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Owings Mills, Md, Us

Owings Mills, Md, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

Supports Army ARAT 5CISR as a Quality Assurance Engineer and Process Improvement Analyst. Performs CMMI Process Audits and Training.Performs QA audits of work products. Attends Scrum meetings and Sprints.Mentoring.Test Witness (Monthly IAVA, Acceptance Test, Dry Runs), facilitator of bug closeout, and after-action reviews. (Lessons Learned)Supports ground and air EA and EP systems. SW Tools: SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence, TFS, GitLab, Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe, Wireshark, SonarQube, PowerShell.OS: Windows 10, Windows 11, LinuxHardware: Oscilloscope, Signal Analyzer, Signal Generator, Software-defined Radio.Other: FCC Technician License, Rotary and Fixed Wing Avionics, Radio Frequency

Provides policy and regulatory review oversight – GDPR, HIPAA, 508, consumer protection, and e-commerce for multiple clients. Cloud support AZURE, ASW, YahooDynamics {Base and Field Office}Performs GAP and BPM analysis using best practice and industry standards. PMO – Proposal bid support and presentations for new business development.Financial – Identity and fraud support. Data Science applications.BPM – PEGA, UML, VISIO, PPT.Proposal business support: MD tax oversight project – Bid, Architecture review, Test Plan MD Campaign system – Bid, Architecture review, Test PlanCHK Chesapeake – Nat Gas Distribution ERP system for work order – Architecture review Infosec WordPress hardening (multiple clients)

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, Us

Supported Census 2020.Developed Integration test cases, ran tests, for the Census non-id processing system. Used big data tools – Ambari, NiFi, Hadoop for test proof of artifact.Provided support for PMO- ALM, Reporting, and business intelligence metrics, dashboards, policy, best practice, and training. Developed How to, Checklists, Templates. Mapped all work products and process.Participated in three Change Review boards per week performing impact assessments.Mentored junior staff members.

Created custom SOP for clients combining MS AX, UMAX (ERP) with Baltimore DPW Process. Performed detailed forensic analysis of unbilled accounts due to the meter or billing exceptions.Tested ITS, UAT, and Fix packs, using Microsoft MTM (Test Manager) and TFS (Team Foundation Server). Developed test cases for simulated technical interfaces.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Elicited and fulfilled functional and technical business requirements for stakeholders affecting 3 million customers and saving 2 million dollars a year in labor cost. Decomposed technical specifications to develop use cases and test processes. Provided project support, using Scrum Agile techniques (User Stories, Estimation). Developed regression and UAT testing resulting in final deployment being bug-free. Supported multiple projects simultaneously, with new deployments on a daily or weekly basis.

Greenbelt, Md, Us

Performed GAP analysis (SIPOC) and process mapping on center's software estimation process, procedures, and tools resulting in process improvements and identified new training initiatives. Participated in NASA Goddard Software Engineering Process Group SEPG and CMMI SCAMPI-A Assessment Team leading to successful accreditation.Elicited requirements from over 100 individuals including stakeholders, development leads, programming teams, and end users for various projects.Pioneered, debugged a new BPM system for organizing all aspects of artifact collection, collaboration, and regulations reporting. Performed Data Extraction, filtering and formatting. One year project completed in 3 months.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Spearheaded the team to stabilize the IRS modernization infrastructure. Uptime increased from 75% to 99% in six months. Millions of dollars saved in less downtime cost and less restoration team labor cost. Provided in-depth Root Cause analysis with corrective actions utilizing Opnet, Tivoli, and various tools for real-time diagnosis in a complex environment. Participated in CMMI SCAMPI-A Assessment Team leading to successful completion.Managed the support team to provide 24 x 7 x 365 on-call support.Developed WBS, functional requirements, budget, estimating, SLA contracts, and capacity planning projections.

Baltimore, Md, Us

Performed system conversion to Cisco Works 2000 and Cisco Works Blue SNA.Performed installation and configuration of switches using ISM, IOS, and Cisco Works.Spearheaded projects to design, test (UAT), implement shell scripts, and procedures to verify Year 2000 compliance of hardware and software.Provided installation, administration, and performance tuning for AIX, Solaris, and Windows Server.Developed system to provide data extraction and upload software in off-hour automated process saving $40,000 in overtime.