Randall (Randy) B. Federspill

Fredericksburg, VA 22407

540-903-8410

randman01@comcast.net

 

SUMMARY:

Ø       Since 1982, a C-level adviser and confidant continually trusted with key initiatives vital to the organizations' successes.

Ø       20 years - Solution and Infrastructure Architecture of implementation, user and customer needs, technology details, business value propositions, and business requirements

Ø       Sr. level experience as a Systems Engineer, PM & Technical Analyst

Ø       Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure that solutions follow policy, standards, and best practices

Ø       Ensure that leaders understand user needs and are able to make good technology decisions, especially around Cloud solutions or anything as a Service #aaS, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, EaaS & IoT.

Ø       Skilled in presenting the technical constraints and opportunities inherent in the technical infrastructure

Ø       Strong technical background in service and UI technology

Ø       Management of implementation audits to validate solution deliverables

Ø       15 years as a lead software developer for contracting, medical, and other specialized USAF systems (hands-on experience is pre-1999, lead and manager post-1999)

Ø       Developed using SDLC, ITIL, CM, RM, MDM, Agile and Scrum methodologies 20 years before they were defined

Ø       Developer, Integrator, and Manager of enterprise solutions

Ø       Effectively communicate and lead junior and senior staff members through complicated projects 

Ø       Analyze, Design and manage complex enterprise infrastructures

Ø       Create, practice and support new theories, procedures and ideas rapidly

Ø       Continually implementing new, improved, and cost-effective plans

SECURITY CLEARANCE:
Inactive TS/SCI; Last SBPR 8 July, 2008

AWARDS:

·   Airman’s Medal for saving 12 people on 11SEP2001

·   Meritorious Service Medal for USAF lifetime achievements

·   Commendation Medal for outstanding work in Medical Systems

·   Joint Commendation Medal for outstanding work in Korea

·   Joint Achievement Medal for Ulchi Focus Lens in Korea

·   Achievement Medals for various accomplishments at Gunter

·   MARC Foundation Award for 17 years of volunteer work with the handicapped

·   Red Cross's Life Saving Award for using CPR to keep a man alive

 

EDUCATION & TRAINING:

Ø       Doctoral Candidate - University of Phoenix Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership/Information Systems and Technology, JUL2017

Ø       University of Phoenix Master of Information Systems, APR09

Ø       University of Phoenix BS Management, JAN08

Ø       Associates Degree in Computer Science with the Community College of the USAF
 

Ø       EMC Documentum Overview Training OCT2007

Ø       NetCool Boot Camp AUG2007

Ø       Certified CCNP at Learning Tree MAY2004

Ø       Certified Solaris Administrator at Learning Tree SEP2003

Ø       Certified Tripwire Professional OCT2003

Ø       Certified Cyberguard CFSO OCT2003

Ø       Certified Cyberguard CFSA SEP2003

Ø       MCSE core classes through Knowlogy JAN2002

Ø       Veritas Backup Exec training APR2001

Ø       SAN HW/Configuration & ADIC Scalar Hardware Maintenance NOV2001

Ø       Intro to Network Configuration using CISCO routers JAN98

Ø       ACCESS Training classes in 1996

 

EXPERIENCE:

IntelliWare Systems, LLC Fredericksburg, VA. (contract )

Infrastructure Architect Apr 2015-Present

BI/BPR Business Intelligence and Business Process Re-engineering efforts surrounding the feasibility of:

·   Remote Access via another method besides the required entry process

·   VDI evaluation of CITRIX, New Horizon, CISCO, or Windows products and cost analysis.

·   O365 evaluation as a SaaS for functionality to meet existing requirements and a cost analysis.

·   Case Study for ITSM solution, key products in review: ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, HP & Microsoft. Solution is not only a SaaS, but can be expanded for development efforts as a PaaS.

 

Greater Brain Group Inc., Fredericksburg, VA

CIO/Director, Proposal Strategy               Jul 2014 – Present

·   Lead for prime captures of RFP, RFI, and INT responses.

·   Advised capture manager and team of specific responsibilities. Train capture-management skills to team members.  Provide technical responses to proposals. 

·   Help manage teaming agreements and responsibilities. 

·   Led Sr. level positions and legal support through risk mitigation and teaming issues.

