Alexandria, VA 22315
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A REAS O F EXPERTISE
Program Management
Project Life Cycle
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Budget Oversight
Vendor Negotiations
Cross-Team Collaboration
Communications
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PROGRAM MANAGER, Information Technology Project Management
2009 2014
Navy Federal Credit Union
Vienna, VA
Tactical, strategic Program Manager managing the daily operations of a top strategic program for Information
Services and was a key person in planning and initiating a strategic program for Branch Operations. Mentored,
trained and directed virtual teams of up to 20 members in line with all project management methodologies and
objectives. Devised and deployed sophisticated approaches to impact program effectiveness.
Key Achievements & Engagements
Authority over 5-year, $40M Member Experience Data Program comprised of business intelligence,
infrastructure and data governance initiatives
Co-founded and launched innovative Navy Federals Program Management Life Cycle
Co-created and chaired Navy Federals PM Professionals Forum, a monthly forum for active project
managers and for people interested in the project management field
Spearheaded launch of HPs Project & Portfolio Management Center
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Information Technology Project Management
2007 2009
Ernst & Young
Washington, DC
Oversaw and coordinated complex project portfolio consisting of four business projects, a hardware
infrastructure project and a CRM project. Authority over geographically dispersed teams of up to 13 members,
including developers, engineers and quality staff.
Key Achievements & Engagements
Directed $20 million electronic knowledge management project portfolio consisting of four projects in
which Documentum software was heavily modified to provide monitoring of stored documents, reporting
to various tax business partners, and specific email notifications based on monitoring component
Researched various methods to allow scanning from firms multi-functional devices (combination of Ricoh
and Xerox); wrote project charter and managed project through all phases, from initiation through
controlling
Seamlessly guided enterprise-wide replacement of aging Cisco servers with new Cisco servers for missioncritical tax software
E ARLY C AREER
PROJECT MANAGER, Texel Corporation
Simultaneously managed 10+ large and small cable infrastructure and network hardware projects.
Reston, VA
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Microsoft (Project, Project Server, SharePoint, Office, PowerPoint, Visio, Access), Data Warehousing,
J2EE, SDLC, Agile, Scrum, RUP, Waterfall, Visual Source Safe, Web Browsers, Windows
E DUCATION
MBA Coursework, Management, Strayer University
BA, Radio, Television and Film, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
C ERTIFICATIONS
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance