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EMAIL AVAILABLE Street Address PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLELinkedin Profile: https://LINKEDIN LINK AVAILABLESummaryUnited States Air Force Veteran, emerging Program Manager, seasoned Systems Engineer, and Intelligence Subject Matter Expert, with over 26 years of extensive operational, tactical and strategic work experience with Intelligence Analysis, Space Operations, C5ISR, SIGINT systems, RF & Systems Testing Engineering & Integration, IT Systems Fielding & Testing, and Systems Acquisition Support. Possesses mastery knowledge of DOTMLPF, CYBER, EW & ISR related to MDO & DoD activities for system design and development, system/program acquisition, strategic initiatives and science & technology planning, tactics techniques and procedures (TTP) evaluations, requirements, research, hardware/software/systems development, testing, integration, deployment, and technical/functional systems decomposition, description, and analysis. Garnered advanced understanding of IT infrastructures, systems, tactical and operational employment of ISR systems, service-oriented architectures (SOA), systems testing (with strong emphasis on emerging technology and requirements development, integration, testing, and fielding) and software-based, enterprise-level applications development and deployment. Possesses unique insight for strategic roadmaps and future visions with respect to DoD and stakeholder plan and technology or systems capability development across the Intelligence Community. Consummate leader, willing to sacrifice to see the Mission succeed in all aspects.Recent HighlightsPrepared 95 contract deliverables (CDRLs) almost 300 individual documents. All were delivered on time, with 98.9% of them delivered early.Instrumental in driving positive revenue against significant challenges. Ended FY 22 at $191K above target and increased EBIT by $971K, exceeding goals.As Deputy Program Manager with Peraton, successfully engaged a 50+ member team and managed an annual budget of nearly $20M.Received an A+ from Peraton Finance Lead for excellence in cost-variance, forecasting, and labor, with a best-of-sector rating (within 1% of actuals). The program was recognized as 1st of 12 programs across the Space and Intelligence Business Unit, besting the next closest program by more than 17% (while remaining profitable).Work HistoryDeputy Program Manager Peraton Apr 2022 PresentoManaged 50+ staff, including 8-11 direct subordinates.oPerform all program procurement, including hardware/software and personnel. Successfully fulfilled surge labor demands, including the offboarding of 12 personnel and onboarding of 27 personnel in 2 years time.oSole hiring authority & HR liaison for team issues. Acting Program Manager during 6-month absence.oRisk Manager and Quality Manager:Directly responsible Annual CDRLs for PLP, PMP, QCP, SDLC, CRM, and more preparation of report products for customer PMR, MSR, CCB, MVP Release Notes, Risk Board, Backlog Grooming, Weekly Status Report.Prepared, Captured, Documented, Qualified, and Delivered program Risk issues and engaged Team to deliver & manage solutions to mitigate, transfer, avoid, or accept (with reduced consequences or likelihood of occurrence), programmatic risk. Relayed all concerns to GOV PMO for equity, transparency, and joint ownership/solutioning for actions, during monthly status review, quarterly Program Management Review (with KO), and separate Risk Review Board Meeting.oPrepared annual budgets for Labor, Travel, Procurement, SW Licensing, and monthly execution against plan for labor and program costs.Senior Systems Engineer, Science and Technology Advisor O-6 Staff Officer Innoplex - Jun 2021 Apr 2022oEngaged directly with S&T partners in the C5ISR community (Army Research Lab, Army TENCAP, C5ISR Development Command (DEVCOM), Army Futures Command (AFC), DARPA, and many more. Oversaw the development and capability technology implementation of the AppCEMA standard.oApprised customers regarding DOD 5000 acquisition milestones enabling resource allocation decisions, budget programming and investments. Liaised requirements for continuing development for fielded systems and advocates for POR integration of new technologies, tactics, procedures, or concepts of employment for tactical and strategic mission systems.oRegularly conducted engineering engagement with laboratories, commercial industry, and academia to bring new technologies to Army mission owners.oLead engagement with subordinate organizations to assess current capability development and deployment readiness.oConsolidated approaches and evaluation of sophisticated and technical parameters for systems planning, development, acquisition, and integration.oAdvised O-6 Portfolio manager regarding decisions to keep projects on-time, within-scope, and on-budget.Prepared quarterly reviews of all programs/projects for PPBE reviews $500K - $5M per project (2-3 year technology program maturation roadmap).Business Development Manager- Innoplex - Jan 2021 Jun 2021oLed three Proposal & Capture projects supporting U.S. Army contracts in the areas of C5ISR, Cyber, Technical Modernization, Innovation and Technology.oResponsible for the Technical Volume approach and delivered oral presentation of offering to customer Valued at $200M (JV, MVP contract construct).oContinuously worked with matrixed organizational assets to support a growing organization. Contributed to first company Program Communication Plan for 25+ sub-contracts, ensuring meaningful dialogue persisted across all contracts, increasing value of the companys offering.Sub-Contracts & Senior Program Manager - Innoplex - Jan 2021 Jun 2021oSimultaneously managed 19 different sub-contracts (estimated worth ~$56 million in annual revenue).Directly responsible for staffing, hiring, and sub-contract labor on all assigned programs.Directly responsible for customer/client satisfaction to PRIME contractor, and accountable to COO/Chief of Operations for profitability margins on each contract (based on T&M rates for labor and LCAT rate negotiations).Sr. Systems Engineer, Capability & Requirements Manager, Business Development, B&P Support (Technical Contributor)- Innoplex - Mar 2020 Jan 2021oManaged daily Enterprise Systems and Capability Request matrix, tracking 500+ software and system upgrades, new capabilities, bugs, and efficiency requests from the entire Intelligence Community.oPrepared detailed weekly briefs to senior stakeholders and capability development managers, bridging operations and requirements with capability solutions being worked by software engineers.oDelivered Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) for brand new enterprise system capability. Ensured rigorous off-line testing was conducted on primary and backup (mirror system) before going live in an operational environment.oBuilt and maintained a new inventory of past-performance examples, by defined area of expertise (innovation, solutions delivery, budget performance, excellence in value (EVMS principles), customer satisfaction ratings, etc.).Senior Test, Training, & Evaluation (TT&E) Engineer, Project Manager, Army Market Business Development Bid and Proposal Support and Technical Contributor Innoplex Apr 2018 Mar 2020oAuthored routine documentation such as, Event Execution Document (EED), Developmental Test (DT) test plans, User Engagement Surveys, User Testing Objectives, User Training Guides (UTG), Measures of Performance (MOPs) & Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs), from systems design and development artifacts, to include Failure Definition Scoring Criteria (FDSC) for all DT/OTs.oLed and Organized testing events, Contractor Testing, User Testing, Developmental Testing, Operational Testing, Operational Assessment, Limited Object Events, and Operations Test & Evaluation;Successfully led government customer engagements and simultaneously led seven Work-Integrated Product Teams (WIPT), providing direction/input and preserving GOV customer equities where required.Created a templated approach for drafting Letter of Observation, during third-party Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) of testing efforts during DT/OT events.oOrganized, executed, and led five separate communication field trials, each totaling more than $2.5M in test equipment and services (not including labor hours).oAuthored a new Statement of Work (SOW) and Technical Task Order (TTO) breakouts for a brand-new testing services contract, worth $5M over a 5-yr period.oServed as DT Test Lead to monitor and provide strict oversight for contractor-performed testing and vendor location.oExpertly communicated testing strategy, government requirements for test, and intended objectives or outcomes for the system under test (SUT) to achieve government acceptance of both product and process at the culmination of the event.oMajor stakeholder in establishing systems engineering activities, defining acquisition parameters, and creating, analyzing, and monitoring testing objectives, for both developmental and operational demonstration of new acquisition capability for U.S. Army Joint Common Access Platform (JCAP). This program, a $265M effort, which gives all DoD components enduring and seamless access to Offensive/Defensive Cyber Tools for a variety of mission needs, is now one of THE standards in Cyber Attack and Defense across DOD.Built the first ever Systems Engineering Requirements Verification Traceability Matrix (RVTM), conglomerated from multiple system engineering documents, shall-statements, DIDs, ICDs, CDDs, SDDs, SVDs.1200+ requirements identified for testable criterion.Senior Systems Engineer, SME, Project Manager, Deputy Program Manager, Business Development Bid and Proposal Support and Technical Contributor Minerva Engineering - May 2016 Apr 2018oLed a team in a Platform Resiliency and Mission Assurance (PRMA) Cyber-Security