 

Smart Source Technologies, Inc., Dover, DE

Solutions Architect for State of DE         Nov 2012 – Jun 2014

·   Reviewed new business cases and proposed recommendations with direction to achieve the State of Delaware’s strategies, goals and visions in alignment with the portfolio. 

·   Managed system and application models, and the Delaware’s Statewide IT portfolio. 

·   Provided gap analysis of Delaware‘s strategies and goals to become achievable and meaningful for the State’s CIO strategic plan. 

·   Prepared Cloud solutions through efforts with GIC, SalesForce, JitterBit, SugarCRM, Office 365, Amazon.com, Okta, and others to mitigate risk and maximize opportunities and savings. 

·   Evolved the strategic plans and roadmaps to be aligned with actual State budget dollars and labor for IT. 

·   Identified deficient state business processes like inventory and asset management; then provided road-maps to achieve an end-state to answer the process not being addressed to save millions of dollars. 

·   Supported and created State of DE governance, standards, and management charters that address processes, procedures, designs, in IT. 

·   Researched the need to standardize data and establish a project supporting MDM.  This effort led to identifying what a customer/constituent is so that the evolution of SaaS solutions and exploitation could be more effectively use in future states by establishing the source of truth for data via a MDM foundation.

·   Architected a license management solution to provide a cost avoidance of over $5,000,000 per year with a faster and more efficient database infrastructure. 

·   Teamed up to establish a statewide ESB/Data-hub design and evaluated prototype COTS to facilitate data sharing across political boundaries. 

·   Created and presented key opportunities for the State of DE to maximize efficiencies and minimize costs. 

·   Identified potential partnerships with other states to meet federal requirements and provide $millions in cost avoidances by minimizing dollars obligated towards projects in excess of over $60,000,000 by states creating parts of the solution versus a solution in its entirety. 

·   Engineered enterprise solutions to meet politically polarized situations between agencies with shared tools that provide independence and isolation where needed while establishing a footprint for future growth and additional cost savings.  

·   Negotiated an opportunity for the entire State Courts system to be modernized, migrated off the existing mainframe system and with an initial savings of over $5,000,000 by the third year plus additional budget opportunities of over $3,800,000 each following year because of reduced licenses, operations and maintenance costs. 

·   Helped establish processes in maintaining the statewide IT portfolio through tools like Planview, ServiceNow, Troux, and SharePoint.

 

Sagent Partners, Vienna, VA 22182

Solutions Architect for CSC’s TSA ECR Project            Jan 2012 – Jul 2012

·   Solutions architect for third iteration of the TSA ECR project that is to replace or re-image almost 25,000 devices worldwide. 

·   Created the deployment plan from previous inputs of other attempts, new discoveries and limitations given by the customer, and through due diligence.

·   Provided the project the initial basis of estimate for the CSC component of the project that was integrated with the Dell proposal and presented to TSA for acceptance. 

·   Included in the BOE the assumptions, parameters for Q&A to support the performance work statement and answer to TSA pre-award and post-execution. 

·   Created the discovery method in collecting the required information and requirements to meet the needs in deploying almost 25,000 workstations worldwide.  Because of the information collected was from multiple sources, I created a database that will manage future CSC PMO TSA projects.  The database initiated from the first revision TSA provided. 

·   Augmented the database through various self-thought normalization techniques from about 15 other sources of similar information. 

·   After several passes manually to determine the set of standards to be followed, and establishing firm foundation of those standards for others to follow, automated updates were able to be created in support of continual discovery changes. 

·   One year temp-perm, perm cut position before moving forward.

 

NGA SMARTS Administrator & NOAA Crisis management           Aug 2011 – Dec 2011

Salient Federal Solutions, Fairfax, VA

·   Worked from the bench on several proposal efforts developing solutions and editing existing work from other team members.

·   Provided crisis management for NOAA during a database failure to derive liability, solutions for moving forward, and database recovery efforts. 

·   Supported the SMARTS project at NGA as a systems administrator.

 

ODNI/IC CIO (contract)

Network SME FUSION           Oct 2010 – Aug 2011

·   As FUSION team’s lead for Integrated Network Solutions team I conduct oversight for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) CIO. 

·   Ensured requirements are met by Intelligence Community (IC) Elements and agencies.

·   Developed standards, memorandums of agreement and understanding, executive level briefs, status reports, and other community products. 

·   Performed integration and collaboration duties between projects, working groups and agency leads. 

