David Peters

NAVINTEL Program Manager, MIL INTEL Capabilities Lead, and Strategist - Defense and Intel Portfolio

Herndon, Virginia, United States

About

My professional focus is to continue growing in the field of Information Technology/Engineering, and use my program management experience, technical skills, leadership capabilities, and business development/operations/sales knowledge to help achieve the company goals. I work well in a team and also alone if needed. My key strengths are that I am very assertive, hardworking, organized, and analytical.

Experience

  • MILINTEL Capabilities Lead, NAVINTEL Senior Program Manager and Architect at Accenture Federal Services
    Mar 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

    -Currently the NAVINTEL Program Manager/Lead leading 3 agile projects of over 80 FTEs to deliver a highly available, optimized, multi-tenant cloud ecosystem (Amazon Web Services) to include IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FOSS, IaC, Cyber Services, and DevSecOps pipeline services (Automation) in three domains from DEV to PROD and capabilities in the following focus areas: data science, business operations, mission application development, IT Strategy, modernization, and Enterprise ServiceNow design and implementation. (Contracts Value: $150M) -Responsible for tracking budgets and optimization, schedule, hiring/coordinating resources, maintaining SUBK partnerships, RMF/Cyber processes, resolving deficiencies, risk mitigation, cloud adoption, branding, marketing, and cloud migration of mission applications. -Collaborating/Communicating/Reporting with senior leadership and stakeholders (GS-15, SES, Admirals, Commanders) on technology adoption, migration/onboarding, system architecture, information assurance, operational improvements, long-term vision, investments, schedule, use cases, risks, and mission solutions. -Hiring, managing, mentoring, and developing high performing teams and leaders for DOD/IC. -Supporting overall defense and intelligence portfolio cloud strategy and growth pipelines -Serving on cloud leadership team under cloud practice and emerging technology sector -Ensuring operational demand alignment with portfolio roadmaps and cloud strategy -Leading and developing client mission-specific cloud transformation roadmaps -Shaping and delivering opportunity-specific cloud transformation value cases -Engaging and maintain relationships with ecosystem cloud service provider executives (AWS, Google, Microsoft) -Collaborating across AFS to confirm synergy identification and capture to leverage and improve existing service offerings -Providing modernized cloud architectural designs tailored for specific client use cases (Serverless, Development Pipeline, Platforms)

  • Lead Cloud Strategy Architect/SME/Advisor at Noblis ESI
    Jul 2018 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    -Lead technical cloud strategy, acquisition, transformation, and tailored migration processes to best meet program and corporate goals and initiatives. -Collaborate/Communicate with senior leadership and stakeholders on adoption, migration, long-term vision, and strategic goals in the cloud. Senior leadership includes Noblis ESI executive staff (C-Level), AF Colonels, the AF ISR CIO, and GS-15 Civilians. -Lead and mentor a SAFe agile operated team of cloud SMEs, engineers, administrators, and cloud architects on industry best practices, SDLC, and well-architected frameworks -Chair Architecture Review Board (ARB) on changes to the AF enterprise cloud baseline -Support and lead business development processes and proposals with technical discussions/writing, strategy, and proposed cloud architectures -Analyze, advise, design, develop/prototype, evaluate, automate, integrate, test, and optimize cloud environments/models on AWS/C2S -Recommend strategy and practical implementation of AWS/C2S cloud-specific technologies on an enterprise level -Provide architecture and design patterns for business continuity and system security -Provide recommendations of systems infrastructure and platforms that power widely available mission applications -Support and develop project plans, training, forecasted budgets, resource usage/cost analysis reports, and schedules -Leverage my understanding of IaaS, PaaS, Automation Tools/Techniques, DevSecOps, Python, and AWS/C2S Services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, Lambda, etc.) to come up with solutions for the client

  • Solutions Architect at C2S Consulting Group
    Oct 2016 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

    -Support business development processes and multi-contractor proposals with technical discussions/writing, strategy, and proposed cloud architectures -Support and develop project plans and schedules -Designing, building, and improving cloud environments on AWS/C2S -Advise customers on Cloud solutions options, discuss benefits and risks of each to recommend solutions that align with their business needs -Recommend strategy and practical implementation of AWS/C2S cloud-specific technologies on an enterprise level -Providing architecture and design guidelines for business system and system security -Employ first-hand experience with a broad variety of enterprise computing infrastructure and public and private Cloud computing technologies -Provide recommendations of systems infrastructure that power widely available web applications -Leverage my understanding of Linux, Automation Tools, AWS/C2S Services (Ec2, Network, ELB, etc.), cloud formation scripting or BASH to come up with solutions for the client -On-board and develop new employees to be successful on specified projects

  • Principal Systems Engineer at CenturyLink
    May 2016 - Oct 2016 · 6 mos

    •Facilitate migration of customer applications into virtual hosted environment; •Use advanced techniques to analyze, define and document customer needs and required functionality. •Design, develop and test theoretical and/or physical models •Perform system level design trade analysis •Develop system design, considering operational impacts, performance, testing, manufacturing, cost and schedule, training, maintenance and support •Review system specifications and description documents •Determine how the application will be provisioned, tested and implemented •Plan system development execution •Ensure adherence to appropriate standards, policies, principles and practices •Analyze system capacity and performance to support problem resolution and system enhancements •Coordinate the work of many engineers across many functional areas •Integrate different disciplines and specialty groups into a team effort, forming a structured development process that proceeds from concept to development to operation •Use advance systems engineering techniques •Work in coordination with System Architects •Primary technical interface to external stakeholders •Ensure technical teams execute to deliver quality and meet deadlines •Helps to drive strategic approaches through application across multiple systems/projects/organizations

  • Principal/Lead Systems Engineer at CSRA Inc
    Oct 2015 - May 2016 · 8 mos

    -Ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that incorporates technical, schedule, and cost constraints. -Performing functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. -Providing staff and users with assistance solving computer related problems. -Conferring with clients regarding the nature of the information processing or computation needs a computer program is to address. -Coordinating and link the computer systems within an organization to ensure compatibility. -Consulting with management to ensure agreement on system requirements. -Expanding or modify system to serve new purposes or improve workflow. -Analyzing and study complex system requirements. -Planning, analyzing, and designing information systems to solve mission needs and requirements. -Performing life cycle systems planning, business information planning, business and analysis. -Providing technical guidance in software engineering techniques and automated support tools. -Analyzing functional business applications and design specifications for functional activities.