SUMMARY:

8 + years of project management experience managing a broad range of projects, including: software, infrastructure, and manufacturing. 5 ½ years of government proposal, costing, financial analysis experience.

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS:

Operating System Windows xp
Software: Excel, Word; Enterprise Project 2007; Access; Power Point; Visio
Collaborative software: CA Clarity PPM; MS SharePoint 2007, Sourceforge, ExpressWorks (AT&T); Webex
Management Software Methodologies: Waterfall, and Agile

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CO; June 2006 to January 2010

Manage local and virtual teams (product management, architecture, development, test, client relations) to develop requirements, establish project timelines and deliverables, and chaired project status meetings for software projects. Perform project hours approvals, weekly EVMS report, schedule development, and development of Roadmap diagram for pre-project coordination/planning. Managed project team in development of business requirements, architecture document, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, design requirements, and use case. Managed project phases, including Pre-Envisioning, Envisioning, Planning, Development, Test, and Production. Utilized Gap Analysis for review of requirements vs. and agile listing of artifacts.

Infrastructure projects. Managed project teams (Networking and hardware groups from Broomfield, CO and Conway, AR) in migration of Risk Division stand alone servers, virtual servers, and data systems center to corporate data center. Managed security team in development of security communication method for data transmission to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) project.

Managed Client/Server web service projects/products for Financial, Banking, Public Safety, and Investigation customers under Risk Mitigation division: Incorporated Features and bug artifacts into builds.

• AuthenticateDemo User Interface (UI); application that generates an Authentication Exam in English or Spanish, and provides pass or fail score at the end. Utilized agile methodology in development of application.

Release Management role for Risk division projects. Coordination with project managers, developer leads, test group, product management, build group to facilitate projects/application passage through the release process (QA, UAT, and the Production environment). Prepared and updated monthly risk release documentation, and obtained approvals with team on documents.

Confidential; December 2005 to June 2006

Developed Ongoing Reliability Testing capability for plant location in Ensenada, Mexico. Engaged Test Engineers to prepare Test Plan for different door handles and knobs, develop training course to meet six sigma requirements, provided funding to make construction changes to existing facilities for new test lab, outsourced translation of test plans into Spanish, Build test equipment and frames, ordered test lab tools for new test lab (based on existing inventory), shipped hardware from subcontracted manufacturing facility to Mexico, chaired weekly team reviews and monthly management review of risks, timelines and deliverables.

AT&T (Previously SBC - Southern Bell Corporation) (Contract employee of Rose International) – San Antonio, TX; May 2005 to August 2005

Utilized internal process tool to establish projects based on development of software project requirements, developing virtual organization, approving project manager, and establishing corporate funding approvals.

Confidential August 1999 to December 2002

Directed web application projects from the discovery through the implementation phases. Managed cost, project performance, schedule delivery, scope requests, and prepared project documents: project plan, vision, and requirements.

• Chaired team review of requirements with development team and subcontractors. Integrated project plans to set common requirements, timeline, and expectations.
• Developed application for internal department to manage workflow processes for developmental requirements, approvals, and internal reporting for customers. Interviewed developer to document technical workflow requirements.
• Infrastructure Projects; M&A. Managed coordination of all M&A activity and requirements of incoming and outgoing company and divisions affected by acquisitions. Interfaced with internal team (legal, networking, department manager, finance, networking, and Accounting information systems group), and external company contacts regarding change. Coordinated forecasted dates or timeframe, advance or lead time planning with affected departments, provide lead time for build or communication with computer systems or phone carriers, provide actual decision for cutoff of computer systems user accounts, and follow-through merger if any questions remain. Provided overall status and reporting to IT/IS management, and IT Inventory groups.
• Infrastructure project. Managed marketing rebrand project for domain name change from prior domain to new name. Required approvals and coordination of Legal, Inventory (computer asset), Marketing and Networking.
• Infrastructure project. Review of vendor products capability to “Push” desktop application upgrades, and monitoring for security.

Confidential June 1998 to March 1999

Infrastructure project. Directed internal team and vendors on rollout of firmware, hardware, and other peripheral equipment to regional markets.

• Managed deployment of 26 individual Market-areas infrastructure subprojects, valued at $10.5M. Standardized component staging process. Developed subproject projects to manage individual scope, schedule, and costs. Collected cost data from vendor and from internal Gates systems to validate vendor charged costs, Chaired weekly status meetings, managed regional site installation and development of Site Certification documentation.

Confidential February 1998 to May 1998

Prepared Change Order Proposals for Air Force flight simulation contracts.

Maximus (DMG); Denver, CO; January 1995 to January 1998

Prepared Audit for A-87 Indirect Cost Proposals for Department of Human Services County clients within the State of Colorado. Enabled counties to recover reimbursable costs.

Confidential September 1988 to January 1994

• Participated in proposal teams for “must win” contracts within Aerospace Divisions.
• Prepared Basis of Estimate (BOE), supported Audit, and negotiations to FAR regulations.
• Prepared proposal task description, cost, and justification for new business proposals.

EDUCATION / TRAINING:

M. A. Degree, Management of Information Systems
B. S. Degree, Business Management