Fort Myers, Florida, United States
Currently serve as the GSA Building Manager for the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Fort Myers, FL. Formerly the Director of Alumni Hall and Mahan Hall at the United States Naval Academy (May 2014 - September 2018). Previously a defense contractor providing programmatic and acquisition support to an Intelligence Agency; contractor positions included Senior Acquisition Professional and Senior Program Manager for large, mid-level and small companies. Specialties: Project Management Professional (PMI), September, 2005. Masters of Engineering Project Management, University of Maryland, June 2010. Over 25 years of increasingly responsible senior management level positions encompassing all facets of management to include: acquisition, administrative, contract, facilities, financial/budget, personnel, program and project. Experience includes development of strategic and operational plans; development and implementation of training programs; control, reporting and maintenance of multi-million dollar operating budgets; budgeting and forecasting; and supervision of staffs in excess of 150 personnel. Innate knowledge of a wide range of analytical, qualitative and quantitative methods for assessment and improvement of program effectiveness based on the goals and objectives of the organization. High energy executive with proven success in leading large organizations to higher levels of performance. Skilled at working in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. Always maintains high standards for myself and expects no less from my team members. Experienced coordinating actions/activities among diverse groups of military, government civilian, and civilian contractors and sub-contractors as well as applying the discipline of program management within the constraints of the FAR, DFARS, and DoD 5000 series regulations. Strong background in Microsoft Office software applications and Earned Value Management practices.
Assigned to the Public Buildings Service (PBS), Southeast Sunbelt Region 4 (4P), Florida Property Management Center, GSA Tampa Field Office as the Building Manager for the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Fort Myers, FL. Serve as the customer agency advocate and first GSA point of contact with client agency personnel in designated GSA owned or leased buildings. Provide occupants of both Federal Government buildings and privately leased space with safe, secure, clean, and sustainable facilities in which to conduct agency business. Interact extensively with building tenants and client representatives on a recurring basis; develop and promote positive working relationships with customer agencies and client personnel. Responsible for improving customer and client agency satisfaction with building services; maintaining and preserving the real property assets. Protect taxpayer investments in Federal facilities by facilitating the efforts of appropriate stakeholders to maximize building performance through industry best practices and life-cycle operations and management. Manage the contracting and leasing administration process as needed on behalf of tenant agencies and GSA. Work closely with other GSA personnel, customer agency personnel and contractors in the planning, design, renovation, construction, alteration, operation, maintenance and repair of assigned buildings. Direct and/or coordinate the operation of all construction, alteration and repair projects to minimize adverse impact to customer agencies. Ensure that customer agencies are aware of the schedule and timing of building related activities that may impact their operation.
Support the Founder of the Veterans Prostate Cancer Awareness Inc. (VPCa), CDR (ret) Mike "Bing" Crosby, in his mission to raise awareness and educate both the veteran patient population, and physicians treating veterans with prostate cancer. This disease continues to be the number one diagnosed cancer within the VHA, and VPCa is working to promote all the new technologies being introduced, and promote comprehensive risk stratified screening. With over 489,000 Veterans being actively treated for Prostate Cancer in the VHA system, and over 15,000 new cases each year, VPCa has a challenge to educate and raise awareness within this population.
Directly responsible for the daily oversight and management of the operational and administrative functions for the 5,000+ seat Alumni Hall facility and the 750+ seat Mahan Hall Auditorium. Organize, coordinate and direct activities and events within the buildings. Coordinate venue scheduling with Superintendent's Office of Special Events staff for over 300 midshipmen events annually, maximizing utilization of ‘on Yard’ facilities. Plan and determine staging configurations for various performing arts events; work closely with the Public Works Department engineering staff to safely configure lighting/sound rigging associated with the Midshipmen Concert series and Distinguished Artist series. Serve on various planning committees; coordinate planning of 100+ high profile events annually, to include Change of Commands; Board of Visitor conferences; All-Flag Officers Conference, Distinguished Graduate Awards (DGA) ceremony; Indoor Graduation; Plebe Summer I-Day processing, and numerous other special events in an academic or military setting. Responsible for planning, programming, budgeting and execution of a call center (O&M) budget. Support preparation of contract bids for building maintenance, and review contract specifications. Lead five government service (GS-) employees in accomplishing the Academy’s organizational goals for special, high-visibility events.
TTO Lead for an 18-person Task Order, valued at $3.8M annually, to provide programmatic and acquisition support of a Business IT Modernization effort. Expertise critical to the development of customer functional requirements. Rapidly established position of trust with unique large customer group; responsible for coordinating SETA activities for multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 acquisition programs, ensuring the quality and timely completion of the products the team produces. Interfaced directly with customers to refine requirements and express them in a manner to be understood by the developers. Reviewed and proposed an integrated master schedule baseline, fully incorporating 6 distinctive project schedules into an integrated “system of systems” schedule. Developed documentation associated with systems development milestones such as preliminary design reviews (PDRs) and critical design reviews (CDRs). Documentation covers system and program planning and status, risk management/mitigation, and operational and technical alternatives. Instrumental in helping a diverse customer set seek out and pursue innovative technical and programmatic solutions to complex acquisition problems. Directly accountable to customer to organize the contractor team, aid with the planning of their work, and monitor the execution of their assignments in order to provide continuity and synergy across all acquisition activities. Serve as SETA support to risk management review board, directly support government project leads in their risk planning. Reviews, and make recommendations to, risk statements and risk mitigation strategy/activities. Monitors risk owner input to RiskNav® tool. Also serve as Capture Manager directly supporting our overall prime contractor proposal team for an Intelligence Agency Program Executive Office (PEO) acquisition, financial and engineering-based RFP. Directly coordinate capture requirements with Serco corporate and Business Unit management.
Omen LLC/NISC acquired by IBM in March 2010. At IBM I was assigned as the overall program lead for three unique Intelligence Community (IC) agency contracts: one as the prime for the Customer Gateway (CG) Program Management Office (PMO), and two sub-contract program management efforts for the same IC agency customer, directly supporting modernization activities and technical support to field sites. The contract values of these three programs exceed $4.4M annually. As the prime for the CG PMO contract, I directly provided oversight of Systems Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) support activities for a myriad of SIGINT related customer and partner relationships, to include customer relationship management (CRM) processes, technical programs and projects. Focal point for the contract related issues relating to program acquisition, schedules, resources, funding, and reporting of a 5-year, multiple task order driven, $9.6M contract. Central point of contact to frame support of nine distinct activities/projects. Managed a SETA support staff of eight systems engineers/project managers and one web designer. SETA support activities include: project and program planning and management; systems engineering; acquisition support; application futures development; business process re-engineering; requirements analysis and management; configuration management; document management; communications support; and risk management. As the Senior Program Lead to two sub-contract activities, I interacted with the prime contractor’s lead PMs, staffing authorities and technical leads, as well as providing my direct reports professional and developmental support and guidance. I manage a diverse technical skillset on both contracts – including software, systems and test engineers; web developers; systems administrators; systems integrators; technical writers; and configuration management specialists.