·   Enabled Mission networks to support information sharing and develop next-generation technologies to meet future mission requirements through oversight, governance, technical guidance, business process re-engineering and development.

·   Initiated technical requirements collection to develop standards and technical specifications of common community concern for networks.

·   Developed and delivered for approval the Intelligence Community Assigned Numbers Authority (IC/ANA) Executive Agency Agreement to the ODNI & JDISS PMO.

·   Submitted VoIP Standards to manage block number assignment and corresponding Technical Specifications documentation used under the common criteria network protocols, necessary to facilitate cross-agency communication and collaboration.

·   Assessed business re-engineering of People-to-People (P:P) processes to maximize cross-agency collaboration with tools like Voice, Email, Chat/IM, VTC, VoIP, Security and other cross-domain services. 

·   The (P:P) effort was to initiate cost avoidance projects to consolidate services under the cloud model across the IC Elements.

·   For Salient Federal Solutions I supported proposal initiatives in response to government re-compete efforts, request for quotes and information.

·   Wrote and edited two white papers for understanding Cloud Computing, virtualization and on how to evolve the IC using limited funds, with existing architecture.  This supported the customer’s demand for more efficient computing while moving to the cloud effectively and without waste. 

·   Using conceptual designs aligned with Cloud computing and virtualization I created a multi-year, multi-enclave low-cost migration plan to IPv6.

·   Acted as the Salient lead for the FUSION contract and supervised twelve individuals. 

 

Keane Federal Systems (Principal Consultant)

FBI’s SENTINEL PMO Operations & Maintenance Manager Feb   2007 – Oct 2010

·   Conducted oversight for SENTINEL project contractor, Lockheed Martin Co for the SENTINEL PMO office.

·   The SENTINEL program is a SOA based design to transition the existing FBI’s existing case management system off the mainframe.

·   Ensured requirements were met by LMCO and guide LMCO in meeting those requirements.

·   Scope was O&M, however, this is inclusive of all areas within the project to include; security, training, integrations of COTS products, operations, transition, engineering, etc. 

·   Phase 1 tasks moved successfully through operations readiness review ORR due to direct impacts provided by myself and the rest of the O&M team. 

·   Some specific tasks were to review of documentation, designed a security monitoring solution based on DCID 6/3 guidelines, validated requirements delivered, created a CM process that integrates with FBI, mitigated a strategic MOA within FBI organizations, and advised the government to best practices in conjunction with LMCO completing work at no additional cost.

·   Additional duties were project management oversight of incremental development, schedule and budget review, security C&A negotiations for virtualized UNIX server configurations and acceptance, COOP and FISMA oversight and coordination. Manager and reporter of user statistical data presented to the Director weekly. 

·   This project started under a waterfall method of development and deployment, but due to time constraints self-made by the vendor we had to evolve to an agile method with twice daily scrums.

 

SiD Systems Integration & Development, Inc., Rockville, MD

PM & Technical Analyst R&D Dept. of Labor DITMS/ESA          May 2006 – Dec 2006

·   Technical analyst assigned as project manager for COOP. 

·   Responsible to create plans for a COOP via MS Project and PMP principles based on the PMBOK to analyze and evaluate gaps and vulnerabilities for the systems in DITMS/ESA the support over 5,000 users and hundreds of thousands of customers. 

·   Enterprise consists of two primary locations and 11 regional sub-systems. 

·   Equipment is of IBM, Dell, EMC, Hitachi, Cisco, NetApps, etc. 

·   Operating systems are NT to Windows 2003 with some LINUX and UNIX.

·   Team member on several winning proposals for SiD and with partnership responses to RFP’s and RFQ’s.

 

Northrop Grumman, Fairfax, VA 22033
Sr. Systems Engineer Dept. Homeland Security Data Network (HSDN)          Jun 2004 – May 2006

·   HSDN is the government’s enterprise solution for a classified network and SOA based foundation to establish functionality equal to the SIPRNET for Dept. of Homeland Security non-DoD agencies in supporting over 100,000 users.

·   Built an isolated network backbone with users and SOA applications with a redundant failover site combined with reduced single points of failure position.

·   Supported the requirement of sharing data across DHS. 

·   Led a detailed design and architecture with a team of engineers for a Network Operations Center (NOC) management/monitoring tool set and supporting hardware, including identification of all tools necessary to monitor and manage the HSDN in accordance with HSDN service level agreement (SLA) requirements.

