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Since joining public service, I helped establish the Project Management Office within EPA’s Office of Water and am now helping the HHS Program Support Center, Administrative Services Portfolio establish a similar PMO. I also hold the Federal Acquisition Certification in Program and Project Management at the highest, Expert level – qualifying me to serve as Project Manager on federal IT projects of any investment scope (e.g., Exhibit 300 projects).
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I hold both the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP) and Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) certifications and currently serve on their Federal Sector Executive Roundtable and other PMI executive-level roles. candidate in Information Technology specializing in Project Management, studying with Capella University. I hold an MBA in E‐Business from the University of Phoenix and am a current Ph.D.
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That experience included roles as a manufacturing sector CIO, technology sector CTO, membership on a number of corporate boards, and entrepreneurial experience with both large, VC‐funded roll‐ups and smaller Internet and related technology services start‐ups. I founded the publishing sector‐based Internet start‐up that “rescued” the launch of Martha Stewart’s original site and which became her exclusive site builder for three years – a site with multiples of the visitor traffic of . I also led e‐business and Internet‐related initiatives, programs, and projects for Ford Motor Company, The Bank of New York, Pfizer, The Wedding Channel, Electronics Boutique (now GameStop), the American Diabetes Association, and the Society for Human Resources Management, among many others. BackgroundĪ retired naval officer, I entered public service in 2009 to share my 21-year military career experience and 19‐year private sector IT and executive experience with industry best practices within the federal public sector. The irony is the topic of the special issue was photography. That’s me standing on the gantry of a Harris M3000 press that’s printing a special issue of Life magazine for which the entire prepress and platemaking was done digitally, without film. The cover of InformationWeek from May 19, 1997.