Cynthia Buda Campbell
Senior Data Manager
Sterling,VA
Summary
Motivated candidate pursuing leadership role in Data Management, committed to applying project management and configuration management capabilities to advance process improvements, strengthen team collaboration, and achieve successful implementation of Artificial Intelligence solutions emphasizing complete, accurate, and up-to-date data ingestion for sound decision-making.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications
Work History
IT Project Manager
BAE Systems, Inc
12.2025 - Current
- Intelligence Community Contract
- Developing business model for Data Center as a Service.
- Completed ITPM onboarding, Life Cycle Management training, and Introduction to Artificial Intelligence web training certificate (how AIs learn, predict output, interpret data, and key hardware components; status of AI regulations; applications and tools).
Project Manager
Full Time Volunteer Caregiver
09.2025 - 12.2025
- Successfully transitioned parent from hospital to rehabilitation center to assisted living to continuing care retirement community (CCRC) home.
- Occupational therapy OT, and speech language pathology SLP/ST for swallow risk due to stroke.
- Researched, documented and aided independent and assistive daily living (ADL) activities.
- Reviewed and protected PII, like medical management and health records, to ensure accuracy and recovery.
Senior Systems Analyst – Senior Configuration / Data Manager
CACI International, Inc
11.2014 - 09.2025
- Senior Requirements Analyst Intelligence Community Contract
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver actionable data-backed insights.
- Create onboarding content in Confluence focused on talent development to maximize team potential.
- Senior Configuration Manager Signals Intelligence & Defense Programs
- Led configuration management efforts at both the project (for Army TENCAP), and at the enterprise level for a radio signals intelligence collection system software programs, supporting IC and DoD programs.
- Wrote and enforced the enterprise Configuration Management (CM) Plan, which was adopted for multiple programs in the shared environment, in accordance with DAU, MIL-HDBK-61B, ANSI/EIA-649B, NIST Security CM Controls (DODI 5000.1/5200.01) for ATO Approvals, PMBOK, Capability Maturity Model Institute (CMMI), Systems Engineering (SE) Guidebook and environment constraints.
- Guided software branching activities for complex, high-volume Linux-based source code baselines for more than 200 developers with a global user base.
- Coordinated approvals for software release changes with Program Managers, Systems Engineering Leads, Software Developer Leads, and DevOps team within milestones in an Agile framework.
- Senior Data Integration Lead, DCIM Program
- Designed centralized management and ingest templates for the Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) program for Government Data Centers, for two different programs with two different tool suites. These were both large programs transitioning from paper inventory / spreadsheets to modern asset management of multiple data center rooms at multiple sites using one tool.
- Managed data center space/power/cooling data attributes for all inventory and the condition of the customers infrastructure assets; providing improved context for enterprise hardware (rack and big iron mainframe systems) data for more reliable interpretation and analysis.
- Corrected inconsistencies in existing data and collection activities.
- Team Lead Software Development Program
- Led a team of 8 FTE for a cross-domain solution for the delivery of a web app, databases, and APIs in an AWS environment, overseeing requirements, testing, security, deliverables and configuration management.
- Configuration & Data Management Specialist ServiceNow ITIL Program
- Designed and implemented the IT Environment Configuration Management baseline, to be accurate, compliant and complete in the ServiceNow CMDB tool.
- Worked with the cloud, network, cybersecurity teams to identify configuration items and deliver solutions.
- Conducted audits to maintain data integrity and ensure project milestones were achieved.
Senior Configuration Manager – Data Manager
Leidos and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
05.1998 - 11.2014
- Increasing CM responsibility from change control (through the system change request life cycle) to include CM Plans, Assets, Releases, Data, and Documentation. Also Functional & Physical Configuration Audits.
- Scaled the CM processes for the project level (more than 12,000 users, more than 450 hardware configuration items, and a 65 member team) for the USMC SYSCOM.
- Responsible for 145 Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) assets (servers, laptops, racks, switches and routers) valued at nearly $1.5M. Ensured accurate inventories through auditing.
- Responsible for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) CM Master Library.
- Performed Data Management activities (identify, collect, maintain, protect/archive). Controlled data, repositories, and work products. Controlled accesses, non-disclosure agreements, and PII. Transferred data between environments.
- Managed the information flow for the $220 million next generation Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform development. Facilitated communications between the Program Office and its prime contractor. Documented decisions that influenced critical aircraft design issues.
- Deep experience with Process Asset Libraries, and a strong understanding of the CMMI Compliancy Matrix and Practice Implementation Indicator Description (PIID).
- Prepared verifiable objective evidence to support CMMI Maturity Level 3 projects.
- Trained as a CMMI Appraiser to evaluate multiple projects for CMMI Maturity.
- Led and managed a 4 FTE task order for CM, Process, QA, Test, and Documentation. Provided Process Engineering oversight to more than 32 colleagues to ensure conformity to standards.
Senior Configuration Systems Analyst for DISA
Logicon, Inc.
06.1995 - 05.1998
Systems Analyst for U.S. Navy NAVAIR
Information Spectrum, Inc.
03.1990 - 06.1995
Computer Programmer
The Retired Officers Association
01.1990 - 03.1990
Program Analyst
Robbins-Gioia
09.1989 - 12.1989
Education
Master's in Business Administration (MBA) - undefined
Strayer University
Ashburn, VA01.1998
B.S. - Computer Science
East Stroudsburg University
East Stroudsburg, PA01.1989
Skills
Agile, CMMI, Confluence, GIT, ITIL, Jenkins, JIRA, Microsoft, ServiceNow and CMDB, PeopleSoft, SAFe, Sunbird Asset Manager, Raritan PowerIQ, Nlyte NAO and NEO
Certification
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (2025)
Timeline
IT Project Manager
BAE Systems, Inc
12.2025 - Current
Project Manager
Full Time Volunteer Caregiver
09.2025 - 12.2025
Senior Systems Analyst – Senior Configuration / Data Manager
CACI International, Inc
11.2014 - 09.2025
Senior Configuration Manager – Data Manager
Leidos and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
05.1998 - 11.2014
Senior Configuration Systems Analyst for DISA
Logicon, Inc.
06.1995 - 05.1998
Systems Analyst for U.S. Navy NAVAIR
Information Spectrum, Inc.
03.1990 - 06.1995
Computer Programmer
The Retired Officers Association
01.1990 - 03.1990
Program Analyst
Robbins-Gioia
09.1989 - 12.1989
Master's in Business Administration (MBA) - undefined
Strayer University
B.S. - Computer Science
East Stroudsburg University