OBJECTIVE:
Challenging senior program/project management, operations management, engineering/technical management, or business development position for an aggressive, technology-oriented, organization responding to national security challenges with special interest in information operations, information technology and information assurance.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Highly diverse professional with 22 years of progressively responsible leadership and intelligence experience with emphasis in Information Operations (IO), Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) and Communication Intelligence (COMMINT)
• Information and system engineering professional with over 10 years experience in software engineering, system engineering, systems analysts and computer operations
• Diverse in the Department of Defense (DoD) Budgetary Process
• Over 10 years of acquisition and contract management experience in AC AT I-III systems
• Outstanding track record for reducing costs and increasing productivity while successfully directing large, fast-paced operations. Demonstrated abilities with workforces ranging up to 300 people
• Superior team builder with an ethical, customer-oriented leadership style
• Strong research, analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills with the ability to envision long range objectives and goals and anticipate/resolve potential difficulties early
• Able to effectively communicate project requirements, set goals and establish priorities
• Possess a current Top Secret (SCI) Clearance with CI Polygraph
• Previous Instructor/lecturer for University of Maryland

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Deputy Director, Information Operations (IO) Strategy and Integration
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I), and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence USD (I)
December 2001-present
• Developed the C3I Information Operations vision and crafted the language in the FY04-09 Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) that set the foundation for IO becoming a core competency in the Department of Defense
• Identified shortfalls in Information Operations doctrine, capabilities, planning support for DoD that resulted in FY04-09 funding allocation and a solid vision for IO resources
• Obtained millions of FY03/04 dollars for IO programs and capabilities to support services and agencies unique IO gaps
• Developed transformational changes in strategy, employment/fielding, testing, assurance and intelligence support for Information Operations
• Developing strategic and C4ISR architectural plans for the IO Test Range infrastructure that will facilitate significant confidence in IO capabilities
• Coordinated and resolved at the senior level, IO issues between OSD, Intelligence Community, Services, Joint Staff and Combatant Commands
• Establishing DoD directives and policies for Information Operations to set guidelines on use of IO capabilities
• Guest lecturer on IO transformation and vision for Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, VA

Program Manager IMINT Directorate / Chief, Requirements Division, COMM Directorate National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Chantilly, VA May 1999 - November 2001
• Developed strategic and operational plans to insert NRO developed imagery technology into the warfighters hands real-time
• Acquired a multi-billion dollar next generation ground infrastructure
• Improved imagery derived weapon targeting by a factor of five (5)
• Stood up the first Joint NRO and NEVIA program office to implement a multi-billion dollar intelligence program
• Chartered program planning tasks for hundreds of critical engineering activities
• Crafted the computer and communications architecture solution to implement the most complex multi-level security system fielded by DoD or intelligence community
• Strategize and pioneered the NRO policy for use of commercial off the shelf products in highly classified programs
• Nailed cost and schedule targets on the first ground software deliveries
• Transformed development of highly sophisticated systems from several years of concept feasibility to operational reality
• Developed formal acquisition documentation and testing procedures for special communication programs
• Defined and implemented the requirements process for special communication needs

Assistant Product Manager
Product Manager for Information Warfare, Fort Meade, Maryland
August 1996 - December 1998
• Successfully managed projects through all phases of the acquisition lifecycle
• Instituted operational testing of highly classified systems using trained operators in a realistic environment
• Lead the way in breaking new ground both doctrinally and developmentally for the entire DoD Information Warfare community
• Developed Army's first information warfare intelligence database that was adopted by all the Army for operational use
• Lead first employment of an operational information warfare capability in direct support of a combatant command mission
• Negotiated and forged strategic relationships with national agencies and other services to reduce total cost of ownership
• Successfully managed projects to ensure that implementation and prescribed activities were carried out in accordance with specified objectives, time frame, and funding parameters
• Defended programs budget, developed project baselines, managed system architecture and configuration management
• Reviewed project proposals to determine time frame, funding, limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements and allotment of available resources to various phases of the project
• Wrote Single Acquisition Management Plans (SAMP), Test and Evaluation Management Plans (TEMP), Risk Management Plans, Acquisition Strategies, Supportability Strategies, and Statement of Works (SOW)

Information Manager and Project Officer
United States Army Operational Test and Evaluation Command, Alexandria, VA
October 1994 - July 1996
• Created a mobile telecommunication computer facility (MTCF) to test and evaluate Army ACT I and II systems at remote sites
• Developed an automated methodology to process and coordinate Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMPs)
• Designed the OPTEC Decision Support System
• Developed the test strategies, data collection and analysis methodologies for systems that were tested and briefed results to senior leadership

Held various other leadership and staff positions with increasing levels of responsibility

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• B.S. Computer Science, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS (1983)
• B.S. Mathematics, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS (1984)
• Master Business Administration, Webster University, St. Louis, MO (1987)
• Certificate in Telecommunications, George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C(1998)
• Advance Program Management Course, Defense Systems Management College (1999
• Aerospace Earn Value Management Course, (EVMS) (2000)
• Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS (1995)
• Management Software Acquisition, Defense System Management College (1995)
• Material Acquisition Management Course, Fort Lee, VA (1995)
• Computer Science School, Fort Gordon, GA (1994)
• DoD Level 3 Certification in Program Management
• DoD Level 2 Certification in Computers and Communication

Technology
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and MS Project
• Computer Hardware: IBM, PC
• Operating Systems: MS Windows, MSDOS, UNIX,
• Languages: C/C++, Ada, Pascal