LYNDA VIDOT
Project Manager
Summary
Lynda Vidot is a senior-level technical program manager and solution architect with over 20 years of experience providing leadership, management and oversight on complex projects that support the strategic direction of the organization. Equipped with a record of success in developing and implementing innovative programs, she is an effective leader with a proven ability to supervise and lead high performance teams, quickly establish rapport, and effectively communicate with stakeholders and customers to support multilevel collaboration.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Project Manager / Solutions Architect
ORA
01.2012 - 01.2020
- EXPERTISE
- NFSDX is a technically complex software system that transformed the FDA’s ability to share food safety information across and among FDA and State Partners
- The solution is built on a flexible architecture deployed across both internal and external government environments to allow external FDA partners to connect to and integrate with FDA systems using multiple entry points: a web-based user interface, a desktop client and web services
- The solution is also a hub that connects to several internal FDA services securely exposing those services to external FDA partners
- As the NFSDX Program Manager, I am the single point of responsibility to the government, managing implementation and operations and management teams of employees, vendors and subcontractors to ensure the successful completion of the time and materials contract and statement of work requirements
- Streamlined agile project management planning and development methodologies and communication across the Program which increased efficiency by 50%
- Lead the technical team through the upgrading of development processes and systems to incorporate DevOps tools and processes as part of a continuous integration and improvement effort which improved code quality by 50% and reduced time to deploy by 50%
- Establish team O&M processes to monitor system health, plan for regular support of infrastructure updates that impact our deployed systems and track the work for reporting and planning
- Collaborate with FDA leadership to implement solutions to improve project technical and business framework around cross team collaborations, and service level agreements for cross-team support during all lifecycle phases, : FDA
- Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA)
- Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
- Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) BPA, ORA LIMS purchased STARLIMS for ORA’s 13 labs to provide electronic data capture and workflow management for sample analysis, materials, and equipment support
- Enterprise integrations include a
- Service Oriented Architecture based connection with FACTS, SERS, ORADSS and QMIS to support laboratory workflows to retrieve sample collections and send results back to FACTS, send pdf work package to Compliance via SERS, send detailed data for reporting to the data warehouse via ORADSS and to support document management and training via integration with QMIS
- CBER LIMS purchased STARLIMS to provide electronic data capture for 5 Labs with an integration with legacy systems (LRS) and QMIS as the quality system
- I served as the overall Solution Architect for the LIMS BPA and project manager for the
- CBER LIMS
- Six CBER LIMS Releases to Production, on time and defect free in Contract Year 2
- Recommended and implemented strengthening metrics reporting to improve tracking of end-user support requests and completion of analytical test plan configurations
- Added AppDynamics monitoring of services in Pre-Prod and Prod to ensure proactive monitoring of up time
- Supported planning for a firm fixed price CBER LIMS Master Control QMIS installation, implementation, and integration tasks
- Planning a STARLIMS system technology upgrade to all instances with coordination to support integration touchpoints
- Manage resource and expertise sharing across ORA and CBER LIMS Projects on as-needed basis
- Identify and communicate risks, manage mitigation, and issue resolution strategies
- Twenty five (25) ORA LIMS Releases to Production, on time and defect free over 3 contract years
- Responsible for planning and overseeing ORA LIMS Agile releases to ensure timely completion and within budget for 500 end users
- Responsible for monitoring progress, designating project resources, and keeping stakeholders informed
- Design the application enhancements with the solutions development team
- Oversee the BA team and the requirements management lifecycle
- Provide strategic direction and road map for the application
- Support security assessment by integrating security best practices into the system, operations, and maintenance practices
- CBER, Perform Feasibility Assessments for stakeholder requests and analyze impact upon Labs
- Perform Risk Analysis & Negotiation of Issues with Lab Stakeholders
- Performed Decision Analysis Report for existing Lab systems to be replaced by LIMS
- Managed requirements and design and cross-team coordination for SOA integration with FACTS,
- QMIS, ORADSS and SERS utilizing database integration, WebLogic, and IIS Middleware applications
- Migrated data from Lab legacy systems into LIMS
Team Lead/Senior Business Analyst/ Software Engineer
CDC
01.2002 - 01.2012
- Office of Science, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (OSELS)
- National Center for Environment Health (NCEH)
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
- Office of Infectious Diseases (OID)
- Specimen Tracking and Results Reporting System (STARRS) BPA, Supported custom health informatics software development, COTS LIMS configuration and Enterprise
- Integration projects across 4 CDC Offices
