Overview
At-A-Glance
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Dennis Schulte Resume (Word format)
Employment Experience
| PenFed | 4/2023 – 12/2023 |
| Agile Project Manager | Mclean, VA |
- Delivery Manager for multiple infrastructure workstreams
- Resource planning and financial management using Clarity
- Governance oversight for produce release (Policy and Procedure updates)
- Managed migration of on-prem data center to AWS cloud and decommissioned DC
- Managed a SalesForce integration initiative for asset management
- Process and reporting improvement initiatives with EPMO
- Created cost savings dashboard and other metric driven reports and charts
| Cougaar Software | 3/2020 – 12/2022 |
| Sr. IT Infrastructure Project Manager | Merrifield, VA |
- Support DoD clients
- Scrum Master/Project Management dual role
- BD & Proposal Support
- Agile Project Management setting standards and procedures
- Acted as Scrum Master, Business Analyst and Product Owner as needed
- Utilized both Scrum and Kanban
- Lead administrator of Jira (Server) and Confluence
- Project Schedule/Risk Management utilizing Jira BigPicture
- Supervisor to multiple reports
- Successfully drove to completion a project that was behind schedule when taking lead
- Management and oversight of technical aspects of prototype development, inclusive of companion mobile application
| OST | 12/2018 – 02/2020 |
| Project Manager | Mclean, VA |
- Federal Client: FAA
- IT Outsourced Vendor Management in Agile setting, utilizing Jira/Confluence
- Risk Management and Reporting (Clarity)
- Schedule and Financial Management (MS Project; Clarity)
- Enterprise Projects managed with cross-Enterprise interactions through activities including Executive level briefings and status updates
- Assisted in designing a Change Request process, Iterative user-centered UAT process with dispersed teams, and tracking of progress in Story Points that map to original client requirements
| Oasis (MAR) | 09/2017 – 08/2018 |
| Scrum Master/BA | Washington, DC |
- Federal Client: Continuous Development/Integration Process Management for portfolio of ~25 systems (using MS TFS)
- Two Workstreams utilizing TDD:
- Tier 2/3 Support using KanBan;
- New Planned Development run in 3 week sprints
- Conducted all Scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups, planning, retrospectives
- Backlog Management:
- Work Item (PBI) and Release (Feature) management
- Epic management with Product Owners and Stakeholders
- User story creation, review or refinement
- Conducting Grooming Sessions
- Reporting and analysis of KPIs, both for internal and client consumption, including velocity and capacity, along with other metrics
- Authorship and maintenance of key project documentation, including SOPs
| Systems Engineering Solutions (SES) |
04/2016 – 08/2017 |
| Technical Project Manager | Greenbelt, MD |
- Technical PM supporting US Census Bureau (USCB) System Engineering and Integration (SEI); inclusive of Release, Requirements and Risk Management
- TPM Lead for ~13 Products and Support systems
- Primary SEI representative to Census Operations Test Teams (2017 CT/PRCT, 2018) representing Systems Readiness; Responsible for SEI portions of Test Plans
- Research specific System needs, Organizational data or Operational uses of Systems as needed for Census management, inclusive of business analysis support
| MRIS | 06/2015 – 01/2016 |
| Scrum Master | Rockville, MD |
- Managed multiple projects for release
- Utilized agile methodologies (Scrum using VersionOne)
- Worked with product owners in forming sprints and managing the backlog
- Coordinated with marketing, help desk and educational managers for release
- Interacted with developers at the code level as needed
| Sabel Systems (Wedgewood Group) | 1/2012 – 1/2014 |
| Project Manager | Crystal City, VA |
- Project Coordinator and primary POC, for a Blended Learning solution for DoD client including Instructor-Led training (ILT)
- Contract value $700k/annually (ODCs not included)
- Managed AR & AP on a monthly basis
- Produced and delivered monthly status reports
- Scheduled and managed project related meetings as needed
- Created back-dated Repeatable ITIL based Service Packages with supporting Project Libraries and Project Plans
- Developed repeatable processes and supporting documentation
- Built and managed back-dated Integrated Master Schedule per award year
- Gathered requirements and launched Community of Interest available on private LMS
- Performed needs analysis for DoD client with regard to multiple Implementing Agencies, U.S. State Department and Congress
- Process Improvement
| Information Experts, Inc. | 11/2001 – 1/2012 |
| Director, Web Development | Reston, VA |
- Functional/Hiring Manager of the Web Application Development Team
- ~ 6 FTEs at any given time under management plus contractors/partners
- Coordinated with project managers in a matrixed environment
- Oversaw the development of multiple web based applications and training modules, commonly using Sitecore LMS, ASP/VB, .NET (C# & VB.NET), LAMP Stack, jQuery, MVC architecture
- Provided strategic direction to Information Experts inclusive of:
- Business development, sales scoping, pricing and proposal efforts
- Engineered standard application development processes using hybrid of Waterfall and Agile/Iterative methodologies
- Co-Developed deployment processes including Infrastructure support, Documentation, and approval release gates for deployment packages
