VINAY SINGH

Address: 5200 Martel Ave., #40C, Dallas, TX 75206

Cell: (202)-683-9569 -- Email: vsingh19@gmail.com

 

EXPERIENCE:

 

QC/Safety Manager - August 2013 to Present

Alutiiq Pacific - Arlington, VA

●        Manage the quality control and safety for the International Maintenance Assistance Program (IMAP) for the Overseas Building Operations (OBO) division in the Department of State.

●        Develop and implement the Quality Control Plan to monitor program and services (preventative maintenance, directed maintenance, training and emergency) performance per the statement of work.

●        Work with the Technical Managers (Fire, Maintenance, Electrical and Mechanical) to monitor the electrical, controls, HVAC, roofing, generators, fire alarm, fire suppression and elevator teams deployed to overseas US Posts through the Service Deployment lifecycle.

●        Implement and maintain an issue management process to capture issues, ensure corrective action plans and track to closure.

●        Conduct internal audits to evaluate quality and performance of deployed maintenance teams, subcontractors and all levels of management.

●        Responsible for submitting recurring and periodic deliverables to the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) and ensuring that quality and timeliness of them.

●        Coordinate with Technical Managers to develop a safety program for all deployed personnel.

●        Create dashboards that showed performance metrics for the areas of logistics, deployment and service delivery.

●        Create and review cost proposals, deliverables, briefings, presentations and training materials to ensure quality and requirements are met.

 

Sr QA Lead - June 2011 to August 2013

ER Williams – Falls Church, VA

 

●        Provided Program Management Support to the Defense Health Clinical Systems (DHIMS) Program Management Office.

●        Managed the DHIMS Quality Management System (QMS) based on DoD 5000.1 & 5000.2, Defense Acquisition Guide (DAG), CMMI Maturity Level 3, PMBoK methodology and iTIL Foundation v3.

●        Provided program-level quality assurance and risk management support for DHIMS’s Theater IT projects (TMIP-J, TMDS, MSAT, DTRS-TIR, Theater Framework, AHLTA-Theater, AHLTA-Mobile, TC2), VLER and SSO-CM throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

●        Developed metrics to conduct and report statistical analysis to Program Management based off key performance parameters (KPP) and key performance indicators (KPI).

●        Planned and implemented the DHIMS Internal Audit program by conducting process, product & compliance audits and capturing and tracking noncompliances to closure.

●        Executed the yearly DHIMS Performance Improvement Plan by conducting program-level process improvement activities with relevant stakeholders.

●        Created, conducted and assisted the DHIMS Organizational Training area with training that is used to train staff on quality assurance and risk management processes.

●        Conducted project-level risk assessments, Maintenance-based Risk Assessments (MARA) and release readiness assessments.

●        Supported project technical reviews such as In-Progress Review (IPR), Critical Design Review (CDR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Integrated Baseline Review (IBR), Test Readiness Review (TRR) and System Requirements Review (SRR)

●        Reviewed, monitored and verified Vendor’s Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) to ensure that Vendor is complying with timely delivery of contract deliverables.

 

QA Manager - April 2010 to March 2011

Northrop Grumman - Information Systems (Defense Systems Division)– Manassas, VA

 

●        Managed the Quality Department for the Defense Systems Division.

●        Led and managed quality assurance/control activities and two staff members on a $15 million dollar Camp Phoenix MTF Upgrade contract in Kabul, Afghanistan.

●        Established a quality framework within the organization that was based off a CMMI maturity level 3 and ISO 9001:2008 environment.

●        Supported all business functions through verification and validation in Afghanistan during project phases of construction, power, OSP, ISP and IT implementation.

●        Created and Implemented quality, procurement, test and configuration management standard operating procedures and plans for the program and project.

●        Led and performed internal quality inspections to the project given MIL-STD, USACE, commercial and contract specific standards across the areas of civil, electrical, outside plan (OSP), inside plant (ISP) and IT for Camp Phoenix MTF Upgrade project in Afghanistan.

●        Devised and collected program metrics to help increase efficiency within the projects and the overall division.

●        Supported peer reviews for all work products including project drawings, baseline reviews, DoD project proposals and program/project plans & procedures.

