Sibley International
Technical Consultant
Kingston, Jamaica
Web Site:http://www.sibleyinternational.com
As a technical consultant, I led six USAID funded projects aimed to re-modernize various Jamaican government agencies. I gathered business and functional requirements from agency executives and senior staff; created project plans; managed vendor selection processes; negotiated best and final offers; managed software implementations and testing; managed training and deployment; and performed project closures. The projects included the implementation of a payment gateway for electronic transactions, web-based customer document tracking systems, document management systems, workflow management systems, inter-agency collaboration systems, and hardware/data migrations.

Expertech Solutions
Technical Manager
Rockville, MD
Web Site:http://www.expti.com
As a technical manager, I was responsible for the company's Information Systems Software Development contract with the Environmental Protection Agency. The work included development of work plans, cost and resource estimates, resource negotiations and progress reporting for work assignments. The first assignment involved the development of a security web-site prototype, which was delivered successfully.

Hicks Consulting
Project Manager
San Francisco, CA
Web Site:http://www.hicksconsult.com
As a project manager, I managed a corporate-wide project affecting over 1200 UNIX servers in production environments at Charles Schwab. The work entailed implementing security infrastructure upgrades and involved developing project plans, effort, resource and cost estimates; leading project teams; managing the deployment of hardware and software; coordinating with impacted departments; and resolving conflicts.

NBC Internet
Manager/Senior Project Manager
San Francisco, CA
As a senior project manager, I managed over 25 technical projects dealing with content management systems, e-commerce systems, online-gaming systems, and Internet user services. A major project involved a $10 million system integration of an e-commerce system. The project required managing 20 software engineers working in a remote office. The team successfully delivered a product-price Internet search and transaction engine that enabled NBCI to launch a $50 million dollar marketing campaign to promote shopping.

As a manager, I managed 10 software engineers and a $2 million budget to implement broadband technical projects at NBC Internet. A major effort involved leading the migration of the broadband content management system to a new platform. The project was successfully completed with the following important results: allowed the broadband staff to share content pages throughout NBCI; enabled NBCI to distribute content pages to partners such as SBC and Prodigy; and increased the traffic to the broadband site by 80%. Other tasks included interacting with product development, graphic design, information architecture, usability testing, and software development teams to develop Internet products from concept to production; generating effort, resource and cost estimates; writing functional and technical requirements; developing project plans; communicating with NBC Internet clients and vendors; and participating in contract negotiations. In addition, I led external projects with NBC, NBC affiliates, partners and other third parties; provided project management and technical direction for initiatives; gathered business requirements; allocated resources and assignments; tracked deliverables; reported to executive teams; and ensured quality of products.

Hewlett Packard
Software Engineer/Project Manager
Cupertino, CA
Web Site:http://www.hp.com
As a project manager, I led the migration of a client-server time entry tool to a web-based platform. The new system was delivered on schedule and processed $2 million per year. In another major project, I managed the development of a work assignment tool with resource allocation and task completion monitoring functionality. The tool resulted in the increased efficiency of the development and management teams.

As a software engineer, I designed and developed computer product object oriented models in configuration modeling language (CML). These models were incorporated into a worldwide configuration tool used to configure and quote HP computer products, software, peripherals and services.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Software Engineer
Moffett Field, CA
Web Site:http://www.nasa.gov
As a software engineer, I conducted research on neural network algorithms for aircraft trajectory conflict resolution on final approach. Part of the research involved developing C++ algorithms for NASA's Final Approach Spacing Tool.

Berkeley Expert Systems Laboratory
Research Student
Berkeley, CA
Web Site:http://best.me.berkeley.edu
As a research assistant, I analyzed vibration failure modes for infrared and sonar sensors from the Intelligent Vehicle Highway System and built hardware and software for failure analysis of test sensors and data recorders.

Center for the Advancement of Hispanics in Science and Engineering Education
Instructor
Washington, D.C.
Web Site:http://www.cahsee.org
Taught engineering and science to talented high school students.

Research Careers for Minority Scholars
Research Scholar
Ames, Iowa
Researched, wrote, and presented several papers in the fields of optimization, controls and statistics. Presented results at the 1992 VI National Undergraduate Research Conference (Minneapolis, MN) and the 1992 National Science Foundation Research Conference (Washington, D.C.).

Management Courses

Management Fundamentals at NBC Internet
Project Management at Hewlett Packard

Computer Skills

Operating Systems: Windows and UNIX.
Languages: C++, CML, Java, HTML, SQL, and Visual Basic.
Applications: Expert on MS Project; MS Office; MS Access, and Visio.
Databases: Familiar with Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and MS Access.