Certified Instructor for PMI - Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI-ACP (Agile), Microsoft Project, ITIL, Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), CompTIA A+, Security+, Network+, Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH), Microsoft Office, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 r2.

Graduate and Undergraduate Instructor for System Safety, Aviation Safety Management, Flight Safety, Accident Investigation, Safety Management, Risk Management & Loss Control, and Aircraft Crash and Emergency Management.

Helping achieve greater efficiencies, reduced costs and better performing teams.Participate in the preparation of proposals, business plans, operating budgets and financial terms/conditions of contract. Define milestones and monitor adherence to master plans and schedules. Establish project tracking mechanism with other areas of the business. Identify and confirm project team resources – core and extended. Capture and manage project issues and risks.Establish communication / escalation and change management processes. Manage and lead the overall project status reporting, Create and manage to the overall project budget / forecast.Act as a primary customer contact for program activities, leading program review sessions with customers to discuss cost, schedule and technical performance. Prepare and review the Master Program Schedule on a timely basis to coordinate the activities of all programs and project team.Mitigate risk effectively and resolve program / project obstacles. Coordinate with Finance Department to forecast milestone payments and estimate percentage of completion.Accountable for financial performance review to include P&L reporting for the programs undertaken.Support contract negotiations and be focal point for customer interface post contract award for allocated activities.

Primarily responsible to ensure that all contractual requirements are met on schedule and within budget for assigned programs. Identifies risks and opportunities to programs, and to develop and implement plans to avoid or realize them, respectively. Ancillary responsibilities include leadership and guidance of the organization's program analysis group, marketing support and proposal development, and organizational process improvement activities. Continually study, review, analyze and evaluate program progress and issues affecting cost, schedule, and performance by providing and coordinating solutions that are thorough, practical, and consistent with multiple, geographically dispersed organizational objectives.

Planned, executed and oversaw acquisition and logistics programs to meet changing needsof the Special Operations Research, Development and Acquisitions Center and its clients.Managed and coordinated human, financial and administrative resources to seamlesslyimplement large-scale projects and task orders. Prepared and distributed reports. Led 85cross-functional personnel. Selected contributions:** Pioneered and directed special operations programs in intelligence, reconnaissance,IED defeat areas that directly supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Program valuesranged from $10 million to $1 billion.** Successfully managed and executed 14 multimillion-dollar task orders with anoutstanding track record of on-time and on-budget execution. ** Analyzed and resolved immediate and long-standing issues eliminating backlogs andchoke points to improve information flow and boost productivity. ** Managed relationships with key stakeholders (including contracting officerrepresentatives and technical representatives) and proposed corrective and preventativeaction plans to ensure the accuracy, integrity and quality of task orders and specialinitiatives.

Spearheaded efforts on three urgent warfighter programs involving IED defeat technology, IED detection Technology, UAV surveillance and change detection. Planned and implemented high-impact international and multi-service advanced technology programs and initiatives.Managed timelines and budgets. Interacted with clients and program stakeholders to definerequirements and integrate initiatives into significant operational exercises and/or real-world operations.Selected contributions:** Skillfully executed testing programs that led to immediate fielding in support of theGlobal War on Terror.** Interfaced routinely with senior decision makers and staff within the government andmilitary, such as Centers of Excellence, Battle Labs, Office of the Secretary of Defense,Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency, US Cabinet, internationaldefense agencies and other national and international agencies.** Built a reputation as a forward-thinking leader with the ability to overcomechallenges while providing expertise for three imperative warfighter programs.

I was responsible for a wide range of operational assignments and command postions, culminating as Science Advisor to the US Central Command (USCENTCOM) commander.