Consultant Technical Writer Resume Profile
Summary:
Under Department of Defense DoD , state, county, and corporate contracts/tasks orders, I have planned, developed and managed work centers that supported a wide variety of tasks throughout the state, county, and world. I have developed computer software systems to monitor contracts, financials, equipment, inventory, manpower man-hour accounting, and major corporate financial systems I have loaded, trained, and maintained this software and other COTS, GOTS, and commercial software on various platforms from PC to mainframe Honeywell, Tandum, and IBM MVS systems. I have developed business leads, identified business possibilities, and write responses for RFI's and RFP's.
Experience:
Confidential
Contract Evaluator Negotiator
- As Contract Evaluator/Negotiator, I was responsible for performing the following:
- I reviewed all proposals that are submitted to MCDJFS for competitive bids, written RFPs, and proposals
- I wrote letters to contracted companies and individuals who are not performing within contract specifications
- I developed MS Access and MS Excel programs to improve productivity and reduced time for specific projects by more than 95 percent
- I created spreadsheets that compute individual weekly and hourly contract rates for over 1000 provider's contracts
- I created database structures for housing data associated with childcare providers and Non-Emergency Transportation
- I performed visits to childcare providers to ensure that all state, county and federal regulations are being followed
Confidential
Business Development Manager
- As Business Development Manager, I performed all of the responsibilities that were required
- Identified business possibilities within Wright-Patterson AFB, Montgomery County, and Ohio Governments
- Developed business relationships with existing businesses and offices at Wright-Patterson AFB
- Developed Business and Marketing Plans for a small business
- Researched businesses for existing complementary specialties
- Evaluated RFPs for types and quantities for personnel required
- Developed capability responses for presentation to prospective customers
- Presented Boson's, capabilities, expectations, and senior staff to prospective customers
- Developed, wrote, and edited proposals for RFP's
- Developed proposal for implementation of RF and passive ID tags to be used in supply chain logistics
- Designed graphics for those products that were presented and delivered
- Represented company to public during conferences and contract and business presentations
- Performed all follow-up actions associated with business presentations
Confidential
Consultant Technical Writer
- Under Military Systems Group contract to migrate from existing, custom developed, software for standard process to software commonly available to anyone in business performing the same processes.
- Developed presentations for commander and company senior staff to present
- Developed presentations to be given to all associated senior staff
- Created graphics used in presentations used by management staff
- Researched security regulations to ensure companies security program met or exceeded all requirements
- Monitored all security actions under the responsibilities of the company Assistant Security Officer
- Created, edited, or wrote all deliverables required under this contract.
Confidential
Services Contract Manager
- I managed contract performance and product quality for WPAFB billeting and Air Force Inns.
- Evaluated all contractor deliverables under the contract
- Verified all monthly bill against contract deliverables for the AF Inns, AF Band of Flight, and, AF Honor Guard
- Ordered standard and tailored items needed to maintain operations of Wright-Patterson Inns
Confidential
Sr. Logistics Analyst
- I provided total security and logistics support management to Transportation Security Agency TSA Homeland Security for Strategic Airport Security Rollout SASR at five 5 airports from Eastern Pennsylvania to Missouri.
- Developed security relationships with the airports, TSA Home Land Security, and The White House Security offices
- Verified availability of airport security scanners and other required security equipment
- Provided 24/7 support for transportation, computer, food, and lodging.
- Evaluated each airport to establish initial manning and coverage by shift
- Negotiated lodging costs for TSA training team at each airport and controlled total cost of local operations
- Developed and maintained work schedules for all airport screeners
- Verified and Validated all training for screeners in training
- Validated completion of training for each trainee
- Insured security of all uniforms because of their sensitive nature
- Validated quantity and controlled the issue of TSA uniforms
Confidential
Sr. Software Engineer
- Developed and maintained software on an IBM 360 using COBOL, DB2, CICS, SQL, and JCL
- Converted programs from dBase to MS Access
- Performed an expanded software requirements analysis
- Performed an associated hardware requirements analysis
- Wrote the Requirements Analysis and Hardware Analysis
- Evaluated software jobs and developed a GANT timeline and manpower requirements
- Wrote expanded capabilities document
Confidential
Sr. Software Engineer
- Under contract to the Air Force Materiel Command AFMC , I was site manager and company liaison for converting CA-IDEAL, and CA-DATACOM legacy systems to MVS COBOL, CICS, and Oracle.