- Program/Contract Manager
- For all contracts:
- Produced and delivered monthly status reports
- Scheduled and managed project related meetings as needed
- Provided internal P&L and EVM statements
- Managed Monthly AR & AP
- OPM; providing O&M portfolio management and FISMA compliance reviews:
- Contract value $2.4M/annually
- Developed and managed annual budgets; CLINS and task orders
- Managed 15 FTEs overseeing 12-15 systems at any given time
- Developed and managed the Integrated Master Schedule
- Provided assistance to Federal staff as systems graduated from Transformation
- Worked as liaison between multiple Federal and vendor parties
- Provided Schedule variances for the Fed IT EVM dashboard (8.9 score out of 10)
- GSA Online University
- Vendor Management using Learn.com (now Oracle)
- Management of coursework implementation
- Managed training programs for project staff (Federal and Vendor)
- Sprint Telecom’s Electronic Subscriber Agreements (eSA)
- Managed 7 years of rolling releases including deployment
- Scope and resource management
- Task pricing and cost management
- Serving both Direct and InDirect Channels
- Impacts every Sprint retail customer
- For all contracts:
- Project Manager for multiple projects at any given time including:
- FDIC MoneySmart
- HHS/CMS (Medicare/Medicaid) Learning Catalog
- FTC (800ta.com) Development and Maintenance
- EPA (Airplume, Radtown); Design, Development, Deployment and Maintenance
- Provided technical oversight to application development team across all application projects. Highlights include:
- National Archives and Records Administration, George W. Bush Presidential Library websites (Solution: SiteCore)
- Conducted CMS tool selection and identified/implemented SiteCore as primary CMS solution
- Contracted a weeklong SiteCore certified training program for development team
- Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB)
- Provided architectural guidance to achieve unique goals of the project
- Assisted in vision development with other department Directors
- Refworks family of sites
- Outlined approach of development efforts centered on classifying page level templates and architecting stylistic families for each
- Introduced UX Development into the process; sending select staff for training
- Architected business approach of this development style
- National Archives and Records Administration, George W. Bush Presidential Library websites (Solution: SiteCore)
- Business Analysis and Requirements Management including the following clients:
- HHS/CMS, Wolftrap Center for Education, PGA of North America, EPA, OPM
- Lead Technical Solution Selection Advisor including the following clients:
- PGA of North America, Terex, GenieLift
- LMS administration including the following clients;
- Army (TRADOC) – Plateau, Social Security Administration – Plateau, PGA of North America – Element K, Brainware – Meridian, NIST – GeoLearn, Wolftrap Center for Education, Terex, GenieLift – Custom Built LMS, AKO – SABA
- Product/Service Manager for Web-based training framework and editorial review tool
- Built initial versions of the framework and review tool
- Architected second versions of each:
- Transferring the framework from Flash/HTML to HTML/XML/JavaScript
- Developing the review tool into an LCMS
- Provided Tier 2 & 3 support for in-house LCMS
- Support in generation pricing and service plans per implementation
- Provided IT support for Information Experts inclusive of:
- Domain Administration, Group Policy/Security Administration, Redundancy/Backup Administration, Desktop Support as needed
- Active Directory/Exchange/Sharepoint, Group Policy Standards
- Instituted Three Tier services (Development/Testing/Production) with formal gating & approval systems
| Digital Support Corporation | 7/2001 – 11/2001 |
| Independent Contractor | Chantilly, VA |
- Supported Kaiser Permanente HIPPA Compliancy efforts
- Business requirement analysis & Process design
- SourceSafe Administrator
- Front End Web Development
- Graphic Design Support as needed
| Luminant Worldwide | 11/2000 – 6/2001 |
| Independent Contractor | Herndon, VA |
- Development Lead for Atkins Nutritionals site redesign (including eCommerce)
- Maintained and supported newly launched site for Atkins Nutritionals
| Luminant Worldwide | 2/2000 – 11/2001 |
| Consultant | Herndon, VA |
- Led client team in development of enterprise level CMS (Interwoven Teamsite)
- Administrator and Lead Developer, Interwoven TeamSite
- Managed Streaming Media Services for new web sites
- Gathered requirements for, and designed, media delivery systems of Fortune 50 client web applications (RJR Tobacco)
- Assisted with consultation for IBM business services strategic sales efforts
| DSTI (now STG) | 6/1999– 2/2000 |
| Editor | Rockville, MD |
- Managed Department of Education’s website
- Managed updates for Four Offices within the Department & All Press Releases
- TeamSite Administration Support
- Graphic Design Support as needed
Professional Membership
Project Management Institute (PMI) Member ID: 2674481
International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA) Member ID: 29084
Association for Talent Development (ATD/ASTD) Member ID: 10956742
Volunteering
Vienna Youth Volleyball
Coach
– Present
A/V Support
Floris United Methodist Church
– Present
Provide soundbooth technical support for services, including ProPresenter, Streaming services, Video Switcher
References
Available upon request (professional or personal)