Arthur Edmonson
Ashburn,VA
Summary
Project manager with expertise in strategic planning and risk assessment, achieving $2M revenue growth in two years through impactful project execution. Experienced in leading diverse teams and enhancing collaboration, resulting in improved project outcomes. Implemented performance reviews that increased employee engagement and fostered a high-performance culture. Skilled in market research and quality assurance, developing marketing strategies that align with client needs and deliver high-quality solutions.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Capture Team
Amentum/Jacobs Critical Mission Solutions
08.2025 - Current
- Conducting market research, analyzing competition, outlining the proposed product or service, detailing the financial projections, developing a marketing strategy, defining the target market, identifying potential challenges, crafting a compelling executive summary, and ensuring the proposal aligns with client needs and project requirements, all while meeting deadlines and adhering to formatting guidelines.
Enterprise Vetting Center Program Manager
Amentum/Jacobs Critical Mission Solutions
07.2022 - Current
- Overseas project budgeting, scheduling, and staffing and managed personnel comprised of internal employees, in support of the Enterprise Vetting Center with a focus on services utilizing databases to conduct research and analysis in support of the Department of Justice (and ancillary agencies) vetting and counter-terror mission, clearly defined objectives, and expectations.
- Increased revenue (2M) within two years
- Developed a robust recruitment strategy to identify and attract top talent through thorough screening, in-depth interviews, and skills assessments.
- Fostered a culture that encourages employee engagement, professional development, and career growth to retain high performers.
- Implemented quarterly performance reviews to identify and address improvement areas while also recognizing and rewarding high-performing employees.
- Working with the EVC Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and EVC Units to streamline initial Vetting Unit training effectiveness throughout the training cycle, assessing the training needs by developing individual training programs, resulting in highly trained and proficient personnel.
Senior Identity Intelligence Analyst, Site Lead
Amentum/Jacobs Critical Mission Solutions
03.2025 - 08.2025
- Oversee a team of fifteen personnel responsible for conducting all-source Identity Intelligence-focused analysis and producing intelligence products in support of global missions and customers through an understanding of Identity Intelligence (I2) tradecraft to conduct analytic production on the full range of unique identifying human characteristics and modalities to include, but not limited to, fingerprints, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), iris scans, voiceprints, facial recognition features, and behavior to identify and track persons and networks.
Capture Team
Amentum/Jacobs Critical Mission Solutions
01.2025 - 03.2025
- Conducting market research, analyzing competition, outlining the proposed product or service, detailing the financial projections, developing a marketing strategy, defining the target market, identifying potential challenges, crafting a compelling executive summary, and ensuring the proposal aligns with client needs and project requirements, all while meeting deadlines and adhering to formatting guidelines.
Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Enterprise Program Management Office
Jacobs Engineering Company
04.2022 - 07.2022
- Oversees business projects within the DHS IE components, including the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Data Analytics Officer (CDAO), and the National Vetting Center (NVC), to ensure all are completed on time and within budget.
- Volunteered as the DHS PMO’s ad hoc Scrum master and executed Scrum methodologies for the product lifecycle.
- Facilitation of technical discussions, decision-making, impediment resolution, and conflict resolution.
- Ensure transparency from the Product Owner to the scrum team by facilitating internal and external communication.
- Perform continual assessment of the maturity of the scrum team and provide coaching and insight in support of greater maturity.
- Commitment to continuous process improvement, including active facilitation of reviews and retrospectives, and incorporation of lessons learned for future sprints.
Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Cyber Mission Cell Program Manager
Jacobs Engineering Company
02.2022 - 07.2022
- Led project budgeting, scheduling, and staffing and managed personnel comprised of internal and external employees, in support of the DHS Intelligence & Analysis Cyber Mission Center with a focus on emerging foreign influence operations and cyber threats to remedy risks within federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTTP) cyber realms and critical infrastructure.