- Conducted a requirements analysis to ensure all new programs enhancements were identified,
- Ensured enhancements were included in the new releases
- Briefed the findings of analysis
- Developed and presented briefings to the customer and company,
- Wrote status reports and monitored status reports from other ALC bases,
- Monitored time accounting, and expenditures for the contract
- Ensured that schedules were met and programs were converted on schedule and within cost
- Developed MS Project schedules and MS Excel charts that were used to monitor the contract
- Ensured all milestones and deliverables were on schedule
Confidential
Sr. Application Engineer
- Under contract to the Defense Finance and Accounting Systems DFAS :
- Mapped DoD financial data from legacy systems at all bases into a centralized Oracle database
- Selected Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data Interchange EC/EDI standard forms to ensure data accuracy
- Developed personnel requirements for projected tasks and sub task proposals
Confidential
Software Engineer/Information Analyst
- Under various contracts and work orders for General Motors, Delphi, and Saturn, and contracts under the Joint Logistics Service Center:
- Developed and maintained COBOL II, JCL, Pacbase, Visual Basic, and SQL code to meet customer requirements
- Developed and corrected software environments to correct year 2000 errors
- Installed system upgrades for different levels of management through out the local GM, Delphi, and Saturn offices
- Developed and maintained IMS hierarchal data structures
- Maintained worldwide computer networks and software programs due to the expanding manufacturing businesses
- Maintained manufacturing programs for GM Truck and Bus Plant, daily production goal 1056 vehicles
- Performed annual GM parts inventory in the Kettering plant
- Developed PC based data and configuration management systems using Visual Basic and MS Excel.
- Accepted Task Manager responsibilities for a project that was over 30 days behind schedule and had received extremely unfavorable customer reviews
- Satisfied the customer and completed the project on schedule and received a favorable review
- Wrote and edited technical portion of two winning 10 plus million company proposals
- Evaluated personnel, equipment, material, and software requirements against the technical approach
- Developed MS Project charts and WBS for each proposal complete with personnel, cost, and milestones
Confidential
Sr. Systems Engineer
- Under contract to the Air Force Logistics Command I established and maintained configuration and data management programs for major DoD data collection systems:
- Developed plans for and conducted site surveys of future system installations
- Ordered equipment and installed remote location systems.
- Created and managed a prototype HTML markup language library for DoD
- Developed a program to monitor in-progress contract costs and costs incurred during proposal efforts
- Wrote proposal sections that were integrated into the final proposal
Confidential
Lead Logistics Analyst/Assistant Project Leader
- Under the F-15 support equipment contract:
- Managed the acquisition process for aircraft support equipment.
- Provided the F-15 System Program Office engineering analysis, cost evaluations for contract negotiations.
- Managed all expenditures against each contract within the department
- Verified that sufficient money was available to complete each contract.
- Made and recommended program corrections to bring over expenditures back within the limits.
- Developed the annual and future department budgets and cost bids for proposals
- Created contract expenditure graphs for company and customer briefings.
Confidential
Sr. Logistics Analyst/Systems Engineer
- Under Air Force Logistic Command contracts:
- Performed logistics analysis and determined operational unit requirements and capabilities
- Developed interactive Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC and PLP Honeywell SQL programs
- Developed WRSK supply programs for Desert Storm and Desert Shield
- Installed and trained software programs and hardware for customers
- Modified software to satisfy specific contractual and company requirements
- Identify requirements for the Supportability Investment Decision Analysis Center SIDAC
- Wrote system training materials, System Design, System Requirements Specifications, Functional Descriptions, Technical Analysis, Project Final Reports, System User Information Guides, and System Test Plans
- Conducted on-site software system training and system implementations
- Created and presented briefings to corporate and customer senior staff
- Demonstrated programs and hardware solutions to problems that were identified during research projects
Confidential
Aircraft Maintenance Manager/Avionics System Technician
- As a Non-Commissioned Officer in the United States Air Force:
- Performed, certified, and scheduled maintenance actions identified manning and equipment imbalances
- Performed inspections on and cleared safety of flight maintenance actions by other maintenance technicians
- Planning and coordinating the movement of over 1000 personnel and over 100 million dollars in equipment
- Performed and certified electronics maintenance on equipment from basic circuits to detailed integrated circuits
- Certified component maintenance actions to NASA level standards
- Created and managed a 24/7 centralized support system for over 72 aircraft with 18 personnel
- Managed three supply support accounts that exceeded 80 million dollars each and maintained a Zero loss rate with equipment in locations from Northern Japan, the Philippines to Guam, and Diego Garcia
- Developed new deployment processes that saved personnel, time, and equipment
- Identified equipment that was delivered defective or over requirements
- Performed component level maintenance on navigational and attack computers, mapping radar, and air and ground attack radar systems
- Trained new repairmen and technicians
- Managed maintenance on various types of aircraft from large cargo to multi-role fighters