IT Management Experience

• Strategic Planning - developed five year Strategic IT Plan for Westinghouse Field Service, Marketing Division, Westinghouse Corporation - resulting in a strategic competitive advantage by linking customers to corporate just-in-time inventory and product financing support using existing computer assets (generated additional tax deduction as a marketing expense) while upgrading Westinghouse's infrastructure.
• Technical Architecture - Responsible for the design, implementation and performance improvement of a multi-million dollar global data-/tele-communications network - resulting in the development of a standardized digital message format and secure data management capabilities improving throughput and reliability for $3B National, Missile Warning, Space Defense and Aircraft Warning systems.
• Engineering Management - Responsible for leading a team of engineers and analysts representing the customer's interests on a $110M replacement of a Main Frame computing support facility to a distributed workstation environment. Assessing total system design and implementation - user requirements identification; contract management; facilities modifications; software requirements specifications; code design; database design; system integration and regression testing; Year 2000 compliance; system security, risk assessment and mitigation; contractor cost performance assessment; integrated system scheduling; customer support for testing, training and documentation; and, legacy system maintenance and conversion - resulting in cost containment and implementation of control procedures to reduce risks during system conversion, addressing multiple site operations, and critical backup and data synchronization issues to maintain 24-7 operations of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
• Program Management - Accepted responsibilities for a $1M firm-fixed price development program that was initially under bid (two man years), and had customer imposed development phase limitations (12 months vs 24 months) - resulting in selection of advanced development tools and select project team; negotiation of on-site customer involvement for accelerated design approvals and reduction of obsolete contract requirements (electronic vs hardcopy deliverables); completed the contract in 10 months-two months ahead of customer requirements, maintained the original profit margin, and gained a 100 percent award fee from the customer.
• Project Management - Cradle to grave responsibilities for requirements identification, feasibility study and cost benefit analysis, source selection, contract negotiation, system integration, testing, customer training and system acceptance - resulting in 20-40 projects per year valued from $40K-$400M successfully implemented on time and within, or below, budget.
• Business Operations Analysis - Conducted a business process and IT assessment in five common business practice areas - resulting in an estimated first-year savings of $19M and significant improvement in customer responsiveness.
• Contract Management - Conducted procurement for outsourced services to build a resource management system, government technical advisors estimated the contract would come in at $40M - resulting in award of a five year development contract for $7M - a $33M cost avoidance. Responsible for multi year maintenance and support contracts for $1B in mainframe computer assets.
• Negotiation Skills - Conducted final contract negotiations on a $4M main-frame - resulting in getting the vendor to trade $180K of cables for $2,300.00 shipping costs.
• Responsiveness - Asked to develop a viable IT plan, supporting 8,000 personnel operating from 12 geographical locations, in one week to meet budget submission deadlines - resulting in a successfully funded, multi-year, $25M IT support system implementation.
• Customer Relations - Successfully developed customer relations and confidence - resulting in customer increasing contract manning from just myself to a team of eleven senior engineers and analysts (six year support contract).
• Group Decision Support Systems - Design and implemented on-line Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) for Qwest Space and Power Planning group, resulting in network systems engineering cycle time reduction from 31 days to 2 hours.
• Automated Planning Tools - Developed automated Tactical Implementation Planning tool using Microsoft Access 2000 - resulting in reduction of planning time from 3 months to 2 weeks.

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