I’ve led organizations and teams of up to 30 individuals in long-term (multi-year) projects, in both the engineering and design space, as well as in the field of software development.

Project Management Experience in my Professional Work

SAIC - Software Engineer

• Act as one of four seniors on ~20 person contract team, across multiple contract transitions.
• Duties include recruiting, onboarding, and training of skilled junior positions on the contract.
• Developed and implemented strategies to improve workflows of non-technical teams. Changes I’ve championed include:
  • Transitioned from no source control to Git
  • Tracking and delegating work via Kanban and Jira
  • Implementing better versioning policies
• Developed automation strategies to streamline and consolidate creation of new development workflows through the use of templating, unit test evaluation, and component organization.

SAIC - Software Testing Professional

• Work on ~20 person contract team serving DOD customer.
  • Act as senior on contract team, working on the recruiting, onboarding, and training of skilled junior positions on our contract.
  • Act as testing lead for customer product development team for a Government off-the-shelf application used Army-wide.
• Champion of agile workflows and methodologies for development team.
  • Led team migration from TFS to Git hosted via BitBucket Server.
  • Designed workflows through the Atlassian suite to increase team efficacy.
• Assist in maintenance of CMMI certifications for customer product.
• Mentor junior developers with individualized projects, enforcing concepts like
  • Agile workflow (Kanban)
  • Clean code & architecture
  • Test-Driven Development

Project Management Experience in my Student Projects

UA Civil Engineering Senior Design - Project Lead, 1st Team

• Was elected by a class of 36 student-peers and department faculty to be the 1st team lead in a semester long senior design project.
• Placed in charge of a small team with the goal of designing, modeling, costing, and scheduling a $15 million, 45,000 square foot business incubator over the course of 4 months.
• Used tools such as MS Project, Trello, and an Agile-based workflow (Kanban) to break engineering process into a manageable timeline.
• Compiled and presented deliverables at regular intervals, including a final presentation to industry leaders and general UA College of Engineering faculty.

UA CE432 - Team Lead, 1st Team Undergraduate

• Led team of 6 student-peers in the development of a 3D Matrix Analysis program written in MATLAB.
• Used Kanban workflow to manage overall solution development and team workloads.
• Presented deliverables at regular intervals, including technical specifications, requirements completion, and at-presentation demonstrations with randomized test data.

UA ASCE Concrete Canoe - Captain

• Led teams ranging from 12-30 students in the year-long engineering, design, production, and presentations of a $10,000+/year project.
• Used tools such as MS Project, Google Drive App Suite, and Slack + chatbots to manage multiple component-specific teams and their tasking, workflows, and time- and cost-scheduling.
• Led other ASCE competition teams in short-run projects, with ~6 month, sub-$1000 requirements.
• Worked heavily with structural analysis as well as data analysis and projection using C# and Python

UA Rocket Team - Consultant

• Was requested to join as project management consultant, joining a team of ~20 students in a 2-year run.
• Helped create a WBS-based project timeline leading up to an annually-held competition.
• Helped with funding request processes, both in-college and with businesses and individuals.
• Worked on engineering projects developing and testing electronics systems for amateur rocketry
• Worked in Python and Arduino to develop telemetry and advanced tracking software for in-flight analysis and reporting