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• Team Lead for the Agile Defense Solutions Team, responsible for developing innovative technical and managerial solutions aligned with customer business strategies and mission objectives.
• Support business capture activities including customer outreach, research, RFI responses, draft RFP analysis, and proposal responses.
• Develop innovative management and technical solutions to support customer requirements
• Allocate solutions architects to support business capture efforts as needed, maintaining a schedule of all activities to ensure availability

San Diego, California, United States

Solutions Architect and Team Lead supporting Business Capture

San Diego, California, United States

• Navy civilian supporting the NIWC Pacific Remedy ITSM project. Responsible for the planning and coordination of all engineering efforts supporting over 13 BMC Remedy ITSM customers in Classified and Unclassified.
• Developed detailed Microsoft Project plans, highlighting critical milestone activities, due dates, and resources
• Coordinated priorities with the NIWC Pacific Project Manager, adjusting timelines and resources to ensure on-time completion
• Served as a SME for project personnel, interfacing between contractor and government personnel as needed to ensure an understanding of end user needs

San Diego, CA

Continued to support NIWC Pacific's Remedy ITSM SaaS offering as the contractor PM. Responsible for all deliverables and for the success of the project, including the planning and migration from a Navy data center to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Led substantial growth in the Classified environment offering during this time while maintaining the Unclassified.

San Diego, CA

Relocated from VA to San Diego, CA for the chance to lead a team of BMC Remedy developers/engineers supporting SSC Pacific. Responsible for all deliverables and for supporting the onboarding of DoD and other federal government agencies into the SSC Pacific Remedy ITSM software as a service (SaaS) offering.

A member of a team of experienced business development experts for pre-proposal and RFP response development supporting the Defense Sector Senior Vice President.

Deputy PM on a $213M contract supporting 105,000 Army National Guard (ARNG) network users in the 54 States and Territories across 11 time zones. Provided leadership expertise for senior-level engineers following ITILv3 best practices and Department of Defense (DoD) security and privacy requirements.

Led 60 people comprising the 3-tiered 24/7/365 Service Desk, network and firewall administrators, server administrators, Video Operations Center (VOC), Computer Network Defense (CND), and Enterprise Monitoring Tools teams operating and sustaining the ARNG GuardNet XXI network.

Provided technical guidance to project technical leads and team members for 12 SRA projects. Reported directly to the BPM while simultaneously holding other directly billable project positions.

Managed the SRA team of five engineers and software developers in a subcontracting role for the Synchronized Pre-deployment and Operational Tracker (SPOT) application.

Provided 24/7/365 server, switch, and firewall administration to support the mission-critical infrastructure, enabling trust between federal entities and selected commercial providers. Led the development of the next generation architecture and design for the FPKI and presented the design to the prime contractor and customer. This system, now implemented.

Managed the SRA team of five engineers and software developers in a subcontracting role responsible for creating automated testing scripts to validate 3rd-party enterprise collaboration and service oriented architecture (SOA) services against DISA requirements.

Managed five SRA engineers and one subcontractor while also providing hands-on UNIX system administration for the DISA Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) instant messaging / chat pilot.

Provided technical guidance and leadership for ten SRA employees and two subcontractors for the first DISA enterprise collaboration services offering including desktop collaboration, enterprise Microsoft SharePoint Portal services, and XMPP-based instant messaging / chat capability.

Provided technical guidance, leadership, and coordination for 14 engineers to upgrade the operating system and hardware of the 4,000 world-wide DTRA workstations and laptops and 150 servers, upgrade Microsoft Office and Exchange, and deploy support for the Department of Defense (DoD) PKI.

Provided hands-on system adminstration, systems engineering, and team leadership skills to various projects for DISA and the U.S. Navy. Served as the Implementation Lead for SRA's Assentor product, coordinating installation trips to brokerage houses and providing hands-on support via on-site visits or remote support.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Concentration in Project Management

Minor, Asian Studies/Civilization

Education record