·   Supervised 20+ people in multiple locations, covering two major networks, and worked many integrated projects at once. Created multiple transition plans for migration of many networks into one.

·   Built interfaces between UNIX and Windows 2003 servers, with the user applications in an Enterprise Domain, and an optional CITRIX solution; completed on SUN, CISCO, BLUECAT, JUNIPER, and HP equipment.

·   Developed appropriate architectural designs to include design documentation including functional overview diagrams, specification of applications and service platforms, data input/outputs, interfaces between applications as appropriate, product trades studies, and etc.

·   Implemented the designs into a working enterprise solution of servers, network, SAN’s, workstations (PC’s and Thin Client), and standard software designs and images with COTS.

·   Worked collaboratively with Service and Support staff, including vendors, to design and implement the NOC management tools solution to support their CONOPS and provide training to the NOC operators.

·   Work collaboratively with the Information Security staff to design and implement the NOC management tools solution in accordance with requirements.

·   Designed the implementation of Directory Services synchronization between the Windows and UNIX (Microsoft Active Directory and LDAP).

·   Supported the engineering analysis and design of transition plans for legacy DHS sites with existing equipment, applications and data.

·   Created migration strategy to secondary location for global failover COOP including; costs, man-power, schedules, equipment, installation, movement, etc.

·   Created initial migration transition plans for DHS agencies’ data and equipment into the single enterprise of HSDN with minimal loss of services/down time.

·   Sr. Systems Engineer for the B-LAN activities for Dept. Homeland Security (DHS) at the Nebraska Ave Complex.

·   Integrated with the two other prime contractors, UNISYS and TWD on key issues throughout the NAC.

 

BAE Systems, Herndon, VA
Lead Systems Engineer O&M ICMAP Project             Jul 2002 – Jun 2004
ICMAP is a SOA based system using COTS designed to tear down stove-piping within the Intelligence community able to expand and support over 1 million users as the needs required.

·   Supervised 4 people to work 13 Sun UNIX servers, and 6 WIN2K servers.

·   Duties included; supervised, network administration and configuration and system hardware and software repair, backups, security monitoring, integration, writing and editing core documents/procedures, database management, java programmer, and helpdesk support.

·   Assisted in taking IC MAP from ground to a PL Level 3 security accreditation through information and assurance and quality assurance procedures. Software is; UNIX, WIN2K, TripWire, Netcool, Weblogic, iPlanet/SunONE, Oracle, SQL, MS Access, Remedy, Clearcase, Veritas Netbackup, Java, and the Microsoft suite. Hardware is; Sun servers, Dell servers, Cisco switches, routers, PIX firewall, and Cyberguard firewall.

 

Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency

NCOIC Infrastructure Engineer           Dec 1999 – Jul 2002 (Retired)

·   Created $27 million dollar multi-year budget including; supplies, training, manpower, hardware and software, contract support.

·   Systems Engineer on a NT platform for over 300 servers and 9,000 users in a MAN/LAN/WAN environment; worked as lead with 10 junior engineers and was Sr. advisor for several large projects that include Windows 2000 server upgrade, SMS 2.0 deployment, Head-Quarters AF Enterprise Restore & Backup System (HERBS), and others; among numerous other projects for the Pentagon, successfully assembled a team and implemented the SAN backup solution.

·   Experienced in Microsoft Office products to include; Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Exchange, and Project.

·   Extensive enterprise and SAN architectural design of server location and active directory functionality with ADIC, ANCHORE, SONY and EMULEX hardware.

·   Evaluated the entire enterprise from which created plans for 27 projects including a team lead for an SMS deployment; then built a multi-year budget/spend-plan in less than four hours that supported AFPCA for over 5 years.

 

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

US Air Force

Ø       Medical Systems DIV MAFB-Gunter Annex

Systems Programmer/Analyst            Sep 1995 – Dec 1999

 

Ø       Ration Control Yong San, Seoul Korea AIN

Systems Programmer           Apr 1994 – Sep 1995

 

Ø       Medical Systems DIV MAFB-Gunter Annex

Systems Programmer           Feb 1992 – Apr 1994

 

Ø       Contracting Systems DIV MAFB-Gunter Annex

Systems Programmer/Analyst           Nov 1982 – Feb 1992