George Grooms, PMP
Senior System Engineer at TapHere! Technology (TapHere): Manassas VA, Evergreen CO, Tampa FL- Claim this Profile
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TapHere! Technology (TapHere): Manassas VA, Evergreen CO, Tampa FL
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior System Engineer
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Feb 2019 - Present
As a Systems Engineer, responsible for the activities for the project are carefully planned, scheduled, and supervised in accordance with customer focus. Ensure cognizance of project status through regular meetings with stakeholders, schedule program reviews, briefings, and written status reports (deliverables). Ensure that projects are operating within schedule and budget and that all risks are identified and mitigated. Ensure that projects are properly staffed and managed with personnel who meet or exceed labor category requirements. Responsible for establishing continuous quality and performance to ensure the highest level of ethical and professional principles in conducting business activities. Foster a collaborative working environment to promote trust, respect, and open communication among internal and external customers. Provide direction and support in the transition from virtualization to containers within the Commercial Cloud Services (C2S, based on Amazon Web Services, AWS) infrastructure, as well as the approach for container certification and accreditation (C&A). Provide integration and solution approach of Agile processes with time-boxed sprints and frequent demonstrations of working software to the Government Product Owner. Employ mission focused Risk Management Framework (RMF), Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and DevSecOps processes integrated to align capabilities to current Intelligent Mission Applications (IMA) Tradecraft and leverages the services, enterprise computing resources, and storage capacity to decrease time to market. The RMF-based SDLC ensures that security and Information Assurance requirements are built into systems at the earliest development stage. The initiative to apply this DevSecOps approach, along with Agile processes, results in more rapid, dependable, and secure systems delivery, reducing the time to market for operational customers. Show less
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Business Development
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Feb 2017 - Present
As a Business Development representative, responsible for increasing business and coordinate BD activities and Task Order Sales to ensure growth and profitability. Responsible for establishing continuous quality and performance to ensure the highest level of ethical and professional principles in conducting business activities. Foster a collaborative working environment to promote trust, respect, and open communication among internal and external customers. Build long-lasting relationships with employees, clients and customers. Show less
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CACI International Inc
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Executive Director
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Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
As Executive Director within National Solutions, provide leadership to the profit center and take an active role in the development of the annual operating and capital plans and budgets. Responsible for the oversight, coordination and leadership of the Joint Deployable Intelligence Support Systems (JDISS), NMIC Information Technology Enterprise Services (NITES), and USMC Intel programs. Manage the performance of the P&L center. Responsible for increasing business and coordinate BD activities with the Division Manager, Corporate BD, and Task Order Sales to ensure growth and profitability. Responsible for the staffing management, promotion and training of employees, and for ensuring compliance with the company’s affirmative action program. Responsible for establishing continuous quality and performance to ensure the highest level of ethical and professional principles in conducting business activities. Foster a collaborative working environment to promote trust, respect, and open communication among internal and external customers. Build long-lasting relationships with employees, clients and customers by holding regular coaching and translating objectives for success and growth within the team. Show less
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L-3 National Security Solutions
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11955 Freedom Drive, Reston, VA 20190
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VP, Navy Solutions
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Nov 2004 - Jan 2016
As Vice President within the National Security Solutions Business Group and Department Head of the Navy Programs Department, responsible for the oversight, coordination and leadership of the Joint Deployable Intelligence Support Systems (JDISS), NMIC Information Technology Enterprise Services (NITES), and USMC Intel programs. Closely monitored the performance of the P&L center. Responsible for expanding business and coordinate BD activities with the Segment GM, Segment BD, and Multiple Resource Center (MRC) to ensure growth and profitability. Responsible for the staffing management, promotion and training of employees, and for ensuring compliance with the company’s affirmative action program. Responsible for establishing continuous quality and performance to ensure the highest level of ethical and professional principles in conducting business activities. Fostered a collaborative working environment to promote trust, respect, and open communication among internal and external customers. Built long-lasting relationships with employees, clients and customers by holding regular coaching and translating objectives for success and growth within the team. Show less
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Titan Corporation
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United States
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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100 - 200 Employee
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JDISS Program Manager
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Jun 2000 - Oct 2004
As Program Manager of JDISS Programs, responsible that the activities for all projects are properly planned, scheduled and supervised in accordance with JPO direction. Ensures cognizance of program status through regular meetings with project managers, scheduled program reviews, briefings, and written status reports. Ensures that JDISS projects are operating within schedule and budget and that all risks are identified and mitigated. Responsible for ensuring that the projects managed by the JPO are executed within established budgets. Ensures that the projects are properly staffed and managed. Provides the credentials of proposed “key” staff to the Government PM. Final approver on all subcontracts. Drafts Statements of Work for new work to be completed on the Program. Final approval of trip reports, hardware/software purchases, contractor expense reports, and contractor time sheets. Member of the Senior Management Group. Show less
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BTG, Inc.
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3877 Fairfax Ridge Road, Fairfax, VA 22030-7448
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Task Lead/Software Engineer
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Aug 1998 - May 2000
As a Software Engineer, responsible for the guidance, direction, staffing, and monitoring of Multi-Level Security (MLS) engineering activities. Interacted with related interest groups to discuss technologies, capabilities, and security concerns involving engineering and interoperability of JDISS systems. Provided Weekly Activity Reports and In-Progress Reports as directed. The position included tasking and supervision of software engineers with concern to the development and integration of JDISS software. Interacted with external resources to translate user specifications and system descriptions to system development requirements. Using the customer requirements, successfully developed, designed, and implemented a viable Y2K MLS solution for legacy MLS systems. Worked with DIA/SYS-4 representatives for MLS security testing and accreditation certifications. Show less
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CSC
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Manager/Senior Computer Scientist
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Apr 1987 - Aug 1998
As a Senior Computer Scientist, responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of several ONI software applications. Served as the STESS project manager for a complex task order and assisted the contract program manager in working with the government-contracting officer. Under the guidance of the program manager, was responsible for the overall management of the specific task order and ensured that the technical solutions and schedules of the task order were implemented in a timely manner. Performed enterprise-wide horizontal integration planning and specified interfaces to other functional systems. The position included tasking and supervision of 3 programmers and an acoustic engineer. Coordinated close interaction with the ONI user community and automation support element. Provided task status in both bi-weekly and monthly deliverables and also briefed the Program Management Review to COTR. Attended and participated in Configuration Control Board meetings to ensure ONI software/hardware conformity was supported. Met with related entities to discuss application uniformity across multiple platforms. Worked with the Program Manager on analysis and definition of new efforts. Managed and assisted in the design, development, and integration of the exploitation systems. Show less
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Education
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University of Maryland University College
Bachelor of Science, Computer Management Information Systems -
College of Southern Maryland
Associate of Arts, ADP Processing