Experience

Solers

• United States
• Defense & Space
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President, Business Development

  • Dec 2015 - Oct 2019

  • Lead and oversee the development and growth of profitable new business and to develop & maintain effective key relationships. • Responsible for developing and refining Solers vision and strategy to provide high quality engineering support to our government partners. • Lead all business development efforts including marketing, teaming, capture, and proposal support. • Lead and oversee the development and growth of profitable new business and to develop & maintain effective key relationships. • Responsible for developing and refining Solers vision and strategy to provide high quality engineering support to our government partners. • Lead all business development efforts including marketing, teaming, capture, and proposal support.



Solers, Inc.

• Solers, Inc

• Vice President, Enterprise Information Systems Division

  • Feb 2011 - Dec 2015

  • Single point of accountability for a diverse and geographically dispersed 60+ person division providing engineering and technical support to a variety of DoD organizations. • Develop strategic goals for the division to include financial, technical, and personnel development goals for the division that align with the corporate goals, mission, and ethical standards. • Responsible for the financial management (profit/loss) of the division. Conduct monthly reviews of the financial… Show more • Single point of accountability for a diverse and geographically dispersed 60+ person division providing engineering and technical support to a variety of DoD organizations. • Develop strategic goals for the division to include financial, technical, and personnel development goals for the division that align with the corporate goals, mission, and ethical standards. • Responsible for the financial management (profit/loss) of the division. Conduct monthly reviews of the financial reports for every job/contract within the division in order to verify profitability, identify trends, and direct corrective actions to resolve any budget, billing, or invoicing issues. Ensures all department and project budgets maintain accurate tracking and status information. Show less • Single point of accountability for a diverse and geographically dispersed 60+ person division providing engineering and technical support to a variety of DoD organizations. • Develop strategic goals for the division to include financial, technical, and personnel development goals for the division that align with the corporate goals, mission, and ethical standards. • Responsible for the financial management (profit/loss) of the division. Conduct monthly reviews of the financial… Show more • Single point of accountability for a diverse and geographically dispersed 60+ person division providing engineering and technical support to a variety of DoD organizations. • Develop strategic goals for the division to include financial, technical, and personnel development goals for the division that align with the corporate goals, mission, and ethical standards. • Responsible for the financial management (profit/loss) of the division. Conduct monthly reviews of the financial reports for every job/contract within the division in order to verify profitability, identify trends, and direct corrective actions to resolve any budget, billing, or invoicing issues. Ensures all department and project budgets maintain accurate tracking and status information. Show less



Solers

• United States
• Defense & Space
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Manager, PEO C4I Storefront

  • Aug 2010 - Jul 2015

  • Led a large team of engineers to architect, design, develop, integrate, test, install, operate and sustain the PEO C4I Storefront for SPAWAR using an Agile approach that allowed for rapid increments of capability for the warfighter. • Collaborated closely with DISA’s Joint Command and Control User Interface (JC2CUI) team and DISA’s Enterprise Services Division’s Enterprise Storefront team regarding governance processes for approving widgets. Piloted DISA’s Widget Acceptance and Approval… Show more • Led a large team of engineers to architect, design, develop, integrate, test, install, operate and sustain the PEO C4I Storefront for SPAWAR using an Agile approach that allowed for rapid increments of capability for the warfighter. • Collaborated closely with DISA’s Joint Command and Control User Interface (JC2CUI) team and DISA’s Enterprise Services Division’s Enterprise Storefront team regarding governance processes for approving widgets. Piloted DISA’s Widget Acceptance and Approval Process (WAAP) using SPAWAR’s Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) widgets. • Manage the project using Solers CMMI ML3 certified processes including project planning, configuration management, requirements management, and project monitor and control.

• Program Manager, US-FR Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA)

  • Oct 2007 - Jul 2012

  • Led a small team of engineers that provided training and integration support to help the French integrate their MDA tool with the DISA’s Net-Centric Core Enterprise Services (NCES). Collaborated with the French to help them implement a National Information Exchange Model-Maritime (NIEM-M) based data schema for sharing information related to Vessels of Interest. Successfully demonstrated both the publishing of French vessel position information data using a common data management approach… Show more • Led a small team of engineers that provided training and integration support to help the French integrate their MDA tool with the DISA’s Net-Centric Core Enterprise Services (NCES). Collaborated with the French to help them implement a National Information Exchange Model-Maritime (NIEM-M) based data schema for sharing information related to Vessels of Interest. Successfully demonstrated both the publishing of French vessel position information data using a common data management approach to NCES Messaging Services and the subscribing of U.S. Navy vessel position information data that was already being published via NCES Messaging.

