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A highly motivated, results-focused Project/Program Manager with over twenty-five years in the IT profession primarily focused on systems and software engineering. For the last fifteen years successfully led and managed projects on schedule, within budget and delivered value-added products and services.

A highly motivated, results-focused Project/Program Manager with twenty-five years in the IT profession primarily focused on systems and software engineering. For the last fifteen years successfully lead and managed projects on schedule and within budget. For the last five years managed teams of 50 to 210 people delivering technical solutions and services with annual sales ranging from $19M to $40M on Treasury IDIQ vehicles.  Successfully brought in new business as capture manager, proposal manager and technical volume lead including a $143.7M contract win

A highly motivated, results-focused Project/Program Manager with over twenty-five years in the IT profession primarily focused on systems and software engineering. For the last fifteen years successfully led and managed projects on schedule, within budget and delivered value-added products and services:I bring the experience of working in the computer software development; data management; software simulation; software testing; project management and Program management for 25+ years and would like to use this experience in making my clients successful. Please review this list and my resume for a possible fit for your requirements.• Worked in multiple roles for 12 years performing Systems Engineering, integrating and modernizing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).• Developed IRS content management Enterprise Architecture, integration strategy, and functioning prototype.• Co-developed EA for U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).• Received outstanding reviews for providing flawless IT support for the MDA Director’s 7th National Conference at the Reagan Convention Center in Washington D.C.• Led a 12 person task to perform alternatives analysis of methodologies and products that were in use or planned to be in use for modernizing IRS applications and systems. • Monitored deliverable schedules and costs using EVM methodology – this resulted in providing the client with an early warning and insight into the cost and schedule progress of the task order. • Gained client’s confidence enough to communicate that the client was the “choke-point” in the process of delivering a quality product to the user base. This finding initiated the introduction of a government Project Manager for the specific application and enabled the project to get back on schedule for the tax processing season.

Provided strategic planning and hands-on project management for a software development project to develop a custodial account reconciliation system.Used "people skills" to focus and motivate 17 highly technical experts (ALC programmers) to complete the design and development of the software.Produced and implemented the Software Development Plan for CAP's twin software builds. Co-authored and implemented the methodology to estimate time needed to turn functional requirements into testable specifications. Accomplishments:Within schedule, successfully completed the Operations Capability Demonstration (OCD) of the Tax Account Sub Ledger - TASL Build 1 - the first build on CAP.Led the development team in achieving CMM Level 3 rating.

program management and strategic planning to the IRS Tier II Y2K Program Office.Managed eight to ten senior IT systems engineers. Applied systems lifecycle processes to the client's Application System (software development) projects to ensure databases, operating systems and platforms were Y2K compliant.Reported weekly to IRS executives on state of Y2K health with regard to Tier II Service-wide.Co-authored materials and processes for information gathering to gain a programmatic view of the progress towards Y2K compliance.

Supported ongoing IRS systems development and integration projects in the areas of project planning, requirements definition and engineering, test and deployment planning and system lifecycle compliance. Presented findings and recommendations of Project Assessment Reviews (PARs) and Critical Design Reviews (CDRs) to executive level clients.Managed 5 senior systems engineers made up of employees and teammates. Accomplishment:Timely delivery of the IRS Wrapper Package to the PRIME contractor bidders, which represented a large portion of the IRS' requirements.

Architected and prototyped the Business Management System for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in collaboration with customer subject matter experts. Provided technical direction and oversight to 18 software developers working on multiple concurrent software development / COTS integration tasks using Visual Basic and C++.Served as Software Configuration Control Manager for the Business Management System and Investment Portfolio Management System used by the customer to manage buying and selling Treasury securities.Frequent executive and senior level customer interaction at the client site.Acting Project Manager when Project Manager absent. Accomplishment:Operational system built on schedule and within budget.

Led two software developers who built and rapid prototyped user interfaces using Visual Basic (VB).Active participant in the total system design and development with primary responsibility for the error processing engine in Visual C++.Accomplishment:Successfully demonstrated to customer how interface design fulfilled their business requirements.

Developed, executed and maintained the data integrity plan across the IRS CHEXS project.Developed the U.S. Marine Corps' TERPES database and its X-Windows user interface.Designed and implemented the Integrated Database (IDB) on a SUN Sybase platform.Demonstrated and instructed relational database theory to the customer.Modified and redesigned previously developed message control software and maintained database access to the ASWOC Oracle database. Accomplishment:Customer acceptance of the ASWOC detailed database design.

Designed, developed, implemented and maintained the U.S. Marine Corps' Tactical Systems Inter/Intra-operability Database system.Designed relational databases and provided software engineering.

Calibrated and tested precision electronic and mechanical equipment used throughout the Air Force.

Education record

Bs, Electronic Engineering