Senior Program Manager

• Oct 2019 - Present

Project Manager

• Jul 2017 - Present

• Deputy Program Manager for the FDA’s cybersecurity initiative.• Responsible for managing the efforts to implement McAfee device control, Centrify and Splunk at the FDA.

Senior Program Manager

• Jun 2019 - Oct 2019

Senior Business Analyst

• Oct 2010 - Jun 2017

• Worked with business analyst team and FSA (client) supporting FSA’s AEDS contract. • Responsible for requirements gathering in support of FSA’s Change Requests. • Worked with client and stakeholders to determine optimum vision and functional requirements. • Responsible for the requirements schedules maintained on MS Project. • Responsible for the requirements and functional specifications of FSA’s FSA Download web site. • Responsible for facilitating weekly and ad hoc Change Management meetings between FSA and GDIT. • Utilized Blueprint requirements software for Business Requirements Document generation and JIRA for SDLC tracking. Show less

Network Operations Center Manager/Data Center Manager

• Oct 2010 - Dec 2014

• Successfully managed and improved the FDA's 24/7 Network Operations Center (NOC) which supports the FDA's White Oak campus, MAN and WAN network. • Successfully maintained effective data center operations for the FDA's White Oak Data Center. • Responsible for monitoring the HP ServiceManager trouble tickets for Buccaneer's Task Order 2 (TO2) contract with the FDA. • Responsible for managing the continued build out of the White Oak Data Center. • Responsible for managing the ongoing O&M for the expanding VoIP system at the White Oak campus and the MAN. • Worked on various Buccaneer and FDA projects. • Worked on various Buccaneer proposals Show less

Project Manager

• Nov 2008 - Sep 2010

• Project manager for the FDA’s Information and Computing Technologies for the 21st Century (ICT21) project to build out the FDA’s White Oak Data Center.• Managed and coordinated the efforts of the Windows Server Team, UNIX Server Team, SAN and Backup Team, Network Team, Application Migration Team and Documentation Team to successfully complete the ICT21 project.• Provided ongoing communication to the FDA, ITSolutions management and project stakeholders.• Attended and participated in all major meetings with the FDA and project stakeholders.• Managed the White Oak Data Center transition to Buccaneer.• Managed close out activities for the ICT21 project.• Managed project team member issues and morale as the ICT21 project wound down.• Managed the UNIX Server Team and SAN Backup Team. Show less

Hardware/Software Specialist

• Nov 2008 - Mar 2010

• Successfully managed the build out of the White Oak Data Center.• Successfully balanced the often competing needs of the various vendors, contractors, and FDA personnel to keep the White Oak Data Center equipment delivery and build out ahead of schedule.• Developed the Bill of Materials spreadsheets that became the de-facto standard for ICT21 and other projects and proposals.• Worked with the FDA, vendors and Subject Mater Experts for Servers, Security, Networking, SAN and Facilities to produce the Bill of Materials deliverable for the FDA’s White Oak Data Center.• Successfully managed the delivery of successive iterations of the Bill of Materials to support the final detailed design of the White Oak Data Center throughout the constant changing requirements throughout the lifetime of the FDA ICT21 project.• Developed the spreadsheets to track the White Oak hardware delivery, setup and configuration that have been used as the de-facto standard by the FDA in all White Oak Data Center related discussions.• Assisted with the production of the ICT21 Configuration Management Plan deliverable. • Assisted with the successful move of the Department of Interior’s National Park Service’s data center from Fredrick, MD to Washington D.C.• Assisted with the successful move of the Campbell & Company Inc., data center from Towson, MD to Pikesville, MD.• Member of several proposal teams for ITSolutions. Show less

Systems Services Manager

• Feb 1988 - Aug 2008

Systems Services Manager (2007-2008) • Managed systems services staff responsible for supporting Department of Education’s Common Services for Borrowers (CSB) contract’s support services including desktop support, in-house servers and helpdesk services. • Managed desktop support staff responsible for maintenance and support of all laptop and desktop computers, Blackberry PDAs and printers. • Managed staff responsible for maintenance and support of the Rational ClearQuest and Deltek application servers. • First business unit to successfully encrypt 100% of all laptop and desktop computers using PGP. • Successfully setup internal in-house helpdesk. • Implemented inventory tracking for all laptop and desktop computers, and Blackberry PDAs. • Supported migration of Rockville Data Center to the Department of Education’s Virtual Data Center. • Met or exceeded all Service Level Agreements (SLA). Infrastructure Manager (2006-2007) • Managed infrastructure staff responsible for development, testing and model office environments of the CSB contract. • The integrated environments included COTS products from Siebel, MicroStrategy eDocs, IBM, Oracle and custom software developed in Java, COBOL, Accu-COBOL, and ASP. Hardware components included HP, Alpha, and Intel-based servers. • Worked with Development and Test teams, across software and hardware platforms, to stand up and maintain major software release environments. • Developed request workflow to ensure timely delivery of environments. Software Implementation Coordinator (2005-2006) • Responsible for coordination, schedule and implementation of all major software releases. • Coordinated implementation activities of the Phase 2 Release 1 Software Release on schedule for Department of Education Common Services for Borrowers contract with no major First Live Batch issues identified. • Facilitated meetings to review and track progress including schedule, risks, and issues for all software releases and task orders. Show less

Senior Programmer Analyst

• Jan 1983 - Feb 1988

Programmer Analyst

• Jan 1981 - Jan 1983

Programmer

• Jan 1979 - Jan 1981

E-6/Staff Sargent

• Mar 1973 - Feb 1979

Computer Operations and Production Control, Honorable Discharge, Meritoriously promoted to E-5/Sargent and E-3/Lance Corporal. Computer Operations and Production Control, Honorable Discharge, Meritoriously promoted to E-5/Sargent and E-3/Lance Corporal.