• Program Manager, DoD Storefront

  • Aug 2009 - Jan 2011

  • Collaborated with the DoD CIO to develop a business case analysis for a next-generation enterprise portal that would transform the way the DoD shares information and provide DoD users with the ability to quickly discover and access information, applications, and services in a pure web-based environment. • Developed high level requirements, conducted risk analysis, and identified the primary components: the enterprise widget framework, the application marketplace, the identify… Show more • Collaborated with the DoD CIO to develop a business case analysis for a next-generation enterprise portal that would transform the way the DoD shares information and provide DoD users with the ability to quickly discover and access information, applications, and services in a pure web-based environment. • Developed high level requirements, conducted risk analysis, and identified the primary components: the enterprise widget framework, the application marketplace, the identify services/single sign on capability, and a knowledge store/content management system. As part of a trade study, developed cost/benefit analysis for leading technologies to determine which technologies should be purchased (if COTS) or invested in (if GOTS). • Led and managed a large team of engineers to architect, design, development, integration, testing, and fielding of the DoD Storefront which provides a modular, flexible, and scalable framework (similar to iGoogle) based on the National Security Agency’s OZONE Widget Framework. Leveraged the OZONE Marketplace to provide an “App store” capability where developers can publish and advertise their widgets, applications, and other services to users who can discover and add these capabilities widgets to their customizable user interface.

• Director, Data Visualization and Integration Department

  • Jun 2006 - Jan 2011

  • Led a 20+ person department providing support to help implement the DoD’s net-centric data strategy. • Responsible for the implementation of corporate process and product improvement leveraging Solers Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) Maturity Level (ML) 3 certified processes. • Primary customer engagement manager for a diverse set of customers, understanding their goals, objectives, and requirements. Proactively providing direct customer contact, remotely and on location, to… Show more • Led a 20+ person department providing support to help implement the DoD’s net-centric data strategy. • Responsible for the implementation of corporate process and product improvement leveraging Solers Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) Maturity Level (ML) 3 certified processes. • Primary customer engagement manager for a diverse set of customers, understanding their goals, objectives, and requirements. Proactively providing direct customer contact, remotely and on location, to provide superior customer service to help retain existing work and to capture new work.

• Program Manager, Enterprise Data and Services Support

  • Aug 2005 - Jan 2011

  Enterprise Data and Services Support • Provided program management, enterprise architecture, data management, and technological oversight to help assess and develop IT planning and policy objectives for the DoD CIO and major DoD IT programs. • Represented the DoD CIO as a subject matter expert at a number of DoD and industry conferences. Skilled communicator, presented executive and technical briefings regarding the DoD’s implementation of enterprise services and enterprise data… Show more Enterprise Data and Services Support • Provided program management, enterprise architecture, data management, and technological oversight to help assess and develop IT planning and policy objectives for the DoD CIO and major DoD IT programs. • Represented the DoD CIO as a subject matter expert at a number of DoD and industry conferences. Skilled communicator, presented executive and technical briefings regarding the DoD’s implementation of enterprise services and enterprise data sharing initiatives.

• Program Manager, Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Data Sharing (DS) Community of Interest (COI)

  • Feb 2006 - May 2009

  • Led a diverse multi-agency team to prove the viability of net-centric data sharing across the federal enterprise. Worked closely with senior leadership from the Navy, U.S. Northern Command, and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), to form and lead a cross-functional team to deliver a persistent, cross-agency, net-centric information sharing capability leveraging enterprise services provided by DISA’s NCES services. • Provided engineering and enterprise architecture support to help define the… Show more • Led a diverse multi-agency team to prove the viability of net-centric data sharing across the federal enterprise. Worked closely with senior leadership from the Navy, U.S. Northern Command, and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), to form and lead a cross-functional team to deliver a persistent, cross-agency, net-centric information sharing capability leveraging enterprise services provided by DISA’s NCES services. • Provided engineering and enterprise architecture support to help define the “as-is” national MDA architecture, the “to-be” national MDA architecture, and develop a roadmap on how to not only identify standards, specifications, and enterprise services to support interoperability across the national MDA architecture but to also facilitate their adoption across the national MDA community (DoD, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Transportation (DoT), etc). • Built consensus across a diverse set of organizations to create a “coalition of the willing” that included not only DoD organizations, but organizations from DHS, DOT, the Intelligence Community, several NATO partners (Canada, UK), and even commercial industry who were willing to use their own resources to help implement the DoD’s new vision of net-centric information sharing. • The MDA DS COI became a case study for Harvard University’s Executive Leadership program and also received the 2007 Federal Chief Information Officers Council Leadership Award for cross federal information sharing initiatives.

