Award Winning Consultant seeks Business Dev / Program Management
Washington, DC • 08/21/2007
Matt
DC Metro, MD, VA; top_hire@yahoo.com; 410.695.0860
Award-winning Management Consultant seeks
Business Development / Program Management / Process Improvement
Objective
Award-winning, results driven manager of 50+ employees, Lean Six Sigma trained, former military officer, technical degree, Top Secret SCI clearance seeks challenging, dynamic position in business development, program management, process improvement. Innovative problem solver with unique ability of providing creative solutions to a variety of business cases. Proven leadership in establishing vision, setting goals, and motivating teams to achieve exceptional results. Strengths include:
– Strategic & Tactical Planning – Program Development – Contracts & Acquisition – New Business Development – Performance Optimization
– Client / Vendor Relations – Sales & Marketing – Enterprise Resource Planning –High-end Technical Training – Team Building & Leadership – Earned Value Management – Policy/Procedure Formulation – Human Resources Management
– Cost Analysis & Budgeting – Public Relations & Speaking
Program Management (PM)
• Managed 20 consultants on largest billion dollar federal programs. Responsible for all day to day employee activities: hiring, promotions, work hours. Praised by fortune 500 major program manager (20 years with company) as “One of the best and brightest I have had the pleasure of working with.” Awarded 10% raise.
• Managed 35-60 employees in operation and maintenance of $30M engineering plant. Awarded medal, 30% raise for outstanding management.
• Managed 12 employees in navigation of U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Awarded 18% raise.
Process Improvement
• Led consulting team to 90% qualification in Lean Six Sigma, directly resulted in team proposing $200M in government savings.
• Senior consultant to federal program offices on implementation of Lean process improvement. Conducted rapid improvement events (Kaizen), developed matrices capturing cost reduction and time savings, prepared monthly progress reports to major program manager. Pentagon praised implementation as “poster child” for organizations to follow.
• Streamlined client business operations by employing latest methods: DMAIC, SIPOC, Takt time, value stream analysis, workflow diagrams, process cycle efficiency, variation analysis, deployment flowcharts, affinity diagrams, mistake proofing implementation.
Business Development (BD)
• Advised senior fortune 500 BD manager on establishment of Lean Six Sigma training courses, consulting services for first offerings to major corporations, government.
• Secured three positions for company under program support services contract (systems engineer, software engineer, information assurance specialist).
• Conducted research, networking, developed marketing plans to secure high value new business pipeline opportunities in consulting, IT telecommunications, program management software.
Communication
• Personally commended by Commander U.S. Naval Forces Europe for outstanding performance as Navy VIP escort to White House, top civilian executives, foreign government officials, military flag officers.
• Represented client, Admiral, at a week-long industry/government systems engineering convention for major program managers.
• Represented client, GS-15, at monthly configuration control board which approved system installations aboard Navy ships. Coordinated with government, industry reps to ensure installations were necessary, planned, funded, interoperable, certified.
• Led monthly subcontractor performance, customer satisfaction, and strategic planning reviews.
• Hosted conferences for senior executives: VP, SES, GS-15, Admiral, General.
Consulting
• Awarded by client, Admiral, for outstanding consulting directly contributing to milestone achievement. Provided program assessment, risk mitigation, enterprise process improvement solutions to $6B program.
• Led development of clients’ organizational goals in communication, earned value management, human resources management, process improvement, program management utilizing best practices, lessons learned for quarterly offsite meetings between industry, government.
• Tracked risk, formulated mitigation plans on ten programs including 4 valued over $1B.
• Assisted with client reorganization: proposed resources allocation, analyzed goals attainment, monitored employees’ performance and satisfaction.
• Prepared monthly client’s assessment to Pentagon on multi-billion dollar program’s budget, milestone achievement, earned value management, testing and evaluation, risk mitigation.
• Established metrics demonstrating contract performance of fortune 500 companies, determining government cash awards.
• Provided enterprise solutions to all phases of program life cycle: conception, initial design, testing and evaluation, fielding, operations and support.
• Developed acquisition strategies, program roadmaps, partnership agreements, requests for proposal, statements of work.
Project Management
• Led multi-company team that developed a systems engineering plan (170 pages) for billion dollar defense program. Resulted in clients requesting team members serve as organizational development consultants on three additional programs.
• Led software certification working group, composed of government and industry, ensuring software operation and interoperability for multi-billion dollar program. Group convened for eight months, saved government millions in testing and evaluation costs.
• Led client’s development of $100M technology refresh of hardware, software upgrades ranked by desirability, cost, scope of work, through coordination with multiple government agencies.
• Led requirements development, training, implementation of a web-based database management system facilitating collaboration among 30 industry, government, military program managers.
• Led fundraising campaign that raised 27K, 250% over goal, most in organization history. Organization awarded for breaking goals, running exceptional campaign.
• Served as quality assurance (QA) and safety inspector on $20M, eight month shipyard maintenance period. Attended production meetings, tracked timelines, provided contractor coordination, conducted weekly on-site safety inspections, approved completed jobs.
• Qualified “Officer of the Deck” responsible for operation of $300M, 700 personnel U.S. warship.
Training
• Directed training for 120 employees. Developed annual training plan praised by inspector general as “well above average.” IG provided plan to 5 organizations as “the standard to follow.”
• Trained 25 employees to establish, maintain, operate command and control IT networks between Pentagon, Navy, Marine Corps, European commands.
• Instructed university physics lab for 40 students. Taught physics lessons, graded papers, proctored exams. Tutored students in 1st and 2nd year college physics.
Professional Experience
BUSINESS DEVELOPER, CONSULTANT: Defense Technologies Consulting, VA
(Feb 2006 – Present)
CONSULTANT MANAGER: Edgerton, Germeshausen, & Grier, DC (Nov 2004 – Jan 2006)
SURFACE WARFARE OFFICER: United States Navy, VA
(May 2000 - Aug 2004)
PHYSICS TEACHING ASSISTANT: Mercer University, GA
(Sep 1997 – Jun 1998)
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Mercer University, 1999; Naval Officer Candidate School, 2000; Surface Warfare Officer School, 2001; Advanced Naval Engineering School, 2002; Advanced Fire Fighting School, 2003; Global Command and Control System Maritime Operations, 2004; Lean Six Sigma, Lockheed Martin, 2005
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