●        Collaborated with the Afghanistan Country Manager and Program Manager to identify and streamline deficient areas CONUS and OCONUS by using Six Sigma methodology and root cause analysis.

 

Quality Assurance Engineer - April 2008 to March 2010

Lockheed Martin - IS&GS (AMF JTRS Program) - Chantilly, VA

 

●        Established and implemented quality assurance processes to manage and assess overall quality assurance and CMMI level 5 requirements satisfaction for the AMF JTRS SDD program

●        Devised and implemented procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of hardware and software work products

●        Supported & collaborated with other business functions on program events including Baseline Review (BR), Integrated Baseline Review (IBR), Program Assessment Review (PAR), SCAMPI and Critical Design Review (CDR) 

●        Performed, evaluated and monitored supplier quality at the prime and subcontract levels

●        Supported and represented Mission Success at the Process Control, Configuration Control and Engineering Review Boards

●        Served as Process Control Board Chair to disposition program wide processes and chaired board meetings

●        Audited quality systems at Prime and Subcontract (Teammate) levels for deficiency identification and correction.

●        Ensured that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation was compliant with requirements

●        Used lean Six Sigma and Apollo Root Cause Analysis in problem solving programmatic issues

●        Served as the gatekeeper of the LM inspection tool, Eaglespeed, for work product reviews

 

Procurement Quality Assurance Engineer - January 2005 to April 2008

Lockheed Martin Space Systems - Michoud Ops NASA External Tank Project - New Orleans, LA

 

●        Independently managed source surveillance and process control at supplier facilities in the Northeast region while based out of New York City, NY

●        Led major investigations to solve process escapes and assisted other departments with engineering design improvements on critical/non-critical parts on Man-Flight-Missions.

●        Developed, modified, applied and maintained quality standards and protocols for processing materials into partially-finished or finished materials product.

●        Developed and implemented methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.

●        Performed statistical analyses to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that did not meet required standards and specifications.

●        Ensured corrective measures and solutions proposed by suppliers met acceptable reliability standards and documentation was compliant with requirements.

●        Specialized in areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and research and development as applied to product or process quality.

●        Reviewed External Tank incoming materials and down-selects for inclusion using statistical process control to determine if critical materials are acceptable for production use.

●        Collaborated with Systems Engineering, Manufacturing, Material, Reliability and Contracts areas to develop process control, operating procedures, disposition guidelines, sequences of operations, quality standards and raw material specifications.

●        Assisted with corporate surveys and ISO audits at supplier facilities to assure the NASA contract and process requirements were implemented.

User Support Tech - April 2004 to September 2004

Phelps Dunbar, LLP - Baton Rouge, LA

 

●        Provided technical support for software, hardware, and networking to lawyers, paralegals, and staff in a Win NT/XP environment

●        Assembled and ghosted PC workstations for new and current employees.

●        Supported and maintained user account information including access rights and security in systems groups.

●        Evaluated and installed patches tho resolve software related problems.

●        Maintained data files, troubleshoot LAN/WAN, and monitored system configuration to ensure data integrity.

●        Involved in a firm wide roll-out and support of WinNT PCs to Win XP PCs

 

CERTIFICATIONS/TRAININGS:

●        PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)

●        ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA)

●        iTIL v3 Foundation

●        ERWilliams Lean Six Sigma-Black Belt

●        Apollo Root Cause Analysis (ARCA)

●        LM21 Lean Six Sigma-Green Belt

●        CMMI v1.3 for Development

●        CMMI v1.3 Acquisition Supplement for Development

 

 

EDUCATION:             

Bachelor of Sciences (B.S.), Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA.

Major: Electronics Engineering - Graduated August 2003

 

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

Concentration: Internal Audit - Graduated December 2004

SKILLS: 

●        Windows 95/98/Me/XP/NT/2000/Vista/7/8

●        Microsoft Office 20xx/XP (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Powerpoint), Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project

●        Sharepoint, OpenText Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite, Livelink, SERENA

CLEARANCE:

●        Top Secret (Active)

 

ACTIVITIES:

●        American Society for Quality (ASQ) Member

●        Project Management Institute (PMI) Member

●        Louisiana State University Alumni Association

●        LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation Member (LSU TAF)

                    

PERSONAL:           U.S. Citizen

 

REFERENCES:       Provided upon request.