• Program Manager, Content Staging

  • Aug 2001 - Aug 2005

  Content Staging • Led a large team of software, systems, and fielding engineers that architected, designed, developed, integrated and implemented a distributed software system that provides information dissemination management services for the DoD. Responsible for integrating a suite of commercial and government web based software that provides awareness, access, and managed delivery of data on the NIPRNet and SIPRNet. • Supported the fielding of the Content Staging node to Kuwait in… Show more Content Staging • Led a large team of software, systems, and fielding engineers that architected, designed, developed, integrated and implemented a distributed software system that provides information dissemination management services for the DoD. Responsible for integrating a suite of commercial and government web based software that provides awareness, access, and managed delivery of data on the NIPRNet and SIPRNet. • Supported the fielding of the Content Staging node to Kuwait in advance of Desert Storm. Integrated the Content Staging node with a GBS receive suite to provide critical C4I support to U.S. forces in Kuwait.



US Navy

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Naval Officer

  • May 1989 - Feb 2001

  Plans Officer, Defense Information Systems Agency • Provide engineering, technical, and budgeting support to architect, design, develop, integrate and implement a distributed software system that provides information dissemination management (IDM) services for the DoD. Plans Department Head, Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Europe Central • Responsible for identifying and documenting IT requirements for over 300 U.S. military & NATO commands in the… Show more Plans Officer, Defense Information Systems Agency • Provide engineering, technical, and budgeting support to architect, design, develop, integrate and implement a distributed software system that provides information dissemination management (IDM) services for the DoD. Plans Department Head, Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Europe Central • Responsible for identifying and documenting IT requirements for over 300 U.S. military & NATO commands in the Europe and the Middle East. Responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing every C4I installation at Navy communications stations in Europe and the Middle East. • Planned and managed the installation of the Integrated Tactical Secure Data Network in Naples, a SIPRNET node in Rota, Spain, the Global Broadcast System in Sicily, Italy, and DISA’s ATM project in support of Joint Task Force Noble Anvil. Plans Officer, Naval and Space Warfare System Command • Technical planner for the DoD’s electronic messaging system providing messaging services to over 11,000 users in the Navy using X.400/X.500, PKI standards, client server technology, and personal computers. Plans Officer, Naval Computer and Telecommunications Command • Planned, implemented, and managed two new major computer-based communications systems with a $34.4M budget. Responsible for all phases of the project: requirements definition, software development, integration, testing, training and installation at Navy communication stations around the world. Division Officer, USS REEVES (CG-24) • First line and mid-level supervisor. Responsible for daily operations, management, and maintenance of various shipboard systems and equipment. Managed two officers, 55 enlisted personnel, & a $150K departmental budget. Show less Plans Officer, Defense Information Systems Agency • Provide engineering, technical, and budgeting support to architect, design, develop, integrate and implement a distributed software system that provides information dissemination management (IDM) services for the DoD. Plans Department Head, Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Europe Central • Responsible for identifying and documenting IT requirements for over 300 U.S. military & NATO commands in the… Show more Plans Officer, Defense Information Systems Agency • Provide engineering, technical, and budgeting support to architect, design, develop, integrate and implement a distributed software system that provides information dissemination management (IDM) services for the DoD. Plans Department Head, Naval Computer & Telecommunications Area Master Station, Europe Central • Responsible for identifying and documenting IT requirements for over 300 U.S. military & NATO commands in the Europe and the Middle East. Responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing every C4I installation at Navy communications stations in Europe and the Middle East. • Planned and managed the installation of the Integrated Tactical Secure Data Network in Naples, a SIPRNET node in Rota, Spain, the Global Broadcast System in Sicily, Italy, and DISA’s ATM project in support of Joint Task Force Noble Anvil. Plans Officer, Naval and Space Warfare System Command • Technical planner for the DoD’s electronic messaging system providing messaging services to over 11,000 users in the Navy using X.400/X.500, PKI standards, client server technology, and personal computers. Plans Officer, Naval Computer and Telecommunications Command • Planned, implemented, and managed two new major computer-based communications systems with a $34.4M budget. Responsible for all phases of the project: requirements definition, software development, integration, testing, training and installation at Navy communication stations around the world. Division Officer, USS REEVES (CG-24) • First line and mid-level supervisor. Responsible for daily operations, management, and maintenance of various shipboard systems and equipment. Managed two officers, 55 enlisted personnel, & a $150K departmental budget. Show less