- After the Anthrax attacks, CDC commissioned a new LIMS and an Enterprise SOA system to connect state labs to CDC labs to support the lab workflow for infectious disease sample testing and results reporting and to integrate LIMS among the states and between the
- CDC
- I served in several capacities during my tenure including Software Engineer, Business Analyst and
- Team Leader
- Supporting communication and coordination across state labs and CDC as part of building STARRS
- Successfully deployed the LUNA as a custom JAVA development web application at CDC which was used by 5 state labs as an interim solution for manual entry of sample testing requests while system interoperability between the State labs and CDC was in development; LUNA was also repurposed for the NCEH for use in data collection and transfer from the field in environmental studies and was used by the NCCDPHP for data collection in a longitudinal HPV study
- Successfully deployed the STARRS Enterprise Service Bus system at CDC which connected the Central
- Receiving and the Salmonella Lab with LIMS at 5 state labs using HL7 standard messaging protocols for bi-directional communication of test order and results
- Solution built on Oracle’s Fusion Middleware
- Environment
- Conducted LIMS vendor evaluations for CDC to identify a LIMS for configuration and customization within CDC Infectious Disease Labs at OID
- Created Business Architecture design for project solutions to include current and future state concept of operations, identification of organizational assets and standards for messaging content and transport, vocabulary, and security
- Created Logical design of database to support technical design of integration requirements
- Lead the process to obtain an authority to operate certificate, service level and system interconnect agreements in the government operation center
- Supporting communication and coordination across state labs and CDC as part of building STARRS
- Successfully deployed the LUNA as a custom JAVA development web application at CDC which was used by 5 state labs as an interim solution for manual entry of sample testing requests while system interoperability between the State labs and CDC was in development; LUNA was also repurposed for the NCEH for use in data collection and transfer from the field in environmental studies and was used by the NCCDPHP for data collection in a longitudinal HPV study
- Successfully deployed the STARRS Enterprise Service Bus system at CDC which connected the Central
- Receiving and the Salmonella Lab with LIMS at 5 state labs using HL7 standard messaging protocols for bi-directional communication of test order and results
- Solution built on Oracle’s Fusion Middleware
- Environment
- Conducted LIMS vendor evaluations for CDC to identify a LIMS for configuration and customization within CDC Infectious Disease Labs at OID
- Created Business Architecture design for project solutions to include current and future state concept of operations, identification of organizational assets and standards for messaging content and transport, vocabulary, and security
- Created Logical design of database to support technical design of integration requirements
- Lead the process to obtain an authority to operate certificate, service level and system interconnect agreements in the government operation center
Software Engineer/Tester
National Cancer Institute
01.2001 - 01.2002
- CaBIG
- Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) BPA, ORA LIMS purchased STARLIMS for ORA’s 13 labs to provide electronic data capture and workflow management for sample analysis, materials, and equipment support
- Enterprise integrations include a
- Service Oriented Architecture based connection with FACTS, SERS, ORADSS and QMIS to support laboratory workflows to retrieve sample collections and send results back to FACTS, send pdf work package to Compliance via SERS, send detailed data for reporting to the data warehouse via ORADSS and to support document management and training via integration with QMIS
- CBER LIMS purchased STARLIMS to provide electronic data capture for 5 Labs with an integration with legacy systems (LRS) and QMIS as the quality system
- I served as the overall Solution Architect for the LIMS BPA and project manager for the
- CBER LIMS.
Education
Bachelor's of Science - Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 08.1997 - 05.2001
Certified Mediator - undefined
University of
Central Florida
2018
Business Analysis Training - undefined
International Institute of Business
Analysts
2008
Applications of Management Essentials, SAIC - undefined
2006
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), SAIC - undefined
2005
Rational Unified Process - undefined
University of Central Florida
2002
Bachelor of Science - undefined
2001
Skills
- Client Rapport-Building
- FDA LIMS, SCAIL, and EON
- NSFDX Project Management
- Web performance optimization
- Front-end & back-end web development
- Agile leadership or scrum master
- Agile software development
- Test driven development
- Source control
Timeline
Project Manager / Solutions Architect
ORA
01.2012 - 01.2020
Team Lead/Senior Business Analyst/ Software Engineer
CDC
01.2002 - 01.2012
Software Engineer/Tester
National Cancer Institute
01.2001 - 01.2002
Bachelor's of Science - Computer Science
University of Central Florida
08.1997 - 05.2001
Certified Mediator - undefined
University of
Central Florida
Business Analysis Training - undefined
International Institute of Business
Analysts
Applications of Management Essentials, SAIC - undefined
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), SAIC - undefined
Rational Unified Process - undefined
University of Central Florida
Bachelor of Science - undefined
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