KRISTIN GRIGSBY
Project Management
Culpeper,VA
Summary
Dedicated project management professional with a history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Brings 15+ years of valuable expertise to forward company objectives. Attentive to detail with experience in coordinating projects, programs and improvements. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Corporate Program Manager
Windsor Group LLC
Culpeper , VA
10.2022 - Current
- Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams.
- Engaged and worked alongside cross-functional stakeholders to manage strategic initiatives.
- Collaborated with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure.
- Leveraged project management processes and tools to define and execute projects.
- Established milestones and objectives based on input from functional areas and stakeholders.
- Mitigated business risks by analyzing contracts' potential impacts and avoiding unfavorable terms.
- Tracked contracts for management and issued regular tracking reports covering current status and upcoming milestones.
- Maintained Unanet database for with contract, vendor and customer information.
- Managed, supervised and controlled execution of contracts ranging from $100,000 to $3,000,000.
Configuration Management Lead | Remote
WINDSOR GROUP, LLC
07.2017 - Current
- Administer and manage Jira for multiple projects
- Work in a hybrid environment of Agile and Waterfall
- Gathering requirements for each projects individual needs for Jira tool
- Maintain status accounting for Configuration Items
- Perform release management activities
- Assess processes for areas of process improvement and implement changes
- Assess risks for impacts to schedule
- Build and maintain Jenkins builds for deployments to all environments
- Review and troubleshoot failures in logs
- Create environment schedule for each cycle year and point releases
- Lead Scrum meetings; creating agendas and meeting minutes
- Maintain sprints and backlog for bugs and enhancements
- Update Configuration Management Plan and individual Engineering Board Charters
- Communicate with and support development, business analysts, testers, project and program management teams.
Systems Engineer
VENTECH SOLUTIONS, INC
Manassas , VA
07.2015 - 03.2017
- Perform requirements gathering and documentation, analysis, design, development, testing and deploying Serena SBM workflows to meet users requirements
- Administer ALM Tools Suite: SBM, Dimensions CM
- Maintain build and release tools and processes
- Install and configure applications in the lab environment
- Develop and implement configuration management policies and processes to support multiple lines of business
- Works with development team to establish code versioning guidelines
- Ensure that resource requirements needed to support a particular release are in place
- Maintain configuration items, baselines, and project artifacts utilizing Dimensions CM
- Coordinate with Release Management team to plan all software releases
- Work with developer, validating design requirements
- Create training materials for Serena Business Management tool
- Provision users in Serena SBM and Dimensions CM repositories.
Associate Systems Engineer
GDIT
Warrenton , VA
08.2014 - 07.2015
- Perform requirements gathering and documentation, analysis, design, development, testing and deploying Serena SBM workflows to meet users requirements
- Administer ALM Tools Suite: SBM, Dimensions CM
- Maintain build and release tools and processes
- Install and configure applications in the lab environment
- Develop and implement configuration management policies and processes to support multiple lines of business
- Works with development team to establish code versioning guidelines
- Ensure that resource requirements needed to support a particular release are in place
- Maintain configuration items, baselines, and project artifacts utilizing Dimensions CM
- Coordinate with Release Management team to plan all software releases
- Work with developer, validating design requirements
- Create training materials for Serena Business Management tool
- Provision users in Serena SBM and Dimensions CM repositories.
Program Analyst
GDIT
Warrenton , VA
08.2013 - 08.2014
- Planned, managed and controlled releases using Serena Business Manager and Dimensions CM; tracked and reported on release milestones
- Published and managed formal release notifications
- Managed the on-call schedule resources
- Produced metrics for weekly and monthly metrics review to senior management
- Documented the Software Build Request process, custom application in SBM, for deployments
- Assessed and prioritized deployment activities and assigned appropriate resources
- Communicated all failures to the ADO prior to production.
Engineering Project Specialist
ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC
Warrenton , VA
11.2012 - 08.2013
- Managed the release of all customer software deliverables
- Captured risks and opportunities for various programs
- Lead program IPT's and cadence reviews
- Administered documentation repositories in subversion for program level documentation
- Led CCB meetings – tracked action items and assessed impact across programs
- Attended customer Test Readiness Reviews and Final Readiness Reviews – tracked meeting minutes and action items
- Provided status on deliverables
- Implemented software processes to appropriately track SDLC.
Configuration Administrator
NIITEK
Charlottesville , VA
02.2009 - 10.2010
- Led the training of engineering department on use of CM tool and MRP system for engineering changes
- Managed all Configuration Management databases to track life cycle of product
- Led weekly CCB meetings with necessary parties to discuss engineering changes, what impact the changes would have and when to implement them
- Instrumental in keeping business processes moving smoothly while acting as the liaison for support engineering, production, planning, engineering, quality assurance and program management
- Directed junior level Configuration Management team members; also provided training on internal processes and CM/Engineering tools.
Configuration Coordinator/Quality Administrator
ROCKWELL COLLINS
Warrenton , VA
11.2006 - 02.2009
- Managed all custom Quality Assurance and Configuration Management databases
- Released and maintained all program and engineering documentation in a document library on SharePoint
- Responsible for maintaining databases and hard copy files of all pertinent life cycle productinformation
- Classified Quality Assurance failures throughout production process for tracking
- Compiled and edited reports, measuring the data against Data Item Descriptions
- Conducted internal audits to ensure compliance with AS9100 and internal procedures
- Managed archival project for automating our system.
Program Administrative Assistant
MANTECH
Chantilly , VA
06.2002 - 11.2006
- Managed new employee in-processing and deployment to several OCONUS locations in the Middle East
- Directed junior level employees
- Completed all travel expense reports for 100+ employees
- Headed efforts for gathering and preparing data for program meetings
- Worked with contract budget analyst by providing costs for proposals
- Created internal processes and organization system for all project employees.
Education
BBA - Business Administration
Strayer University
08.2008 - 03.2012
Skills
Project planning and development
undefinedTimeline
Corporate Program Manager
Windsor Group LLC
10.2022 - Current
Configuration Management Lead | Remote
WINDSOR GROUP, LLC
07.2017 - Current
Systems Engineer
VENTECH SOLUTIONS, INC
07.2015 - 03.2017
Associate Systems Engineer
GDIT
08.2014 - 07.2015
Program Analyst
GDIT
08.2013 - 08.2014
Engineering Project Specialist
ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC
11.2012 - 08.2013
Configuration Administrator
NIITEK
02.2009 - 10.2010
BBA - Business Administration
Strayer University
08.2008 - 03.2012
Configuration Coordinator/Quality Administrator
ROCKWELL COLLINS
11.2006 - 02.2009
Program Administrative Assistant
MANTECH
06.2002 - 11.2006
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