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Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Led and mentored project teams on programmatic and technical decisions to deliver quality products efficiently. Responsible for exercising a full range of project management responsibilities; coordinating with multi-functional teams of scientists, engineers, technologists, project-management professionals, and business staff in a highly-matrixed environment. Primary interface to Sandia management and Sandia customers and sponsors. Interfaced with senior management across multiple SNL organizations routinely. • Improved upon, developed, planned, implemented, and delivered Agile capabilities (e.g. trainings, career development, mentoring and coaching programs, etc.) that enable Sandia’s projects/programs to achieve a successful implementation. • Led project teams, customers, and management in the implementation and execution of Agile methodologies, which included assessing the technical and programmatic needs of the project and then planning and managing schedule, scope, risks (technical and non-technical) opportunities, issues, and cost of implementation ensuring full and proper project integration. • Partnered with technical project leads, program management professionals, and management to identify, recommend, and implement improvements to technical (e.g. systems engineering, quality management, etc.) and project management processes /tools utilizing Agile methodologies consistently and effectively. • Coached and trained leadership and teams in team level and enterprise level Agile, specifically using Scrum, the Kanban Method, ScrumBan, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and others. • Worked in peer-level relationships with the project technical leads throughout Sandia to oversee development and production for high-rigor projects, and presenting project status reporting to a community including internal and external customers, and upper level management.

Richland, Washington, United States

Manage a portfolio of multi-year, high-impact institutional investment projects. Examples:• Unified Assets Management (2021-present) – A multi-year initiative to unify and streamline existing assets systems into a single, intuitive platform.• Smart3 (2019-present) – A multi-year initiative to streamline and improve the capabilities for requesting and executing facility-related work, including automation and digitization of many currently manual processes.• Operations Management Stabilization (2021) – Address critical issues in 10+ high visibility systems to reduce operational and compliance risks while improving user experience and efficiency.• Line Management Model Implementation (2019) – Reimagine the line management model at PNNL and implement process and business system changes to support the new model.o Work with Agile teams on a daily basis in the role of Product Owner/Backlog Manager.o Partner with senior leadership in Research and Operations to define, prioritize and execute projects to deliver maximum value to the institution.o Champion of high-quality software engineering and project management practices, routinely providing thought leadership to communities of practice in both areas.

Richland, Washington, United States

• Served as Quality Management & Operations Program Manager• Responsible for the design, improvement, and delivery of the NQA-1 based Quality Assurance program to the 4500+ staff members at PNNL.• Served as leader for the Quality Assurance group, a team of 30+ Quality Engineers and Professionals deployed across PNNL to deliver quality expertise.• Championed the evaluation and improvement of processes to maximize efficiency and effectiveness to enable the Laboratory mission.• Model, create and reinforce a culture of quality and operational excellence.

Richland/Kennewick/Pasco, Washington Area

• Led the improvement of the PNNL Software QA program - working with researchers and software engineers from across PNNL to develop and deploy an effective software development process.• Performed SQA Assessments/Audits to identify risk and drive improvement.• Led the lab-wide Software Quality Practitioner Community.

Richland/Kennewick/Pasco, Washington Area

• Software Quality Lead for multiple major National Security programs.• Developed Quality Plans, Test Plans and performed Product Testing.• Served as an agile Scrum Master for several projects.

Walla Walla

• Led the company-wide Business Process Improvement project – a 2-year effort to re-engineer the company’s business processes and upgrade the legacy ERP system.• Managed a team of developers and technicians across 7 sites in 5 countries.• Established an IT Governance process that brought business unit leaders together with IT leadership to develop strategies and prioritize IT investments.

• Supported over 100 research and business projects with quality planning, requirements development, data modeling, process improvement, auditing, test planning, and testing.

Master'S Degree, Computer Systems

Bachelor'S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering