William Brent Lander Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Va, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Delivered over $30M in scientific and research development projects for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as TPM on an average of 8 subcontracts per year• Produced weekly project tracking reports for the Government, including timeline/schedule, burn down, current/upcoming key activities, outstanding stories/requirements, risk awareness/management, and project-specific key metrics.• Streamlined translating needs from business stakeholders, wrote numerous sub-contract solicitations, defined evaluation metrics, and evaluated the responses. • Implemented change management best practices reducing scope creep.• Expanded use of the Agile framework, coordinating nine universities creating the world’s largest federated database on available prostate tissue• Product Owner/Scrum Master for the Biospecimen Research Database web site, hosting over 2000 curated articles on biospecimen science, 500 biospecimen standard operating procedures, and thousands of biospecimen images (https://brd.nci.nih.gov/brd/). • Orchestrated between legal/regulatory requirements, stakeholder’s needs, and team member’s designs.• Improved web-site security testing with Appscan and Section 508 accessibility testing and rapid development team response.• Promoted the servant-leader model in Scrum Master role.• Coached team development projects to effectively use Jama Contour, Atlassian Jira, Jenkins, Drupal, and Docker, and as well as many languages such as Groovy, JavaScript, and Python.• Performed data mining on text documents, using Python, to determine standard meanings used across the biospecimen and biobanking industryo Generated 700 terms for caDSR (vocabulary), and 850 terms for OBIB (ontology). • Mentored team members in work plan development, progress tracking, time management, effective communications strategies, Kanban boards• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project and MS Visio), and Atlassian (Confluence, Jira) tools.

• Spearheaded the Technology for Tactical Video contract with NavAir as TPM for full software development life-cycle (SDLC) on a TRL 6 unmanned air vehicle (UAV) video sensor system.o Expanded team logical and analytical problem-solving.o Established algorithms for real-time UAV image geo-location.o Transformed systems engineering, requirements tracking, time. management, communications/reports, presentations to stakeholders.o Used Microsoft Project in developing WBS and task/schedule tracking.o Concluded project on time, on budget, meeting requirements.• Led division work on RDEC, DARPA Total Information Awareness (TIA), and direct support of the 1st Information Operations Command, Futures.o Expanded DARPA tools (e.g., Proximity, TMODS) to work with data in military databases using Oracle, MySQL. o Improved military message routing by using Python, and other tools, supporting knowledge extraction and data fusion.o Transformed academic advanced algorithms for content extraction making them robust for handling real-world message traffic.,• Produced a web-based editor for developing, searching, and distributing, simulated terrorist cell information. o Worked at customer site, INSCOM, in the Information Dominance Center, directly with Government and Military stakeholders.o Directed, evaluated, and reported on the results of experiments using both open source and AMFS message text mining.• Promoted to deputy division manager of 100-person team.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science And Applications