CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

• More than 30 years of global experience managing large-scale IT program operations support of U.S. Government agencies, private sector firms, non-profit companies, and international organizations.
• Results-driven and astute IT Program Manager with experience managing full P&L responsibilities, maintaining customer relationships, and driving strategic growth.
• Loyal, honest and trustworthy professional with an excellent track record of managing IT budgets for highly visible programs and critical projects, while maintaining focus on the business needs of the client organizations.
• Expertise in all aspects of software and web development projects including business development, contract negotiations, design, staffing, budget, system architecture and hands-on coding.
• Highly skilled in the technical and conceptual development of hardware, software, and network products and services. Working knowledge of SDLC, PMBOK, and ITIL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Consultant May 2010 – Present
Employer: Confidential, Washington DC
Client: Confidential

• Provided expert-level program management support and Exhibit 300 guidance for the Treasury Enterprise Identity, Credential, and Access Management (TEICAM) major investment. Assisted senior Treasury officials with cyclic budget collection, consolidation, and analysis of Department-wide expenditures using the OMB MAX collaborative platform and custom reports production.
• Analyzed monthly investment data, formulated recommendations, and communicated results to Treasury PM in support of multiple projects involving all Treasury bureaus.
• Prepared and managed submission of OMB monthly investment status reports. Worked with bureaus project managers to calculate cost and schedule variances and formulated CIO comments.

Client: Confidential. (01/2011 – 04/2011)

• Managed the prototype development of custom electronic health record (EHR) software to store and distribute lab results in a secure HIPAA compliant environment. Conducted thorough analysis of HHS policy, guidance and regulations to ensure full compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Implemented a multi-factor authentication and inherent security features to protect patient health information.

Client: Confidential (5/2010 to 09/2011)

• Served as the project manager and primary point-of-contact in an interagency agreement between OMB and the Treasury Department.
• Managed data collection and dashboard development for the TEICAM, IT Infrastructure, and Green IT initiatives using OMB MAX, a SaaS/cloud-style offering used across the Federal Government to collaborate, pool resources and share information.
• Managed monthly data calls to collect investment cost, schedule, and performance metrics for reporting on the Federal IT Dashboard.
• Directly managed stakeholder relationships, identified customer’s business needs, developed new requirements/tasks, secured supplementary project funding, and supported best value solutions to both OMB and Treasury.
• Managed all phases of deliverables, including but not limited to: project scheduling, milestones, user training, bureau presentations, transition activities, and task completion.
• Directly supported Federal senior management and applied project management best practices to recommend and solve organizational challenges, resulting in programmatic success.
• Provided consulting services to the federal program manager on strategic sourcing and implementation of ITIL Service Catalog to support Treasury’s ITIL initiative. Received online training on ITIL Fundamentals. Researched and evaluated COTS products to implement the Treasury’s Service Catalog and assisted in the preliminary solution implementation on SharePoint.

Program Manager, Solutions Architecture May 2005 – April 2010
Employer: Confidential, Vienna, VA
Client: Confidential (5/2009 to 4/2010)

• Managed a team of technical and SME staff providing technical, analytical, consultative, and project management support services to Treasury’s OCIO Program Management Office.
• Corroborated with Federal Chief Architect to ensure accurate and timely submission of EA segment reports by Treasury’s bureaus, in compliance with OMB’s EA Assessment Framework (EAAF) guidelines.
• Developed the IT Infrastructure Segment, in accordance with Federal Segment Architecture Methodology (FSAM) and cloud computing reference documentation. Supported the initial planning phase of Data Center Consolidation Initiative (DCCI) for the Department of the Treasury.
• Performed a detailed assessment of the Treasury department’s EA repository and configuration management system, made recommendations, and worked with the vendor to propose and implement modifications and enhancements.
• Performed a detailed technical and functional review of Troux software, a COTS application used by the EA team. Worked closely with the vendor and the hosting provider to develop a detailed analysis of suitability of the COTS product to the department’s needs. The analysis resulted in a significant savings for the government by eliminating the outdated software and the related hosting cost.

Client: Confidential, (5/2008 to 5/2009)

• Managed a team of data modelers and data architects as the Project Manager and the technical lead to develop and maintain the Enterprise Data Model (EDM), to ensure compliance with the Federal EA framework, maintain and enhance Enterprise Architecture Repository (EAR), establish and define data quality procedures and standards.
• Developed a wiki website to close the communication gap between federal EA team and contractor project teams, as well as provide a collaborative environment for documenting logical/physical data elements, enterprise data dictionaries, taxonomies, glossary of terms, data policies, and procedures.
• Ensured compliance with data quality aspects of PBGC’s System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and provided feedback to the management team to improve the data quality procedures and processes.

