Christopher Worden, PMP, CSM, ITIL 4

Senior Program Manager - Support the DISA Hosting and Compute (HaC) and their deployment of the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) program to bring commercial Cloud Services to the warfighter missions. Program Manager - Support the Army Program Executive Office - Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS) to stand-up and execute a Managed Service Provider (MSP) program for large and critical Army ERP programs. Emerging Technology Program Manager - Act as Emerging Technology Program Manager with the DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Business Process Transformation Office (BPT) for the adoption and integration of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Robotic Process Automation. Senior DoD Policy and Strategist - Serve as a DoD Senior Policy Analyst with the DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Business Process Transformation Office (BPT) for the exploration and knowledge management of new and emerging technologies within the realm of AI/ML/RPA adoption and integration into DoD mission space. Senior Acquisition Specialist - Support the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Cloud Computing Program Office (CCPO) in managing and writing solicitations to industry, evaluating and awarding task orders, justifying purchases and strategies, and supporting the DoD with acquisition and budgetary management. Senior Customer Engagement/User Experience Specialist - Support the users and Service Component commands in their interaction and adoption of cloud services, emerging technology, and agile processes.

Provide consulting expertise, policy guidance, and customer relationship management to CGI Federal in support of conducting business with the US Navy in designing and integrating the ePS platform. Specialized skills in aligning the corporate approach with Navy Mission Objectives, strategizing deployment within the guidelines of DOD and DON Manuals/Directives/Instructions, align personnel requirements to stay within scope of the PWS and meet security compliance. Also oversaw the EA team engagement and development of the Enterprise Architecture artifacts for identifying workflows, data flows, communication channels, and more. The EA artifacts were required to be compliant with the DODAF and ultimately feed into the larger DOD architecture.

Data Center and Cloud Transition Program Manager - Provide Program Management expertise to support contracts within the US Federal Government, Department of Defense to supply skilled expertise, manage workflows, generate innovative solutions, and support mission success in adopting enhanced Datacenter and Cloud Services. Supported the Navy in transitioning, optimizing, and updating mission critical IT systems to modern solutions and adopting cloud services. I was responsible for the negotiation between the Navy and AWS to adopt AWS GovCloud as a service and interrupt the legacy approach of moving into physical datacenters. The adoption of AWS saved the Navy millions of dollars annually and reduced outage times for critical systems.

Manage and support personnel involved with conducting activities related to supporting the Joint Global Command and Control Services (J-GCCS). The Program Manager serves as a corporate liaison to the government and directly supports the COR and government leadership in managing the execution of the mission. Directly reported to the COR to reduced program costs through an in-depth analysis of IT operations, alignment of employee skill-sets in relation to contractual requirements, standards for evaluating and procuring IT products and services according to contractual need, and aligning the business process with DoD Instructions and Directives (DODI/DODD) which impacts and affects the program. Supported the COR and the corporate office by becoming the principal point of communication to interact with employees which reduced communication overload on all stakeholders, established better communication distribution practices, and streamlined status reportability on mission objectives.

Serve as an Enterprise Services Program Manager to establish and support a team of highly skilled technical engineers to design, implement, and integrate new technologies for US Navy global emergency management operations. Created team of high-skilled technical engineers to staff and support the Enterprise Support Systems requirement of the CNIC Director for the Public Safety Network and Anti-Terrorist Force Protection (PSNet/ATFP) programs. Created and staffed a security operations center (SOC) to integrate with NOC requirements and deliver Information Assurance (IA), Cyber Security (CS), Risk Management, Vulnerability Management, and Assurance and Availability (A&A) compliance and support. Stood up two datacenter clusters on opposite coasts to support programs, enforce load balancing, and ensure high-availability hot-hot zones for the Navy. Implemented asset and configuration management databases to track costs, locations, and status of over 10,000 devices including network, system, and intermediary devices deployed in support of the critical Navy programs.

• Team-lead for contracting employee facility • Responsible for leading effort to transition Lockheed Martin employees off project • Provided technical skills to be utilized by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children • Successfully Supported the CIA mission by providing Solaris UNIX expertise to the management, support, and security of the mission-critical systems. • Successfully supported the IT requirements of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) mission by providing Solaris UNIX -SME support on behalf of LMCO. • Provided ongoing support and management to Lockheed Martin in management of the security facility center for personnel ingress/egress for contracts requiring security clearances up to Full-Scope Poly (FSP). • Manage workloads and temporary contract management with facility personnel for LMCO tasks and short-term support. • Develop presentations and reports to leadership and senior management to provide status and update progress of personnel, issues identified, and level of effort to identify other support tasks while in holding.

*Responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of over 1,800 servers within a production environment. *Developed and maintained programs in PERL, Java, C++, and UNIX-based shell scripts to gather and track performance and store the results in a Sybase database. *Developed project plans to implement technologies critical to the production environment and coordinated efforts across different teams to ensure the project was a success. *Coordinated efforts with customers in developing and implementing new technologies and standards to be utilized within the company. *Maintained the Performance and Capacity Engineering team website. *Developed tools to track and analyze performance impacts on servers and to locate bottlenecks affecting production processing.