SUMMARY

Qualifications include extensive financial management, scheduling, and technical knowledge of various SSBN and SSGN programs for the Navy as integrated product team lead. Technical writer for various publications with knowledge in HTML, SGML, and XML. Collaborate extensively with program and technical management, documentation development team internal and external , and SP customer. Provide and support innovative and integrated solutions to meet changing customer needs. Familiar and compliant to Fleet Doc process 100 . Advanced Microsoft Office knowledge. Willing to travel and currently hold a Department of Defense Secret security clearance.

WORK HISTORY

Confidential

Integrated Product Team IPT Lead

• Primary Fleet Documentation representative for all software change proposals SCPs , software change requests SCRs , problem reports PRs that impact Fleet Documentation. Regularly present status at the software change control board SCCB .
• Understanding of engineering systems
• 100 compliance with Fleet Documentation and SP processes and operational concepts.
• Excellent planning and leadership skills. Management of various processes, directing all phases from start to finish.
• Regularly attend status meetings, customer and concept review meetings, and design reviews, which frequently requires travel.
• Primary customer contact pertaining to Fleet Documentation tactical development programs. Frequent collaboration with internal and external program and engineering teams and stakeholders
• Position requires critical evaluation of complex situations, strong decision making, and ability to solve challenging technical and programmatic risks, issues, and problems as they occur.
• IPT Lead responsible for developing, coordinating, and maintaining multiple documentation program budgets, baselines, and comprehensive integrated schedules for several tactical SSBN/SSGN programs.

Confidential

• Graphics authoring experience working with Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw for multiple proposal/project efforts.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills working frequently with Project, Word, Power Point, and Excel.
• Adhere to strict documentation compliance and standards with knowledge of various military specification documents, policies, and procedures.
• HTML/SGML/XML experience with tagging changes in a technical information database TIDB for end-user documentation.

Technical writer authoring various descriptive, operation, and maintenance ordnance documents and ordnance publications, along with updating procedural content fault isolation indications FIIs , fault isolation trees FITs , corrective maintenance procedures CMPs in relation to TRIDENT II SWS and AWS with a focus in Fire Control, Mk 6 Mod 1 Guidance System GS , Small Computer System Interface Media Generation System SMGS , Strategic Systems Programs Electronic Technical Documentation SSPETD , Littoral Combat Ship LCS , Joint High Speed Vessel JHSV , and Attack Weapons Control Systems AWCS .

Confidential

• Production associate in fleet documentation responsible for providing desktop publishing editing, formatting, proofreading, and auditing of documents and manuals to military standards.
• Developed and standardized training curricula for Joint High Speed Vessel JHSV that was presented to Fleet for knowledge of operating electronic, navigation, communication, safety equipment, and voyage data recorder systems aboard the ship.
• Traveled to the proposal center of excellence PCOE in Fairfax, VA to assist with the LCS proposal. Responsibilities included desktop publishing, graphics updating, PDF conversions, technical research and understanding of company products, establishing technical and cost volume templates, working to compliance matrices and schedule, and organizational skills, including the ability to meet strict deadlines and multi-task effectively. Supported various other proposal efforts to include Shipboard Electronics Repair Facility SERF and LCS 6. Received a star award for performance excellence on the LCS proposal.
• Also worked in mechanical engineering department using solid modeling programs Pro Engineering to develop/design complex parts for the LCS.

WORK HISTORY CONT'D

Confidential

News Editor

• Wrote features and various news articles for three monthly publications Photonics Spectra, BioPhotonics, and Europhotonics. Wrote a monthly column called Slices from the breadboard attributing to patent news. Responsible for creating monthly calendar for BioPhotonic trade show list and organizing contents pages for each publication. Some html experience posting to photonics.com Web site.
• Excellent researching, editing, interviewing, and writing skills with enhanced technical writing capabilities. Significant interpersonal communication skills. Social committee member for company of over 80 employees.
• On site reporting at the Optifab 2009 tradeshow in Rochester, New York.

Confidential

Reporter

Wrote several front-page news stories to include Church as poll is protested, Religious symbols OK at polling site, Lewis lead life of activism and creativity and Smokers ready to pay health tax on cigarettes. Reported live on New England Cable News for the Worcester area. Over 50 articles published with various areas of interest from school events to the Special Olympics. Main writer in keeping up with town elections for six communities. Lead writer for multiple stories. Excellent writing, editing, interviewing and researching skills.