Experience

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  • Founder And Principal Consultant

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  Emerson ReadyStaff

  • Chestertown, Maryland, United States

  • Educational Consultant

    • Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
    • Chestertown, Maryland, United States

    Providing management support and instructional facilitation to an international consulting firm. The contracted role was to develop and implement a training program to transfer core management and consulting skills to the next generation of leaders rising within the client organization.

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  RGP

  • Arlington, VA

  • Consultant

    • Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
    • Arlington, VA

    Working as a temp under contract, I established and ran the Program Management Office (PMO) for development of a digital system to better manage maintenance operations for the nation’s largest chain of residential communities (80,000+ apartment units). Coordinated multiple technical and functional work streams. Facilitated nationwide teams of stakeholders through numerous virtual decision-making workshops. Developed and drove plans and schedules. Managed issues, project activities, decisions, change control, and risks

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  Springboard International Inc.

  • Arlington, Virginia

  • Senior Associate and Program Manager

    • Feb 2014 - 2017
    • Arlington, Virginia

    Partnered with clients to better understand their aspirations, their goals, and their opportunities to establish a foundation for developing plans and organizational alignment toward a common direction. Led development and executive coaching process to help leaders develop the skills needed to enable positive change, grow toward continuously improving levels of performance, surpass goals, and stretch toward aspirations.Projects developed transformational business strategies, built foundational knowledge bases for international certification programs, and supported change initiatives. Facilitated planning processes, business improvement initiatives, and leadership development programs for leaders of small businesses, startups and nonprofits. Provided consulting, facilitation, and executive coaching to improve business performance, and develop client skills.

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  George Mason University

  • Adjunct Professor

    • Jan 2006 - May 2013

    Designed and annually delivered all aspects of a semester-long course on Knowledge Management for graduate students in the MBA program.

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  DB&A Consulting

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Senior Consultant and Principal

    • May 2011 - Jan 2013
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Played lead role in developing and establishing a Fatigue Risk Management System to help the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) manage human fatigue associated with nationwide 24X7 Air Traffic operations. Lead data analytic initiatives; coordinated and provided input into scientific research examining fatigue among FAA personnel; and helped develop mitigations to reduce risks and hazards.Plan and facilitate meetings of the FAA Fatigue Safety Steering Committee (FSSC) and other groups through which FAA management and labor collaborated to evaluate and address organizational and operational problems, define and assess risk mitigation strategies, and develop or revise policies. Plan, develop, and coordinate enterprise-wide training programs and communications. Provide fatigue risk management and other consulting support for airlines and other clients.

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  SRA International, Inc

  • Fairfax, Virginia

  • Senior Principal and Organizational Effectiveness Consultant

    • Jan 2008 - Feb 2011
    • Fairfax, Virginia

    As Program Manager, led internal, enterprise-wide, talent management, performance management, leadership development, and succession planning programs to prepare a $3Billion corporation for 300% planned growth over next 5 years. Created national telework and flextime program expected to deliver $3M in annual savings, reduce turnover, and improve recruiting leverage; Developed a training curriculum enabling company to maintain ISO 9000 certification while reducing training costs. Oversaw $20Million portfolio of projects for the Veterans Administration and expanded the business by leading capture and developing the winning proposal for a new, $16billion ceiling, contract vehicle (T-4). Led logistics and facilitated the conceptual design for implementation of an SAP-based system to manage billions of dollars of loan and grant programs for US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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  L3- Corporation

  • Senior Manager

    • Aug 2004 - Mar 2008

    Planned and assisted in the establishment of a new agency that manages the information technology infrastructure of the US Department of Agriculture. This new Information Technology Services entity has over 800 employees and manages the IT infrastructure for 45,000 customers within other USDA agencies. Mr. Yoder led stakeholders through collaborative processes to architect and implement the new ITIL-based organization. These efforts focused on the definition of the operating model for the new entity including the definition of business processes, organizational roles and responsibilities, service level agreements and other essential strategic elements. Mr. Yoder coordinated with Six Sigma focused efforts to improve service delivery, spearheaded the development of a strategic plan, facilitated operational and contractual arrangements between the new organization and its customers; implemented an organizational Project Management Office, implemented a portfolio management program, and wrote associated policies and guidelines.

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  American Management Systems, Inc., (now CGI)

  • Arlington, VA

  • Senior Principal

    • Jan 1982 - Jan 2003
    • Arlington, VA

    Planned and led dozens of internal and client-facing initiatives. Created strategies for commercial and federal clients, internal business units, and C-Level Working Groups. Developed and conducted workshops to define processes, formulate methodologies, and resolve organizational issues. Conducted organizational assessments. Produced and delivered management training programs.• Managed multi-million dollar project to create new system for client to manage $50B in retirement assets. Oversaw complete project life cycle and supervised project team. Managed software configuration and change control. Coordinated 150 direct and indirect reports.• Managed AMS’s Federal Electronic Records & Document Imaging Practice. Oversaw procurement, design, and develop of $50M systems that managed >200 million documents each for various government agencies and financial institutions.• Established multi-year program to manage quality and risk for the division’s most technically-complex projects. Reduced costs, improved project performance, and prevented significant project failures. Developed and led dozens of leadership development and training initiatives.• Created and led hundreds of problem solving, system design, decision making, and strategic planning workshops for clients such as Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, Visa International, Stop & Shop, and others.Facilitated rollout of enterprise-wide SDLC, project management standards, and other initiatives by leading change management efforts. Led cultural transformations. multitude of projects in great many business sectors. Supported AMS clients such as MBNA, Capital One, First USA, Visa, Fannie Mae, Los Alamos Labs, IBM, and several government agencies.