• Manage DC Rate Study contracts, ensuring that projects are high quality and completed on time and within budget. • Lead teams on rate creation, service improvement, research, and reporting. • Manage employees and subcontractors to ensure control over risks, budgets, schedules, scope, and deliverables and adhere to approved project plans.• Provided PM structure for the CMS DVA Data Validation project. Organized tasks to ensure the team stayed on track and executed tasks that provided value to the client. Contributed to coding strategy for creating Opioid Measures. Helped devise an audit plan to ensure proper reporting of data from QIN-QIOs.

• Key thought partner and leader in information solutions and services.• Worked with the IT Director to identify all tasks performed as well as additional tasks to be performed, determined the skills and LOE for each task, and created a recommended staffing and outsourcing plan to meet the IT work need. • Created a backlog of improvement tasks, prioritized them, and managed and tracked the implementation of tasks. Reviewed with IT leadership on a weekly basis. • Identified the need for cybersecurity protection beyond what was in place. Researched various cybersecurity vendors, evaluated them, and presented findings and recommendations to Executive Management. CrowdStrike was chosen as the vendor. Organized the installation activities with CrowdStrike and the IT Staff.• Created a Monthly Helpdesk Ticket Report and analyzed data to provide a better understanding of the type of help provided by the IT staff. Created at-a-glance dashboards to show the status of tickets. Presented to Executive Management. Followed up with staff on improving tracking of tickets.• Participate in proposal generation providing information for IT Testing, IT Planning, and other IT-related areas

•Operate record label, maintain accounting, and negotiate contracts.•Serve as producer, songwriter, remixer, and recording engineer.•Released several recordings on independent and major labels; negotiated deal for the use of one of the recordings in the major motion picture “Double Team”.•Performed on several European tour dates.

• Monitored multiple projects supported by over 50 staff members (data architects, project managers, system architects, web developers, IV&V engineers, information security officers) across different areas of the contract and remain engaged with stakeholders to ensure their satisfaction with work performance and that their needs are being met. • Rapidly addressed new requirements from the client and identify and onboard personnel to meet those specific needs. • Ensured that Nimbus met all GSA and FAR compliance requirements and coordinated as well as performed activities necessary to remain in compliance.• Handled GSA-related activities such as updates to pricing schedules, registration for additional SINs, and financial reporting activities.• Managed a Forward Engineering Team charged with integrating Master Data Management processes into CMS lines of business and exploring new technologies to support provider identification. • Performed project management tasks (schedules, risk tracking, etc.) for initiatives to integrate Medicaid Data into Medicare Data for the purposes of using probabilistic matching to create provider indexes to be used to identify providers across both domains.• Handled reporting needs as required by CMS (monthly status, personnel info requests, financial reporting, work definition, etc.). Developed status reports, cost estimates, and resource allocation plans.• Handled contracts and other agreements with subcontractors including negotiations, hours, rates, contract modifications, and contract coordination across periods of performance. Forecasted and monitored hourly burn rates of subcontractors to prevent depletion of hours before the end of periods of performance. • Handled personnel tasks such as hiring, resource allocations, on-boarding/off-boarding, timesheets, payroll issues, and invoices. Ensured CMS-directed training and certifications were completed by all staff.

• Manage a Forward Engineering Team charged with integrating Master Data Management processes into the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) and other lines of business in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).• Devised semi-automated FFM Test Activity Status dashboard that consolidated individual status reports from the various testing leads.• Worked with CMS to drive Inter-Agency IRS End-of-Year testing activities to on-time completion.• Worked with CMS to schedule and manage Enrollment Reconciliation and Data Cleanup activities with the FFM.• Worked with the Quality Measurement & Health Assessment Group (QMHAG) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement project management best practices across four divisions. Focus was on setting up schedule management, risk management, and communications management.• Worked with QMHAG staff to overhaul current schedules and create more maintainable schedules. Identified work breakdown structures in order to create new schedules and define appropriate level of activity tracking for division, group, and agency wide reporting.• Integrated QMHAG schedules into the CMS agency-wide integrated schedule.• Implemented automated dashboards across divisions.• Set up training for schedule maintenance and risk tracking.

