Operations Research in Washington, DC

• Lack of streamlined acquisition process to conceptualize, implement, and deploy an ACAT I IT Modernization System

• Provided management oversight for the Technical Program Office
• Developed milestone documentation for Defense compliance

Process Integration, Solution Enablement

• Provided project guidance and recommendations to develop an integrated solution across multiple stakeholders
• Delivered program, technical, and acquisition documentation to gain leadership approval and funding.

• Limited clarity around requirements and systems engineering for increased agency success.

• Identified best practices and lessons learned for industry knowledge
• Created competency metrics to increase collaboration across organizations

Process Integration, Business Optimization

• Collaborated with administrations, staff offices, and staff organizations to standardize taxonomy across the VA.
• Matured competencies to create new methodologies that impact the VA’s use of requirements (E2ERM, PMAS, APMF)

• Reduced access to medical facilitates for Military Service Men and Women and their dependence.

• Developed detailed work plans from VACAA legislation
• Performed validation of work products to address solution gaps and inconsistencies

Solution Enablement, Business Optimization

• Established foundational requirements and competencies to enable integrated milestones across the program
• Identified and managed risk while deriving and implementing legislation into solutions

• Increased complexity in revenue management processes across multiple industries, clients, and engagements

• Managed communications between leadership, business, and technical stakeholders
• Monitored change throughout the development lifecycle

Lifecycle Management, Solution Enablement

• Streamlined revenue realization across organizational units
• Created an integrated solution for pricing and project controllers to manage revenue through the financial lifecycle.

• Inability to identify cost-effectiveness within the Office of Information & Technology at the VA

• Managed multiple studies to provide analysis that influenced decision-making
• Developed the VA’s Evolution Interoperability Plan to support EHR development

Business Optimization, Solution Enablement

• Coordinated and managed the delivery of work products that impacted funding decisions within OI&T
• Established the initial road map for the VA EHR development to assist with coordination between VA and MHS

• Complex orchestration of management, implementation, and deployment of IT Modernization efforts in concert with filing season lifecycles each year.

• Created adherence approaches to the business needs and delivery partner activities not explicitly outlined by requirements
• Developed test approaches and strategies for testing techniques within CADE 2 TS2

Business Optimization, Solution Enablement

• Managed the disposition and adjudication of Solution Assurance Items to requirements, checklist, and/or ELC artifacts to safeguard the quality of delivery for TS2
• Assisted with identifying integration points between environments, tools, and data among individual test teams for each project.

• Lack of knowledge for developing and managing business and technical requirements for an overhaul of the client’s financial systems.

• Provide on the ground training to require professionals to standardize business analysis processes
• Established a process to support system requirements derivation

Process Integration, Business Optimization

• Established a foundation for business stakeholders to elicit the appropriate requirements for future systems
• Integrated the system requirements approach with an enabling tool for the optimized management of end-to-end requirements

• Limited system integration and process management competencies to support the continued growth and enablement of technology to meet business needs

• Development of a Solution Assessment Framework to influence technical decision within programs and projects
• Enable Technical Integration through process standardization and socialization

Process Integration, Lifecycle Management

• Streamlined the process of managing technical decisions in support of the CIO, CTO, and other technical leaders within the organization
• Oversaw the development of technical standards and increased integration of systems across the enterprise