Experience

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  Quantellia, LLC

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Referral Partner

    • Oct 2014 - Present
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Engage in business networking and social entrepreneurship to further decision intelligence, a transformative enabler of transparency and agility for capacity building and outcome optimization—in broad and narrow scopes and in long and short terms—in increasingly turbulent economic, scientific, and political environments.Quantellia’s flagship product, World Modeler™, is a highly scalable interactive platform that integrates an almost limitless variety of conventional and advanced software for aiding various decision-making and planning challenges.• The platform provides easily modifiable real-time visual simulation of dynamical systems, drawing upon both evolving data sources and human reasoning and judgment.• It supports predictive modeling, risk analysis, tradeoffs assessment, and options ranking.• As needed, it encompasses but is not limited to business rules, pattern recognition, and machine learning as well as the big-data domains of data warehousing, data mining, business analytics, and business intelligence plus text and visual analytics.• It can incorporate multi-stakeholder mapping and engagement and can enable collective policy analysis and policy-lever testing, best-fit resource allocation, priority-based and participatory budgeting, large-scale and fluid program planning and management, interdependent use cases and influence factors, what-if scenarios and scenario planning, force-field and root-cause analysis, and risk projection and communication.• It encourages critical thinking, futures thinking, strategic thinking, sensemaking, shared understanding, scenario learning, imagination, adaptability, readiness, and responsiveness in addition to collaboration, consensus building, and coordination.Twenty-first-century sustainable development, including Lean start-ups and community co-ops, also industrial ecology and environmental stewardship, can benefit in particular from the rapid, comparatively inexpensive, evolutionary deployment.

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  165Group LLC

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Systems Consultant

    • Nov 2014 - Present
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    165 Group, LLC, is a community of consulting professionals experienced in all aspects of judicial administration and defendant and offender services, both domestic and international.

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  Camber Corporation (formerly Avaya Government Solutions)

  • Fairfax, VA

  • Analyst, Consultant, Capture Manager

    • Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
    • Fairfax, VA

    Led and participated in multiple winning proposals for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, including serving as Capture Manager for the Judiciary Multiple Award Services IV (JMAS) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. (See Avaya Government Solutions for other activities.)

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  Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

  • Washington, DC

  • Project Quality Assurance Consultant

    • Aug 2013 - May 2014
    • Washington, DC

    Provided experience, support, and subcontractor liaise for a special project for the OIT Infrastructure Management Division to refresh a budget allotment formula and complete an associated estimation tool for courtroom technology planning including enterprise software. Role included problem analysis, project estimation, risk mitigation, requirements tracking, progress monitoring, and findings review. Task order used virtual teams to do budget analysis, equipment life-cycle planning, economic modeling, data visualization, predictive analytics, tradeoffs analysis, policy lever identification, recommendations reporting, and executive briefings.(See below for other work for this client.)

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  Avaya Government Solutions

  • Fairfax, VA

  • Analyst, Consultant

    • Jan 2012 - Mar 2014
    • Fairfax, VA

    Activities include • professional services, civilian agencies, judiciary, business partnerships, subcontractor liaise, business plans, business model canvas, business cases • service design, solution innovation, estimation, competitive analysis, capture plans, proposals, project planning • service management, program management, project portfolio, project management best practices, requirements management, CMMI • cross-functional teams, virtual teams, knowledge assets, SharePoint, content development, social networking • special projects, trendspotting, Agile program evaluation, impact analysis, PgMO innovation, technology roadmapping, collaboratory conceptualization and program facility locating analysis, public-private partnership research, economic research, skills research, tools research, white papers, executive briefings.Client support includes • mission alignment, government mandates (GPRA, OMB Circulars A-130 & A-11, etc.), strategic plans, enterprise intelligence, stakeholder analysis, solution architecture • business process management, case management, process modeling, Theory of Constraints, data modeling, data definitions, business rules • business analytics (dynamic systems approach), decision aids, outcome measures, policy levers, scenarios, use cases, card sorting, simulation, user experience, tradeoffs analysis, report preparation • resource allocation formulas, total cost of ownership (TCO) estimation, GAO budget object classes (BOCs) • online survey design, survey respondents support, survey findings interpretation • enterprise software, courtroom technology, cloud computing, mobile applications.Knowledge of several current best tech including • SaaS, SOA, FEAF, ITIL, Agile development methodologies, Scrum, PMBOK, Atlassian tools, Podio, ArchiMate, Quantellia World Modeler.