Client: Confidential (9/2007 to 5/2008)

• Led the development effort for a first responder credentialing database. Developed a Logical Data Model (LDM) based on the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) requirements and implemented a prototype solution in accordance to the Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). Conducted market research analysis and assessment of available Credentialing COTS products such as CoreStreet’s PIVMAN and AssureTec’s driver license and passport scanners. Developed an end-to-end pilot system as the proof of concept.

Client: Confidential (11/2006 to 2/2007)

• Supported the migration of the HRC database to a new Oracle data warehouse. Reviewed and analyzed a new Logical data Model and enhanced the existing management reports. Performed data quality audits to evaluate the conversion process and proposed solutions to identify and correct data anomalies.

Client: Confidential (5/2005 to 7/2006)

• Responsible for the independent verification and validation (IV&V) of the Licensing Information System (LIS) development project for the Department of Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Defined, developed, and implemented the Software Verification and Validation Plan (SVVP) based on the PMI and IEEE standards. Scheduled and maintained project’s Risk Register and attended regular risk management meetings.
• Audited the development activity of a business process management PBM, enterprise data management activities and workflow systems performed by the prime contractor. Supervised the installation and configuration of Microsoft Enterprise Project Management software in support of Project Management Office (PMO) at OCC. Assisted in the development of OCC’s Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Director, Database Product Development August 2004 – May 2005
Employer: Confidential, McLean, VA

• As the director of a newly established non-profits department, managed the migration of the company’s primary association CRM database solution to the fundraising vertical market.
• Managed and specified the overall product management strategies and worked with the sales and marketing departments to develop and implement a comprehensive marketing plan.
• As the technical lead, managed a team of software engineers and data modelers to define, develop, and implement a web based CRM solution using multi-tenant SaaS model.

Director, Software Development July 2001 – July 2004
Employer: Confidential, Lanham, MD

• Managed the non-profit database department with full P&L responsibility for the business unit and a team of project managers and software engineers. Delivered multiple database integration projects with a focus on the client expectations, quality standards, and deadlines.
• Successfully managed a major release of MoneyMaker, Merkle's main fundraising database product to support new market demands for a CRM solution. The full enhancement of the product line resulted in a 35% operating profit in 2002 for the database department.
• Successfully developed a distributed processing and load management system for the conversion of 1.7 billion records from a mainframe environment to a server based grid environment. The solution used COTS and custom ETL tools, data cleansing procedures, and attribute management. The final prototype was a major factor in winning a $30M multi-year contract from CapitalOne Bank.

President/CTO September 1995 - July 2001
Employer: Confidential, Rockville, MD
As the founder of Technosoft in an entrepreneurial start-up setting, I was involved with all aspects of business development, contract negotiations, solution development, staffing, budget, system architecture, and hands-on coding. 
Client:Confidential (2001)

• Led design and development of a web based solution for internationalization of RFE/RL website. The developed solution integrated the corporate’s backend SQL Server database and audio file repository into a web site to provide a multilingual interface using Unicode. The project involved investigating and implementing latest XML and SMIL technologies.

Client: Confidential, Rockville, MD (1999- 2001)

• Led design and development of an Internet site for sending Persian/Arabic email. The bidirectional logic was implemented as a custom ColdFusion tag using JavaScript and C++. The dynamic web pages of this site use custom XML tags to markup the transliterated text and the conversion engine generates an HTML message ready to be sent over the internet. Postchi.com became the top Persian/Arabic destination for more than 2000+ unique visitors a day.

Client:Confidential, Washington DC(1999-2001)

• Lead developer and database architect of the Student Metro Cards Application and Database. The project involved the reverse engineering of an undocumented system and development of a new solution. The student database was successfully redesigned and delivered on time.

