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Expanding on the diversity of thought skill set that allows me to be successful in both problem solving and driving initatives here are some other areas:
Booz Allen Hamilton (04/19- 11/19) Lead Technologist
•Strategic Leadership: Spearheaded technical aspects of numerous internal proposals and business development initiatives, shaping future planning and driving new client acquisition and growth with existing clients.
•Innovation Catalyst: Provided technical expertise and mentorship to enhance the internal Accelerator Program, fostering increased employee participation and adoption, ultimately driving innovation within the organization.
LMO (07/16-12/16) Senior Digital Project Manager
•Digital Transformation Leadership: Successfully spearheaded six client-facing projects, encompassing website redesigns, ongoing operations and maintenance, and software support, leading cross-functional teams of 3-15 members to deliver exceptional results.
•Cloud Solution Architect: Led and advised the implementation of a transformative cloud solution, replacing legacy infrastructure and achieving a significant $50,000 monthly reduction in infrastructure costs for the client.
•Executive Communication: Provided bimonthly progress updates, strategic recommendations, and risk assessments to Air National Guard senior leadership regarding the critical cloud infrastructure migration initiative, ensuring transparency and alignment with organizational goals.
JHC Technology (12/16-04/19) Senior Program Manager
•Strategic Program Leadership: Successfully led and executed a $12M active funding, $13M total ceiling USPTO contract, delivering critical cloud infrastructure solutions.
•Agile Collaboration: Partnered with government technical leads and product owners, driving operational maintenance and upgrades through a backlog managed within CA Rally, ensuring efficient delivery and alignment with client priorities.
•Technical Team Management: Managed and mentored a high-performing team of 12 cloud developers and engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development, and ensuring the availability, security, and compliance of USPTO's AWS cloud infrastructure.
•Performance Optimization: Spearheaded continuous improvement and automation initiatives, enhancing operational capabilities and reducing manual effort, resulting in increased efficiency and cost savings.
•Stakeholder Communication: Established and maintained effective communication channels with all stakeholders, including government teams and cloud support, ensuring transparency and collaboration, and facilitating timely resolution of outages and issues.
•Cost Optimization: Conducted rigorous cost analysis and implemented optimization strategies for AWS infrastructure, resulting in substantial savings for the client while maintaining high performance and scalability.
•Mentorship and Development: Developed personalized training and mentorship plans for team members, addressing both technical and soft skills, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth, and maximizing individual and team performance.
Addx Corporation (01/15 -07/16) Technical Analyst (USPTO)
•Strategic Technical Advisor: Served as a trusted advisor to the IT Infrastructure Director, providing strategic guidance on workflows, roadmaps, and prioritization of initiatives to ensure alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
•Budgetary Oversight: Implemented a rigorous budget management system, monitoring and tracking itemized budget activities, and providing detailed weekly reports to branch managers, ensuring optimal utilization of resources and achieving 95% spending target each quarter.
MRIS (now Bright MLS) (07/14 -01/15) Technology Project Manager
•Technical Project Delivery: Successfully managed five unique software release projects, overseeing both in-house teams and external vendors, while proactively identifying, documenting, and mitigating project risks to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.
•Agile Leadership: Led agile-based projects, fostering collaboration and adaptability among team members, while maintaining transparent communication with project stakeholders and senior decision makers, keeping them informed of progress and key milestones.
•Financial Oversight: Effectively managed multiple project budgets, providing insightful analysis and reporting on successes and failures, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
American Red Cross (05/14 -07/14) IT Project Coordinator
•Workflow Optimization: Designed and implemented a multi-tier workflow approval process within Jira, streamlining requirements review and approval for business owners while facilitating a two-part Q&A process between business owners and development teams, enhancing communication and understanding throughout the development lifecycle.
Blackboard Inc, (10/13 -04/14) Service Delivery Manager
•Client-Centric Service Delivery: Masterfully managed all daily plans, activities, and project issues for a portfolio of eight active clients, cultivating strong, trusted advisor relationships with each client to ensure their success.
•Strategic Infrastructure Optimization: Developed and implemented comprehensive project plans to enhance clients' infrastructure, focusing on scalability, optimal performance, and growth, driving tangible business value for each client.
eGlobalTech (09/12 -10/13) Junior Project Manger (HHS)
•Acquisition Project Lead: Led the acquisition planning for a multi-million dollar tracking inventory and expense management system, projected to increase overall efficiency by 50%.
•Risk Management: Proactively identified and documented over 100 potential risks for senior leadership, presenting comprehensive mitigation strategies to ensure project success.
Junction Point Studios - Epic Mickey 2 (12/11 -06/12)QA Analyst
•Quality Assurance:Wrote and ran several test cases that lead to identifying bugs, and providing solutions to the bugs, while also working as a spokesperson for the company at many industry events (e3).