Entrepreneur at Valicor Enterprises, Inc
July 2009
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Food Broker - Regional Manager for an international food brokerage
marketing multiple product lines to food service, convenience store,
restaurants and grocery chains. Pioneered many new products from
conception to placement in stores including market analysis, package
development & design, advertising, sales and marketing.
* Social Media Expert - Set up social media sites for various local
businesses and coached the owners in the best way to utilize social
media and have the largest impact.
* Resume Consultant - Coached individuals in updating or creating their
resume.
* Campaign Manager - Consultant on a local Congressional campaign. The
candidate won 30% of the vote against a 14 year entrenched incumbent.
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem at City of Rowlett
June 2010
Serve the citizens of the City of Rowlett Texas.
Judge at Conservative U.S. Pageant
July 2012 - July 2012
Judged
contestants in the inaugural US Conservative Pageant in 5 age
categories: Junior Teen, Teen, Miss, Ms. and Mrs. They were judged in
Interview, Fitness Wear, Patriotic Wear and Evening Gown.
Family Home Developer at Arrow Child and Family Ministries
August 2010 - January 2012
Recruit
and train foster/adopt parents. Liaison with local churches in their
efforts to start foster care ministries. Maintain foster parent records
per State of Texas Minimum Standards.
Software Test Liaison Team Lead at Verizon
2008 - 2009
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Served as liaison support Team Lead between IT test teams and
development teams. Developed a rotating schedule allowing team members
to cut hours by > 25%.
o Coordinated the resolution of critical and non-critical issues found
during testing. Reported the status of issue resolution to senior
management. Streamlined the discovery and reporting process reducing
time to resolution by 50%.
o Represents senior management on issue status calls.
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Deputy National Grassroots Director at Presidential Primary Campaign
2007 - 2008
As
the Texas State Director coordinated statewide volunteers, fundraising
and appearances. After leading candidate to a statewide grassroots poll
landslide win was quickly promted to Southern Region Director. As
Southern region Director organized 11 states, finding state directors
and helping to coordinate communications. once promoted to Deputy
National Grassroots Director was responsible for coordinating
fundraising and campaign activities nationwide. Maintained the website,
email list server, and online volunteer/supporter groups.
Project Manager at Verizon Telecom
2004 - 2008
o Manage and support IT releases from conception to implementation.
o Develop solutions to solve customers' needs and ensure our customers get what they need, when they need it.
o Monitor, track, and ensure milestone dates are met for all deliverables.
o Successfully coordinate, communicate, and navigate towards the quality, on-time developmental milestones.
o Coordinate communications between applications, development groups, test groups, business groups and clients.
o Provide reports, status, and regular updates to impacted groups.
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Owner at Gallops International Ventures
2000 - 2007
Ran
a successful home based business and built a team of successful
entrepreneurs. Conducted leadership and motivational training and taught
team members to do the same.
Quality Assurance Auditor at Verizon Data Services
2002 - 2004
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Provided Quality Assurance support to various applications and
functional groups.
o Documented Business Processes. Audited project documentation and
reviewed internal software processes and provided needed feedback to
improve the quality of the software releases.
o Developed a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) training program to
familiarize employees and management with SQA and the services offered.
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Process Improvement Specialist at Verizon
2000 - 2002
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Provided process consulting and mentoring. Led the effort to streamline
processes and procedures to ensure a much improved overall process.
Consulted with project teams in software planning, tracking, and
managing, requirements definition and management, configuration
management, and quality assurance.
o Helped projects increase software reliability by implementing
processes to control requirements, test design and development, risk
analysis and issue identification and resolution.
o Perform Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Interim Profiles (similar to
ISO) and mini-assessments to determine process gaps. Help projects
develop and work action plans to reach Level 2 proficiency.
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Software Engineering Strategies Officer at US Air Force
1996 - 1998
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Aided in software process development and evaluations throughout AF
software organizations and masterminded customer-focused work force
concept that led to a 200% faster response in fielding mission support
software upgrades.
o Defined goals for DOD software process improvement workshop. Led top
AF software development organizations to implement potent solutions and
reduced weapons systems development cost by > 10%.
o Overhauled software management policy for computer/software users in
AF governing > $350M software budget.
o Defined software license management policy and tracking process saving
$16M in potential penalties.
o Trained AF personnel in various aspects of software policy and
software licensing requirements.
o Led commercial vendors to develop and deliver the first-of-its-kind
software process improvement courses to AF units, saving the agency over
$41K in training costs.
o Key member of tiger team that refocused execution of $2M budget in
support of AF software units.
o Deployed as communications officer at multi-national ground site in
Bosnia. Changed in-theater imagery support process and increased
intelligence analyst productivity by 33%.
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Process Assurance Manager at USAF
1994 - 1996
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Organized and directed team which utilized SEI/CMM and improved
organizations software production capability to world-class ranking,
increasing customer satisfaction by 60% and reducing
requirement-to-product time by 25%.
o Developed training courses and trained over 350 Air Force software
professionals in mature software programming processes and process
improvement techniques based on the Software Engineering Institute
(SEI)/Capability Maturity Model (CMM) saving the organization $540K in
travel cost.
o Created a Software Process Assurance Team to audit and review software
processes and adherence to them. Helped develop defect prevention
procedures which led to identification of a flaw in the unit's metrics
database system and saved > 1100 hours of date re-entry time.
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Software Project Manager at Air Force
1993 - 1994
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Managed multiple teams of software programmers on several projects to
completion ahead of schedule and below cost through the entire software
development life cycle, from requirements gathering to implementation.
o Managed design, development, and implementation of a Microsoft Access
database software for USAF communications systems that allowed
consistent tracking AF wide.
o Supervised software maintenance on the primary alerting system for the
Joint Chiefs of Staffs for the U.S. military.
o Managed development of an automated system that tracks the ergometric
testing of Air Force members, simplifying the process and saving 100s of
man hours per year compared to manual tracking.
o Managed development of a teletype emulation system that replaced
obsolete satellite teletype devices with PCs in rugged cases built to
withstand field conditions.
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Software Test Manager at United States Air Force
1991 - 1992
o Combined two test teams testing similar weather systems reducing manpower costs and resulting in 50% time savings.
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Senior Airman, Firefighter at US Air Force
1986 - 1989
Firefighter, stationed at Altus AFB, OK.
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