Doctoral of Management, Information Systems Technology, University of Phoenix, 2
011 Master of Science, Information Systems, American University, 2001 Bachelor of Science, and Information Systems, University of Virginia at Wise, 19 95 Over 17 years experience as a proven IT professional in leadership and engineer ing roles in both government and commercial sectors Project Management lifecycle support Strong technical background provides soli d foundation in providing project management support to customers and engineerin g team members; Highly skilled in MS Project and MS SharePoint and BMC Remedy Detailed understanding of ITIL process and controls Collaborative leader with superior communication skills and the ability to buil d, motivate, and mentor highly successful teams Extensive background in the support and maintenance of production and developme nt infrastructures, testing workstation applications and performing software and hardware quality assurance testing Knowledge of physical and logical network infrastructure to include: TCP/IP pro tocol suite, VPN, routers, hubs, switches; hardware PCs, laptops, peripherals, server platforms Experienced in VMware, MS Windows 2003 server technologies to include Exchange 2003 and Domain Controllers, SQL, UNIX, Linux, telecomm systems
Military Experience Summary
Air Force Air National Guard 12/2007 Present Munitions, 192nd Fighter Wing, Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, Virginia Virginia Army National Guard 3/1996 9/2005 Combat Engineer, A CO 229th Engineering Battalion, Fredericksburg, Virginia, (li ght) Air Force 1983 1986 Inventory Management Specialist, Merced, California
Professional Experience Summary
Top Secret Clearance Advanced Systems Development, Arlington, VA 2/201 0 Present Quality Assurance Lead, Enterprise Services, Information Technology Management D irectorate, Washington Headquarters Services, Pentagon Provided quality control and quality assurance management support to ITMD custo mer Utilized BMC Remedy to initiate and coordinate data collection; monitored and a nalyzed data for performance metrics Performed risk/gap analysis analyzed detailed data using pivot tables showing SLA discrepancies; provided reports to customer demonstrating SLA anomalies were related to external organizations, which enabled SLA metrics to be changed in f avor of the customer Performed analysis and trending for data driven performance management; made re commendations for Incident and Problem Management (ITIL) implementation Ensured IT programs, services, and solutions provided to the customer were comp liant with Enterprise IT architecture goals Created detailed monthly program management reports and executive-level present ations for government customer, contracting and leadership review; worked with c ontracting office to address monthly equitable adjustments Assisted in the creation the Project Management Office (PMO) for WHS Enterprise Services and implemented project management standards for project initiation, e xecution (monitoring and controlling) and closing (to include Lessons Learned) Assisted the PMO in using project management best practices and established sta ndards to initiate IT projects by capturing and validating requirements. Monitor s and controls the project with appropriate project documentation to ensure that problems and issues are identified and risks are kept to a minimum
Vertical Integrations, Arlington, VA
11/2007 2/2010 Project Manager and Senior Systems Engineer, Service Design and Service Transiti on, Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) CIO, Pentagon Concurrently developed, implemented and managed a variety of IT projects in sup port of the Office of Secretary of Defense Used project management best practices and established standards to initiate IT projects by capturing and validating requirements, monitored and controlled pro jects with appropriate project documentation to ensure that problems and issues were identified and risks kept to a minimum Monitored project task progress and milestones using the ITIL framework and an in-depth project management process flow and provided input on continuous proces s flow improvement Analyzed project funding and provided project budgets, allocated funding toward s procurement and O&M as necessary per project Interacted regularly with primary government customers to include Components wi thin OSDs hierarchy to communicate project statuses and to coordinate project wo rk Provided Forward Schedule of Changes (FSOC) presented to the Board of Directors (BOD) and the ITMC for projects nearing deployment to IT Operations and attende d Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings and Enterprise Configuration Control Boar d (ECCB) meetings as necessary While managing desktop engineering projects, performed senior systems engineeri ng support (testing and validation) in the following technologies: Data at Rest (DAR), File Armor, E-Vault, File Vault, MS Office and Outlook 2007, Secure Mobil e Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME-PED) Sightline Systems Corp, Fairfax, VA 10/2001 8/2007 Systems Engineer, in support of corporate offices, staff and government customer Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Administrated the IT infrastructure for corporate offices and provided technica l support for the staff and government customers Maintained heterogeneous network infrastructure, to include the following: CISC O Pix, VPN, switches, and routers Installed Red Hat Linux, Sun SOLARIS UNIX operating systems Maintained ONXY IV OS2 phone system Provided technical support for multi-tiered applications while performing quali ty assurance of new software releases for all OS platforms and identified and do cumented software bugs in support of development teams Setup VMware and cluster environments for developers to test software releases Maintained an Exchange 2003 Server and a Blackberry Server and utilized VERITAS to backup the systems Applied SQL queries against Access 2000 database for weekly report generation Used IIS to maintain and administer the companys website and FTP site Maintained laser and color print servers for the corporate office Used Remote Desktop, PC Anywhere and Windows NetMeeting for the remote administ ration of these servers DMR, Fairfax, VA 8/1997 10/ 2000 Technical Consultant AT&T and IBM Acted as Application Administrator for Tier 2 application support and AT&T Loca l and Long Distance services, supporting residential and commercial customers Performed troubleshooting analysis and planned and certified changes to the pro duction environment. Implemented customer and conflict management, interviewing and information gath ering processes Performed data and function analysis Applied basic platform technologies (e.g., UNIX command language and SQL), Executed test case planning, development and execution and Switched Voice Servi ce ordering, provisioning and billing using proprietary UNIX business process to ols Used software development life cycle (SDLC) phases, process quality management and improvement, initiative, autonomy and accountability Troubleshot frontend and backend systems, reported and documented problems as w ell as system workarounds until code changes could be implemented Received certificate of appreciation for reducing defects per million (DPM) in 1998 Universal Systems, Inc. Fairfax, VA 1995 9/1997 Project Manager and Network Engineer, Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) Acqu isition & Technology (A&T) Performed customer support to over 1200 customers within the Office Under the S ecretary of Defense Acquisition & Technology OUSD (A&T) organization in the area s of networking, hardware and software support Integrated software onto a standard operating system image and performed functi onal testing Evaluated software performance and functionality prior to implement ation Used SMS to configure, package and push software to the user community Administrated networking software, to include, but not limited to: Form Flow, M eeting Maker and BizFax Acted as project manager for the development of a new office PC Fax station; in volved integrating software, hardware and network components to create a fully f unctional networking Office Fax PC Configured Milan boxes, which allows printers to communicate over the network Worked with team in the development of a Multimedia (MMX) system Troubleshoot LAN/WAN networks, software applications and Sun Spark systems Installed network servers and client-stations using NetBeui and TCP/IP protocol s Installed operating systems such as WFW 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows NT 3.5/4. 0 for the purpose of integrating software applications throughout the network