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  Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

  • Washington, DC

  • Project Consultant, Task Order Manager

    • Sep 2010 - May 2013
    • Washington, DC

    Special data gathering, business analytics, and formula refreshment project for the OIT Policy & Resource Management Office and a working group of the Judicial Conference IT Advisory Council:• Worked with client, working group, and vendors to design and conduct a nationwide questionnaire on court technology, budgeting, and priorities. Consisted of individualized, dynamically generated and pre-populated, multi-hour online surveys: ~375 primary recipients, 150+ questions, uniquely partitionable & extensible by recipients & delegates, multi-level delegable, dynamic tables of contents, and a central management dashboard. Required cross-system data resolution, multiple survey tool upgrades, and ultimately creation of a new tool capable of meeting requirements.• Worked with initial tool vendor to obtain necessary new features. Eventually prepared specifications for a replacement tool, researched options, and recommended Quantellia, LLC. Worked with Quantellia on meeting requirements, distributing the survey, troubleshooting issues, organizing and interpreting findings, and reporting results. Worked with client on supporting recipients and monitoring completion.• In addition to survey development, testing, and implementation, the project involved analysis of responses against multi-year financial and staffing data; the profiling of IT usage; the adjustment of allotment formula factors; and the provision of policy levers for future adjustments. Also involved: stakeholder engagement, budget analysis, policy analysis, scenario analysis, data analysis, data definitions, database integration, glossary development, scripting for introductory video, usability assessment, findings assessment, and report preparation. Included business analytics (BA), business intelligence (BI), object-oriented design (OOD), decision support, and end-user testing,• Resulted in 1,000+ total respondents, 72% court-unit response rate, and formula-refreshment approval by the Judicial Conference.

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  Keane Federal Systems

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Principal Consultant

    • 2008 - Dec 2011
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    • Knowledge management • business development.

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  Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

  • Washington, DC

  • Solutions Architect

    • 2008 - 2010
    • Washington, DC

    • AquaLogic portal workspace design, development, & management for various benefit assessment & management teams • information needs identification & prioritization • content research & curation • usage & satisfaction metrics dashboard development & maintenance • communities of practice (CoP) support • requirements workshop planning & facilitation • training development & delivery • procedural guides, reference guides • introductory presentations & promotional materials • portal evaluations & KM recommendations

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  GWU Institute for Knowledge & Innovation

  • Washington, DC

  • Senior Research Associate

    • 2000 - 2010
    • Washington, DC

    • Knowledge management systems • enterprise risk management • knowledge sharing culture • outcome measurement • organizational alignment • management engineering

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  Various Companies

  • Senior Consultant

    • 2001 - 2008

    [Industries: risk consulting, interoperable architectures, applied R&D]• Business development & grant writing • executive presentations • methodology development • knowledge-based approaches • expert systems • portal design • content management

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  Software Productivity Consortium

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Senior Member of Technical Staff

    • 1998 - 2001
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    [Membership-based FFRDC | Subsequently the Systems & Software Consortium]• Enterprise performance measurement methodology, reference guide, & training development • Web-based strategic management methodology development • focus group & workshop planning & facilitation • enterprise portal & content research, planning, & design • taxonomy & use case development • lifecycle models, spiral development • Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) • legislative research • white papers • member support

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  Small & Large For-Profits & Not-for-Profits

  • Keypuncher Extraordinaire, Curious Programmer, System Analyst, Project Manager, Itinerant Researcher

    • 1900 - 1998

    Industries: accounting, union headquarters, commercial construction, oil & gas exploration, aerospace, federal government, cognitive research• commercial / not-for-profit IT, government contracting, professional services, business development • business architecture, environmental scanning, Value Chain analysis, SWOT analysis, strategic alignment, Balanced Scorecard (BSC), metrics • business process re-engineering, BPR methodologies (Wizdom, Appleton, Oracle), computer-aided business engineering (applied R&D), cultural assessment (business anthropology [Wayne State University] collaborative project), continuous improvement, workflow modeling, root-cause analysis, activity-based costing (ABC), business cases • information architecture, enterprise systems, integration, data marts, data warehousing, data modeling, entity-relationship diagramming, object-oriented methods (OO) • software design, system requirements, user requirements, human-computer interaction, system testing, user testing • artificial intelligence (AI), knowledge engineering, expert systems, expert systems shells (TI Personal Consultant, Nexpert Object), executive information systems (EIS), decision support systems (DSS), knowledgebases, decision trees, decision tables, influence diagramming, business rules • methodology development, software development life cycles (SDLC), waterfall development, spiral development, Information Engineering, computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools (IEF, IEW, I-CASE, Oracle), industry best practices • IT management, quality criteria, risk mitigation, cross-functional team leadership, interdisciplinary team facilitation • proposals, grant writing, report preparation, executive briefings