Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Results-driven Technical Program Manager with over 20 years’ experience tackling complex, global challenges across the US and international markets. My expertise lies in transforming vision into reality, leading large-scale tech projects from inception to delivery, delivering success through: • TEAM LEADERSHIP: Empowering global engineering teams (100+) to achieve exceptional results. • CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION: Fostering collaborative environments that break down silos and drive innovation. • EXECUTIVE PARTNERSHIP: Guiding strategic initiatives as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives, leveraging exceptional communication and stakeholder management to achieve alignment and drive success. • TECHNICAL ACUMEN: Extensive hands-on experience in: - IT & Cloud Computing - Cybersecurity & Data Privacy - Data Science & AI/ML - Satellites, Sensors & Geospatial Technologies I am passionate about people, tech, and innovation. Share my mission? Let's connect.
• Cybersecurity Project Management: Led high-impact IT security engineering project for government client, fortifying national electronic voting systems and earning international acclaim for ensuring election’s integrity. Employed SMART KPIs to drive operational efficiency, achieving 28% cost savings and on-time delivery, overcoming project setbacks and exceeding customer expectations. • Risk Management Communications: Directed comprehensive testing strategies for 58,000 systems’ software, hardware, and network infrastructure. Facilitated clear written and verbal communications of complex technical details for customers and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring full-range of mitigation controls were implemented to address identified vulnerabilities. • Agile Project Management: Built, mentored, led 2 global engineering teams (10+). Drove outsized results, applying agile methodologies and virtual collaboration tools to eliminate process bottlenecks and boost project efficiency by 20%. Successful leadership resulted in delivery of high-quality partner solutions and a remarkable increase in company’s valuation.
• Transatlantic Business Leader: 1 of 15 Americans selected for eminent transatlantic program to cross-pollinate best business practices between the US and Germany and to deepen understanding of European technology practices, policies, trends & regulations. • Strategic Leadership: Selected as top SME to advise 3 high-growth German startup CEOs. • Data-Driven Operational Excellence: Leveraged data analytics to assess operational workflows, identify inefficiencies, and implement improvements to facilitate globalizing IT startup’s expansion into 2 new markets by optimizing processes and boosting efficiency. • Secured Investment & Scaled Programming: Developed multi-year strategy to scale startup accelerator’s programming & collaborated with CEO to craft compelling narratives for investor pitches, leading to 3MM € in funding from 4 financing partners to provide resources for +900 startups across EMEA.
• Strategic Leadership: Provided strategic direction at the highest levels of government to advance key organizational objectives amidst a complex political landscape, ensuring cross-organizational alignment and successful execution of policy initiatives. Key liaison between the new Presidential Administration, Senators & Presidential Nominees, fostering cross-governmental relationships & successfully shepherding 2 Agency Director Nominees through the Senate-confirmation process. • Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Led team of 10+ federal agency executives, leveraging strong communication and stakeholder management skills to collaboratively define project goals, ensure cross-organizational alignment, and deliver critical report to Congress.
• DROVE SECURE CLOUD ADOPTION FOR PARTNER SUCCESS: Broke a 3-year impasse to drive secure AWS cloud adoption across 17 federal agencies. Secured stakeholder buy-in and achieved unprecedented cross-agency alignment, resulting in a unified vision for cloud migration to unlock substantial IT modernization potential, empowering government partners to realize their business objectives. - Implemented Customer-Focused Solutions: Architected secure cloud migration framework incorporating industry best practices (IAM, zero-trust architecture) for granular access controls tailored to partner-specific data security concerns, facilitating seamless information sharing and collaboration across 4.3MM users. - Stakeholder Management & Partner Enablement: Facilitated open communication and transparency across departments and agencies, addressed cloud security concerns, and demonstrated cloud benefits to overcome cultural resistance and build trust between agencies, driving change management and ensuring organizational readiness for cloud migration. • LED END-TO-END DELIVERY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS: Successfully managed the full lifecycle of complex technical programs, driving innovation, delivering cutting-edge technologies, and consistently exceeding customer expectations with on-time, on-budget launches. - TPM Excellence & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Managed conceptualization, development, testing, and integration of 2 groundbreaking airborne geospatial data collection systems. Collaborated with large-scale, cross-functional team of 100+ to deliver integrated hardware and software solutions for cutting-edge data collection and processing systems. - Customer-Centric Technical Leadership: Conducted user research to identify critical operational needs and defined complex requirements for integrated hardware and software solutions. Facilitated seamless communication between clients and development teams, ensuring solutions aligned with client's specific business objectives.
• Technical Program Management: Led mission-critical training programs for government clients, empowering 1,000+ analysts to task cutting-edge data collection sensors and satellite systems and to harness specialized AI/ML tools for robust data processing and analytics, amplifying situational awareness in fast-paced environments and improving strategic decision-making capabilities during global operations.