Tabletop Exercise with stakeholders to assess and decompose the mission assurance posture of critical AF/Army SATCOM systems. This knowledge fed the efforts for a team of 4 engineers to provide critical engineering activities and an 8-month effort that culminated in discovery of a major U.S. weapons system vulnerability & report to HHQ, Department of the Army Cyber, and Senior Leaders, per Congressional mandate.Responsible for $2M dollar project regarding labor-hours and budget execution, to include software and hardware procurement as project consumed resources for this timeframe.oShowcased exceptional leadership abilities and load-balanced tasks for 8 personnel in support of Enterprise and Scalable Analytics, with specific focus on Cyber Defense of DOD IT infrastructures, and analytic capabilities for former NSA/IAD.oResponsible for labor hours accountability, reporting to the Portfolio Manager monthly for labor metrics maximizing profitability through per-hour billing to customer, above forecasted totals.oAs Sr. Systems Engineer, defined tasks, developed infrastructure requirements, and communicated software engineering goals and constraints as well as analytic features for development. Broke down barriers and increased the viability of analytics to move forward, gaining full legal and operational authority to operate in the corporate cloud, including Cloud Software Migration (prototype to full-fielding).oUsed Kanban, Agile, Scrum, and V-Method Engineering and development practices to manage all systems and software engineering development, rework, bugs and fixes identified through regression testing and user-acceptance training or demonstrations. Managed release versions, including relevant security updates, capabilities, features, and release notes for enterprise users.oPrioritized and nominated tasks for research, requirements gathering, prototyping, troubleshooting, O&M, production operations, customer engagement or technical discussions impacting development and delivery. Engaged multi-faceted team to achieve maximum parallel development of software initiatives, while planning and preparing architectures for enterprise-level deployment.oAuthored multiple system engineering documents (cradle-to-grave) while standardizing templates, creating the first repeatable process across the team.oConsistently scored highest marks. Lauded by peers and leadership for the ability to challenge operations with a fresh perspective and creativity. Decomposed timelines for objectives and customer requirements for development and fielding of analytic initiatives. Provided essential knowledge regarding the forecasting process which helped to prioritize long-term initiatives, indicate those not on the critical path, and structure just-in-time operations to occur in serial and parallel that met consumers intent for time-to-market delivery goals.oWorked extensively with software developers to brainstorm and bring new applications to market. Developed concepts of employment utilizing the latest technology for conducting critical analysis and automated applications based on customer requirements.oIndependently authored three whitepapers for mission solutions, responded with technical input to three Requests for Proposals, and participated in two Bid and Proposal efforts.Assistant Test Lead Systems Engineer Operations Assistant Lead Sequoia Strategies & Solutions - May 2014 May 2016oAuthored and administered SIGINT/COMINT operational CONOPs in a dynamic test environment (STORMFORCE Senior Staff), with almost 500 US and Coalition partners/attendees (3 annual events) Directly responsible for budget execution and resource planning for each annual event, and smaller events throughout the year.Annual events exceeded $10M in purchasing of equipment, site-activity resources, labor, support contracting, and more.Limited Objective Events were around $500K per event, 3-4 per year.oGave direction to SMEs for the development of the TNG/JICD 4.2 network within lab and operationally relevant, live-testing environments. Key contributor to plans, readiness activities, event-planning, drafting of Measures of Performance, Measures of Effectiveness (MOPs/MOEs), critical design of experiments, and test-metrics data-collection strategies and capture during all events.oManaged FVEY partner teams & materiel developers efforts to develop, test, and demonstrate cross-access (multiple domains) SIGINT CONOPs within the JICD 4.2 infrastructure, and prepare post-event assessments (including limited analysis of capability interoperability) for world-wide customers.oDuring Limited Objective Events (LOEs), meticulously oversaw the test, integration, and demonstration of technical experiments for the PRC-117G, to develop cognitive, self-meshing networks which would facilitate vital data exchanges between US and FVEY cryptologic efforts.HQ Staff Action Officer (O-6 Staff), Senior Intelligence Analyst TASC - Mar 2011 May 2014oLevied recent