Capture Manager
Jacobs Engineering Company
08.2021 - 02.2022
- Led efforts on selected opportunities and oversaw bid strategies, pricing, teaming, and proposal strategies, and managed the transition from opportunity discovery to the proposal process, identifying the resources required to pursue a bid, establishing required infrastructure, methods, and plans necessary, and managing execution.
Defense Intelligence Agency Middle East and Africa Regional Center Program Manager/Analyst
The Buffalo Group, a Jacobs Company
09.2018 - 08.2021
- Oversee scheduling, staffing, and management of over 20 intelligence analysts in support of the Middle East Africa Regional Center (MARC) and Pentagon Joint Staff. Provides support to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Middle East Africa Regional Center (MARC) in all-source intelligence, with a focus on political-military and counterterrorism issues related to the Middle East and North Africa, including the explicit analysis of the impact of militant Islamic organizations on regional stability.
Defense Intelligence Agency Middle East and Africa Regional Center Program Manager
The Buffalo Group
05.2017 - 09.2018
- Led project budgeting, scheduling, and staffing and managed over 100 people comprised of internal and external employees, in support of the Solutions for Intelligence Analysis (SIA) II, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) with Task Orders containing multiple Firm-Fixed Price (FFP), Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF), totaling over $25 million annually in support of the Middle East Africa Regional Center (MARC), Defense Resources & Infrastructure (DRI), Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) within the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Pentagon Joint Staff. Provided superior customer care, analyzed processes, developed project plans, coordinated resources, controlled budgets, and managed performance.
- Delivered solutions ahead of the projected timeline, enabling TBG to initiate invoicing over $150k monthly immediately.
- Established a culture with standardized practices for TBG/MARC staff to develop and implement mission tasks and deliverable deadlines within budgets.
- Executed new contract actions, reviewed statements of work, updated task orders and basis of estimates, and entered budget modifications into Costpoint (Program Accounting System), ensuring the accurate flow of contractual information to all PMO staff.
- Conducted employee reviews to ensure career progression and retention, awarding promotions when applicable.
- Contributed to the company's business and development team in developing timely, high-quality, and competitive marketing proposals, including the layout, formatting, design, and presentation.
Operations Department Manager / Leading Chief Petty Officer (LCPO)
USS PAUL HAMILTON DDG-60 / USN
12.2014 - 03.2017
- Led Operations Department preparation, employment, and fleet training requirements and managed over 50 personnel comprised of servicemen and women.
- Revamped department and divisional training program, resulting in an overall Operations Dept. advancement rate of 66% and a 30% increase in the Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist qualifications.
- Resurrected the Command’s Personnel Security Program, clearing a two-year backlog of fifty-two security clearances. Overall efforts resulted in the USS PAUL HAMILTON being awarded the Commander Naval Surface Forces, US Pacific Fleet Intelligence Excellence Award in 2015.
Lead Electronic Warfare (EW) Instructor / Assessor
AFLOAT Training Group Middle Pacific / USN
06.2012 - 12.2014
- Provide dynamic, quality afloat training to Navy and Coast Guard Sailors to ensure a combat-ready force capable of performing a broad spectrum of maritime missions. Special emphasis is placed on training teams, special evolution teams, and watch teams to institutionalize the onboard capability to sustain and improve combat readiness throughout the employment cycle.
- Conducted over thirty-three training events onboard 11 warships and eight Coast Guard Cutters.
- As the command’s EW Subject Matter Expert, led the coordination and implementation of the new Surface Force Readiness Manual EW technical guidance, ensuring fleet readiness standards were upheld to over 85% average on all Hawaii-based warships.
- Directed 317 multi-service and civilian volunteers across 41 Commands for the 2013 Pacific Fleet Wounded Warrior Invitational, with 100% of proceeds from this event going directly to support the Wounded Warrior Hawaii Veteran Housing program.
