personnel.• Configured, evaluated, deployed, managed and performed troubleshooting for firewalls, ids, routers, switches, security gateways, web proxy configurations, network, VOIP and VPN circuits.• Installed, configured, and maintained network monitoring applications and tools used to gather network statistics. Generated up to date, network diagrams and manuals.• Performed real-time analyses of network usage, capacity planning, modeling and configuration management to identify patterns and determine long-term technology solutions.• Planned, developed and implemented security procedures, tools, techniques and policies to ensure user access control, hardware integrity, and data security for complex network environments. Protected sensitive data and materials, ensuring compliance with security policies.• Defined new systems objectives, develop overall technical requirements, specifications, and integration methodologies, and secure sources for systems hardware/software components. • Managed disaster recovery procedures, maintained local and remote backup/security protocols. Managed user permissions, network accounts and remote network access.