Hampton Roads, Virginia Metropolitan Area
Results oriented proven leader with successful management, leadership, human resource, information technology, training, legal, financial, and business analyst experience. Proven ability to establish and maintain technical and business relationships at all organizational levels, utilizing team-building disciplines and influencing sound decision-making. Successfully demonstrated the ability to create and manage complex projects with strong communication skills and effective negotiation skills.
Supervises all administrative functions for the organization in the jurisdiction assigned. Serves as the technical advisor to the Director on administration, manpower, management controls, office automation, human resources, budget planning and execution, logistics, and information security. Implements new systems to improve the efficiency of operations. Coordinates the training and continuing legal education requirements for an organization of more than 25 attorneys and support staff within the jurisdiction. Serves as the subject matter expert for Defense Travel System, Force Management Web Site, various personnel applications, and computer security application. Prepares charts, spreadsheets, graphs, and slide shows to present data and courses of action to senior leaders. Serves as the Knowledge Management Officer, Security Manager, Facility Management Officer, and Information Management Officer. Lean Six-Sigma and Program Management Professional. - Active Federal Secret Security Clearance through July 2026 - Deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom as the Senior Legal Administrator – Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, June 2021 – May 2022 - Deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom as the Senior Legal Administrator – Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, October 2016 – October 2017
Ensured and promoted compliance with proper rules and regulations. Demonstrated ability to communicate complex information to all levels of staff and management personnel. Delivered detailed, dynamic presentations to more than 50 senior level personnel. - Deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom as the Brigade Senior Paralegal NCO – Forward Operating Base Lagman, Afghanistan, May 2011 – January 2012 - Deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom (KFOR) as the Division Military Justice Paralegal NCO – Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, July 2006 – December 2007
- Project initiation to ensure proper contract set-up and definition of appropriate billing and revenue terms in CDI’s CostPoint system. - Management support through financial analyses and reporting. - Responsible for financial planning, analysis and cost estimating/forecasting for government customers. - Ensure all new project set-ups and modifications are entered in to CostPoint are in accordance with CDI’s internal SOX policies and procedures. - Compile and submit reporting requirements when required (both technical and financial). - Ensure timely invoice processing by review and approving for accuracy client invoicing with assigned billing specialist. - Review and complete monthly revenue recognition, in accordance with GAAP and CDI policies. - Ensures Project Managers and other senior business unit personnel are aware of risks and opportunities identified during A/R and revenue review. - Collaborate with multiple finance and accounting groups such as Contracts, Accounting, and Project Managers regarding project related issues. - Develop financial controls, procedures, systems, and forecasts to monitor program status and ensure compliance with government requirements. - Conduct complex financial analysis to solve variance discrepancies, risk analysis, profit/loss analysis. - Maintain thorough knowledge and understanding of CostPoint, Cognos, and Excel. Understand important elements within Finance and Contracts departments to ensure compliance of internal and contractual regulations. - Generated weekly and monthly reports from CostPoint, T&E and Cognos for customers and to track performances to budgets. - Gathered backup documentation to issue monthly T&M, CP, and FFP invoices to customers in a timely manner. - Calculated revenue, analyzed cost variances and key drivers every month-end close. Reviewed monthly forecast and EAC’s with program managers.
Performs testing on DoD software for the client during vendor testing to validate functionality. Evaluates the system functionality to identify issues and verify that the user requirements are met. - Participates in review of functional specification documents and acceptance test scripts. - Analyzes the requirements and executes the test cases to ensure that the software application meets user requirements as well as developing test cases for unique or specific issues. - Document test plans according to the requirements and system specifications. - Conducts analysis during the test and performs post-test analysis and supports test report generation. - Participates in Government observation of pre-delivered software to ensure that software is functional and the test scripts are accurate.