Senior Program Manager with a record of conceiving, designing and implementing successful large-scale technical projects ranging from systems engineering, integration, and infrastructure to software development and hardware engineering in corporate environments and austere locations. Proven success completing projects on time, within budget and to Department of Defense requirements. Possess unique ability to galvanize teams to achieve ambitious results.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Effectively managed multiple project teams of up to 50 direct report members and over 200 indirect-report including military, government and contractors in domestic and Combat locations.
- Liaised with foreign partners to develop long-term processes that were sustainable with consideration to their government and cultural requirements while achieving business and budget targets of $23M.
- Managed independent project management, acquisition, engineering, financial, contracting, logistics, Research & Development, Test & Evaluation and business process improvements to maintain and develop the next generation Marine Corps Signals Intelligence capabilities.
- Maintained project budgets in compliance with Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFAR) directives and provided legal justification for spending plans with congressional oversight.
- Ensured the successful drafting and submission of a supplementary budget proposal for $23M was supported and in keeping with the laws and regulations prior to receiving the authorization from the Contracting Officer Representative (COR).
- Utilized unobligated funds from congressional approved projects to include essential upgrades to distributed systems deployed in combat.
- Established and defined Software Development Life Cycle best practices for separate code requirements.
- Ensured buy-in from all team members, project owners, stakeholders and included sequences of steps that were quantifiable and achievable utilizing the Capability Maturity Model Integration and PMI methods respectively.