Client: Confidential, Washington DC (1995-2000)

• Project manager for migration of 50+ Notes databases to the Internet using domino. The project involved redesign of the existing databases to take advantage of Domino features. Project included data warehousing, data quality audit, workflow analysis, production procedures, ETL, and conversion of SGML to RTF for Lotus Notes import.
• Technical lead for the conversion segment of the BNA Web Delivery project. The conversion involved more than 30 different SGML data types and multiple DTDs. All the modules were developed using Omnimark to convert SGML to a well-formed XML formats and perform data quality checks and improvements.
• Responsible for the collection of system requirements and development of the system architecture. The process involved the selection of a WEB database publishing vendor, evaluation of third-party tools, evaluation of the XML technology, and design of a central XML data repository.
• Redesigned of the code repository of the IT department and modularized source codes into functional libraries. The project was completed on time and budget with 75% of reusable code.
• Developed an import filter to parse and populate Lotus Notes database from XML. Also designed an intermediate Notes XML DTD and wrote tools to convert BNA’s SGML data into XML. My white paper regarding this project was accepted for presentation at SGML/XML 97.

Independent Consultant April 1990 to September 1995
Client: Confidential (09/1993-09/1995)

• Design and developed two auto-tagger DLLs to convert MS Word and WordPerfect documents to SGML. These converters were developed using Lex&Yacc and Visual C++ to parse RTF or WordPerfect documents and to generate an SGML document based on a pre-defined DTD. To view and print the generated SGML document, I also designed a Microsoft Windows application to parse the SGML format and paginate it for viewing and printing. The SGML viewer was developed using MFC and Visual C++ and supported all the text attributes, multiple font, images and graphics, tables, and running heading and footers.
• Client: Confidential, Washington DC (11/1992-09/1993)
• Developed a terminal emulation program to front-end the mainframe application and convert the incoming screens to Arabic. This Windows application was developed using Borland C++ and Arabic Windows SDK and used DDE and HLPI to communicate with the host UNISYS mainframe.
• Designed an automated data entry system to process large number of export authorization forms submitted by the companies exporting goods to Saudi Arabia. I developed a Visual Basic program that will assist users fill out the application form. Using high speed scanners and TeleForm software, the commercial office scans these forms and stores relevant information into an SQL server.

Client: Confidential, Bethesda, MD (04/1990-11/1992)

• As a key developer of the BookManager product, I participated in the development of the VM version of the product using Script/VS, REXX, and C. BookManager/Build converts tagged documents (Script, CALS SGML and BookMaster) to digital books. I converted BookManger/Build from VM to the MVS operating system with a new ISPF user interface. I was the development coordinator for the translation of the product into several languages (NL Feature). Participated in the design of the future releases of the BookManager product.

Senior Programmer and Analyst January 1985 to April 1990
Employer: Confidential, Malvern, PA

• Coordinated a major conversion project to convert existing documents from a customized SCRIPT environment to BookMaster. Provided input to management for long-term electronic publishing planning and standards. Installed and maintained IBM's publishing products.
• As a systems programmer, I installed, maintained and customized several major components of an MVS/XA environment. Used SMP/E to install, maintain, and apply fixes and PTFs to IBM software. Performed problem determination and dump debugging on a daily and on-call basis. Supported JES2 and the company's first NJE install. Installed, customized, and supported IBM's Advanced Function Printing (PSF, DCF, PMF, GDDM). Coordinated a major upgrade of 3800/3 and 3820 printers.
• Learned VTAM application programming and developed a Network Solicitor Program to reroute the TSO logons to the system specified by the Operations.

Paid Intern/Programmer December 1983 to December 1984
Employer: Confidential, Danville, PA

• Developed a personnel database system that maintained the employee's information. Analyzed a mainframe-based, timesharing preventive Maintenance system and rewrote it to run on a departmental PC. Wrote a custom spreadsheet program (in Basic) to implement a labor forecast algorithm used by the engineering department.

EDUCATION: Confidential University, 
B.S., Computer and Information Sciences / Mathematics, Magna cum Laude
Confidential University, 
Graduate level courses in Project Management

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Project Management Professional (PMP)

• Darya, Saeed. "Importing XML Documents to Lotus Notes. An Electronic Publishing Project at the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc." Pages 231-233 in SGML/XML '97 Conference Proceedings.

• Programming Languages: C++, C#, Visual Basic, Java, PHP, XML, SQL, .Net
• Database Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle DBMS, Data Warehousing, ETL Development, REST, ADO.net
• Content Management: Microsoft SharePoint 2007-2010, Atlassian Confluence, Drupal
• Web Development: ColdFusion, ASP.net, PHP, Amazon EC2, Google App Engine
• Productivity Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Visio, Microsoft Project, OMB MAX