Alisha Mauck
Oak Hill,VA
Summary
GeoINT Community Influencer
- NEI data catalogue design adopted by NGA\PGG
- Discreet Needs Requirements method adopted by NGA\R and NGA\OGMF
- Contributor to DNI directed studies, NGA gap analysis & misison utility studies
- Led M&S for NRO technology assements
- Authored Small Satellite Mission Utility Analysis briefed by client to NGA\D
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Manager
Vantor
Herndon, VA
11.2020 - Current
- Engaging with NGA client to understand needs and priorities
- People manager and financial tracker delivering NEI applications on time and on budget.
- Introduced SRE practices that increased uptime from 80% to 99.99%.
- Doubled work share by adding advanced analytics, and taking over competitors' responsibilities.
Senior Cloud Engineer
Trusted Knowledge Options
10.2018 - 11.2020
- Led DevSecOps team establishing CI/CD pipeline to automate rapid deployment of microservice based software using OpenShift/Kubernetes.
- Direct interface to government product owner with daily status, mapping client priorities to team tasking.
- Developed increment plan, milestone map, and maintained team's Redmine project within SAFe guidelines.
- Worked closely with tenants to prepare software for deployment into NGA domains.
- Lead technical volume author for TKO proposals.
- Routinely represent government client in Scrum of Scrums with NGA\T leadership.
- Coached distributed engineering team into a working Scrum framework accepted/utilized by NGA client.
- Transitioned team from Scrum agile framework to functioning portion of a larger team and SAFe agile framework.
Quality Assurance Lead
Data2Insight, Radiant Solutions
05.2014 - 10.2018
- Led the software quality assurance team for open-source software deployed for the NGA in the government cloud.
- Developed an agile testing pyramid approach and automated quality gates.
- Developing automated software tests using Selenium, JavaScript, Python, and Postman, inserted into the continuous integration pipeline.
- The quality control process caught critical bugs upon code commits and prior to deployment.
- Worked on the quality control process for labeling supervised machine learning in TensorFlow image detection with multi-phenomenology data.
- Presented 'Introduction to Cloud Computing' at the Digital Globe booth, Geoint Symposium 2017.
- Founder of the Radiant Solutions Software Testing Community of Practice.
Program manager, Sensor and Ground Modernization
Radiant Solutions
06.2012 - 05.2014
- Led overhead asset modeling projects for NGA, NRO, technology demos, and programs of record.
- Created mission value information from large amounts of M&S data.
- Identified project goals, communicated milestones, task progress, and financial tracking.
- Presenting final products to clients, multi-contractor working groups, and DoD stakeholders.
- Small Satellite Mission Utility Analysis briefed to the Director of NGA
- Invited to present "Transformational Analysis" to the internal NGA Modeling & Simulation working group.
Lead Associate, Mission Performance Analysis
Booz Allen Hamilton
04.2008 - 06.2012
- Led the Mission Performance Analysis Team in developing physics-based answers to congressionally directed DNI study questions.
- Interpreted study directives into model tasking.
- Developed and managed the quality screening for modeling.
- Summarized modeling results for the NGA client by connecting them with validated NSG user stories and missions.
- Developed a Visual Basic interactive mission analysis tool, delivered to the DNI by the NGA client.
- Hand-selected by the client to present modeling results to DNI's cross-agency NSG working groups.
C4ISR Analyst, Modeling and Simulation
SAIC
10.2007 - 03.2008
- Responsible for informing the DNI Major Issue Study on advanced radar geospatial intelligence.
- Developed an automated quality assurance process for modeling and simulation analysis.
- Identified civil government, intelligence agencies, and DoD geospatial intelligence user stories employed in modeling.
- Mission analysis visualizations were presented by the client to the DNI study lead.
Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton
11.2002 - 10.2007
- Responsible for identifying stakeholder user stories for new technologies, and translating them into modeling input.
- Worked closely with model engineers to fairly represent the impact of new proposed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets on mission needs.
- Published and presented at two SPIE symposiums on Transformational Mission and User Needs analysis.
- Developed the PEARL program to automatically format user stories into modeling input.
Education
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance01-2025
AWS Technical Essentials
01-2024
Certified Product Owner
Scrum Alliance01-2023
Amazon Web Service Essentials Certificate -
06.2018
Agile Management Training -
01.2015
M.S. Engineering Science - Nuclear & Plasma Physics
University of Tennessee
01.1993
B.A. - Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science
Berry College
01.1991
Skills
- Site reliability engineering
- Agile leadership
- Program management
- NEI domain specialist
- Quality assurance
- Agile software testing
- Requirements analysis
Active Clearance
TS/SCI
Timeline
Senior Software Manager
Vantor
11.2020 - Current
Senior Cloud Engineer
Trusted Knowledge Options
10.2018 - 11.2020
Quality Assurance Lead
Data2Insight, Radiant Solutions
05.2014 - 10.2018
Program manager, Sensor and Ground Modernization
Radiant Solutions
06.2012 - 05.2014
Lead Associate, Mission Performance Analysis
Booz Allen Hamilton
04.2008 - 06.2012
C4ISR Analyst, Modeling and Simulation
SAIC
10.2007 - 03.2008
Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton
11.2002 - 10.2007
Certified Scrum Master
AWS Technical Essentials
Certified Product Owner
Amazon Web Service Essentials Certificate -
Agile Management Training -
M.S. Engineering Science - Nuclear & Plasma Physics
University of Tennessee
B.A. - Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science
Berry College