Operational SIGINT and ISR tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination (TCPED), and Advanced-Systems knowledge to directly support a brand-new, Rapid-Fielding Initiative, supporting contingency combat operations OCONUS.oCoordinated the off-boarding of large data analysis and provided reach-in access for in-the-rear analysts to make use of 100s of TBs of new data previously unavailable. Worked closely with system/requirements owners and developers to test/demonstrate engineered systems, ensuring system synergy, ability to meet security parameters, and readiness for live-demonstration environments as engineered.oQuick to seize initial objectives and outcomes. Instrumental in fielding a 50-page, comprehensive Analyst guide to produce near-real-time intelligence from multiple streams of information simultaneously.oConsistently provided expertise to engineering teams during CCBs, and other life-cycle upgrades, noting any impacts to policy, dataflows, processing, Intelligence analysis and exploitation, TTPs, and adeptly recommended enterprise approaches to employment of systems, components, or manipulation of data items.Airborne Cryptologic Linguist, SIGINT Analyst, Assistant Collection Manager, Datalink Operator, Curriculum Developer USAF - Aug 1997 Mar 2011oAs curriculum developer for the National Cryptologic School (NCS) Mr. Davidson provided quality control for training and vetted online technical training products for All USAF Serbian-Croatian Linguists. His creativity was displayed as he conceptualized story boards for web-developers translating training requirements into online e-modules for targeted cryptologic skill development and advanced tactics mission certification. He meticulously authored, taught, re-tooled and evaluated 30+ advanced/tactics training courses delivered via online/static classes to war-fighting linguists. His efforts doubled available cryptologic training sources. Alongside his many primary duties, Mr. Davidson was also a focal point, representing USAF interests along with NSA customer requirements and presented findings at Cryptologic Training Advisory Group (CTAG) Annual Conference. His efforts forged new relationships and were successful in increasing participation by stakeholders for training.oIn under 6 months, Mr. Davidson independently created an online software tool to look-up, research, and validate intelligence targets prior to vetting process for collection and further exploitation analysis. Tool was successful in minimizing unproductive collection and target tasking by more than 50% while increasing the capability of limited resources by almost 200% effectiveness as applied to target ISR.oLed 200+ staff as Senior Non-Commissioned Officer during absence of 4 superiors. Reported directly to O-4 for period of 8 months, ensuring daily operations ran error-free!oPerformed vital intelligence activities and ISR operations across the Electromagnetic Spectrum (ES); HF, V/UHF, CDMA, 3G/4G, PTT, and Frequency-Agile systems.oPerformed directed collection operations and supported warfighters with detailed intelligence assessments supporting combat operations and reduced Improvised Explosive Device (IED) threats to US and Coalition.oDistinguished in combat. Hand-selected by senior SIGINT collection manager and mission director to be the assistant collection manager for 8 of 10 months deployed to CENTCOM AORoLed 6 junior linguists as team leader: Independently created online software tool to look-up, research, and validate targets prior to vetting process for collection and further exploitation analysis. This tool was successful in minimizing unproductive collection and target tasking by more than 50% while increasing the capability of limited resources by almost 200% effectiveness as applied to target ISR. Championed first independent baseline review of new high-priority target; project effort totaled more than 3,500-man hours. Drastically reduced unproductive intelligence collection from 80% to near 10% in 30 days.oIndependently integrated 7 disparate aircrew deployable requirement database systems, used for long-range forecasts and planning to schedule mission aircrews for deployment. Tracked and cross-validated over 2800 ready-aircrew requirements, necessary to deploy aircrews worldwide.Self-starter efforts increased aircrew personnel availability by more than 40%, essentially adding 2 new crew mission deployments per year.Education2017 Present - Completed 36 hours of instruction in Project Management; Preparing for PMP Certification target completion EOY 2024.2016 Post-Graduate Certificate - Data Analytics & Informatics, University of Maryland, University College (UMUC)2014 M.S. Intelligence Management, UMUC2012 B.S. Human Resources, minor in Strategic Entrepreneurship, UMUC2011 A.A. Intelligence Analysis and Technology, The Community College of the Air Force2011 A.A. Arabic Language, and A.A. Serbian Croatian Language, Defense Language Institute |
