Fairfax, Virginia, United States
- Project Manager comfortable working across industries and methodologies, currently working in Information Technology. - Results-oriented professional with experience directing all phases of large-scale projects that cover multiple departments and various clients. - Background overseeing and conducting project implementation, including planning, development, support, and delivery within strict timelines. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve the efficiency and quality of processes to achieve optimal results. - Recognized as trustworthy and organized leader with excellent communication, negotiation, and analytical abilities. Easily build relationships with key stakeholders, organizations, and partners. CORE COMPETENCIES PMP • Agile • Scrum • DASM • Communications • Public Speaking • Relationship Building • Team Coordination • Presentations • Data Analysis & Analytics • Research • Management & Leadership • Scheduling • Financials • Quality Control • Risk Management • MS Suite (Excel, Project, Word, Server) • Project Management Tools
Provides project management support to IT and infrastructure teams in support of lifecycle management at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC]. Select Accomplishments: • Designs, develops, and oversees project plans and implementation for enterprise-wide security architecture from conception through close out. Works closely with Federal clients to ensure all requirements are met and systems are upgraded without interruption. • Led effort to power down FDIC’s data center, perform maintenance, power up, and restore business operations. Best practices recommends 9+ months for successful execution. Accomplished all project goals on time and under budget in 4 months. Oversaw a project team of six. Held regular status meetings with senior executives. • Pioneered and coordinated shift to Azure cloud computing framework, ensuring foundational software assets are migrated in preparation for enterprise-wide transition. • Provided data analysis support for enterprise-level process and procedure development to ensure business functions are positively impacted by project outcomes. • Organized and led the planning process for internal systems and data migrations for a consolidation of three financial divisions. Ensures that user access is uninterrupted, and all parties received necessary credentials. • Led server refresh project, ensured stakeholders maintained necessary access, oversaw application migrations, and organized server decommissions, resulting in a $1M savings for FY2021.
Provided project management to teams developing and distributing state tests for students with cognitive disabilities. Developed, edited, and delivered documentation and testing materials, handled scheduling, and maintained websites. Led in-person training of AIR’s testing systems for teachers across the state. Select Accomplishments: • Delivered three consecutive annual projects on-time and within $8M budget for four-year contract by organizing and providing operational guidance to teams of psychometricians, writers, systems engineers, and client representatives. • Selected to serve as lead coordinator and main contact for AIR’s largest client, the South Carolina Department of Education, within first year of employment; led teams during deployment of multiyear transition to online test delivery system from initial technical specifications through delivery.
Organized and oversaw theater, dance, music, and other collaborative productions with overall budgets up to $1M managed scheduling, finances, paperwork, and budget proposals. Freelanced as lighting designer for 50+ productions in collaboration with designers. Ensured production's scope and creative goals were met on-time and within budget by collaborating with carpenters, electricians, designers, and other artists throughout the creative process. Select Accomplishment: • Maintained a quality of work that sold out the entire run of the show and led six shows to remain open past intended closing date.
Taught highly select group of high school students in the creative process, theatre history, literature analysis, technical proficiencies, and arts management. Select Accomplishment: • Increased production crew from two to 20 members within one year, allowing student-dependent control over 80+ set pieces as well as lighting, sound, and costumes.
Indentified industry-wide IT trends, created overall IT strategy, maintained proprietary database, and completed custom research projects according to client’s needs. Managed and delegated research to 12-member research team in India. Select Accomplishments: • Led team to achieve 50% more weekly/quarterly bonuses than other six department teams by finishing research projects ahead of schedule, identifying information 'scoops' for clients, and fully mapping companies' IT requirements. • Received designation to primary client-facing research team within five months to handle custom research projects; led the adoption of more user-friendly and cost-effective student information systems due to mapping emerging course-tracking software needs and projecting market demand over subsequent five years for dozens of major state and private universities in the US and UK.