HIPAA 5010 Initiative at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).• Managed a team of Project Managers on the HIPAA 5010 Project at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Focus was on driving over 30 Medicare Systems and 10 Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) towards EDI compliance with the new HIPAA 5010 standards for healthcare transactions. This project was a five year, $113M effort.• Worked with CMS to keep system development, testing, and implementation cycles synchronized for Core Systems, Downstream Systems, and MACs in order to meet all milestones.• Assisted CMS with IT Strategic Planning. Defined, prioritized, and tracked milestones for affected systems and ensured appropriate funding.• Worked with CMS in carrying out Communications Management. Devised outreach plans. Prepared presentations for upper management, executive committees, seminars, and user groups.• Identified and tracked issues and risks. Proposed and executed appropriate mitigation strategies and contingencies.• Monitored project health by creating and maintaining project schedules, dashboards, status collection sheets, risk analysis sheets, data flow diagrams, and budget tracking reports.• Coordinated and tracked work to be performed by CMS and Paragon staff.

Terrestrial Data and Applications Framework• Project Manager for the Terrestrial Data Application Framework (TDAF) project. Coordinated activities for construction of business case to be presented to executive committee for approval. Managed COTS product evaluation activities (initial talks, demos, deep dives, technical evaluation, and procurement activities), interface implementation costing, additional hardware/software costing, contractor support, and data cleanup support.• Conducted weekly meetings with project team and Executive Steering Committee to monitor project progress, effectively communicate status on project deliverables, and facilitated issue resolution.• Drove and maintained project schedule based on collaboration with business and IT units.

New Strategic Initiative Governance• Led the collection and analysis of monthly project health metrics for over 70 New Strategic Initiatives (budgeted at over $140M).• Partnered with business unit PMOs to ensure standardized metric definitions as needed. Prepared monthly and ad-hoc project performance metric presentations for executives and senior management reviews.• Set up tracking of New Strategic Initiative portfolio to include status of schedules, scope, staffing, and benefits. Also tracked risks and budgets (approved, forecast, actuals).PMO Manager• Managed team of quality facilitators in monitoring and evaluating application team compliance with SDLC, SOX, and accounting standards during the Fannie Mae restatement effort.• Identified opportunities for the automation of tasks performed by the PMO team. Led design and guided implementation of solutions.• Provided budget support to vice-president. Led creation of Master Data sheet to track employee rates, cost centers, project codes, managers, onboard/offboard information, and vendors for each employee. Provided budget planning support.• Led effort to improve usability of the Quality Management home page for both internal and external customers by streamlining design, cleaning up obsolete links, setting up tool and guidance sections for internal use by Quality Facilitators, and providing appropriate information for external use.• Maintained reports and dashboards in support of the Fannie Mae restatement effort.

Ground Network Information Systems• Managed all software development and deployment activities for 4 software products: Intelsat Americas 9 Ground Network Software, FSS Ground Network Software Improvements, Intelsat-X Ground Network Software, and Intelsat Commercial Launch and Satellite Support (CLASS).• Defined and prioritized project milestones based on needs assessments of software functionality and kept in line with release schedules and project delivery dates.• Prepared project budgets including gathering and analyzing cost and technical information, such as the $3 million budget for dual beacon monitoring and the $500K budget for hardware-based IS-X spacecraft monitoring.• Coordinated weekly meetings to assess problem report impact, investigated and resolved issues, followed up on engineering and testing action items, and prioritized problem reports in order to reliably meet project milestones.• Tracked development and testing status during delivery cycles using IBM Rational ClearQuest, and resolved potential software development and testing schedule conflicts or issues.• Oversaw software delivery and test efforts both at Intelsat headquarters and at Intelsat’s program office located at the satellite manufacturer facility.

Ground Network Systems • Provided solutions to Intelsat, including defining test strategies, environments, and plans for software and hardware system functionality submitted for independent integration test and validation.• Generated and scheduled testing to validate system interfaces, performance, and functionality.• Managed software build environment and synchronized changes submitted by both off-shore and in-house software developers.• Wrote and reviewed subsystem requirements to ensure compatibility with current architecture and client needs.• Tracked and packaged software deliverables utilizing Microsoft Source Safe.• Assisted satellite control facility personnel with resolution of deployed software problems.• Served as configuration manager for PC-based subsystem software.

Senior Analyst, 1994 - 1996• Wrote, maintained, and improved reports used by TV Service Center personnel in advising clients during booking procedures.• Implemented applications software for EDI interface to facilitate booking requests for occasional-use global broadcasters.• Interacted with users to implement new requirements and features. Software Engineer, 1990-1994• Designed and implemented Antenna Positioning Command Assistance Program (ANTCAP) to allow users to reposition antennae.• Modified interactive commanding interfaces and served as point of contact for users during requirements development.• Implemented Command Coordination System (CCS) redundancy. Modified requirements and performed extensive regression testing of the CCS subsystems to ensure successful switchover in the event of primary processor failure.