Operations Department Manager / LCPO
USS DECATUR DDG-73 / USN
08.2009 - 06.2012
- Led Operations Department groundwork, engagement, and fleet training requirements and managed over 50 personnel comprised of servicemen and women, spearheading initiatives that increased operational efficiency by 25%, demonstrating a keen aptitude for performance management and procedural innovation.
- Drug and Alcohol Program Advisor (DAPA): Served as the liaison between the Sailor, Commanding Officer, and Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program (SARP) and was responsible for setting up command education, prevention, screening, and counseling programs for 325 personnel.
- Implemented a robust training plan, significantly increasing the watch station proficiency of over twenty-four operators, allowing five different ratings to easily adapt to cultural shifts in changing technology with record levels of professional knowledge.
- During a 3-year tenure as the Command DAPA, USS DECATUR experienced a year-by-year % decrease in alcohol-related incidents of 91%, earning a “Bravo Zulu” COMTHIRDFLT.
Operations Technical Division LCPO
USS MUSTIN DDG-89 / USN
08.2008 - 08.2009
- Led the OT division in fleet training requirements and managed over fifteen personnel, comprised of servicemen and women.
- Selected by COMSEVETHFLT to deploy with the T-Lite Specific Emitter Identification suite (portable precursor to the AN/SSX-1 suite) as the Senior ELINT analyst, collecting precision electronic parametric data in support of a vital specific emitter identification initiative within South China Sea shipping lanes.
- Confidently deployed an untested prototype system into the field and successfully met all national tasking objectives without the benefit of outside technical expertise.
- Through this success, all Forward Deployed Warships in the Pacific Fleet were retrofitted for the AN/SSX-1 suite.
Technical Systems Manager / Operational Electronic Intelligence Lead
NAVAL INFORMATION OPERATIONS COMMAND COLORADO
06.2004 - 08.2008
- Managed 54 multi-service personnel in the successful coordination of operations between three national assets in the analysis and reporting of highly perishable defense-related events in support of Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM.
- Expertly isolated forty signals of technical interest. Researched and produced sixty-five technical exchanges accepted by national management authorities, increasing site data processing capabilities by an impressive 12%.
- Performed quality assurance on over 300 Product Verification Requests with less than a three percent error rate on all tactical reports disseminated to fleet and national consumers.
- Ensured quality control of 3M items of interest, increasing crew reporting production by 32 percent.
- Initiated the stand-up of a new operational leadership position; successfully oversaw the training and certifications of newly assigned operators across four crews, increasing mission production across the entire operations floor.
Electronic Warfare Division LPO
VAQ - 142 (Electronic Attack Squadron)
06.2000 - 06.2004
- Led the Electronic Warfare division in fleet training requirements and managed six personnel comprised of servicemembers.
- As Evaluator/Reporter Function Head (project lead), provided a deployed RC-135 COMBAT SENT detachment, a synopsis of high-interest activity that determined flight path, facilitating dynamic post-mission signal analysis, which was briefed to mission commanders.
- Conducted targeted all-source analysis to OPERATION NORTHERN WATCH flight crews via in-depth mission tape analysis, identifying a malfunctioning hostile AAA radar system operating out of normal parameters, overlooked by the Joint Intel Cell Analysis Center, updating regional orders of battle, strategic and tactical developments for warfighters and national decision-makers.
- Prepared daily all-source intelligence reports to support the combat commander to make strategic and tactical decisions on the battlefield during OPERATION SOUTHERN WATCH.
- Assembled and led the analysis of two previously unrecorded Iraqi air defense systems unknown to the theater Joint Intelligence Center. The Iraqi ADS was a primary target in the initial fifty-eight strikes in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.
- This resulted in being awarded the Intelligence/Cryptology Prowler of the Year Award for 2002-2003.
