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Kermit Baird

Summerfield,FL

Summary

Senior Project Manager Motivated and highly accomplished project management professional with extensive experience across all aspects of the project lifecycle. Over 15 years demonstrated successful leadership as a Project manager accomplishing the mission objectives by leading complex goal-oriented teams with the ability to connect tactical tasks with strategic enterprise-level goals. Proven ability to provide innovative solutions to complex and multi-dimensional projects using agile methodology for all aspects of Project management.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Core Systems Project Manager

Palmetto Solar
  • Responsible for setting priority and duration for all projects and tasks including; ensuring all project deliverables have a clear scope of work with well-defined impact analysis, clear start and end dates, Holds daily standup's, and review sprint activities and progress with appropriate members of the team.
  • Agile Coach and Product Owner for Team.
  • Using ServiceNow (SNOW) App Development and Releases and upgrades became able to be more transparent with Stakeholders and deliver software in a Agile, more efficient way.
  • Salesforce Project Manager, working with the scrum team with Salesforce set up and admin.
  • Scrum Master and Owner of Daily Standup with the team not to exceed 30 minutes
  • Establish and maintain relationships with third-party/vendors
  • Manage Burn down, Stakeholder management, velocity, and cycle times and report to VP of Core Systems.

IT/CORE Systems Manager

Palmetto Solar
01.2019 - 01.2023
  • Hands-on experience implementing SaaS and Enterprise Software to include ServiceNow, Jira, Salesforce, Okta, Twillio, Confluence, Zoom, Slack, DocuSign,Onelogin.
  • Responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure and helpdesk support teams capable of delivering quality solutions to the business
  • Established SLAs and ensure teams are working within established guidelines
  • Motivates, mentors, and train team of 5 technical people including On-Boarding & Off-Boarding
  • Lead Agile ceremonies and ensure adherence to Agile processes
  • Delivers quality Support and System Infrastructure as well as escalated infrastructure or support assistance
  • Deep understanding of team capacity, capability, and velocity
  • User access review, License utilization review, Access Control, System Automation and Integration, Asset Management Lifecycle
  • Enforce Scrum processes throughout each sprint and trained others on processes
  • Protect the team from external influences and safeguard the scrum process
  • Foster an environment where team members are self-organizing and are empowered to improve their process for building systems
  • Collaborated with executives with successful SOC2 compliance.

TSOA Integrated Project Lead

NAVWAR
  • Oversees Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Command and Control (C2) Systems and Applications (MC2SA) as the IPT lead
  • Extensive knowledge of the cultural and business practices and processes of the DoD, SPAWAR, and MARCORSYSCOM with emphasis on acquisition, financial, and contractual practices, policies, and regulations
  • Experience with Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) design concepts and the unique challenges encountered with that service model in a tactical, resource-constrained environment
  • With a strong understanding of the DoD and exercised originality, sound judgment, and versatility in administering and managing projects
  • Extensive knowledge of PM policies and procedures, systems engineering methods and best practices, contracting strategies, statutory and regulatory requirements, contract administration, and the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process.
  • Introduced Agile Methodology to Marine Corps Systems Command and started Scrum Teams and Agile methods with the Dev team.

C2sa Project Manager

NAVWAR
  • Program Manager for the Command and Control Situational Awareness (C2SA) projects for Marine Corps Systems Command with a total obligation authority of $25M a year and three major projects
  • Supervises over 100 contractors and government personnel, their travel schedule as well as input to their performance assessment
  • Mentor project leads on management of individual projects
  • Defines the customer's needs and requirements and executes them
  • Supervises all resource planning, budget, execution of work, acquisition decisions on cost, schedule, and performance
  • Maintains and follows multiple project Integrated Master Schedules and Work Breakdown Structures
  • Applies critical decision, analysis, and programmatic guidance to ensure processes and procedures align with Systems Engineering and Program Management policies, processes, tools, and templates
  • Manages the Cost, Schedule, and performance of JBC-P (FoS), MCH, Navy BFT.

Project and Program Management Supervisor

NAVWAR
01.2007 - 01.2019
  • First-line supervisor for project and program management resources, providing support to both the Expedition Enterprise Systems and Services and Land System Integration Divisions within the Expeditionary Warfare Department
  • Was supervisor of 30 project managers, providing PMO level processes, Agile Project Management Methodology. Coaching and mentoring new and veteran Project managers.
  • Manages a diverse workforce of government employees composed of engineers, scientists, and program/project management professionals who lead and support technical and programmatic efforts to deliver superior C5ISR capabilities to the warfighter.

Team Lead

SAIC
01.2007 - 01.2009
  • Responsible for the 17-man team conducting briefings/training of personnel and installation of BFT equipment on BFSA capabilities and limitations
  • Performs hardware and software upgrades to Blue Force Tracker (BFT) systems, including various GPS and Satellite communication systems
  • Conducts extensive troubleshooting and testing, integrating, in support of the Blue Force Situational Awareness (BFSA) Team for SPAWAR System Center Charleston
  • Developed BFT System Test & Acceptance Procedures for DAGR, PLGR, MT-2011 Sat Comm., BFT V4, coordinated with USMC chain of command to determine installation locations to aid in training and deployment.

TORPEDOMAN First Class E-6

United States Navy

Swat Team Member

Charleston Police Department
01.1995 - 01.2008
  • Responsible for over 500 cases a year as a Detective
  • Field Training Officer, responsible for leading and supervising new police officers and training officers in departmental procedures.

Education

No Degree -

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL

High School Diploma -

Kirksville Sr. High School
Kirksville, MO
07.1986

Skills

  • Risk Management
  • Scope Definition
  • Incident Management
  • Communications
  • Vendor Management
  • Release Management
  • Project Scheduling
  • Process Improvement
  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Negotiations
  • Agile methodology

Websites

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

DAWIA Level II Project Manager

DAWIA Level I Information Technology

Timeline

IT/CORE Systems Manager

Palmetto Solar
01.2019 - 01.2023

Project and Program Management Supervisor

NAVWAR
01.2007 - 01.2019

Team Lead

SAIC
01.2007 - 01.2009

Swat Team Member

Charleston Police Department
01.1995 - 01.2008

Core Systems Project Manager

Palmetto Solar

TSOA Integrated Project Lead

NAVWAR

C2sa Project Manager

NAVWAR

TORPEDOMAN First Class E-6

United States Navy

No Degree -

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

High School Diploma -

Kirksville Sr. High School

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