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Haymarket, Va, Us

Bowie, Md, Us

Bowie, Md, Us

• Led Infrastructure Efficiency initiatives for all infrastructure assets across all Business Units resulting in reduction of operational run-rate and prolonging capital investments, reducing effort required to support operations, and improving transparency of product run rates.• Partnered with Big Data and Private Cloud teams to engineer the foundation of the InovalonONE platform. Designed an independently scalable solution built on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Hadoop, and MongoDB technologies that adapted to customers differing data sizes and SLA requirements.• Championed process automation efforts to reduced effort and time-to-market of infrastructure services including compute and storage provisioning, configuration, and migration. One automated process reduced compute deployment time by 75%, and improved supportability by reducing configuration drift.• Led planning, analysis and execution of storage and data center consolidation efforts that reduced operational costs, effort to maintain, and retired legacy hardware. • Lead Product Owner of Infrastructure Engineering responsible for aligning with Product, Development, and shared services teams to define and prioritize features that accomplished competing objectives.• Led organizations annual portfolio planning process aligning human resources and capital budget to meet company objectives.• Key contributor to the instantiation of Continuity of Operations processes, procedures and drills that ensured the organization was able to deal with adverse events and situations.

Bowie, Md, Us

• Responsible for all compute and storage infrastructure. The platform grew from 3,000 servers to over 5,500 servers, and 7 PB of storage to 13+ PB’s of storage in support of product and client expansions.• Led design, implementation, and operations of numerous technologies including Okta, FTP and Tableau. • Developed compute, storage, and virtualization standards that increased operational efficiency, agility, and reduced cost of IT services.• Led the convergence of Storage Engineering and Operations teams that improved service delivery, operations, consistency, and reduced storage related incidents.• Transitioned work intake, prioritization, and tracking practices for both Systems Engineering and Enterprise Storage teams to SAFe methodology improving delivery of final solutions which led to more features being delivered on time in support of product road maps. • Owned numerous manufacturer and vendor relationships to align technical solutions with corporate goals and objectives, implement new cutting-edge technologies that solved business challenges, and ensured solution support and expedient problem resolution.• Led hiring and mentoring of staff to fill team and organizational needs.

Bowie, Md, Us

• Managed a team of diverse system, storage, big data, and private cloud resources to complete a $6.2M project that established a brand-new colocation data center to support application disaster recovery. Facilitated technical design discussions for multiple applications; oversaw implementation of networking, compute, and storage infrastructure and technologies; planned and implemented foundational and enterprise services including Active Directory, virtualization, monitoring, logging, backup, and sFTP.• Led proof of concepts, technology selection and implementation of IaaS and PaaS solutions that transitioned the organization from monolithic SQL applications to cloud native technologies.

Bowie, Md, Us

• Managed a $4.9M project that delivered the company’s first production application in a colocation data center on converged infrastructure. Led a large team of infrastructure engineers, administrators, and outside partner vendors that engineered a solution that met application requirements; organized and supported all project procurements; developed detailed project plan and monitored status to deliver on-time; tracked and pursued action items and issues through closure; and reported status diverse stakeholders including executive leadership. The transition enabled customers to be onboarded to the platform in a quarter of the time enabling the company to realize revenue nearly a quarter earlier.• Co-led a team of systems administrators to recover critical products and services during a disaster recovery situation. Organized resources based on product priorities. Collaborated with development teams, IT operations, and leadership to gather architectural designs, provide status, identify and resolve issues, and transition recovered systems for validation and operations.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Managed a diverse team of 6 resources that established a new schedule conflict analysis capability. Led the development of a Primavera P6 database, engaged with numerous customers, performed recurring schedule analyses, presented findings, and created communication materials.• Led a cross-organizational team that identified best practices for integrating organizational portfolios, defined data requirements and processes, and recommended improvements to upper management. Developed charter and project plan, stakeholder analysis, reporting status, and presenting results. • Performed several integration impact analyses that identified risks, issues, and opportunities. Successfully tracked identified risks, performed mitigation activities, and monitored risk statuses.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Received an “On-The-Spot” award for leading a team that delivered a proof of concept that established relationships across multiple organizations. The POC demonstrated basic capabilities, organizational workflows, business value metrics, and feasibility of office wide implementation.• Served as Contracting Officer Technical Representative that managed status meetings, created modifications, and reviewed invoices for SE2020 contract task orders worth $10 Million and $4 Million.• Business Process Lead for an improvement initiative that established the offices tools management process and sub-processes including new tools acquisition and development, access and license management, configuration management, and planning. Conducted stakeholder analysis, process mapping, and change management activities.• Team Lead that successfully established the offices content management capability. Conducted stakeholder analysis; developed framework, naming standards, and attribute meta-model; captured customer requirements; configured EMC Documentum software; and led change management activities.• Managed, coordinated and ran meetings, prepared agendas, tracked action items, and documented meeting minutes as an Executive Board Secretariat.• Contributed to a cross-agency team that developed the Agency’s System Engineering competency model.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Updated major policy and process guidelines, resulting in the receipt of an “On-The-Spot Award.” Created process flows, collected and reconciled comments, and communicated changes to end users, relevant boards and stakeholders.• Systems Engineering lead for two separate projects in the Service Analysis and Concept and Requirements Definition process, with one completing ahead of schedule.• Developed artifacts, revised documentation, prepared presentations, and communicated concepts for a newly developed process to transition projects from research into acquisition phases.

• Supported large scale construction project management of two key projects. The South of Market at Reston Town Center Project had a contract value of $14.2 Million, and Buildings 31 and 32 at the Food and Drug Administration had a contract value of $11.2 Million.• Received and logged Requests For Information (RFIs) and made changes to the contract drawings. Wrote RFIs to General Contractors as needed and calculated take-offs.• Placed orders with vendors and insured timely delivery of materials through active communication and tracking.

New York, New York, Us

• Coordinated with various corporate departments to ensure the information on system changes and updates was disseminated in a timely manner. • Maintained Excel database to track project timelines.• Researched and documented processes for new tracking system.• Created and organized activities for Customer Service Appreciation Week.

Master Of Engineering, Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering, Engineering Management

Graduate Certificate, Systems Engineering And Architecting

Graduate Certificate, Project Management

High School Diploma