- As assistant Physical Readiness coordinator, dedicated off-duty hours coaching mandatory Physical Readiness Test (PRT) sessions, resulting in a decrease of repeat PRT failures by 90% and an improvement in overall Command physical readiness scores by 61%, which improved morale of more than two hundred Command personnel for both physical and combat readiness. This resulted in being awarded the Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
Education
Scrum Alliance AI & Agility Course -
Scrum Alliance
Westminster, CO08.2025
Shipley Associates Capturing Federal Business Course -
Shipley Associates
Poolesville, MD03.2025
Certified Scrum Master -
Scrum Alliance
Westminster, CO12.2024
McKinsey Academy Management Accelerator Course -
McKinsey Academy
New York, NY08.2021
Shipley Associates POWeRful Proposal Writing -
Shipley Associates
Poolesville, MD06.2021
Shipley Associates Capturing New Business -
Shipley Associates
Poolesville, MD05.2021
Shipley Associates Managing Strategic Proposals -
Shipley Associates
Poolesville, MD05.2021
Syracuse University O20 Project Management (PMP) Course Certificate -
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY11.2020
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Trident University International
Cypress, CA01.2012
Certified Master Training Specialist -
NTTC Corry Station
Pensacola, FL01-2000
Skills
- Project and program management
- Team leadership and collaboration
- Interpersonal communication
- Creative problem solving
- Strategic planning
- Risk assessment and monitoring
- Quality assurance
- Client relationship management
- Technical process improvement
- Resource and budget management
- Microsoft Office Suite proficiency
- Google Chrome expertise
- Routine computer applications
Timeline
Capture Team
Amentum/Jacobs Critical Mission Solutions
08.2025 - Current
Senior Identity Intelligence Analyst, Site Lead
Amentum/Jacobs Critical Mission Solutions
03.2025 - 08.2025
Capture Team
Amentum/Jacobs Critical Mission Solutions
01.2025 - 03.2025
Enterprise Vetting Center Program Manager
Amentum/Jacobs Critical Mission Solutions
07.2022 - Current
Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Enterprise Program Management Office
Jacobs Engineering Company
04.2022 - 07.2022
Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Cyber Mission Cell Program Manager
Jacobs Engineering Company
02.2022 - 07.2022
Capture Manager
Jacobs Engineering Company
08.2021 - 02.2022
Defense Intelligence Agency Middle East and Africa Regional Center Program Manager/Analyst
The Buffalo Group, a Jacobs Company
09.2018 - 08.2021
Defense Intelligence Agency Middle East and Africa Regional Center Program Manager
The Buffalo Group
05.2017 - 09.2018
Operations Department Manager / Leading Chief Petty Officer (LCPO)
USS PAUL HAMILTON DDG-60 / USN
12.2014 - 03.2017
Lead Electronic Warfare (EW) Instructor / Assessor
AFLOAT Training Group Middle Pacific / USN
06.2012 - 12.2014
Operations Department Manager / LCPO
USS DECATUR DDG-73 / USN
08.2009 - 06.2012
Operations Technical Division LCPO
USS MUSTIN DDG-89 / USN
08.2008 - 08.2009
Technical Systems Manager / Operational Electronic Intelligence Lead
NAVAL INFORMATION OPERATIONS COMMAND COLORADO
06.2004 - 08.2008
Electronic Warfare Division LPO
VAQ - 142 (Electronic Attack Squadron)
06.2000 - 06.2004
Scrum Alliance AI & Agility Course -
Scrum Alliance
Shipley Associates Capturing Federal Business Course -
Shipley Associates
Certified Scrum Master -
Scrum Alliance
McKinsey Academy Management Accelerator Course -
McKinsey Academy
Shipley Associates POWeRful Proposal Writing -
Shipley Associates
Shipley Associates Capturing New Business -
Shipley Associates
Shipley Associates Managing Strategic Proposals -
Shipley Associates
Syracuse University O20 Project Management (PMP) Course Certificate -
Syracuse University
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Trident University International
Certified Master Training Specialist -
NTTC Corry Station
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